Building Blocks

CEO of retail investment start-up BigFundr, Quah Kay Beng, on starting small and thinking big.

-  Alvin Wong

A SELF-PROFESSED “REAL estate man”, Quah Kay Beng’s career trajectory has been unwavering from the outset. After graduating with a real estate degree in London, he spent almost a decade in the real estate investment market in the UK and Europe in the early 2000s. After returning to Singapore, Quah embarked on his entrepreneurship journey—also in real estate—from Trinity House Investments in 2013, which specialises in British and Irish property, to establishing fintech platform, BigFundr, in 2021.

“There is no greater joy than working in an industry that can help change people’s lives,” he says.

Through BigFundr, Quah hopes to establish these building blocks of change by “democratising investments for everyone”. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)licensed company targets retail investors with access to real estate debt investment opportunities starting from S$1,000— opening up an investment avenue that was previously only available to institutional or high-net-worth investors.