"Techvify Is a Challenger": Why InvestStream Chose to Build With Us
Ask Luke Deller, Chief Technology Officer of InvestStream, to sum up Techvify in a single word and he won’t hedge. His pick: “challenger.” For a team that measures itself by how hard it pushes, that is about the best thing a client could say.
InvestStream is a fintech startup based in Singapore and Australia, out to reshape how financial advice and financial literacy work and to put that technology within everyone’s reach, starting with member engagement for Australia’s superannuation funds. Building something that ambitious called for more than a code shop waiting for instructions. They wanted engineers who cared about the why as much as the what.
They showed up, through a typhoon
Last year a ten-person InvestStream team flew into Hanoi during Typhoon No. 5 to meet potential partners face to face, and Techvify left a mark. “We were quite blown away by the reception we received,” Luke recalls. The impression went deeper than a warm welcome: when the conversation turned to AI, our engineers spoke from real experience rather than slideware, and that credibility is what set us apart.
A partner, not a supplier
As the build got going, that is the distinction Luke kept drawing. He describes Techvify as a genuine partner in the work, a team that trades ideas both ways and helps shape the product rather than waiting to be handed a list. For a company that treats its software as a living product, that back-and-forth is the whole point.
In a word: A Challenger
Asked whether he would recommend Techvify to another fintech or financial-institution leader, Luke didn’t pause. A challenger, in his telling, is a partner who stays a little restless, who leans in and works hard to make the thing succeed instead of settling for comfortable. We will take that description every time.
That restlessness is exactly what we are chasing: pushing past the obvious, and finding the next horizon we can reach for the people we build with.