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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 percent of his $70 million family office is in technology investments, compared with nothing two years ago. “My family’s traditional business was about the development of land,” Tai said. “But that’s history. The new …

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SIN SINGAPORE-BASED food tech startup, Grain, has raised US$10 million in a seed round led by Thailand’s Singha Ventures, as it looks to expand to other Asian cities, starting with Bangkok. With the proceeds, the company is also aiming to ramp up growth in Singapore, and build infrastructure to support revenue of US$100 million, it …

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SINGAPORE, May 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Grain, an online food company with a mission to improve lives through meaningful food experiences, announces today that it has raised US$10 million Series B funding. This round of funding is led by Singha Ventures and participated by new investors including Genesis Alternative Ventures, Sass Corp, K2 Global, FoodXervices and Majuven. Returning investors include Openspace …

Grain, online food company, raises US$10 million Series B funding from Singha Ventures, Genesis Alternative Ventures, Ozi Amanat’s K2 VC Read More »

SINGAPORE: An exclusive and influential club of high powered Asian billionaires and family offices is investing in technologies companies in India, China and the US that are mulling an Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).

Ozi Amanat adjusts his sleeves as he poses for the camera, interjecting quick-witted humour in between shots to lighten the mood on set. This was during a photo shoot at The Great Room’s latest outpost in Ngee Ann City, imagined by Singapore-based designer Michael Fiebrich. The swanky space complements someone like Ozi perfectly, who was …

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SINGAPORE (Feb 8): Trendlines Medical Singapore, a subsidiary of Israeli company The Trendlines Group, is partnering Singapore-based investor Ozi Amanat’s venture capital firm, K2 Global, to collaborate in SPRING SEEDS Capital’s (SSC) $100 million investment allocation via the Startup SG Equity scheme.

Having invested in more than 15 companies, Ozi Amanat’s K2 VC is one of Singapore’s largest firms which was recently backed by the Singapore Government to invest upto $100 million fund in promising businesses in the region.

For Ozi Amanat, meritocracy and infinite possibilities were the draws to venture capital. “When a chance came to endeavour a life in venture capitalism, it wasn’t one road or the other but a culmination of experience of a thousand hours in the ecosystem,” says the psychology and economics graduate from Harvard. Finding promising startups that …

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Inside a society where face value and making impressions are everything, authenticity has become an almost rare commodity. But for venture capitalist Ozi Amanat, there is nothing more important than relationships – especially in the realm of deal-making.

Pod Foods is keeping grocery shelves full of the emerging food brands that consumers are asking for and announced today $13 million in funding, including $10 million in Series A dollars and $3 million in a previously unannounced seed round, to continue developing its digital wholesale business-to-business marketplace.