We empower founders to build their dream
We are seasoned startup operators who help founders grab more opportunities, more quickly. We specialize in operational & commercial excellence, and market turnaround/entry in Southeast Asia since 2016.
Every founder has 10+ great ideas to grow their business...
...and gets to work on 3 of them.
We help you accomplish more, quicker.
What we do
Our Bold Startup Excellence Framework
We help founders save valuable time and grab exciting opportunities by leveraging the Bold Startup Excellence Framework powered by over 15 years of experience in the Southeast Asian startup trenches.From this expertise we also offer to turn around your underperforming markets or expand your business into new countries.
Startup Excellence
We help our clients by creating a strong operational and commercial backbone, covering everything from the day-to-day operations to marketing and sales ops.
Regional Excellence
Tap into hundreds of millions of new customers by entering new markets
or through optimising your existing markets.
You strategize.
We operationalize.
We commercialize.
You win!
How to engage us
Project Based Consulting
Fast track to business change through hands-on advisory.
Fractional Leadership
Fractional management for CCO, COO, CMO and CFO roles.
Training & Coaching
Elevate your internal teams skills and capabilities.
About Us
Our mission is to empower founders
to build their dream
At Bold Venture Development we build the foundations to help you scale
with a straightforward, no-nonsense approach.We value honesty, are driven by results, and always put our customers first.We are all about taking action and getting our hands dirty.
Koen Kok
Co-Founder
Experience
EVP Ops & Marketing in Health Tech
Head of Commercial Ops in Health Tech
MD Indonesia & Myanmar in Health Tech
Head of BD & Ops in Marketplace
Venture Dev Manager in Marketplace
Lion Grünenberg
Co-Founder
Experience
CEO in Online Pharmacy
CCO in Online Pharmacy
MD Malaysia in Health Tech
Head of BD in Agri Tech
Founder in E-Commerce
Local Experience
Established and grew high-performing teams in 4 markets leveraging local values and customs into business activities to ensure rapid takeoff.
Regional Expertise
Conducted successful commercial and operational activities in 8 markets across the region.
Specialist Community
We leverage our local network across technology, AI, UI/UX, marketing, branding, SEO, finance, distribution, legal, supply chain, and more.
What people say about us
"At Hello Health, Koen and Lion were catalysts in driving commercial excellence and revenue delivery. Their efforts in reshaping & streamlining our commercial processes, setting up CRMs and actually closing sales themselves to drive revenue & lead the way, all have played a considerable role in our success to date.Hello Health is at a loss for losing these great talents though we wish them the best with Bold Venture Development and recommend them to any company or founder."-
James Miles-Lambert
Founder & Non-Executive Chairman, Hello Health Group
"Lion’s efforts in turning around Mediclick, a Pulse 63 portfolio company, was exemplary & led to new strategic investors backing the company & consistent revenue growth, customers satisfaction & new partnerships. During transition to a new Management, Lion’s support & structured knowledge transfer enabled the new team to operate business with minimal disruption. We wish Lion & team the best with Bold Venture Development."-
Abdul Paravengal
Managing Director, Pulse 63 Healthcare Ventures
"Lion is at his best when there is a problem to fix. He is able to put order in something chaotic. His analytic mind, agility and determination, no matter what, allows him to thrive in the dynamic but ambiguous start up environment."Tina Sabarre
Co-Founder & EC, MediClick (Ex-Johnson&Johnson)
"Koen is an outstanding professional who consistently demonstrates resilience and a remarkable ability to solve complex problems with ease. His resourcefulness and quick grasp of new challenges and areas of competency have been instrumental in driving our team's success. He goes the extra mile to ensure the delivery of exceptional results.His positive attitude, his ambition, his standards for outstanding quality and his relationship-oriented leadership had a great impact on our department's overall performance."Stefan Reicherstorfer
Ex-CCO & COO, Hello Health Group
Ex-Senior Global Brand Director Oral Care, Unilever
"Working with Koen was a game changer. He drove our operations to the next level by streamlining our processes and developing clear KPIs for the teams resulting in increased efficiency and team satisfaction.Furthermore the way he built the commercial operations made financial management and visibility on profitability significantly more manageable in my role as CFO. His mix of practical problem solving capabilities, business acumen and financial knowledge were a pleasure to work with."Ingrid Setiabudy
Chief Finance & People Officer, Shiok Meats
"Koen is an operations expert; building processes from the ground up, delivering successful campaigns, and solving some of the biggest challenges of our clients.Koen has demonstrated major growth in scaling the regional operations of HHG in a short amount of time while ensuring the delivery team is built-to-scale to meet growth demands."Chris Salonga
Regional Digital Projects Director, MIMS
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Startup Excellence
We help founders save valuable time and grab exciting opportunities by leveraging the Bold Startup Excellence Framework powered by over 15 years of experience in the Southeast Asian startup trenches.We have an extensive offering of services to support out client.
The services below are a non-exaustive list of our offering. Reach out to ask for me details and to see what will best fit your business.
Strategy into Action
Goal setting and OKR creation
Growth strategy & planning
Management reporting setup
Organizational restructuring
Process Optimization
Process automation review & roadmap
Workflow Analysis
Data entry and processing automation
Team capability gap review
AI & Tech Integration
AI opportunity review & roadmap
Project management software
Data tracking & visualisation
Systems Implementation
"Koen & Lion’s focus is on building sustainable and long-lasting operations that enable commercial success, setting them apart from others. Importantly, the teams they built had some of the highest employee satisfaction rates we achieved across the organization."James Miles-Lambert
Founder & Non-Executive Chairman, Hello Health Group
Products & Positioning
Customer identification & segmentation
Customer needs analysis
Productization
Commercialisation
Markting & Sales Ops
Sales audit & recommendations
Commercial SOP development
Sales metrics tracking
Sales funnel & leads optimisation
Sales & pitch training
Customer Success
Client success SOPs
Retention strategies
CRM implementation
Client satisfaction research
Interpersonal communication training
"At Hello Health, Koen and Lion were catalysts in driving commercial excellence and revenue delivery. Their efforts in reshaping & streamlining our commercial processes, setting up CRMs and actually closing sales themselves to drive revenue & lead the way, all have played a considerable role in our success to date."James Miles-Lambert
Founder & Non-Executive Chairman, Hello Health Group
How to engage us
Project Based Consulting
Fast track to business change through hands-on advisory.
Fractional Leadership
Fractional management for CCO, COO, CMO and CFO roles.
Training & Coaching
Elevate your internal teams skills and capabilities.
Regional Excellence
"Southeast Asia is one of the world’s fastest-growing markets —
and one of the least well known."McKinsey
MARKET ENTRY
Are you ready to expand your regional footprint?
We offer:
Strategy
Market opportunity assessment
Market entry planning
Product localization
Execution
Establish local entity
Obtain business permits
Hire & select initial team
Introduce warm leads
Interim Management
Tap into hundreds of millions of new customers
We help you build well-performing markets.
MARKET TURNAROUND
Are you already a regional player, but have a market that is significantly lagging behind?
Then we are your personal SWAT team that works with regional and local management to improve the business by leveraging our Bold Startup Excellence framework.
How to engage us
Project Based Consulting
Fast track to business change through hands-on advisory.
Fractional Leadership
Fractional management for CCO, COO, CMO and CFO roles.
Training & Coaching
Elevate your internal teams skills and capabilities.
What people say about us
"At Hello Health, Koen and Lion were catalysts in driving commercial excellence and revenue delivery. Their efforts in reshaping & streamlining our commercial processes, setting up CRMs and actually closing sales themselves to drive revenue & lead the way, all have played a considerable role in our success to date.Hello Health is at a loss for losing these great talents though we wish them the best with Bold Venture Development and recommend them to any company or founder."-
James Miles-Lambert
Founder & Non-Executive Chairman, Hello Health Group
"Lion’s efforts in turning around Mediclick, a Pulse 63 portfolio company, was exemplary & led to new strategic investors backing the company & consistent revenue growth, customers satisfaction & new partnerships. During transition to a new Management, Lion’s support & structured knowledge transfer enabled the new team to operate business with minimal disruption. We wish Lion & team the best with Bold Venture Development."-
Abdul Paravengal
Managing Director, Pulse 63 Healthcare Ventures
"Lion is at his best when there is a problem to fix. He is able to put order in something chaotic. His analytic mind, agility and determination, no matter what, allows him to thrive in the dynamic but ambiguous start up environment."Tina Sabarre
Co-Founder & EC, MediClick (Ex-Johnson&Johnson)
"Koen is an outstanding professional who consistently demonstrates resilience and a remarkable ability to solve complex problems with ease. His resourcefulness and quick grasp of new challenges and areas of competency have been instrumental in driving our team's success. He goes the extra mile to ensure the delivery of exceptional results.His positive attitude, his ambition, his standards for outstanding quality and his relationship-oriented leadership had a great impact on our department's overall performance."Stefan Reicherstorfer
Ex-CCO & COO, Hello Health Group
Ex-Senior Global Brand Director Oral Care, Unilever
"Challenging projects become manageable when we have capable and competent team members - I am lucky enough to have found that in Koen. His ability to align commercial objectives and operational capabilities has been invaluable.He is practical and sensible yet also willing to explore the uncharted territory when the opportunity arises. He was instrumental in helping my team and me deliver and accomplish projects successfully."Wati Mohd Taib
VP Partnerships, Hello Health Group
"Koen is an operations expert; building processes from the ground up, delivering successful campaigns, and solving some of the biggest challenges of our clients.Koen has demonstrated major growth in scaling the regional operations of HHG in a short amount of time while ensuring the delivery team is built-to-scale to meet growth demands."Chris Salong
Regional Digital Projects Director, MIMS
"Usually you’ll find yourself either being good as a thinker or as a doer. With Koen, you’ll find top quality in both areas. Koen is always great in strategizing business as well as making sure the execution brings the best output. His “be the best version of yourself everyday” motto is probably the secret.With him on your side, you’ll have a great commercial brainstorming partner with high attention to detail, and an executional partner that you can rely on to make the ideas happen. I highly recommend anyone to work with him whenever you have the opportunity"Harfan Syah
CEO, Semesta Imaji Berkarya & Founder, AksiKami
"At first, Lion was a mentor who pushed me hard, and I'll admit I felt a bit nervous about our talks. But as time passed, I genuinely started to look forward to our conversations. Lion's feedback made me think more creatively and work smarter. With Lion's guidance, I realized that the initial stress was just a temporary thing. I not only got better at my job but also learned to value teamwork. I made it a goal to be the kind of coworker I'd enjoy working with.Lion's mentorship has truly shaped my career. I still use the valuable lessons I learned from Lion, and they continue to earn me recognition and praise."Iris Wayne Lucas, RPh
Head of Patient care & Operations Lead, MediClick
""Koen is your go-to guy for handling detailed operations. He is able to simplify complex projects by creating structure, methodology, timelines and tools that lead to smooth execution and scalable delivery."Mira Hartaman
Account Director, Hello Sehat