Jeffrey Paine
Battle Ventures & Founder Institute Singapore · Golden Gate Ventures
Sessions
1
About
Most investors tell founders what they want to hear. I tell them what they need to. I'm Jeffrey Paine — Founding Partner of Golden Gate Ventures, the leading early-stage VC in Southeast Asia ($300M+ AUM, 75+ companies since 2012). But my day job is less about capital allocation and more about pattern recognition: spotting the gaps between how founders pitch companies and how the market actually values them. I speak and mentor at conferences globally because I believe the startup ecosystem runs on bad mental models. Southeast Asia's startup narrative is ten years out of date. And too many founders are building for the round, not for the business. What I talk about on stage: → The AI Margin Tax: why SaaS investors are pricing AI companies wrong → How AI is rewiring venture capital's power structure → Southeast Asia's AI leapfrog moment → What it actually takes to raise from serious investors in 2026 Oh by the way, I am building a prediction model that select unicorns... Oxford MBA. USC BBA. Founder Institute Director Award 2012 (Greatest Ecosystem Impact, Worldwide). NeurIPS 2025. Booking enquiries: [email protected]
Talks & panels
Currently
Founding Partner
Singapore
Investing in and supporting audacious founders, with a focus on AI. I use AI and data to improve startup selection and to share repeatable patterns for founders. - Patterns from early-stage AI investing: what consistently predicts shipping velocity and market pull. - 2nd-opinion sessions for founders (strategy, fundraising, product).
Edmund Hillary Global Impact Fellow
Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF)
New Zealand
EHF mission is to incubate solutions to global problems from New Zealand and make a lasting positive impact on the world. I'm a proud fellow in this group of visionary and highly experienced entrepreneurs and investors that are creating scalable and positive ventures with global impact from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Top skills
- Venture Capital
- Start-ups
Education
University of Oxford
MBA (Said Business School) · Business Administration and Management
Sep 2022 - Sep 2024
Dartmouth College
Master of Engineering · Computer Engineering
2025 - 2027
USC Marshall School of Business
Bachelor of Science - BS · Business Administration and Management
Certifications
Replit Agent
RPO Pickleball Level 1 Coaching Certification
racketpro · Issued Aug 2026
Linear Algebra: Linear Systems and Matrix Equations
Johns Hopkins University · Issued Jun 2025
C Programming with Linux
Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) · Issued Aug 2024
Python 3 Programming
University of Michigan · Issued Aug 2024
Statistics with Python
University of Michigan · Issued Aug 2024
Introduction to Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
UC San Diego · Issued Jul 2024
Computational Thinking for Problem Solving
University of Pennsylvania - Coursera · Issued Jul 2024
Introduction to Programming with Python and Java
University of Pennsylvania - Coursera · Issued Jul 2024
Code in Place 2024 (First half of CS106A)
Stanford University Department of Computer Science · Issued Jun 2024
Multi Agents Systems (Crewai)
DeepLearning.AI · Issued May 2024
Intermediate Python
DataCamp · Issued Apr 2024
Generative AI for Everyone
DeepLearning.AI · Issued Dec 2023
Invest in Climate Tech like a VC
Maven · Issued Jun 2023
Introduction to Python
DataCamp · Issued Nov 2021
Climate change and Indigenous People and local communities
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Issued Aug 2023
Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification
DeepLearning.AI · Issued Aug 2023
Introduction to Parapsychology
University of Edinburgh School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences · Issued Apr 2023
The Age of Sustainable Development (Columbia University)
Coursera · Issued May 2023
Building AI-powered Products 101 by Dr Marily Nika
Maven · Issued Apr 2023
AI for Everyone
Coursera · Issued May 2023
Data Science Bootcamp
Vertical Institute · Issued Jun 2022
Distinguished Corporate Speaker at NUS MBA Club Event
National University of Singapore · Issued Mar 2022
Fellowship, Gender Lens Investing
AVPN · Issued Sep 2021
Section4 Certified Data & Analytics
Section · Issued Nov 2021
Blockchain Essentials
Consensys · Issued Mar 2021