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Tea Ideas founder Jacinta Ong talks about how her social enterprise is striving to be sustainable even as they enlarge their social mission.

"DBS is a great partner during our IPO journey who immersed themselves in our culture to truly understand our vision and what we are really about." - Mr Chiem.

Siam Organic from Thailand and OurCityLove from Taiwan took the top two Prizes at the DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia 2016. Read on to find out about the innovative social enterprises who are changing Asia for the better.

EvowareWorld aims to address the problem of plastic waste through developing edible, biodegradable and eco-friendly bioplastics, made from sustainably-produced seaweed.

Cynthia Siantar, Co-Founder of Call Levels, a real-time financial monitoring and notification service, believes in working and playing hard.

Eason Chan, Founder of ALADY, a female-centric promotion & coupon marketplace, preaches finding a good co-founder who can complement you.

Jacky Yap, Managing Director of Vulcan Post, is a believer of trial and error. His favourite quote? “Everything is going to be okay.”

Jeffrey Liu, Co-Founder & CEO of fitness startup GuavaPass, punches bags, does headstands & spins while working – truly walking the talk!

Once a rebel, now a reformed entrepreneur - Ze Yan, Founder of Oddle, believes running a business’s not all about the money.

Oliver Tan, Co-Founder and CEO of ViSenze, believes that it doesn’t matter if you’re a predator or the prey, you just got to keep running.

Cameron Priest, CEO of TradeGecko, loves working with startups of all sizes and shapes and wants to put a dent in the universe.

Douglas Gan, Co-Founder and CEO of VanityTrove and Vanitee, loves challenging the status quo. That explains why he’s a five-time serial entrepreneur, and he’s only 32.

Joseph Phua, Co-Founder and CEO of Paktor, wants to kill someone every hour, for a perfectly good reason.

Meet Danny Tan, serial entrepreneur who’s turned his darkest moments with the failure of his first start-up into strength with HipVan.

Fong Wai Hong, Co-Founder of StoreHub, calls himself an “Accidental Entrepreneur”. Find out his back story.

Varun Chandran, CEO and Founder of Corporate 360, believes real heroes can be found amongst the common people, and not just the poster boys celebrated for their success.

Dennis Tay, Founder of Naiise, is intent on putting Singapore on the map of creativity.

Henry Chan and Joel Leong, Co-founders of ShopBack, aim to change the global shopping discovery and loyalty landscape.

Winning a hackathon reversed Siu Rui's, Co-founder of Carousell, fate of getting a real job.

Abhinav Krishna, Co-founder of OurHealthMate, doesn’t believe in starting a start-up with the singular aim of a successful exit.

John Kim, Founder & Fund Advisor of AmAsia Fund ILP, secretly fasts from food & work each year for the success of his firm.

Martin Pasquier, Lead Explorer of Innovation is Everywhere, lives up to his title as he travels to learn about innovation, everywhere across the globe.

Damien Koh, Co-founder of Joe & Dough, shares with us why he is The Power Grower.

Hoon Thing Leong, Owner of Kim San Leng Coffee shops, shares with us why he is The Incredible Cost Cutter.

Samuel Goh, Founder of Baby’s Hyperstore, shares with us why he is The Ultimate Protector.

Jamie Lim, 2nd Generation owner of ScanTeak, shares with us why she is The Marvel Vision.

Viola Tan, Co-founder of Love, Bonito, shares with us why she is The Super Savvy.

Tomas Laboutka, the CEO of HotelQuickly, is secretly a thrill seeker.

Would you rather be the market leader or be the biggest firm? Jonathan O'Byrne, CEO of Collective Works, shares.

Ashwin Subramaniam, Co-founder of Gone Adventurin', believes in creating collaborations for a more compassionate world.

Jacqui Hocking, Creative Director of Gone Adventurin’ believes that if the job you want doesn't exist, create it.

Hian Goh, Venture Capitalist and Partner at NSI Ventures, doesn’t do it for the money. He does it to prove it can be done.

Arrif Ziaudeen says he’s just some lucky guy that gets to hang out at Chope and discover new restaurants every day. We’re inclined towards believing him.

Jonathan Fong, co-founder of Journey Fitness, believes that the path of an athlete is very similar to that of a founder.

Audrey Yeo, Owner and Director of Yeo Workshop, hopes to grow a community of people in Singapore who live and breathe the arts.

Social architect, dreamer, and passionate problem solver. Prasoon Kumar envisions a world where no one will be homeless.

Dennis Goh, Founder of HungryGoWhere, feels he could have made it as a C-grade stand-up comedian had HungryGoWhere gone nowhere.

We interview the founding members of CRIB, a social enterprise empowering women entrepreneurs in this 4-part special

Turochas Fuad, CEO of travelmob, doesn’t know what he wants to be when he grows up – and plans to keep it that way.

Entrepreneur George Mathew, Co-founder of accounting firm Futurebooks, is motivated by a goal larger than profit. Find out what that is.

Find out what serial entrepreneur and modern-day adventurer-nomad Renyung Ho thinks will help make the world a better place.

We look at the life of Singapore’s late visionary leader and highlight five leadership traits which placed Mr Lee in a class of his own.

Find out how you can learn from the bold actions of the late visionary leader - Mr Lee Kuan Yew and apply them to your business.

Allow Grace Sai, CEO and Co-Founder of The Hub Singapore, to tell you why she thinks starting a business is way harder than marriage.

Serial entrepreneur, art lover and perpetual collaborator –like a work of art, Talenia Phua Gajardo is many things to many people.

Meet Firas Alsuwaigh, co-founder of Marcella - a custom apparel retailer that has taken Singapore by storm and is going global.

PandaBed's Lester Kang wants to enable more people to turn their lives into an adventure - just like he did.

Grace Clapham, Co-Founder of The Change School might not have coined the term “Changepreneur,” but she certainly epitomizes it.

We speak to Rosaline Koo, resident DBS BusinessClass Advisor on CXA's recent US$8 million Series A funding round.

At one point in time, John had investments in 17 tech startups. What was the biggest problem? Well, the missus had no idea about it! We talk to this serial entrepreneur to learn a thing or two about startups and keeping a secret!

Unique events define who we are. So says Emi Takemura, co-founder of Peatix, who wants to help shift the next generation from an object based economy to an experience based one.

Sometimes being eccentric could be the very reason why your startup gets acquired, so says Lee Jun Kiat the Co-Founder of Ticktok.

She believes the most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. We talk to Gina Romero, Head of The Athena Network.

A firm believer in the anecdote “Just Do It”, Walter Oh, the co-founder of BoxGreen tell us why he left his job at DBS Bank to bring his startup idea to life, and to our stomachs.

Nothing's going to stop them - that's what the dynamic co-founders of Packnada would have you know.

"There are so many things to do in a day, how can I not jump up from bed?" - Joe Lee from Echelon Minds tells us what drives him to empower others.

How does Roshni Mahtani, Founder of Tickled Media, afford the time to juggle all her endeavours? As it turns out, she doesn't quite like sleeping.

Dropping out of school at 14, find out how Moonshi Mohsenruddin, Founder of CommGate has defied the odds and emerged stronger.

Learn how Darius Cheung, founder of 99.co retired at the age of 25 due to the 'stone soup' story!

Find out how Rosaline Koo, CEO and Founder of CXA weathered her startup storms and pick up a life hack or two from the corporate mogul.

[Siblings Special] We speak to Dawn Soo, COO of DocDoc and Eugene Soo, Founder of Epigami about their startup journey.