Elevyn is a social entrepreneurship project started by Mike Tee and Devan Singaram in late 2007 and it is one of the Malaysian start up that you will be hearing a lot in the coming months. Elevyn adopts the Etsy and eBay concept, but designed specifically to make it easy for marginalized/rural communities to set [...]
About Tham Keng Yew
A graduate of Michigan State University with a bachelors in Computer Engineering, Keng Yew made an exit from a PhD program to join a Silicon Valley startup (eXS Inc). Kengyew has 5 years working experience with multiple Silicon Valley startups, developing high-tech telecommunications products. Working with eXS, Kengyew has experienced first-hand, starting a company with nothing but an idea, through seed-funding, to commercial deployment with a solid product. In mid 2008 Kengyew returned to Malaysia to start up Socialwalk. The idea behind Socialwalk is to transform conferences & business events into lasting communities. Use the Socialwalk platform to facilitate networking and B2B business matching among guests and attendees. Socialwalk also provides an easy to use web-based interface (SAAS) to do online registration and ticketing. Socialwalk was awarded a RM150K pre-seed grant by MDEC to develop and launch this software. Their current client list includes events by TEDxKuala Lumpur, TiE Asia Pacific Conference 09, Barcamp, Bursa Malaysia, and more
TeAM & MDEC present – “Opportunities Within A Crisis”
On the 17th of Feb, Tuesday, TeAM and MDEC are joining forces to bring you “Opportunities within a Crisis”. We will be hearing from the experiences of 2 amazing entrepreneurs who made their mark during the last economic downturn Mark Chang, CEO of Jobstreet and Leo Arinayanaka, CEO of Scicom.. both running public listed companies. We will also [...]
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