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Top 35 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Hong Kong in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Hong kong. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Hong kong. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Hong Kong in April 2025

Investor	Food and Beverage Hong Kong investments
Gobi Partners	4
Pareto Holdings	2
SOSV	2
Lisa-Marie Tse	2
Novel Tycoon	2
Chartwell Ventures	2
CPT Capital	1
Prism Venture Management	1
Jon Oringer	1
The Rise Fund	1
Guillaume Luccisano	1
Ant Group	1
Velocity Ventures	1
SQ Capital Group 尚策資本集團	1
Vectr	1
Heyi Capital	1
Cachet Group	1
James Cameron	1
Animoca Brands	1
Jefferies Financial Group	1
Edward Lando	1
Daydaycook	1
Blue Horizon Corporation	1
Jon Oringer	1
Alan Rutledge	1
Artesian VC	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Vector Ventures	1
Lever VC	1
Jon Oringer	1
Vectr	1
John Wood	1
Magic Capital	1
Phillip Private Equity	1
NLS Ventures	1

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Gobi Partners is the most interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital firm with US$1.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, the firm supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets.Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 15 funds to date, invested inover 350 startups and nurtured 10 unicorns. Gobi has grown to 15 locations across key markets in Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Surabaya.As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Gobi Partners is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption to ensure long-term value creation and sustainability across our portfolio.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, Malaysia, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

SkyeChip — Your Preferred cutting edge IP & IC Design solutions for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.
Phase — Design and prototype websites and apps visually and intuitively, in a new powerful product reworked for the digital age.
Funding Societies — Funding Societies is a SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia. It is licensed in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and registered in Malaysia. It is backed by Sequoia India and Softbank Ventures Asia Corp amongst many others and provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is funded by individual andinstitutional investors. In 6 years, it has helped finance over 4 million business loans with over S$2 billion in funding. It was given the MAS FinTech Award in 2016, the Global SME Excellence Award at the United Nations’ ITU Telecom World in 2017, KPMG Fintech100 in 2018, Brands for Good in 2019, and in 2020 recognised by IDC as amongst the 5 fastest growing FinTechs in Singapore, won the Stevie® Award for Innovation in Technology, and named ASEAN Startup of the Year by Global Startup Awards.In 2015, co-founders Kelvin Teo, Iwan Kurniawan, and Reynold Wijaya headquartered Funding Societies | Modalku in Singapore, Central Region.

Building world-changing companies in sunny Miami

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Volta — Our mission is to empower brands, wholesalers, and distributors with the tools and support to thrive in today's digital economy.
Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Lisa-Marie Tse is a Chief Brand Officer and Founder of Allklear.

Investment focus

Nutrition, Organic Food
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Future salad — Allklear is a Hong Kong food tech startup combining nature and technology.

Novel Tycoon

Investment focus

Nutrition, Organic Food
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Future salad — Allklear is a Hong Kong food tech startup combining nature and technology.

Chartwell Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Nutrition, Organic Food
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Future salad — Allklear is a Hong Kong food tech startup combining nature and technology.

Investing in the Future of Protein.We invest in visionary founders creating the future of food and materials.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ENOUGH — ENOUGH makes protein sustainable by producing ABUNDA mycoprotein, made by fermenting fungi with the natural sugars from grains. It is a whole protein with all 9 essential amino acids & rich in fibre. It is a B2B ingredient, neutral in taste and fibrous in texture, like meat. The most sustainable
Shiru — Discover Shiru. We are an Ingredient Company that Identifies and Creates Functional Ingredients for the Plant-Based Industry.
Wanda Fish Technologies — Wanda Fish is an innovative FoodTech company with a platform that produces a wide variety of delicious fish fillets using sustainable cell-cultivation practices.

Prism Ventureworks has 5 funds with $1.25 billion in investments. Their most recent fund is for $250M which was raised in June 2005.Each of their team members focuses on different industry sectors within technology and life sciences. These industry sectors in technology include the digital living, wireless, mobile and telecommunicationsmarkets, as well as promising opportunities in next-generation data centers and on-demand and security applications. In life sciences, we focus on medical devices, therapeutics and breakthrough diagnostics.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Jeff — Jeff is a company created in 2015 by Eloi Gómez, Adrián Lorenzo and Rubén Muñoz, three Spanish entrepreneurs. It started as a home laundry and dry-cleaning app, but is currently in an expansion process in which, in addition to laundry service, different day-to-day services are added such as hairdressing and beauty, fitness and massages, becomingthe first international omnichannel ecosystem of day-to-day services. It is available to anyone who wants to invest or undertake the necessary solutions to launch their own business under the business lines of the Jeff brand.
Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
Osteal Therapeutics — Osteal Therapeutics is a privately-held, clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing novel musculoskeletal therapeutics to treat orthopedic infections and their consequences.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.

The Rise Fund is committed to achieving social and environmental impact alongside financial returns. We seek to partner with creative entrepreneurs and build successful businesses that drive meaningful, measurable positive change.The Rise Fund will focus on investments in seven sectors in which independent research has shown that impact is bothachievable and measurable in quantitative terms: education, energy, food and agriculture, financial services, healthcare, information, and communication technology, and industrials and infrastructure.

Investment focus

Health Care, Financial Services, Software
Series C, Series B, Funding Round
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

BillEase — No credit card? No problem. Buy now, pay later at your favorite stores with BillEase and avail monthly installment plans with 0% interest. Split your purchase in 4 payments or pay only 1/3 upfront and the rest up to 12 months. No hidden fees. No surprises. Learn more here.
Hayden AI — Artificial intelligence is already impacting almost every aspect of our lives. But cities still rely on outdated technologies that are too expensive to scale and unable to deliver on their promise. As a result, streets are becoming unsafe, and cities are becoming unmanageable. Hayden AI was founded on the belief that by combining mobile sensorswith artificial intelligence, we can help governments bridge the innovation gap while making traffic flow less dangerous and more efficient. Led by a team of experts in machine learning, data science, transportation, and government technology, we’ve developed the world’s first autonomous traffic management platform — simultaneously serving citizens and multi-agency missions to help cities become safer and more sustainable.
Eruditus Executive Education — Eruditus Executive Education offers the best executive education programmes from world's top Business Schools - Columbia, INSEAD, Harvard, MIT Sloan, Wharton and more.

Guillaume Luccisano was the Co-Founder of TripleByte and Socialcam. He attended EPITECH for his degree in computer science.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Cryptr — DEFAULT : Get features like SSO to convert more B2B customers, regardless of their auth provider. Just a few lines of code to start working with enterprise clients.
Cauri Money — Cauri Money specializes in financial technology with a wide range of digital banking solutions via app for fund transfer.
Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.

Ant Group aims to create the infrastructure and platform to support the digital transformation of the service industry. They strive to enable all consumers and small businesses to have equal access to financial and other services that are inclusive, green, and sustainable.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
China, Thailand, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Lubi — Lubi provides automotive insurance service using big data analysis.
Galaxea AI — Xinghaitu is an intelligent robot technology company that specializes in the development of humanoid robots with embodied intelligence.
Telenor Microfinance Bank (TMB) — Telenor Microfinance Bank Limited operates as a commercial microfinance bank. The company provides micro mortgage for crop and trade financing; business and emergency loans; micro leasing; term deposit accounts; micro savings; and group loans to men and women in urban and rural areas. It serves low-income, salaried, self-employed, and microentrepreneurs.

At Velocity Ventures, we invest in visionary entrepreneurs who are reshaping the Travel & Hospitality sector in Southeast Asia. We focus on Seed to Series A stage growth companies across the Transportation, Travel Services, Accommodation, Food & Beverage and Retail & Experiences sub-sectors. Our team consists of a unique mix of Travel& Hospitality sector specialists & successful entrepreneurs with 13 decades of combined operating and investing experience, coupled with a deep, value-added network in Asia.If you are the founder of a growing start-up with great potential in the Travel & Hospitality sector in SE Asia, please get in touch at reachus@velocityventures.vc.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, Hospitality
Seed, Series A
Israel, Malaysia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Aigens — Aigens is the leading provider of Restaurant Ordering, Loyalty, and Payment solutions in Hong Kong, Singapore, and beyond
ZYTLYN Technologies — Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, ZYTLYN is a data analytics and AI company, helping customers address their most urgent problems and opportunities with granular, qualified, and actionable data, predictions and insights. Its Prediction as-a-Service product gives customers the ability to optimize critical decision making through predictiveinsights. Together with customers, ZYTLYN is helping the world’s largest industries adapt, recover and grow faster, with a total addressable market of close to $50 billion.
Hyper Food Robotics — We transform fast food delivery restaurants into fully automated units.

SQ Capital Group is a financial group engaged in fundraising advisory and venture investment for technology companies in Asia. Leveraging on our strong strategic investor networks in the Greater Bay Area and our IPO and investment banking expertise, we have unique positioning of empowering growth stage companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Restaurants, Shopping
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Hong Kong, Croatia, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Loship — Lozi is the fastest-growing Tech startup that operates a one-hour-delivery E-commerce platform called Loship. Made by Vietnamese for Vietnamese, Loship offers the most effective distribution networks in Vietnam, filling the massive demand for immediate deliveries in a bustling and modern life, with a wide range of services including food delivery(Loship), grocery delivery (Lomart), ride-hailing (Lo-xe), medicine delivery (Lomed), laundry service (Lozat), package delivery (Lo-send), beauty products delivery (LoBeauty), flower delivery (Lo-hoa) and B2B supply delivery (Lo-supply).Loship now has a fleet of more than 70,000 drivers and 200,000 merchants, serving almost 2,000,000 customers across four big cities of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Can Tho – all dedicated to fulfilling the Vietnamese consumers’ one-hour delivery needs.
Zeek — Zeek is a data-driven intelligent logistics technology platform that provides one-stop O2O last-mile delivery solutions for F&B, lifestyle and FMCG merchants in Southeast Asia. Founded in Hong Kong, Zeek has expanded its business presence to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, etc with customers that comprise global top-five F&B brandsand fast-food chains, leading supermarkets and department stores, convenience store chains, online e-commerce and food platforms, etc. Zeek has become one of the leading delivery partner for global fast-food chain in Southeast Asia and is confident to become one of the leading intelligent on-demand logistics players in F&B and lifestyle sectors in Southeast Asia.
Codemap — Hire no-code, automation and technology experts & agencies vetted by Codemap. Build software faster with minimal or NO coding - launch in days or weeks. Learn no-code and automate processes to supercharge your business.

Vectr is a venture firm based in Hong Kong. They combine investment, creation and growth to deliver game-changing impact to teams ready to tackle global issues, transform industries and improve the lives of millions.That combines capital, creation and partnership to deliver game-changing impact. We strive to be the ideal partner for founders thatare building transformation products and looking to expand their businesses into asia.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
Micro Connect — Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
MasterExchange — Trading platform for music rights leveraging emerging technology to create friction free and compliant investment opportunities to everyone.

Heyi Capital is an investment and marketing firm for early stage Chinese companies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Music, Reading Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
China, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zaker — Zaker they give services in content application, efficiency tools, and integrated business platforms that cover content application and management scenarios in different industries and, through the data governance, development, and application capabilities of the data platform, to create an intelligent content ecosystem for partners and realize theintelligent upgrade of content businesses.
Xinlian Times — Xinlian Times is an AIGC intelligent customer service platform that provides intelligent solutions based on AI-generated content to customers.
Sangan Video — Three sense video is an emotional story short video manufacturer, with emotional music as the entry point, the target audience is mainly after the 90s and 00s of the 1st and 2nd tier cities, trying to express a story through a popular song. Such as "confession balloon", "suddenly miss you", "slowly before" and so on.The content is about the emotional state of the young group.

Cachet is an asset management firm that focuses on family office services, investment advisory, and management at primary market and secondary market. It is also active in providing strategies including equity, private debts, and private equities spaces.The firm has an overriding priority of helping clients preserve wealth and achieve theirfinancial objectives, they guide clients through the rapidly-changing and volatile investment landscape by drawing on the investment and research resources of their global network.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet
Series C, Seed, Series A
China, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Calioo — Online marketplace for artisan food
Markable Creators(Markable AI) — BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers canclick and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come.Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020.
Matrixport — Matrixport is an all-in-one crypto financial services platform where users can earn, invest, trade, loan and buy crypto assets. Get started today!

James recently relocated from London to join AirTree Ventures as a Partner, focusing on growth stage venture investments in Australia and New Zealand, particularly in enterprise software/SaaS, security, infrastructure/core tech and fintech. James is currently managing AirTree’s investments in Prospa, 90Seconds and Paxata. Prior toAirTree, James was the Vice President of Accel Partners, investing in early stage and growth stage companies. James held board member or board observer for Accel’s investments in Weaveworks, Simplivity, Skipjaq, E8 Storage and Semmle.James also co-founded a SaaS investment research software platform aimed at investment management funds in San Francisco in 2011. James holds an MBA from Stanford, and a Bachelors of Computer Science & Law from University of New South Wales.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TrueState — Accelerate your AI adoption with TrueState's library of high-impact AI solutions, infinitely customisable for your unique business context.
Green Monday Holdings — Green Monday Holdings is a manufacturer of plant-based pork substitute products and frozen meals and an operator of a chain of vegetarian-focused retail outlets and cafes.
Constantinople — Constantinople manages all infrastructure and operational aspects of your bank: from Customer experience, Banking products to Features, Risks, and Operations.

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Memes Lab — Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.
Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.
Infinity Ground — Infinity Ground Technology supports developers in using AI with Web3, making these technologies accessible to all.

Explore what makes Jefferies (NYSE: JEF) a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm unlike any other.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Apps
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Parafin — Parafin provides you with an end-to-end solution to offer one-click financing to your sellers.
Valon Technologies — We're here to support you throughout your homeownership journey. Manage your mortgage with ease and explore flexible lending solutions.
InvestX Capital — InvestX is an asset manager providing investors and the wealth management industry with the ability to invest in pre-IPO companies in single and multi position funds.

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Volta — Our mission is to empower brands, wholesalers, and distributors with the tools and support to thrive in today's digital economy.
Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
Workflow — A minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams. Manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work, all in one place.

DayDayCook was founded in December, 2012. They are Hong Kong’s largest cooking multimedia platform and have community with monthly users totaly more than 400,000. Today, as more and more users aspire to a higher quality of life, food safety, and health, DayDayCook has become a platform for original recipes and cooking advice, helping their users tomaintain a healthy lifestyle.DayDayCook inspires a young generation to cook and enjoy both traditional and modern Asian recipes through a variety of distribution channels including digital and traditional publishing with high quality and easy-to-follow recipes.DayDayCook has millions of monthly viewers over its broad reach including website, mobile apps, videos, and books. With a strong and dedicated fan base including over 275,000 Facebook fans, DayDayCook also brings goods to the consumer through its e-commerce store 'The DayDayCook Shop'

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, SaaS, Internet of Things
Seed
Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Metafoodx — Metafoodx is on a mission to solve the challenge of food waste. We believe that it is one of the most critical factors for achieving global sustainability.
Good Food Technologies — Good Food Technologies is a Hong Kong-based startup focused on innovative food R&D and manufacturing.

Blue Horizon is accelerating the transition to a sustainable food system that delivers outstanding returns for the planet and people.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

WOW EARN — WOW EARN connects users to the blockchain, enabling them to mine, earn, and trade via decentralised mining, earning, and trading systems.
EV Biotech — We design and optimise your precision fermentation strains and processes, tailored to your success.
foodforecast — AI supported solution to reduce food waste.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.

Alan Rutledge

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
Sova Health — Sova Health is a precision nutrition platform that guides users towards a healthier lifestyle with personalized nutrition advice based on accurate blood biomarker analysis. Understand what is stopping you from achieving your nutritional goal and get your personalized nutrition plan.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Vector Ventures is a early stage digital health + medical device investment fund

Investment focus

Nutrition, Construction, Organic Food
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Future salad — Allklear is a Hong Kong food tech startup combining nature and technology.
viAct — viAct optimises construction safety, productivity and environmental compliance. Ensuring higher ESG preposition with AI. Offering services for construction industry of Asia & Europe & operational in China, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong.

Lever VC is a U.S.-Hong Kong venture capital fund founded by Managing Partner Nick Cooney and investing in early stage companies in the alternative protein sector (plant-based and “clean”/cell-based meat, egg and dairy companies). Lever VC operates globally, with offices in Hong Kong and the U.S. and staff in the US, Hong Kong, Europe, andIsrael. Entrepreneurs and startups interested in connecting with Lever VC about possible investment can reach the team and submit information about their company at http://www.levervc.com.Managing Partner Nick Cooney is the Co-Founder and former Managing Trustee of New Crop Capital, a private venture capital trust vehicle investing in the alternative protein space, and is Co-Founder of the Good Food Institute, the world’s largest non-governmental organization working to grow the alternative protein space. The General Partners at Lever VC have deployed over $1.5 billion in capital over the past decade across a variety of sectors, including over thirty deals in the alternative protein space.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, China, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Gavan — Transforming the way proteins are delivered. Our technology extracts high purity proteins from source while maintaining their physical structure unharmed and preserving their high functionality.
HerdDogg — HerdDogg is passionate about livestock. Its innovative data platform sits at the intersection of agtech, the internet of things, and global food security. Our patented DoggTags and DoggBone, together with our Animal Traceability Platform, help producers make more money from every animal they raise. The HerdDogg system enables animal tracking,welfare monitoring and traceability in an easy-to-use application. For more information, visit herddogg.com.
Clever Carnivore — Clever Carnivore is a cell-cultured meat startup that uses stem cell biology, recombinant protein, and bioengineering to create cost-effective lab grown meats. With the company's high-efficiency model, cruelty-free, environmentally friendly, and cost-competitive technology it aims to produce sausage, burgers, and chicken nuggets.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.

Vectr is a drawing tool that lets you create vector images – graphics that are scalable without the loss of resolution – easily and intuitively. Instead of using pixels, vector graphics use mathematical equations to draw out your creations. Vectr performs the math behind-the-scenes, so the only thing they need to focus on is what they'recreating. With its easy-to-use interface, anyone can use Vectr to become an illustrator or graphic designer we’ll show them how in no time.Vectr was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Qredo — Qredo is a cross-chain protocol for asset managers and traders active in the digital asset markets. Using our institution-grade, layer 2 infrastructure, investors can now hold all their crypto assets securely in one place, with unlocked access to a wide range of liquidity venues and DeFi yield opportunities.
Future salad — Allklear is a Hong Kong food tech startup combining nature and technology.
Arima Genomics — Use the most advanced Hi-C technology to power your discoveries with unparalleled access to the sequence + structure of any genome.

John Wood is the founder of Room to Read. He started Room to Read after a fast-paced and distinguished career with Microsoft from 1991 to 1999. He was in charge of marketing and business development teams throughout Asia, including serving as director of business development for the Greater China region and as director of marketing for theAsia-Pacific region. John continues to bring Room to Read a vision for a scalable solution to developing global educational problems with an intense focus on results and an ability to attract a world-class group of employees, volunteers, and funders.Today, John focuses full-time on long-term strategy, capital acquisition, public speaking, and media opportunities for the organization. John also teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and New York University’s Stern School of Business and serves on the Advisory Board of the Clinton Global Initiative.John holds a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Colorado and a master’s degree from the Kellogg School of Northwestern University. Follow John on Twitter @JohnWoodRtR.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Children
Seed, Series A
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Retykle — Buy & sell new and second hand designer children's clothing at up to 90% off. Shop today for great discounts on clothes, shoes and accessories from over 2000+ of the best baby and kids brands
Green Monday Holdings — Green Monday Holdings is a manufacturer of plant-based pork substitute products and frozen meals and an operator of a chain of vegetarian-focused retail outlets and cafes.

Magic Capital is an investment firm focused on supporting Chinese Internet companies. The company's founders are working cross a broad range of sectors, from education to media to healthcare to SaaS to AI to e-commerce to game to social networking service.

Investment focus

Apps, Education, Internet
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Weiming Smart — Weiming Smart is a technology company focused on machining intelligent manufacturing.The company is deeply involved in the precision processing industry, creatively integrating production management software and Internet platform technology into production management, building a comprehensive data information system on the production sitethrough equipment networking and data collection, and combining sensors, edge computing, cloud computing, and other technologies.
Grand Voyage Holdings — A Globe Online Shopping Marketplace/ Known as Frissonlife
APstem Therapeutics, Inc. — With APstem Therapeutics’ breakthrough discovery of Adult Pluripotent Stem Cells (APSCs™), we are on a mission to eradicate difficult-to-heal diseases and conquer the challenges of aging.

Phillip Private Equity Pte Ltd is one of the leading private equity firms in Singapore. They manage 3 funds with over S$450 million in committed capital. They provide capital in the form of equity and debt, to innovative enterprises across select stages, sectors and geographies. They work closely with Their investee companies to accelerate theirgrowth and help them achieve their potential. Their goal is to create businesses with lasting and significant value.

Investment focus

Hospitality, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
Singapore, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aigens — Aigens is the leading provider of Restaurant Ordering, Loyalty, and Payment solutions in Hong Kong, Singapore, and beyond
Lendela — Lendela helps you get the best possible personal loan in Asia, completely free of charge. Start by clicking the country you are situated in.
Big Tiny — Big Tiny builds tiny houses in Australia and New Zealand. Big Tiny hosts your tiny house investment and help rent out on Airbnb for high rental yield.

NLS Ventures is an early stage investment firm based in Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Hong Kong, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Louisa AI — Louisa is a collective intelligence platform. The company's platform connects to a company's various data sources and auto-creates a comprehensive map of who and what everyone in the company knows. By providing employees with a centralized platform to access the collective intelligence of the company, Louisa is the one-stop shop for allyour knowledge and expertise needs.
LunarCrush — Learn how social media impacts markets with LunarCrush, a social media analytics tool that helps you gain an edge using social and market intelligence.
Mandala Chain — Mandala Chain provides blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions for government and enterprise integration.

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