FigureAsia 35 Under 35 · Finance
Raymond Surya Chin
Age 31 · Financial education and early-stage investing · Indonesia
A financial-education founder who has converted a large public audience into operating platforms for learning, investing and entrepreneurship.
- Age at the edition eligibility date
- 31
- Field
- Finance
- Country or region
- Indonesia
- FigureAsia U35 Assessment
- 66.0 / 100
Profile
Career and documented record
Raymond Surya Chin first established a finance record as co-founder and chief executive of Ternak Uang, an investing-education platform launched in 2020. Independent reporting recorded more than 351,000 users after its first year. Chin's role was not limited to appearing in its media: he led the company and helped frame a product intended to make investing and personal-finance material more accessible to young Indonesians. His later work combines education, early-stage investment and business-media production through Sevenpreneur and Genesis.
On 26 July 2025, Sevenpreneur held RE:START in Jakarta, a sold-out, multi-session conference for founders and operators. Chin was identified as Sevenpreneur's founder and moderated the programme's opening economic discussion. The event is a completed current-cycle result, but it is not a regulated financial product and attendance does not by itself prove better financial outcomes. His case therefore rests on the combination of a scaled education platform, a continuing finance audience and a delivered convening rather than on publicity metrics alone.
FigureAsia selection
Why Raymond Surya Chin is on the list
FigureAsia selected Chin because his record extends beyond commentary into organisations and products that he helped create and operate. Ternak Uang's early user base gives a concrete measure of reach, while Sevenpreneur's 2025 programme shows continuing execution. Academic analysis of his financial-literacy content adds evidence that the work has become a subject of study, although it does not turn audience size into proof of investment competence.
The assessment places him below regulated-finance and infrastructure leaders. Much of the current scale disclosed on his own platform is first-party, his impact is concentrated in Indonesia, and entrepreneurship education is adjacent to rather than equivalent to financial intermediation. He is included for demonstrated access-building and completed delivery, with no credit for promotional claims that cannot be independently tested.
Verified work
The 2025–26 record
Ternak Uang passed 351,000 users
Independent reporting recorded more than 351,000 users after the financial-education platform's first year. Chin was a co-founder and chief executive; the scale is attributed to the company and its team.
RE:START conference delivered in Jakarta
Sevenpreneur completed its sold-out 2025 conference in Jakarta. Chin, the organisation's founder, was listed among the speakers and moderated the opening discussion on Indonesia's economy and its next generation of founders.
Financial-literacy work remained under academic scrutiny
A current-cycle academic publication examined Chin's finance-literacy communication. The research supports field relevance but is not treated as a substitute for audited operating impact.
Field context
The work in its field
Digital financial education can widen access to basic knowledge in markets where first-time investors often encounter complex products through social media. Its benefit depends on accuracy, conflicts management and whether attention translates into sounder decisions; follower counts alone are not an impact measure.
Chin operates at the boundary between finance, media and entrepreneurship. The assessment recognises product-building and delivered programmes, while withholding the stronger credit reserved for regulated infrastructure, capital stewardship or independently measured financial outcomes.
FigureAsia U35 Assessment
Assessment breakdown
66.0out of 100
Completed financial consequence
20 / 30
Ternak Uang passed 351,000 users is treated as a delivered financial outcome. The score is confined to the completed result described in the record and excludes projections or paper valuation.
Individual agency and execution
15 / 25
The documented role—Founder and early-stage investor—and the attributed actions in the profile establish accountable execution. Institution-wide results are not assigned to the person alone.
Verified reach and significance
14 / 20
Digital financial education can widen access to basic knowledge in markets where first-time investors often encounter complex products through social media. Its benefit depends on accuracy, conflicts management and whether attention translates into sounder decisions; follower counts alone are not an impact measure.
Innovation and field influence
9 / 15
The record combines financial education and early-stage investing with the completed work described in Financial-literacy work remained under academic scrutiny. Credit reflects demonstrated practice, not a claim of novelty by itself.
Stewardship, access and Asian relevance
8 / 10
The Asian connection is explicit: Born in Yogyakarta and based in Jakarta, Chin has built Indonesian financial-education and entrepreneurship platforms for a predominantly domestic audience. Stewardship credit is limited to the regulatory, governance, access or stakeholder evidence described in the profile.