SaaS Fellowship Kick-off 

APJ Q3 2022

Evaluate

Building self awareness is the first step toward growth. The Torch Leadership Assessment helps experienced professionals gain clarity on existing strengths and development opportunities.

Coach

During regular 1:1 video sessions, an experienced Torch coach will help the leader build a custom development plan based on their leadership assessment results.

Execute

Leaders then set their own growth goals with the help of their Torch coach. Together, they will define specific actions to track progress and hit leadership development targets.

How it works

Integrate learnings and capture insights for a new leadership future.

Grow


You'll meet with your mentor monthly during your 6-month partnership, to work on your goals and focus areas

Sign up here

By registering, you agree to the AWS Event Terms and Conditions and the AWS Community Codes of Conduct.

SaaS Fellowship Kick-off APJ Q3 2022

Workshop Description:

The SaaS Fellowship program is a 4-week program that prepares SaaS early stage founders during their startup journey. The 3Q2022 Program aims to answer some of the most commonly asked questions by SaaS founders when they first start their startup journey. The Program is designed for both the CEO and CTO of early stage (bootstrapped, pre-seed, seed, pre-A) SaaS companies.

The Program consists of 4 virtual fireside chats with C-level executives from late stage SaaS startups (BetterPlace, OneModel, Wingman, and more) and Group Technical Office Hours led by AWS Solutions Architects. At the end of the program (on week 4) all participants are invited to SaaS mixer in Singapore,, where they could meet with other SaaS startups and VCs!

Program Benefits

  • Connect with a community of experts and leading minds in SaaS
  • Form meaningful connections with peers, mentors and future collaborators
  • Learn from fellow founders through peer-to-peer knowledge sharing
  • Get guidance via office hours with AWS solution architects
  • Networking session with people in the industry

Date and time:

The Q3 kickoff fellowship will run from August 24 - September 16, 2022.

Who should attend:

CEOs and/or CTOs of early stage (bootstrapped, pre-seed, seed, pre-A) Startups.

 

Learn more about the schedule below.

Topic

Date & Time

Event

Week 1: 

Wednesday, 24 Aug 2022
11.30am - 12.30 pm SGT

Virtual

Fireside Chat
   (Technical)

Saasnomics: Everything you wanted to know and
didn’t know whom to ask:
- SaaS Pricing and Cost Attribution: How to Align
Technology with Business
- SaaS: Build, buy, leverage : Insights on rapid
product building

Fireside Chat
(Technical)

- SaaS and Micro-services,building a multi-tenant SaaS solution
- Architecting your SaaS - to scale globally (compliance, agility and modular)

Thematic Small Group Office Hours with AWS -
select topic in week 1 of the program

Week 3: 

Wednesday, 7 Sept 2022
11.30am - 12.30 pm SGT

Virtual

Fireside Chat
(Business)

Building a Global SaaS business and what metrics
to stay focused on.
- How to acquire and scale your first 100 SaaS
Customers Product Led Growth, Sales Velocity
and Growth
- Measure what matters - The metrics that govern
SaaS


Small Group
Technical Office Hours

Thematic Small Group Office Hours with AWS - select topic in week 1 of the program

Building a Global SaaS business and what metrics to stay focused on.
- How to acquire and scale your first 100 SaaS Customers Product Led Growth, Sales Velocity and Growth
- Measure what matters 
The metrics that govern SaaS

- SaaS and Micro- services, building a multi-tenant SaaS solution
- Architecting your SaaS - to scale globally (compliance, agility and modular)



Week 2: Tuesday 30 Aug 2022
11.30am - 12.30 pm SGT

Virtual

Week 2: 30 Aug- 2 Sept 2022
(date/time depends on the topic you select)

Virtual

Week 3: Wednesday 7 Sept 2022
11.30am - 12.30 pm SGT

Virtual

Fireside Chat
(Technical)

Fireside Chat
(Business)

Small Group
Technical
Office Hours

Fireside Chat
(Business)

Owning the Stage (virtually and in-person)

Week 2: 

30 Aug- 2 Sept 2022
(date/time depends on the topic you select)

Virtual

Week 2: 

Tuesday, 30 Aug 2022
11.30am - 12.30 pm SGT

Virtual

Week 1: Wednesday 24 Aug 2022
11.30am - 12.30 pm SGT

Virtual

Fireside Chat
(Business)

Saasnomics: Everything you wanted to know and didn’t know whom to ask:
- SaaS Pricing and Cost Attribution: How to Align Technology with Business - SaaS: Build, buy, leverage : Insights on rapid product building

Week 4: 

Thursday, 15 Sept 2022
11.30am - 12.30 pm SGT

Virtual

Fireside Chat
(Technical)

Product Management, Best Practices and Learnings

TBC

Physical


Mixer /
Networking

Fellowship Mixer- Singapore
Time, date and venue to be confirmed

Gaurav Ranjan
Prime Ventures, India VP

About BetterPlace
BetterPlace provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to help companies to manage the entire lifecycle of their blue-collar workforce. The platform helps companies in multiple aspects, such as hiring, background verification and digital onboarding of the worker. They also offer training, attendance management, payroll services and compliance services. Since its inception in 2015, the Company has catered to 15 million employees across 1,000+ organisations in India.

About Horangi
Horangi is a SaaS cybersecurity company that offers product innovation and technology designed to protect organizations. The company developed an integrated cybersecurity platform, which is designed to comprehensively secure organizations of all sizes with enterprise-grade technology in the cloud. Headquartered in Singapore, Horangi serves customers across a broad
range of industries from five offices globally.

About OneModel
One Model is a HR analytics platform that allows businesses to make sense of all their disparate people data, enabling companies to make data driven decisions to improve their retention, recruitment, and productivity and efficiency. Unlike traditional HR analytics tools, One Model takes all the heavy lifting out of extracting and modeling of workforce data.

One Model was launched in November 2014 and was part of the 2015 Techstars in Austin cohort, and is built by a worldwide team.

About Qapita
Qapita is a SaaS-Net startup with offices in India & Singapore. Qapita’s vision is to transform now equity is managed and traded in the private capital markets in this region. Qapita’s software solution seeks to automate the equity management process for startups including workflows around CapTables, ESOPs, Due-diligence, and transactions. Qapita’s market place solution seeks to facilitate liquidity to ESOP holders and shareholders via structured liquidity programs and secondary transactions. Qapita seeks to automate all processes for equity matters in private markets via its digital platform.

About Wingman
Wingman is a conversation intelligence platform that unlocks insights from every sales interaction. The company is on a mission to help sales teams live up to their fullest potential by providing them with actionable intelligence when it actually matters. Wingman was acquired by leading Revenue Platform Clari Inc. in 2022.

About Zuper.co
Zuper is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of software, SaaS, field
service, etc. Zuper is a productivity suite for service businesses to mobile field workforce and automate all business operations. Zuper was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

About Prime Ventures
Prime Venture Partners is an early-stage VC fund, led by partners with deep experience both as entrepreneurs and operators. They have invested in over 40 companies life to date and 95% of them are performing well (Exits: Recko to Stripe, Happay to Cred, Perpule to Amazon and ZipDial to Twitter).

Speakers

Schedule

Week 4: Thursday 15 Sept 2022
11.30am - 12.30 pm SGT

Virtual

Product Management, Best Practices and Learnings

Physical- TBC

Mixer / Networking

Fellowship Mixer, Singapore
Time, date and venue to be confirmed

Komal Prajapati
BetterPlace, India
CTO

Matthew Wilton
OneModel, Australia
CTO

Shruti Kapoor
Wingman, US/India
CEO

Raphaël Peyret Horangi, Singapore
VP Product