One Sneak Peek Into Market News, No Snooze

Tired of US-centric, snooze-inducing finance news sent into your inbox?

What if you could get your daily dose of market-moving information with a side of satire 

and a truly global lens? 

That's a promise from Vig, a computer engineer-turned-entrepreneur who has launched Skyblue InsAIghts, 

A newsletter designed to break the mold 

By delivering crucial financial information with humour, satire, and a truly global perspective 

that goes beyond the normal English-speaking markets. 

1. What does Skyblue Fintech do?

“We are launching 3 major products.  

The first would be a fully automated AI-run finance newsletter, where we will consider real-world events on certain moments of the day and include relevant financial information from relevant sources in the newsletter. 

Instead of posting financial news with boring charts, we will include humour and satire, and that is our hallmark distinction with other financial platforms that are available. 

The second, Skyblue Open Signals,  would be a technical analysis software which tells you when to buy a stock or cryptocurrency. We have already built our prototype, but are currently researching how to reach out to potential consumers — Telegram channels, WhatsApp, etc. 

The third, Skyblue Fundlink Portal, will be an online portal which connects traditional fund managers to clients. 

Many small mutual funds don’t have a tech team, so we created a solution to this. For experienced investors, our product comes with added security and research on how to transact money. However, we will only release it in 2026.“ 

2. His source of inspiration

“I’m a person that takes whatever opportunities present themselves. 

During National Service, I was sitting in a forest beside a Transport Operator who was trading Forex on his phone. He introduced me to this very interesting site called BabyPips.com. That sparked my interest in trading and subsequently, I met my co-founder at a Model United Nations conference. He is a finance guy while I am a tech guy. Why not just team up and create a quant fund? 

That’s how we began, back in the year 2022. This was prior to ChatGPT being invented so we had to depend purely on our own knowledge, resources, and skill sets. And then I started doing things related to business and entrepreneurship. I started my NUS Overseas Colleges Paris journey in 2024, and utilised the various resources provided by NUS NOC as well. And even prior to that, in 2023, I had the opportunity to attend the best business school in all of South America, the Tecnologico de Monterrey, which opened my eyes to the French and Spanish speaking worlds. The people I met on the various networking sessions in these continents also improved my startup processes. 

After I returned to Singapore, I ideated three different products and then launched it. I really have to thank our partnering universities and the various networking opportunities that I was presented with, as well as the 100 Club, a mastermind community for entrepreneurs in Singapore. 

Ultimately, I’m a business person. There’s one question that we are always asked at startup programmes or events — What pain point are you solving? 

 I don’t believe that startups need to solve any particular pain point. As a founder, you are trying to cater to people’s wants and needs. As long as you can come up with ideas that cater to people’s wants and needs, there is a potential for success. 

I consume a lot of newsletters and news articles. I used to work as a financial advisor previously, and hence I still keep in touch with news from sites such as Jabroni Capital, Wall Street Journal, Investopedia, Bloomberg etc. I have a few different trading algorithms from my second product that focus on sentiment analysis.  I have some trading algorithms and have some people that are publishing really funny satirical posts. When I was doing my exchange in Latin America, I realised that the kind of business environment there is really different from those here. The people there have no idea what is happening in our side of the world and vice versa. Many financial news are focused on America or the wider English-speaking market.

What happens to the Arabs? Indonesians? Vietnamese? They don’t have any financial sites catered to them. 

Our added value proposition to our product is thus the localisation into local languages. Previously, that would not have been possible, but now all these problems, such as needing a huge group of journalists to write, can be solved by LLMs. LLMs now are taking over many jobs. 

We just take opportunities as they come.” 

3. Experience running the business

“We are currently managing a team across four time zones. 

Two of us are settled in Singapore, while my cofounder moved to London and another guy is in Mexico, and shuttles between Spain and Italy.  

Each of these people are supposed to be founders in their own regard. I would expect that to be happening in every single place that they are sent to. 

I think for Singaporean students, they don’t have the drive and resilience that brings out the entrepreneurial spirit in them. What they have is only what is taught in university or their own discipline. They need to have much more skillsets than what is taught to them in the classroom. 

Entrepreneurship is about finding the right talent to do things. The guys that I picked up may not be the best in terms of skills, but they have the drive to be someday. Ultimately, what’s most important is still that whatever needs to be done gets done.  It will always boil down to talents, knowledge and skill sets which need to be enhanced. 

Other than that, advantages wise, I believe in collaborations and partnerships, which bring the most driven and best people together.  We reach out to marketing agencies worldwide for marketing, one example being a branding agency in Indonesia. We have received a 6 digit figure funding from investors, but we are trying to use it wisely by working with partners and connections.  

Even though we are headquartered in Singapore, our partners come from all around the world. Singapore might be the best place to do business in, but definitely not the cheapest.  To gain comparative advantage, we have to have all the collabs that we can have globally. “ 

4. Lessons learnt from Entrepreneurship

“The greatest thing that I have learned is that university education is no longer relevant to earn an income.  

If you look at how world history progresses and how the labour-based economy was formed, it started from manual labour, next, machines, then skills-based labour and finally, knowledge-based labour. The last of which made degrees useful and relevant. 

However, the age of the knowledge-based economy has already ended, and we are now in the era of talent-based economy. You are now compensated based on the talent that you have, so something you can do is to bring all talented individuals that you have together in order to earn a living for yourself. 

With the rise of AI, you can automate most things. So the question is, how can you use all these to improve what processes you currently have? 

I cannot stress the importance of travelling. When I took the initiative to do my exchange in Mexico, it really broadened my horizons beyond the ASEAN region. How can I serve them and cater to these markets?

When I was in the middle of the Sahara desert in Morocco, the average camel rider spoke 5 different languages: Spanish, Arabic, Tamazight, French, and English. Yet, we in Singapore only know English and perhaps our Mother Tongue. We know the Anglophone world well, but we don’t know the Spanish-speaking parts or Francophone Africa well enough.

The camel rider I met knew what was happening in every part of the world, even though he was living in a desert. I’m still in touch with him, up until today. 

We came across a street of local shop owners who do handicrafts. I thought, why not let’s see what I can do to increase sales for these people. So I created a digital platform for them, where they could come together to sell their handicrafts and increase sales and visibility as a result. 

It’s all about how I can use my skill sets to provide for more people. I always try to seek win-win opportunities and from these situations, make money.” 

Connect with Vig here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kvignesh122/

Skyblue InsAIghts’ Financial News Platform:  www.insaights.fyi

The official Skyblue Fintech website:  www.skybluecap-sg.com

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And that is all for today’s One Sneak Peek Into.

Stay tuned for more insights from our interview series as we continue to explore the stories of trailblazers breaking barriers and redefining success.