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Top 40 Hardware Startup Investors in Malaysia in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 40 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hardware startups based in Malaysia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Malaysia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Hardware Startup Investors in Malaysia in November 2024

Investor	Hardware Malaysia investments
Vynn Capital	3
Cradle Seed Ventures	3
Blockchain Founders Fund	2
Wavemaker Partners	2
NFQ Capital	2
Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India	2
UpHonest Capital	2
Patamar Capital	2
Accord Ventures	2
ZB Capital	2
Duygu Oktem Clark	1
pitchIN	1
Gobi Partners	1
Cradle Fund	1
Prasetia Dwidharma	1
Resolution Ventures	1
Beyond Ventures	1
Smart Partnership Capital.	1
Jason Tsai	1
Helios Investment Partners	1
Fintonia Group	1
Headline	1
Asia Venture Group	1
Brama One Ventures	1
AltaIR Capital	1
John Devor	1
Edith Yeung	1
Ying Fund	1
Sterling Oak Group	1
Drone Fund	1
Calendula Ventures	1
Brad Flora	1
InnoStart Capital	1
Ondine Capital	1
Apax Partners	1
Atami Capital	1
Vertex Ventures	1
Partech	1
Wei Guo	1
MyEG Capital	1

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Vynn invests in entrepreneurs with strong operational involvement and capability to maintain a well-cultured team. Key industries for us are Travel, Property, Food & FMCG and Female Economics. We also focus on industry enablers such as logistics fulfilment and fintech in enhancing industry efficiencies.

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Bizbaz — Bizbaz offers financial intelligence solutions to financial institutions, fintech firms, e-commerce and telecommunication companies in Asia.With teams in Singapore, Israel, Vietnam, Philippines and Malaysia, Bizbaz offers a full suite of financial intelligence solutions, including but not limited to, comprehensive risk assessment, alternativecredit scoring, fraud detection, eKYC, financial product aggregation and recommendation systems.
WYZauto — WYZauto is an online marketplace that links luxury tyre wholesalers and auto repair facilities. WYZauto provides tire businesses with access to Thailand's largest tire inventory, references, and delivery choices.
Borong — Dropee is a SaaS-enabled marketplace that connects local independent retailers with brands in South East Asia via an ordering app. The marketplace's unique value proposition makes it easier for businesses both big and small to manage their procurement and supply chain ecosystem. It allows businesses to get connected in order to buy and sell inbulk and the enterprise solution allows businesses to streamline their operational processes to work more efficiently and effectively.Dropeee’s platform connects suppliers with small-to-medium enterprise (SME) business owners in real-time to streamline the product fulfillment process and facilitate bulk purchases through a suite of enterprise solutions. The supply-chain in Malaysia and across Southeast Asia lacks meaningful real-time connectivity between suppliers and retailers. The modern, digital approach to the wholesale industry allows retailers to discover, purchase, and manage inventories for their store all on a single marketplace platform.

Cradle Seed Ventures (CSV) is the venture capital arm of Malaysia’s premier early stage financier and influencer, Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd.CSV manages an early stage venture fund based out of Malaysia and is always on the lookout for start-ups with high growth potential, led by passionate founders with high levels of enthusiasm.CSV is delightedto be part of this new dawn of excitement in the start-up world, both in Malaysia and globally.CSV mandated investments will be in the technology sector with specific focus on selected verticals. CSV has the added strength of being able to leverage on Cradle’s long experience in supporting early stage start-ups, understanding the funding and operational needs of a start-up and also be a supportive partner when they scale in the Malaysian market and to foreign shores.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Crowdsourcing
Seed, Series A, Series B
Malaysia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SUPA — SUPA BOLT | Get insights to turn label noise into trusted and usable data. Begin your data-centric AI journey today.
SUPA — Supahands is the leading end-to-end data labelling partner for AI/ML companies. Find out more and set up a POC within 48 hours by speaking to us today!
MoneyMatch — 121+ countries, 42+ currencies. Bank transfers, e-wallets or cash pickups. Seamless, low-cost and transparent international money transfers for everyone.

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
KRNL Labs — KRNL Labs is a decentralized infrastructure protocol that makes smart contracts and develops an open, multichain software registry for the Web3 ecosystem. That allows developers to build dApps that can leverage multiple blockchains simultaneously.
Persist Ventures — We bring visions to life with a full suite of agencies to help our companies start and scale.

Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Bifrost AI — Build AI in a day instead of a year, at a fraction of the price, with the Bifrost synthetic data engine.
Tour Amigo — Tour Amigo is a complete streamlined booking system that is specifically designed for multi-day tour agents and operators.
Checkmate — Checkmate is an easy to use online reference checking and background screening tool.

NFQ accelerates the success of entrepreneurs with a current team of 250 specialists delivering company-building services.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Travel, Tourism
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Raus — Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
Productpine — Discover, experience, and buy emerging brands and products from all over the world, at Productpine. Shop online through a personalized journey and be inspired!
The Naked Market — The Naked Market is a next-generation consumer products company that is creating a portfolio of food & beverage brands.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

COOLMATE — Coolmate is an online shopping mall committed to providing a complete shopping experience for Vietnamese male customers. It allows users to order up to 10 items like t-shirts and socks for under US$20. The company is headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam.
BigEndian — BigEndian is a platform for fabless semiconductor development in surveillance vertical.
Pilgrim — Pilgrim - Premium International Brand | No Animal Testing, No Harmful Chemicals, Natural, Vegan Friendly, FDA Approved.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
Bot Auto — Bot Auto develops and operates autonomous trucks for middle-mile freight.
Yala — Yala operates a multi-token system and unlocks a thriving and interconnected DeFi ecosystem on Bitcoin.

Patamar Capital is Southeast Asia's leading impact-driven venture capital firm. Founded in 2011, Patamar invests in early-stage companies building sector-defining platforms that maximize positive impact and financial returns.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Jana Care — Jana Care develops and manufactures Aina Blood Monitoring Device, a novel connected blood diagnostic device.Jana Care founders Sidhant Jena, Michal Depa, and Prof. Tarun Khanna were challenged by an enterprising physician-entrepreneur (Dr. Devi Shetty) to build a smartphone app for health workers to screen for Oral Cancer and CardiovascularDisease in remote rural communities in India. What started off as a side project during graduate school, became one of the largest chronic disease screening programs in the world and eventually led to Jana Care.
Vigo Retail — Vigo Retail is an e-commerce platform that provides retail services by connecting suppliers, brands, and distributors.
Lhoopa — Making homeownership achievable for every Filipino family.

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is a private, secure online office suite. Discover an office with flexible deployment options and MS Office compatibility.

Over the years, ZB capital has been working with numerous regional entrepreneurs, family offices, industrial investors, business operators, as well as professional parties to co-invest in growth-stage companies and businesses. Our portfolio companies are from all around the globe including China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, North America, and Israel.They cover a broad range of industries including fintech, cloud computing, IoT, advanced manufacturing, and consumer goods. Our primary objective is to focus on both the new demand created by the applications of the latest technologies, and the potential improvement in efficiency in traditional industries through technological upgrades.Our founding and execution teams, along with our advisory committee, come from a diversified background and have rich experiences in handling cross-broader transactions. We maintain the greatest level of flexibility in dealing with the local business culture and regulations, and we are always very thoughtful on connecting the resources from different regions in order to create the best synergies as well as business opportunities.We usually look at the fundamentals of the business and its market potential when evaluating any investment opportunities. At the same time, we apply a stringent internal process during the due diligence stage to validate the business itself. For post-investment management, we spend a lot of resources to follow up with the development plan of each business so that we are aware of the latest status of each portfolio company in order to protect our capital.

Investment focus

AgTech, Drones, Fitness
Seed, Series A
Malaysia, China

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.
Poladrone — Founded in 2016, Poladrone is a drone technology company that focuses on putting forward drones as an industrial solution. We use autonomous drones and customised algorithms to collect and analyse data efficiently. Through integrating drones into existing commercial workflow, we aim to solve operational problems and increase revenues.Poladronehas two proprietary products, Airamap – a closed based platform providing aerial insights through simplified mapping process; and Oryctes – a customised agriculture spraying drone deigned for local crops such as oil palm. We are also official distributors of a number of world class brands namely DJI Enterprise, Sentera, FLIR and others to provide a complete solution to our customers.We are here to help you improve your business. Contact us today to discuss how we can work together.
Aonic (Formerly Poladrone) — Founded by a team of engineers, Aonic (Formerly Poladrone) is an all-in-one drone solutions provider for enterprises that are looking to modernise and streamline their operations workflow. A staple in the commercial drone industry, Poladrone is rapidly expanding beyond the skies and later rebranded into what we are today – Aonic, demonstrating ourcommitment to our clients to provide them with a holistic ecosystem beyond our core drone capabilities.

Duygu Oktem Clark is the Co-Founder of Turkish Collective. Duygu Oktem Clark attended MIT Sloan School of Management and Middle East Technical University.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Coffee
Seed
United States, Turkey, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Seed — Seed is simply a better way to bank. As a mobile first banking service designed with the small business in mind, Seed empowers small businesses with modern, easy-to-use digital tools and customer-support resources for starting, running, and growing a business. With Seed, business banking has never been easier.
Cloosiv — Cloosiv is an ordering platform that allows users to order in advance from their favorite coffee shop, skip the queue, and get rewards from the platform to save time and money.
Pop Meals — Expect exciting, locally trending meals at an affordable price! Now with dine-in, pickup and delivery .

Your one stop crowdfunding platform

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Malaysia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lapasar.com — Lapasar.com is a B2B marketplace, giving corporate buyers access to suppliers across Malaysia - via the marketplace & via RFQ tools. To adhere to and strengthen corporate governance, the marketplace comes with integrated procurement tools in the backend.
WHIP Mobility — Disruptive SAAS platform in automotive retail
Igotopia Sdn Bhd — Gecko Digital is a Digital Marketing & Virtual Tours agency. We are the biggest provider of Hotel Virtual Tours and 360 VR in Asia.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Jazro — Robotic Academy. Develop Digital Talents . Fun Ways To Learn Programming, Coding & Robotic. Give Your Child a Memorable School Holiday. Book Now. Courses: Jazro Mbot, Make X Training, Jazro Coding, Raspberry Pi Jazro, Jazro IOT Project, Jrone, Jazro DIY, Jazro Art & Craft & Jazro Autism Robot Class.
Bateriku — Bateriku provides emergency roadside assistance for car breakdowns and car battery delivery in Malaysia with nationwide coverage. Learn more here!
DCAP Digital — Reimagine Consumer Financing With Our Full Stack Financing Platform and Lending-as-a-Service Platform, first-of-its- kind in Malaysia

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Malaysia, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lokein — Lokein is a Malaysia secure marketplace - Buy and sell preloved, vintage, second hand and bundle items.
Ulalive — No-code video call-to-actions for higher conversion marketing. Acquire leads, build pipelines easily with Ulalive
Shoppegram — Shoppegram is a SaaS platform designed for ease of use with a high conversion rate for small businesses.With Shoppegram focusing on core essentials feature only, it helps our users to build their online store fast and with ease. Focusing on business validation and conversion rate without the technical hassles.Shoppegram also does regulartraining and workshops to help small business owners kick starts their own online business using e-commerce. We provide e-learning content from core fundamentals to advance analysis to helps our merchants learn and grow easily.Shoppegram currently have over 21,000 users in Malaysia. Shoppegram was founded in 2013 and launched to the public on 30 August 2019.

PT Prasetia Dwidharma was founded in 2008 as a telecommunication infrastructure contractor. The company has started to invest in technology startups since 2013.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Indonesia, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
Luna POS — Luna POS provides cloud-based cashier, inventory management, and accounting solutions for SMEs in Indonesia. The company offers a seamless mobile cloud-based Point of Sale (POS) and accounting system, helping the retail industry with managing business activities such as checking the stock of goods, making a bundle menu, calculating sales, and tosee financial statements of the business.
DOOgether — DOOgether is Indonesia’s number one leading healthy lifestyle application that gives easier access and solution to your healthy lifestyle, in booking workout classes (offline and virtual) and in purchasing healthy caterings.

The investment team at Resolution Ventures have a background in professional fund management and a track record of backing exceptional founders in the early stages of their journey.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A
Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

STAG VIETNAM — STAG is a trading platform that provides practice trading stocks, stock investing, and personal financial management services.
Primary — Primary is the modern operating system for treasury management. We empower startups & innovative corporates to grow by reducing complexity around treasury, payments and cash flow.Primary is used by leading founders and finance teams that value safety, control and efficiency. Our product simplifies access to best-in-class yield instruments,enables monitoring of real-time cash positions across multiple banking partners and improves cash forecasting capabilities. We are powering the secure, smart and transparent treasury to help all companies meaningfully extend their runways.
International Payments Identity(IPiD) — International Payments Identity(IPiD) is a international payments addressing platform that provide solutions to validate bank account of the payee and fetch his banking information by mapping proxies with bank account details.

A US$60M startup fund aiming at revitalizing HK’s ecosystem of innovation by connecting local venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to invest in ideas and startups. It is co-founded by Hony Capital, eGarden Ventures & several successful HK entrepreneur

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Hong Kong, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

SpacemiT — SpacemiT is a computing chip company developing natively integrated cloud-edge-device architecture. It focuses on building RISC-V high-performance CPUs and providing computing solutions with integrated hardware and software optimization. The company's mission is to be the cornerstone of computing power in the digital age, driven to become asignificant global computing powerhouse.
Springdel — Move beyond cloud and legacy MDM with an enterprise-grade EdgeOps platform purpose-built for the interactive Edge of Things.
Yuchao Technology — Yuchao Technology is a digital collecting platform that uses blockchain technology to protect intellectual property.

Smart Partnership Capital is a venture capital fund. We invest in top-notch founders with global ambitions and projects, which solve real problems using technology.

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Belarus, Germany, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Stayf — Cultivating a Healthy Corporate Culture through Sport and Wellness in One App
respond.io — Respond.io is a business messaging platform that connects contacts from Email, Whatsapp, Social Media, Website widget in one place.
FuseBase (formerly Nimbus) — FuseBase (formerly Nimbus Platform) - Free Online Collaboration Software for Remote Teams. Build your wikis, client portals and more with the FuseBase (formerly Nimbus Platform) collaboration tool ? A perfect space for online work

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

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed
Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Borong — Dropee is a SaaS-enabled marketplace that connects local independent retailers with brands in South East Asia via an ordering app. The marketplace's unique value proposition makes it easier for businesses both big and small to manage their procurement and supply chain ecosystem. It allows businesses to get connected in order to buy and sell inbulk and the enterprise solution allows businesses to streamline their operational processes to work more efficiently and effectively.Dropeee’s platform connects suppliers with small-to-medium enterprise (SME) business owners in real-time to streamline the product fulfillment process and facilitate bulk purchases through a suite of enterprise solutions. The supply-chain in Malaysia and across Southeast Asia lacks meaningful real-time connectivity between suppliers and retailers. The modern, digital approach to the wholesale industry allows retailers to discover, purchase, and manage inventories for their store all on a single marketplace platform.

Helios Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in buyouts of going concerns, recapitalization, mezzanine, growth capital for private enterprises, restructurings joint ventures, startups; either green-field or brownfield; and the majority or blocking-minority structured investments in listed entities. It seeksto invest in the telecommunications, media, financial services, power, utilities, travel, leisure, distribution, fast-moving consumer goods, logistics, and Agro-allied sectors. The firm prefers to invest in Africa with a focus on Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya. It seeks to invest between $15 million and $200 million in an individual transaction. The firm prefers to have a board seat in its portfolio companies. Helios Investment Partners LLP was founded in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Energy, Oil and Gas
Private Equity, Debt Financing, Funding Round
Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
Africell Holding — Africell was established in 2001 in Africa and has been shaped by traditional African values, putting the communities in their markets at the heart and soul of our business. Connecting and empowering local communities lies at the very core of our strategy. Africell is one of the fastest-growing mobile telecommunications operators in Africa. Theyhave established theirselves as the number one provider in Gambia and Sierra Leone and are rapidly growing our newer operations in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, where we purchased Orange Uganda. Africell Holding owns 100% of Africell’s operations in Gambia, Sierra Leone, DRC, and 98.99% of Africell Uganda. The total number of active subscribers reached 11 million by end of 2016. All four operations offer voice and 3G data services with plans to deploy LTE services, which are already available in Kampala, Uganda.
Zola Electric — ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania,Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.

Fintonia Group is an entrepreneurial financial services firm, providing merchant banking, funds management and wealth management solutions to institutional clients and entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, CRM
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, Malaysia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Credolab — An alternative credit scoring solution based on alternative data (smartphone and web metadata)
StoreHub — StoreHub is an all-in-one POS system that helps future-proof F&B and retail businesses in Southeast Asia. Manage and grow your business, anytime, anywhere.
AsiaKredit — AsiaKredit (asiakredit.com) provides a ground-breaking fast and convenient consumer loan product through a mobile app to Southeast Asia’s half a billion unbanked. AsiaKredit impacts the lives of millions, fostering financial inclusion, improving standards of living, and ultimately driving the society forward. AsiaKredit’s diverse, experienced,and proven management team is the market-leading advocate for Responsible Lending, including strictly adhering to a Code of Ethics. Headquartered in Singapore, AsiaKredit currently operates in the Philippines, with plans to enter other Southeast Asian markets. AsiaKredit was seeded and developed by FORUM, the largest fintech venture builder in Emerging Asia, and Fintonia Group, the leading early-stage fintech investor in Southeast Asia.

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
Motion — Motion is a visual analysis hub that helps marketers and creative teams identify what works to make high-performing creatives that convert.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series C
Malaysia, India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

iPrice Group — Shop now with the largest selection of top brands and products in the region - all in a single website! Discover new products, compare smartphone prices and products. Get the latest coupon and voucher codes for Lazada, Zalora, Qoo10, Grab Car, and more!
BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
Flower Chimp — Best Price online for fresh Flowers by #1 florist in Malaysia with same day FREE Delivery on all orders. Shop for Roses, Sunflowers, Baby Breath flower bouquets & gifts from a wide selection for any occasion at FlowerChimp. Over 200 bouquets, stands and hampers to choose from - all prepared by experienced professionals

Brama One Ventures (BOV) is a family office investing across a variety of industries from Seed Stage and beyond.Founded in 2019, Brama One Ventures aim to give value to the start-up ecosystem through their expertise and experience. Brama One Ventures takes an open-arm approach to founders and ventures, as the principal involves directly in theinvestment process.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series B
Malaysia, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

ALVA — Presenting ALVA, we are creating a range of game-changing electric vehicle that combine thrill, power and style with eco-friendliness, smart savings and a better future
Borong — Dropee is a SaaS-enabled marketplace that connects local independent retailers with brands in South East Asia via an ordering app. The marketplace's unique value proposition makes it easier for businesses both big and small to manage their procurement and supply chain ecosystem. It allows businesses to get connected in order to buy and sell inbulk and the enterprise solution allows businesses to streamline their operational processes to work more efficiently and effectively.Dropeee’s platform connects suppliers with small-to-medium enterprise (SME) business owners in real-time to streamline the product fulfillment process and facilitate bulk purchases through a suite of enterprise solutions. The supply-chain in Malaysia and across Southeast Asia lacks meaningful real-time connectivity between suppliers and retailers. The modern, digital approach to the wholesale industry allows retailers to discover, purchase, and manage inventories for their store all on a single marketplace platform.

We foster innovation and work together to find and grow breakthroughs all over the world

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

IVM Markets — IVM is a content creation and product optimisation technology partner for players in the structured products industry. Our impartial nonconflicted technology helps democratise structured product content and allows for the design of the ideal investment idea for any situation. Unlike an aggregator, IVM doesn't just search products, it helps youdesign and refine the ideal products and then gain access to them at the right price.
FuseBase (formerly Nimbus) — FuseBase (formerly Nimbus Platform) - Free Online Collaboration Software for Remote Teams. Build your wikis, client portals and more with the FuseBase (formerly Nimbus Platform) collaboration tool ? A perfect space for online work
Elly Analytics, Inc. — Full-automated marketing dashboards as a service

John Devor - COO @ Touchpoint Games

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed
Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Borong — Dropee is a SaaS-enabled marketplace that connects local independent retailers with brands in South East Asia via an ordering app. The marketplace's unique value proposition makes it easier for businesses both big and small to manage their procurement and supply chain ecosystem. It allows businesses to get connected in order to buy and sell inbulk and the enterprise solution allows businesses to streamline their operational processes to work more efficiently and effectively.Dropeee’s platform connects suppliers with small-to-medium enterprise (SME) business owners in real-time to streamline the product fulfillment process and facilitate bulk purchases through a suite of enterprise solutions. The supply-chain in Malaysia and across Southeast Asia lacks meaningful real-time connectivity between suppliers and retailers. The modern, digital approach to the wholesale industry allows retailers to discover, purchase, and manage inventories for their store all on a single marketplace platform.

Edith is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and creator of the China Internet Report, and Silicon News.Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund. A few sectors we are particularly interested in are infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech verticals. She has invested in over 50 startupsincluding Agora.io (Nasdaq: API), Lightyear/Stellar (valued at $1.2B), Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Chirp (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), Solana, Oasis Labs, Hooked, DayDayCook, AISense, and many more.Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies. Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk.She frequently speaks on China and Silicon Valley technology and the investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and a commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc.Edith attended Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Purdue University.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Malaysia, Spain

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Serum — Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permission less – we do not hold special power anymore. Itis up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will.
Telepathic — Telepathic is redefining storytelling for the Snapchat generation. They believe there is a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing "lean" principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. Their first product is HOOKED, a “twitter for fiction” mobile app thatmakes reading addictive for teens. Their longterm vision is to release stories across multiple channels, including apps, video and virtual reality.The founders are Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, veterans from the mobile app world. They previously built music apps, like AutoRap, that have helped over 150MM people experience the joy of music creation. They've also produced several viral videos totaling over 300MM views. You can read more about the journey that led us to founding a storytelling startup in this piece they wrote for Vogue.
AppOnboard — AppOnboard is a Los Angeles-based software company empowering creators to build businesses without any programming experience. The company offers two no-code products: Buildbox, the largest no-code mobile game engine, and AppOnboard Studio, a mobile, interactive design studio that enables anyone to create playable ads and app prototypes.

Founded in 2019, Ying Fund is a global venture capital and accelerator with a mission to finance and boost creative early-stage startups.We provide the tools needed to quickly scale and achieve series A round with the correct model, go to market strategy, and the right team.We are enthusiastic about consumer，entertainment, health and retailcompanies. To these partnerships we bring adaptable capital, deep domain knowledge, access to transformative industry connections and strategic and operational skill to our investments.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Restaurants, FinTech
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada, Malaysia

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Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
Kula Bio — Kula Bio specializes in sustainable, biological solutions for modern agriculture. It energizes nitrogen-fixing microbes to produce organic fertilizer. By rewiring the energy flow from the sun to soil, they are disrupting synthetic fertilizer to eliminate the division between affordable practices and stewardship of our land, sea, and air.Thecompany was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Tripalink — Explore modern apartments and rooms for rent in major cities on Tripalink. Specializing in coliving and student housing, we offer premium home rental options.

Sterling Oak Group is an investment company.

Investment focus

Web Apps, Messaging, Mobile Apps
Series A
Malaysia

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respond.io — Respond.io is a business messaging platform that connects contacts from Email, Whatsapp, Social Media, Website widget in one place.

Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.

Investment focus

Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Canada

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LOMBY — LOMBY is a logistic firm that delivers orders through its robotic machines.
Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
CuboRex — CuboRex realizes creative mobility using its crawler technology.

Calendula Ventures is an investment vehicle backed by angel investors and family offices. We do deal-by-deal investments into early stage companies worldwide.

Investment focus

Web Apps, Messaging, Mobile Apps
Series A
Malaysia

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respond.io — Respond.io is a business messaging platform that connects contacts from Email, Whatsapp, Social Media, Website widget in one place.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, India

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SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.

InnoStart Capital is a small venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments.

Investment focus

Video Games, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, Malaysia

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Pop Meals — Expect exciting, locally trending meals at an affordable price! Now with dine-in, pickup and delivery .
Livescale — Try the Live Shopping solution with e-Commerce and checkout integration. Boost your real-time sales and skyrocket your brand awareness among communities!
Ludex — A web3 protocol that enables video games to operate on-chain.

Ondine Capital engages in venture capital type investment activities in Southeast Asia, focusing on startups with consumer technology, in the fields of retail, education, logistic, or general TMT.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Automotive, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
China, Indonesia, Singapore

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MetaCRM Inc. — AI-Driven. Web3-Ready. 10X Growth Potential. Billions in Data Insights. MetaCRM offers the solutions needed to unleash the full potential of your project.
Swap — Swap is city-based infrastructure of battery swapping stations for e-motorcycle riders. No more cords, no more hassle, battery is being swapped with a fully-charged battery within 9 seconds.
iMotorbike — iMotorbike is the #1 motorbike online E-commerce website in South East Asia, providing a fast, secure, simple and trouble free online experience with a wide variety of product range, setting itself apart from what exists in the market. iMotorbike offers three main categories: motorbikes, parts and accessories. For a complete 360° experience,iMotorbike also enables users the access to services such as insurance and financing. At iMotorbike we always strive to offer our customers the best experience through a complete and efficient online ecosystem for motorbike users, lovers and professionals.

Apax is a leading global private equity advisory firm. For 50 years, Apax has worked to inspire growth and ideas that transform businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series C, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

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Cloud Account — Cloud Account is a financial software developer that uses CRS management and services in the accounting industry.
Swing Education — Swing Education transforms the way K-12 schools and substitute teachers connect, ensuring teacher absences are filled and student learning stays on track.
GAN Integrity — Streamline compliance with GAN Integrity's ethics and compliance management software. Ensure success with our comprehensive and configurable platform.

Atami Capital is a privately-backed venture fund that acquires minority interests, working closely with existing management teams to create sustainable long-term value.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

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Pop Meals — Expect exciting, locally trending meals at an affordable price! Now with dine-in, pickup and delivery .
90 Seconds — Shoot high quality video anywhere in the world with 90 Seconds.
Coffee Meets Bagel — The dating app for serious daters

Vertex US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Israel

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ReturnKey — Returns Management for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, and more to come. Sync to your e-commerce platform on Shopify, Magento, and Woocommerce.
Deagent AI — DeagentAI is a decentralized artificial intelligence agent network to create a decentralized network platform.
Firefly — Firefly provides the cloud infrastructure management tools missing from traditional CMDBs

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

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Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
Pydantic Services — The team behind Pydantic are build developer tools that put developers first.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Canada

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Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.

MyEG Capital is an investment holding company which makes strategic investments in startups and IT companies via its venture investment operations. Its goals include empowering local entrepreneurs and supporting the domestic technology industry. The company has backed entrepreneurs in various industries, across the value chain, and at variousstages of the company life-cycle.MYEG Capital actively scouts for brilliant individuals and teams to support. If you have an interesting project or just want to say hi, get in touch with us by using the contact form below.MYEG Capital is a wholly owned subsidiary of MY E.G Services Berhad (MYEG), a MSC-status company listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad. MYEG is a Malaysia's e-Government services provider with principal activities comprising the development and implementation of e-Government services and the provision of the other related services for the e-Government services projects.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
China, Malaysia

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HiScene — HiScene focuses on researching and developing core technologies and products for augmented reality. The company is committed to be an artificial intelligence company which provides the most natural human-computer interaction and explores the deepest data value.
Ximmerse — Ximmerse offers a range of mobile visual computing and inertial tracking research solutions for AR/VR devices. The company’s solutions include a cross-platform optical tracking system based around a high FOV stereo camera; and a suite of controller peripherals.Ximmerse was launched by Mike Bailey in December 2014 and is based in Guangdong,China.
DeepScience — DeepScience is an extended reality content technology company providing AI digital human-driven engines and technical art platforms.

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