Avina Sugiarto brings over 12 years of experience investing across venture capital, private equity, and other alternative assets, giving her an unusually broad background for an early-stage VC in Southeast Asia that informs her holistic view of capital structures and later-stage pathways for founders. She led East Ventures to become the first Indonesian VC signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and positions ESG as an operational value-creation tool for startups, helping founders implement governance and sustainability practices from very early stages to build resilience and attract global capital.