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Top 50 Hospitality Startup Investors in Asia in October 2024

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hospitality startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Hospitality Startup Investors in Asia in October 2024

Investor Hospitality Asia investments
SOSV 4
Jungle Ventures 4
MindWorks Capital 4
Genesia Ventures 3
Mizuho Capital 3
Wavemaker Partners 3
Convergence Ventures 3
Gobi Partners 3
Phillip Private Equity 3
1982 Ventures 2
Goodman Capital 2
Clearmind Capital 2
International Finance Corporation 2
Alpha JWC Ventures 2
Swiss Founders Fund 2
Boon Hwee Koh 2
Global Founders Capital 2
Eastern Bell Capital 2
Legend Capital 2
Aurum Investments 2
NEC Capital Solutions 2
Monex Ventures 2
Y1 Ventures 2
Serguei Netessine 2
Gentree Fund 2
Velocity Ventures 2
Granatus Ventures 2
Gree 2
Walled City Co. 2
InnoVen Capital 2
Golden Gate Ventures 2
Innovation and Technology Venture Fund 2
Frees Fund 2
Investible 2
SpeedPixel Ventures 1
Rakuten 1
JTB Corp. 1
Daiwa Corporate Investment 1
QF Capital 1
SBI Investment Korea 1
Prism Venture Management 1
Shintaro Yamada 1
500 TukTuks 1
VIC Partners 1
Shorooq Partners 1
Ant Group 1
Alexander Rittweger 1
Development Bank of Japan 1
Grosvenor Asia Pacific 1
Evolable Asia Japan 1
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SOSV VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 75 investments in the past 12 months
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Jungle Ventures VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Jungle Ventures is one of Southeast Asia's largest independent venture capital firms based in Singapore. We invest in early and growth-stage startups in Southeast Asia and India, focused on building category-defining businesses that stand the test of time.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Singapore, India, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Distil — Your trusted partner for speciality chemicals
  • Infinity Fincorp Solutions — Founded in 2016, Infinity Fincorp Solutions is a non-banking financial corporation offering integrated commodity & collateral management services in India, with prime expertise in handling agricultural products with utmost finesse.The modern entrepreneurs are using cutting-edge inventions that serve as accelerators for businesses and industriestoday. Such progressive, rapid growth requires a financial partner who can be trusted and collaborated
  • 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.
MindWorks Capital VC Fund · Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
MindWorks Capital invests in and empowers Asia’s brightest entrepreneurs to build transformational companies. MindWorks manages capital from university endowments, global asset managers, fund of funds, family offices as well as Asia's leading new economy entrepreneurs. The firm utilizes a Pan-Asia strategy to source direct investments intechnology companies across both Greater China and Southeast Asia. Founded in 2013, the firm is headquartered in Hong Kong with offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Jakarta.MindWorks has been recognized by Preqin as a top-performing ASEAN venture capital firm and is also a signatory of United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investment.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Supply Chain Management
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • China, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Finture — Finture is the first Neobanking fintech company to provide Credit card and Credit payment business in SEA
  • Jumppoint — Founded in Hong Kong since 2020, Jumppoint developed in house its own multi-layer dynamic routing algorithm, jumppoint.ai, to offer highly efficient yet cost-saving logisitics services to B2B and B2C users, with real-time logisitcs data embeded. Beyond Hong Kong headquarters and R&D centre, Jumppoint also has extensive presence in Asia suchas Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Southeast Asia headquarters, Singapore, providing localised logsitics services.
  • Sending Network — A super-app that combines chat, socializing, and trade, giving you complete control over your social data, while you build communities and share ideas, seamlessly.
Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Flucle — Flucle provides company rule building and risk mitigation, cloud advisor, human resource development, training & labor management services.
  • Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
  • THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 35 investments in the past 12 months
Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
  • elleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
  • Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.
Wavemaker Partners VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Mushroom Material — We can match the mechanical properties of polystyrene styrofoam and replace any existing packaging with a sustainable mushroom alternative
Convergence Ventures VC Fund · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Convergence Ventures is an early stage Indonesian VC firm focused on investing in the very best startups of Indonesia.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Stockbit — Aplikasi saham untuk berdiskusi, analisa dan berinvestasi dengan harga real time, berita terkini, riset, data fundamental, charting, dan analytical tools yang lengkap
  • Pandemic Insights — Know and Manage Health Risk Anywhere
  • Kargo Technologies — Kargo adalah layanan logistik online yang menyediakan solusi pengiriman barang yang mudah, cepat, dan terpercaya. Temukan layanan yang dapat diandalkan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pengiriman Anda.
Gobi Partners VC Fund · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • China, Malaysia, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Bateriku — Bateriku provides emergency roadside assistance for car breakdowns and car battery delivery in Malaysia with nationwide coverage. Learn more here!
  • FinKnight — FinKnight offers new growth opportunities and financial management experience for companies. It bridges the gap by providing innovative financial leadership.
  • Amity — Discover Amity, where we create digital solutions that help organizations, teams and individuals achieve more through technology and social innovation.
Phillip Private Equity VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Phillip Private Equity Pte Ltd is one of the leading private equity firms in Singapore. They manage 3 funds with over S$450 million in committed capital. They provide capital in the form of equity and debt, to innovative enterprises across select stages, sectors and geographies. They work closely with Their investee companies to accelerate theirgrowth and help them achieve their potential. Their goal is to create businesses with lasting and significant value.
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Investment focus
  • Hospitality, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Singapore, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Aigens — Aigens is a tech start-up that has helped steer the digital revolution of the F&B and Hospitality industry in Asia Pacific. The company led the way with mobile ordering and popularized scan-to-order long before Covid-19 triggered the mainstream adoption of their use.Founded in 2012 by Hans Paul (CEO) and Peter Liu (CTO), Aigens has grown intoa SaaS company known for being a market leader with significant wins, essentially being the first to introduce BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) QR code ordering technology to Hong Kong and Singapore.Headquartered in Hong Kong, Aigens serves more than 500 brands in F&B and Hospitality, including global names like KFC, Burger King, Starbucks, and IKEA. In the last three years, the company experienced its most significant growth, resulting in 6 regional offices and 120 team members.
  • Big Tiny — Big Tiny builds tiny houses in Australia and New Zealand. Big Tiny hosts your tiny house investment and help rent out on Airbnb for high rental yield.
  • Clozette Group — With a network of 6.4 million tastemakers in Asia, we enable brands to engage the new-age consumer via Content, Community and Commerce.In the past decade, Clozette has been recognised with awards from Emerging Enterprise, Red Herring Global and Marketing Magazine, amongst others. We are a diverse team of digital strategists, storytellers andstyle advocates who consume way too much coffee. Always up for a good conversation: info@clozette.co For more details, check out https://clozettegroup.co/
1982 Ventures VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Early stage venture capital investor focused on fintech in Southeast Asia
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • bluesheets — Build a solid data foundation with Bluesheets, the all-in-one tool that connects, categorises and automates your finanical data. Set up once, automate forever.
  • Untukmu.AI — Dapatkan Untukmu.AI dari AppStore dan Playstore untuk hadiah yang sempurna! Temukan hadiah unik dan jelajahi kepribadian Anda dengan mudah. Asisten berbasis AI kami menyederhanakan pencarian hadiah, menawarkan rekomendasi yang dipersonalisasi. Ucapkan selamat tinggal pada stres memberi hadiah dan telusuri era baru pengalaman memberi hadiah yang dipersonalisasi bersama kami.
Goodman Capital VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Private investment firm investing in technology and biotech companies across USA and Asia from early-stage to pre-IPO
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ZUZU Hospitality — ZUZU Hospitality is chain for independent hotels, delivering revenue growth through distribution and revenue management.As such, we are the indisputable primary partner to hoteliers in driving revenue. Acting as their hotel operating system, we power their back office revenue generation business operations, allowing them to focus on being greathoteliers.
  • Senti Biosciences — Outsmarting Complex Diseases With More Intelligent Medicines
  • Engine Biosciences — We digitize and decipher complex biology with cutting-edge technologies to discover and develop life-changing medicines.
Clearmind Capital VC Fund · Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Clearmind Capital is an investment office specialized in diverse alternative investment strategies, private equity investments, and venture capital. Their deal flow stems from their global network of co-investors, strategic partners, entrepreneurs, partner ventures and accelerators. They proactively bring strategic partners to support the growth oftheir portfolio companies, enabling them to build competitive advantages to overcome challenges and capture opportunities.
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Investment focus
  • Hospitality, Real Estate, Travel Accommodations
  • Seed, Series A
  • Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Dash Living — Dash Living is the new generation of serviced living solutions in Asia Pacific. Offering 2,000+ furnished rooms for rent, including coliving homes, serviced apartments, hotel rooms etc.
International Finance Corporation VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 46 investments in the past 12 months
A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • India, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • BHub — BHub is a full back-office SaaS for startups & SMEs in Latam. We unburden entrepreneurs, allowing them to focus on their core business, while BHub deals with all the rest. We offer bookkeeping, CFO services, legal and HR services. BHub enable businesses to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with administrative functions.
  • Salmon — Money is too important a part of people’s lives to be left in the hands of habit and tradition: to high-street banks, to petty street lenders, to pawn brokers, and the like. Every customer of financial services often feels that they deserve better, be it advantaged or disadvantaged, novice or expert, farmer, teacher, jeepney driver or officeworker.We — a team of finance professionals and entrepreneurs backed by world-class investors — come with the vision and capabilities to provide better and more inclusive service through a combination of technology, product design, security, data analytics and relentless focus on customer care.Managing one’s finances doesn’t need to be complex, frightening, boring or off-putting, it doesn’t have to be a chore. We aim to liberate our customers from the mundane and to quell their fears — providing our customers with more financial freedom while also saving their time and energy to focus on what truly matters to them in their daily lives.We are united by our experiences of building leading financial services and tech companies in various parts of the world — and by desire to apply our experience and modern technology for the benefit of millions of Filipinos.Not only have we built great financial and tech businesses, transforming industries in the process, but we also led large companies and banks through many economic cycles, keeping customers’ and investors’ money safe.We are building a financial technology business that works impeccably 24x365, creating thousands of jobs and provides easy access to finance for millions of Filipinos — and would love you see joining us in this journey, as a partner, vendor, employee, or a customer.
  • Commercial International Bank — The biggest private sector bank in Egypt, we deliver value to our clients, our community, and our shareholders.
Alpha JWC Ventures VC Fund · Jakarta Pusat, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Alpha JWC Ventures is an Indonesia-focused value-adding venture capital firm with expertise in FinTech and the Consumer tech sector. Alpha JWC Ventures is an independent and institutional firm that believes in investing in a disciplined manner combined with an active portfolio management approach. The firm was founded in 2015 and is based inJakarta Pusat, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • Peak3 — ZA Tech is an InsurTech company that allows everyone to have the truly digital insurance experience. Providing the technology capability to insurer like NTUC Income, AIA, Zurich and many more to expand their business into the growing digital channels.
  • KarirLab — Tips Karir, Cari kerja dan magang, buat resume ATS-friendly, evaluasi resume oleh ahli, dan ikuti webinar persiapan kerja.
  • Mythic Protocol — The Central Hub for Mythic Operatives to conduct their operations
Swiss Founders Fund VC Fund · Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Swiss Founders Fund is a seed and early stage investment fund based in St.Gallen, Switzerland. SFF invests in and builds companies globally.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland, Singapore, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Canza Finance — We are an Open Finance Portal enabling access to unlimited financial services for emerging markets, backed by Polychain, Avalanche, CoinMarketCap...
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
  • Nerif Network — Nerif Network is designed to automate smart contract execution and build decentralized applications across multiple chains.
Boon Hwee Koh Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
  • Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
  • Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.
Global Founders Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
  • Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
  • Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Eastern Bell Capital VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Eastern Bell Capital, established in 2010, is an ecosystem-based fund focused on "improving industry efficiency with supply chain as its core competence". The investment areas we focus on include logistics, supply chain, retail & brand, data technology, etc. Through years of hard work, Eastern Bell Capital has built an empoweringeco-resource system with deep knowledge and insight into circulation efficiency.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Logistics
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • China, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • PCG Power — PCG Power's vision is to stick to its core business of distributed power station investment and the long-term development direction of new energy system solution providers, to provide comprehensive and high-quality green energy and carbon-saving services to industrial and commercial owners, and to assist my country in achieving carbon peakingand carbon neutrality.
  • Sunshine Hydrogen — Sunshine Hydrogen designs and manufactures its own PWM hydrogen production power supply.
  • Xinwanxing Composites — Xinwanxing Composites is a private enterprise specializing in composite materials production, the company aims to be the scientifically advanced composite manufacturer with a strong R&D, manufacturing capabilities, and key composite technologies, Xinwanxing provides composite products for various industries, including aviation, energy,automotive, transportation, medical equipment, and sports articles.
Legend Capital VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Legend Capital, a subsidiary of Legend Holdings Ltd., started its vintage year in April, 2001 with a mission to become a top-notch and the most respected venture capital investment manager in China.Managing up to US$700 million across four funds, Legend Capital focuses on driving high-growth ventures with operations substantially based in Chinaor on markets related to China.Legend Capital mainly invests in early stage IT companies, specifically, in sectors of network applications and services, outsourcing and professional services, Infrastructure (IC design/key components), and mid-market growth stage companies in the fields of consumer goods, clean technology, health care, equipment manufacturing and modern services.Among over 60 portfolio companies are Joyo.com (acquired by Amazon.com), SinoCom (0299.HK), Solarfun Power (Nasdaq: SOLF), Spreadtrum Communications (Nasdaq: SPRD), China Sunshine Paper (2002.HK), and VanceInfo (NYSE:VIT), Eyang (0117.HK), etc.As an active investor, Legend Capital provides its portfolio companies extensive business resources and tailored services to assist with business development, company image building, and other critical company building activities on Chinese market so as to add value and maximize returns. Legend Capital is proud and thankful that it has the opportunity to blaze a trail with its innovative practice for China's venture capital industry.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • China, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Zhipu AI — Zhipu AI combines large-scale knowledge map built by itself to form a two-wheel-driven artificial intelligence framework through R&D.
  • Ensurge Medical — Ensurge Medical is a medical equipment developer, specializing in research, development, production, and sales of intelligent medical products like surgical energy instruments and ultrasonic scalpels.
  • Xellar Biosystems — Xellar Biosystems is a wet artificial intelligence biotechnology company that provides analysis of drug testing and treatment.
Aurum Investments VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Aurum is a space and business innovator with a focus on the future of people. It is a core of a trusted network of communities - creating opportunities across diverse industries for businesses, professionals, and individuals seeking growth in Singapore and beyond.
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Investment focus
  • Hospitality, Software, EdTech
  • Seed, Series B
  • Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Ailytics — Ailytics is the region's leading video analytics solution for operational safety and efficiency in the construction and manufacturing industry.
  • NewCampus — We're a school whose mission is to empower a new global generation of modern leaders through live classes, conferences and meaningful networking events.
  • Hubble.Build — Build better, faster, safer and cost-effective with our construction management software. Learn how to digitise and automate your construction worksite workflows.
NEC Capital Solutions VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
NEC Capital Solutions Limited provides financial services in Japan. It's Main Business is Leasing for Information and Communication Equipment, Office Equipment, Industrial Equipment and Installment Sales, Business Loans, Factoring Services, Business Outsourcing and Sales of Used Equipment.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Tanzania
Portfolio highlights
  • GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
  • Smart Shopping — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
Monex Ventures VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
  • pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
  • MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision
Y1 Ventures VC Fund
An Investment Firm.
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Investment focus
  • Hospitality, Sharing Economy, Vacation Rental
  • Series A
  • Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • Luxstay — We search hundreds of travel sites at once to find the cheapest flights and best hotel deals for you.
Serguei Netessine Angel · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Serguei Netessine is Vice-Dean for Global Initiatives and Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He lived and worked in Russia, USA, France and Singapore., author and speaker on innovation.Prof. Netessine receivedBS/MS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology and, after working for Motorola and Lucent Technologies, he also received MS/Ph.D. degrees in Operations Management from the University of Rochester. His current research focuses on business model innovation and operational excellence and he worked on these topics with numerous organizations including Federal Aviation Administration (USA), Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s, Rolls Royce, Comcast, Expedia, ABB and US Air Force. He serves on advisory boards of multiple startup companies and regularly speaks on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.Professor Netessine has been the recipient of several teaching awards for delivering classes to MBA and Executive MBA students at the Wharton School and INSEAD, and he frequently teaches in Executive Education Programs. Prolific academic writer, professor Netessine holds senior editorial positions at several leading academic journals and he co-authored dozens of publications in prominent management journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review and other. His work has received extensive media coverage in CIO Magazine, the Economist, Forbes, Multichannel Merchant, New York Times, US News and Strategy & Business and other press. He regularly blogs about innovation on http://www.renaissanceinnovator.com and HBR Network. His latest book on Business Model Innovation is forthcoming with Harvard Business Press in 2014.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • TabSquare — Look to the future of the F&B industry - Tabsquare's POS integrated online restaurant system increases hospitality profitability through AI Technology.
  • Comedywire — Comedywire offers an online platform that enables its users to find, share, and create posts of comedic content. Comedywire enables its users to connect with each other and share ideas. Comedywire was founded by Preston Gitlin in December 2014.
  • Alltius — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
Gentree Fund VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Gentree Fund is a VC Fund for Philippine startups that invests in early and growth stage, providing startup funding and key connections of Sy family principals.
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Investment focus
  • B2B, Food and Beverage, Retail
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Edamama — Shop online for mama and baby essentials. Enjoy free shipping with minimum spend of P1,500. Buy online now!
  • DayaTani — DayaTani supplies farmers with comprehensive services to increase their productivity.
  • Hive Health — Hive Health is a digital platform that provides access to easy-to-use, affordable, and quality HMO plans for SMEs in the Philippines.
Velocity Ventures VC Fund
At Velocity Ventures, we invest in visionary entrepreneurs who are reshaping the Travel & Hospitality sector in Southeast Asia. We focus on Seed to Series A stage growth companies across the Transportation, Travel Services, Accommodation, Food & Beverage and Retail & Experiences sub-sectors. Our team consists of a unique mix of Travel& Hospitality sector specialists & successful entrepreneurs with 13 decades of combined operating and investing experience, coupled with a deep, value-added network in Asia.If you are the founder of a growing start-up with great potential in the Travel & Hospitality sector in SE Asia, please get in touch at reachus@velocityventures.vc.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Software, Hospitality
  • Seed, Series A
  • Israel, Malaysia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Aigens — Aigens is a tech start-up that has helped steer the digital revolution of the F&B and Hospitality industry in Asia Pacific. The company led the way with mobile ordering and popularized scan-to-order long before Covid-19 triggered the mainstream adoption of their use.Founded in 2012 by Hans Paul (CEO) and Peter Liu (CTO), Aigens has grown intoa SaaS company known for being a market leader with significant wins, essentially being the first to introduce BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) QR code ordering technology to Hong Kong and Singapore.Headquartered in Hong Kong, Aigens serves more than 500 brands in F&B and Hospitality, including global names like KFC, Burger King, Starbucks, and IKEA. In the last three years, the company experienced its most significant growth, resulting in 6 regional offices and 120 team members.
  • ZYTLYN Technologies — Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, ZYTLYN is a data analytics and AI company, helping customers address their most urgent problems and opportunities with granular, qualified, and actionable data, predictions and insights. Its Prediction as-a-Service product gives customers the ability to optimize critical decision making through predictiveinsights. Together with customers, ZYTLYN is helping the world’s largest industries adapt, recover and grow faster, with a total addressable market of close to $50 billion.
  • Hyper Food Robotics — We transform fast food delivery restaurants into fully automated units.
Granatus Ventures VC Fund · Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
Granatus Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Armenia who provides initial seed and early-stage investment. The Company invests in social, mobile, analytical and cloud-based technology industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Grovf — Grovf is a silicon (FPGA) design startup working on memory, storage disaggregation, and network offload solutions for the next datacenter standard. We use CXL and CCIX technologies and add our IPs to enable datacenter-level system scaling and security.
  • Prelaunch.com — Test your product-market fit, get pre-orders & build the audience of your early supporters
  • SuperAnnotate — The end-to-end platform to annotate, version, and manage ground truth data for your AI.
Gree VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users. Gree shares development and operational expertise across all its studios as Gree always works to create new game models for its customers.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Gaming, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Oasys — Oasys is a Blockchain designed exclusively for the gaming industry.
  • Oasys — Oasys is a Blockchain designed exclusively for the gaming industry.
  • Bankers Holding — Bankers Holding controls the bankers group companies that provide financial services via internet.
Walled City Co. VC Fund · Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Investment Management Services | Global Sourcing & Supplies
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Investment focus
  • Supply Chain Management, Developer Tools, Logistics
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Pakistan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Oware — Check out AirLink, a cool and modern website template for SaaS businesses. It's easy to use and can make your website look awesome. Try it out now and make your SaaS business stand out online.
  • ezBike — ezBike is Pakistan's first bike sharing service with a clear mission: To revolutionize the mobility sector which is plagued with pollution, traffic congestion and rising fuel prices.
  • Tazah Technologies — Tazah Technologies is building products to digitize the agriculture value chain, empowering farmers, suppliers, and retailers to grow their businesses.
InnoVen Capital VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 12 investments in the past 12 months
InnoVen Capital is Asia's leading venture lending firm with offices in Mumbai, Singapore and Beijing. Started in India in 2008, the platform was re-branded InnoVen Capital following a buyout of the business led by Temasek Holdings and UOB Group in 2015. InnoVen Capital currently has investor commitments of US$200 million.In India, InnoVenCapital is positioned as the first and largest venture debt provider to venture capital backed start-ups in India across stages of growth and sectors. The Company has a credit rating of ‘IND AA-’ for its term borrowing and ‘IND A1+’ for its commercial paper issuances.InnoVen provides debt financing to high growth and innovative tech startups, and has since supported and provided over 190 loans to more than 150 start-ups across India and Southeast Asia. The platform offers multiple debt capital solutions, including venture debt, acquisition finance, growth loans, and syndication.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
  • India, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
  • Capillary Technologies — Capillary’s technology solutions help businesses get ahead of the digital evolution and stay ‘Always Consumer Ready’. The experience platform integrates Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to make it easy for brands to get deep understanding and insights into their consumers, engage consumers through personalized 1:1 communication,provide easy and connected cross-channel commerce experiences and build loyalty to reward and retain their best consumers.Over 300 marquee brands across 30+ countries, including Pizza Hut, VF Brands, Walmart, Al-Futtaim, KFC, Starbucks, Madura Garments, Courts and Samsung, trust Capillary to enable easy and seamless consumer experiences. With over 300 million consumers and 25,000 stores on the platform, Capillary is Asia’s leading SaaS product company. Over 700 Capillary associates across 11 global offices are continually innovating to find new ways for brands to make their consumers’ lives easier, and experiences memorable.Founded in 2008, Capillary is backed by Warburg Pincus, Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, and American Express Ventures. Explore more at https://www.capillarytech.com/
  • Ace Turtle — We help retail businesses in India, Singapore & Malaysia convert multichannel sales & marketing strategies to omnichannel on marketplaces & own websites
Golden Gate Ventures VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Golden Gate Ventures is a venture capital firm investing across Southeast Asia. Since 2011, the firm has launched four funds, managed US$250M AUM, and invested in 60+ companies in over 7 countries in Asia. The firm focuses on investing in technology companies driven by the rising consumer class in Southeast Asia.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • Rukita — Manajemen properti no.1 di Indonesia. Mewujudkan hunian berkualitas untuk semua fase kehidupan. Cari Coliving, Kost Eksklusif, Apartemen, dan Corporate Housing di Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Bali, Jogja, dll.
  • Arkadiah — Secure high quality carbon credits & support biodiversity. Arkadiah fuses AI with satellite data and ground truth, transforming degraded lands to be nature-positive.
  • Nurture — Learn Foundational Life Skills Through Immersive Play
Innovation and Technology Venture Fund VC Fund
The HK$2 billion ITVF was set up by the Hong Kong Government with a view to creating a vibrant local innovation and technology eco-systems
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Logistics, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Hong Kong, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Mezzofy — We provide a comprehensive Digital Coupon platform for the Business to create, to distribute, to redeem coupons. It is simpliest way ever, the merchant can create marketing campaigns with coupon, self help all the way, no technical help is needed.
  • Qupital — Qupital helps e-commerce sellers with our Fintech, bringing them a financing solution that is easier to apply, more efficient and at a lower cost.
  • Jumppoint — Founded in Hong Kong since 2020, Jumppoint developed in house its own multi-layer dynamic routing algorithm, jumppoint.ai, to offer highly efficient yet cost-saving logisitics services to B2B and B2C users, with real-time logisitcs data embeded. Beyond Hong Kong headquarters and R&D centre, Jumppoint also has extensive presence in Asia suchas Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Southeast Asia headquarters, Singapore, providing localised logsitics services.
Frees Fund VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 12 investments in the past 12 months
By adopting revolutionary mechanisms, FREES FUND is devoted to change the long-established rules in the venture capital. By leveraging the cutting-edge technologies and resources, FREES FUND aims at investing in great startups and helping them grow into great enterprises that are valuable to our society. We mainly invest in early-stagestartups, and hope to become their first-round institutional investor. Our primary interested areas are broad-sense TMT (Technology, Media, Telecom), B2B and deep technology.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Polycent — Polycent, a technology company with expertise in power technology, industrial control, data intelligence, and FPGA, develops digital power solutions using advanced electrical, sensing, and algorithm technologies, accelerating industrialization and high-quality power system development.
  • Dezao Technology — Dezao Technology is an e-commerce transaction provider, mostly involved in the sales of electronic products, mobile phones, and mobile phone accessories.
  • Hangkai Microelectronics — Hangkai MicroTech focuses on the research, development, and manufacturing of Mems technology and products, with an emphasis on the demand for domestic sensor substitutes.
Investible VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Decarice — Explore DeCarice's hydrogen retrofit technology to significantly reduce carbon emissions from your existing diesel fleet. Decarbonize with innovative solutions for a sustainable future.
  • JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
  • Fugu — Cheap green carbon at scale for the dawn of the e-fuel age
SpeedPixel Ventures VC Fund
SpeedPixel's 100% Hong Kong developed SOC IC chip solution revolutionize the wireless video infant monitor products.
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Investment focus
  • Wearables, Hospitality, Product Design
  • Seed
  • Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Origami Labs Limited — Redefining the mobile computing experience through screen-free, voice and gesture-based products and services.
Rakuten VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Rakuten Group, Inc. is a leading global company that contributes to society by creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship. Browse corporate information, including company overview, investor relations, sustainability and careers.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • AWL — AWL is a company that provides the leading edge AI camera solutions company .
  • KINS — KINS is a health supplement company.
  • QuEra Computing — QuEra Computing is the leading provider of quantum computers based on neutral-atoms. Our mission is to build the most scalable quantum computers to date to tackle useful but classically intractable problems.
JTB Corp. VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
One the most biggest company in Japan dealing with tourism.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Social, Location Based Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Goodwings — Choose responsible travel options, track emissions, and offset them for free with Goodwings. Our sustainability-focused travel management system helps you travel responsibly while reducing your carbon footprint.
  • byFood.com — Food tours, cooking classes, dining experiences & tastings in Japan. Enjoy a meal in Japan and help children around the world thr
  • Tablecross — Tablecross is a Marketing consulting business for restaurants.
Daiwa Corporate Investment VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.
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Investment focus
  • Task Management, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
  • COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
  • Nippon Hydropowtech — Nippon Hydropowtech uses proprietary technology and experience in hydrolysate production to investigate new food applications.
QF Capital VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 8 investments in the past 12 months
QF Capital is a fund management company that focuses on private equity investments.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Angel, Seed
  • China, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Yunshuo IoT — Yunshuo IoT provides artificial intelligence industrial application services ranging from decision-making monitoring to product development. Yunshuo IoT products are applicable to ships, rail transit, automobiles, home appliances, and heavy equipment.
  • Shanmu SHANMU — Shanmu SHANMU is a micro medical robot specialist who uses self-developed digital microfluidic chipsets and artificial intelligence algorithms. The robot can continuously check the metabolic components in urine, establishing a link between the user's health status and disease and intelligently establishing multiple disease management cycles.
  • Bangqi Biological — Bangqi Biological is a biotechnology company that focuses on the research and development, production, registration, quality, supply chain and sales of instruments and reagents for autoimmunity & allergy diagnosis.
SBI Investment Korea VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
SBI Investment Co., Ltd. has established itself as a true partner of the Republic of Korea venture business development in the past 28 years as a venture capital concept introduced first in Korea in 1986 was even unfamiliar concept of 'venture'. SBI Investment Co., Ltd. is a direct excavation domestic / other promising venturesinvestment as well as domestic / external funding attracted through cooperation with institutional investors and technology, marketing, public offering (IPO), the law, adhere to the role which has been providing comprehensive services such as Value-up tax.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Software, Food and Beverage
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • NO Search — NO Search is an online marketplace for home and kitchen appliances.
  • Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
  • Medi Whale — We believe that early detection is the best prevention. Our innovative diagnostic technology helps you take action before symptoms appear.
Prism Venture Management VC Fund · Needham, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Prism Ventureworks has 5 funds with $1.25 billion in investments. Their most recent fund is for $250M which was raised in June 2005.Each of their team members focuses on different industry sectors within technology and life sciences. These industry sectors in technology include the digital living, wireless, mobile and telecommunicationsmarkets, as well as promising opportunities in next-generation data centers and on-demand and security applications. In life sciences, we focus on medical devices, therapeutics and breakthrough diagnostics.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Internet
  • Series C, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Aigens — Aigens is a tech start-up that has helped steer the digital revolution of the F&B and Hospitality industry in Asia Pacific. The company led the way with mobile ordering and popularized scan-to-order long before Covid-19 triggered the mainstream adoption of their use.Founded in 2012 by Hans Paul (CEO) and Peter Liu (CTO), Aigens has grown intoa SaaS company known for being a market leader with significant wins, essentially being the first to introduce BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) QR code ordering technology to Hong Kong and Singapore.Headquartered in Hong Kong, Aigens serves more than 500 brands in F&B and Hospitality, including global names like KFC, Burger King, Starbucks, and IKEA. In the last three years, the company experienced its most significant growth, resulting in 6 regional offices and 120 team members.
  • Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
  • Connotate — Connotate transforms web data and content into high-value information assets -- to feed content products, grow market and business intelligence, enable mass data aggregation, migration and integration. Connotate's patented intelligent Agent technology empowers both business users and programmers to quickly create data sets, newapplications and content products. With Connotate, customers experience productivity gains, reduced costs, mitigated risks, more informed decision-making and strategic & competitive advantages.
Shintaro Yamada Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Finance, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
  • Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
500 TukTuks VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
500 TukTuks is a $15M USD micro-fund focused on promising Thai startups. Key to the fund’s operations and with a particular focus on fashion, beauty and ecommerce opportunities in Thailand and South East Asia, Sapprasert has been pivotal in investing in some 48 startups in her two years there.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Food and Beverage, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Thailand, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sleek EV — A 5G-IOT enabled Electric Scooter manufacturer designed for urban riding. Sleek's mission is to build innovative and benchmark-setting vehicles designed around urban lifestyles, practicality and performance for a greener future. Sleek’s users enjoy a seamless customer experience through its IOT-enabled vehicles and mobile application.
  • Lemonaide
  • Persona Studios — Create a unique avenue for fan engagement and monetization.
VIC Partners VC Fund
VIC BRINGS TOGETHER A GROUP OF 20 HIGHLY EXPERIENCED AND ON-THE-GROUND ENTREPRENEURS IN DIFFERENT SECTORS THAT SHARE THE PASSION TO FIND, INVEST IN, AND NURTURE PROMISING STARTUP COMPANIES TO BECOME THE NEXT UNICORNS.
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Investment focus
  • B2B, SaaS, Retail
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Vietnam, Singapore
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.
  • Cohost AI — Cohost Club is a community of professional co-hosts and busy hosts. Thousands of co-hosts around the world can help manage your properties and short term rental business. Download our app and start renting today
  • Reti Proptech — RETI is a real estate consultancy, development and investment company through professional sales, marketing and technology solutions. RETI’s creativity along with technology and its people will deliver great values and groundbreaking experiences to real-estate stakeholders including: investor, agencies and brokerages
Shorooq Partners VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Shorooq Partners is the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Arab Emirates, United States, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
  • Baycon — Baycon is a telecom company that offers mobile network services.
  • Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
  • Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system
Ant Group VC Fund · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Ant Group aims to create the infrastructure and platform to support the digital transformation of the service industry. They strive to enable all consumers and small businesses to have equal access to financial and other services that are inclusive, green, and sustainable.Formally established in October 2014, Ant Group’s origins date to 2004 whenAlipay was created in the nascent days of e-commerce to solve the trust issue between buyers and sellers in online transactions. Their innovative payment solution bridged the trust gap, facilitated online transactions, and underpinned the development of e-commerce in China. Having pioneered digital payments in China, Ant Group has since expanded its service offerings through technology and innovation to enable digital finance for consumers and businesses.Their technology enables participants in commercial activities, including consumers, businesses, and partners, to build and strengthen trust among each other. They believe their new technologies, including their blockchain solution that they call AntChain, will continue to strengthen the foundation of trust in this digital era.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Financial Services, Internet
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • China, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Anext Bank — Anext Bank is a digital banking platform that offers banking, finance, and financial services.
  • YUETU CORP — Yuentu Corporation is involved in the digitization of travel scenarios and the reconstruction of human cultural values, reshaping rail and air travel experiences for passengers. They committed to integrating the scene resources of large transportation hubs, applying technology to management, realizing scene innovation, and recreating the value ofresources. They operated three businesses: high-speed rail catering, premium travel, and digital cultural tourism.
  • Shengshu Technology — Shengshu Technology is an artificial intelligence solution provider that focuses on the creation of multi-modal generative big models and application products. It offers broad services to institutional businesses and technical service providers in specific industries.
Alexander Rittweger Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany
Alexander Rittweger is a Board Member & Lead Investo at ALOHA. He attended University of Mannheim.
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Investment focus
  • iOS, E-Commerce, Business Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Bangladesh, United States, Greece
Portfolio highlights
  • Arogga — Arogga App is the first Bangladeshi app that brought healthcare system to your doorstep. Easy and efficient. With a click of a button, upload your prescription and we will ensure safe delivery of your medicine at earliest possible time.
  • GoZayaan — Welcome to GoZayaan, the ultimate online platform for next generation traveling! We aim to put you in charge of your travel plan. Your dream trip is just a few clicks away, with GoZayaan!
  • Frequenz — Frequenz empowers developers with innovative tools to orchestrate Decentralized Energy Resources (DERs) efficiently. Join us revolutionizing the way the world manages power.
Development Bank of Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Development Bank of Japan is an integrated investment and loan service provider to domestic and international clients. They will support sustainability management that balances economic and social value and will help to realize a sustainable society.
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Robotics, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Tanzania
Portfolio highlights
  • AALTO HAPS — AALTO HAPS specializes in the development and manufacturing of High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS), specifically the AALTO Zephyr aircraft. This innovative HAPS aircraft is designed for persistent operation in the stratosphere, aiming to enhance global connectivity through direct-to-device, low latency 5G non-terrestrial mobile connections. TheAALTO Zephyr is distinguished by its reliance on solar energy, with secondary batteries for night-time operation, achieving unprecedented endurance and coverage from the stratosphere. AALTO HAPS's mission is to leverage this technology to improve and save lives by offering a new dimension of connectivity.
  • TeraWatt Technology — Electrifying all for the sustainable future
  • Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.
Grosvenor Asia Pacific VC Fund
Grosvenor Asia Pacific established its first office in Hong Kong in 1994. Since then we have expanded to other key Asian cities, opening offices in Tokyo in 2001 and Shanghai in 2004.In 2014 we celebrated our 20th anniversary in the region. During our time in Asia we have grown from one relatively small office into a full-scale operation withHK$9.4 bn in assets under management (2017).Working closely with strong local partners has been an important factor in our growth. We continue to work with others, combining international knowledge with local expertise to provide high-quality service and value-added returns. We also play an active role in ANREV, the Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles. Grosvenor has committed to increasing long-term capital allocation to Asia, given the region’s strong long-term growth prospects. Grosvenor Asia Pacific is leading this expansion in three ways. First, building a luxury residential brand under the Grosvenor banner, differentiated by the quality of our property design and exceptional finishes; secondly, growing a diversified portfolio of core investments in the residential and office sectors; and thirdly, looking further ahead, seeking to develop best-in-class buildings in the central business districts of Shanghai and Hong Kong as high-quality, long-term investments through co-investment partnerships.
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Investment focus
  • Hospitality, Real Estate, Travel Accommodations
  • Series A
  • Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Dash Living — Dash Living is the new generation of serviced living solutions in Asia Pacific. Offering 2,000+ furnished rooms for rent, including coliving homes, serviced apartments, hotel rooms etc.
Evolable Asia Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Evolable Asia operates a comparison site for travel products focused on domestic airline tickets (the largest in the transaction volume industry), as well as providing travel content and products on an OEM basis. It specializes in wholesale and business trip services for corporations, and it is the fifth-largest online travel agent in Japan.Furthermore, it is expanding its IT offshore development business, employing approximately 500 engineers in Vietnam and becoming the largest Japanese IT offshore development company in Southeast Asia. It specializes in lab-type offshore development, with dedicated teams for clients, and provides services to a variety of Japanese companies as a solution to Japan's engineer shortage and rising labor costs.
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Investment focus
  • Task Management, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Corporate Round, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • LS Japan — LS Co., Ltd. is a company that plans, operates and manages lifestyle hotels, cafes and bars by launching its own inbound brand using Japanese content .
  • Ancar — Ancar is a company offering personal buying and selling services in Japan.
  • Upsell Technologies — Upsell Technologies is Customer data analysis service platform.
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