SINGAPORE - The co-founder of home-grown hospitality group Tipsy Collective, Derek Ong, has died. He was 34.

Mr Ong died on Saturday, according to an online memorial put up by funeral parlour Green Pastures.

Before starting the Tipsy Collective with his business partner David Gan, Mr Ong was a part-time banquet waiter in his teens, who later became a bartender. He also had a business selling halal fish bak kwa at one point.