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When Le Thi Hoa pitched to 50 investors in Tokyo in 2022, she was the only woman in the room — and the only Vietnamese person. She raised $3M seed.
"Some investors asked me: 'Are you sure you can manage a technical team?'" she recalls. "I said: I built the first product myself. My team is 7 senior engineers from Google and Meta. I think I'm fine."
“As a Vietnamese woman in global tech, you have two choices: let bias make you small, or use your difference as a weapon.”
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Linh Vu (Toronto) founded ClimateChain — a blockchain platform tracking carbon credits, raising CAD 12M. Mai Nguyen (Tokyo) built MedAI Japan, deployed in 45 Japanese hospitals. Huong Bui (London) co-founded EduViet with 50,000+ students in 20 countries. Lan Pham (Singapore) manages Impact Ventures SEA, the first Vietnamese-founded social impact fund.