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Group photo at IPPIN Demo Day Thailand Chapter event.

Koru a jury at the Indo Pacific Plastic Innovation Network (IPPIN) Thailand Demo Day

Glad to be jury for the CSIRO Indo Pacific Plastics Innovation Network demo day in Bangkok this week. Always happy to see enthusiastic founders coming up with all ways to ensure that our next generation can swim with fish and not plastic

Green Future Innovation Challenge event poster with partners.

Koru partners Temasek at China Green Future Innovation Challenge

Koru VC is an official Amplifier Partner for Temasek Foundation's inaugural Green Future Innovation Challenge - its China equivalent of the Livability Challenge.

Startups (from anywhere in the world) working on (1) Energy Transition, (2) Industrial Decarbonization, (3) Sustainable Agrigulture, (4) Pollution Reduction with a desire to find proof of concept in China can stand a chance to win a hefty grant from a RMB 5 million prize pot.

Workshop on wealth, people, and planet with expert speakers at NUS Business School.

RESONATE: WEALTH, PEOPLE & PLANET

Koru together with the NUS BSA and NAV come together to create a collective learning platform where private investors and wealth holders can learn and exchange insights on deploying capital for purpose – starting with saving the environment in Asia. The first event was held on October 4th, 2026 featuring a "Psychology of Money" masterclass from Danny Almagorm Founder/CEO of Small Giants Academy, and a fireside chat with philantropic couple Thomas Knudsen and Kathlyn Tan of Singapore's very own Rumah Group.

Affiliates join 1000 Ocean Startups for ocean innovation collaboration.

KORU joins 1000 ocean startups as an affiliate

“🌊 We're proud to announce that we are Affiliates of @1000 Ocean Startups.

This reflects our commitment to ocean innovation and our role in extending awareness of ocean solutions across our community and network.

Follow along as we join the 1000 Ocean Startups(1000OS) turning exponential collaboration into innovation for ocean health.

🔗 🏄 Discover the 1000OS Community here:

https://www.1000oceanstartups.org/community

Climate solutions event at Temasek Shophouse featuring talks and a fireside chat.

CLIMATE SOlUTIONS FROm CHINa features 7 startups

“🌊 This is going to be monumental: 7 Climate Tech Startups from China + 70 regional investors and corporate partners. For too often we have seen climate summits repeating the same problems. We were there to talk solutions.

A big "THANK YOU" to all of you who attend the Resonate - "Climate Solutions from China" this Wednesday during the AT ONE Impact Week.

We expected about 40-50 people. We had 156 signups. It was a fantastic crowd that genuinely shared the same vision and wanted to help contribute to the ecosystem.

Big thanks to Helen Wong (ACV Capital) for being our guest speaker at our fireside chat. You really are the best person for this uniquely important share.

The startups - InResST (fishnet recycling), North Star (battery recycling), SynMetaBio (mycelium), Passive Edge (PCM cooling), Ningine (Carbon Reduction Agent for cement), Jingtan (industrial solid waste recycling), and Fungi Future (the future is fungi!). You were all fantastic.