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Private Equity | Venture Capital | Private Wealth at DesignFutures Venture
Location: Singapore 14 work roles 1 school
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Eric Cheong previously worked as Chief Investment Officer at Designfutures Venture and Venture Partner at Kairos Capital Group. Eric Cheong holds Bachelor Of Engineering (Hons), Electrical Engineering from National University Of Singapore.

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Eric is currently Chief Investment Officer of DesignFutures Venture (DFV) with presence in both Singapore and Sarawak. DFV has a mandate to direct investment initiatives towards developing strategic projects in Sarawak, to accelerate Sarawak's potential as the next economic growth engine and gateway to Borneo.Eric is also a Venture Partner of Kairos Capital, a private equity and venture capital firm that provides bespoke investment solutions to sophisticated investors, built on close to 100 years of experience in investments. Eric's key focus in Kairos Capital is running the Kairos FoodTech Fund, which invests in global category leaders defining the future of food with a specific focus on the alternative protein and cultivated meat ecosystem.Eric has more than 20 years of global experience spanning management consulting, technology and fund management (venture capital and impact focused investments). Eric was the Managing Partner of EcoImpact Capital, an impact focused venture capital firm covering investments in AgriTech and Food Security. He was also a co-founder and managing partner of Venture Collective, an early stage investment fund and venture builder with a portfolio of 12 companies. Venture Collective has a track record of structuring successful exits and cultivating its portfolio companies from early stage to growth stage market leaders. Eric has extensive experience as an investor and venture builder, working with portfolio companies in terms of growth, investor relations, market making and culture building. Prior to venture capital, Eric spent more than a decade in the management consulting and technology space. He held diverse senior management and strategic roles ranging from a Management Consultant for Accenture, Regional Director for McCann Worldgroup and Omnicom Media Group and Asia Pacific Sales Director for Adobe.

Listed skills include Start Ups, Business Development, Entrepreneurship, Analytics, and 24 others.

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Chief Investment Officer

Current

Singapore River, Sg

DesignFutures Venture (DFV), the investment arm of TSG Group in Sarawak, is based out of Singapore, and seeks to accelerate the future economy of Sarawak in partnership with the best minds and global capital from Singapore.Sarawak, a gem of Malaysia, is rapidly emerging as a pivotal economic powerhouse and a key gateway to the vast potential of Borneo. With its strategic location, rich natural resources, and commitment to sustainable development, Sarawak is poised to lead the region into a new era of prosperity.DFV has a mandate to direct investment initiatives towards developing strategic projects in Sarawak, to accelerate Sarawak’s potential as the next economic growth engine and gateway to Borneo.Strategic projects include development of premium real estate and green datacenter parks:1. Saradise is a 272-acre mixed development that will become the premium lifestyle destination in Kuching, Sarawak.2. FutureGreen District, the new digital gateway to a future Borneo, featuring the planned 500MW FutureData datacenter project.

May 2024 - Present

Co-Founder And Managing Partner

Singapore, Singapore, Sg

Kairos Capital Group (“Kairos”) is a private equity and venture capital firm that provides bespoke investment solutions to sophisticated investors, built on close to 100 years of experience in investments. Headquartered in Singapore, Kairos has a vast network of global alliances of Strategic Partners in the areas of Private Equity and Venture Capital, well supported by Family Offices globally.

Sep 2022 - Oct 2023

Investor

Current

Singapore, Sg

BeMyGuest is the world’s largest online booking platform for Asian tours and activities.BeMyGuest partners with thousands of small to medium travel businesses to offer access to the largest inventory of Asian tours and local activities to travelers looking for unique experiences on our online platform.We also empower businesses by letting them leverage our free and award winning content management and booking system. Our system allows them to easily and efficiently digitalize their offers to reach travelers around the globe.

Jan 2015 - Present

Director, Board Of Directors

Singapore, 22B Temple St, Sg

WhyQ is Singapore’s largest MSME-focused SaaS and food delivery platform; empowering over 20,000 merchants in Singapore and Malaysia.WhyQ is a Singaporean company launched in 2017 that started out as an online marketplace to enable small food merchants to go online and has grown into a SaaS-focused platform to digitalize all MSMEs in South East Asia.

Jan 2023 - Jun 2024

Investor

Bandar Sunway, Subang Jaya, Selangor, My

Shock Media Studio is one of the fastest growing digital media group in Asia. With over 400 clients in just 2 years, from SMI/SMEs to big brands such as FedEx, Digi, CIMB, F&N and more, we are on track to be the top independent digital media group in the region by 2017. Backed by a strong team with years of experience in online marketing, we ensure our clients stay relevant in the digital space.

Sep 2015 - Feb 2023

Managing Partner

EcoImpact Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on macro trends to build ecosystem funds of complementary assets that will collectively enhance the value of the total fund. At EcoImpact Capital, we actively partner and foster synergies among entrepreneurs to increase their chance of success supported by an extensive network of expertise and market access. Our unique trend focused ecosystem approach provides optimum diversification across sectors and regions to deliver optimum risk adjusted returns.

May 2020 - Aug 2022

Head Of Growth

Singapore, Singapore, Sg

AiChat is a leading AI-powered conversational experience platform designed to power enterprise chat to conversion solutions via Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and other popular chat applications. With offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia, AiChat is trusted by leading brands which include Philips Lighting, Omron Healthcare, Bayer, Starhub, Coca-Cola, Pernod Ricard, Petron, TESCO, Marina Bay Sands, Cycle & Carriage, Hatten Hotel Group and many other enterprises across Asia.

Jan 2020 - Jul 2021

Founding Partner

Venture Collective

Venture Collective is an early stage fund and venture builder founded by a team of successful entrepreneurs and investors. We invest in and build disruptive and game changing ventures in Asia.All the founders of Venture Collective are successful entrepreneurs and investors. We have built and invested in ventures and we know how difficult it is for founders. We do not only invest in you, we work hand in hand with you all the way to ensure the success of your venture.Starting a company can be lonely and tough but it does not have to be. We believe every idea, regardless how brilliant, is worthless unless it is executed well. Every venture is as good as the network that it is connected to. We bring to the table a strong network of deal flows, investors, mentors and strategic advisors to maximise the chances of success for our portfolio companies.

Aug 2013 - May 2020

Investor

Tunigo has been acquired by Spotify. The acquisition fits into Spotify's overall strategy around music discovery by helping its users make sense of over 20 million tracks.Tunigo is the #1 music discovery app in Spotify and the #1 music discovery service in Sweden.Tunigo has created a unique platform where users can share, sort, comment on, and rate music playlists in a simple, fun, and effortlessly social manner. Think of Tunigo as your 24/7 personal music assistant. Tunigo offers the easiest and most fun way to find, create, and share new music and playlists on Spotify. With Tunigo, you will discover specific music for all occasions, grouped by the real events of your life. Plus you will also be keeping track of the latest releases, charts, reviews and current music news.Spotify has specifically chosen Tunigo as it’s fully integrated partner and interface to all playlists.

Nov 2012 - May 2013

Regional Sales Director, South East Asia And India

San Jose, Ca, Us

- Responsible for enterprise sales of the Omniture Online Marketing Suite and CQ5 Web Content Management solutions in South East Asia and India. The Omniture Online Marketing Suite is the global leader in web analytics and optimization solutions. The suite includes products such as SiteCatalyst, Test&Target, SearchCenter, Discover, Insight, Recommendations, SocialAnalytics etc. The CQ5 Web Content Management solution is a leading enterprise content management and digital asset management platform.- 130% FY2011 revenue attainment after only 7 months.- Overachieved FY2011 Q3 revenue quota by 150%.

Mar 2011 - May 2013

Accountability Director, Asia Pacific

London, Gb

- Responsible for growing media buying revenues in existing and new accounts.- Provided regional leadership in securing media trading targets for international clients of Omnicom Media Group.- Successfully built and established a core accountability management team and trading community in Asia Pacific within an aggressive timeframe of 6 months.- Established performance measurement and cost/savings benchmarking systems across all markets in Asia Pacific to benchmark rates for pitches and improve trading competitiveness.- Drove regional initiatives such as media trading optimization strategies, media cost benchmarking systems and established media trading and accountability best practices.- Established price and performance commitments for new and existing clients. Worked with the Global Accountability Team and the Asia Pacific local markets to secure delivery of contractual commitments.

Sep 2009 - Feb 2011

Regional Digital Account Director

New York, Ny, Us

- Responsible for the management and supervision of global and regional initiated digital campaigns from origination/adaptation to implementation in the Australia and India markets.- Managed regional clients, local clients and agency resources (local and regional) to ensure effective launch of digital campaigns.- Managed creative/technical/production teams to execute and deliver digital campaign assets- Worked closely with regional and local clients to address creative needs and gaps in digital assets.- Maintained client financials, including billing, production etc. and managed the quarterly production forecasts/reconciliations from regional/local markets.- Worked closely with the regional and local media buying teams to review media buys and creative optimization and provided recommendations to regional and local clients for implementation.

Nov 2008 - Aug 2009

Senior Consultant

Dublin 2, Ie

Accenture Marketing Sciences- Responsible for business development opportunities in digital marketing transformation in Asia Pacific.- Played a key role in developing go to market strategies for digital marketing opportunities in Asia Pacific.- Acted as the key point of contact between Accenture Marketing Sciences (AMS) and the wider Accenture network to identify digital marketing opportunities utilizing AMS digital assets.Regional Digital Marketing Engagement with Diageo- Managed the delivery of a digital marketing services platform to Diageo to support and host their digital marketing campaigns and websites for the Asia Pacific market.- Worked with Diageo's Business Improvement managers, marketing executives and their creative agencies (eg. OgilvyOne, AKQA, Agency Republic, Wunderman) to deliver Diageo brand websites and digital marketing campaigns targeted at their consumers in Asia Pacific.- Effectively streamlined digital marketing processes for major Diageo markets in Asia Pacific; in line with global Diageo digital marketing standards.MediaSenz Post Merger Integration- Managed a USD3 million acquisition of MediaSenz. With the acquisition, Accenture Marketing Sciences became the world's largest media auditor with a market share of 53%.- Managed the post merger integration activities of MediaSenz into Accenture Marketing Sciences in Asia Pacific.AMS Innovation Project (Media Analytics Platform)- Managed the business process changes and development of an integrated media analytics platform for AMS offices in Europe.- Coordinated and managed multiple simultaneous engagements to deploy the media analytics platform to 8 countries. With the new process in place, AMS has seen a significant increase in efficiency of 80% in media auditing work.Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS)- Led the delivery of a new generation tax system for IRAS which encompasses web and business critical back end processes.

May 2003 - Oct 2008
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Eric Cheong education

  • National University Of Singapore
    National University Of Singapore
    Electrical Engineering
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Eric Cheong works for DesignFutures Venture.

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Eric Cheong is listed as Private Equity | Venture Capital | Private Wealth at DesignFutures Venture.

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Eric Cheong is based in Singapore while working with DesignFutures Venture.

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Eric Cheong has worked for Designfutures Venture, Kairos Capital Group, Bemyguest - Tours & Activities, Whyq, and Shock Media Studio.

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Eric Cheong holds Bachelor Of Engineering (Hons), Electrical Engineering from National University Of Singapore.

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Eric Cheong is listed with skills including Start Ups, Business Development, Entrepreneurship, Analytics, Strategy, Digital Marketing, Marketing Strategy, and Online Marketing.

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