Ali Darwish
Head of Corporate Development @ Monk’s Hill Ventures
Ali Darwish is a startup investor at Monk’s Hill Ventures. Ali is the Head of Corporate Development at Monk's Hill Ventures (MHV) an early-stage SEA tech venture capital fund. Ali has 11 years of corporate development experience focused on consumer, SaaS, and Tech working at both buy and sell-side firms with a total deal/transaction experience of ~US$1bn. Prior to MHV, Ali was an early employeeand Head of Corporate Development at Circles.Life in Singapore. He built the team from the ground up, helping scale the Circles SaaS business globally to become one of Asia's fastest-growing unicorns (raising capital from marquee investors like Sequoia Capital, Warburg Pincus, Founders Fund, and Singapore Government).He started his career at a leading MENA VC fund (Sawari Ventures) setting up one of MENA's largest tech startup accelerators (Flat6Labs). He moved to Asia in 2013 to work for a global tech MNC based out of Singapore and spent some time in Jakarta working for a boutique private equity firm.Ali is originally from Egypt and graduated from Business School at Cairo University. He also earned his Master’s degree in SME Economics from the University of Bologna in Italy.
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About Monk’s Hill Ventures
Founded in 2014 by entrepreneurs Peng T. Ong and Kuo-Yi Lim, Monk’s Hill Ventures (‘MHV’) is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology startups in Southeast Asia. Backed by institutional investors and family offices worldwide, MHV works with great entrepreneurs to use technology to improve the lives of millions of people in theregion.We take a first-principles approach in how we operate and make decisions at MHV. We break down ideas and business models to understand the fundamentals. Since our founding in 2014, Monk’s Hill Ventures has invested in more than 20 fast-growing startups spanning multiple business models and industry verticals. We look to work with founders in the early stages of the development of their businesses, and typically invest at the Series A stage. We are entrepreneurs backing entrepreneurs. This runs in our DNA. With the utmost respect for the founder, the firm is led by entrepreneurs and operators, CEOs, and CTOs of successful tech companies both in Asia and in Silicon Valley.Our footprint spans across Southeast Asia with on-the-ground teams in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand. Our network comprises entrepreneurs, investors, former CEOs, engineers, academics, media and a team of operating advisors with strong domain expertise from cybersecurity, data science, financial services, to healthcare, to provide our founders with the right access and advice as they scale and build.
Monk’s Hill Ventures Contacts
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Peng T. Ong
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Ali Darwish
Head of Corporate Development
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Aswin Andrison
Venture Scout
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Justin Nguyen
Partner
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Kuo-Yi Lim
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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