About The Startup Buddy

The Startup Buddy is South East Asia's largest virtual Accelerator-as-a-Service founded in 2016. Through our online accelerator, we support the process of building new businesses and running acceleration and innovation programs. The Startup Buddy is trusted by 5000+ entrepreneurs, investors, educators, accelerators, and enterprises worldwide. Organizations like AWS, Standard Chartered Bank, the High Commission of Canada, Start2, Temasek Polytechnic, and many, many more engage The Startup Buddy to run scalable and easily manageable programs.

Our Mission and Vision

To make it easy for entrepreneurs, investors, educators and enterprises to build new ideas into sustainable new businesses anytime and anywhere. To support the creation of at least 10,000 sustainable new companies through The Startup Buddy platform that grow to exist at least 5 years.



Our Values

1) Customers, 2) Team, 3) Everything else - The Startup Buddy will grow if our customers are successful, so your success is ours. Our team enables everything we do including making our customers successful.

Have fun doing what we do - What The Startup Buddy is trying to achieve hasn't been done before and we are still figuring it out ourselves. The more our network tells us what we do wrong, the better we can adapt what we do for you. We keep learning, interacting, improving and loving that in the process.

Transparent -  We are open and honest for our customers and within the company because we believe by being open and sharing, others will trust us and be transparent with us.

Fast is better than slow - We prefer solving or doing something fast above perfect. We might make some mistakes in the process which we will learn from and solve them more structurally later.

Reputation - The Startup Buddy is being built to last for a long time and we believe that can only happen when we have a good reputation. Sometimes we will need to pass on an opportunity or chance that is attractive, but doesn’t sit well with us or alarms our gut feeling. We will also be tough and honest, which might sometimes make a customer dislike us, because we bear a message he or she might not like to hear. But we believe that long term this will build our customers' trust in us, they will know what they get when they engage with The Startup Buddy.

Robin, a Dutch native, came to Singapore to start his entrepreneurial career. He left his long-held job at ING bank wanting to make a big impact in the Southeast Asia market. He was joined by Denny Huang, the CTO and founder of 2 successful POS companies. Along with Darwis Arifin (Software Engineer) and Rishav Pandey (Business Developer) we are a lean mean team of 5.