True Founder Stories

About True Founder Stories

True Founder Stories by Kadan Capital is a series sharing raw, personal conversations with founders and operators building at the edge of Fintech and AI in Asia and beyond. Designed for a founder audience, each episode dives deep into the real stories, hard lessons, and bold moves behind today’s most ambitious ventures.

Publisher

Kadan Capital

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Aug 2025

Latest episode

21 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

8 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Apr 2026

   E08: Ilya Kravtsov - Serial Entrepreneurship & AI Banking

   The co-founder of Ringkas elaborates on his startup lessons, scaling to 1+ billion USD in annual mortgage volume, and why the future of banking has no apps.

2. 

   3 Mar 2026

   E07: Marcus Lim - Global Banking & Immigrant Stories

   The founder of @PEXX opens up about navigating market meltdowns, managing doubt, and building a global neobank on stablecoins.

3. 

   11 Feb 2026

   E06: Jingjing Zhong - AI in Home Services & Founder Therapy

   The founder of Superbench shares hard truths about building for service businesses and how entrepreneurship forces personal growth.

4. 

   6 Jan 2026

   E05: Kevin Kang - Crypto Cards & Surviving Crises

   Kevin Kang, the Co-founder of Reap, shares how he built one of the first crypto card issuers in APAC, and how he found a silver lining in multiple crises.

5. 

   4 Dec 2025

   E04: Milind Sanghavi - Stablecoin Summer & Building Resilience

   Milind Sanghavi, the founder and CEO of Xweave explains how stablecoins are drastically changing global payments and how he built resilience as a founder.

6. 

   7 Oct 2025

   E03: Winston Damarillo - Silicon Valley & Growing from Failure

   Winston Damarillo, the co-founder and CEO of Higala shares how Silicon Valley is different from Southeast Asia, and how founders can learn from past mistakes.

7. 

   2 Sept 2025

   E02: Theodoric Chew - Founder Mental Health & Entering Japan

   Theodoric Chew, the founder and CEO of Intellect speaks about founder mental health and the challenges and benefits of expanding into Japan.

8. 

   5 Aug 2025

   E01: Nathan Gunawan - Childhood Challenges & Athlete Mindset

   Nathan Gunawan, the co-founder & CEO of Pallav Technologies, talks about childhood challenges, emerging market credit & the “athlete mindset”.

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