Advancing longevity, building companies.

CEO of Cosmetic Physician Partners Asia, a medical aesthetics partnership. Former COO of Lucence, a longevity and cancer diagnostics company. Regional investor with 50+ health and tech startup investments. Co-host of BRAVE, Southeast Asia’s #1 tech podcast with 80K+ listeners. Harvard MBA.

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About

Jeremy leads Cosmetic Physician Partners Asia and is a partner at Orvel Ventures, which is now in its harvest phase. He has made 50+ investments across angel, Orvel, Monk's Hill and LP positions. He is a UC Berkeley honors and Harvard MBA graduate, an SID Accredited Director, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 and Prestige 40 Under 40 honoree. He is regional chapter head of Harvard Alumni Angels and an elected Board Director of the HBS Club of Singapore.

As COO of Lucence, Jeremy led the company's commercial partnerships to scale cancer and longevity diagnostics, including Mayo Clinic Laboratories, built on Lucence's Medicare reimbursement (a first for an Asian-headquartered company); Agilus and Apollo (India's largest lab network and private hospital group respectively); and PRECISE, Singapore's National Precision Medicine sequencing programme, with a consortium of Ultima Genomics and QIAGEN. He grew the global P&L through revenue growth, unit-economics mapping and organisational efficiency, and partnered with the CEO on the growth capital raise for the US scale-up and international expansion: financial modelling, pitch decks, legal reviews, due diligence and the deployment of proceeds. He institutionalised governance for management, the Board and shareholders with rigorous financial reporting, signed audits, budget approval and forecasting, and hired and digitised the Finance, People and Marketing functions.

His career began at Bain, where as an associate consultant he worked on post-merger integration for a global brewer's acquisition of a leading Asian beer company and for a global private equity firm's industrial technology portfolio company. He went on to venture capital and Chief of Staff at Monk's Hill Ventures, co-founded CozyKin, a venture-backed childcare startup acquihired by Higher Ground Education in 2020, and founded Conjunct Consulting, an award-winning social enterprise that supported 100+ local health and community nonprofits. As an investor he has backed healthcare companies including Ordinary Folk (telehealth), Iterative Health (gastroenterology AI), Hive Health (SME health coverage, Philippines), BetterClinic (AI medical scribe), Million Marker (urine testing for plastics and toxic chemicals), Anja (cord blood banking) and HDmall (Thailand's largest healthcare platform).

He co-hosts BRAVE, Southeast Asia's #1 tech podcast, with 80,000+ monthly listeners. He has spoken at Harvard, SuperReturn Asia, SWITCH (on clinical management workflows and payment models for preventive diagnostics), e27 Echelon and the Institute of Policy Studies, and on buying and scaling Southeast Asian SMEs at the HBS Club of Singapore. He previously taught startup growth and venture fund strategy as a commended adjunct lecturer at National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University. He is a father of two daughters.

The podcast

BRAVE Southeast Asia

www.bravesea.com

Learn from Southeast Asia's best tech leaders. Conversations on startups, venture capital and the people building across Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. 700+ episodes and 80K+ listeners. All profits are reinvested into the community. Past corporate sponsors include Huawei, OKX, Conduit and more.

Books

Books.

Cover of the book BRAVE10

BRAVE10: Inspiring Southeast Asia Tech Journeys

Written by Jeremy Au & Adriel Yong · Singapore Edition · 2022

A book Jeremy wrote on the journeys of ten Singapore tech leaders, with a foreword by Minister of State Alvin Tan.

Kindle on Amazon ↗Goodreads ↗
Cover of the book Win When It’s Hard

Win When It’s Hard

Multi-author anthology · Contributor · 2025

Over 20 leaders, entrepreneurs and experts share the frameworks, routines and mental models behind lasting success. Jeremy is one of the contributing authors.

Buy on Amazon ↗Book details ↗

Investing

Portfolio.

Notable investments only, not a complete list of everything I've backed. A selection of early-stage companies and funds I've backed as an angel investor, at Monk's Hill Ventures, through Orvel Ventures and as a limited partner.

Atlas Kitchen
Singapore · Angel
All-in-one operating system for restaurants: online ordering, POS, kitchen display and delivery sync
CEO / founder: Yong Yi Sung (CEO)
Staple
Singapore · Orvel
AI solution for inefficient data processing and manual workflows
CEO / founder: Ben Stein (CEO)
Broiler X
Indonesia · Orvel
Poultry technology for farmers that is sustainable and scalable
CEO / founder: Prastyo Ruandhito
3Cat
Malaysia · Orvel
Secondhand smartphone solution and marketplace
CEO / founder: Karl Loo (co-founder and CEO)
Zenith Education
Singapore · Orvel
Tuition centre building an offline-to-online ed-tech ecosystem
CEO / founder: Evan Heng
Ringkas
Indonesia · Orvel
Helps democratize home ownership
CEO / founder: Ilya Kravtsov (co-founder)
HDmall
Thailand · Orvel
D2C marketplace for hospitals and healthcare SMEs
CEO / founder: Sheji Ho (co-founder and CEO), with co-founders Frankie Shum (CFO) and Raya Chantaramungkorn (CMO)
Fonos
Vietnam · Orvel
Audiobook app with audiobooks, podcasts, and more
CEO / founder: Oscar Jesionek (CEO and co-founder)
Zi.Care
Indonesia · Orvel
SaaS electronic medical and health records platform. Exited.
CEO / founder: Jessy Abdurrahman (co-founder and CEO), with co-founders Jodi Susanto (CSO) and Sanjaya Mayluddin (CTO)
Esevel
Singapore · Orvel
Cross-market IT services and support for remote teams
CEO / founder: Yuying Deng
Nodeflair
Singapore · Orvel
HR tech platform providing verified career data to tech talent
CEO / founder: Ethan Ang
Pollen
Singapore · Angel · Orvel
B2B liquidation of overstock and near-expiry FMCG inventory
CEO / founder: David Ng (CEO)
Fresh Factory
Indonesia · Orvel
Cold chain distribution infrastructure and fulfilment service
CEO / founder: Larry Ridwan (founder and CEO), with co-founders Widijastoro Nugroho (CCO) and Andre Septiano (CFO)
Innowave Tech
Singapore · Orvel
AI solutions for semiconductor and manufacturing industries
CEO / founder: Jinsong Xu
EZE Wholesale
United States · Orvel
B2B second-hand electronics marketplace with real-time data
CEO / founder: Joshua Nzewi (co-founder and CEO), with co-founder David Iya (CTO)
Rekosistem
Indonesia · Orvel
Climate-tech platform streamlining waste management
CEO / founder: Ernest Layman and Joshua Valentino
Edge Tutor
Philippines · Orvel
B2B outsourcing platform for tutors from the Philippines
CEO / founder: Henry Motte-de la Motte
Tiger New Energy
Bangladesh · Orvel
Builds a clean energy ecosystem in emerging markets
CEO / founder: Nicole Mao (co-founder and CEO)
Baskit
Indonesia · Orvel
B2B SaaS and fintech hybrid for the offline CPG value chain
CEO / founder: Yann Shuermans
Eratani
Indonesia · Orvel
Agriculture ecosystem offering funding, supply chain, and distribution
CEO / founder: Bambang Cahyo Susilo
Rently
Singapore · Orvel
Landlord-tenant CRM and security bond financing platform
CEO / founder: Simon Hast and Shiv Mahajan
Solmatoss
Indonesia · Orvel
B2B platform for furniture and interior material supplies
CEO / founder: Pascal Sembel
Eazy Digital
Thailand · Orvel
Acquired by Igloo in 2026. Digitalisation SaaS for the insurance agency market
CEO / founder: Harprem Doowa (founder and CEO), with co-founder Maethavee Sukul
Decube
Malaysia · Orvel
No-code data intelligence for monitoring client databases
CEO / founder: Jatin Solanki
Charter
United States · Orvel
Space insurance brokerage for satellites and spacecraft; began as an operating system for managing satellite launch complexity
CEO / founder: Yuk Chi Chan (founder and CEO), with co-founder Yukun Yin
Nika.eco
Singapore · Orvel
Carbon technical services supporting project design
CEO / founder: Johann Wah (President and co-founder)
Evo Commerce
Singapore · Orvel
Creates a house of self-care brands for young consumers
CEO / founder: Roy Ang
Dorje
Singapore · Orvel
Proprietary AI infrastructure to replace ERP systems
CEO / founder: Bernard Leong (CEO)
Clout Kitchen
Philippines · Orvel
Builds AI-powered digital experiences
CEO / founder: Justin Gorriceta-Banusing (co-founder and CEO), with co-founder Marcel Feldkamp
Investbanq
Singapore · Orvel
AI-powered wealth management platform
CEO / founder: Oz Zhiyenkul (CEO and co-founder)
Tourhero
Angel
Founded by Tushar
CEO / founder: Tushar Khandelwal (co-founder and CEO), with co-founders Viren Shetty and Jann Wong
Million Marker
Angel
YC startup helping people understand which toxic chemicals are in their bodies, with clear next steps and crowdsourced bio-monitoring
CEO / founder: Jenna Hua
Evren
Angel
Enterprise desktop operating system that streamlines IT management and enhances security
CEO / founder: Gaurav Nagar
BlueMeg
Angel
Entity management and corporate governance software for companies and the service providers that serve them
CEO / founder: JP Koolmees
Lumina
Angel
Software that turns a webcam into near-DSLR video quality using AI image processing
CEO / founder: Raymond Lei and Mike Xia
Revere
Angel
Acquired. Built a next-generation asset manager for venture capital, with turn-key index- and ETF-style fund products for sector and thematic exposure
CEO / founder: Christopher Shen and Eric Woo
Fuse Finance
Angel
AI-native loan origination and account opening platform for credit unions, banks and lenders
CEO / founder: Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa
Iterative Health
Angel
Formerly Iterative Scopes. Software-only gastroenterology AI that helps doctors detect and classify lesions in real time; spun out of MIT in 2017
CEO / founder: Jonathan Ng
Rebel Fund
LP
The Y Combinator fund
Narya VC
LP
Early-stage venture firm investing in defense, healthcare and industrial technology; limited partner investor
YC Demo Day Funds
LP
Limited partner investment in funds backing Y Combinator Demo Day startups
Hive Health
Philippines · Angel
Digital platform offering affordable, quality health coverage plans for SMEs in the Philippines
CEO / founder: Camille Ang
BetterClinic
Philippines · Angel
Ambient AI medical scribe for clinicians in the Philippines. Records consultations, in English and Tagalog, and drafts structured clinical documents for physician review
CEO / founder: Jay Fajardo (CEO)
Anja
Angel
Cord blood, cord tissue and placenta stem cell banking for families
CEO / founder: Kathryn Cross
Turtletree
Angel
Precision-fermentation milk and lactoferrin without cows
CEO / founder: Fengru Lin (co-founder)
FLUID
Angel
Founded by Trasy Luo
Key.ai
Angel
Formerly Blueprint. Founded by Christopher Fong
CEO / founder: Christopher Fong (co-founder)
Acme
Angel · Monk's Hill
Bank connectivity layer that makes bank integrations fast and simple, serving fintech platforms, direct debit infrastructure and ERP systems
CEO / founder: JX Lye
Foremark Legal
Angel
Formerly WhyHow.ai
CEO / founder: Jeng Yang Chia, Viren Shetty and Tom Smoker
Peakflo
Angel
Streamlines bill payments and invoice collections, putting accounts payable and receivable on auto-pilot
CEO / founder: Saurabh Chauhan (co-founder and CEO), with co-founder Dmitry Vedenyapin (CTO)
Ordinary Folk
Singapore · Monk's Hill
Full-stack telehealth platform for stigmatized health conditions in Asia, with consumer brands Noah (men's health) and Zoey (women's wellness)
CEO / founder: Sean Low (founder and CEO)
Breadless
United States · Angel
Healthy fast-casual concept serving low-carb, gluten-free sandwiches wrapped in leafy supergreens instead of bread. Founded in Detroit and now franchising
CEO / founder: Marc Howland (co-founder and CEO), with co-founders LaTresha Howland and Ryan Eli Salter

Media

Press, podcasts and panels.

Coverage, interviews and talks on healthcare, venture and building in Southeast Asia, from podcasts and fireside chats to press and radio. Every entry has a summary and an archived copy.

Recognition

  • Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2016 (Social Entrepreneurs)
  • Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40
  • Former LinkedIn Top Voice
  • MassChallenge grand prize winner (CozyKin)
  • Runner-up and Crowd Favorite, Harvard Business School New Venture Competition (CozyKin)
  • Harvard iLab VIP and MIT Sandbox incubatee (CozyKin)
  • BMW Foundation Young Leader
  • Global Pro Bono Fellow, Taproot Foundation
  • President's Challenge Social Enterprise Commendation Award, on behalf of Conjunct Consulting

Connect

Let's connect.

Building something in Southeast Asia, want to share your story on BRAVE, or looking for a speaker? The best way to reach me is LinkedIn.