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About Artist Farm

Artist Farm is a consulting & investment firm which enables our client companies to expand and align their business operations through strategic alliances, M&As and business process reformation.

Since our inception in 2017, we have focused on materializing long-term growth of our clients.

Headquartered in Singapore and we have a regional office in India.

We support our client companies mainly in the following areas.

Overall support and advice on overseas business expansion
Planning on entry strategies
Developing local business partners
Incorporation of local subsidiaries, and facilitation of local approval process
Developing marketing and operation network
Business alliances, capital tie-up, and mergers & acquisition

Our Mission

To facilitate cross-border M&A in Asia
To support business expansion between Japan and other Asian countries
To support successful commercialization of core values and innovative solutions and services in the optimal markets
To create new values through BCR（Business Chain Reaction)

Our Strength

Highly experienced in the areas of finance and technology
Expertise in management practices such as company establishment, relationship with authorities, and securing critical human resources
Connections with political and economic dignitaries and highnet-worth individuals in Asian countries
Extensive network of contacts with Japanese entrepreneurs and top corporate managers

Services

FINTECH

We provide marketing support to a venture company from Singapore that operates a crowdfunding platform for real estate investment. In particular, we are attracting investment funds from individual investors, including family offices.

FINANCE

We support fund raising for REIT listing for a Singaporean real estate investment company.

SERVICE

We are developing franchise partners in Asia for companies that develop automobile-related services in Japan, and are aiming to open the first store in Singapore.

TECHNOLOGY

We are developing sales partners in Asia and future strategic alliance partners for Japanese electronics manufacturers.

TRADE

We are developing sales channels to sell products in Asia to an Indian company that manufactures safety equipment.

EDUCATION

We are developing an online platform to provide Japanese language education to Asian workers. For those who have acquired Japanese, we are planning to introduce employment to Japanese companies that have expanded into Asian countries.

IT

We develop educational and training platforms for website development and mobile apps.

OUR TEAM

Toshiya Kimura

Chief Executive

Since 1988, Toshi had been engaged in Japanese equity asset management of specified money trusts and pension assets at Tokio Marine Asset Management Co., Ltd. for 10 years. After that, he became Chief Investment Officer at Tokio Marine’s U.S. subsidiary, Tokio Marine Asset Management New York Co., Ltd. where he managed U.S. equity portfolios for pension clients. In 2000, he joined a New York based hedge fund company, Tiedemann Investment Group, and experienced in managing long/short fund strategy of Japanese equities, before establishing his own asset management company, Village Capital Limited where he managed US$600 million fund. In 2006, he moved the HQ of the company to Singapore. Following the sale of Village Capital, he formed a business consulting firm, Artist Farm Pte. Ltd., in 2017.

Bachelor of Economics, The University of Tokyo
Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania (MBA)
Chartered Financial Analyst（CFA)
President of Tanseika (Alumni Association of Tokyo University in Singapore

Richard Yap

Partner

Richard has a wide ranging career and extensive experience in the public administration, investment management and high-tech industries. He spent the first 10 years of his career in the public sector, and achieved at least US$400 mil of cumulative annual foreign direct investment (FDI) projects into Singapore when he was Head and Director of International Operations with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB).
After public service, he was on the Advisory board of a few high-tech venture companies from Europe and Asia, as well as managing real estate investment in China, Taiwan and Malaysia. In 2018, he joined the team to set up a US$200 mil family office fund in Singapore with the focus to invest into high tech and disruptive technologies while he became director of the Singapore office for a Japanese private equity investment firm before joining Artist Farm.

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronic), The University of Tokyo
MBA with Merit from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University
2nd VP, EXCO member of JUGAS (Japanese Universities Graduates Association of Singapore）
Secretary of New Majulah Connection Society.

Rishikesh Sawant

Manager

Rishi has more than 10 years of IT and regional business development experience. He started working in 2007 at his family business of commodity supply and real estate in India. In 2012, he established his own IT start-up called Brickhills.com which is an online real estate platform that enables buyers and sellers to make transactions without engaging property brokers.
Subsequently, he set up an IT outsourcing business, called Urban Infotech India, in 2015. The company provides web and software development service to small-mid sized enterprises (SME) in Singapore. In 2021, Rishi was featured in the TV program of Channel News Asia, a popular business news channel, for his contribution to SME in the area of smart automation and online supply-chain management system. Rishi is partnered with Artist Farm and facilitates business development between Japan, Singapore and India.

Rishi obtained a Bachelor degree of Commerce in India
Diploma in Business Management from the East Asia Institute of Management in Singapore.

CONTACT

Address

53 Cairnhill Road, 229664 Singapore

Data Protection Officer:
TOSHIYA KIMURA
[email protected]
(65) 9126-5041

Email

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