Public record
Prem Bhatia
Co-founder & CEO, Graas
Prem Bhatia is co-founder and CEO of Graas, a Singapore-based retail commerce AI company. He has worked in advertising, media and technology for thirty years across the US, UK, India, the UAE, Singapore and Southeast Asia — beginning as a sports agent at WorldTel, later as president of July Systems, and as co-founder of PHAR Partnerships.
He is the grandson of the journalist, editor and diplomat Prem Bhatia (1922–1995), in whose name the Editors Guild of India administers the Prem Bhatia Journalism Awards.
Press
Coverage
Selected press, 2010–2026, newest first. Bylined pieces are his argument; interviews and keynotes are his words in someone else’s format; the rest are third-party write-ups.
“Could we have built it? Yes. But agentic is moving too quickly to waste time.”
Prem Bhatia, on acquiring Trustana rather than building — DealStreetAsia, “Graas raises $17m Series B, eyes first profitable quarter in Q4”, 13 August 2026 (paywalled).
“Graas maps all of that into one ontology and the agents run on that very map.”
Prem Bhatia, on the knowledge graph behind the agents — DealStreetAsia, same article.
DealStreetAsia reports the round was led by LemmaTree, founded by Temasek, with Integra Partners, Tin Men Capital, The Xander Group, InCred Wealth and Orzon participating. Tech in Asia, “Graas raises $17m, buys Trustana in agentic commerce push” (13 August 2026, paywalled), reports Graas revenue growing more than 50% year on year.
Interview
DBS Kopi Time E098
Essay
Three times the ground moved
By Prem Bhatia
Thirty years, one job: find where attention is about to move, get there before it is obvious.