Founders in Focus

We sit down with Steven Hong — co-founder of Kumu and Oculii, the AI radar and perception company acquired by Ambarella for $400 million — for a candid look at the path that took him from an academic childhood in Ohio to building and exiting deep-tech companies at the frontier of AI and autonomous systems. Hong reflects on the early influence of growing up as the son of an electrical engineering professor, the pivotal moments that pulled

What does it take to build a company that challenges industry giants and a venture firm at the same time?  In this exclusive ATC interview, Judy Canalin sits down with David Zhu, CEO and co-founder of Reevo and founding partner of Zhu Ventures, for a candid conversation on entrepreneurship, resilience, and the power of lifelong relationships. 

Tim Hwang is the founder of FiscalNote, a company transforming how organizations engage with policy and regulatory data. Beyond FiscalNote, Tim is actively involved in a number of ventures spanning fintech, AI, cybersecurity, and healthcare, building companies that tackle highly complex, regulated markets. Michelle Moon from Asian Tech Collective sat down with Tim to discuss his journey, company-building philosophy, and the perspective he brings as a Korean American entrepren

Jenny Xiao is a Partner at Leonis Capital, a research-driven VC fund focused on seed and pre-seed AI companies. Before Leonis, she was an early employee at OpenAI and a Ph.D. researcher at Columbia. She left OpenAI just a week after ChatGPT took off to join forces with her partner, Jay Zhao, to build a research-driven fund backing AI-native companies. Jenny’s research has been featured in Nature, the NYT, the WSJ, and Bloomberg.

Michelle Moon from Asian Tech Collective sat down with Xiao Wang, CEO of Boundless, to discuss his personal journey, the exciting challenges of building a mission-driven company in immigration, and what it takes to scale excellence in a high-trust industry. Boundless is a technology-first immigration platform, with a 99.7% approval rate and millions of monthly users.

For this edition of the Asian Tech Collective founder spotlight, we sat down with Alex Lee, the Co-Founder and CEO at Truewind, an AI-powered accounting platform trusted by hundreds of businesses and firms. In this candid conversation, Alex shares how his journey—from aerospace engineer to venture capitalist to two-time founder—shaped his approach to building companies. W

Albert Ng is the co-founder and CEO of Misapplied Sciences, and the primary inventor of the technology behind Parallel RealityTM displays. His work has been featured on the global stage, from viral social media posts to the opening keynote address of CES. At Microsoft Research, Albert was a pioneer in low-latency touchscreens that provide users with an instantaneous response when interacting with their devices. At Stanford, Albert built high-performance computers and interfa