Building Stormie: A Founder’s Letter

By Ernest Choo

“We started not with a pitch deck, but with a question: what happens when we stop chasing trends and start backing truth?”

Stormie began in a small café in Singapore, scribbled on the back of a receipt. I wasn’t thinking about capital. I was thinking about courage — the kind you need when the story you want to tell doesn’t fit the mold.

Over the years, I had seen brilliant minds stay invisible. Artists with no stage. Startups with soul but no funding. And I realized: capital wasn’t broken. It was blind. It wasn’t looking for originality — it was looking for pattern. And that needed to change.

So I built Stormie. A space where capital, culture, and conviction collide.

We don’t fund ideas. We fund people — people with character, clarity, and the guts to do things differently. Whether you’re launching a fintech startup or staging an independent play, if you have a story the world needs, we’ll help you tell it — with investment, with mentorship, with momentum.

Today, Stormie is more than a fund. It’s a family. It’s an ecosystem. It’s a quiet revolution in the way we think about value.

I believe the future belongs to those who build with both logic and love. And if you’re one of them — welcome home.

- Ernest