William Klippgen is a Singapore-based Norwegian investor

Investor

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 and entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

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Founded Zoomit.com in 1997 with Per Siljubergsåsen

Per Siljubergsåsen

Per Siljubergsåsen, born 1965, is a Norwegian serial entrepreneur and technology visionary. He started Scandinavian high-profile internet consultancy Mogul AS . In 1998 he co-founded Zoomit/ which became Europe’s leading shopping comparison search engine and Europe's third largest e-commerce site...

. In 2000, Zoomit.com merged with Kelkoo

Kelkoo

The website Kelkoo is a European price comparison service founded in France in 1999, allowing customers to find information on products they want to purchase, including price and seller information. It was bought by Yahoo! in 2004...

 to become Europe’s leading shopping comparison search engine and its third largest e-commerce site. Kelkoo was acquired by Yahoo Inc. in 2004. In 2003, he founded the early-stage investment company Tigris Capital. He co-founded Singapore seed investment fund BAF Spectrum in 2006 which primarily invests in fast-growing tech startups across Asia in a co-funding partnership with SPRING Singapore, a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry

Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore)

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 of Singapore

Singapore

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. Klippgen sits on the boards of Tickled Media (The company that runs LiveJournal South East Asia and theAsianparent.com),Anafore.com, Mozat Pte Ltd, Progeniq Pte Ltd and Synaptic Technologies AS. He holds an M.Sc. in Engineering Cybernetics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology , commonly known as NTNU, is located in Trondheim. NTNU is the second largest of the eight universities in Norway, and, as its name suggests, has the main national responsibility for higher education in engineering and technology...

 and an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Boston University

Boston University

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 on a Fulbright Scholarship as well as an MBA from INSEAD

INSEAD

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External links

• Tigris Capital Pte Ltd http://www.tigriscapital.com.sg
• BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd: http://www.bafspectrum.com