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Eight Roads buys time for bold bets
A salon-booking pivot, an early bet on Alibaba, and a $250 million healthcare fund reveal what Fidelity-backed Eight Roads offers founders: room to build, and people who have seen the hard part before.
Louis Hur and the internet's missing map
Louis Hur built StealthMole around a gap in cybersecurity intelligence about Asia. His path runs from a university hacking club to live investigations, with a classroom never very far away.
Growthwell Foods
Growthwell Foods is a Singapore-based plant-based protein company building meat and seafood alternatives tailored for Asian palates. Re-founded in 2019 by brothers Justin and Colin Chou on top of their father's 1989 vegetarian food business, it manufactures brands like HAPPIEE! and owns a majority stake in Israeli ingredient maker ChickP, which produces a chickpea protein isolate above 90% purity. Backed by a $22M Series A led by Creadev with Temasek and GGV Capital, the company operates a fully automated R&D and production facility at Senoko and aims to feed a growing region hungry for sustainable, culturally familiar protein.
HXE (Huixiaoer)
HXE (Huixiaoer) is a Beijing-based MICE technology platform that lets companies search, compare and book hotel conference rooms, meeting venues and event services online. Marketed globally as Eventbest, it aggregates 150,000+ hotels and event venues, has served more than 400,000 corporate clients, and partners with major hotel groups including Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Shangri-La, Wyndham and Langham. HXE turns a traditionally offline, quote-by-phone procurement process - meetings, conferences, incentive trips and group business travel - into a one-stop digital marketplace covering venue data, price comparison, catering, accommodation and logistics.