# Top 45 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Malaysia in June 2026 ## Orbit Startups - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cork, Cork, Ireland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth. ## Antler - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now! ## Asia Venture Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Food and Beverage Asia Venture Group is a hands-on, private Internet Holding Company and focuses on long-term value creation in South East Asian online markets. Asia Venture Group targets the sweet spots of the Asian internet space by combining: state of the art international know-how and expertise, rigorous execution excellence, outstanding international managementtalent, and the best local partners. Asia Venture Group focuses on digital distribution models and is extremely selective in terms of the companies it supports, which allows strong engagement in day-to-day operations. ## Argor Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Mobile Apps Argor Capital is an early stage venture fund focused on the fast growing markets of Southeast Asia. ## NFQ Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Tourism NFQ accelerates the success of entrepreneurs with a current team of 250 specialists delivering company-building services. ## Gobi Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet Gobi Partners is an Asia-focused VC backing early to growth stage startups. US$1.6B AUM, 400+ companies, 75 exits. Strategic guidance, founder network available. ## SOSV - Type: VC Fund - Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software 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. ## Susquehanna International Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets. ## DSG Consumer Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care We are DSG Consumer Partners - India & Southeast Asia's leading consumer-only venture capital fund. We partner with founders in the region to build world-class consumer brands. ## UpHonest Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology UpHonest Capital is a sector agnostic early-stage VC based in Silicon Valley. We invest in Seed, Pre-A, and Series A stages and many of our portfolio companies go on to receive later-stage investments from Sequoia, Accel, a16z, and others. We have invested in over 400 portfolio companies including Checkr, Boom, Astranis, Rippling, Turing, etc. We have an overseas vision and an active innovative ecosystem, which integrates a high-quality entrepreneur community, innovation events, media & communication coverage, and entrepreneurship education. ## Atami Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Douglas, NA - Isle of Man, Isle of Man - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Apps, Mobile, Internet Atami Capital is a privately-backed venture fund that acquires minority interests, working closely with existing management teams to create sustainable long-term value. ## Partners for Growth - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software We partner with companies at an inflection point in their business, who are seeking flexible and customized financing, matched to their trajectory and needs. ## Antifragile - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vreden, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Coffee, Food Processing, Food and Beverage Antifragile is a business advisor firm founded by Giuseppe Mayer focused on training for executives and investments in early stage startup. ## Lam Soon - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Consumer, Food and Beverage Lam Soon is a household name in South East Asia, known for its quality products and strong brand management skills. With strong brands and extensive sales & distribution network, it is recognized as a major Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) player. From its beginnings, it has grown steadily over the years and today, it has operations inSingapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. ## BEENEXT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally. ## Kathrein Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Restaurants Kathrein Ventures is a micro-venture capital fund that finances startups in Southeast Asia and Latin America. ## Perennial Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology Perennial Partners is a specialist, active investment management firm. Formed in 2000 and led by well-known Value investor, John Murray. The company's sole focus is to deliver excellence in funds management through equity ownership and the alignment of interests between key investment management staff and our clients. Perennial Value nowmanages over $5 billion on behalf of institutional and retail clients. ## Quest Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate. ## Matthias Wilrich - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Delivery, Health Care Matthias Wilrich is the VP Vehicles and Supply Chain at TIER Mobility. ## Partech - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages. ## Apax Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series C, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology Apax is a leading global private equity advisory firm. For 50 years, Apax has worked to inspire growth and ideas that transform businesses. ## Richmond View Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Sales Richmond View Ventures was founded in 2007 to merge the business angel investments and entrepreneurial activities of serial entrepreneur Frederik Fleck into a strong platform. Located in San Francisco and Berlin, RVV is poised to work on the cutting-edge of the most innovative developments in the tech industry. ## Wei Guo - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited. ## Brad Flora - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern. ## Capital Code - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Forestry, Software Capital Code is a bespoke advisory and investment firm that works with participants across the food and agribusiness value chain to deliver targeted outcomes through capital and corporate development. ## Axiata Digital Innovation Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Apps, Retail, Fitness Axiata Digital Innovation Fund is a technology venture fund formed by Axiata Berhad.Axiata has controlling interests in six mobile operators under the brand names of ‘Celcom’ in Malaysia, ‘XL’ in Indonesia, ‘Dialog’ in Sri Lanka, ‘Robi’ in Bangladesh, ‘Smart’ in Cambodia and ‘Ncell’ in Nepal, with strategic interests in ‘Idea’ in India and ‘M1’in Singapore. ## Apricot Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Advertising Apricot Capital is a seed stage investment firm based in Boston, MA and Toronto, Canada. Investments: awe.sm, Careport Health, Clypd, Crashlytics (acquired 2012), Habit Labs, Kinvey, Massive Damage, Momentfeed, MyTime, OnSwipe, Placester, Smart Lunches, TribeHR (acquired 2013), Peekaboo Mobile (acquired 2011) ## AC Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology Founded in 2014, AC Ventures is a Southeast Asian venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups focused on Indonesia and ASEAN, with over US$500 million in assets under management across five funds. The firm’s areas of investment focus on a variety of industries, including digital enablement, financial technologies, agriculturetechnologies, logistics, e-commerce, consumer technology, MSME solutions, waste management, renewable energy, and sustainability solutions. ## East Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari. ## SIG - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ichigaya, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Education, E-Commerce, Software SIG specializes in system integration and IT infrastructure solutions. The company aims to be an IT innovator and responds to the needs of society through self-innovation and study. It was founded in 1991 and headquartered in ## YJ Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making. ## Roman Kirsch - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group. ## Alta Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: EdTech, Retail, Medical Invest or sell private companies, funds and alternative assets with Fundnel, Southeast Asia's largest private investment technology platform, licensed and regulated by MAS ## Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, FinTech Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India invests in high-growth start-ups seeking their first round of institutional venture capital funding in Southeast Asia and India, with a primary focus on Singapore, India, Indonesia, Thailand and other emerging hubs of innovation across the region. It has a long and strong track record of investing in early-stage startups and building champions like Grab, Patsnap, 17Live, Nium, FirstCry, Licious, AsianParent, Validus, Warung Pintar, and others. ## RHL Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Private Equity - Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Social Media RHL Ventures is a Multi-Stage Venture Capital Investing Across Southeast Asia based in Malaysia. We invest actively from Series A across different asset classes and industries. ## Duygu Oktem Clark - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Coffee Duygu Oktem Clark is the Co-Founder of Turkish Collective. Duygu Oktem Clark attended MIT Sloan School of Management and Middle East Technical University. ## Hann Yeoh - Type: Angel - Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Coffee, Food Processing, Food and Beverage Hann Yeoh ## CYRILLA LTD - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Bakery, Manufacturing, Food Processing ## Sea Unicorn - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Restaurants Sea Unicorn ## Cradle Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS WHO IS CRADLE?Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd (Cradle) is Malaysia's early stage start-up influencer, incorporated under the Ministry of Finance Malaysia (MOF) in 2003 with a mandate to fund potential and high-calibre tech start-ups through its Cradle Investment Programme (CIP).Throughout its 13-year history, Cradle has helped fund over 700Malaysian tech start-ups and holds the highest commercialisation rate amongst government grants in the country. Having more than a decade of experience in the nation's grant funding scene, Cradle further expanded its role from grant provider to investor through the establishment of its venture arm, Cradle Seed Ventures in 2015 and following its portfolio expansion to equity investment in early 2017, Cradle now offers both funding and investment assistance. Cradle's product offerings are not only restricted to monetary aid, but also include commercialisation support, coaching and various other value-added services to cater today's entrepreneurs' diversified needs.OUR MISSIONTo be the leading pre-seed, seed and start-up stage funding agency in Malaysia, that provides effective grant and equity funding, commercialisation support, coaching, and industry value-add to accelerate the growth of start-up companies.Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ## Epic Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence We're Epic Angels - the world's largest Collective of fabulous female investors, investing in APAC and LATAM. We're so active that Tech in Asia just ranked us #4 among ALL angel networks in Asia. Not bad for a women-only collective, right? ## RAPZO CAPITAL - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, iOS, Mobile Investment Venture Capital Property Family Office Start-Ups Incubation Funding ## Ganesh Kumar Bangah - Type: Angel - Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Corporate Round, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet Ganesh Kumar Bangah is an award winning Technology Entrepreneur and Startup iInvestor. Ganesh was the .Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Malaysia 2012 and one of Asia’s most influential people according to Society Magazine 2015. He was also recognised as one of South East Asia’s Top 30 Tech Founders by Tech In Asia in 2016 andwas recognized as one of the the most inspiring Malaysian technology entrepreneurs by Top 10 of Malaysia. He has received many accolades including being recognised by Top 10 of Malaysia as among the 10 most inspiring Malaysian technology entrepreneurs and by Society Magazine as one of the 100 people you must know in Asia. Ganesh founded his first internet business, MOL Global Inc. (“MOL”) in the year 2000 at the tender age of 20. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of MOL for 15 years since its inception. Ganesh was certified by the Malaysia Book of Records as the youngest Chief Executive Officer of a Malaysian public listed company when MOL was originally listed on the Malaysian Stock Exchange in 2003. Through a series of acquisitions all over the world, he built MOL to become South East Asia’s leading online payment gateway and South East Asia’s first internet company to be listed on the NASDAQ in 2014. He was also the Founder and Director of MOL Ventures, an investment holding company which made successful private investments in global social media and mobile internet companies such as Facebook, Friendster and Kakao. Ganesh founded Commerce.Asia, and All In One eCommerce Ecosystem in 2017 anfwithin 3 years to have a database of over 8,000,000 SME's across 7 countries with over 61,000 sellers that sell RM1.5 billion (USD375m) worth of products.Commerce.asia's ecosystem includes Commerce.Asia Data, the largest SME database in South East Asia; Leading e-commerce platform, Sitegiant; Malaysia’s largest dropshipping platform, Kumoten; Malaysia’s largest direct-to-garment merchandise creation platform, Famsy and Malaysia's leading rural social commerce platform, Bizapp.Ganesh is a well respected industry leader and is currently the Immediate Past Chairman of the National ICT Association of Malaysia (“PIKOM”) and Chair of E-Commerce Malaysia, a Chapter of PIKOM. Ganesh is currently also on the Board of MaGIC, the Malaysian Global Innovation & Creative Centre.Ganesh has received many awards including as Overall Top Award Winner for the Prestige Top 40 Under 40 2012 Awards, Winner of the JCI Creative Young Entrepreneur Award 2009, Winner of the Technopreneur Excellence Award at the PIKOM ICT Leadership Awards in 2009 and Winner of the Young Indian Entrepreneur Award in 2009. ## Andress Goh - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Consumer, Food and Beverage Andress Goh is Managing Director and Head of the Singapore office. She focuses primarily on expanding APEP’s Asian investment activities and is a member of the APEP global Investment Committee. Prior to working for APEP, Andress was employed at GIC Special Investments (GIC SI) (UK & Germany) where she was active in leading European privateequity fund and co-investments from 1999. Her first job was with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore (Singapore, Germany & USA). Andress holds an MA from the University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. ## Velocity Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Software, Hospitality 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.