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Environmental, Social and Governance
Vickers partners portfolio start-ups on ESG reporting
Most start-ups lack the resources to produce ESG reports comparable to the standards of a public-listed company, says Jeffrey Chi.
April 21, 2022
Company in the news
Vickers Venture Partners gets caught up in Envy Global Trading's alleged fraud
Vickers would be the highest-profile investor yet to have fallen victim to the suspected fraud.
May 07, 2021
Startups, Entrepreneurs, Digital economy
The future of kidney dialysis may just be a 'handbag'
Awak Technologies CEO Suresha Venkataraya believes his company is on the cusp of revolutionising the field of kidney dialysis.
January 08, 2021
Interview
Be fearless, change the world, says Vickers' Tan
Singapore has a problem with failure — we are just not making enough of them, reckons Dr Finian Tan.
August 07, 2020
Cash is pouring into Singapore's biggest private venture fund
(Oct 10): The Singaporean venture capital firm led by Finian Tan, who made his name investing early in Chinese search giant Baidu, has completed its largest fundraising yet to bankroll global deals.
October 10, 2017
Fintech
TransferWise expands money remittance service to Singapore
SINGAPORE/LONDON (April 27): TransferWise, the London-based startup backed by investors including Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, is bringing its international money transfer service to Singapore, aiming to shake up banks’ dom
April 27, 2017
Startups, Entrepreneurs, Digital economy
Baidu backer Finian Tan bets on the next big thing: Immortality
SINGAPORE (Feb 10): Baidu Inc. is often referred to as China's Google with a market value of more than US$60 billion ($85.3 billion). But in 2000, it was an upstart struggling to get any attention from investors—except from a guy named Finian Tan.Ta
February 10, 2017
Vickers Venture focuses on finding ‘home runs’ in its investments
Finian Tan, chairman of Vickers Venture Partners and an early backer of internet giant Baidu, likes big ideas. Sitting in his Sentosa Cove penthouse, he rattles off a list of start-ups he and his partners have screened recently, though they have yet to ma
October 24, 2016
Tech
Vickers Venture raises $86 mil for first close of VC fund
SINGAPORE (July 21): Venture capital (VC) firm Vickers Venture Partners says it has achieved the first close of its Vickers Venture Fund V L.P at $86 million out of its target fund size of $340 million, with a cap of $540 million.
July 21, 2016