Dr. Rex Yeap is a partner at Invention Capital, where he directs efforts towards the creation and commercialisation of novel inventions, investing in, and mentoring early-stage companies. Additionally, he serves as a Director of the Business Angel Network (BANSEA) and is the co-founder of an angel investment fund, BANSEA Fund One, where he also served as Chair of the Investment Committee Board. Dr. Yeap was an investor-mentor in SiTF for its iJAM and ACE Grant programs. He is also an Advisor to Morpheus Lab, a generative AI blockchain platform business.
Over the past decades, his angel investment portfolio has predominantly included early-stage technology companies with an increasing focus on the Fintech space. Dr. Yeap holds a Master of Science with Distinction from the University of Leeds, and his doctoral research involved the invention of several patented hedge fund systems.
Dr. Yeap possesses three decades of experience across the Information Technology value chain, spanning industry, government, and academia. He is the co-inventor of the patented IP Blockchain system and holds several dozen technology-related patents, along with thousands of inventions.