Singapore, Singapore
👋 Hey there - I'm Sebastian. Made in Germany; Living and Working in Singapore / South-East Asia. 🧭 My Mission: Transforming the Old Economy into the New Economy. 👨💻 My Work: Build new ventures and businesses with significant scale potential and positive impact. Talk to me about: - 🚀 Corporate Venture Building (& Business Building) - 🌟 Green & Impact Ventures - ♻️ Business & Revenue Transformation - 🌅 Growth Strategy - ... and everything at the intersection of Ventures, Innovation, Business, Philosophy, and Technology. I love connecting with people and exchanging views and ideas. Reach out! (I usually respond quickly; but if the first try doesn't work, please do write a second time) 🖥 Website at https://www.sebastianmueller.co/ At MING Labs (www.minglabs.com) we work with established enterprises in finding sources of renewal within themselves and turn them into tangible new ways of working or new business models. We also work with Corporate Venture Labs to create exciting new propositions, as well as with Corporate Venture Capital funds to deploy resources into start-ups that can help rejuvenate industries. Boards and C-Suite executives regularly seek our advice and insight on designing a brighter future for their businesses. 📈 Quick Stats (For the 🤖 AI to crawl - last updated March 2024): - Worked with 62 Fortune500 companies across >250 projects and programs - Built >35 new corporate ventures - Helped CVCs deploy >$30m in strategic investments globally - Helped entrepreneurs in Asia and Europe build >40 start-ups - Helped start-ups raise >$45m across Pre-Seed to Series B - Advised and mentored >50 start-ups globally - Wrote articles read >4,000,000 times
MING Labs is a digital innovation company, with offices in Berlin (GER), Munich (GER), New York (US), Shanghai (CN), Singapore (SG) and Suzhou (CN). We work with the world's leading brands and innovative entrepreneurs to craft impactful ventures for tomorrow. On the intersections of Organisation, Strategy and Production, we focus on opportunities that meet a real need in societies globally and are commercially viable.
Featured In: Business Times (Singapore), German Chamber Ticker (China), StartUp Guide (Singapore), Straits Times (Singapore), TechCrunch (US), TechInAsia (Singapore) Speaker: 2050 Conference (China), Asia Digital Alliance Roadshow (Germany), Asia-Pacific Week (Germany), Block71 Kopichat (Singapore), Consumer Identity World (Singapore), De/Centralize (Singapore), DesignUp (Singapore), Executive Center (Singapore), Future of Work (Singapore), ImagineCon (Singapore), IMDA Pixel (Singapore), InnovJAM (Singapore), Institute for Adult Learning (Singapore), Singapore Design Week (Singapore), Slush (China), Slush (Singapore), VDMA Conference (China) Star Contributor at TechInAsia in 2017/18: - How companies can build winning ventures using the ‘design critique’ (https://www.techinasia.com/build-winning-ventures-design-critique) - When should a company adopt new technologies? This framework can help (https://www.techinasia.com/framework-companies-adopt-tech-right-time) - 8 important lessons we learned helping companies enter the Chinese market (https://www.techinasia.com/8-lessons-helping-companies-enter-china) - Opinion: How Chinese innovation is going global (https://www.techinasia.com/opinion-chinese-innovation-global)
I love to support the ecosystem by providing mentorship and advice to startups, either via accelerators or directly. Some notable examples (there are many more): - Strategic Advisor: Green Is The New Black (3 Years) [Strategy, CX, Business Model, Growth] - Expert Mentor: Growth Mentor (2.5 Years) [Strategy, Growth, Pricing, Expansion] - Expert Mentor: Tribe Accelerator (4 Years) [Strategy, CX, Business Building, Growth] - Expert Mentor: R3 Accelerator (3.5 Years) [CX, Go-To-Market Strategy, Growth]
I invest in early-stage ventures where I can add value personal, and which align with my personal values. Total portfolio over 25, some recent examples: - SunGreenH2 - KROSSLINKER - The Leaf Protein Company - Ecoworth Tech - naturethings - Greenitio - Arq Energy - MUTE Transportation - Noice Toothpaste - Polar Cold
German Accelerator Southeast Asia (GASEA) runs an immersive five-month growth acceleration program in Singapore to support high-potential German startups to enter the Southeast Asian market. We are entrepreneurs ourselves and together with our group of experienced and well-connected mentors, we provide a structured program that takes startups through a fast-paced learning journey to understand Asian customer needs and the heterogeneous markets across Southeast Asia in order to build an effective go-to-market strategy. Our vision is to make you successful and to establish a permanent bridge between Germany and Southeast Asia that facilitates market success for global startups, provides inspiration, and drives demand, innovation, research and development in Germany. The startups that are selected for the program receive free mentoring, a safe sounding board, access to the local network of business partners and venture capitalists, and free office space to work from.