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The flagship entrepreneurship show on BFM, featuring personal business stories from early stage start-ups, all the way to billionaire octogenarians in Malaysia and abroad. Notable guests include Martin Cooper (father of the mobile phone), Julian Assange (founder of WikiLeaks), Ralph Henry Baer (fath...
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Can A Petting Zoo Change How We Feel?
Can animals help humans heal? Rajagopal Yagambram, Founder of Planet Zoo Malaysia, believes they can. After nearly two decades in agrotourism, he’s bu...
How This Tech Startup Is Powering Climate Resilience
Punita Nook Naidu, Co-Founder of H2O DataTech, shares how the Malaysian climate-tech company is turning complex climate and water data into actionable...
Sol's Vision to Break Stigmas Around Menopause
Grace Oh, Founder of Sol Menopause, Asia’s medically reviewed menopause app, shares how her platform is changing the way women manage midlife health a...
The RM250K ECF Bet on an On-Demand Cleaning App
The on-demand home services space is notoriously difficult, with high-profile failures like Kaodim. So why is Tim Goi, a founder of a traditional B2B...
Women’s Wellness Festival 2.0 – Building Malaysia’s Wellness Movement
Wellness, it’s a word we hear constantly these days. But for many women, particularly in Malaysia, it’s more than a buzzword. It’s a balancing act bet...
Can 96 Years of Heritage "Make Teh Tarik Great Again"?
With the bold claim of "Making Teh Tarik Great Again", this new F&B brand is on a mission to elevate Malaysia's unofficial national drink. But this is...
70-Year-Old Wah Chan: From "Half a Shop" to 55 Outlets
For 70 years, Wah Chan has been a Malaysian household name in jewelry. Now, with the third generation stepping in, the brand is navigating a major "re...
How This Former Pharmacist is Making Side Gigs Lucrative
Today’s story is about reinvention and what it really takes to build something completely new when the odds aren’t really in your favour.
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FEV3R: The "Netflix of Healthcare"?
Could a subscription model for outpatient care, like "Netflix for healthcare", be sustainable? FEV3R is betting it can. For a fixed monthly fee, the h...
ASEAN Tech Needs 15 Year VC Cycles, Not 10?
Why is this Silicon Valley VC bullish on Southeast Asian tech companies, despite faltering IPOs, blowups, and a scarcity of exits?
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Xendit: From Failed Bitcoin Startup To $70B Payments Biz
After a dramatic pivot from a failed Bitcoin startup at Y Combinator, Xendit has since raised over US$500 million since 2015, growing into a payments...
Coda: From ‘App Tax’ Avoidance to Processing ~$2B Yearly
What started as a way for game publishers to escape the ‘app tax’ has evolved into a global monetisation and distribution platform. Fresh from acquiri...
So You Think Your Food Product Is Premium?
The packaged food and beverage space is overflowing with brands claiming to be “natural”, “premium” or “healthy”, but few survive beyond the packaging...
From Copper Cables to Data Centres Powering AI
Data centres are no longer just information warehouses; they are high-density hubs, or ‘airports for internet traffic’, and the demand for power is ex...
400 Trucks, 1.4M Litres – How To Pay?
Running a transport company in Malaysia is no small feat, especially with rising fuel costs and the challenge of keeping track of dozens of drivers an...
Why StashAway's Shariah Portfolio Took 7 Years to Build
With the recent launch of its direct ETF Explorer and a long-awaited Shariah Global Portfolio, is digital wealth manager StashAway signaling a major e...
IGL Coatings: Why a 19% Tariff Is Better Than Uncertainty
Marking its 10th anniversary, IGL Coatings has grown into an eight-figure business exporting its surface protection solutions to 50 markets. But this...
Roboshop: The Malaysian Startup Teaching Kids to Build Robots
We sit down with Shaerfatwa Intannadwah, Founder and Managing Director of Roboshop Technologies, to explore how a small series of robotics workshops h...
Can Quality Still Win in Construction? ALUMASTER Thinks So
William Koh, CEO and Managing Director of ALUMASTER, joins us to explore how a Sarawak-based aluminium solutions provider grew from a small local oper...
The NASA Scientist & Wall Street Trader Behind NanoSkunkWorkX
How does a former NASA scientist team up with a former Wall Street trader to build a deep tech company that manipulates atoms without a multi-million-...
A Glimpse of the Future? Lessons from China for Malaysia
What can Malaysian entrepreneurs and policymakers learn from one of the world's most advanced digital economies? Two of our own, Michele Chai of Kintr...
How Ambitionz Is Turning Gamers Into Creators?
Cipher is an AI engine built by Ambitionz, a bootstrapped gaming software company led by Pavel Bains, that helps creators and studios design, build, a...
A Founder’s Take on Budget 2026: AI, Costs & The Road Ahead
As Malaysia digests the announcements from Budget 2026, how are entrepreneurs and startup founders viewing the road ahead? Beyond the headline numbers...
TROOPERS Are Redefining The Gig Economy
Can gig work be both flexible and fair? TROOPERS thinks so. With 400,000 verified users and RM50 million in worker earnings, the platform is redefinin...
Bringing Pizza Back to the Table
From a humble roadside stall to five thriving outlets in just three years, Mokky’s Pizza is rewriting the rules of Malaysia’s billion-ringgit pizza in...
GTS: From Local Beginnings to Regional Expansion
Founded in 2013, Global TechSolutions (GTS) began as a local start-up offering customised equipment solutions for semiconductor manufacturers. Over th...
Seek Sophie: Travel with Purpose, Adventure with Heart
Let’s go on an adventure… and a journey, with Jacinta Lim, Co-Founder of Seek Sophie, the travel platform curating hidden-gem experiences across Asia...
The "Temp Project" That Became a 14-Year Pastry Business
What started 14 years ago as a temporary home baking project has grown into Xiao by Crustz, a 7-figure patisserie. For founder Xiao-Ly Koh, the journe...
Scooping Up Success with Paolo Paolo Gelato
From fashion editor to gelato entrepreneur, Miranda Yeoh has built Paolo Paolo Gelato (PPG) into a premium artisanal brand that’s crossed the seven-fi...
Why MalaysiaKini’s Co-Founder is Now Betting on AI
Backed by 500 Global, AI startup Awatar Innovations is on a mission to build the next generation of agentic chatbots. But what does it really take to...
How The “Burnt Banksy” Is Making Web3 Invisible?
XION is a Web3 “invisible” trust protocol designed to remove the barriers that keep everyday users from adopting blockchain. Founded by Anthony “Burnt...
How Webull Is Aiming To Break Barriers In Retail Investing
Launched in 2024, Webull Malaysia is a licensed digital broker regulated by the Securities Commission, offering access to Bursa Securities, Bursa Deri...
Bringing AWS-like Flexibility to Inventory Storage?
Self-storage is no longer just for de-cluttering your home. For Singapore-based Work+Store, it has become a flexible operational hub for SMEs and e-co...
Bomb Battle: From Paint Bombs to a Multi-Entertainment Hub
What began as a single attraction built around paint bombs has since exploded into one of Malaysia’s most dynamic entertainment experiences. Bomb Batt...
Reimagining Intralogistics: XSQUARE’s Playbook for Smart Warehousing
Jens Bohnwagner, CEO at XSQUARE Technologies, leads a Singapore-based startup that simplifies warehouse operations with in-house automation software s...
Risk 1st, Revenue 2nd: microLEAP’s Winning P2P Play?
Since 2019, P2P financing platform microLEAP has dispersed over RM420 million while maintaining a claimed industry-low default rate of 0.36%. We dive...
The New Taste Of Old Remedies
When you think of Malaysia’s favourite herbal drinks like mata kucing, lin chee kang, or sea coconut longan, chances are you picture them at a pasar m...
Timothy Tiah on SST, Closing Outlets & Creator CEOs
Eighteen months after our last chat, Colony's CEO Timothy Tiah is back with a story of wins, setbacks, and strategic pivots. From navigating new SST a...
Hygr: From a RM1.5k Side Hustle to Bootstrapped 8-Figure Brand
What started as a RM1,500 side hustle during the pandemic has exploded into Hygr, an eight-figure beauty and personal care brand. After a viral TikTok...
AI + Peers: How Tupai Is Tackling Malaysia's Math Problem
With an alarming 80% math failure rate plaguing some schools, Malaysia faces a critical educational challenge. EdTech startup Tupai is on a mission to...