Ozi Amanat

Ozi is a Singapore venture capitalist focused on tech companies and has the backing of many prominent Asian billionaires.As an international investor and venture capitalist, Ozi's investments include Alibaba, Uber, Spotify, Palantir, Twitter and Facebook. Due to his stake in Alibaba he gained media attention at the time of Alibaba's IPO.

Ozi is a board trustee of Astia Angels, a Silicon Valley VC firm backed by Google, on the board of OneHope Wine, and Seeds.

Ozi is the chief investment officer of Spice Global, a $2 billion Singapore Family Office investment holding company operating in the sectors of telecom, finance, entertainment and technology with over 10,000 employees.

K2 Global is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies. The firm is seeking to bridge Asia with the U.S. K2 makes early-stage and late-stage venture and private equity investments.

K2 has attracted a number of billionaires to provide capital as well as strategic value to the technology companies that are set to change global business models.

K2 has invested over $50 million in tech companies.

Ozi led an investor consortium and made a bid to acquire the American business magazine Forbes Media, known globally for its "billionaires list" and technology entrepreneurs, from the Forbes family and the private equity group Elevation Partners led by U2's Bono. Valuing the company and acquisition price at US $300–$500 million he quoted it as one of the world’s most brilliant brands.

The bid for Forbes was short listed as the three top bidders for acquisition, beating Time Inc, Fox, Bloomberg, Warren Buffett and other major investors.

Months before the Alibaba IPO Ozi got a block of the company’s pre-IPO shares valued at $35 million to be placed with Asian families. Investors who got Ozi’s pre-IPO shares at below $60 apiece, were sitting on returns of at least 48 percent as of the Sept. 25 closing price of Alibaba in New York. Alibaba raised $25 billion earlier this month in the world’s largest IPO". Providing access to more of these opportunities Ozi raised a venture capital fund exclusively for this purpose.

Ozi received the "Young Peacemaker Award" for his outstanding philanthropic work and entrepreneurial pursuits and was nominated for "CIO of the Year" by the Family Office Review.