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Shawn Low

Co-Founder & COO

LXA Capital
NYAA Gold Award Holder (2004 Cohort)

Shawn Low is an experienced technology a Visiting Partner at Iterative Capital, he provided
entrepreneur, venture builder, and community leader mentorship and advice to 20+ early-stage companies
whose bold innovations and deep commitment across the region. He was also an early advisor to
to social impact are transforming industries and Huspy, a high-growth, venture-backed proptech
inspiring communities across Asia and beyond. company operating across Europe and the Middle
East, which has facilitated over $7 billion in real estate
Shawn is the co-founder and chief operating officer transactions.
of LXA Capital, a pioneering venture that is reshaping
the residential mortgage landscape in Asia. Through Shawn’s leadership extends deeply into community
LXA’s proprietary tech-enabled platform, Shawn building. He and his wife are co-directors of the non-
connects institutional capital pools with residential profit Rainshadow Studios, where they promote
mortgage assets, bridging access to financing and greater awareness of climate change through
driving financial innovation. Within its first year, LXA immersive art experiences. Their groundbreaking
successfully raised US$10 million in seed funding project, Scarce City, premiered at the National Gallery
from global investors, including New Enterprise Singapore during Light to Night Festival 2025 and
Associates (NEA), Openspace Ventures, and EDB Singapore Art Week, drawing over 2,000 participants,
Investments, setting the stage for transformative including students from over 30 schools, and winning
growth in the region’s mortgage ecosystem. international recognition at the TCT Awards 2025.

Before LXA, Shawn was Co-Founder and Head of In his earlier years, Shawn also co-founded The Black
Operations at Better (NASDAQ:BETR), where he led Belt Project in Jaipur, helping 50 orphaned children
the company from pre-revenue to a unicorn valued achieve karate black belts, with several becoming
at over US$4 billion, generating US$800M+ in state medalists. Shawn also co-founded Audible
revenue and US$150M+ in operating profit in his final Hearts, a youth mental health initiative in Singapore
year with the company. Under his leadership, Better that supported over 2,500+ cases of distress, trained
was named LinkedIn’s #1 U.S. Start-Up to Work For in 100+ youth responders, and secured over S$350,000
2020, and he built a team of over 3,000 professionals in funding from the Health Promotion Board.
offering loans in over 45 U.S. states. Shawn oversaw
the digitisation of the mortgage application process Shawn is a proud member of Founders Pledge, a
for Better’s customers and embedded technology global community of entrepreneurs committed to
into manual workflows that significantly reduced catalysing impactful positive change in the world.
loan processing costs. He drove the implementation His enduring passion for technology and community
of strategic B2B partnerships with institutions such as building reflects the GAHA spirit of ‘Service Beyond
Ally Bank and American Express. Gold’—driving innovation while empowering
communities to thrive.
Beyond entrepreneurship, Shawn actively contributes
to nurturing Southeast Asia’s start-up ecosystem. As

68 30 Years of Service and Leadership