Raising a Unicorn from Australia to Hong Kong with Lucy Liu of Airwallex

21/10/2020 55 min
Raising a Unicorn from Australia to Hong Kong with Lucy Liu of Airwallex

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On this episode of RISE Offstage I welcome co-founder and president of AirWallex Lucy Liu to the podcast - Airwallex is one of the fastest growing fintech startups in Asia having raised a new $160mm Series D round in April with investors like Tencent, Sequoia China and Horizon Ventures.On this episode (which was shot in person back in January 2020 as a pilot to a video version of this podcast) Lucy and I start at Airwallex’s super cool offices in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong….and then we walk over to one of Lucy’s favorite coffee shops nearby and I get a chance to learn more about her startup journey as a female founder in fintech, being a young mother managing a unicorn-level startup and starting a new tech company in Australia and then growing internationally from their Hong Kong headquarters.Please welcome co-founder and CEO of Airwallex Lucy Liu to RISE Offstage.Airwallexhttps://www.airwallex.comAirwallex - Your Passport to Global Businesshttps://youtu.be/Wg0NZhD5HH4Airwallex gets $160 million Series D to launch more cross-border financial productshttps://techcrunch.com/2020/04/15/airwallex-raises-160-million-series-d-to-launch-more-cross-border-financial-products/What is 996?https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/technology/china-996-jack-ma.htmlWeb Summit returns December 2-4, 2020https://www.websummit.comRISE returns March 2021https://www.riseconf.comFollow me on Twitterhttps://www.twitter.com/casey_lau

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