Top 10 Digital Media Startup Investors in Malaysia (July 2026)

WHO IS CRADLE?Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd (Cradle) is Malaysia's early stage start-up influencer, incorporated under the Ministry of Finance Malaysia (MOF) in 2003 with a mandate to fund potential and high-calibre tech start-ups through its Cradle Investment Programme (CIP).Throughout its 13-year history, Cradle has helped fund over 700Malaysian tech start-ups and holds the highest commercialisation rate amongst government grants in the country. Having more than a decade of experience in the nation's grant funding scene, Cradle further expanded its role from grant provider to investor through the establishment of its venture arm, Cradle Seed Ventures in 2015 and following its portfolio expansion to equity investment in early 2017, Cradle now offers both funding and investment assistance. Cradle's product offerings are not only restricted to monetary aid, but also include commercialisation support, coaching and various other value-added services to cater today's entrepreneurs' diversified needs.OUR MISSIONTo be the leading pre-seed, seed and start-up stage funding agency in Malaysia, that provides effective grant and equity funding, commercialisation support, coaching, and industry value-add to accelerate the growth of start-up companies.Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Malaysia, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 50
Round size: Seed $176k–$787k; Grant $22k–$117k; Pre-Seed $58k–$93k
Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

DasAR — DasAR provides a hassle-free and cost-efficient, no-code web-based AR solution. In less than an hour, businesses can subscribe, upload 3D models, link a custom domain, and launch their own mobile responsive AR website, enabling customers to visualise products in real-life settings. Our placement formula showcases objects in their accurate sizingbased on real-world distances, particularly useful for heavy, bulky, and high-value items. With our value of accessibility, practicality, and community, DasAR democratises AR technology. Accessibility is ensured through our self-serve web platform, eliminating customised App development. Practicality extends beyond just visualisation, as our 3D models dynamically react to real-world distances, illustrating precise space usage at home or at work. As our platform evolves, it will foster collaboration among businesses, 3D modellers, and consumers, creating a community for support.
Axtraction AI — Axtraction AI provides innovative document AI solutions for precise and efficient regulatory compliance in banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI).
EasyM Mechandiser Sdn Bhd — Looking for a merchandising app in Malaysia? Click on Easym.com.my. We offer a range of merchandising apps that are perfect for your business. Do visit our site for more info.

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Tikhon Bernstam - Managing Partner

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

Total investments: 30
Round size: Seed $1.6M–$5.8M; Series A $9M–$30M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

Palla — Palla is a REST API that lets banks empower their customers to request, receive and manage international inward remittances. Its product is built to allow its partners to fully customize the experience within their app and includes tailored reporting to drive customer insights and engagement.
Yendo — Our mission is to provide everyone with the most accessible, most affordable, and most transparent credit by leveraging their vehicles.
Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.

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Kairous Capital is a cross-border venture capital firm focusing on China and Southeast Asia with offices in Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai and Hong Kong

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
Geography: Malaysia, Singapore, China

Investor stats

Total investments: 22
Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $1M–$10M
Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow

Portfolio highlights

Mglobal — Mglobal is a cross-border medical device service provider.
MantaYaY — MantaYaY is a TikTok marketing creative network with a focus on digital content and game influencers.
Aonic (Formerly Poladrone) — Founded by a team of engineers, Aonic (Formerly Poladrone) is an all-in-one drone solutions provider for enterprises that are looking to modernise and streamline their operations workflow. A staple in the commercial drone industry, Poladrone is rapidly expanding beyond the skies and later rebranded into what we are today – Aonic, demonstrating ourcommitment to our clients to provide them with a holistic ecosystem beyond our core drone capabilities.

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Sunway Group has an innovation branch called Sunway Innovation Labs (iLabs), which serves as an ecosystem for innovators at all phases of business development. Through talent, market access, and funding, it helps businesses scale for financial success and inspires talent to design sustainable solutions for a better future.

Investment focus

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: United Kingdom, Malaysia, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 37
Round size: Seed $400k–$8.2M; Series A $10M–$71M; Venture - Series Unknown $635k–$5.7M
Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

Nu Quantum — Nu Quantum has been pioneering quantum networking technology since 2018. Our market-leading expertise is uniquely positioned to deliver a distributed quantum...
Halogen — Halogen is a developer of a digital platform intended to simplify digital wealth management.
OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.

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We are a seed-stage VC founded by alumni and mentors of top-tier accelerators with prior experience managing $ 60M+ in venture capital.

Investment focus

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, News, SaaS
Stage:Seed
Geography: United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Seed $2.9M–$3.6M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

dili — Dili is a deal platform built for venture funds and private equity. We use AI to contextualize new deals and help you make better decision faster.
Envelope Money — All-in-one banking and budgeting
Solve Intelligence — We use AI to help legal professionals write high-quality patents efficiently. We do this by providing an in-browser document editor.

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Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad (MDV) is the Nation’s leading technology financier that provides innovative and flexible financing solutions, specialised funding programs, industry expertise, as well as advisory services to technology entrepreneurs. Incorporated on 23 April 2002 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Minister of Finance, Inc., MDVhas been entrusted to provide financing for projects in all technology sectors including ICT, Biotechnology, Green Technology and other emerging technologies at the point of commercialisation. With a fund size of RM4.1 billion, MDV plays developmental roles in assisting technopreneurs to scale up commercially for market access, increase probability to penetrate and meeting up market potential demands, as well as provide funding that will trigger potential commercialisation of the products. To date, MDV has disbursed over RM8.1 billion worth of financing to over 600 technology projects.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Baby, Content
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Malaysia

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

Nuren Group — Nuren Group is a digital media company & service provider in parenting education, maternity wellness and women livelihood.
LiveIn — LiveIn is a hospitality company that offers long term room rental. Enjoy quality assured room, cleaning services, maintenance and community activities. Find out more!
Digital Media Nusantara — Digital Media Nusantara is a media company that operates and manages a stable of brands which include The ASEAN Post, Spotlight Labs, Reimagining Southeast Asia, and Discovery Technologies, the unique ASEAN-focused financial markets’ infrastructure technology that is currently in development.

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Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan

Investor stats

Total investments: 126
Round size: Seed $50k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$64k; Series A $1.8M–$10M
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7.5M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

BILLZ — More than 60% of retailers in developing countries are still use papers, excel sheets or outdated software. We are here to digitize the stores and power them with technology to perform on the best level both online & offline.BILLZ is the all in one retail management platform for small & medium sized businesses powered with POS, inventorymanagement, CRM, analytics, E-commerce & financial tools to sustain in a new digital world.
CoFab — AI-powered quoting automation agent for high-end manufacturing industries
NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more

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Seed stage venture capital fund focused on Southeast Asia. We partner with exceptional founders to build transformative companies across the region.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Geography: Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 35
Round size: Seed $53k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $59k–$64k
Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

GuruInovatif — Kembangkan skill mengajar Anda untuk kemajuan pendidikan Indonesia bersama para trainer yang berpengalaman pada bidangnya di Guruinovatif.id
Vase.ai — Know what consumers are saying when it comes to your brand, product and ads. Get insights in as little as 24 hours.
Midwest Composites — Midwest Composites specializes in carbon fiber, glass fiber and natural fiber fabrication for the aerospace, automotive, military and mass transit industry.

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Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Real Estate, Automotive
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Malaysia, Pakistan, Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

Carsome — Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowingthe customers to sell their cars.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.
BoozeBud — Buy Beer, Wine & Spirits Online at Bottle Stop. Fast alcohol delivery, great prices & 5,000+ drinks. Shop now for your favourite liquor brands!
Common Ground — Ready to take your company to the next level? At Common Ground Coworking Space, we get your business done better with our workspaces & amenities. Learn more here.

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