Joe Khoo

Co-founder and CTO of Polar Cold. Joe joined a corporate venture studio run by energy company ENGIE to build a cold-chain startup.

Polar Cold rents modular, sensor-monitored cold-storage boxes to small businesses in the Philippines, after a two-year pivot away from selling energy-efficient cold rooms.

Small businesses in the Philippines rely on unreliable chest freezers or costly built-in cold rooms, on some of the region’s most fragile and expensive grids.