Before joining Apricot Capital, Darren Teo helped lead Super Group through a major restructuring and ran strategy and commercial operations across more than 65 countries, and he later used that background to help turn his family's decades of manufacturing experience, including spray-dry and freeze-dry technology, into new oat-based food businesses like Fundamental Foods and Oatbedient. He also tends to invest through long-standing personal relationships, such as backing Geniebook's founder, someone he had known since he was 17 and always believed would end up in education, while pushing Apricot to help Singapore-founded companies grow into globally recognized brands, much like Super's own export history.
About their Fund
Apricot Capital describes its mission as connecting China's biotech ecosystem to the global healthcare landscape, pointing to more than 20 licensing deals with companies like Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, BioNTech, Roche, and Novartis worth a combined $45 billion, and it backs this with a team of 20+ investment professionals from clinical, pharmaceutical, and healthcare operations backgrounds, over 300 advisors, and senior leaders like former top-ranked healthcare analyst Arthur Qiang and hospital-management veteran William Mao. Founder Crystal Liu has raised six funds, led investments in nearly 70 life science ventures, holds a doctorate in public health from Johns Hopkins, and has published close to 20 research papers along with a 2024 book on hospital management, while the firm has occasionally invested outside pure healthcare, such as backing Singapore's Geniebook.
















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