Oxford & Singapore

Rayner Chew

Final-year Economics & Management at Oxford, from Singapore. I spend my time somewhere between investing in companies and building them.

Interested in Finance/ Entrepreneurship/ Getting better at AI, every day
Guided by Curiosity/ Creativity/ Collaboration
01Who I am
Rayner Chew outside the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford

I'm in my final year reading Economics & Management at Hertford College, Oxford. Before that, I grew up in Singapore and went to Raffles Institution.

At school I founded Let's Talk Failure, a podcast on failure and youth mental health that ran for ten episodes and reached 5,000+ listeners, with politicians, business leaders and athletes as guests, all reached through cold outreach. Later I bootstrapped an A-Level Economics tutoring business from 5 to 40+ students in a year, and launched Economics Lah!, a policy podcast with ministers and government officials.

I care most about problems I've seen up close. EstateFlow started after watching my mother navigate my grandmother's estate.

02Now

Final year at Oxford, and splitting the rest of my time three ways.

Building EstateFlow. In the UK, bereaved families can wait 9 to 12 months for probate before they can touch an estate. EstateFlow is a legaltech platform that releases that liquidity earlier. We won the Oxford FinTech Innovation Sprint and are part of the Oxford Venture Builders pre-accelerator.

Investing. I lead consumer and emerging markets coverage at the Oxford Alpha Fund, and I've just come back from a summer of equity research at Fidelity in Hong Kong covering Chinese consumer, healthcare and internet names.

Getting better at AI. I'm trying to use it seriously every day: for research, for building, and for things like this website.

Last updated October 2026

03Things I've built
2026 — Present

EstateFlow

Co-founder & CEO. UK legaltech giving bereaved families liquidity during probate. Winner, Oxford FinTech Innovation Sprint 2026.

2023 — 2024

The Economics Collective

Bootstrapped A-Level Economics tutoring: 5 to 40+ students in a year, three tutors hired, S$50k revenue. Plus Economics Lah!, a policy podcast with ministers.

Listen on Spotify
2021 — 2023

Let's Talk Failure

A podcast on failure and youth mental health with politicians, business leaders and athletes. Ten episodes, 5,000+ listeners.

Listen on Spotify
2020 — 2022

Project Gold

Weekly bilingual smartphone classes for seniors who struggled with online government services. Grew into a group where seniors taught each other.

04Record

Experience

  • Summer 2026

    Equity Research/Fidelity Investments

    Hong Kong. Covered Chinese consumer, healthcare and internet equities. My Buy recommendation on Miniso was actioned by a portfolio manager. Highest average pitch score across the global intern class.

  • 2024 — Present

    Portfolio Manager/Oxford Alpha Fund

    Lead consumer & emerging markets coverage. Captained the team that won 1st Place Overall at the London Business School Stock Pitch Competition 2026.

  • 2025

    Private Equity/Pavilion Capital (Temasek)

    Singapore. Screened 15+ TMT funds across a $9B portfolio and drafted Investment Committee memo sections.

  • 2025

    Inside the Industry Challenge/J.P. Morgan

    Led a team pitching a long-volatility trade on the Hang Seng Index; received a Global Markets Summer Analyst offer.

  • 2025 — 2026

    M&A Director/CapitOx

    Led two cross-border acquisition pitches to the CapitOx Global Finals (top 8).

Education

  • 2024 — 2027

    Economics & Management/University of Oxford

    Hertford College. First Class Honours in Preliminary Examinations.

  • 2017 — 2022

    A Levels/Raffles Institution

    8 A* distinctions including H3 Game Theory. MOE Humanities Scholar.

    Featured on CNA
05Recognition
  • 1st Place Overall, London Business School Stock Pitch Competition, 2026 (Team Captain)
  • Winner, Oxford FinTech Innovation Sprint, 2026 (EstateFlow)
  • Gold Medal (9th of 223) and Captain of Team Singapore, International Economics Olympiad, 2023
  • Champion, Singapore National Economics Olympiad, 2023
  • 4th globally, Harvard Undergraduate Economics Competition, 2022
06Writing

First posts coming soon.

07Off the clock
Play
Guitar and singing. Chess (Hertford College Champion, 2025). Baseball. Taekwondo black belt.
Watch
Formula 1.
Travel
Solo, across Europe and Asia, most recently Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.
Speak
English and Mandarin (native), French (B1).
08Say hello

If you're building something, investing in something, or just want to talk about either, I'd love to hear from you.