Who We Are

Building a legacy takes long term commitment to excellence. Our goal is to acquire and build lasting businesses.

AIQ Worldwide Founders

Based in the United States and Singapore, AIQ’s founders bring a powerful combination to this major market opportunity.

Brian Taptich
  • 30+ years Operating Experience
  • Repeat Startup CEO
  • 7 years AWS Global VP
  • VC Strategic Advisor

Brian is a seasoned operator and investor who has led businesses as a CEO and scaled some of the largest technology businesses on a global stage.

Gavin Teo
  • 13+ years VC Experience, 9+ years as GP
  • Launched Asia VC Partnership
  • Board Director to 15+ Companies
  • VC Investing Experience across U.S. and Asia

Gavin is a seasoned technology investor who has operated in startups and backed private companies as they have scaled in emerging and developed markets. 

AIQ Worldwide Values

Mission

AIQ Worldwide provides small- and medium-sized enterprises the expertise and resources to unlock the power of artificial intelligence and cloud technologies to transform their business and accelerate growth.

Vision

AIQ Worldwide acquires SMEs with leadership teams eager to modernize their business, but struggling with the resources to take advantage of the latest in cloud and AI technologies. We focus on SMEs with products that are mission critical to their customers, an unfair position to expand products and services around their core offering, as well as the potential to serve a worldwide customer base. Our current focus is on emerging markets in Asia, and we are concentrated on the Financial and Healthcare Services verticals. We expedite the modernization of our companies in a leveraged way by bringing a centralized team of expert cloud and AI resources, which applies our “Three-Dimensional Transformation (3DT)” modernization playbook… in order to stabilize the business, modernize legacy systems, and accelerate GTM. Our SMEs will also acquire smaller Platform Extension Companies that bring complementary technologies and/or unlock additional geographies.

Tenets

01

Consistency Builds Trust

We align incentives and follow through on our acquisitions and commitments to portfolio companies, strategic partners, and investors. We believe in autonomy and accountability, empowering our leaders to act decisively.

02

Modernize with Intent

We use the latest AI and cloud technologies to automate, and we centralize admin, wherever possible…freeing our companies to run fast. We are an AI-first organization, and we believe that hiring and developing the best people is essential to effective transformation.

03

Test Often, Move Urgently

We believe in experimentation and have a strong bias for action. We abandon our failures quickly and double-down on our successes. Our innovation is repeatable and extensible…to our portfolio of companies and their customers.

04

Global Perspective, Customer Focus

We work back from customers to solve their problems, combining best practices from international experience with local market-specific insights.

05

Relentless Standards

Because of our deep operational expertise, we fixate on the key drivers of business success, track performance meticulously, and deliver on financial metrics. We operate transparently, and demand high standards of corporate governance.

06

Long term Stewardship

We deliver shareholder value with a generational mindset, prioritizing long term value creation. We are diligent in our selection of assets, and tireless in our pursuit of growth.

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