[5] Grove spent his early years in Singapore and Indonesia, where he studied at Tanglin Trust School, the United World College of South East Asia.
Catcha.com quickly became a high-profile dot-com in Asia[8] and raised over US$12 million from a combination of angel investors, venture capitalists and publicly listed companies.
With an aborted IPO, a collapsing media environment and US$1.5m in debt[12] bankruptcy seemed imminent, but Grove managed to turn the company around and is credited with being one of the rare dot-com survivors.
[13] In 2006, Grove moved back into the online space by founding the iProperty Group which was successfully listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 2007.
[14] He and his partners revamped and grew the business into the largest network of online property portals in Asia, operating in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau with investments in India and the Philippines.
[19] In late 2013, Grove co-founded the iBuy Group (which included Dealmates) and was successfully listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
The company raised gross proceeds of $300m in their Initial Public Offering to target technology businesses in Southeast Asia and Australia.
Focusing on investments within the online sector, Patrick Grove has made his mark with a simple strategy: look at what works in the West and bring it to the East.
[33] Grove served as one of the judges on the reality TV series Angel's Gate, which began broadcasting on Channel NewsAsia in February 2012.