Wassem Mohd — CEO

Economics graduate who somehow escaped the slow grind of government and big tech — both moved slower than my coffee machine. I figured it might be faster (and way more exciting) to just build things myself. Since then, I’ve been neck-deep in startups across AI, F&B tech, and fintech in Southeast Asia and India — building, breaking, fixing, scaling, and occasionally succeeding. Collectively, those ventures went on to raise around US$70 million, proving that stubborn optimism is sometimes a strategy. I’ve helped create multi-language AI products, digitized restaurant supply chains, and embedded finance for SMEs — learning mostly through late nights, wild ideas, and lessons you won’t find in any MBA program. My obsession? Great products, great people, and great chaos — in that order. Living the founder life — equal parts success, failure, and madness, but always worth the ride. I’ve given investors headaches, yet most keep coming back — and with some, I’ve chosen not to work again (and a few have made that same call… haha). Building a company is a team sport, and you can’t win with misaligned people or non-scalable investors. I’ve been lucky to build alongside driven, grounded, high-moral-compass humans — the kind who show up, fall, rise, and sometimes reunite to build again. The best investors and teammates I’ve had share one thing: they play the long game and still enjoy it. And when I’m not running companies, I’m usually convincing people to quit their jobs and start something of their own — sometimes even writing the first cheque to help them do it. Because life’s too short not to bet on yourself.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and F&B Tech entrepreneur with extensive startup experience.

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory, Malaysia

Experience: 20 yrs 11 mos