Ken Chi Kwong Yeung is the Co-Founder and CEO of Clare.AI, a white-label artificial intelligence chatbot to help financial institutions provide 24/7 personalized customer experience across platforms. Previously to building Clare.AI, Ken held various roles in the Investment Banking field developing award-winning global multi-asset trading platforms using machine learning and NLP. Clare.AI is one of the 8 companies which was admitted to the SuperCharger FinTech Accelerator Prog

The trend has been confirmed — Asia is the leading region in the world, as measured by FinTech investment. Globally VC-backed FinTech funding (down 13% to $12.7BN) and deals (down 1% to 836) are on the downturn. Asia is the only part of the world where FinTech investment is increasing. Last year, the top 10 Asia-based FinTech deals were worth in aggregate around $4BN. 2016 Asia mega-round deals ($50MN+) were dominated by Chinese firms. Ant Financial raised $4.5BN in private p

Ever wonder how accelerators evaluate and select startups for their programs? In this blog, we outline exactly how SuperCharger FinTech Accelerator evaluates our applications. If you are thinking about applying to future SuperCharger programs, make sure to look over and understand our 5 Evaluation Pillars listed below: Team, Product, Market, Traction, and Gut Feeling. Pillar 1: Team We look holistically at teams — are team members complementary? Do they build off each other’s

Founder of SuperCharger Janos Barberis is a Millennial in FinTech. He is recognized as a top-35 global FinTech leader by Institutional Investor Magazine. He sits on the FinTech advisory boards of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) and the Securities & Futures Commission (SFC) and has founded three ventures to date: SuperCharger (Accelerator), FinTech Book (Publication) and FinTech HK (Research). Today, I sat him down in between a day full of meetings to ask some questions to ki