Kau Yi Ming

Yi Ming is the founder and venture partner of Krux Asia, a Venture Builder and Consultancy firm, whose focus is helping corporates innovate and establish new ventures. Yi Ming has 15 years of tech innovation and startup experience. His previous role was Managing Director in Grab where he launched and scaled the GrabRentals business to be one of the largest rental fleets in Singapore, raising more than US$1Bn in debt and equity financing and playing a pivotal role in establishing Grab’s presence in Singapore.  He led the transformation of a traditionally asset-heavy industry into a more innovation-focused and data-driven one, combining his team’s experience in fleet operations and maintenance with the deep technological capabilities of Grab.  

Prior to Grab he founded start-ups in the areas of marketing analytics and education and has held roles in the military, investing and consulting where he worked on transformation projects in MINDEF and WDA. 

Yi Ming is also an Investment Committee member of Angel School, a network of more than 850 angels focusing on US, B2B and SaaS-focused startups. Yi Ming was an Singapore Armed Forces Merit Scholarship holder and has a Master’s of Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.