Singapore, Singapore
Passionate about using Business for Good. Current focus is in the development of Agri-FinTech platform to help smallholder farmers in developing countries to access to the Capital markets.
AgriG8 is a Agri-FinTech platform, making it attractive for lenders to invest in climate-resilient farming. We do this through: 1. A farmer engagement app that makes it easy for farmers to farm sustainably and log their actions. 2. A lender platform that gives predictive forecasts for loan origination and credit assurance, built off aggregated data from the app and satellite data. 3. Using our founder’s many years of experience in the rice fields of Southeast Asia, along with the knowledge of some of the best climate and agriculture scientists worldwide, to continuously refine and strengthen our predictive crop and credit scoring systems
Golden Sunland was established in late 2016 in Myanmar to introduce high quality rice and first world farming practices into the country. The parent is a Singapore company that is co-funded by public and private investments. The management team has more than 20 years of experience in rice seed development across more than 10 different emerging market countries. Golden Sunland aims to produce high quality rice using the best seeds and inputs and adopting international best practices. From planting to harvesting, from milling to packaging, the full value chain is controlled to ensure that all the rice are produced responsibly. The company also offers modern technology, training and profit-sharing opportunities for the local farmers to ensure that their livelihoods are improved in a sustainable manner.
Jasper Investments Limited is a company listed on the SGX since 1993. The company is engaged in the provision of transportation services to the infrastructure players in the reclamation, construction and earthwork sectors. The primary expertise offered covers all aspects of chartering and operating a variety of vessels and transportation equipment required by these customers.
The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) is a major research enterprise established by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in partnership with the National Research Foundation of Singapore (NRF) in 2007. SMART is the first entity in the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) developed by NRF. SMART is MIT's first, and to-date only, research centre outside the United States. It is also MIT's largest international research programme. MIT faculty members have laboratories at SMART, mentor postdoctoral associates and graduate students, and collaborate with researchers from universities, research institutes and industries in Singapore and Asia.
HighPoint Community Services Association (HCSA) was started in 1995 as a halfway house for recovering drug addicts and ex-offenders. HCSA has since grown into a multi-service organisation. In 2011, DaySpring Residential Treatment Centre was started to bring help and healing to abused teenage girls, and DaySpring New Life Centre opened in 2014 to empower unsupported pregnant women.