Elise Yee Ling Tan

We are a non-profit, volunteer run platform to serve early stage startup founders as well as give back to the underprivileged community. Since 2020, we have grown into a community of >2,700 Southeast Asian founders, investors and partners inspiring and supporting each other in our fundraising and startup journey. We also raised nearly $180k in donations for charities. If you would like to be a part of our community, do sign up here: Our newsletter - www.asiastartupnetwork.com (look for the sign up box) Telegram - PM Elise t.me/elis3y Slack - PM us for the link! Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/asiastartupnetwork/ Other links can be found on linktr.ee/asiastartupnetwork Flagship Events Powered by Asia Startup Network: 1. Healing and Thriving - annual event to provide a safe space for founders to lean in and understand red flags of burnout, depression etc as well as learn how to stay in the 'balance' from experts 2. Angels Arena - an event to allow founders to pitch to angel investors and vice versa to raise angel funding and raise their startup profile 3. Makan For Hope was started by Elise Tan and Andrew Tan as part of the Asia Startup Network (ASN) in 2021. For more information, visit www.makanforhope.org 4. In 2020, Elise started Mentor For Hope with Janet Neo. Mentor for Hope is an unprecedented month-long fundraising campaign where >250 mentors donated their time to provide mentoring to over 200 founders affected by the COVID-19 crisis and simultaneously raised over $43,000 in funds to aid charities in delivering urgent help to persons and families affected by this pandemic.