Shaun Hon

Founder and General Partner at Motion Ventures | Forbes 30 Under 30

Singapore

About

Engineer at heart and believe the interesting problems are always the ones nobody's fully solved. The years that followed were basically that thesis in action - designing electric vehicles for Amazon, BMW, and Ford, optimising oil flow for Shell. Different industries, same pattern: find the broken system, figure out why it's broken, build something better. Then I found maritime. A $14 trillion industry, 90% of global trade, and infrastructure that hasn't meaningfully changed since the 1990s. Not a broken system - an entire broken stack. That became Motion Ventures. We back startups building the future of maritime. Our investors are some of the largest operators who run the industry - Mitsui OSK Lines, Stolt-Nielsen, Wilhelmsen, Kpler, Lloyd's Register and many more - which means our portfolio gets access, not just capital. I was also diagnosed with dyslexia, and probably ADHD - I meant to get that second one confirmed, but something more interesting kept coming up. If you're building in maritime, my inbox is open.

Experience

  • Founder and General Partner at Motion Ventures
    2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

  • Entrepreneur In Residence at INSEAD
    2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

  • Mentor at Techstars
    2020 - 2024 · 4 yrs

  • President at Tech Singapore Advocates
    2020 - 2024 · 4 yrs

  • Investment Principal at TRIVE
    2018 - 2020 · 2 yrs

    Venture Investments into AI Technology Seed and Series A companies