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      Natalie Ng

      Natalie Ng

      Investor

      TNB Aura

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      Natalie Ng is an Investor at TNB Aura, an early stage and growth equity firm investing in exceptional founders across the region. She works closely with portfolio founders on growth, fundraising and exits, across AI, HealthTech, FinTech and Consumer sectors.

      Natalie is also co-founder of Convergence AI Summit, a community for the builders, investors and enterprises deploying AI across Asia. Before investing, she was in Sales Strategy & Operations at Salesforce. She holds a B.A. in Global Affairs from Yale-NUS College.

      Speaking at SFF 2026

      • 12:40–1:10pmThu 19 NovSide ProgrammesInvestors Lounge (Hall 2)OpenModerator

        Capital Rewiring

        Double Down or Walk Away: Startup Bets and Portfolio Strategy

        Side ProgrammesInvestors Lounge (Hall 2)OpenModerator

        About this session

        Where is capital moving, and what are experienced investors betting on next? As technology reshapes industries and investment opportunities evolve, institutional investors and family offices are reassessing their allocations across private markets, startups and alternative assets. This fireside chat explores how investors are shaping their investment theses, identifying differentiated opportunities and managing portfolios through a changing market cycle, with candid perspectives on where to deploy capital, double down or take a step back.

      • 12:15–12:45pmFri 20 NovSide ProgrammesOpenModerator

        Capital Rewiring

        Fundable by Design: How Cash Discipline Makes You a Better Bet

        Side ProgrammesOpenModerator

        About this session

        Every founder is told to grow fast and raise big. Fewer are told that investors quietly reward the opposite: the founder who knows their runway to the week, can explain every dollar, and never pitches from desperation.

        In this session, Varun Mittal argues that cash discipline is not a constraint on ambition. It is the most underrated fundraising strategy there is. Drawing on his experience as part of the founding management teams that scaled Singlife and helloPay through to acquisition, and on building an investment fund to back Singapore’s fintech community, he looks at fundraising from both sides of the table.

        He shares what builds conviction in the room, the signals that end investor conversations early, and the habits that separate a good bet from a risky one, from runway planning and unit economics to how cash is managed between rounds. The result is a company that raises when it chooses to, on terms it can negotiate, and not because it has to.

        Attendees will leave with a practical framework for building financial rigour into the business from day one, and a clearer view of how to become fundable by design.