Bernard Leong

Bernard Leong, Angel investor in Singapore is an active investor based in Singapore, Singapore. This profile covers what Bernard Leong backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Bernard Leong is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Dorje AI. Dr. Leong serves as an Advisor at Undivided Ventures. He co-founded SGEntrepreneurs. He co-founded and served as the Chief Technology Officer at Chalkboard. He held key regional roles at Amazon Web Services, Airbus Aerial, Singapore Post, and Woh Hup. He actively contributes to the Southeast Asia entrepreneurial ecosystem as an entrepreneur in residence at INSEAD Business School. He is the founder and host of the Analyse Asia podcast, engaging with thought leaders and industry players. He also serves as an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Singapore Business School. Currently, he is building an enterprise AI startup. As an experienced senior executive with an extensive business and technology management background in the digital space, he held regional business roles as the Head of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Amazon Web Services for ASEAN and Vice President of Airbus Aerial specifically on satellite and drone services in the Asia Pacific and senior management roles in Singapore Post as the Head of Digital Services and Group Chief Information & Digital Office in Woh Hup. While not in his corporate hat, he's a connector to the Southeast Asia entrepreneurial ecosystem as an entrepreneur in residence at INSEAD Business School. He is currently an adjunct associate professor in NUS Business School teaching digital transformation and generative AI courses for business executives and technical professionals in the Institute of System Sciences. Bernard is the founder and host of the Analyse Asia podcast where he interviewed global thought leaders, key industry players and journalists across major media outlets from The Information to Wall Street Journal. He is an active independent angel investor specializing in Web3 and AI startups over the past three years by himself or with the XA Network. He holds a BSc in Science with Merit in National University of Singapore, and PhD in Physics from Cambridge University and has developed machine learning algorithms to search for mRNA targets in the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute from 2003-2005.

Notable investments

TriplePoint Media - SGENational University of Singapore Entrepreneurship SocietyAngel InvestorEsevelVirtuals ProtocolGnosis HQ