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Top 35 Hardware Startup Investors in Malaysia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 35 angel investors and VC 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 35 Hardware Startup Investors in Malaysia

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

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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.

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

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ouch — Ouch specializes in insurance services in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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.
Dropee — Source direct from Wholesalers, Key Distributors, and Manufacturers. Types: Drinks, Confectionary & Snacks, Event Supplies, Office Supplies. 3-5 days delivery

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.
Galapagos Japan — Galapagos is a manufacturing company that focuses on results.They trying to create an application that produces results in the application market where only good things are evaluated.

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, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
Saladin — Saladin is an online platform that provides life, health, automotive, and travel insurance services.
Bunker — Bunker is a financial analytics platform that provides modern executives deep visibility of their numbers. Bunker provides intuitive financial dashboards and monthly reports.

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

Poladrone — Founded by a team of engineers, Aonic aims to build a future-proof ecosystem of solutions that propels traditional industries forward. Through our 6 business verticals, We offer customized turnkey
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.
Rice Robotics Limited — The #1 Autonomous Workforce Provider in Hong Kong. Made and Designed in Hong Kong.

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

Layer Edge — First Optimistic Rollups with Modular DA Layer on #Bitcoin. Fast, Inexpensive & Familiar EVM environment for #BTC ecosystem.
Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.
Unstable Protocol — Unstable Protocol implements zkOracles to enhance the DeFi utility for the LRTfi market.

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

Fasal — Fasal, an agri-tech platform, developed by Wolkus Technology Solutions, is an AI-powered platform for the Agriculture ecosystem that records a variety of growing conditions on the farm. It then uses artificial intelligence and data science to make on-farm predictions, before delivering the insights anywhere on any device including (iOS, Android,Tablet, and web).Its data-driven precision agriculture solution recommends real-time agronomic solutions to growers using on-farm and micro-climate data collected through agnostic sensors that helps farmers with cost savings in terms of water, energy, fertilizers, and pesticides.
Meiro — Meiro is a Customer Data Platform built for marketers of 21st century. Connect your customers' data easily into actionable profiles. Find out how!
LiveIn — LiveIn is a hospitality company that offers long term room rental. Enjoy quality assured room, cleaning services, maintenance and community activities. Find out more!

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

Speedoc — Speedoc is an industry leader in the digital health space with a mission to provide accessible and affordable healthcare to patients. As a virtual clinic and hospital care provider combining physical-digital services to challenge the traditional centralized, facility-based model, Speedoc believes that this will be the solution to the agingpopulation faced by many countries in the region as the demand for medical care increases. Their services include house call doctors, nurses, medications delivery; and is complemented by telemedicine, remote diagnostics and health monitoring. With Speedoc, home medical services need not be limited to only certain groups of patients, but to everyday people who may require GP or A&E visits for themselves or their loved ones.
Fairatmos — Create your Green House Gasses sequestration project proposal, verify for credits, support projects and buy credits all in one platform.
Validus — Validus offers fast SME working capital loan in one day, free SME business account for growing businesses and startups, and instant corporate debit cards.

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, Canada

Portfolio highlights

MoeGo — MoeGo is the best all-in-one pet grooming software designed to automate & simplify your pet grooming business.
dappOS — dappOS a project aimed at developing an operating protocol to lower the barriers to entry for Web3 apps by developing solutions that increase their usability and accessibility.
Merlin Chain — Merlin Chain offers a native scaling solution.

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.

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
Dropee — Source direct from Wholesalers, Key Distributors, and Manufacturers. Types: Drinks, Confectionary & Snacks, Event Supplies, Office Supplies. 3-5 days delivery

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
HD — HD is a healthcare and surgery marketplace, powering over 1,500+ healthcare providers including some of the biggest hospitals. HD connects patients to hospitals, clinics, operating rooms, and surgeons while offering healthcare financing solutions to increase access to affordable care and surgeries. To date, over 250,000 patients have benefited frommore accessible and affordable healthcare and surgeries through the company's platform.
MyRealTrip — MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip isconstantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.

Sterling Oak Group is an investment company.

Investment focus

Web Apps, Messaging, Mobile Apps
Series A
Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

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

Portfolio highlights

Wingcopter — Wingcopter is an award-winning German developer, manufacturer, and operator of unmanned eVTOL fixed-wing aircraft dedicated to improving the lives of people worldwide through meaningful commercial and humanitarian applications. The start-up focuses on the delivery of goods such as medicines to remote health facilities, packages, and food to privatehouseholds. With their unique, patented tilt-rotor mechanism, the electrically powered Wingcopters far exceed the range and payload capabilities of commercial multicopter drones. Taking off and landing vertically like multicopters, Wingcopters fly long distances as efficiently and quickly as fixed-wing aircraft, reaching ranges of up to 75 miles (120 kilometers) and a Guinness world record speed of 150 mph (240 km/h). Even in strong winds of up to 44 mph (71 km/h) or inclement weather, Wingcopters fly autonomously and reliably.Wingcopters are also used for the efficient inspection of public infrastructure and for long-range mapping applications.In 2020, Wingcopter was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
Sunflower Labs — Sunflower Labs makes an autonomous outdoor security system that senses and deters unwanted visitors before they’re at your door. Our elegant sensors detect motion and vibration, differentiating between people, animals, and cars. When they detect something unusual, they’ll notify you and deploy a fully autonomous drone. The drone flies directly tothe scene and streams live video of what’s happening. Guided by our sensors, it follows the activity, performs a security “sweep,” and lands itself safely in its weatherproof docking station.
RICOS Co. Ltd. — RICOS is a tech company that optimizes manufacturing processes using AI, simulation, and high-performance computing technologies.

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Stayf — Cultivating a Healthy Corporate Culture through Sport and Wellness in One App
Substrata — Substrata.me | #1 AI Real-Time Sales Email Coach | Designed by data scientists, psychologists and linguists to help you book more meetings and close more deals
Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform

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

Helcim Inc. — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
Carewell — Are you a caregiver? At Carewell, find the best home health products with discreet packaging & the support you need with guides, articles, and 24/7 service. 30% OFF 1st Autoship!
Prescient AI — Industry-leading marketing & media mix modeling (MMM) & marketing attribution software powered by AI. Get actionable insights in 36 hours.

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, Series A, Funding Round
Belarus, Germany, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Lano — One smart platform to grow global teams We've built the infrastructure for your global growth Get in touch
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.

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

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed
Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Dropee — Source direct from Wholesalers, Key Distributors, and Manufacturers. Types: Drinks, Confectionary & Snacks, Event Supplies, Office Supplies. 3-5 days delivery

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

Thunes — Payment infrastructure for a connected world.
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.

Ondice Capital engages in venture capital type investment activities in the high-tech, automotive and retail segment (or so-called "new retail" in China), with elements of AI, IC, big data, IOT, 5G or blockchain technology, with a focus on investments in companies that are operating, developing and/or applying their technology inthe greater China area.

Investment focus

Automotive, E-Commerce, Electronics
Seed, Series B, Series A
China, Malaysia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MetaCRM Inc. — MetaCRM wants to improve overall Web3 customer experience by resolving friction points that companies encounter when dealing with Web3 customers and enhancing customer profile by integrating both Web2 & Web3 data, making us a one-stop CRM solution for Web3 projects.
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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Higharc — Higharc is the all-in-one web platform that simplifies, connects and improves each step of design, construction and sales for home building.
anecdotes — anecdotes is the first enterprise-grade compliance management platform. Compatible with SOC 2, PCI, ISO, ITGC, HIPAA & more. Get started for free!
Cycle Network — Cycle Network is a web3 based an omni-chain interoperability infrastructure with global stateview of blockchain community.

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, B2B, SaaS
Seed, Series A
Vietnam, Malaysia, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

GIMO — Founded in 2019, Vietnam's fintech company Gimo provides Earned Wage Access (EWA) and other payroll services to underbanked Vietnamese workers. The company aspires to tap into millions of workers who don’t have a bank account or have limited access to financial services, helping them to alleviate their financial stress and build financialsecurity, thus driving financial inclusion in Vietnam and the region.
Stag — STAG is a trading platform that provides practice trading stocks, stock investing, and personal financial management services.
Glider — Improve your bill payments experience with Glider's payments communication platform. Enable secure payments, access real-time reporting, increase revenue.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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 — Discover Modern Apartments and Private Rooms For Rent with Great Locations in the Most Convenient Neighborhoods and Popular Cities. Responsive, Professional and Attentive Property Managers Ensure You An Enjoyable Living Experience with Tripalink.

John Devor - COO @ Touchpoint Games

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed
Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Dropee — Source direct from Wholesalers, Key Distributors, and Manufacturers. Types: Drinks, Confectionary & Snacks, Event Supplies, Office Supplies. 3-5 days delivery

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

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.

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

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Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
Runchise — Runchise is an integrated restaurant and franchise management system to increase operational efficiency and profit.
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.

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.

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..
Wallets Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.

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

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