Darren Teo

Managing Partner, Apricot Capital
Darren Teo pairs global restructuring and commercial strategy across 65+ countries with family manufacturing expertise—spray-dry and freeze-dry—translated into oat brands like Fundamental Foods and Oatbedient, and invests via longstanding relationships.
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About Darren Teo

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.

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Apricot Capital

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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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