Top 45 Angel Investors in Vietnam

Investor	Vietnam investments
Christy Choi	2
Gokul Rajaram	2
Thai Van Linh	2
Mark Cuban	2
Jussi Salovaara	1
Sean Mulryan	1
Sanjeev Barnwal	1
Mark Groves	1
Madeleine Magnerius	1
Charles-Edouard Bouee	1
Mirza Uddin	1
Clement Benoit	1
Jonathan Keidan	1
Trevor Wright	1
David Ma	1
Wang Jian	1
Sofia Dolfe	1
Sebastian Knutsson	1
John Robinson	1
David Su	1
Jaewoong Lee	1
Peter Hoang	1
Kevin Lin	1
Luke Vigent	1
Jeff Hohner	1
Kun Gao	1
Alex Svanevik	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Lim Tai Tian	1
Oliver Jung	1
Lisa Gokongwei	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Dimple Mukherjee	1
Fredrik Hjelm	1
John Katzman	1
Edward Suh	1
Alexis Ohanian	1
Thuc Vu	1
Vidit Aatrey	1
Eric Chen	1
Magda Lukaszewicz	1
Holly Liu	1
Eric Chen	1
Jack Tai	1
Le Hoang Lan	1

Christy Choi

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Software, Video Games
Seed, Pre-Seed
Vietnam, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ondo Finance — Institutional Grade Finance. On-Chain. For Everyone.
Coin98 — Coin98 is a Crypto-focused software company.
Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale

Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Cache — Holding on to individual stocks that make up a large percentage of your portfolio? Cache gives you access to the same advanced investing products used by the ultra-wealthy to manage concentrated wealth.
Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.

CEO, TVL Group; Senior Advisor, Openspace Ventures; Angel and Early Stage Investor

Investment focus

Audio, Internet, Audiobooks
Seed
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Fonos — Fonos is a digital content application including Copyrighted Audiobooks, Book Summary, Meditation and many other rich content, to support the development of spiritual life and career for busy people.
Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Vietnam, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bot-It — Online automation for everyone. Let Bot-It automatically complete your online tasks.
Allstar — Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports highlights.
Glove Wrap — Glove Wrap is a latex-free, thermoplastic elastomer band with the precise thickness, width, and length required to break in and shape your complete baseball glove while making the ideal pocket. Wrapping your glove with Glove Wrap applies pressure to the glove, reshaping it for easy use.

Jussi Salovaara - Co-founder and Managing Partner Asia @ Antler

Investment focus

Apps, Retail, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed
Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Siftee — Siftee (formerly Ocean) is a data and research marketplace where you can search, validate and download specific insights from over 50,000 free and paid data sources, down to the metadata level.Founded by ex-McKinsey and Salesforce executives, their vision is to help consultants and analysts become more productive and improve the quality of theirinsights.Siftee is still in an incubation stage and focusing on developing and refining the product and go-to-market proposition
Fika — Fika is a dating and social networking platform empowered by Artificial Intelligence, focusing on female users in Asia. Fika focuses on the most fundamental values: growth, authenticity, and equal benefits for all users, to optimize the dating experience and social connections to the highest quality!
Peddlr — Peddlr is a free POS mobile app for small businesses. Effortlessly track and manage your sales, expenses, inventory, and transactions. Use it anytime, anywhere, and even offline!

Sean Mulryan is an Irish property developer, and the founder chairman, and CEO of the Ballymore Group, a Dublin-based international property development company.Sean Mulryan is an Irish property developer, and the founder and chairman and CEO of the Ballymore Group, a Dublin-based international property development company. He was named on theEstates Gazette 2017 'Power List', which lists the 50 most powerful individuals in Britain's commercial real estate sector.

Investment focus

Seed
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

MODMO — MODMO creates zero-emission personal transport vehicles for dynamic movement around urban areas.

Sanjeev Barnwal is Founder and CTO at Meesho.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
India, Kenya, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
Pep — Learn live & buy digital products with lifetime recording at affordable price
Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.

Mark Groves

Investment focus

Consumer, Consumer Goods, Social Entrepreneurship
Seed
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

EQUO — Sugarcane Utensils & Plastic-Free Drinking Straws by EQUO. Plastic-free without soggy paper straws or cleaning brushes! Our single-use straws & utensils decompose in months, not centuries. 100% Compostable and made out of natural materials like grass, rice, coconut, sugarcane and coffee. Visit for more!

Madeleine Magnerius is a Vice President at EQT Partners.

Investment focus

B2B, Dating, Recycling
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, Germany, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Vara — Vara develops a breast cancer screening platform powered by AI for radiologists, allowing them to focus on finding cancer early. While we provide. Vara also provides remote mammography reading services to those that lack the radiologists. Vara's mission is to make affordable diagnostics available all over the world by designing machinelearning-powered workflows that users love to work with.
Circulate — Find the best packaging for you and the planet in our marketplace
Fika — Fika is a dating and social networking platform empowered by Artificial Intelligence, focusing on female users in Asia. Fika focuses on the most fundamental values: growth, authenticity, and equal benefits for all users, to optimize the dating experience and social connections to the highest quality!

Charles-Edouard Bouée is the CEO of Roland Berger. He is a seasoned expert in reorganization, post-merger projects and integration programs, as well as performance improvement, and specializes in disruptive innovation, new technologies and digital transformation.Charles-Edouard Bouée joined Roland Berger in 2001 as Senior Partner in the Parisoffice, where he headed the Financial Services and Energy & Utility Competence Centers. He became the Managing Partner of Roland Berger’s China office in 2006 and Head of the Asia Leadership Team in 2009.He then assumed responsibility for France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Morocco. He has since fulfilled consulting mandates for leading international companies and organizations based in Europe, Asia and elsewhere. Charles-Edouard Bouée was appointed COO in July 2013 and elected CEO of Roland Berger in June 2014.Charles-Edouard Bouée has authored various books on modern management and China, as well as Artificial Intelligence.

Investment focus

AgTech, CleanTech, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, France, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

xRapid — xRapid is a mobile health diagnosis through disruptive solutions leveraging the use of artificial intelligence. xRapid is a Biotech startup based in Aix en Provence (France), London (Uk), and Las Vegas. xRapid saw its beginnings in a laboratory in Jakarta. Their CTO, Professor David Mendels, recognized that he was able to develop a mobilesolution for malaria diagnosis after attending a conference. Since then he has created xRapid, a powerful automated test that can be deployed anywhere in the field and has the potential to spot other diseases from tuberculosis to gonorrhea.
PaySika — PaySika is a financial technology startup developing mobile and web-based banking solutions for French-speaking African countries.
INTERSTELLAR LAB — autonomous modules for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space

Mirza Uddin - Head of Business Development @ Injective

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, Trading Platform
Seed, Funding Round
Vietnam, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kibo Finance — Kibo Finance provides borderless options trading with fair pricing and better rewards.
Summoners Arena — Summoners Arena is an idle-RPG blockchain-based game that integrates traditional and blockchain gaming to provide countless opportunities for players to take part in immersive gameplay, experience true ownership over gaming assets whilst earning crypto assets.

Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
Cocunat — Cocunat is a natural and 100% toxic free cosmetics brand.
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.

Jonathan is the Founder of Torch Capital. A long time entrepreneur and investor, he has spent his career at the intersection of the media, technology and entertainment industries. He is the Co-Founder of digital media company InsideHook and has spent a decade as an active early stage investor and advisor to a number of New York and LA's topstart-ups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cityrow Go — Cityrow Go is a rowing-based fitness app for smartphones or tablets. It offers rowing classes programmed to deliver an effective, efficient, and motivating workout to the at-home user. It was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, United States.
Lobos 1707 — Developed over the course of five centuries, Lobos 1707 Tequila is the continuing legacy of jimadors, crafters, and contributors from around the world. Founded by Diego Osorio, a descendent of the original family line, Lobos Tequila welcomes you into the pack and invites you to craft your legacy.
Jane Technologies — Jane Technologies is a cannabis retail tech company that provides its consumers with a confident, safe and simple shopping experience. Users can browse local products in real-time, compare by price, proximity or popularity and place orders at local stores for free. Jane partners with dispensaries on a win-win basis; stores only pay for completedorders at a fraction of the price of other industry software.

I am entrepreneur and operator. In the past, I co-Founded and sold Vitrue to Oracle for $300 M. I also co-Founded and sold Black Bag Advertising to WPP for $14 M. I was also on the founding team At Flycast Network which had an IPO and was later acquired for $2.2 B. I am currently an angel investor with company exists totaling over $1 B so far.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

ByteBrew — Trusted by over 2500 Game Developers! ByteBrew is the world's most powerful all-in-one game analytics platform that houses all your mobile game's analytics, retention, monetization tracking, player progression, remote configs, a/b testing, custom event tracking and attribution measurement in one lightweight SDK - all 100% free.
HYPOTHETIC — Hypothetic builds technology and tools to benefit 3D creators. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Axie Infinity — Axie Infinity is a game about collecting and raising fantasy creatures called Axie, on the Ethereum platform. Besides collecting and raising, you can make a team of Axies to battle in the arena. You can also buy, sell, and trade Axies with others on the marketplace.

David Ma

Investment focus

Health Care, Marketplace
Seed
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Docosan — Docosan is a tech startup on a mission to improve access to quality healthcare for people in emerging markets. Our digital marketplace lets patients compare healthcare providers across a wide range of specialties, book appointments online 24/7, chat with primary care assistants, and manage their own health data for free. Docosan offersproviders an easy mechanism to manage patients and massively expand their client base. The Docosan platform is currently available in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam.The Docosan platform improves access to primary healthcare, coordination of care, and generates public health data. Our platform is HIPAA-compliant and our data management system uses HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), DICOM, and other internationally-recognized protocols to ensure that health records we maintain are portable across many different types of electronic health record (EHR) systems. We're dedicated to improving healthcare for Vietnamese people. Check us out!

Jian Wang was the Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba from August 2012 to May 2015.

Investment focus

Travel, Leisure, Tourism
Series A
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Vntrip.vn — Vntrip is an e-commerce company established by investors from Vietnam and Hong Kong, aiming to build and develop the largest and most modern online portal in the field of tourism in Vietnam.With the desire to bring travelers enjoyable and comfortable, Vietnam Vntrip Travel Company Limited has two major missions: "Hotel Booking" and"Hotel Solution".Booking is made at the website: vntrip.vn Together with the basic functions, the update will help customers operate simple and convenient with the best hotel booking service in over 4000 hotels across the land. Vietnamese territory. With Vntrip, customers will be consulted and supported 24/7 to use modern online services, perfect, save time, cost with many incentive programs, gratitude customers. Simple to operate, easy access, stable cost, take advantage of time, booking anywhere is what customers will feel when choosing to book at Vntrip.Vntrip is also a close companion of the hotel, providing software solutions for hotels with outstanding features and leading in technology. We will maximize revenue and optimize the online sales process for hotels with the goal of making a breakthrough in the travel industry with a new approach from technology adoption and development strategy. strong. In addition, Vntrip is also a channel to promote the image of the hotel perfectly, attracting customers on the objective criteria, giving customers the most honest view of the hotel, at the same time Hotel name beyond expectations.Vntrip is headquartered in Hanoi, in a modern office with open spaces that are easy to inspire anyone who comes to the company. We proudly own a young, dynamic and energetic team, we are burning together on the road to conquer the technological peak.As a "comprehensive travel guide", Vntrip hopes to be a close friend of travelers on all roads.

Sofia joined Index in April 2018. She spends time in the Nordics and The Netherlands, and focuses on investments in consumer internet and marketplace businesses across all stages. Prior to joining Index, Sofia was an investor at EQT Ventures in Stockholm. Sofia is a graduate of the London School of Economics (M.Sc. Management) and of the Universityof Edinburgh (M.A.), where she graduated at the top of her class.

Investment focus

Gaming, Dating, Mobile
Seed
Sweden, Turkey, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Atlar — Atlar’s platform lets businesses automate all of their payment activities – including initiating transfers, reconciling transactions, and handling direct debits – directly with their existing bank partners.The Stockholm-based company was founded in 2022 by Johannes Elgh, Joel Wägmark and Joel Nordström who were previously early team members atTink (acquired by Visa for $2.2bn). Atlar is backed by Index Ventures – a firm that has previously backed category defining companies such as Adyen, Revolut, Figma, and many more.Backed by world-class investors, we help great tech companies such as Banxware, Mynt, and Lassie automate their bank payments.
Fika — Fika is a dating and social networking platform empowered by Artificial Intelligence, focusing on female users in Asia. Fika focuses on the most fundamental values: growth, authenticity, and equal benefits for all users, to optimize the dating experience and social connections to the highest quality!
Cradle — Design better proteins

Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
Gilion (Formerly Ark Kapital) — Ark Kapital is a precision financing company that empowers technology businesses to grow faster, enables owners to maintain control, and reduces risk for investors. ArK is founded by a world-class AI technology developer, a six-time-founder, and the veteran banker you always wanted.
Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.

President & COO of 100 Thieves.

Investment focus

Gaming, Computer, Blockchain
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!
Fast Break Labs — Fast Break Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that's building the future of sports gaming and entertainment.
Bright Star Studios — Publisher of Ember Sword. We build zero-friction next-gen social MMOs that empower gamers through open player-centric-economies based on digital collectibles.

David Su is the Founding Managing Partner at Matrix Partners China.

Investment focus

Railroad, Logistics, Transportation
Funding Round
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

LOGIVAN — LOGIVAN (LOGIVAN Technologies Pte) is a Vietnamese technology company.LOGIVAN develops technology solutions to help businesses find and manage trucks online.LOGIVAN connects a network of thousands of reliable trucks to meet all vehicle needs, anytime, anywhere at competitive prices.LOGIVAN 's mission is to digitize the trucking industry,creating a technological foundation to provide a high-quality automatic matching system, saving Logistics costs for all Vietnamese businesses, increasing supply chains Through connecting fragmented and fragmented logistics facilities, improving the capacity of logistics service providers through technology.LOGIVAN was established to create a solution for the big problem of road transport: How can there be no empty container trucks and vans after delivery? Current situation of Logistics costs in Vietnam is 3 times higher than Singapore. There are many ineffective, costly activities in Vietnam's transport industry, and the purpose of LOGIVAN is to address that crucial point.

Jaewoong Lee is the founder of Daum Communications Corp. which is one of the leading Internet portal service companies in Asia. He also served as CEO of Lycos Inc., which was acquired by Daum in 2004 and also served as CEO of Daum for 12 years since he founded the company in 1995. He is currently a partner at "sopoong" which is asocial venture incubating company focusing on social ventures. Jaewoong also founded and served as CEO of Daum Foundation which is a non-profit focusing on solving media divide problems. He is an entrepreneur interested in social ventures and internet/media industry and he has served as board member of various internet/media companies and non-profits. Jaewoong holds B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science from Yonsei University. He is also one of Young Global Leader from World Economic Forum.

Investment focus

News, SaaS, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Vietnam, South Korea, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Byline — BYLINE is a London-based crowdfunding journalism startup that enables journalists and bloggers to directly reach their readers. Writers can contribute regularly to a particular topic and stand the chance of getting paid per article or per month while interacting with their readers through Supporter’s Café and offer them special rewards to encouragepayment. Byline was founded by Seung Yoon Lee and Daniel Tudor in January 2007 and is based in London, England.
Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
Cohost AI — Cohost Club is a community of professional co-hosts and busy hosts. Thousands of co-hosts around the world can help manage your properties and short term rental business. Download our app and start renting today

Peter Hoang is the Founder & CEO of Finblox - the easiest place to earn yield on the crypto assets and grow your wealth.He previously Co-Founded Gotrade - a commission-free stock trading platform enabling anyone in the world to invest in fractional US stocks. He is also a former Founder | Product Designer & App Developer at Space JumpStudios and Co-Founder of VietLinked Global Group.

Investment focus

Gaming, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Vietnam, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Nest Wallet — Nest Wallet is a wallet created exclusively for traders, and all wallets are linked across mobile and extension.
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps

Luke Vigeant is the chief product officer and co-founder of tilr.

Investment focus

Consumer, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed
Canada, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

EQUO — Sugarcane Utensils & Plastic-Free Drinking Straws by EQUO. Plastic-free without soggy paper straws or cleaning brushes! Our single-use straws & utensils decompose in months, not centuries. 100% Compostable and made out of natural materials like grass, rice, coconut, sugarcane and coffee. Visit for more!
Mayday — Time is your most valuable asset. Make sure you're spending it wisely.

Jeff Hohner President at Tecumseh Capital Ltd.

Investment focus

Consumer, Consumer Goods, Social Entrepreneurship
Seed
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

EQUO — Sugarcane Utensils & Plastic-Free Drinking Straws by EQUO. Plastic-free without soggy paper straws or cleaning brushes! Our single-use straws & utensils decompose in months, not centuries. 100% Compostable and made out of natural materials like grass, rice, coconut, sugarcane and coffee. Visit for more!

Kun Gao joined GGWP as Co-Founder, President & COO.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Online Games
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Taiwan, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.

Alex Svanevik is a Co-Founder & CEO of Nansen.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Finance
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Vietnam, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Loop Crypto — Learn how to accept crypto payments. Loop Crypto makes it easy to turn on crypto autopay so that any subscription or SaaS business can accept crypto.
Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
Lighthouse Labs — Lighthouse is the open metaverse navigation engine. Discover places, friends, experiences and events across the spatial web.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Lim Tai Tian

Investment focus

Sustainability, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
Pre-Seed
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

BUYO Bioplastics — BUYO provides a 100% nature-based and biodegradable bioplastic solution, using our advanced proprietary technology to convert bio-waste and plant-based materials into...

Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

Peakflo — Streamline your finance process with Peakflo's AP & AR automation software. Automate bill payments & invoice collections for better cashflow. Get a demo now!
Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.

Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng is a President at Summit Media. Attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Philippines, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Edamama — Shop online for mama and baby essentials. Enjoy free shipping with minimum spend of P1,500. Buy online now!
Otis AI — Otis is the first AI-powered virtual assistant that helps run and optimize your digital marketing cross-platform, at scale and at a budget that works for your business.
VAMA — VAMA is a one-stop virtual platform that provides easy access to e-pujas, e-darshans, and astrology services, to devotees from across India and the world.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Love, Audacity, Flow, Spirit, Command, Tend– my life in words over the course of a six year period.What a journey it’s been to send sweet invitations to my life, one word at a time. In the years that I’ve been committing to this ritual of calling in my word, it dawned on me that life is so delicious when we approach it with curiosity and play.It’s not to say that life will always be easy but having a word to lean on, to share with others and to have others mirror my word back to me has been an eye opening and transformative experience.I find solace in my word and lest I forget to connect with it, it reaches out as a dear friend who I haven’t seen in ages. My word has a tendency to seek me out and nudge me. It shows up when I least expect it but when I need it the most. It’s no stranger to synchronicities and that will become so evident to you as soon as you’ve called in your word.

Investment focus

Consumer, Consumer Goods, Social Entrepreneurship
Seed
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

EQUO — Sugarcane Utensils & Plastic-Free Drinking Straws by EQUO. Plastic-free without soggy paper straws or cleaning brushes! Our single-use straws & utensils decompose in months, not centuries. 100% Compostable and made out of natural materials like grass, rice, coconut, sugarcane and coffee. Visit for more!

Fredrik Hjelm co-founded Voi Technology in 2018 with a vision of improving the way people move around congested urban centres by offering fleets of electric scooters as a cleaner, affordable and exhilarating alternative to cars. Prior to Voi, Fredrik founded Guestit, the Nordics’ most successful Airbnb management company, and worked in businessdevelopment for Avito.ru, Russia’s leading - and the world’s third largest – classified advertising site. Fredrik’s entrepreneurial career began at 12 years of age when he ran a number of commercial projects including forestry work (he grew up in rural Sweden), events and website sales.After graduating from high school, he attended the Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, within the intelligence branch of Sweden’s special forces, where he studied Russian and linguistics. He served a total of four years in Moscow in the Defence Attache Office, where he worked as an interpreter and analyst, covering Russia as well as Kazakhstan and Belarus. He went on to study business and economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Pet
Seed, Series A, Angel
Sweden, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.

John Katzman is the founder and CEO of Noodle, which helps almost 30 top US universities use technology raise enrollment and engagement while lowering costs .Prior to that, he founded and ran 2U, which builds online graduate programs with research universities. Prior to that, he founded and ran The Princeton Review, which helped over 50% ofstudents applying to U.S. colleges and universities each year find, get into, and pay for school. Katzman is the co-author of five books, and a frequent lecturer and panelist, and a director of several for- and non-profits, including the National Association of Independent Schools, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools, Renaissance Learning, and American Honors.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Uwill — Uwill incorporates technologies that facilitate best-in-class video and message-based counseling within a secure environment. Uwill’s mission is to expand mental health access and services to colleges by building on technology-enabled models that have been validated in recent years. Uwill modernized and enhanced the current mental health campusofferings by creating a two-sided technology-based platform connecting students with experienced mental health professionals for when the need arises.
Stellic — Stellic provides next generation degree management tools for your entire campus - students, advisors, administrators and leaders - with one goal in mind. A better path to academic success.
Fluent City — Fluent City is a language company that offers online classes in 11 different languages. We're on a mission to help you achieve your language-learning goals by teaching you how to talk about the things you care about most. Our team uses AI and natural language processing technology to provide hyper-relevant content and personalized, engaginglesson plans that help you get fluent faster.

Edward Suh

Investment focus

Financial Services, Mobile Apps, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Kippa — ## Build Setup
Pushas — Buy & Sell Authentic, Brand-New Sneakers From Australia's Favourite Sneaker Store. Widest selection of hype, exclusive sneakers: Air Jordans, Yeezys, Nike, Adidas, Off-Whites & more. AfterPay, Klarna, ZipPay & Laybuy available. 'Authenticity' guarantee on every sneaker purchase or your money back.
Clever Real Estate — We match you with top agents nationwide and help you save. Sellers get full service for just a 1.5% listing fee. Buyers can get cash back after closing.

Alexis Ohanian, born April 24, 1983, is an entrepreneur and investor in Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder and executive chair of reddit, a platform for online communities to share links and have discussions. While he learned his earliest lessons in leadership and web design from his high school Quake 2 clan and Everquest guild, Alexiscontinued his official studies at the University of Virginia, where he met his future co-founder Steve Huffman during freshman year move-in day. This would lead to the founding of reddit, which he recounted along with many lessons for entrepreneurs, in his national bestseller, Without Their Permission.At UVA, Alexis majored in business and history with a minor in German. Though he had originally planned to become an immigration lawyer, he experienced an epiphany in his junior year (while sitting in a Waffle House) that led him to the realization that he didn't want to practice law. Instead he convinced his best friend Steve to start a company with him.The pair traveled to Cambridge, MA during their senior year spring break to hear Paul Graham give a talk titled "How to Start a Startup." After the lecture, Alexis invited Graham out for a drink so he and Steve could pitch Graham on their business idea. Graham agreed, loved the idea, and suggested they apply to a new seed stage venture firm he'd launched called Y Combinator. Alexis and Steve's original plan was to build an infrastructure that would allow people to order food from their cell phones. Though the idea was rejected, Alexis and Steve were invited to join the first class of Y Combinator, on the condition that they'd come up with a new concept. The next idea they pitched to Graham would become reddit.com.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.

Thuc Vu is the co-founder and CEO of OhmniLabs.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Lifestyle
Seed, Angel
Vietnam, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Deverse World — We are building Metaverse solutions, using Unreal Engine & Web3, to host immersive gaming & social experiences.
Tappy PTE. LTD. — Beers, buns, coffee, ice cream, and cocktails - they're the language we like to speak! Send treats to your friends, in just a Tap.

Vidit Aatrey is Founder and CEO at Meesho. He previously worked at InMobi as a Strategy. Vidit Aatrey attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Investment focus

Internet, Education, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, Kenya, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Pep — Learn live & buy digital products with lifetime recording at affordable price
Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
Mesa School of Business — World's first business school built by the startup ecosystem, for the startup ecosystem!

Eric Chen is a Co-Founder and Partner at OVO Fund. Eric previously worked at Uj Ventures as a Founder. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.Eric Chen is an experienced technology investor focusing on early stage Internet and enterprise IT opportunities in the US and China. Eric started Uj Ventures,an angel fund based in Palo Alto formed to incubate and fund seed stage opportunities. Uj Ventures has made 25 investments in technology startups including Palantir, RoboteX, Kiwi Crate, Context Logic and other promising startups. As a partner with venture capital firm WI Harper for five years, Eric led investments in technology companies that spanned both China and the US including ooma, Laszlo, PMC, and EditGrid. He is currently a Venture Partner with WI Harper and an advisor to Matrix Partners China.Eric has a wide-ranging background and is an entrepreneur in his own right. He co-founded an Internet startup, worked as an executive at a high growth technology company, incubated and launched a double bottom line investment fund in DC and pulled all-nighters on Wall Street as an investment banker.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
BrightCrowd — BrightCrowd digital books help schools, companies, and organizations keep their people connected
Cloudastructure — Cloudastructure is the first cloud-based video surveillance platform with AI and computer vision analytics. Learn more about Cloudastructure today!

Magda joined Balderton in 2018. Prior to Balderton, Magda spent three years at Goldman Sachs, where she first worked in the financing group covering Nordics and later moved to the Consumer, Retail & Healthcare M&A team, where she was an associate and worked on a number of Nordic transactions. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Magda was involvedin politics and worked in startups. Magda has an MSc in Business & Economics from Lund University, where she was admitted to the Venture Lab for a one-year entrepreneurship programme. She also studied Business at Copenhagen Business School.

Investment focus

Pet, Dating, Dental
Seed, Series B
Sweden, Vietnam, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

32Co — 32Co is a medical technology platform that helps general dentists deliver clear aligner orthodontics to their patients.
Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
Fika — Fika is a dating and social networking platform empowered by Artificial Intelligence, focusing on female users in Asia. Fika focuses on the most fundamental values: growth, authenticity, and equal benefits for all users, to optimize the dating experience and social connections to the highest quality!

Holly Liu is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of PKO Investments. She attended the University of California Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Taiwan, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
Blaze — Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications.
Chaos Genius — Chaos Genius is a DataOps Observability tool for reducing Snowflake costs & Snowflake query optimization. Get started on Snowflake Observability for free.

Eric Chen is a Co-Founder and Partner at OVO Fund. Eric previously worked at Uj Ventures as a Founder. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.Eric Chen is an experienced technology investor focusing on early stage Internet and enterprise IT opportunities in the US and China. Eric started Uj Ventures,an angel fund based in Palo Alto formed to incubate and fund seed stage opportunities. Uj Ventures has made 25 investments in technology startups including Palantir, RoboteX, Kiwi Crate, Context Logic and other promising startups. As a partner with venture capital firm WI Harper for five years, Eric led investments in technology companies that spanned both China and the US including ooma, Laszlo, PMC, and EditGrid. He is currently a Venture Partner with WI Harper and an advisor to Matrix Partners China.Eric has a wide-ranging background and is an entrepreneur in his own right. He co-founded an Internet startup, worked as an executive at a high growth technology company, incubated and launched a double bottom line investment fund in DC and pulled all-nighters on Wall Street as an investment banker.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
BrightCrowd — BrightCrowd digital books help schools, companies, and organizations keep their people connected
Cloudastructure — Cloudastructure is the first cloud-based video surveillance platform with AI and computer vision analytics. Learn more about Cloudastructure today!

Jack Tai - CEO/Co-Founder @ OneClass

Investment focus

Consumer, Consumer Goods, Social Entrepreneurship
Seed
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

EQUO — Sugarcane Utensils & Plastic-Free Drinking Straws by EQUO. Plastic-free without soggy paper straws or cleaning brushes! Our single-use straws & utensils decompose in months, not centuries. 100% Compostable and made out of natural materials like grass, rice, coconut, sugarcane and coffee. Visit for more!

Le Hoang Lan

Investment focus

Sustainability, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
Pre-Seed
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

BUYO Bioplastics — BUYO provides a 100% nature-based and biodegradable bioplastic solution, using our advanced proprietary technology to convert bio-waste and plant-based materials into...