Technopreneur Webinar Series 2020

Vertex Holdings is pleased to present an 11-Part Technopreneur Webinar Series. This series aims to facilitate the sharing and exchange of ideas and insights, as well as provide fundamental understanding of the intricacies of entrepreneurship for aspiring technology founders and innovators.

Vertex Ventures HC | Elevation Oncology Emerges from Stealth

Elevation Oncology, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of precision medicines for patients with genomically defined cancers, announced today the launch of the Company with a $32.5M Series A financing, to explore innovative models for real-time identification, patient referral, and enrollment of patients with tumors driven by rare genomic alterations. The Series A financing was led by Aisling Capital and a syndicate of investors including Vertex Ventures HC, Qiming Venture Partners USA, Driehaus Capital Management, and BVF Partners.

Vertex Growth | Investment in Taranis' USD 30M Series C round

TARANIS, an ag-tech startup that uses aerial surveillance and machine learning to help prevent crop-yield loss, said on Wednesday that it has raised US$30 million in a Series C round led by Vertex Growth and Kuok Group’s Orion Fund (managed by K3 Ventures).
Tam Hock Chuan, managing director of Vertex Growth said: “The adoption of Taranis’ solutions will help growers and crop consultants to detect, analyse and treat crop issues at their earliest signs, taking preventive measures with unprecedented precision. This will give them a higher degree of control over their crop yield than ever before, particularly relevant in Asia where the agriculture sector has a relatively lower yield per hectare compared to global benchmarks.”

Asia VC: Vertex's evolving early-stage network

CHUA Kee Lock, CEO, Vertex Holding speaks with AVCJ about the strengths of the Vertex global platform. He likens the network of VC funds seeded by the Temasek-owned entity as a distributed computer system. It will draw down more power as it grows.

Vantage | July 2020

We are proud of the work our founders and start ups are doing. Here are the latest updates on the portfolio companies across the Vertex network.

Vertex Ventures US | Is it possible to modernize the data pipeline without hiring a new data team?

Our latest portfolio company, Upsolver, was founded by two data practitioners frustrated by the experience of having to manage a data lake in order to scale their ad-optimization startup. They toiled away at solving systems management problems (scaling, reliability, performance) instead of working with datasets. As a result, they pivoted their company to focus on the data pipeline (ETL) problem and built a sophisticated product that can be used by traditional DBA or SQL analysts to handle modern data pipelines in the cloud.