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It was a rainy Thursday afternoon when I was welcomed into a cosy two-bedroom flat in Pasir Ris. It seemed like a typical family home preparing for Christmas, but that impression held only until my host, Mr Ryan Ong, showed me how one of the bedrooms was being used. Water Damage Dehumidifier

From hotel manager to growing mushrooms in a spare bedroom

A bed and an ironing board are the typical items one would expect to find in a spare bedroom, but the 10 sq m space was also taken up by a lab-grade biosafety cabinet, a makeshift humidifier, and a black floor-to-ceiling tent filled with mushrooms bursting out of plastic bags.

I was not expecting what I saw, and this showed on my face. Mr Ong said: “I guess this is where it all started.”

The “it” would be Fogo Fungi, a Singapore-based agritech start-up incorporated in May 2023 of which he is the chief executive and a co-founder. He and his co-founders, Mr Jonathan Chen, 28, and Mr Felix-Constantin Dorner, 29, started experimenting with growing mushrooms in Mr Chen’s spare bedroom in February 2023.

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