The Entrepreneurial Journey of Building ConnectingDNA
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Synopsis
In this Venture Creation in Asia Fireside Chat, we bring together Founders | Entrepreneurs and Investors | Angels | Mentors | Venture Builders in a moderated fireside chat to share stories of venture building - highlighting the fact that venture building is a sustained and team-based effort.
In this fireside chat, Yen-Lu Chow, AIM’s founding executive chairman, will moderate the session with Cedric Lee and Ee Ting Choo, the founders of ConnectingDNA, a pioneering startup that specializes in developing hyper-personalized wellness solutions via genetics and AI.
Join us to hear firsthand about their entrepreneurial journey that can inspire all aspiring entrepreneurs: the origin of ConnectingDNA, their mission and vision, the early struggles of finding product-market fit, building an A-team, getting investments and all the trials and tribulations of creating a wellness tech startup in Asia from scratch.
ConnectingDNA is a DNA-Tech platform that helps you find reliable wellness solutions online. If you have done a DNA test, you can even upload your report online in a safe and private manner to unlock predictive insights on health, personality, fitness, nutrition, career, etc using AI. At the same time, we empower wellness practitioners to create hyper-personalized "DNA-Designed" solutions for you (eg. DNA-Designed Fitness Plans) so positive outcomes can be achieved Faster, Safer, and Easier.
Cedric Lee
DNA Storyteller, Founding CEO ConnectingDNA
Cedric Lee is the founder and CEO of ConnectingDNA. He is passionate about revolutionizing how people achieve their best health by understanding their unique genetic makeup.
With over 20 years in the health tech world, he has worked with big names like Abbott Laboratories, 3M, and Samsung, and held various leadership roles. Beyond his day-to-day work, he shares his knowledge on branding, holistic wellness, consumer genetics and leadership with different companies and communities.
Choo Ee Ting
Co-Founder of ConnectingDNA
Choo Ee Ting is the co-founder of ConnectingDNA, a platform that uses your DNA to help you make better nutrition and lifestyle choices.
From a Chemical Engineer to 15 years in the field of genetics, and now a strong advocate for holistic health through nutrition, Ee Ting is dedicated to teach people about the benefits of good nutrition.
Yen-Lu Chow
Founding Executive Chairman WholeTree Foundation / Over-The-Rainbow; Asia Institute of Mentoring | Founding Partner Fatfish MediaLab | Executive Mentor YSI SEA | Founder of the Deep Human Movement
A former Apple Distinguished Technologist, Yen-Lu is an award-winning entrepreneur, technologist, venture catalyst & angel investor, mentor & advisor turned author and keynote speaker, mental wellbeing champion, social innovator & change-maker, ecosystem builder, philanthropist and humanist.
As an angel investor and venture catalyst in the tech ecosystem, Yen-Lu has mentored young entrepreneurs and businesses for many years. He has made significant contributions to the Singapore tech and entrepreneurship ecosystem, serving on countless startup business plan competitions internationally, government panels on innovation and entrepreneurship, and as mentor and advisor to the major universities. He co-founded a business angel fund in partnership with the Singapore government, served as a director of Business Angel Network SEA, executive mentor and adjunct professor to NUS Enterprise, mentor to INSEAD, plus numerous panels on entrepreneurship and innovation internationally. As an expert and practitioner in speech recognition and language processing (with 6 international patents and having worked in the field for over 20 years since early 1980’s while leading Apple’s initiative in this area in the early 1990’s), he was an early pioneer in the application of AI with a strong base in the tech space.
He is on a life mission to help bring about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, more just, and sustainable world.
About Asia Institute of Mentoring
Asia Institute of Mentoring (AIM) is a non-profit volunteer based organization with a mission to bring mentoring to the spotlight in Asia, raise the quality of mentors and the standard of mentoring, bringing mentoring to all facets of society to impact millions of lives.
We are committed to create an Asia-based people-powered mentoring movement to move people … to learn, to share, to give forward, to transform, to harness the deep human potential, and create social impact – bringing about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, just and sustainable world for all.
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