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Top 50 B2B Angel Investors in Asia in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in B2b startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in B2b companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 B2B Angel Investors in Asia in November 2024

Investor	B2B Asia investments
Sanjay Uppal	4
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen	2
Sujeet Kumar	2
Binny Bansal	2
Charles Xue	1
Weihan Liew	1
Evan Davidson	1
Nuseir Yassin	1
Phong Mai Thanh	1
Amit Midha	1
Dylan Field	1
Willy Arifin	1
Vinod Muthukrishnan	1
Venkat Tadanki	1
Shahjahan Jewel	1
Patrick Walujo	1
William Hockey	1
Sean Chong	1
Anh Nguy Xuan	1
Doug Parker	1
Bob Xiaoping Xu	1
Edvard Engesæth	1
Kotaro Chiba	1
Arnout Wagenaar	1
Michael Sampoerna	1
Matt Caspari	1
Anand Chandrasekaran	1
Lannan Neville Eacott	1
Kevin Aluwi	1
Hugo Barra	1
Ritesh Agarwal	1
Vaibhav Gupta	1
Frank Li	1
Ratan Tata	1
Ryan Petersen	1
Anand Swaminathan	1
Moses Lo	1
Aakrit Vaish	1
Andy Preikschat	1
James Park	1
Aneesh Reddy	1
Miten Sampat	1
Seung Yoon Lee	1
Chase Lochmiller	1
Jason Tsai	1
Virginia Cha	1
Eduardo Vivas	1
Amod Malviya	1
Ganesh S. Lakshminarayanan	1
Deep Nishar	1

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Sanjay Uppal is the Founder & CEO of Singapore-based AI-envisioned fintech, Finbots.AI (www.finbots.ai). Founded in 2017, the firm was recognised among ‘Top 10 FinTechs in Singapore’ at the MAS Fintech Awards 2020. Finbots.AI’s Vision is to “Develop transformational products that accelerate Innovation in Financial Institutions”. The firm’sfounders bring together their extensive global experience in financial services & leading technologies such as AI, ML & advanced analytics to develop innovative solutions that overcome complex challenges facing FIs globally.Sanjay brings over 25 years' experience in financial services with global and regional banks in leadership and board roles & in advising bank boards & management in achieving strategic transformations.In November 2019, Sanjay was recognised by the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SICCI) for “Entrepreneurial Excellence & Outstanding Leadership”.Banking Career – key roles : Group Chief Financial Officer – EmiratesNBD (UAE), Group CFO – Hong Leong Bank (Malaysia), CFO roles in Taiwan, Philippines & UAE at Standard Chartered Bank, and Global Head of Strategy – Wealth Management, Standard Chartered.Education : MBA, MS Physics (IIM Bangalore, India), BE Electrical & Electronics Engineering (BITS Pilani, India), Strategic Financial Leadership Programme (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Banking
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

FinbotsAI — A singapore based AI envisioned fintech certified by Singapore Fintech Association Finbots.AI builds innovative AI-powered products & solutions to help financial institutions become AI-first.

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includes two IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products.  e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
Quantrol Ox — Building Machine Learning Based Software for Quantum Control with a goal to maximise quantum computer uptime.

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
Pizza Wings — Pizza Wings is a pizza brand, known for fresh, high-quality pizzas and more, available for dine-in, takeout, or delivery.
Third Wave Coffee — Third wave coffee is a manufacturer and distributor of easy coffee bags that help to make barista-quality coffee anytime without any equipment. The third wave roasts coffees in small batches and introduce specialty cofee.

Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

OppDoor — Launch your Amazon Brand into Thriving International Markets. OppDoor is a Growth Partner for Amazon Brands.
Leela Life — Timeless Indian wellbeing secrets for peaceful and joyful living
Alltius — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.

Charles Xue, also known as Xue Manzi, is a Chinese-American angel investor and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of UT Starcom and has invested in Chinese internet startups.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Retail
Series A, Angel, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

DeLink (DELC) —
Huaqin Zhilian — Huaqin Zhilian is a manufacturer of smart robot convenience devices in the field of smart retail.
YEUNGS SAGE E-COMMERCE —

Weihan is a serial technology entrepreneur in Southeast Asia with twenty years of experience, having founded and successfully exited companies in the media and gaming space.

Investment focus

B2B, Energy, Retail
Seed, Series A
Pakistan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
Marham - Healthcare Super App — Pakistans most trusted platform to find doctors, book appointment, or consult online with the top specialist doctors across Pakistan.
Conatural Beauty —

Evan Davidson is the Vice President Asia Pacific Japan at SentinelOne. Attended University of Southern Queensland.

Investment focus

B2B, CRM, SaaS
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Nektar.ai — Capture and leverage buying committee data with Nektar.ai. The only scalable solution to enhance reporting in Salesforce and Snowflake, empowering data-driven decisions at every business.

Nuseir Yassin currently works as the CEO for Nas Academy. He previously worked at Venmo as a Software Engineer. Nuseir Yassin attended Harvard University.

Investment focus

SaaS, B2B, B2C
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Israel, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

klikit — Founded in 2021, klikit is a Singapore-based venture helping restaurants across Southeast Asia grow their business. With a first-of-its-kind enterprise technology stack, klikit helps restaurants become far more efficient in food delivery operations, while also connecting restaurants to role-model creators to launch virtual food brands for extrarevenue. This team of 30 led by ex-Gojek, Uber, Twitch, Nike and other alumni is backed by Global Founders Capital, Wavemaker Partners, Uber alumni syndicate Moving Capital, Gojek co-founder Kevin Aluwi, Nuseir Yassin of NasDaily, Radish Fiction Founder Seung-yoon Lee, and more.In its first seven months, klikit has serviced over US$2.8 million in food delivery orders across 150 brands in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, as well as Taiwan and Australia.We’re hiring — join us as we help restaurants take back their power in food delivery! http://bit.ly/joinklikit
Peech — Peech, an automatic video editing tool, analyzes the verbal content of your video, edits it into a short & catchy version and enhances it with suited visual elements that attract your audience.
Virtualness — Virtualness is a mobile-first platform created to assist brands and creators in navigating the challenging Web3 environment. It prioritizes artists and is developing the manual for simple design, effective sharing, and smooth digital commerce.

Associate Professor Mai Thanh Phong is the president of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from Otto-von-Guericke Magdeburg, Germany. Mr. Phong is also director of the Center for Enterprise Technology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and is very enthusiastic about creative start-ups.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Internet
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Gcalls — Gcalls is the integrated call center management solution that helps micro, small and medium businesses to optimize resource in digitally transforming a call center for upgrading sales' or service's capacity. Businesses will not invest money to buy hard phone, physical infrastructure and fixed landline. Businesses will not face withdifficulties in hiring and managing right engineers to set up and maintain a complex system. Gcalls' strong engineering team has set up and maintain a huge system that is separated to serve millions of businesses. It opens the globalization of business by decentralizing sales and service through hiring local native workers who use Gcalls' mobile/web-based applications to serve local native customers . The incredible thing is Gcalls is designed to easily integrate and adapt with any management information system software that help business to plug and play Gcalls for better customer experience.

Amit Midha leads the Commercial business of Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region for Dell Technologies, responsible for Sales, Business Strategy and Development, Operations, Marketing, and Government engagement throughout the region. Amit has been with Dell for 21 years and has held various leadership positions in sales, marketing and corporatestrategy organizations in the Americas and APJ regions. Previously, he served as the president of APJ from 2012 to 2016 and APJ Consumer, Small and Medium Business from 2010 to 2012. He was also president of Greater China from 2006. Prior to joining Dell, Amit worked for Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company, in Mumbai, India. Amit has been recognized for his contributions to China and the information technology industry on a number of occasions. He was honored in 2013 with the Magnolia Gold Award for his outstanding contributions to the city of Shanghai. He currently sits on the advisory board of Binhai district, city of TianJin and Chengdu Overseas Advisory Committee for the Chengdu Investment Promotion Commission. Amit is also a senior consultant for the Chengdu Government, Sichuan province. He is a vice chairman of CAFIE (China Association of Foreign Invested Enterprises) and a senior member of the advisory board of Xiamen University School of Management. At the 2010 CNBC China Business Leader Awards, Amit received the People’s Choice CEO of the Year Award and was named CEO of the year (IT category) by Bloomberg UTV in 2010. He serves as Director on the first India advisory board of the U.S.-India Business Council, which aims to foster a deeper strategic and economic cooperation between both countries. Amit is also a council member at the Singapore National Employers Federation that focuses on enhancing the flexibility of the labor market and a member of Young Presidents’ Organization, the world’s largest network of peers that connects members to exchange ideas, pursue learning, and share strategies to achieve personal growth and professional success. Amit is committed to helping the youth of today to have a more promising future and actively supports programs that help educate women in cultures where negative biases exist. He sits on the Dell Global Giving Council and Dell Global Diversity Council. He is also on the board of “Project Hope Magazine” sponsored by the CYDF (China Youth Development Foundation) and CYLCC (Communist Youth League (CYL) Central Committee) to bring schools into poverty-stricken rural areas of China. Amit holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia, US, and graduated with a first-class Honors degree in Engineering from the SGS Institute of Technology & Science, Indore, India. Amit resides in China with his wife and two children.

Investment focus

B2B, Personal Health, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Nektar.ai — Only in-depth unified contact and activity capture solution that assures CRM data completeness with best-in-class accuracy, offering a true view of buyer coverage and pipeline progression.
OneAssure — Oneassure has best options to buy health insurance plan in India. Our best insurance plan that fits your personal needs that you needed.
NirogStreet — NirogStreet is a technology-enabled and doctor-led community commerce platform to streamline the supply chain of Ayurvedic services and medicine so that doctors are able to deliver better healthcare to their patients.

Dylan Field is the CEO / Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Campus.edu — Campus.edu is a community college focused on maximizing access to world-class education.
Campus — Live courses with top professors.
SPREAD — SPREAD create digital product perception like no machine understood before – less artificial, more intelligent!

Will Arifin is a co-founder and chairman of KoinWorks. He has a dream to make financial inclusion soon to be happened in Indonesia. Through KoinWorks, he create products that makes everyone has the same chance to get financial access.

Investment focus

Financial Services, B2B, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Dedoco — Trusted credentials and documents workflow
SkorLife — Download Skorlife App now and check your credit score online for free! Take control, own, and see how Banks see your data only in a matter of seconds.
Lista — Manage your cash flow, maximize business potential and grow your business with Lista. Download now for FREE!

Vinod Muthukrishnan is a Co-founder of Cloud Cherry Pte Ltd. in 2014 and has been its Chief Executive Officer since 2016.Vinod Muthukrishnan serves as Vice-President of Strategy and Partnerships at Market Simplified Inc. Vinod Muthukrishnan is a highly actionable analytics and insight to Customer Facing businesses real time. Over time Cloudcherrywill change the way brands engage with customers, make a lot of Vinod obsolete and tell businesses the causative drivers for customer retention, loyalty and recurrence.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
Seed
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

inFeedo — InFeedo is a SaaS-based people predictive analytics company that is helping over 100 enterprises, such as GE, Puma, Kotak, Tata, Airtel, redefine employee engagement. It is currently focused on its flagship product Amber, an artificial intelligence-enabled bot that helps CHROs manage employee engagement, predict attrition, and measure companyculture in real-time. Amber connects with employees across organizations to collect actionable insights for HR, in order to enhance employee engagement, curb potential attrition, and gain a real-time sense of overall sentiment. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.
Outplay — Outplay is an all-in-one multi-channel sales engagement platform that helps sales teams close more deals and significantly increase their revenue.
Nektar.ai — Capture and leverage buying committee data with Nektar.ai. The only scalable solution to enhance reporting in Salesforce and Snowflake, empowering data-driven decisions at every business.

Venkat Tadanki sis the founder, CEO, and board member at Secova.

Investment focus

B2B, Food Delivery, Information Technology
Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cookifi — Looking for the best Catering Services in Bangalore for your HouseWarming, Wedding Function, Parties, Special Occasions, Kitty Party, Birthday Party, Bbq Party, Corporate Events? Extensive Menu & Customisable Catering options to choose from the best quotes. For more details call us today!
Spacejoy — Design a home you'll love with Spacejoy's online interior design services. Work 1:1 with top interior designers and transform any space in just 7 days! Get started today.
Nektar.ai — Capture and leverage buying committee data with Nektar.ai. The only scalable solution to enhance reporting in Salesforce and Snowflake, empowering data-driven decisions at every business.

Md Shahjahan Jewel Chief Executive Officer at WPMangeNinja LLC

Investment focus

B2B, B2C, Grocery
Angel, Pre-Seed
Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Green Grocery — Green Grocery burst on the scene back in 2020 with a slogan - Quality That You Can Trust, Today the customers - most of who have turned into repeat customers with appreciation and love, publicly admire Green Grocery’s integrity and living up to its slogan. Green Grocery has brought you a wide array of products - rice of different types, handpickedfoods, ingredients, spices sourced from where they are produced best, oil, ghee, pickle, and more which have grown fondness among foodies for creating exotic explosions of flavor. Foods contaminated by unseen woes - harmful viruses, toxins, bacteria, parasites, and chemicals can leave our organs damaged, the body dysfunctional and our lives grappling with formidable challenges. However, these risks can be eliminated with a stringent food safety management system that can ensure the quality, safety, and nutrient value of food from the very beginning, when it’s in the early stage of farming. The trust Green Grocery has successfully built owes immensely to its close supervision and filtration system during the course of its products’ journey - farming, packaging, storing, delivery. Eating right is indispensable to stay strong and have a happy and normal life. Green Grocery has set a new norm by continuously delivering foods of the best quality with their safety and hygiene ensured. Checkout Green Grocery Website: https://greengrocery.com.bd
Protein Market — Protein Market is an agrotech startup that provides safe protein products to B2B and B2C customers and aims to build a safe and organic food chain and farming networks.

Patrick Walujo - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Northstar Group

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Farming
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ula — Ula is an Indonesia-focused marketplace app that uses technology to modernize distribution and credit in traditional retail. Its B2B marketplace provides small retailers competitive pricing, wide and accessible variety and favourable payment terms, all at the push of a button.The company leverages the power of technology to level the playingfield for small retailers. Its ambitious and diverse team builds innovative solutions, addressing major pain points around supply chain and financial services to keep its retailers competitive in today's digital age.
Qapita — Qapita is a market leader in India & SEA built to automate workflows around equity management process for CapTables, ESOPs, Due-diligence, and Transactions.
GajiGesa — GajiGesa is the preferred financial wellness partner for employers in Indonesia. GajiGesa's powerful fintech platform is built to help millions of hardworking Indonesians take control of their financial lives with dignity. The GajiGesa app provides member employees with earned wage access, financial education, and other financial managementtools to improve their long-term financial health responsibly. It also empowers employer partners with an enterprise-grade HR analytics platform to improve employee productivity, engagement, and retention by reducing financial stress for their teams. The company has seen 12x growth since January with more large enterprises keen to embrace this financial wellness solution. And we have doubled our overall enterprise customer base in the last quarter and now partner with 60+ companies, serving tens of thousands of employees. Based on GajiGesa’s most recent survey, for employers that partner with GajiGesa, over 75% of their employees have stopped using informal lenders for short term needs because our EWA solution gives them the financial security they need under the purview of the employer. GajiGesa is also increasingly popular for employees that have micro-businesses at home. They often use GajiGesa and use their salary as working capital rather than turning to informal lenders. Health related expenses is another common reason for GajiGesa usage. In early May, the company launched GajiTim, Southeast Asia’s first employee management app for MSMEs and SMEs to manage their workforce efficiently bringing transparency in income tracking and salary calculation. The app is aimed at businesses with between 5 to 100 workers and has gained more than 50,000 active users since it was launched in mid-March. This latest product innovation supercharges GajiGesa’s effort to expand financial resilience - establishing greater transparency in employee management as well as creating a holistic and meaningful integrated employee benefits solution for businesses of all sizes and their employees.The company was founded in 2020 by Martyna Malinowska (formerly Product Lead at Standard Chartered Bank, Product Director at LenddoEFL) and Vidit Agarwal (formerly Head of Business Development APAC at Stripe, COO at CARRO, and first employee at Uber in Asia). The company is Headquartered in Jakarta with a distributed team also based in India and Singapore. GajiGesa announced a US$2.5 million Seed round in February (led by Defy.vc and Quest Ventures) and an undisclosed growth round in early May from additional strategic investors including OCBC NISP Ventura, the Founders of Kopi Kenangan, and other Indonesian investors and family offices.

William Hockey is the Co-CEO of Column. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
Maza — Maza is a mobile app that offers financial products and digital banking services.
Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.

Sean Chong is an individual investor.

Investment focus

B2B, Travel, Hospitality
Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Trip Affiliates Network — At Trip Affiliates Network, we provide hospitality and travel solutions to increase your direct bookings and operation efficiency.

Education & Training Achievement2008: Certification of Marketing Manager in Vietnam - certified by Vietnam Marcom Institute2012: Certification of Manager Training Program in Germany - certified by GIZ/ The German Ministry of Economy and Energy2015: Certification of Innovation and Entrepreneur in Israel - certified by the IsraelMinistry of Foreign Affairs 2016: Certification of Family Business Management in Japan - certified by HIDA/ Human Industry and Development Association of Japan2016: Certification of Leadership by Training and Mentoring in Vietnam - certified by Vietnamworks - Navigos Group and ITD World2018: Certification of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management in Japan - Certified by The Association for Oversea Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnership (AOTS)

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Internet
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Gcalls — Gcalls is the integrated call center management solution that helps micro, small and medium businesses to optimize resource in digitally transforming a call center for upgrading sales' or service's capacity. Businesses will not invest money to buy hard phone, physical infrastructure and fixed landline. Businesses will not face withdifficulties in hiring and managing right engineers to set up and maintain a complex system. Gcalls' strong engineering team has set up and maintain a huge system that is separated to serve millions of businesses. It opens the globalization of business by decentralizing sales and service through hiring local native workers who use Gcalls' mobile/web-based applications to serve local native customers . The incredible thing is Gcalls is designed to easily integrate and adapt with any management information system software that help business to plug and play Gcalls for better customer experience.

Doug Parker is nuTonomy's COO, leading the Singapore office and the company's fundraising efforts. He joined nuTonomy from McKinsey & Company, where he was an Associate Partner in the product development and private equity practices. He has an MBA from INSEAD.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Software, B2B
Seed
Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
VFlow Tech — VFlowTech is a Singapore based company that aims to produce the world's best Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries to the power the sustainable future with pure renewable energy.
Tessaract.io — Tessaract.io is a no-code workflow automation platform that helps companies track and manage various workflows, such as project tasks, sales leads, customer relationships, and accounting.

Bob Xiaoping Xu is the founder of ZhenFund and one of China's most celebrated angel investors. Established in 2011 as a joint fund with Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund is China’s foremost angel fund. Managing USD 600 million, ZhenFund has 500 portfolio companies and offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Palo Alto. It has played a leading role inChina’s rise as a “startup nation”, and is widely considered a beacon of light in China’s vibrant startup environment. Prior to founding ZhenFund, Mr. Xu co-founded China's largest private English training and test preparation group, New Oriental Education, along with Michael Yu and Victor Wang. New Oriental became listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006 and currently has a market cap of USD 11 billion. The founders’ endeavors, which helped drive Chinese education toward a new global era, was featured in the box office hit “American Dreams in China”. The movie ranked as the #3 Chinese domestic box office hit in 2013. Mr. Xu’s success as an educator and an entrepreneur led him to angel investing, where he has pioneered a unique investment philosophy of investing in exceptional people. He became one of the most prolific patrons of entrepreneurship, as well as a leading mentor to young business leaders. Forbes Magazine has honored him on the Midas List as one of the World’s Top 100 Venture Capital Investors for two consecutive years (2016 and 2017). Mr. Xu currently serves as the Chairman of China Angel Investment Association. Mr. Xu has more than 11 million followers on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. He is also a prolific author who has published seven books on career growth and education. His writings, speeches and interviews on entrepreneurship, investment and education have had an immense impact on China’s emerging business leaders, and particularly on those who have studied abroad. He is the president of Committee 2005, an institution that gathers the most influential Chinese overseas returnees, including the likes of Robin Li, Neil Shen and Lee Kai-fu. Mr. Xu is deeply committed to philanthropy. He is a founding donor and the Committee Acting President of the Future Science Award, an annual award of USD 1 million for scientists who have made significant contributions to life sciences and physical sciences in Greater China. Mr. Xu graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, the Chinese equivalent of Julliard School of Music, with a bachelor’s degree in music. He received his master’s degree in music from the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to that he was a counsellor at Peking University for five years.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

YOTA — YOTA provides a healthy and diet food delivery service.
Lagou — Lagou.com offers staffing services. The company’s clientele includes Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Group, SINA, JD.com, Beijing Xiaomi Tech, and Zhaopin.com.
Omni Prime — Omni Prime provides Lending as a Service solution to retailers.

Founder at Nurx

Investment focus

SaaS, B2B, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Greece, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
Breyta — Gather all your qualitative data and our AI assistant transcribes, analyses and delivers you accurate product insights and patterns at scale in seconds.
Journey Clinical — Journey Clinical is a platform that provides services to member psychotherapy practices that are independently owned and operated, and in no way owns, directs, or controls the mental healthcare clinicians providing care.

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

Investment focus

Internet, Drones, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Arnout Wagenaar is the Chief Strategy Officer at Cargobase.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Software
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Cargobase — Cargobase TMS is a transportation and freight management system that increases control and visibility & maintains compliance to industry standards. Learn more.

Michael Sampoerna

Investment focus

Software, B2B, AgTech
Seed, Funding Round
Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
Gajiku — Gajiku is a technology platform that seeks to financially empower the masses.
Aria — Aria Indonesia offering the tech-solution for agriculture, mining, and foresty to enchance product quality efficiently in the fastest way.

Managing Partner at Strawberry Creek Ventures, an Alumni Ventures fund. AngelList syndicate lead. 2x venture-backed founder/CEO. Former Innovation @ Nike

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Clover — Clover lets you explode traditional, linear documents into an infinite "surface" for a more intuitive, visual way of note-taking, brainstorming, mind-mapping, and managing tasks.
Cabinet Health — Cabinet Health is a sustainable healthcare company, starting with over-the-counter medicine. Cabinet sells 30+ OTC medicines and dietary supplements with a focus on environmental sustainability, quality, and personalized care.
The Better Meat Co. — The Better Meat Co. is a B2B ingredients company that offers plug-and-play plant protein formulations that quickly and cost-effectively enhance (or even replace) your meat products while improving nutrition, flavor, and yield.

Anand Chandrasekaran is a Partner at General Catalyst. He previously worked at Facebook and attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
Fold Health — Crafting the building blocks of modern primary care

Lannan Neville Eacott

Investment focus

B2B, B2C, Apps
Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

klikit — Founded in 2021, klikit is a Singapore-based venture helping restaurants across Southeast Asia grow their business. With a first-of-its-kind enterprise technology stack, klikit helps restaurants become far more efficient in food delivery operations, while also connecting restaurants to role-model creators to launch virtual food brands for extrarevenue. This team of 30 led by ex-Gojek, Uber, Twitch, Nike and other alumni is backed by Global Founders Capital, Wavemaker Partners, Uber alumni syndicate Moving Capital, Gojek co-founder Kevin Aluwi, Nuseir Yassin of NasDaily, Radish Fiction Founder Seung-yoon Lee, and more.In its first seven months, klikit has serviced over US$2.8 million in food delivery orders across 150 brands in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, as well as Taiwan and Australia.We’re hiring — join us as we help restaurants take back their power in food delivery! http://bit.ly/joinklikit

Kevin is the CEO of Gojek.

Investment focus

Blockchain, B2B, Video Games
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Argus Labs — Argus Labs is a game developer and publisher built around a collective of hackers and designers in pursuit of the next great paradigm shift in the video game industry. Our mission: Build the Internet of Games.
Dash Electric — Democratizes access to driver as a fleet solutions. Provides a crucial delivery infrastructure for business by leveraging the power of EV.

Technology executive & investor

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Brazil, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.

Aroa Ventures is an investment initiative of Ritesh Agarwal's family office, focused on supporting the startup ecosystem in India. Ritesh is the Founder and Group CEO of OYO Hotels & Homes.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Learning, EdTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Singapore, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Vetic — Vetic is a network of cutting-edge clinics with an emphasis on providing comprehensive pet health care.
Josh Talks — By leveraging our expertise in research and storytelling, we create exclusive content in regional languages to help brands tell their story better and reach their target audience.
Pepper Content — Pepper is a powerful content marketing stack that helps you create high-quality content at speed and scale. Build your dream team and manage all your content on our platform, designed for champions.

Vaibhav Gupta - Co-Founder @ Udaan

Investment focus

B2B, Marketplace, Apps
Seed, Series B
India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Ula — Ula is an Indonesia-focused marketplace app that uses technology to modernize distribution and credit in traditional retail. Its B2B marketplace provides small retailers competitive pricing, wide and accessible variety and favourable payment terms, all at the push of a button.The company leverages the power of technology to level the playingfield for small retailers. Its ambitious and diverse team builds innovative solutions, addressing major pain points around supply chain and financial services to keep its retailers competitive in today's digital age.
Zetwerk — Zetwerk offers high-quality production, globally competitive costs, and unparalleled lead times in every area of manufacturing.

Frank Li is a former at Ameba Capital. CEO of WaCai. Prior to founding Ameba Capital, Mr. Li worked for Alibaba Group, where he focused on website planning and construction. He developed Alibaba’s biggest paying client base and second biggest income product, 1688 CXT. Mr. Li founded Koubei.com in 2004 and acted as CEO. Alibaba Group acquiredKoubei.com for over 50 million US dollars in 2008. Koubei.com merged with Yahoo China before finally merging with Taobao.

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, Internet
Series A, Angel, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

ROM — ROM provides fire safety, health security, management security, and personal safety services.
Dianjia — Dianjia is an IT company specialized in developing retail service platform to provide O2O solutions.
Pumpkin Coach — Pumpkin Coach is an O2O platform that helps users to make online appointments with hairstylists at Pumpkin Coach locations in Shanghai and Hangzhou. The company directly connects hairdressers to customers, facilitating communications, payment, and CRM while maximizing revenues for each hairdresser. Each Pumpkin Coach location features all necessarymachinery, equipment, and supplies.

Heading the Tata Group since 1991, Ratan Tata is the Chairman of Tata Sons, holding company of the Tata Group and major Group companies including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power and more. He is also Chairman of two of the largest private sector promoted philanthropic trusts in India. During his tenure, the Group hasfurther expanded its global reach, with its revenues growing over eleven-fold to around USD$70 billion, after the most recent acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover. Tata joined the Tata Group in December 1962. After serving in various companies, he was appointed the Director-in-Charge of the National Radio & Electronics Company Limited (Nelco) in 1971. In 1981, he was named Chairman of Tata Industries, the Group's other holding company, which he was responsible for transforming into the Group's strategy think-tank and a promoter of new ventures in high-technology businesses. He is associated with many organizations in India and abroad in varying capacities, some of which are the government of India’s Investment Commission, the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry, South Africa’s International Investment Council, several prestigious universities and several philanthropies. Tata received a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1962, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.The government of India honored Tata with one of its highest civilian awards, the Padma Vibhushan, this year.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GOQii — GOQii is headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. It is dedicated to enabling a permanent shift to a healthier lifestyle with the combination of advanced wearable technology, the world's leading experts, coaches and karma. GOQii focuses on sustained engagement & goal reinforcement and offers a complete ecosystem asa single integrated solution, which is a powerful combination of technology and human connection. GOQii is a collaboration of some of the world's leading experts and an amazing management team who are driven by a passion for healthy sustainable living, and who believe that all of us contain boundless potential. GOQii's goal is to enable millions of people across the world to "be the force" by helping them unleash their untapped potential.
Repos energy — Repos energy is a e-commerce of Fuel to move towards a carbon neutral future.
Goodfellows — Goodfellows aims to offer companionship to lonely senior citizens.

Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
TruckSmarter — Our mission is to empower truck drivers lives across the US through technology and grit.
Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.

Anand Swaminathan is the Senior Partner - Leader of McKinsey Digital Asia at McKinsey & Company. Anand Swaminathan attended Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Unifimoney — Unifimoney is an investment and money management app built to simplify, diversify and unify your money management. Manage and grow your wealth effortlessly and in one place. Passive and Active investing, plus alternative assets like Crypto and Precious Metals, a credit card with rewards paid in Bitcoin, Gold, or Equities, and a full suite of banking services. Plus exclusive benefits and offers for customers including student loans with bonuses up to $2,500, mortgages, auto loans, insurance, HSA, and more.
Tessaract.io — Tessaract.io is a no-code workflow automation platform that helps companies track and manage various workflows, such as project tasks, sales leads, customer relationships, and accounting.
BoxMedia — Box Media are a creative media-on-demand production company. Redefining Normal. Reinventing Learning.

Founder and CEO at Xendit

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
Pre-Seed, Series B, Seed
Indonesia, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
Super — Super is the first Indonesian consumer technology company backed by Y Combinator, which oversees the main feature, Superagen. Superagen is agent-led commerce group buying that enables community leaders to become retailers within their communities.We use technology to: 1) Empower community leaders to become self-made entrepreneurs by enabling themto sell various products to their communities2) Build a logistics network with the lowest cost3) Facilitate communication for social-buying behavior so our agents can sell various products through social networks like WhatsApp
Clear Street — Our cloud-native platform gives institutions and active traders better access to capital markets.

Aakrit Vaish is the co-founder and CEO of Haptik, who pioneered the wave of conversational AI starting back in 2013. Today, Haptik is one of the world's largest companies in the space with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Singapore, and clients that include names such as KFC, Starhub, Zurich Insurance, Ola Cabs, Hotstar, Oyo Rooms,Kotak Life. In April 2019, Reliance Industries acquired the majority shareholding in the company in a $100 million transaction, making Haptik one of the highest valued AI companies globally. Outside of Haptik, Aakrit is an investor in startups in the areas of consumer/consumer tech and B2B SaaS. Notable investments include Unacademy (valued at >$200 million), Pepper Content, Park+, Flat White Capital, Third Wave Coffee, Ayoconnect, Boxhub, Dataweave, Haikujam (Ligthtbox backed), Flatchat (sold to Commonfloor in 2014), Tookitaki, Dil Mil, Ayopop, iON Energy, Talent Litmus, among others.Prior to Haptik,Aakrit was an early member of the team at Flurry, one of the world's largest mobile analytics and advertising platforms, acquired by Yahoo in 2014. Aakrit received his BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and was named as a contender to the Forbes India 30 under 30 list in 2015.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, Canada, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Creativefuel — Priorities brands should use Meme MarketingThis appropriate engagement that meme marketing brings out of the major reason why brands should use our meme marketing to advertise with us. Let’s target more folded advantages that Meme Marketing will have over any of its relative threshold counterparts.Here are 4 reasons why many advertisingbrands should use meme marketing over other basic methods of advert:1. Meme’s deliver by creative fuel out staged campaign eternal proven better engage rate than promoted avert on a social media If you, done a paid campaign to engage your result page, to optimized your ad result but, always track’ when you look at the engagement result and stats.2. If you are meme jacking do enclosed a disclaimer for your event, have an advantage over any other creatives that you always make a creative. Reason: The meme is already viral and ensures engaged you sour if you put your message through it in the right manner (WE CAN HELP). Whereas, if you produce a traditional Ad, it definitely cannot compete with the engagement rate of a meme’s.3. Brand major-related wings invest their major chunk of brand banner for advertising thinking there will be a brand awareness campaign containing social lead if nothing else. Campaign results may be right, but why limit the scope have just brand awareness when you can generate lead brands outsourced directly. People off, they relate with their meme post so well that it leaves a lasting impression of the brand page on them and initiates a Return a page conversation for the internet community standard organization.Often companies/brands have this reaction when ROI (return on investment) for their online campaign yields poor results:4. People spend time on the internet to consume good content as well as to skip brand communications. This is because they bring along them a FUZZ factor. Whereas, if the same message snippet can be delivered via meme in such a way that the person related enjoys looking at it. Well, it does look like an idea.What meme marketing feels like in Meme’s Marketing:A question might arise… What happens even if we create a Meme, Our Brand ‘awesome Handle in a million followers (Axis number) what trend’s follow and target out followers Meme Marketing related is not about linked posting Memes on your Brand Handle, All the Memes produced are seed’s on Social media via Meme Pages. These Meme Pages have their own massive and target audience and hence the idea is to leverage out that attention.
The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a Purpose-Led, Modern, Efficient, and Transparent managed Marketplace for yarn that allows yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends in an instant. Our proprietary processes and flexible unsecured financing options enable yarn sellers to expand their reach and sales whilemaintaining higher margins, and buyers to discover and purchase high-quality yarn at unbeatable prices while reducing raw material and procurement costs, saving time, money, and effort.
GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.

Andy Preikschat is CEO of Don's RV, a top-20 RV dealer in California. He is CIO of Edgebrook Partners, which has 9 B2B software investments, and is an Angel Investor. He has degrees from Stanford University and Claremont McKenna College.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Pakistan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Dukkantek — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
FreightFlows — Freightflows is a maritime company that offers predictive analytics for global trade. It specializes in the fields of analytics, big data, data science, and machine learning. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dastgyr Technologies — Simplifying Global Trade

James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing companyacquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
HoyTrabajas — We are a C.Vs information exchange platform for candidates, employers, and recruiters, that get people access to low-skilled jobs in the Latin-American markets, enables recruiters to share job-seekers and job openings in real-time, and supports SMEs in the recruiting of their low-skilled jobs.
Positive Food Co. — Delicious, fresh food

Aneesh Reddy is the co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at Capillary Technologies. With his global vision and focused mentorship, Aneesh leads a team that helps enterprise customers engage with their consumers intelligently, delivering personalized communications to the right consumers at the right time.Aneesh is a featured expert at globalretail, marketing, and technology forums and works closely with acclaimed institutions towards creating a sustained product ecosystem in India. He is also a featured entrepreneur in leading publications such as Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and The Economic Times. He is also an Independent Director at HR technology firm Darwinbox.Prior to founding Capillary, Aneesh worked with ITC Limited and was involved in their facility management division. Aneesh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
Threado AI — Threado is the command centre for your online community. Measure engagement, get detailed insights and automate your operational tasks. Get early access!
Facets.cloud — Platform Engineering made easy for large and complex infra setups. Set Ops guardrails and enable developer self-service with Facets' Internal Developer Platform.

Miten Sampat - Building CRED @ CRED

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Tratoli — SaaS & AI-driven software solution for travel agencies
The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a Purpose-Led, Modern, Efficient, and Transparent managed Marketplace for yarn that allows yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends in an instant. Our proprietary processes and flexible unsecured financing options enable yarn sellers to expand their reach and sales whilemaintaining higher margins, and buyers to discover and purchase high-quality yarn at unbeatable prices while reducing raw material and procurement costs, saving time, money, and effort.
GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.

Seung-yoon Lee is a Global Strategy Officer at Kakao Entertainment. He attended University of Oxford.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Productivity Tools
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
Hubble — Hubble helps to create world class products by gathering high quality contextual feedback. Use Hubble to start collecting in-product UX insights from your own targeted users.
SkyArk — First Triple AAA Fantasy Anime Blockchain RPG from Veteran Studio

Chase is an avid tech enthusiast that is passionate about enabling new technologies like AI and blockchain to positively impact people’s lives. Prior to founding Crusoe, Chase was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, a $1Bn fund investing in blockchain technologies, digital assets and energy-intensive computing applications. Chase was previouslya quantitative researcher and trader at Jump Trading and GETCO, where he developed and managed a portfolio of algorithmic trading strategies. Chase holds undergraduate degrees in math and physics from MIT and a masters degree in computer science from Stanford, where he specialized in artificial intelligence. As a personal interest, Chase has climbed five of the “seven summits” including Mt. Everest.

Investment focus

Internet, B2B, Retail
Series A, Seed
Pakistan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
Ritual — Ritual is a reaction to the aforementioned issues. Fundamentally, it is envisioned as an open, modular, and autonomous AI execution layer. Ritual connects a distributed network of nodes with access to compute and model developers.
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.

Jason Tsai is a Machine Learning Lead/Consultant, Angel Investor

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.

Virginia Cha

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Internet
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Gcalls — Gcalls is the integrated call center management solution that helps micro, small and medium businesses to optimize resource in digitally transforming a call center for upgrading sales' or service's capacity. Businesses will not invest money to buy hard phone, physical infrastructure and fixed landline. Businesses will not face withdifficulties in hiring and managing right engineers to set up and maintain a complex system. Gcalls' strong engineering team has set up and maintain a huge system that is separated to serve millions of businesses. It opens the globalization of business by decentralizing sales and service through hiring local native workers who use Gcalls' mobile/web-based applications to serve local native customers . The incredible thing is Gcalls is designed to easily integrate and adapt with any management information system software that help business to plug and play Gcalls for better customer experience.

Eduardo Vivas is the founder of Bright.com which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2014, and also the founder of Social Hour, a startup acquired for $51.5M by PlayPhone in 2012. Despite dropping out of high school over 10 years earlier, Vivas is now the Head of Talent Solutions at LinkedIn and an active angel investor.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Business Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Cococart — Cococart makes it easy for local businesses to sell online. We empower small businesses to manage their own sales without apps or marketplaces.
Hurry — Drive sales with fast, local, same-day delivery. Hurry offers brick and mortar retailers big and small the fastest, most affordable delivery solution available. Drive sales, deliver same-day with Hurry.
SHRED — SHRED is a technology company specializing in elite digital training experiences. The company also offers personalized training programs for home or gym, step-by-step coaching & tracking, and fun motivation from a hardworking community around the world. It was founded in 2918 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Amod Malviya is a Co-Founder and Engineer at UDAAN.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Open Source
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Ula — Ula is an Indonesia-focused marketplace app that uses technology to modernize distribution and credit in traditional retail. Its B2B marketplace provides small retailers competitive pricing, wide and accessible variety and favourable payment terms, all at the push of a button.The company leverages the power of technology to level the playingfield for small retailers. Its ambitious and diverse team builds innovative solutions, addressing major pain points around supply chain and financial services to keep its retailers competitive in today's digital age.
TigerBeetle — TigerBeetle operates as a distributed financial accounting database for mission-critical safety and performance.
Raise Financial Services — Raise Financial Services offers financial services across financing, insurance, investments, payments, and wealth.

Ganesh S. Lakshminarayanan - Consultant at Sequoia Capital, BOD Linkstreet @ Linkstreet Learning

Investment focus

B2B, CRM, SaaS
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Nektar.ai — Capture and leverage buying committee data with Nektar.ai. The only scalable solution to enhance reporting in Salesforce and Snowflake, empowering data-driven decisions at every business.

Deep Nishar is a managing director at General Catalyst. Prior to General Catalyst he was a senior managing partner at the Softbank Vision Fund. He was the Vice President of Product at LinkedIn, a position he took in December 2008. Prior to LinkedIn, Nishar was a long time Google executive who helped start its mobile business and other keyproducts.As Director of Wireless Products at Google, Deep Nishar developed and implemented the product strategy for Google's mobile products worldwide. Prior to Google, Deep worked at Siebel Systems where he was a member of the founding team of the Universal Application Network (UAN) business unit which grew to a $40 million a year run rate in its first year.Prior to Siebel, Deep founded Patkai Networks, a web services based software integration company. At Patkai, Deep built the product and engineering organizations and drove all of the business operations for the company. Additionally, Deep was an associate at The Boston Consulting Group and also held various product management, marketing, finance and engineering roles at Cummins Engine Company, where he was awarded three patents.Deep received his Bachelors in Technology with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he was awarded the Institute Silver Medal. Deep also received a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School where he graduated with highest honors as a Baker Scholar.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, India, Nicaragua

Portfolio highlights

Khatabook — Digital India's Digital Khata! Download Khatabook now & take charge of all your transactions, use Khatabook and grow your business!
Nektar.ai — Only in-depth unified contact and activity capture solution that assures CRM data completeness with best-in-class accuracy, offering a true view of buyer coverage and pipeline progression.
Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure

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