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Co-Founder, Proficeo Consultants
Dr. Siva is an investor, mentor, author, ecosystem builder and popular speaker. As Senior Partner of ScaleUp Malaysia Accelerator he has invested in 38 pre-Series A Startups and individually as an Angel in 16. As Co-Founder of Proficeo Consultants he has coached more than 1,000 companies and 3,000 entrepreneurs over the last 16 years. He also founded the Soonicorn Collective, a membership driven leadership and nation building platform for late-stage tech companies. As a coach and trainer Dr. Siva has trained for over 10 agencies and organisations including Cradle Fund, MDEC, MRANTI and Unicef. The biggest program that Dr. Siva was involved in was coaching about 570 companies under the Coach & Grow Program (CGP) for Cradle Fund between 2011 and 2020. The companies in the program raised RM750 million in funding from various investors including Angels, VCs and IPOs. Dr. Siva also ran the GoIPO Program with a 25% success rate where 3 out of 12 companies in the program successfully listed on Bursa Malaysia. Dr. Siva was the Founding President of the Malaysian Business Angel Network (MBAN) and in 2019 was appointed Chairman of the Ministry of Sciences’s Task Force to recommend the restructuring of the Funding Agencies under the Ministry. He was instrumental in policy proposals for the ecosystem including the setting up of Cradle Fund, Angel Tax Incentives and the exemption from capital gains tax for Venture Capital and Angel investors. He has authored two books: “Supercharge Your Startup Valuation” and “Blue Sky Innovation” and has written numerous articles in leading media like The Edge, Digital News Asia and other publications. He is a popular speaker and has spoken at numerous conferences and appeared as a guest numerous times on BFM radio. He is also the Investment Advisor to Petronas Innovation Garage (PING). He has a Ph.D in Venture Capital from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and is Adjunct Professor at the School of Science & Technology, Sunway University.