TL;DR We are starting a second fund because there are still too many unsolved problems in healthcare and because our investors think it’s time It needs to be bigger because we need to do more Doing more requires a team and a clear strategy on what ‘more’ means We’ve got…

I had a problem. I kept buying books but I never read them. The Japanese coined a term to describe this malady — tsundoku, a portmanteau of sunde-oku (積んでおく, to pile things up ready for later and leave) and dokusho (読書, reading books) [thanks, Wiki!]. When buying the books, I…

It’s been 536 days since I landed at Changi Airport, the iconic landmark that helped put Singapore on the map as an international travel hub. …

I am probably starting to sound a little repetitive here, but we made a commitment to universal access to health in 1948 and we’ve had telemedicine to help bridge some critical access gaps since at least 1964, yet we’re still not there. …

I decided to stop eating for 7 days, or 168 hours starting from midnight July 1st to midnight July 8th, which in isolation sounds a bit odd, but hopefully by the end of this story will make more sense. I’ve known about the numerous health benefits of fasting for quite…

I thought it might be fun to change things up a bit and write some speculative fiction, but please don’t get your hopes up. This story takes place in the near future, let’s say 2040, but it could be 2100 or never… that’s the fun of exponential growth, we overestimate…

A few weekends ago, we had our annual shareholder meeting where we discussed our inaugural fund’s performance to date, presented a few of our companies, and reflected on what’s gone well, what could be better, and what to expect next. We are extremely grateful that all of our companies had…

There’s an old saying that 70% of medical decisions are influenced by lab diagnostics and conceptually it makes sense (even if you disagree with the number[1]) — there’s only so much a doctor can deduce using his or her own five senses (and these days we shouldn’t expect the doctor…

I briefly wrote about the importance of having healthcare data standards a couple of months ago, but I didn’t really talk about the ‘how’. Trust me, I’ll get to the tropical fruits. In my ideal world (for now, until I update my thinking): We would have a master global data…