About me

My main ways of sharing my insights about startups and startup ecosystems are through speaking and mentoring. My main goal is to challenge the minds of founders, investors and startup ecosystem leaders around the world in an engaging way (blunt) and help them bring about change. 

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Jeffrey Paine is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Golden Gate Ventures, an early stage technology venture capital fund based in Singapore investing in Southeast Asia with over US$300 million under management investing in over 75 companies since 2012.

Jeff started and managed the Founder Institute in Singapore till 2018 he oversaw its expansion in Southeast Asia, and Japan. Since 2010 the Founder Institute in Singapore has graduated over 100 companies. He is a recipient of the Founder Institute Director Award 2012 for “Greatest Ecosystem Impact” Worldwide (Singapore).

He is a Singapore native and graduated with a Bachelors of Business Administration (Information Systems) from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and an MBA from the University of Oxford Said Business School.

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