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	== Citations / References ==		== Citations / References ==
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	== Seedly (2016 to current) ==		== Seedly (2016 to current) ==
	As of January 2021, Chew Tee Ming is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Seedly, a local startup where users can learn to handle their personal finances.<ref name=":1" /> Due to his experience in computer science and software engineering, Tee Ming handles the backend work such as software development for their Seedly mobile application.<ref name=":4">Ho, Timothy. “[https://dollarsandsense.sg/business/5-questions-withkenneth-lou-co-founder-ceo-of-seedly/ 5 Questions With…Kenneth Lou, Co-Founder & CEO of Seedly]”. ''DollarsandSense.'' January 10, 2021. Accessed 14 January, 2021. </ref><ref name=":0" />		As of January 2021, Chew Tee Ming is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Seedly, a local startup where users can learn to handle their personal finances.<ref name=":1" /> Due to his experience in computer science and software engineering, Tee Ming handles the backend work such as software development for their Seedly mobile application.<ref name=":4">Ho, Timothy. “[https://dollarsandsense.sg/business/5-questions-withkenneth-lou-co-founder-ceo-of-seedly/ 5 Questions With…Kenneth Lou, Co-Founder & CEO of Seedly]”. ''DollarsandSense.'' January 10, 2021. Accessed 14 January, 2021. </ref><ref name=":0" />
			[[File:Chew Tee Ming (1).jpg\|alt=Chew Tee Ming and Kenneth Lou, co-founders of Seedly.\|thumb\|Chew Tee Ming and Kenneth Lou, co-founders of Seedly.]]

	=== Beginnings ===		=== Beginnings ===
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	Before Seedly’s launch in 2016, they had managed to secure funding from venture capital firm East Ventures after a managing partner saw the potential in the duo’s startup.<ref name=":0" /> While working in Silicon Valley, Chew Tee Ming also won a hackathon competition where he developed the first version of Seedly.<ref>Sobri, Dayana. “[https://e27.co/this-fintech-startup-wants-to-make-personal-finance-management-a-breeze-20160811/ Seedly plans to make finance management, breeze to millennials]”. ''E27.'' August 12, 2016. Accessed 18 January, 2021.</ref>		Before Seedly’s launch in 2016, they had managed to secure funding from venture capital firm East Ventures after a managing partner saw the potential in the duo’s startup.<ref name=":0" /> While working in Silicon Valley, Chew Tee Ming also won a hackathon competition where he developed the first version of Seedly.<ref>Sobri, Dayana. “[https://e27.co/this-fintech-startup-wants-to-make-personal-finance-management-a-breeze-20160811/ Seedly plans to make finance management, breeze to millennials]”. ''E27.'' August 12, 2016. Accessed 18 January, 2021.</ref>
	~~[[File:Chew Tee Ming (1).jpg\|alt=Chew Tee Ming and Kenneth Lou, co-founders of Seedly.\|thumb\|Chew Tee Ming and Kenneth Lou, co-founders of Seedly.]]~~

	=== Business growth ===		=== Business growth ===

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Chew Tee Ming (born 1990) is the co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of personal finance platform [https://seedly.sg/ Seedly], a community aimed at helping young adults manage their personal finances.<ref>Seedly. ''Facebook.'' n.d. Accessed 14 January, 2021. Retrieved from https://www.facebook.com/seedlysg/?ref=page_internal </ref><ref name=":0">Tegos, Michael. “[https://www.techinasia.com/seedly-profile-seed-funding Seedly wants to simplify personal finance for millennials]”. ''Tech In Asia.'' March 12, 2016. Accessed 14 January, 2021.</ref><ref name=":1">“[https://glints.com/sg/companies/seedly/4ebee62b-9f94-487f-b90b-f5ba9d66e589 Seedly]”. ''Glints.'' n.d. Accessed 14 January, 2021. </ref> In

2020, Chew Tee Ming was featured on Tatler Asia’s ‘Generation T’ list, a compilation of entrepreneurs who have made breakthroughs or are helping their industry take shape.<ref>“[https://generationt.asia/gent-list/filter/year[0]:2020/country[0]:sg The Gen. T List]”. ''Generation T.'' n.d. Accessed 19 January, 2021.</ref>

== Background ==

=== Family ===
Chew Tee Ming was born in 1990.<ref>Koh, Eng Beng. “I[https://www.mindef.gov.sg/web/portal/pioneer/article/feature-article-detail/people/2020-Q2/20apr20_news1 nvest In Yourself During NS: Seedly Co-founders]”. ''Ministry of Defence.'' April 20, 2020. Accessed 18 January, 2021.</ref>

=== Education ===
From 2007 to 2010, Chew Tee Ming studied at Temasek Polytechnic (TP) where he graduated with a diploma in information technology from the School of Informatics and IT.<ref name=":2">Tee-Ming Chew. ''LinkedIn.'' n.d. Accessed 14 January, 2021. Retrieved from https://www.linkedin.com/in/teemingchew/?originalSubdomain=sg </ref><ref>“[https://www.tp.edu.sg/schools/iit/information-technology Diploma in Information Technology]”. ''Temasek Polytechnic.'' n.d. Accessed 14 January, 2021.</ref> From 2012 to 2016, Tee Ming studied at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Computing in Computer Science.<ref name=":2" /><ref>“[https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/programmes/ug/cs/ Bachelor of Computing in Computer Science (with Honours*)]”. ''National University of Singapore.'' n.d. Accessed 14 January, 2021. </ref> In his third year of university, Chew Tee Ming was part of the NUS Overseas College program, studying management science and entrepreneurship at Stanford University.<ref name=":2" />

=== Earlier career ===
During his second year of university in 2014, Chew Tee Ming worked at e-commerce startup ShopBack where he was hired as their first intern.<ref name=":3">Laing, Callum. “[https://www.asianentrepreneur.org/tee-ming-chew-co-founder-seedly/ Tee-Ming Chew, Co-Founder of Seedly]”. ''Empirics Asia.'' January 25, 2018. Accessed 14 January, 2021. </ref> As a software engineering intern at ShopBack, Tee Ming helped to build their cashback business model.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> Tee Ming also worked as a teaching assistant at NUS from 2014 to 2015, being an advisor for a Computer Science module.<ref name=":2" /><ref>“[https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/programmes/ug/project/ Project Modules]”. ''NUS Computing''. n.d. Accessed 14 January, 2021.</ref> While on exchange at Stanford University in 2015, he interned for content marketing platform Pixlee for a year.<ref name=":2" /><ref>Sayeed, Awad. “[https://www.pixlee.com/blog/intern-spotlight-tee-ming-chew/ Intern Spotlight: Tee Ming Chew]”. ''Pixlee.'' n.d. Accessed 14 January, 2021.</ref>

Tee Ming credited the time spent at Stanford and the internship at Pixlee for changing his mindset on entrepreneurship, saying:<blockquote>“I spent a year working in Silicon Valley while doing part-time entrepreneurship study at Stanford University. The internship in Silicon Valley gave me a very different perspective on how things are done in America versus Asia. The part-time courses at Stanford allowed me to learn and talk to founders from many other companies. Both contributed greatly to my growth and enabled me to think differently.”<ref name=":3" /></blockquote>

== Seedly (2016 to current) ==
As of January 2021, Chew Tee Ming is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Seedly, a local startup where users can learn to handle their personal finances.<ref name=":1" /> Due to his experience in computer science and software engineering, Tee Ming handles the backend work such as software development for their Seedly mobile application.<ref name=":4">Ho, Timothy. “[https://dollarsandsense.sg/business/5-questions-withkenneth-lou-co-founder-ceo-of-seedly/ 5 Questions With…Kenneth Lou, Co-Founder & CEO of Seedly]”. ''DollarsandSense.'' January 10, 2021. Accessed 14 January, 2021. </ref><ref name=":0" />

=== Beginnings ===
Tee Ming met fellow NUS student and Seedly co-founder Kenneth Lou during his final year of university in 2016.<ref name=":4" /> The duo experimented with different startup ideas before settling on Seedly, as they wanted to enable people to make more intelligent financial decisions.<ref name=":3" />

Before Seedly’s launch in 2016, they had managed to secure funding from venture capital firm East Ventures after a managing partner saw the potential in the duo’s startup.<ref name=":0" /> While working in Silicon Valley, Chew Tee Ming also won a hackathon competition where he developed the first version of Seedly.<ref>Sobri, Dayana. “[https://e27.co/this-fintech-startup-wants-to-make-personal-finance-management-a-breeze-20160811/ Seedly plans to make finance management, breeze to millennials]”. ''E27.'' August 12, 2016. Accessed 18 January, 2021.</ref>
[[File:Chew Tee Ming (1).jpg|alt=Chew Tee Ming and Kenneth Lou, co-founders of Seedly.|thumb|Chew Tee Ming and Kenneth Lou, co-founders of Seedly.]]

=== Business growth ===
In May 2018, Seedly was acquired by cashback platform ShopBack.<ref name=":0" /> According to a 2018 article by ''Tech In Asia'', Seedly was garnering around 350,000 monthly visitors on its website.<ref name=":0" />

In a 2018 interview with the Economic Development Board (EDB), Chew Tee Ming said the following about ShopBack’s acquisition of Seedly:<blockquote>“Both our teams believe in helping our users make smarter decisions in consumer spending and personal finance for digital consumers in the South-East Asia market. By joining forces, Seedly will gain access to international markets and resources to grow. Meanwhile, ShopBack gains Seedly’s expertise in developing the personal finance vertical.”<ref>“[https://www.edb.gov.sg/en/business-insights/insights/thriving-at-the-heart-of-the-worlds-growth-engine.html Thriving at the heart of the world's growth engine]”. ''Forbes Asia.'' December 17, 2018. Accessed 18 January, 2021. Retrieved from Economic Development Board. </ref></blockquote>In October 2020, it was announced that Seedly would be acquired by Hong Kong-based financial management platform CompareAsiaGroup, deepening its portfolio in Asia.<ref>“[https://fintechnews.sg/44776/personalfinance/compareasiagroup-announces-the-acquisition-of-seedly/ CompareAsiaGroup Announces the Acquisition of Seedly]”. ''FinTechnewsSG.'' October 28, 2020. Accessed 18 January, 2021. </ref><ref>“[https://us.acrofan.com/detail.php?number=365353 Seedly Joins Forces with CompareAsiaGroup to Empower People to Build Healthier Financial Lives]”. ''ACROFAN.'' October 30, 2020. Accessed 18 January, 2021.</ref> The acquisition would allow Seedly access to more funds for the optimisation of their products, as well as a possible expansion into other Asian markets.<ref name=":4" />

=== Future ===
In a 2021 interview with digital financial publication ''Dollars and Sense'', Seedly co-founder and CEO Kenneth Lou was quoted as having said the following when asked about Seedly’s future:<blockquote>“We aim for Seedly to become a self-sustaining and most importantly, a strongly bonded community with a clear mission that can outlive any of us. That would be really cool and something that we aspire to as a team.”<ref name=":4" /></blockquote>

== Citations / References ==
[[Category:People of Interest]]

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