Christian Reksten-monsen
CEO & Co-Founder at Investigate VC
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Reksten-monsen is a serial founder and operator blending deep technical training with business leadership across Asia, with 11 years of experience spanning shipping, fintech-adjacent ventures, and performing arts. After studying computer science and briefly pursuing a PhD at NUS, he pivoted to entrepreneurship, co-founding and scaling Yan Ballet Academy to seven Singapore locations and 15,000+ sqft of studios while also launching Allegro Code Lab and the Singapore Youth Ballet Company. An INSEAD MBA and former shipping executive (CFO/GM roles), he mixes analytical rigor with hands-on company building and a knack for scaling people-powered networks. He advises a VC focused on network-orchestrator models, reflecting his interest in businesses that grow via community and platform effects. Rare for a CEO, he remains technically fluent and deliberately combines product-minded engineering with arts education to create sustainable, operationally disciplined cultural enterprises.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (BCSc), Bachelor of Computer Science (BCSc) at Dalhousie UniversityMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at INSEAD
English, Norwegian, Chinese
Github Skills (62)
polygons10
shortest-path10
points10
intellisense9
pylint9
python-extension9
graph9
cli9
docker8
ifttt8
release-management8
integrations8
selenium7
typescript7
ai7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TaipanRex/pyvisgraph
Jan 2016 - Jun 2018
Given a list of simple obstacle polygons, build the visibility graph and find the shortest path between two points
Contributions:180 commits, 4 PRs, 101 pushes in 2 years 4 months
polygonsgraphobstaclepathpoints
TaipanRex/visgraph_simulator
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 24 commits, 6 pushes in 3 days
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