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We connect experience across fields
to build focused businesses.
Duopore Ventures is the Singapore-based company founded by Christoph Kaesler to turn opportunities into businesses he can actively build and operate.
The ambition is to build something substantial across different fields. Each business still needs a specific customer, a clear problem, and the attention to get the details right.
Experience can travel between industries. What commerce teaches about trust can improve a property service. What research teaches about people can shape how a business uses AI. Duopore brings those lessons together while keeping the work in each field focused.
Our work draws on practical experience in commerce and an interest in how people find information, make decisions, and use services.
A change in customer behaviour or technology can make a new business possible. We look for a specific problem, identify who needs it solved, and work out how the business could earn its place.
Understand the customer
Test the need
Develop the business model
Building the first version is one part of the job. Customer feedback, distribution, quality, and the repeated work of delivery determine whether it becomes a useful business. We stay close to that work.
Listen to customers
Improve the process
Own the day-to-day work
We use software and AI to make useful services possible and reduce repetitive work. The purpose is practical: give people better information, make a process easier, or help a business deliver consistently.
Build useful applications
Automate repetition
Keep human judgment involved
Before Duopore Ventures, there was the work of running one business for eight years.
Christoph founded the e-commerce business Dupore in 2017. He worked across product selection, sourcing, supplier relationships, customer acquisition, quality, and operations. He closed that business while it was profitable in April 2025. Duopore Ventures is a new chapter, informed by that experience.
His first product was luggage straps. He contacted 97 manufacturers and ordered 10,000 units before the first sale. All were eventually sold. The lasting lesson was in the work around the product: choosing suppliers carefully, understanding demand, and taking responsibility for what customers received.
Earlier chapters included professional football in Belgium and a sports-director role in the United States while he continued to run his business. He has lived and studied across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Today, alongside building businesses, he is a PhD candidate at NIDA in Bangkok, researching leadership and human–AI collaboration.
“See the change. Find the opportunity. Move.”Christoph Kaesler
A shared approach to building: understand a customer need, develop a workable model, and build the processes to deliver it. The lessons can be shared. The customer, positioning, and day-to-day priorities remain specific to each business.
We look for problems we can understand closely and opportunities where our experience can be useful. We concentrate attention on a small number of active projects so that each can be tested and brought into real use.
AI is a practical tool in the work, from research and product development to repetitive operations. It supports judgment and execution. Customer understanding, quality, and responsibility remain part of the founder’s job.
A concrete partnership around a product or market, relevant industry expertise, or a defined implementation challenge in an area where we work. Introduce your business, explain the opportunity, and describe where you see a fit.
Have a specific partnership, product, or implementation opportunity in mind? Tell us what you are working on, who it serves, and where you see a fit with Duopore.