Arrow

Modern Checkout Platform for D2C brands in Southeast Asia

Y CombinatorSummer 2021ActiveFintechPaymentsFintechE-commerce

What they do

Problem

D2C brands in Southeast Asia lose conversions and profitability due to slow, fragmented, and inconvenient checkout experiences on mobile and across local payment methods.

Solution

Arrow provides a modern, secure, hyperlocal checkout platform that lets shoppers pay quickly with preferred Southeast Asian payment methods without new accounts, passwords, or redirects.

Who it's for

D2C brands and online merchants in Southeast Asia who want to improve their checkout and payments experience for mobile shoppers.

Founders

Liat Beng Neo

Founder

I've been in the Fintech and payments space for the last few years; Previously based in Hong Kong / Shenzhen to build out Tencent's Global Fintech initiatives, launched Grabpay in SEA markets, covered Vietnam during my time at Alipay and was part of the amazing team at helloPay before the acquisition by Ant Financial.

Sudhan Raj

Founder

Computer Engineering graduate from NTU, Singapore. Has been actively coding for almost 2 decades across a dozen programming languages. Built Popcorn (#1 Movie Showtime app) together with the founder from scratch and scaled it across 6 countries in SEA. Co-founded Cornflix.TV, an online television network with over 600 channels, and raised 6 figures in investment from 500 Startups. Believes in one mantra "Make technology work for you!"

Sebastian Roervig

Founder

Sebastian is from Denmark, but currently living in Singapore. Spend the last +three years at Grab Financial building out its different payment use cases. Worked for for Daraz (Alibaba) in Pakistan looking at e-commerce payments, and before that, living in Philippines and Silicon Valley working for Abra (a crypto currency company).