About Us
Moment Frontier is a strategic venture platform that combines three capabilities under one roof: institutional advisory, strategic capital, and venture architecture. We work with ambitious founders, financial institutions, and long-term capital partners to build and scale enduring companies across frontier industries.
Founded as Moment Fintech and first launched at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s HKMA FinTech Day during Hong Kong Fintech Week 2017, the platform was Asia’s first ESG-focused Fintech and Regtech Accelerator and Venture Builder — applying an institutional framework — and bridging the gap for financial institutions, Fintech, and Regtech companies to come together with the goal of enabling the wider transformation within the emerging technology landscape.
As markets evolved and our scope expanded, the platform evolved into a broader strategic platform across frontier industries — today, we operate as Moment Frontier, a strategic platform, investing in and building with entrepreneurs across the frontier industries.
OUR EVOLUTION
2017 — Founded as ESG-focused Fintech and Regtech platform
2018–2021 — Ecosystem partnerships, acceleration programs
2022 — Strategic research and advisory expansion
2024-2025 — Platform mandate broadened
2026 — Evolution to Moment Frontier
The Platform
Integrated Capabilities
Advisory
Institutional Strategy & Market Access
We work with and advise entrepreneurs, institutions, and capital partners operating in complex, regulated, and cross-border environments.
We support with:
• Regulatory navigation and ecosystem alignment
• Strategic partnerships and distribution design
• Market entry and cross-border expansion
• Capital architecture and governance structuring
• Institutional innovation mandates
We operate where complexity is high and timing matters — bringing systems clarity to moments of strategic inflection.
CAPITAL
Strategic Capital at Inflection Points
We deploy capital selectively across frontier industries, prioritizing infrastructure layers and durable system integration.
Our investment approach emphasizes:
• Long-horizon value creation
• Regulatory and distribution defensibility
• Cross-system leverage
• Strategic co-investment alignment
• Governance discipline
We often structure capital alongside our partners, aligning incentives around sustained transformation rather than short-term cycles.
Studio
who we work with
Founders I Institutions I Capital Partners
We bring strategic clarity, capital structuring, and institutional pathways — particularly for companies operating in regulated or cross-border environments.
We design and execute innovation mandates, venture partnerships, and new-market entry strategies with institutional-grade governance and operating discipline.
Venture architecture & build
When conviction is highest, we co-create. Our operational capability allows us to translate systems insight into operating platforms — shaping thesis, recruiting teams, structuring incentives, and building scalable infrastructure from first principles.
We focus on infrastructure layers, not incremental features — designing ventures for cross-sector durability.
Advisors
David Liu
Regional MANAGING DIRECTOr
financial and risk advisory
apac
David Liu is the Regional Managing Director and Head of APAC for the Chief Growth Office at one of the leading global advisory firms, based in Hong Kong and leads Asia Pacific strategy, innovation, and corporate finance along with leading ESG Advisory services in the region. In addition, he serves as City Leader for Hong Kong, is an operating member of the APAC Management Committee, and a member of the APAC regional board for the firm’s Charitable Foundation. He leverages more than 20 years of experience advising and working with financial institutions, private equity, family offices, venture capital and financial technology firms across engagements involving capital markets, M&A, and digital assets.
David was involved with Fintech before the term became commonplace and previously held senior roles at global financial institutions and venture backed companies.
Mike Gault
CEO & Founder
Guardtime
Mike Gault is CEO and Founder of Guardtime, the world’s leading blockchain platform company. Guardtime was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the world's information universally reliable, without reliance on the risks of human trust. Our invention, KSI, was originally designed to support the Estonian Government in its quest for zero-trust systems i.e. systems that can provide formally verifiable mathematical proof of the correctness of operations. From these origins in protecting state data, Guardtime has developed a range of applications for financial services to provide timestamping and ultra-secure data management on an enterprise scale and has been further deployed across governments.
Mike has a PhD in the “Numerical Analysis of Advanced Semiconductor Devices” and prior to founding Guardtime spent 10 years in financial services as a quant and derivatives trader with Credit Suisse and Barclays Capital.
David Jacob
CEO
MARSH McLennan Asia
David is the CEO of Marsh McLennan Asia, the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy, and people. David oversees the strategy and operational objectives of Marsh McLennan Asia including Marsh and Guy Carpenter (insurance and reinsurance), Mercer (human capital consulting), and Oliver Wyman (strategy and management consulting).
Marsh McLennan released its first comprehensive Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) Report, Changing What’s Possible, in 2021. The report highlights Marsh McLennan’s commitments to reduce its carbon emissions by 15% below 2019 levels by year-end 2025, lead the change on inclusion and diversity, and continue to embed ESG considerations into its strategy to benefit all stakeholders.
David has over 30 years of experience in the Insurance industry and previously served as CEO of Marsh Asia, CEO of Marsh Hong Kong and CEO of Marsh Philippines.
Focus areas
Frontier Industries We Operate In
We operate across the structural systems defining the Emergence Era.
Intelligent Systems (AI)
Model infrastructure, applied intelligence, enterprise adoption, decision automation, and system optimization layers.
robotics and automation
Autonomous systems, industrial automation, sensing and control architectures, and advanced mobility execution layers.
Financial Infrastructure
Payments, compliance and regulatory architecture, capital markets infrastructure, programmable settlement systems, and institutional distribution frameworks.
Space Economy & Advanced Infrastructure
Earth observation, communications networks, orbital platforms, advanced mobility systems, and dual-use infrastructure.
Longevity and BioSystems
Diagnostics, preventative health infrastructure, biological data platforms, healthspan optimization systems, and bio-integrated analytics.
We focus where technical depth meets systemic market change.
PARTNERS
Proudly supporting and working with:
KEY INDUSTRY MOMENTS:
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engage with moment frontier
We engage with founders and entrepreneurs along with institutions and capital partners operating at the convergence of frontier industries.
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