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Morressier Raises $18M in Series A Funding ‍ Morressier, a Berlin, Germany-based virtual conference and publishing platform for the scientific community, raised $18M in Series A funding. The round was led by Owl Ventures with participation from existing investors Cherry Ventures and Redalpine. Existing investors in Morressier include industry experts Annette Thomas (The Guardian, Clarivate Analytics), Jan Reichelt (Mendeley, Kopernio), Martin Jagerhorn (AVEDAS), Jan Maier (AVEDAS), and Pote Lee (iGroup). The company intends to use the funds to ‍scale its team across all departments, fur...

Despite a strong presence in Bangkok’s food and beverage industry, Pote Lee, founder of the restaurant group that includes Water Library, the Hong Bao chain and his own Hainanese chicken rice outlet, only entered the business 13 years ago. He was 57 years old at the time. Now in his seventh decade, the Myanmar-Thai dual national came to Thailand when he was 21 to take up a scholarship at the Asian Institute of Technology and graduated in 1974 with a master’s degree in water resource engineering. He then spent eight years as a research associate at the institute before taking up an opportu...