Kimberly Yao Asia 2023

Kimberly Yao is an entrepreneur at heart. Having founded several successful businesses over the last 13 years, she believes that female founded companies can succeed in a heavily male driven Asian business environment. She is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of CloudEats, a leading food service technology startup in Southeast Asia, where she builds smart kitchen tech and digitally native restaurant brands to power the online food industry. Forbes featured CloudEats in the inaugural Top 100 Startups To Watch list in 2021. Her startup has raised a total of $14m in funding, making this the largest amount of venture capital raised for a Filipina female founder to date.