Watch chiefs of Shiok Meats and Biofourmis speak on the possibilities of deep tech

By Team DealStreetAsia

January 13, 2021

Deep techs, or companies that deploy meaningfully different technologies, have seen their products receive a pandemic boost.

Two such beneficiaries are Singapore-based Biofourmis and Shiok Meats, whose chiefs spoke at the Asia PE-VC Summit 2020 organised by DealStreetAsia in November.

Five-year-old Biofourmis provides clinically validated software therapeutics to better monitor patients, particularly those outside hospitals. The firm’s CEO Kuldeep Singh Rajput said the pandemic has offered a boon to the entire digital-health sector as patients are sceptical of going to hospitals. He was speaking at a panel titled ‘Sunrise sectors in SE Asia’ at the summit.

Cell-based meat firm Shiok Meats, meanwhile, has benefitted from the increasing focus on “food supply and food security, which have been brought up a lot during this [pandemic] period,” said the company’s founder and CEO Sandhya Sriram.

Watch the video of their chat here:

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