Davidson Chua

About

About Davidson Chua

Davidson Chua is a Singapore-based founder and community builder. He is the founder and CEO of Influencees, an AI-powered creator credibility and discovery platform for Southeast Asia, and the founder of Autosave, Singapore's most active automotive community with more than 20,000 members.

Davidson Chua, founder and CEO of Influencees

The short version

I started out as a marine engineer. I took a Diploma with Merit in Marine Engineering at Singapore Polytechnic and went on to work at BP, which is about as far from the creator economy as a career can start. What I took from it was a bias towards things that actually work under load — systems, not slogans.

I then read Business Analytics at the National University of Singapore, graduating with a BSc (Honours). Somewhere in the middle of that I started a Telegram group for people who liked cars. That group became Autosave.

Autosave

Autosave grew from a chat group into Singapore's most active automotive community: 20,000+ members, regular owner meets drawing over a thousand attendees, and a motoring media arm. Along the way we ran brand campaigns with Mercedes-Benz, Shell, Porsche, Volkswagen Group, Cycle & Carriage, SGCarMart, Carousell Autos, Motorist and GetGo.

The business was incorporated as Autosave Pte. Ltd. (UEN 202431449C) and incubated at NUS Enterprise and BLOCK71. In 2025 it was named Best Automotive Community & Media Platform 2025 — Singapore in Corporate Vision's Automotive Awards.

Influencees

Running Autosave meant sitting on both sides of a lot of brand deals, and the same problem kept surfacing: brands could not tell which creators were actually trusted by their audience. Follower count was the only number anyone had, and it is a bad number. Some of the most valuable creators I worked with did not have the largest followings.

That became Influencees, which I co-founded with Edwin Koh — a relationship that started as a mentorship through the NUS Venture Initiation Programme (VIP@SoC). Influencees syncs performance data directly from Instagram and TikTok rather than relying on what creators report about themselves, and layers credibility signals on top: a verified creator index of 1,200+ creators, a Trust Check, and an AI assistant for campaign work.

We've raised a six-figure round and the platform is live. The longer-term goal is an intelligence layer for the creator economy — the place brands go to find, evaluate and work with creators, and the place creators go to be found on more than a vanity metric.

Influencees is about giving brands a better way to discover creators, while giving creators more opportunities to be seen.

What I care about

Communities, and the infrastructure that makes them trustworthy. Almost everything I've built comes back to the same question: how do you know who to believe? In a car community that means honest reviews and real owner experience. In the creator economy it means verifiable data instead of screenshots. I care about building things that are useful, honest, and grounded in something I've actually done.

Quick facts

Who is Davidson Chua?
Davidson Chua is a Singapore-based entrepreneur and community builder, founder and CEO of Influencees and founder of Autosave.
What does Davidson Chua do?
He builds credibility and discovery infrastructure for the creator economy at Influencees, and runs Autosave, a Singapore automotive community and media business.
Where is Davidson Chua based?
Singapore.
Where did Davidson Chua study?
He holds a BSc (Honours) in Business Analytics from the National University of Singapore, and a Diploma with Merit in Marine Engineering from Singapore Polytechnic.
What is Influencees?
Influencees is an AI-powered creator credibility and discovery platform for Southeast Asia, co-founded by Davidson Chua and Edwin Koh in 2026. It syncs data directly from Instagram and TikTok so brands can evaluate creators on verified engagement.
What is Autosave?
Autosave (Autosave Pte. Ltd., UEN 202431449C) is Singapore's most active automotive community, founded by Davidson Chua in 2022, with more than 20,000 members.
What awards has Davidson Chua's work won?
Autosave was named Best Automotive Community & Media Platform 2025 — Singapore in Corporate Vision's Automotive Awards.
How can I contact Davidson Chua?
By email, LinkedIn or Telegram. See the contact page.

Elsewhere on the web

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