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Threading the Needle Through the Messy Middle

Kiyan Foroughi, CEO and Co-Founder, Needle

12-Aug-25 10:00

Threading the Needle Through the Messy Middle

Needle, an AI-powered marketing platform from Singapore, starts by helping founders generate ideas and determine business and marketing priorities and then provides personalised recommendations for effective tactics. We speak with Kiyan Foroughi, CEO and Co-Founder at Needle about the rationale behind their inception and their fundraising journey, how they developed their platform that’s backed by AI and how Kiyan aims to grow and scale the business going forward after securing a seed funding round.

Produced by: Kishan Sivaswamy

Presented by: Richard Bradbury


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