Top 35 Angel Investors in Malaysia in November 2024
A list of 35 angel investors that invest in startups based in Malaysia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Malaysia. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 Angel Investors in Malaysia in November 2024
Investor | Malaysia investments |
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Joel Neoh | 3 |
Bhavik Bajaj | 3 |
Ganesh Kumar Bangah | 2 |
VILOR BERHAD VILOR BERHAD | 2 |
Roman Kirsch | 1 |
Khurram Hilal | 1 |
Shaun Chong | 1 |
Daud Vicary Abdullah | 1 |
Noel Zeh | 1 |
Andress Goh | 1 |
Oskar Hartmann | 1 |
Chang Wen Lai | 1 |
Duygu Oktem Clark | 1 |
Benjamin Ball | 1 |
Jin Hui Wong | 1 |
Steve Melhuish | 1 |
Toivo Annus | 1 |
Tan Sri Wan Zulkiflee | 1 |
Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu | 1 |
Blaine Vess | 1 |
MASSIV ADVISORY SDN. BHD. MASSIV ADVISORY SDN. BHD. | 1 |
Daniel Shin | 1 |
Wei Guo | 1 |
Manoj Menon | 1 |
LEGNACAP BERHAD LEGNACAP BERHAD | 1 |
Vijay Sivaram | 1 |
Brad Flora | 1 |
Serguei Netessine | 1 |
John Devor | 1 |
Matthias Wilrich | 1 |
CK Lum | 1 |
Jason Tsai | 1 |
Edith Yeung | 1 |
Henry .. | 1 |
Eric Tan | 1 |
Joel Neoh is the Founder and CEO of Fave. He attended Monash University.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Wellness
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Malaysia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- KFit — KFit gets you into the best fitness studios, classes and gyms in your city. Get access to unlimited group fitness classes and activities with just one monthly membership. Transform your workouts.Never get bored. Discover new ways to move. Take as many classes per month as you’d like. Try a different studio everyday. It’s time to work out the wayyou want to.
- Ejen2u — Platform Sistem Pengurusan Ejen paling Komprehensif
- ULive — Live Commerce Enabler for Social Media Live Sellers.
Bhavik Bajaj
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
- ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
- THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
Ganesh Kumar Bangah is an award winning Technology Entrepreneur and Startup iInvestor. Ganesh was the .Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Malaysia 2012 and one of Asia’s most influential people according to Society Magazine 2015. He was also recognised as one of South East Asia’s Top 30 Tech Founders by Tech In Asia in 2016 andwas recognized as one of the the most inspiring Malaysian technology entrepreneurs by Top 10 of Malaysia. He has received many accolades including being recognised by Top 10 of Malaysia as among the 10 most inspiring Malaysian technology entrepreneurs and by Society Magazine as one of the 100 people you must know in Asia. Ganesh founded his first internet business, MOL Global Inc. (“MOL”) in the year 2000 at the tender age of 20. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of MOL for 15 years since its inception. Ganesh was certified by the Malaysia Book of Records as the youngest Chief Executive Officer of a Malaysian public listed company when MOL was originally listed on the Malaysian Stock Exchange in 2003. Through a series of acquisitions all over the world, he built MOL to become South East Asia’s leading online payment gateway and South East Asia’s first internet company to be listed on the NASDAQ in 2014. He was also the Founder and Director of MOL Ventures, an investment holding company which made successful private investments in global social media and mobile internet companies such as Facebook, Friendster and Kakao. Ganesh founded Commerce.Asia, and All In One eCommerce Ecosystem in 2017 anfwithin 3 years to have a database of over 8,000,000 SME's across 7 countries with over 61,000 sellers that sell RM1.5 billion (USD375m) worth of products.Commerce.asia's ecosystem includes Commerce.Asia Data, the largest SME database in South East Asia; Leading e-commerce platform, Sitegiant; Malaysia’s largest dropshipping platform, Kumoten; Malaysia’s largest direct-to-garment merchandise creation platform, Famsy and Malaysia's leading rural social commerce platform, Bizapp.Ganesh is a well respected industry leader and is currently the Immediate Past Chairman of the National ICT Association of Malaysia (“PIKOM”) and Chair of E-Commerce Malaysia, a Chapter of PIKOM. Ganesh is currently also on the Board of MaGIC, the Malaysian Global Innovation & Creative Centre.Ganesh has received many awards including as Overall Top Award Winner for the Prestige Top 40 Under 40 2012 Awards, Winner of the JCI Creative Young Entrepreneur Award 2009, Winner of the Technopreneur Excellence Award at the PIKOM ICT Leadership Awards in 2009 and Winner of the Young Indian Entrepreneur Award in 2009.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Corporate Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Malaysia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- pitchIN — Your one stop crowdfunding platform
- Sprintla — Mobile Print-On-Demand Application
- Y Ventures Group — Based in Singapore, Y Ventures Group is a data-driven e-commerce company. Capitalizing on our data analytics capabilities, we partner with the world’s leading brands to sell their products in multiple countries across various online marketplaces. Y Ventures make sense of loose data with a customized data analytics dashboard. Visualize sales trendsin a glance and translate them into actionable that adds to the bottom line. Empower your supply chain management with more accurate sale forecasts.
VILOR BERHAD VILOR BERHAD
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Investment focus
- Consulting, Real Estate, Professional Services
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Nala Berhad — We are Nala Groups, award-winning professional recruitment and career mentorship firm. Since our humble establishment Nala Employment Services – Singapore in 2013 and Nala Groups in 2016, we have steadily transformed ourselves into one of Malaysia and Singapore’s leading manpower recruitment agencies under effective management. Backed by dedicatedand best-organised teams, we offer recruitment solutions that meet, if not exceed our client's expectations within the time frame deemed most suitable.
- Homii — Homii started as a hostel brand in Southern Malaysia, Malaysia as their target, South East Asia as their final destination.
Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Italy, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
- Bending Spoons — We create cutting-edge technologies and products, 500 million app downloads, 100 million monthly active users.
- Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
Khurram Hilal,CEO of global Islamic banking at a leading international Bank.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Communities, Real Estate
- Seed
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Ethis — Our platforms feature exciting and sustainable campaigns. You are the ethical crowdfunders. When good intentions converge, we inspire change in the world. Impact Investment. Participatory Project Financing. Effective Charity. We are Ethis.
Shaun Chong is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ninja Van and was a Project Manager at Terrapinn. He attended National University of Singapore.
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Investment focus
- Solar
- Seed
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Okapi Technologies — Solar Financing Platform
Daud Vicary Abdullah
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Communities, Real Estate
- Seed
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Ethis — Our platforms feature exciting and sustainable campaigns. You are the ethical crowdfunders. When good intentions converge, we inspire change in the world. Impact Investment. Participatory Project Financing. Effective Charity. We are Ethis.
Noel Zeh has been a partner at Alstin Capital since June 2020 and has worked in the start-up environment for almost 20 years. He knows best how to support founders on their path to success: He has successfully founded and sold companies on several occasions; the first in the field of e-commerce was during his studies in 2002.From 2013 onwards, hehas passed on his broad experience as a founder as an active investor. Among other things, he accompanied the logistics start-up PackLink in fundraising and internationalisation. With his vehicle LITTLEROCK he invested in seed-phase tech companies worldwide. Together with the LITTLEROCK team he developed a special Founder Scoring, which analysed 19 KPI’s to evaluate the founding team.From 2017 to 2020, Noel Zeh was a partner at Reimann Investors in Munich, where he helped expand the venture capital area. As a proven expert in Fintech and SaaS, he also served on the advisory board of numerous investments such as credi2, Fintecsystem and Usercentrics on their way to success. He has not yet given up his passion for e-commerce and also invested for Reimann Investors in companies such as Highsnobiety.Noel Zeh studied business administration at the FH Giessen-Friedberg.When asked why he enjoys this profession so much, he says: „I simply love accompanying founders and am convinced that my own experience as a founder helps me to understand them and their business. Especially when the founders have to go through the valley of tears, it helps to have someone at their side who has lived through these situations themselves.“
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Austria, India
Portfolio highlights
- iPrice Group — Shop now with the largest selection of top brands and products in the region - all in a single website! Discover new products, compare smartphone prices and products. Get the latest coupon and voucher codes for Lazada, Zalora, Qoo10, Grab Car, and more!
- Hygraph — Hygraph is the next generation GraphQL-Native Headless CMS powering mission-critical applications. Streamline content workflows, iterate faster and deliver to any destination of choice using our content APIs.
- Hygraph — Hygraph is the next generation GraphQL-Native Headless CMS powering mission-critical applications. Streamline content workflows, iterate faster and deliver to any destination of choice using our content APIs.
Andress Goh is Managing Director and Head of the Singapore office. She focuses primarily on expanding APEP’s Asian investment activities and is a member of the APEP global Investment Committee. Prior to working for APEP, Andress was employed at GIC Special Investments (GIC SI) (UK & Germany) where she was active in leading European privateequity fund and co-investments from 1999. Her first job was with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore (Singapore, Germany & USA). Andress holds an MA from the University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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Investment focus
- Consumer, Food and Beverage
- Series A
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Kind Kones — We deliver plant-based ice cream and wholesome treats!
Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Russian Federation, India
Portfolio highlights
- Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
- Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
- June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.
Chang Wen is CEO and Co-Founder of Ninja Van. After graduating with a Bachelor of Finance from Singapore Management University,he worked as a derivatives trader at Barclays before setting up men’s custom fashion retailer Marcella.
His experience with the online retail business made him realise there could be a more efficient way of delivering andtracking packages, resulting in the creation of Ninja Van and the rest, as they say, is history.
Chang Wen's vision is for a Ninja to be within the reach of any consumer in Southeast Asia so that Ninja Van can provide a consistently great and seamless logistics experience for shippers and shoppers alike in the current Southeast Asian markets Ninja Van operates in.
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Investment focus
- Solar
- Seed
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Okapi Technologies — Solar Financing Platform
Duygu Oktem Clark is the Co-Founder of Turkish Collective. Duygu Oktem Clark attended MIT Sloan School of Management and Middle East Technical University.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Coffee
- Seed
- United States, Turkey, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Seed — Seed is simply a better way to bank. As a mobile first banking service designed with the small business in mind, Seed empowers small businesses with modern, easy-to-use digital tools and customer-support resources for starting, running, and growing a business. With Seed, business banking has never been easier.
- Cloosiv — Cloosiv is an ordering platform that allows users to order in advance from their favorite coffee shop, skip the queue, and get rewards from the platform to save time and money.
- Pop Meals — Expect exciting, locally trending meals at an affordable price! Now with dine-in, pickup and delivery .
Benjamin Ball is a Founding Partner of Francisco Partners Management, LLC, which is a leading private equity firm focused exclusively on investing in the information technology market. Benjamin focuses primarily on investments in the communications and hardware systems sectors. Benjamin was appointed to our board of directors on October 23,2007. He also serves on the board of directors of Data Connection, Electrical Components International, WatchGuard and WebTrends.Prior to founding Francisco Partners, Benjamin was a Vice President with TA Associates where he led private equity investments in the software, semiconductor and communications segments. Earlier in his career, Benjamin worked for AEA Investors, a New York-based private equity firm, and also for the consulting firm of Bain & Company.Benjamin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Bevy — Bevy is a community event engine fueling virtual, hybrid, and in-person events. Our platform powers your events, allowing you to focus on converting your audience into a community. Bevy is the only platform that can scale your events through enterprise integrations and insightful analytics.
- TribeHired — TribeHired is an online social recruitment platform that connects job seekers and employers. Hiring managers use its system to schedule interviews and make offers to shortlisted candidates, with interviews and offers being made within 2 weeks of talent getting featured. The future versions of TribeHired will allow talent to select engagements thattake up to 3 hours, 3 months or 3 years tenure, with the ability to prioritize work for a higher salary, social impact or up-skilling opportunities.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur.
- OurHealthMate — Enterprise Healthcare Management platform which focuses on increasing engagement and providing ease in healthcare reimbursements and benefits to the corporates in India. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has offices in Singapore and Bangalore (India)
Jin Hui Wong
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Investment focus
- Apps, Tourism, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Tourplus — Tourplus is the one stop travel and lifestyle app in Malaysia to provide travel information such as nearby business, address, location, reviews, photos, videos, discounts, vouchers, products and services offered by businesses like restaurant, spa, attractions, premium outlet, hotel, resort and any lifestyle retails. Users also can book airport transfers, hotel rooms, food vouchers, attraction ticketing, day tour, customized tours from Tourplus App
Steve Melhuish is the Founder of Rumah, Co-Founder and Board Director at PropertyGuru Group, Founder and CEO at Planet Rise, Founding Partner at Wavemaker Impact, and an Advisor and Investor at Eco-Business and Ampd Energy. He attended the University of Plymouth and the University of Reading.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Internet, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, India, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- TablePointer — TablePointer is the A.I. and intelligent energy solution for small & medium commercial facilities to optimise energy efficiency, manage assets, upgrade profitability, and unlock sustainability gains right away.
- Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
- Lhoopa — Making homeownership achievable for every Filipino family.
Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Singapore, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
- GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.
Tan Sri Wan Zulkiflee
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Communities, Real Estate
- Seed
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Ethis — Our platforms feature exciting and sustainable campaigns. You are the ethical crowdfunders. When good intentions converge, we inspire change in the world. Impact Investment. Participatory Project Financing. Effective Charity. We are Ethis.
Pawoot is like an icon of Thailand online business. Many people call him "the godfather of E-Commerce"
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Thailand, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- DayWork — People and Part-time marketplace
- PEAK — PEAK (peakaccount.com) is one of the leading online accounting software provider in Thailand. We manage accounting record of almost 100,000 transactions valued over 2 billion bath per month. PEAK is a supported startup from True Incube and is invested by True, GSB, and SET. We won several awards and recognitions including winner prize for Ease ofDoing Business Solution, Design Innovation, True Incube Batch 2. We are not only providing online accounting software but we are building business infrastructure for future data-driven economy. We help SMEs in Thailand have a better accounting system and have a better chance of getting loan or money they need to expand their business.
- Protoss Technology — Technology outsourcing company
Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. He previously worked at Solve as a Co-Founder and CEO. Blaine Vess attended San Jose State University.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
- Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
- Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
MASSIV ADVISORY SDN. BHD. MASSIV ADVISORY SDN. BHD.
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Investment focus
- Consulting
- Angel
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Nala Berhad — We are Nala Groups, award-winning professional recruitment and career mentorship firm. Since our humble establishment Nala Employment Services – Singapore in 2013 and Nala Groups in 2016, we have steadily transformed ourselves into one of Malaysia and Singapore’s leading manpower recruitment agencies under effective management. Backed by dedicatedand best-organised teams, we offer recruitment solutions that meet, if not exceed our client's expectations within the time frame deemed most suitable.
Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
- Port One — Experience every payment in the world with one line of code
- Korea Credit Data — • Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management solution to small and medium-sized businesses in Korea. KCD established a dominant position (M/S 70%+) through ‘Cashnote' and ‘Bizbot’ services used by more than 1.1 million businesses. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life.To this end, KCD will expand its business areas to include B2B commerce to B2C payment area.
Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
- Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
- Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Manoj Menon is a Founder & CEO at Twimbit. He attended ICFAI Business School from 1994 to 1996.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Internet, Consulting
- Seed, Angel
- India, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- 3ciety — 3ciety
- SocialCops — SocialCops are partner with leaders and organizations around the world to make data-driven decisions easier and more effective. Their work helps build a world with smarter cities, happier citizens, better policies, and a brighter future.Today's model of engaging with data — both the data they use and how they use it — is broken. Dataintelligence is the solution. It starts with finding all the data you need for your decision — extracted from elaborate internal systems, sourced from places you never would have thought to look, and unified with real-time data. they then transform this mass of data into intelligent insights that make the best decision obvious.SocialCops is backed by 500 Start-ups; Rajan Anandan, Managing Director of Google India; and Manoj Menon, Managing Director of Frost and Sullivan APAC. Its team consists of engineers and data scientists. The company won the love of the Forbes India '30 under 30', World Summit Youth Award, and IBM Smart Planet Challenge.
LEGNACAP BERHAD LEGNACAP BERHAD
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Investment focus
- Consulting
- Angel
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Nala Berhad — We are Nala Groups, award-winning professional recruitment and career mentorship firm. Since our humble establishment Nala Employment Services – Singapore in 2013 and Nala Groups in 2016, we have steadily transformed ourselves into one of Malaysia and Singapore’s leading manpower recruitment agencies under effective management. Backed by dedicatedand best-organised teams, we offer recruitment solutions that meet, if not exceed our client's expectations within the time frame deemed most suitable.
Vijay Sivaram
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Big Data
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- India, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- BRB — Order coolest and newest chip on the block BRB Popped Potato Chips Not-Baked, Not-Fried, but POPPED. Keep munching while texting and posting.
- eBikeGo — eBikeGo allows users to move quickly, and in style. We aim to make world class electric mobility solutions that transform how people move. We are driven towards creating a suite of customer-centric electric mobility solutions empowering people to seize not just the moment, but the future.
- ConsCent — Leading media platforms trust ConsCent to engage, retain and transact with millions of users and build long-term relationships
Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience.
Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
- SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
- Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
- Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.
Serguei Netessine is Vice-Dean for Global Initiatives and Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He lived and worked in Russia, USA, France and Singapore., author and speaker on innovation.Prof. Netessine receivedBS/MS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology and, after working for Motorola and Lucent Technologies, he also received MS/Ph.D. degrees in Operations Management from the University of Rochester. His current research focuses on business model innovation and operational excellence and he worked on these topics with numerous organizations including Federal Aviation Administration (USA), Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s, Rolls Royce, Comcast, Expedia, ABB and US Air Force. He serves on advisory boards of multiple startup companies and regularly speaks on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.Professor Netessine has been the recipient of several teaching awards for delivering classes to MBA and Executive MBA students at the Wharton School and INSEAD, and he frequently teaches in Executive Education Programs. Prolific academic writer, professor Netessine holds senior editorial positions at several leading academic journals and he co-authored dozens of publications in prominent management journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review and other. His work has received extensive media coverage in CIO Magazine, the Economist, Forbes, Multichannel Merchant, New York Times, US News and Strategy & Business and other press. He regularly blogs about innovation on http://www.renaissanceinnovator.com and HBR Network. His latest book on Business Model Innovation is forthcoming with Harvard Business Press in 2014.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- TabSquare — Look to the future of the F&B industry - Tabsquare's POS integrated online restaurant system increases hospitality profitability through AI Technology.
- Comedywire — Comedywire offers an online platform that enables its users to find, share, and create posts of comedic content. Comedywire enables its users to connect with each other and share ideas. Comedywire was founded by Preston Gitlin in December 2014.
- Alltius — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
John Devor - COO @ Touchpoint Games
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Borong — Dropee is a SaaS-enabled marketplace that connects local independent retailers with brands in South East Asia via an ordering app. The marketplace's unique value proposition makes it easier for businesses both big and small to manage their procurement and supply chain ecosystem. It allows businesses to get connected in order to buy and sell inbulk and the enterprise solution allows businesses to streamline their operational processes to work more efficiently and effectively.Dropeee’s platform connects suppliers with small-to-medium enterprise (SME) business owners in real-time to streamline the product fulfillment process and facilitate bulk purchases through a suite of enterprise solutions. The supply-chain in Malaysia and across Southeast Asia lacks meaningful real-time connectivity between suppliers and retailers. The modern, digital approach to the wholesale industry allows retailers to discover, purchase, and manage inventories for their store all on a single marketplace platform.
Matthias Wilrich is the VP Vehicles and Supply Chain at TIER Mobility.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Delivery Service, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Austria, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
- MAYD — MAYD provides telepharmacy platform providing healthcare-related goods in a convenient way by delivering it to doorstep.
- HELLO INSIDE — HELLO INSIDE is a scientific self care company empowering people to have data-driven conversations with their bodies. Unlock your best self.
CK Lum
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Investment focus
- Banking, Hedge Funds, Angel Investment
- Seed
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- AxeHedge — AxeHedge is a technology platform that educates investors and provides accessibility to hedge fund style investing solutions. Receive news, updates and bite-sized information about investment models on our socials or join our platform to find Alpha!
Jason Tsai is a Machine Learning Lead/Consultant, Angel Investor
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Borong — Dropee is a SaaS-enabled marketplace that connects local independent retailers with brands in South East Asia via an ordering app. The marketplace's unique value proposition makes it easier for businesses both big and small to manage their procurement and supply chain ecosystem. It allows businesses to get connected in order to buy and sell inbulk and the enterprise solution allows businesses to streamline their operational processes to work more efficiently and effectively.Dropeee’s platform connects suppliers with small-to-medium enterprise (SME) business owners in real-time to streamline the product fulfillment process and facilitate bulk purchases through a suite of enterprise solutions. The supply-chain in Malaysia and across Southeast Asia lacks meaningful real-time connectivity between suppliers and retailers. The modern, digital approach to the wholesale industry allows retailers to discover, purchase, and manage inventories for their store all on a single marketplace platform.
Edith is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and creator of the China Internet Report, and Silicon News.Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund. A few sectors we are particularly interested in are infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech verticals. She has invested in over 50 startupsincluding Agora.io (Nasdaq: API), Lightyear/Stellar (valued at $1.2B), Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Chirp (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), Solana, Oasis Labs, Hooked, DayDayCook, AISense, and many more.Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies. Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk.She frequently speaks on China and Silicon Valley technology and the investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and a commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc.Edith attended Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Purdue University.
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- Mobile, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Malaysia, Spain
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- Serum — Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permission less – we do not hold special power anymore. Itis up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will.
- Telepathic — Telepathic is redefining storytelling for the Snapchat generation. They believe there is a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing "lean" principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. Their first product is HOOKED, a “twitter for fiction” mobile app thatmakes reading addictive for teens. Their longterm vision is to release stories across multiple channels, including apps, video and virtual reality.The founders are Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, veterans from the mobile app world. They previously built music apps, like AutoRap, that have helped over 150MM people experience the joy of music creation. They've also produced several viral videos totaling over 300MM views. You can read more about the journey that led us to founding a storytelling startup in this piece they wrote for Vogue.
- AppOnboard — AppOnboard is a Los Angeles-based software company empowering creators to build businesses without any programming experience. The company offers two no-code products: Buildbox, the largest no-code mobile game engine, and AppOnboard Studio, a mobile, interactive design studio that enables anyone to create playable ads and app prototypes.
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- Skill Assessment
- Angel
- Malaysia
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- Qwork.my — Expert HR Panel, ESG Case Studies, SME Financing & More at Qwork's First HR Event this June 27, visit Qwork.my to register.
Eric Tan is a CEO & Co-Founder at Instahome & he attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2013.
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- Rental, Internet
- Seed
- Malaysia
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- Instahome — Instahome leverages new-age design and technology to help renters improve the home rental experience for tenants, agents, and landlords.
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