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Karen Seah

Founder of Award-winning production company Refinery Media and Virtual Production Studio X3D. Co-founder of Tech Unicorn Sygnum bank. And now Founder and CEO tech startup Gengis AI

📍 Singapore🔄 Updated November 2026💼 2 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024
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Apr 2024
Reimagining the future of the sports industry. Where the world’s best athletes, innovators, and fans unite to build a new global model.
Shareholder and EXCO member
Mar 2017
Refinery Concepts is now Commonwealth Concepts – From 1 January 2021, the newly formed joint-venture delivers greater dining experiences to you. Previously, Refinery Concepts was the restaurant and lifestyle food arm of Far East Organization, and had over a decade of experience in creating, designing and operating original and unique food and beverage concepts in Singapore. It has a portfolio of 12 brands (majority owned) comprises of restaurants, cafes and bars, including Fat Cow, Bedrock Bar & Grill, Kinki Restaurant + Bar, The Pelican, The Marmalade Pantry, Oriole Coffee + Bar, Dean & DeLuca Singapore, CIN CIN, and Native Kitchen. In addition, Refinery Concepts oversees the operations of three all-day dining options at these hotels – Saltwater at Village Hotel Changi, Straits Café at Rendezvous Hotel Singapore, and Katong Kitchen at Village Hotel Katong.
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2026
Founder
Jan 2026
GENGIS AI is a production studio specialising in AI-enabled workflows for film, virtual production, and emerging formats. We integrate AI into real production pipelines — under real constraints — to make complex scenes viable, reduce production friction, and expand what can be delivered on screen. Our work sits at the intersection of live-action production, virtual production, and applied AI. We are workflow-first, tool-agnostic, and production-tested. AI is used only where it survives production reality — not demos, not hype. We collaborate with producers, studios, platforms, and institutions to design and deliver AI-enabled productions and production systems that are reliable, controllable, and repeatable.
early stage
2024
Investor
Apr 2024
Reimagining the future of the sports industry. Where the world’s best athletes, innovators, and fans unite to build a new global model.
2023
Founder
Jun 2023
X3D is the Worlds First ARRI Accredited Award-Winning Virtual Production Stage and the largest in South East Asia based in Singapore that comprises a talented team of experienced film, television, and TV commercial professionals. Leveraging our extensive content creation expertise, we offer comprehensive virtual production solutions to help bring your creative visions to life. From crafting virtual assets to assembling teams for LED volume shooting and ICVFX, weve got you covered. Creativity Leading Technology.
early stage
2018
Founding Partner
May 2018
Sygnum is a global digital asset banking group, founded on Swiss and Singapore heritage. We empower professional and institutional investors, banks, corporates and DLT foundations to invest in digital assets with complete trust. Our team enables this through our institutional-grade security, expert personal service and portfolio of regulated digital asset banking, asset management, tokenisation and B2B services. Sygnum Bank AG (CH) holds a banking licence and is regulated in the financial hubs of Abu Dhabi and Luxembourg. Sygnum PTE Ltd. (SG) and Sygnum Europe AG (LI) have obtained a financial services license or registration. We believe that the future has heritage. Our crypto-native team of banking, investment and digital asset technology professionals are building a trusted gateway between the traditional & digital asset economies that we call Future Finance. Statements and posts via this channel contain general information about Sygnum and are not intended to address a specific market. Communications Sygnum will never post messages in social media networks or private messaging apps that provide investment advice or ask to login to your account, change your password, make deposits, transfer funds or make any other financial transactions. There are individuals who may attempt to impersonate trusted organisations to get access to your information and financial assets. Sygnum urges you to stay alert to potentially fraudulent emails, calls, SMS’s and content on messaging and social networks that pretend to represent Sygnum, our staff, advisors and partners. We only publish Sygnum content via www.sygnum.com, our LinkedIn channel (this profile), and on X via @sygnumofficial. Contact us If you come across unsolicited messages related to Sygnum, please do not reply or open any electronic files or click on any links and report them immediately to security@sygnum.com
2017
Shareholder and EXCO member
Mar 2017
Refinery Concepts is now Commonwealth Concepts – From 1 January 2021, the newly formed joint-venture delivers greater dining experiences to you. Previously, Refinery Concepts was the restaurant and lifestyle food arm of Far East Organization, and had over a decade of experience in creating, designing and operating original and unique food and beverage concepts in Singapore. It has a portfolio of 12 brands (majority owned) comprises of restaurants, cafes and bars, including Fat Cow, Bedrock Bar & Grill, Kinki Restaurant + Bar, The Pelican, The Marmalade Pantry, Oriole Coffee + Bar, Dean & DeLuca Singapore, CIN CIN, and Native Kitchen. In addition, Refinery Concepts oversees the operations of three all-day dining options at these hotels – Saltwater at Village Hotel Changi, Straits Café at Rendezvous Hotel Singapore, and Katong Kitchen at Village Hotel Katong.