About
Aananth Solaiyappan
Aananth is a technologist with a passion for design-led innovation, which he has skillfully employed to build successful businesses in markets stretching from North America to South Korea. As the CTO and Co-Founder, he leads the technology and product development teams at WeInvest. Before co-founding Weinvest, Aananth was a co-founder and CTO of welab.co, a Hong Kong-and-China-based mobile lending “Unicorn”. He played a key role in strategic business priorities, fundraising US$20 million and actively contributing towards IP development, customer acquisition strategy, risk management and regulatory compliance. Aananth led the mobile banking division for Standard Chartered Bank, and spearheaded the development and launch of Breeze – an award-winning mobile banking suite. Aananth started his career with Oracle and has made valuable contributions to various organisations including Amazon and Sequoia Capital.