Melvyn Yeo

Entrepreneur | Investor | Board Member | Advisory Board | C-Suite | Asset Management | Founder & Managing Partner at TRIREC

📍 Singapore🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2022
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Oct 2022
Oort Energy is a manufacturer of green hydrogen systems for energy storage and clean fuel. We are innovators who have found the solutions to the major cost-barriers of green hydrogen. We offer an electrolyser system that is efficient, durable, scalable, and has class-leading cost-effectiveness.
Investor
2022
Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation. To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. Were applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, were building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems. We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes. Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. Our cargo aircraft enables remote connectivity, enhances express delivery networks, and ensures fast and reliable shipping of critical supplies to areas in need. Our crop protection aircraft offers agricultural services providers and farmers an autonomous tool to make aerial application safer, more precise, and less harmful to surrounding environments. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce C02 emissions in their respective industries. What we work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day.
Board Observer
2022
A global exchange revolutionising the voluntary carbon market. The Exchange’s client base comprises corporate entities, financial traders, carbon project developers and other industry stakeholders. ACX provides its clients with an efficient and transparent trading platform which is easy to use, frictionless and with the lowest commission fees available on the market.
Board Member
2022
Empowered by science, we can enhance our built environments to change the world for the better. Thats why we innovate advanced material solutions that go beyond the surface - not just to better living spaces, but to empower all of us to leave the world a sustainably better place than how weve found it. We mingle the concerns of wellness and sustainability with the concerns of building. Because true wellness is plural, not singular. We unify people who believe spaces should help us thrive as well, with products that make them active participants in bettering their lives and making a better tomorrow for Earth. From air-purifying paints to heat-blocking window films and more. Lets thrive together. Let’s create a world we can gush about.
Investor
2021
Xpansiv® operates the world’s largest integrated, open and neutral market infrastructure for the global energy transition. Through Xpansiv’s comprehensive end-to-end technology platform, which covers the entire lifecycle of environmental commodities, the company connects diverse markets and participants worldwide playing a pivotal role in scaling the energy transition.
Board Observer
2021
Aethers mission is to help advance humanitys transition away from fossil fuels by producing vital carbon-neutral materials from captured CO2. Certified B-Corporation.
Board Observer
2020
There’s a hunger inside us all. When passion for the delicious meets an appetite for a just world, there’s an opportunity to change things for the better. At Hungry Planet, we’re on a mission to bend the curve on personal and planetary health with the only full range of delicious, nourishing, plant-based meats. Crafted by chefs with the vision of enabling culinary freedom that’s good for our health and our planet, we make it easy to swap our meats for conventional meats in any cuisine, with any flavor, across all proteins – without compromise. Hungry Planet is the secret to making delicious food healthier. Now available nationally in foodservice, retail and ecomm including Amazon, Costco.com and WebstaurantStore.com🌱 For retail, look for us here: Our Website: https://shop.hungryplanetfoods.com (free shipping) Amazon: www.amazon.com/hungryplanet Costco: https://bit.ly/HungryatCostco We regularly update our Find Us map indicating where you can purchase Hungry Planet meats for home cooking, in addition to a wide variety of restaurants, groceries, delis, etc www.hungryplanetfoods.com/find-us So... when it comes to doing right by the planet, your health, your family and/or your business, what are YOU hungry for? Hungry Planet® Chef-crafted plant-based meats for a healthy, Hungry Planet® www.hungryplanetfoods.com @hungryplanetfoods
Board Member, Schroders & Co (Asia) Ltd
2019
Schroders is a global investment manager, partnering with institutions, intermediaries and individuals to create prosperity together. For more than 200 years, we have helped clients to see things differently, navigating complexity in changing markets. Today, we manage £823.7 billion* on behalf of clients across public and private markets, operating across six continents with local expertise supported by global scale. Active management is central to how we invest, engage and steward capital. Over one, three and five years, 70% or more* of our clients’ assets have outperformed their stated comparators. Sustainability is embedded in our investment approach, supported by proprietary tools and active ownership. Our current portfolio temperature score for in scope assets is 2.4°C*, and we aim to achieve 2.2°C by 2030. Our talented team of more than 5,700* people worldwide are fundamental to our active philosophy. Their capabilities and expertise are enhanced by proprietary technology and data. We prioritise excellence and diversity of thought in pursuit of high performance and client success. By combining global reach with trusted advice, we aim to deliver resilient outcomes for clients, shareholders and society. *Source: Schroders, all data as at 31 December 2025. Disclaimer: Investing in securities is subject to risk. The value of investments can go down as well as up and is not guaranteed. Schroders will not make direct contact with you, via any social media platform or direct messaging service, to sell our products. If you think you have been a victim of a scam or have received unsolicited contact using the Schroders name or any associated names, and have any concerns, then please contact our Financial Crime Team using the details below: Telephone: +44(0)20 7658 4004 Email: reportscams@schroders.com
Investor
2018
We aim to solve the energy delivery challenge for electric transportation by utilizing autonomous robotics and smart-battery technology. Weve created an economical, rapidly deployable and widely accessible platform that delivers a full charge to any electric car in minutes. The aim is to make it possible to have “Electric Cars for Everyone”.
Investor
2018
FreeWire is an industry leader in battery-integrated ultrafast electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions solving grid infrastructure constraints by designing and manufacturing scalable clean power, driving the global transition to electrified transportation. FreeWire is a trusted partner to Fortune 100 companies, commercial and utility customers, fleets, retail locations, and gas stations, supporting their entrance into the EV charging market and increasing the availability and reliability of EV charging. Join us in powering the electric revolution.
Board Member
2015
EDP Renewables APAC is headquartered in Singapore and present across 9 markets currently with more than 1.3 GWp of installed, under construction and secured capacity and a pipeline of more than 6 GW. EDP Renewables APAC is part of EDP Renewables (Euronext: EDPR), a global leader in the renewable energy sector and fourth largest wind producer worldwide with 15.1 GW installed that is present in 28 markets. EDP (Euronext: EDP) is EDPR's main shareholder with 75% stake operating across energy generation, networks and supply, including a 28.5 GW total installed capacity of which 80% of renewable sources mostly wind, but also hydro and solar, networks of 376 thousand km and over 9 million clients.
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2022
Investor
Oct 2022
Oort Energy is a manufacturer of green hydrogen systems for energy storage and clean fuel. We are innovators who have found the solutions to the major cost-barriers of green hydrogen. We offer an electrolyser system that is efficient, durable, scalable, and has class-leading cost-effectiveness.
Investor
2022
Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation. To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. Were applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, were building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems. We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes. Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. Our cargo aircraft enables remote connectivity, enhances express delivery networks, and ensures fast and reliable shipping of critical supplies to areas in need. Our crop protection aircraft offers agricultural services providers and farmers an autonomous tool to make aerial application safer, more precise, and less harmful to surrounding environments. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce C02 emissions in their respective industries. What we work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day.
Board Observer
2022
A global exchange revolutionising the voluntary carbon market. The Exchange’s client base comprises corporate entities, financial traders, carbon project developers and other industry stakeholders. ACX provides its clients with an efficient and transparent trading platform which is easy to use, frictionless and with the lowest commission fees available on the market.
Board Member
2022
Empowered by science, we can enhance our built environments to change the world for the better. Thats why we innovate advanced material solutions that go beyond the surface - not just to better living spaces, but to empower all of us to leave the world a sustainably better place than how weve found it. We mingle the concerns of wellness and sustainability with the concerns of building. Because true wellness is plural, not singular. We unify people who believe spaces should help us thrive as well, with products that make them active participants in bettering their lives and making a better tomorrow for Earth. From air-purifying paints to heat-blocking window films and more. Lets thrive together. Let’s create a world we can gush about.
2021
Investor
2021
Xpansiv® operates the world’s largest integrated, open and neutral market infrastructure for the global energy transition. Through Xpansiv’s comprehensive end-to-end technology platform, which covers the entire lifecycle of environmental commodities, the company connects diverse markets and participants worldwide playing a pivotal role in scaling the energy transition.
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