Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in Singapore in December 2024

Investor	Finance Singapore investments
Balaji Srinivasan	5
Tascha Punyaneramitdee	2
Boon Hwee Koh	2
Toivo Annus	2
Ravi Trivedi	2
Gokul Rajaram	2
Harveen Narulla	1
Nani XBT	1
Sam Kazemian	1
Arthur Hayes	1
Barney Schauble	1
Colin Anderson	1
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen	1
Ajit Tripathi	1
Rajesh Yabaji	1
Anand Lunia	1
Ming Lei	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
Andreas Ehn	1
Nitin Sharma	1
Steve Bearwin	1
John A. Young	1
John Fiorelli	1
Nithin Kamath	1
Darius Cheung	1
Roger Crook	1
Khailee Ng	1
Enrique Dubois	1
Naveen Tewari	1
Jason Choi	1
Liang Xinjun	1
Girish Mathrubootham	1
Kevin Ryan	1
Naval Ravikant	1
Marc Weinstein	1
Ajeet Khurana	1
Isaac Zu	1
Nitin Agarwal	1
Meng Wong	1
Anthony Cheng	1
Janitooor. eth	1
Miten Sampat	1
Gabby Dizon	1
Ole Ruch	1
Aakrit Vaish	1
Huey Tyng Ooi	1
Neil Cunha-Gomes	1
Poh Kam Wong	1
Hassan Ahmed	1
Roger Crook	1

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

Tascha Punyaneramitdee is the Co-founder of Alpha Finance. Attended University of California Berkeley.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

PStake — pSTAKE, developed by Persistence, is a liquid staking protocol unlocking the liquidity of staked assets. Stakers of PoS tokens can stake their assets while unlocking liquidity in the form of stkASSETs, which can then be used across DeFi to earn liquid staking rewards.
TiTi Protocol — TiTi Protocol always monitors changes in the total value of reserve to calculate the average price of TiUSD in circulation and adjusts the market-making peg price of TiUSD in the primary market through the ReOrders mechanism.
Voyage Finance — Voyage Finance provides Web3 firm decentralized loans for gamers and guilds.

Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.

Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Singapore, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.

Ravi is the founder of Srijan Capital, which is focused building startups, and angel investing.He is a board observer and board member for few startups in his portfolio. He is a Mentor for IIM-A's iAccelerator, and Microsoft Accelerator. Ravi is also an hands-on Digital Marketer with experience in running online businesses, and currentlylearning the ropes of SAAS business.Prior to this, he worked as a Principal at Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, an early stage technology venture capital fund in North Carolina, USA. Before Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, he worked as Equity Analyst with Bank of America, where he covered companies over $120B in market capitalization. He was part of the team that was ranked runners up in the Alpha Hedge Fund Research rankings.He started his career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard and has global cross-functional experience in leading and managing technology functions. He worked in marketing, consulting and engineering functions at Hewlett Packard. Ravi co-authored the book Web Services Security, and participated in creating web services standards. He holds a Patent for "System and Methods for Recommending Third Party Services". Ravi completed his MBA from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business and has a Masters in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Investment focus

Mobile, News, SaaS
Seed, Angel
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Tookitaki — Protect your business against financial crime with Tookitaki's smart AML screening, monitoring and case management solutions. Get in touch to get started.
Skillenza — Skillenza is the optimum gap filler between required market-ready skills and the current college student skillset. We directly address the growing concerns of students & job seekers while connecting the right person with the right opportunity.
Mech Mocha — Mech Mocha runs India's first vernacular social gaming platform for the next billion Indians.

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

Tabs — Tabs provides AI-powered accounts receivable software to save time analyzing contracts, improve cash flow, and avoid billing errors.
New Lantern — New Lantern provides cutting-edge AI-powered cloud-native PACS solutions for healthcare providers, enabling faster and more accurate radiology diagnostics.
Innovartan Learning Solutions — Innovartan Learning Solutions revolutionize the education sector.

Harveen is an entrepreneur. After an early career as a lawyer with top-tier firms in Singapore, he spent a decade in various lead roles in technology ventures. This included co-founding and heading Hatcher, a leading technology venture builder in Singapore, whose portfolio includes Dropsuite (ASX:DSE), Telr (Middle East’s fastest growingonline payment processor), SocialCops (India’s leading comprehensive big data play) and Hatcher+ (big data transforming venture capital investing). Harveen also co-founded Pan African Logistics (PAL), which has grown into a leading third-party logistics player in East Africa. Harveen’s key competences include assembling and aligning strong teams, marshaling resources to start and grow businesses, deal negotiation and acquisitions, spotting arbitrage opportunities, and interventionist and supporting board roles.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Telr — Simplify your payment processes with our easy integration. Accept online payments seamlessly with our all-in-one solution. Discover more now.
SocialCops — SocialCops are partner with leaders and organizations around the world to make data-driven decisions easier and more effective. Their work helps build a world with smarter cities, happier citizens, better policies, and a brighter future.Today's model of engaging with data — both the data they use and how they use it — is broken. Dataintelligence is the solution. It starts with finding all the data you need for your decision — extracted from elaborate internal systems, sourced from places you never would have thought to look, and unified with real-time data. they then transform this mass of data into intelligent insights that make the best decision obvious.SocialCops is backed by 500 Start-ups; Rajan Anandan, Managing Director of Google India; and Manoj Menon, Managing Director of Frost and Sullivan APAC. Its team consists of engineers and data scientists. The company won the love of the Forbes India '30 under 30', World Summit Youth Award, and IBM Smart Planet Challenge.
Inzen Studio — CVtogel adalah salah satu situs togel online terkemuka di Asia menawarkan berbagai jenis permainan togel Dua permainan populer adalah Togel Singapore dan Togel Hongkong.

Nani is an indivdual investor.

Investment focus

Finance, Trading Platform, Information Technology
Seed
Singapore, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

EarlyFans — Welcome to EarlyFans! A new way to find your favorite creators, support them early, and get rewarded for it.
Multisynq — Multisynq is a decentralized and low-latency synchronization network.
Ooga Booga — Ooga Booga is a liquidity aggregator designed to support the goal of becoming the most capital efficient blockchain.

Sam Kazemian is the Founder of Frax Finance.

Investment focus

Finance, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eigenpie — Eigenpie is a restaking SubDAO that gives holders of Liquid Staking Tokens the chance to enhance their earning potential by restaking assets.
RISE Labs — The Based Gigagas EVM Layer 2
t1 protocol — t1 protocol cross-chain applications and scalability are facilitated by real-time proofs and immediate settlement.

After graduating with a degree in economics from the Wharton School of Business, Arthur lived in Hong Kong as an equity derivatives trader. He was the market-maker for Deutsche Bank and Citibank’s Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) businesses. He also has extensive experience trading equity index futures, forwards, and swaps as well as non-deliverable FXforwards. Arthur brings a deep understanding of how to structure and trade financial derivatives.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Cytonic — Cytonic is a multi-virtual-machine blockchain. Cytonic is compatible with blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Infinit — Infinit is the DeFi Abstraction Layer that removes the enormous friction associated with creating and scaling DeFi ecosystems.

Barney Schauble joined Nephila in 2004 as a Principal. Mr. Schauble's primary responsibilities include investor relations, risk sourcing, and other business development projects, as well as portfolio management. Mr. Schauble began his career in New York in 1994 as a broker for Marsh, and later moved to Guy Carpenter (Marsh's reinsurancebroking subsidiary). Mr. Schauble left Guy Carpenter in 1996 to join Goldman, Sachs & Co as part of their new Risk Markets effort, which was focused on securitizing insurance risks and other areas of intersection between insurance and capital markets. He was transferred to London in 1999, where he co-headed the European effort, before returning to New York in 2002. His responsibilities as a Vice President in Risk Markets included client coverage, product development, syndication and distribution for a variety of structured products such as risk-linked securities, weather derivatives, and credit derivatives. Mr. Schauble joined XL Capital's Weather & Energy subsidiary in 2003, and was appointed head of marketing for the weather business. At XLWE he was responsible for managing a global team, originating weather risk management business and hedging XLWE's excess weather risk with insurance and capital markets counterparties. Mr. Schauble attended Harvard College and received his B.A. in Economics in 1994; he wrote his senior thesis to explore the concept of investing in bonds linked to property catastrophe reinsurance risk.

Investment focus

Energy, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Riskpulse — Everstream sets the world's supply chain standard, using predictive analytics, human insights, and eyes everywhere to make supply chains smarter.
CleanCapital — CleanCapital owns and operates 200+ solar and energy storage projects across the U.S. We connect investors to renewable energy opportunities and provide capital to developers.
Climate Alpha — Translate location analytics into financial impact.

Colin Anderson is former CFO of Palantir and Founding Partner of Friends & Family Capital.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, B2B
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Arena — Arena is a software firm that builds active learning systems and techniques like reinforcement learning.
Assemble — Assemble is a compensation management platform for forward-thinking organizations. It helps companies make systematic compensation decisions to attract, motivate, and retain employees while eliminating inequitable pay.
Inflection Points — Inflection Points provides training in bitcoin and crypto.

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.

Ajit Tripathi is a Head of Institutional Business at Aave.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Ethereum
Seed, Series A, Angel
Singapore, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Flint — Earn 13% p.a. stable returns by leveraging the power of crypto. Withdraw-able anytime without fees.
Spark — Spark is a decentralized network that provides a predicate-based central limit order book.
WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now

Rajesh is known for his energy and resilience, and one can see this in his enthusiasm for marathons, and more in his passion for building the world’s largest trucking network. As the Co-Founder and CEO of BlackBuck, Rajesh is charged with constantly moving the company forward. From finance discussions to brainstorming on new product design tobusiness development planning, Rajesh keeps himself involved in all areas of the business. An IIT Kharagpur graduate, Rajesh was heading the Supply Chain division of ITC’s Leaf Tobacco business before starting BlackBuck. He is an inspiring leader who likes to bring out the best in people and help them achieve greater heights by pushing the bar higher. Speaking about pushing the bar higher, Rajesh has been a pole vaulter too.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bonatra — Bonatra is holistic men's health company creating a convergence of medical science, data science and technology to manage and reverse chronic men's diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, and other issues.
Covvalent — Source specialty chemicals directly from Indian manufacturers using Covvalent. We are your one stop shop for all chemical raw materials.
AlmaBetter — AlmaBetter provides risk-free education to students and helps them realize their potential.

Anand is a founding Partner at India Quotient. He loves writing on startups, studying market opportunities and helping entrepreneurs. He has been an entrepreneur, angel investor, fund manager. Earlier, he was a partner at Seedfund, known for its exits in Carwale and Redbus. He co-founded Brainvisa, an ed-tech company which he sold in 2005.His angel investments include Faasos, Mydentist and Inkfruit. His twitter handle says “Entrepreneur is the king. Not the VC”.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Paavan — Paavan aims to reconnect people to Indian roots and make knowledge accessible.
Giveter — The company started 15 months ago when we felt nobody is catering to a very natural need of people wanting to be thoughtful while gifting. And thus Giveter.com was started with the whole ecosystem reflecting the way people actually think while selecting a gift,” says Avinash. The platform serves more than 300,000 users every month and on analyzingdecision making of more than a million women who used Giveter, it first appeared that they used the platform in a very different and unstructured way. Many also used it to discover products from themselves. And this is how Roposo came into the picture
Zenprivex (ZPX) — ZPX, a startup that is building a decentralised cryptocurrency exchange in Singapore .Zenprivex (ZPX is a Singapore-headquartered investor and builder of blockchain asset .

Ming Lei (雷鸣) is the chief executive officer of Kuwo Science and Technology, a Chinese company providing digital entertainment services. Prior to that, he was a senior engineer at Baidu, a Chinese web services company. Lei holds an MBA from Stanford University, United States and a master’s degree in computer from Peking University, China.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Angel
China, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Collov — Collov is a virtual interior design & shopping platform that offers interior design services stocked with shoppable goods from many brands.
Bailian.AI — Bailian.ai is an artificial intelligence company that specializes in providing intelligent customer service. It aims to apply AI technology to deepen unstructured business information on the Internet into structured sales leads to help improve customers. Efficiency, reducing the cost of getting customers.Bailian Smart is committed to thedevelopment of automated knowledge generation technology based on deep learning, collecting, cleaning, extracting, screening and rewriting business information, refining it into precise and trustworthy knowledge and enhancing business awareness.
FundedHere — FundedHere Crowdfunding Platform

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
Talus Network — Talus Network is an L1 blockchain purpose-built for Smart Agents. Built with the MoveVM, Talus allows for seamless development, ownership, and monetization of composable Smart Agents.

Andreas is working on a service that will connect people, time and places on the web. He also works as an independent consultant helping other startups with product strategy, technical infrastructure, scalability and recruiting as well as financial companies (venture capital and private equity) with technical due diligence and in other advisorroles.He was CTO at Spotify from the launch of the company in August 2006 until November 2009. Before that he worked at Stardoll as an engineer and project manager.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Prog.AI — Prog.AI helps to find developers based on their technical proficiency, libraries they have used, or even just the contributions they have made to GitHub projects.
Red Flag — Red Flag develops an automated accounting, expenses, and invoicing platform for SMEs.
Single Technologies — Founded in Stockholm, Sweden, with its long tradition in fiber optics, ultra-sensitive fluorescence spectroscopy and DNA sequencing, SINGLE’s ambition is to become the instigator of 3-D Sequencing.

For the last 10+ years, I've had the rare fortune of working with world-class entrepreneurs - as a venture or angel investor, startup team member or growth advisor - in the US and in India. Experience: US VC - Investor @ NEA India VC - Principal & Founding Member @ Lightbox (ex. Kleiner Perkins India and Sherpalo) Startup ops in the US- VP, Bus Dev and early employee @ EverFi (one of the largest edtech networks globally) Startup ops in India - Key leadership responsibilities related to 4 Lightbox companiesCurrently, I am especially spending a large portion of my time on blockchain startups and cryptocurrencies. INVESTING: Lots of learnings from working on early to growth stage investments. US: Millennial Media (IPO, acq. by AOL), OPOWER (IPO, acq. by Oracle), Gilt Groupe (acq. by Saks / Hudson Bay), ChannelAdvisor (IPO), AddThis (acq. by Oracle), EverFi, Suniva, Videology, Credibase, new crypto and blockchain projects India: Droom, Melorra, Paymate, Zoomin, Stalkbuylove, Fynd, The Better India, Mech MochaSTARTUP OPERATIONS: Hands-on experience in both hyper-growth and turnaround situations. Wore a few hats as an early employee and head of BD at EverFi (one of the largest edtech networks globally having served 16MM students and raised $250MM), led strategic finance projects for NEA companies Suniva and AddThis, and interned at InMobi. Owned or helped solve problems across strategy, M&A, senior hiring, int'l expansion and fundraising while working closely with management at Droom, Melorra, Paymate and Zoomin

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Learning
Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
India, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
StayQrious — StayQrious Neoschool is an online after-school program that teaches your child self-learning skills, social skills, emotional resilience, and problem-solving skills that are essential to thrive in the real-world.
Molecule — Molecule is a collaborative platform, where stakeholders in drug development work together to accelerate the process of bringing novel therapeutics to patients. We connect leading researchers to investment opportunities by turning intellectual property and its development into a liquid and easily investable asset.

Steve Bearwin is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Finance, Blockchain, Trading Platform
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.
Kodiak Finance — Kodiak Finance is a DEX project solution provider, combines centralized and automated liquidity management. Their product package is intended to provide traders with the greatest possible trading experience while also simplifying centralized liquidity provisioning for liquidity providers and protocols. They provide a full range of trading andliquidity solutions by integrating the DEX layers: Decentralized Exchange (Kodiak DEX), Automated Liquidity Manager (Kodiak Islands), Comprehensive incentive layer (Sweet Island), Codeless Token Deployment Factory (Panda Factory)
Origami Finance — Origami Finance is an automated leverage protocol that allows users to maximise capital efficiency and integrated with third-party lenders.

John A. Young is the Board Director of Nanosys Inc. since 2004 .He also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard Company from 1978 to 1992 .He served in other capacities at Hewlett-Packard from 1958 to 1978 . Mr. Young currently serves as the Chairman of Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc. He also serves on the Boards ofDirectors of,Affymetrix Inc., Perlegen Sciences, Inc., Fluidigm Corporation,Lucent Technologies, Inc. Mr. Young holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University.An M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Finance, Incubators
Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

JFDI.Asia — Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia) is a Singapore-based seed accelerator modelled on Techstars that has 60% success taking start-up businesses from idea to $600k seed investment in 100 days.JFDI.Asia's focus is on mobile and digital products and services made in Asia, for Asia. Its customers are business start-up teams, early stagebusiness investor/acquirers, and organizations that seek to inspire innovation and entrepreneurship in their workforce.

John Fiorelli is a Head of Advisory at Kenetic Capital. He is Advisor on Bluzelle, Airswap, Simple Token & Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange token sales and also founder, former CEO of CutPaste. John has 15 years experience in Product, UX, and Experiential Design. He has a BSE in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

WeMeta — Powering the Next Generation of Cross-Chain Experiences | Pioneering Omnichain Connectivity: Where users, applications, and environments converge.
Kodiak Finance — Kodiak Finance is a DEX project solution provider, combines centralized and automated liquidity management. Their product package is intended to provide traders with the greatest possible trading experience while also simplifying centralized liquidity provisioning for liquidity providers and protocols. They provide a full range of trading andliquidity solutions by integrating the DEX layers: Decentralized Exchange (Kodiak DEX), Automated Liquidity Manager (Kodiak Islands), Comprehensive incentive layer (Sweet Island), Codeless Token Deployment Factory (Panda Factory)
Real Player DAO — RPO: THE FIRST TASK PLATFORM OF GAMEFI

Nithin Kamath is an entrepreneur and trader who is the founder and CEO at Zerodha, a large Indian broking house. He is also the CEO of Rainmatter Capital.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GalaxEye — GalaxEye enables businesses to make better Decisions & perform operations efficiently via Space Technology.
SatSure — SatSure is an innovative decision analytics company that leverages advances in satellites, machine learning, and big data analytics to help solve problems at the nexus of sustainability of food, water, and energy security.
The Whole Truth — Order online from The Whole Truth Foods with secure payment options and seamless online shopping experience.

Darius Cheung is co-founder of BillPin and CEO/co-founder of McAfee-acquired tenCube.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

Roger is the CEO of Capital Springboard.He is responsible for the day-to- day management of the Singapore operation and looks after investors for Singapore.Roger spent most of his career with DHL in key leadership positions, most recently as a Member of the Board of Management, Deutsche Post AG (DeutschePost DHL) and Global Chief ExecutiveOfficer, DHL Global Forwarding, Freight Division from 2011 until 2015.Prior to this, Roger was the CEO of DHL Express Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa Region with 129 markets, and at the same time he was Global Head of Sales and e-Commerce for DHL Express and a member of DHL Express Global Management Board. Before this Roger was CEO of DHL Express Americas.He has successfully worked in North and South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Lending
Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jungle — Jungle is a payment method that enables the unbanked consumers to buy now and pay later without a need for a credit card or a credit history. Jungle lets you shop for your favorite purchases in monthly installments without a need for a credit card. Jungle is a payment method that enables consumers to buy now and pay later.
Everoad by sennder — Based out of Berlin, sennder was founded in 2015 by David Nothacker, Nicolaus Schefenacker and Julius Koehler. In 2020, Everoad, the French leader in digital freight forwarding based in Paris and founded by Maxime Legardez, merged with sennder to become Europe's leading digital freight forwarder. By merging with sennder, Everoad becomes"Everoad by sennder". Our mission as a data-based technology company is to revolutionize the logistics and transport industry by connecting small freight companies with large business groups. By introducing technology, we remove the challenges and inefficiencies associated with the transportation of goods across Europe, while increasing the degree of transparency in the marketplace and helping it to move more seamlessly.Since its foundation, sennder has raised over €120m from leading investors including, Accel, Lakestar, HV Holtzbrinck, Project A, Next47, SCG and Perpetual. In 2020, sennder also made a JV with Poste Italiane in Italy and acquired the European activities of Uber Freight. sennder has strategic partnerships with industry giants Scania and Siemens to guarantee continuous innovation and services using the most up-to-date technology.With a team of over 500 people in 7 countries, we move +50,000 loads across Europe, each month. sennder's teams are passionate about modernizing the freight market, an industry valued today at nearly €400bn, only in Europe.

Khailee Ng is Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder and CEO of SAYS. He graduated from the University of Technology Sydney, the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Talkpush — Talkpush is the leading conversational CRM for recruitment. Automate the repetitive stuff and focus on the right talent.
YogaTrail — YogaTrail connects yoga providers with their yogis. Get everyone's classes in one simple place and always know what's up in your yoga world.
Call Levels — Don't let the markets drive you crazy - we watch the markets so you don't have to.

Enrique is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of online experience.He is the founder of www.Mola.com incubator and accelerator based in Spain.His track record includes founding and managing the following ventures: -Accelerator and Incubator Mola.com-The social gaming company Playspace.com-The online bingo company Bingos.com-The social network Wamba.com-The telecom company Premium.-The development company Crea Labs (previously SX networks).-The gambling media network Mediagambling.com (sold to CMEDIA early 2009).

Investment focus

Mobile, Rental, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Spain, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Badi — Badi is an AI-powered online room rental platform that allows anyone to publish, find, and securely book rooms from anywhere in the world. Badi has created a trusted community that can easily and securely list and book unique rooms. By facilitating bookings and online safe payments through the platform.The company was founded in September 2015 byCarlos Pierre Trias de Bes, and is currently headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.
Jungle — Jungle is a payment method that enables the unbanked consumers to buy now and pay later without a need for a credit card or a credit history. Jungle lets you shop for your favorite purchases in monthly installments without a need for a credit card. Jungle is a payment method that enables consumers to buy now and pay later.
Buzzly — Do you have an audience of 5,000 or more followers? Sign up on Buzzly and start receiving discounts or completely free products from the best brands.

Naveen is the founder of InMobi. His philosophy of constant innovation and disruption is embedded deep into the DNA of InMobians and is resonated across InMobi. His dream is to re-imagine advertising in a truly ‘user-first’ way and unlock the true potential of the mobile ecosystem.He has a Bachelor’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur (IIT) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where he was also bestowed with the Dean’s Award, for his exceptional leadership and contribution. In 2013, his alma mater, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur also honored him with the esteemed ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ for his excellence in entrepreneurship.Naveen is involved in the fueling of around 30 start-ups as yet in India and has personally invested and supported several start-ups like NestAway, SlideRule, Mettl, Moneysights, Bombay Canteen, Zimmber, Razorpay etc. A believer that start-ups will be the pillars of growing India, he co-founded iSPIRT, which is a change agent with the brain of a think tank and aims to address government policy, create market catalysts, and grow the maturity of product entrepreneurs in order to transform India into a hub for new generation software products.He also founded and chairs a U.S.-based nonprofit called India School Fund which funds and sets up schools in rural India, a cause he cares deeply for.Naveen is a board member at Paytm and has been recognized for his entrepreneurial skills at various platforms. He received several awards and recognitions over the last several years:>‘Future Leaders Award’ presented by Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister, 2015>Fortune’s ‘40 under 40’ most powerful, influential and important people in business, 2015>The ‘Pathbreaker of the Year’ Award, 2014>Forbes India Leadership Award for ‘Outstanding Start Up', 2014>‘100 Most Creative People’, 2014 across the world>The ‘Pathbreaker of the Year’ Award, 2013 presented by Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister>‘7th Most Important Person’ by Business Insider’s the Mobile Power List, 2013>‘Mobile Top 50’ in The Drum, 2013>‘2nd Most Important Person’ by Business Insider’s the Mobile Power List, 2012An avid fan of cricket, Naveen is a fitness enthusiast and his early morning routine alternates between a long run outdoors and a cycling trip around the less crowded parts of the city.Source (http://www.inmobi.com/organization/leadership/naveen-tewari#profile)

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
Kaarva — Kaarva is India's first flexible salary platform which is not a salary advance but gives employees control to access a part of their earned salaries on their own whenever they need, multiple times a month.
Bright Money — A new system for financial planning to delete debt and build wealth. Pay Down Debt Faster, Build Savings and Boost your Credit Score.

Jason Choi is Venture Investor at Contrary Capital.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Arch — The pioneering network for building bridgeless apps directly on Bitcoin. Arch makes it easy to deploy interoperable smart contract-like programs on the L1, without fracturing liquidity or taking on bridge risk.
Hashflow — Tight spreads. Zero slippage. MEV-resistant.
LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

Liang Xinjun is the Founder of the Fosun fashion group. He previously worked at Shanghai Guangxin Technology Development Co as a VP; Deputy GM. Liang Xinjun attended Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

NFTGo — NFTGo is a NFT data aggregator where users can find information about NFT, including NFT Drops, ranking, whale tracking, NFT search engine, market data, transaction data, and many more.
0xScope — 0xScope is a Web3 Knowledge Graph Protocol that connect individuals with different projects and helps in collection of various data from Web2 & Web3 data sources entities.
TokenScript — A new standard for bridging web2 and web3

Girish Mathrubootham is the CEO and Founder at Freshworks. Girish Mathrubootham attended University of Madras.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

HuddleUp — HuddleUp is an AI-based team culture platform empowering Managers to boost team engagement & productivity using conversational AI, personalised learnings & peer connections. Build engaged, high-performing remote teams with HuddleUp. Book a demo now!
NocoDB — Free & Open Source Airtable alternative. Turns any SQL database into a smart spreadsheet. Supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL server, MariaDB & SQLite.
PickYourTrail — Personalize your holiday packages online. International trips in 3 easy steps, at best rates guaranteed. Experience a hassle-free vacation.

Kevin Ryan is the Founder and CEO of AlleyCorp,

Investment focus

Real Estate, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

OYE — From Latin America to the world, we’re building a community to make emotional wellness part of everyday life.
Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
Knock — Buy before you sell, for people who are buying and selling homes, we partner with their lenders and agents to provide cash flow and more certainty, convenience, and competitiveness. Partner with Knock Today!

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tako — Tako is an AI search engine that embed intelligence.
Synex Medical — Synex Medical develops non-invasive blood testing technology. This portable device will allow users to monitor metabolite concentrations without having to penetrate skin. They use a miniaturized magnetic resonance system to detect blood metabolites. The system only consists of magnets and radio waves, meaning there are no negative health effects.
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.

I graduated from Wharton with a BSc in Economics and began my career as an investment banker. In 2012, I left my cushy job at Morgan Stanley to begin an entrepreneurial adventure. My first startup, TINCO, was a financial services business created to protect investors from the purchasing power destruction of then-unprecedented quantitative easing.Although TINCO failed, it led me to purchase my first Bitcoin in 2013.While building TINCO, I started an advisory business called Satya Management to serve start-ups in the consumer, media & entertainment, and wellness industries.Through a client, I fell in love with the live events industry and decided to start my 2nd company, 90sFest. 90sFest was a live events platform catered to millennials that pioneered the convergence of experiential marketing with mass social media distribution. We sold 90sFest to Scopus Media in 2017.It was at this time that I was hired to try to salvage the now infamous Fyre Festival. Many who saw the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, have called me the “voice of reason.”After Fyre, I saw that my bitcoin investment returned 20x my principal and began deep research on the cryptocurrency industry. I later became Principal at a blockchain-focused venture fund called Wave Financial. I left Wave Financial in 2019 to strike out on my own and continue to advise, coach, and invest in leading entrepreneurs.I once again fell in love with an industry – sustainable agriculture – and now lead business development at Steward.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Drosera — Drosera is a decentralized incident response system that uses hidden security intentions to contain and mitigate attacks.
Degen War$ — Degen War$ is a player-versus-player NFT card game that takes place entirely on the blockchain.
Kodiak Finance — Kodiak Finance is a DEX project solution provider, combines centralized and automated liquidity management. Their product package is intended to provide traders with the greatest possible trading experience while also simplifying centralized liquidity provisioning for liquidity providers and protocols. They provide a full range of trading andliquidity solutions by integrating the DEX layers: Decentralized Exchange (Kodiak DEX), Automated Liquidity Manager (Kodiak Islands), Comprehensive incentive layer (Sweet Island), Codeless Token Deployment Factory (Panda Factory)

Ajeet Khurana is a leading name in the cryptocurrency industry. He is the former head of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Committee, which as part of IAMAI is India's foremost industry body for cryptocurrency.Presently, as an advisor to several crypto projects, he is seen as a specialist in: * Tokenomics: pools, structure, architecture,flow, utility, value * Market Mechanisms: market making, liquidity, listing, volume In addition he helps with increasing adoption, communication, evangelizing, ambassador programs, and digital outreach. Some crypto founders regard Ajeet as their personal friend, philosopher, and guide.Earlier, in his role as CEO of Zebpay (India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange at that time), he took it from being a one-country exchange to a global exchange. As CEO of the business incubator at IIT Bombay (India’s premier engineering school), he helped commercialise several ideas from concept stage. As an advisor to Venture Capital firms in India, China, US, and Canada, he has an eye for promising founders.Still earlier, Ajeet has authored several books with McGrawHill Education, been an entrepreneur twice, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.Here is how he characterizes himself:WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED REPEATEDLY IN MY CAREER Customer focus. Speed. Attracting and empowering the right people. Making hard decisions. Managing chaos and conflict. Smoothly navigating regulations & compliances. High governance standards. Cultivating relationships. Converting markets to communities. Negotiating deals. Continuous process and product improvement.WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR A mandate that requires rapid growth and evolution. A role that requires backbone and heart. A non-bureaucratic system that expects a strong bias for action. An opportunity to learn, and create strong cultural underpinning.HOW I BUILD AND MANAGE TEAMS Single minded focus on the customer. Choose people based on cultural fit and alignment of passion. Impart purpose. Select for potential, but advance for performance. Empower people to work. No busy work. No unending meetings. Don’t be hierarchy-minded. Encourage learning.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, Singapore, Panama

Portfolio highlights

Dapps — Join Dapps to discover and engage with digital communities that match your passions. Buy shares, and connect with like-minded individuals in a secure, decentralized platform that puts you in control.
TaxNodes — TaxNodes is a platform for crypto tax computation and ITR filing with expert assistance.
TableSprint — TableSprint is the world's first free app builder with zero fees and onboarding in a day using an intuitive, Excel-like interface.

Isaac Zu

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Voyage Finance — Voyage Finance provides Web3 firm decentralized loans for gamers and guilds.

Nitin is based in India and leads the product solutions team aimed at designing custom solutions for customers and new products. The team also works on the presales and marketing support initiatives needed for business development and sales teams. Nitin comes with a rich experience in building new products and solutions, business development inUS and EU markets. Prior to joining Wave Crest, he has over 10 years of industry experience and last worked for PayPal.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, Banking
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Buildd — Embedded Finance APIs for all developers. Design, Test and Deploy Finance Products in real time.
Doosra — When you sign up, we instantly give you a Doosra number, a 100% virtual number; meaning no SIM card or device or a separate phone is required
Zenpay Solutions — Zenpay is a fast-growing fintech firm that promotes digital banking solutions to revolutionize the ultimate banking experience.

Meng Wong - Principal Research Fellow @ Singapore Management University

Investment focus

Internet, Finance, Grocery
Funding Round, Seed
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

RedMart — RedMart is an online supermarket in Singapore that delivers groceries and home essentials to your door. RedMart is not a traditional retailer. They are a platform that enables manufacturers to bypass retailers and engage shoppers directly. Their platform provides manufacturers with pioneering marketing capabilities and data analytics.
Baydin — Baydin is an organization that provides the excellent electronic mail and additionally supporting Microsoft exchange for clients.
JFDI.Asia — Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia) is a Singapore-based seed accelerator modelled on Techstars that has 60% success taking start-up businesses from idea to $600k seed investment in 100 days.JFDI.Asia's focus is on mobile and digital products and services made in Asia, for Asia. Its customers are business start-up teams, early stagebusiness investor/acquirers, and organizations that seek to inspire innovation and entrepreneurship in their workforce.

Anthony cheng is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Finance, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ord.io — Search, browse, and vote on ordinal inscriptions like never before.
Kodiak Finance — Kodiak Finance is a DEX project solution provider, combines centralized and automated liquidity management. Their product package is intended to provide traders with the greatest possible trading experience while also simplifying centralized liquidity provisioning for liquidity providers and protocols. They provide a full range of trading andliquidity solutions by integrating the DEX layers: Decentralized Exchange (Kodiak DEX), Automated Liquidity Manager (Kodiak Islands), Comprehensive incentive layer (Sweet Island), Codeless Token Deployment Factory (Panda Factory)

Jani is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Finance, Blockchain, Trading Platform
Seed
Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

IVX — IVX is an options protocol based on the Berachain Polaris EVM tech stack.
Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.
Ooga Booga — Ooga Booga is a liquidity aggregator designed to support the goal of becoming the most capital efficient blockchain.

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.

Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Hong Kong, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
Clout Kitchen — Combining fandom and emerging technology, Clout Kitchen builds generational digital products with supercharged distribution. We help creators become icons that last.

Ole Ruch is the Managing Partner at Nordstar. He attended Imperial College London.

Investment focus

Sales, Finance, Marketing
Seed, Series A
Singapore, India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Antler — Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
Rainforest Life — Rainforest buys e-commerce brands and grows them with a focus on long-term success. They believe that being part of Rainforest improves the brands’ longevity, financial returns, and sustainability outcomes.

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.

Huey Tyng Ooi is an Independent Director at AIG. Huey Tyng Ooi attended INSEAD.

Investment focus

Finance, Payments, E-Commerce
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Arrow — Arrow is the best checkout experience for your online businesses that drastically increases your conversions rates. Arrow supports the all major payment gateways and is pre-built with the latest and greatest payment methods in Southeast Asia (SEA).

Neil Cunha-Gomes is SoftBank Investment Advisor.

Investment focus

Finance, Blockchain, Web3
Seed, Series C, Series D
Singapore, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

NF3 — NF3 is a community focused NFT swaps and finance market.
Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
yoloyolo — In order to match the top NFT IPS with leading brands and uncover growth opportunities and revenue models for both these brands and the NFT IP holders, Yoloyolo is developing new infrastructure.

Poh Kam WONG is a Professor at the Business School of National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. Through the centre, he oversees the university's entrepreneurship education programs, as well as the university's incubator, seed funding programs and mentoring scheme for nurturing spin-offcompanies by the university's professors and students. He has published extensively in leading academic journals on high tech entrepreneurship and innovation policy in Asia, and has consulted frequently for technology companies in Asia, as well as international organizations such as the World Bank. He is an active angel investor in technology start-ups in Singapore, Asia and Silicon Valley, and is the founding Chairman of Business Angel Network Southeast Asia (BANSEA) and chairman and partner of BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd, a business angel fund based in Singapore. He is the initiator of StartUp@Singapore, the annual national business plan competition in Singapore since 1999.

Investment focus

Apps, Wearables, Rehabilitation
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
FundedHere — FundedHere Crowdfunding Platform
TechStorm — Asia's number one 24/7 Esports, gaming & tech-centric entertainment network available in 26 countries. TechStorm is a brand new 360 international network on Asian Esports and tech-centric entertainment. The network celebrates the region’s trail blazers, the biggest Asian Esports and tech names, bringing them to a truly global audienceand fan base.The 24/7 network’s meteoric rise across Asia now reaches 43 million viewers, 100 platforms across multiple countries and is slated to exceed 20 countries globally. Its original Storm Bytes content is readily distributed to 96 million mobile handset users in 26 countries. This exponential growth was all achieved in less than 22 months.TechStorm is an international Esports and tech entertainment network backed by blue-chip, high profile venture capital groups and founded by prominent industry business leaders in media and technology with more than 30 years of extensive domain expertise and business operations. Its dynamic leadership team is fuelled by a passion to drive change and be the voice for Asia’s Esports and tech entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Hassan Ahmed is the Head of Southeast Asia at Coinbase. Hassan Ahmed attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Web3, Finance, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Crestal — Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.
Arrow — Arrow is the best checkout experience for your online businesses that drastically increases your conversions rates. Arrow supports the all major payment gateways and is pre-built with the latest and greatest payment methods in Southeast Asia (SEA).

Mr. Roger Crook has been Member of the Management Board with responsibility for the Global Forwarding and Freight Division at Deutsche Post AG since March 8, 2011. Mr. Crook started his career in 1978 as General Contracts Manager at Haden Young International. He joined the DHL Group in 1988 as Worldwide Business Development Manager at DHLWorldwide Express, Brussels. Mr. Crook has run the Company's Express business in Asia since the end of 2010. He is Member of the global Board of Management for Express and in addition oversees all global sales activities of the business unit. Previously, Mr. Crook held the position of CEO DHL Express Americas, as well as CEO DHL Global Customer Logistics. He has also held other responsibilities in the United States, as well as in Europe. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Liverpool University, which he graduated in 1978. He also attended Manchester Business School between 1985 and 1987.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Transportation
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
France, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Botsync — Botsync builds autonomous mobile robots to automate and digitize movement of goods from point to point for the logistics and manufacturing industry. Our robots can carry payloads from 500 kg to 1 tonne and are designed to operate in dynamic environments. Botsync's AMRs can be implemented at new facilities in minimal time with very minimalchanges to the existing infrastructure. With our technology, we hope to pioneer and push for larger scale adoptions of robotic automation in Asia's logistics and manufacturing industry.
Pathway — Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, RAG, and LLM pipelines.
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