VENTURE Partners

  Amit is the Founder and Managing Partner of XL Ventures - an early stage Startup investment firm incorporated in Singapore. Amit has a track record of running successful technology businesses in Singapore, where he started his Digital Transformation Consulting and Advisory business advising Fortune 500 Companies across Asia on their transformation journey. 

Amit also founded SPREAD (Securitization Platform for Real Economy Assets and Derivatives)  in 2018 and partnered with Blockchain Climate Institute, UK to leverage SPREAD for Impact Investments. 

Prior to starting his entrepreneurial journey, Amit was the Global Head of Digital Business Unit for Tech Mahindra Limited - advising Fortune 500 companies in transforming their business for a connected future.  In the past, Amit has held various leadership roles with technology companies such as  Subex and Bharti Group in Digital Transformation, Enterprise Software, SaaS/IaaS, Telecom OSS/BSS, Revenue Assurance, Fraud Management, Mobile Payments/ Remittance and Value Added Services. Amit is from the class of 1998 of the ICFAI Business School, India.

Amit is a regular speaker on various Industry events and Technology Shows on Television and digital medium.

Satyarth Mishra is an accomplished Senior Executive who has consistently created market entry, turnaround, rapid and sustainable growth for Technology & Digital enterprises across the Asia-Pacific

Satyarth has co-created and substantially led growth for Global Tier 1 firms (Accenture, HP, Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech) as well as Greenfield and Start-up ventures. Leveraging on his astute understanding of Digital evolution of businesses, he has led and won significant outsourcing deals in the Telco, Financial Services, Retail and Transportation sectors. Some of these have been in excess of $200 Million. He has over twenty-five years of success across India, ASEAN, ANZ & Oceania. Satyarth’s experience covers a breadth of technology businesses across Consulting/Digital transformation, Infrastructure, applications support/ modernization, Cloud, Security and Artificial Intelligence. 

Satyarth is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and National Digital Advisor at the Australia India Business Council (AIBC). 

Cary is Canadian and a Singapore permanent resident. A twenty year veteran in retail and commercial payments, having also lived and worked in Asia for over a decade. His expertise includes issuer and acquirer processing, faster payments, e-commerce and digital wallets, open and closed-loop payment cards, domestic and international retail payment switch networks and alternative payment flows.

Cary has held senior leadership roles in Canada, The UAE and Singapore with Global Payments, First Data and Mastercard, focused on product development, deployment and management, go-to-market strategy and execution and commercial management. Cary has led global teams deploying solutions across the Middle East, North Africa and in nearly every market in Asia Pacific. Each of these roles included proactive engagements with prudential and non-prudential regulators and industry associations. Cary currently works with Bain as an external advisor, focused on payments, fintech and technology rationalisation. 

Cary has been a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and The Lafferty Council. He is Prince2 certified and is passionate about youth issues, contributing his time to organisations like Junior Achievement, teaching entrepreneurial skills to teens and tweens.

Dr. Graeser is a US Patent Agent with 23 years of experience. She participated in the Human Genome Project as a scientist and a programmer, before committing her time to help innovators to protect their ideas. She is the founder of KISSPatent, a legal-tech startup company based in the US, Europe and Israel. With KISSPatent, her goal is to offer a flexible, transparent and cutting edge tech-focused service for innovators, early-stage startups and established innovation-focused businesses. KISSPatent’s focus is to simplify and automate the patent process and make it available for everyone.

Andrew is one of Asia’s leading brand and business consultants whose perspectives on brands, strategy and design thinking are regularly sought by Asia’s leading marketing media. Over the past 35 years across Asia and globally, Andrew has worked in senior management for some of the world’s leading advertising and design companies including Ogilvy, OgilvyHealth, FCB, HAVAS and FITCH Design and has guided some of the world’s most famous brands to great success