Leon Cheng

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Principal at Hawthorn Partners · Climate · climate tech, hardware

Hawthorn Partners
Jakarta, Indonesia · WIB (UTC+7)
8+ years experience
University of Indonesia
English, Bahasa Indonesia
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Overview

8 years around startups; now investing in climate. Sit on 4 boards. Backed 18 founders at pre-seed and seed. I tinker with 3D printers.

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climate techpricinghardwareventure capitalenergy

Experience

  1. Principal
    Jun 2025 - Present
    Hawthorn Partners · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Jakarta, Indonesia
    • Previously an operator for 12 years before investing.
    • Backed 31 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Associate Product Manager
    Aug 2021 - Jun 2025
    Tokopedia · 3 yr 10 mo · Contract · Jakarta, Indonesia
    • Grew payments revenue from $9 million to $39 million ARR.
  3. Senior Product Manager
    Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
    Singtel · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Jakarta, Indonesia
    • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
    • Grew payments revenue from $7 million to $48 million ARR.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
    Atlassian · 1 yr 1 mo · Contract · Jakarta, Indonesia
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new payments customers from 13 days to 4.
    • Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.

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Education

  1. University of Indonesia
    BSc, Finance
    2014 - 2018

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