Two partners. Long horizon.
Operator-investors who have watched several technological transitions and are paying attention to the next one.
YekSoon Lok
YekSoon Lok founded Awesome Ventures to do one specific thing: track how infrastructure transitions reorganise everything built on top of them. Every position the firm has taken — from his early angel checks into 3PAR and Twilio, to its current work across compute, energy, and AI-native systems — has been an exercise in that single discipline.
His early angel positions form a kind of taxonomy of his interests. 3PAR (storage architecture, acquired by HP), RightNow Technologies (CRM as service, acquired by Oracle), Twilio (communications as API, NYSE: TWLO), RedHat (open-source operating system, acquired by IBM), and Cloudflare (network as security and compute, NYSE: NET) all share the same shape — back the layer of infrastructure that ends up underneath every higher-layer company once a transition matures. Foundational positions in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Stellar followed the same logic, when the case for decentralised settlement first became plausible.
The operator years calibrated the reading. He was part of SilkRoute Ventures through its acquisition by PCCW, and Reciprocal Inc. — a B2B content rights management firm backed by SoftBank, subsequently acquired by Microsoft. Later, as COO of SSII Pte Ltd, he ran digital transformation work; at the Shanghai-Lingang AI Lab (SLAILAB), he shepherded the incubation of 52 startups that collectively raised more than CNY 800M.
Current attention is on intelligence becoming infrastructure — the way bandwidth became infrastructure in the late nineties, and what gets reorganised when it does. Five working lenses guide the inquiry: venture cognition, AI-native systems, infrastructure shifts, decision systems, and technological asymmetry. The position is that the second-order consequences of the AI transition will be larger than the first-order ones, and that most of the durable leverage sits in the architecture rather than the applications.
He mentors through Lean LaunchPad programs at NUS, NTU, SMU, and SUTD — work that doubles as an early-warning system for what is coming out of frontier research in Singapore. Most of what becomes a position passes through Research first.
Dhiraj Wohra
Dhiraj Wohra's twenty years across hardtech, electronics, and advanced manufacturing have produced a particular kind of attention: a feel for how compute, materials, energy, and supply chains actually assemble into the systems everything digital ultimately depends on. The physical layer is where his pattern recognition is sharpest, and increasingly, that layer is where the most consequential transitions are happening.
Before joining Awesome Ventures, he led data, product, and growth strategy at Innovita Partners in the UK, where the work involved delivering high-performance computing, machine learning, and cloud systems for Microsoft, HP, and Samsung. Earlier, at Centum, he built a $3.5M analytics practice from the ground up, establishing presence across APAC and MEA — operator experience in moving advanced compute from concept to commercial scale across multiple geographies.
As investor and advisor, his work spans IoT, advanced manufacturing, and frontier hardware — including positions in Innovita Synaptics (UK) and IQI Health (Singapore). He advises family offices and global manufacturers on strategic growth and joint-venture structuring across electronics, chemicals, metals, photonics, and robotics — sectors where the next decade of AI and energy systems will be physically built.
Current attention is on convergence: how AI compute is reshaping energy demand, how new materials are unlocking categories of hardware that were not previously economic, and how the geopolitical reconfiguration of supply chains is creating industrial openings that have been closed for two decades. The work at Awesome Ventures sits at this intersection — reading what becomes possible when intelligence, energy, and physical systems align, and where an operator-side perspective changes the investor-side decision.