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Ozi Amanat, chief investment officer at K2 Global Venture Capital Fund, discusses investing in tech startups and how he’s helping rich Asian families navigate the industry. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.” (Source: Bloomberg)

SINGAPORE – Millionaire venture capitalist Ozi Amanat and his wife, Ms Asema Ahmed, have donated 1,000 meals to migrant workers in quarantine through the charity Free Food For All on May 7. Mr Amanat said he was inspired by a recent Twitter message by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong who thanked those who donated meals

Singapore-based document verifier Accredify has raised $2 million in an equity funding round led by venture capital firm Qualgro with participation from Temasek’s Pavilion Capital, Endeavour Ventures, and K2 Global, the company’s chief executive and co-founder Zheng Wei Quah told DealStreetAsia in an interview.

K2 Global, a Venture Capital firm with its headquarters in Silicon Valley and Singapore, announced today it has closed a US$183 million fund with the primary goal of “bridging Asia and Silicon Valley to create impact on a global scale.”

Misgav, Israel – Singapore – 8 February 2018 – The Trendlines Group Ltd. (“Trendlines”) (SGX: 42T, OTCQX: TRNLY), an Israeli company focused on developing innovation-based medical and agricultural companies, announced that its subsidiary, Trendlines Medical Singapore Pte. Ltd. (“Trendlines Medical Singapore”) will collaborate with Ozi Amanat’s Singapore-based venture capital firm K2 Global Pte Ltd (“K2

Paktor, the Singapore-based dating app that is in competition with Tinder in Southeast Asia, has raised $32.5 million in the latest round of funding led jointly by San Francisco-based venture capital firm K2 Global and PT Media Nusantara, an Indonesia-based company.

In Indonesia , the motorbike often reigns supreme over cars. In addition to the obvious reasons of affordability and efficiency, heavy traffic is a large factor. Jakarta, for instance is one of the most congested cities in the world. More than 76 million motorbikes were registered in the nation as of 2012, according to The Jakarta

SINGAPORE — In Hong Kong, 35-year-old Matthew Tai has been shifting part of his family’s fortune, built by his father and uncles in real estate, into a string of digital startups. Mr Tai says he’s invested in crowd-funding platform FundHive, a producer of ultra-thin LCD screens called Organo-Circuit and recruitment website Freeboh. About 15 per