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Top 30 Hospitality Startup Investors in Hong Kong

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 30 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Hospitality startups based in Hong kong. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from Hong kong. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Hospitality Startup Investors in Hong Kong

Investor	Hospitality Hong Kong investments
SOSV	4
MindWorks Capital	4
GREE	2
Clearmind Capital	2
Click Ventures	1
SpeedPixel Ventures	1
The International Medical	1
Prism Venture Management	1
Capital Union Investments	1
Viktor Khristenko	1
Taronga Ventures	1
CN Innovations	1
Grosvenor Asia Pacific	1
William Heinecke	1
Ant Group	1
500 TukTuks	1
Daniil Shuleyko	1
Sergey Bugorsky	1
Phillip Private Equity	1
Sergey Limonov	1
Innovation and Technology Venture Fund	1
Swiss Founders Fund	1
Gobi Partners	1
Falcon Partners VC	1
Radiant Venture Capital	1
Gobi Partners GBA	1
Boon Hwee Koh	1
Eduard Tiktinskiy	1
Velocity Ventures	1
Focus Capital Group Limited	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
NovoNutrients — NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems.
Sodex Innovations — Sodex Innovations is a company which is specialized in developing assistance-systems and automating-kits for excavators

Founded in 2013, with an AUM of over $700 million, MindWorks Capital invests in early-stage Pan-Asia venture capital across Greater China and Southeast Asia. In Greater China, MindWorks' emphasis is on seeking innovative and disruptive companies, taking technology and business model risk, typically at Series A. In Southeast Asia, the emphasisis on investing in proven business models from the West and China, typically at Series B. MindWorks' investment thesis and outlook are theme-based and continually revised on a six-month basis, with the current target sectors including logistics, fintech, and enterprise tech.MindWorks has a team of 12 investment professionals across three offices including Hong Kong, where it is headquartered, Beijing, and Jakarta. The team often provides value-add to its portfolio companies, including helping businesses to scale, forming partnerships, and acquiring follow-on funding from strategic investors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Click Ventures is a Seed to Series A venture capital firm investing in highly scalable technology startups across promising sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
Oddup — Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method.
Bite Investments — Access alternative investments in a seamless, end-to-end investment process. Bite's financial technology platform expands access to alternative investments.

SpeedPixel's 100% Hong Kong developed SOC IC chip solution revolutionize the wireless video infant monitor products.

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.

The International Medical is an investment firm

Investment focus

Medical, Hospitality, Biotechnology
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

BioMed Technology Holdings — BioMed offer a comprehensive service that includes a range of sophisticated tests performed by professionals, together with an interpretation and recommendations for how to live a healthy life.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Series C, Series B, Series A
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.

Capital Union Investments is a leader in private investment for early stage, growth, mezzanine, and pre-IPO capital. Headquartered in Hong Kong; and with offices in China and the US, the Firm's investment philosophy has been to create value by identifying leaders and innovators, whose businesses that can be developed in Asia. Our approach ofproviding unique investment insights, local knowledge and value-added operating capabilities, differentiates us from many traditional private investment funds.

Investment focus

SaaS, Genetics, Software
Seed, Series A
Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bringhub — Bringhub is a contextual marketing platform that enables digital media and marketers to drive product discovery and sales. We have developed the most comprehensive contextual analysis and optimization engine on the market. We call it Sweeten.
Prenetics — CircleDNA is an at-home, non-invasive DNA test providing health insights across 500+ reports based on your unique genetic blueprint.
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.

Viktor Khristenko

Investment focus

Rental, Software, Hospitality
Seed, Pre-Seed
Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Entry — XIX.ai operates as a biometric identity provider for web applications.The company's product Entry is a biometric identity provider that enables users to authenticate in their favorite apps, without compromising privacy, security, and user experience. Users can sign in to their favorite web apps by face using web cameras on laptops anddesktop devices. Entry helps organizations prevent account takeover attacks, credential breaches, phishing, and password spraying attacks by using biometric authentication, as a superior alternative to a legacy MFA solutions.
Keygo — Keygo is a business that is creating a short-term apartment rental service with an automated check-in and check-out system. Keygo is a PropTech and hospitality firm that helps you maintain your listing, clean, furnish, and rent out your apartment for short-term stays.

Taronga Ventures is an investment firm that invests in emerging innovation, technology, and business. Taronga Ventures is headquartered in Australia.

Investment focus

Software, Construction, Clean Energy
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

WINT — WINT Water Intelligence mitigates water-related risks via AI & IoT-based leak detection including auto valve shut-off to protect your property
Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
Enteligent — Enteligent is a solar product company focused on higher efficiency and harnessing more solar electricity. Enteligent's products reduce conversion losses and other inefficiencies that result in up to a 25% loss of solar rooftop electrical generation. Enteligent is on a mission to increase the effectiveness of solar electricity and providehomeowners with energy independence.

CN Innovations is a science-based technology and precision engineering company. CN Innovations Holdings provides OEM technical and supply chain solutions to major industries.

Investment focus

Energy, Biotechnology, Communication Hardware
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Hong Kong, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Versogen — Versogen develops electrolyzer technology for water and renewable energy to produce green hydrogen at scale. The company produces high-performing hydroxide exchange membranes for a variety of applications, such as lowering the production costs of fuel cells and reducing industrial carbon emissions, and laying the foundation for a sustainable energyfuture.
Origami Labs Limited — Redefining the mobile computing experience through screen-free, voice and gesture-based products and services.
CN Bio — CN Bio is a world leading organ-on-a-chip company. We empower you to transform drug discovery with our predictive human organ models.

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.

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.

William Heinecke - CEO & Chairman @ Minor International

Investment focus

Mobile, Travel, Hospitality
Series A
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

HotelQuickly — 1.5 million users. More than 200,000 hotels. Destinations in every corner of the globe. Since its founding, HotelQuickly has made traveler’s lives easier by providing a simple, stress-free way to book cheap hotel rooms last minute.In December 2012, five visionaries joined forces to give birth to a new idea that would change the way you travel.Out of the minds of Tomas Laboutka, Christian Mischler, Michal Juhas, Mario Peng and Raphael Cohen came mobile booking website and app HotelQuickly.The following March, they launched publicly in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Within less than a year, they had expanded to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Macau, as well as overseas to Australia and New Zealand, making HotelQuickly the first to provide last-minute mobile-only hotel booking on the two continents.In the years since, they have expanded throughout Asia and then all across the globe, with headquarters in Hong Kong and Bangkok and offices throughout the region. In 2016, HotelQuickly acquired and fully integrated Japanese app Tonight. And that’s just the start of what’s to come.Since their founding, they have raised a total of $US 5.6 million in investor funding, which they have used to make hotel bookers’ experiences as fantastic as possible. Their innovation and rapid growth has been featured by media outlets such as TechCrunch, Forbes, CBS, NBC, TechInAsia, TheNextWeb, Yahoo, and Tnooz.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AIsphere — AIsphere focuses on visual multimodal large models and empowering content producers in many sectors and scenarios with AIGC technology.
Ascend Money — Ascend Money is a fintech startup company that delivers e-payment and micro-lending products.
Jade Bird Display — Jade Bird Display (JBD) is the leading manufacturer of microLED microdisplays. Our active matrix microLED displays are extremely small (0.31" to 0.13" diagonal) with high pixel density (5000 - 10,000 PPI) and are capable of emitting upto 4 million Nits.

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.

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 — Easily create, deploy and manage conversational AI Personas across sales, support, hiring, training, and more.

Daniil Shuleiko is a director of the Yandex e-commerce business group.

Investment focus

Rental, Hospitality, Housekeeping Service
Pre-Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Keygo — Keygo is a business that is creating a short-term apartment rental service with an automated check-in and check-out system. Keygo is a PropTech and hospitality firm that helps you maintain your listing, clean, furnish, and rent out your apartment for short-term stays.

Sergey Bugorsky is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Rental, Hospitality, Housekeeping Service
Pre-Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Keygo — Keygo is a business that is creating a short-term apartment rental service with an automated check-in and check-out system. Keygo is a PropTech and hospitality firm that helps you maintain your listing, clean, furnish, and rent out your apartment for short-term stays.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aigens — Aigens is 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/

Sergei Limonov is an individual investor

Investment focus

Rental, Hospitality, Housekeeping Service
Pre-Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Keygo — Keygo is a business that is creating a short-term apartment rental service with an automated check-in and check-out system. Keygo is a PropTech and hospitality firm that helps you maintain your listing, clean, furnish, and rent out your apartment for short-term stays.

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

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.

Swiss Founders Fund is a seed and early stage investment fund based in St.Gallen, Switzerland. SFF invests in and builds companies globally.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Singapore, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Canza Finance — Canza is building the world's largest non-institutional-based financial system.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vircle — Vircle is a fintech technology that enables users to build controlled cashless commerce communities with an emphasis on societal health and well-being. It has been initially developed as a cashless school and a peer-to-peer subsidy solution, where the provider provides beneficiaries consumption entitlements, such as cash value, specific items suchas healthy food, groceries, etc., based on digital entitlements, and the actual cashless payment occurs in the background when the actual consumption occurs, giving providers the visibility of consumption.
Bitsmedia — With a strong focus on digital entertainment and social media applications for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, Bitsmedia address the Internet, Telecom and Media industries and provides clients with state-of-the-art consulting and technology services. Its services range from the initial conceptualization and product design, the functional andtechnical specifications to the actual development, testing and distribution of custom applications for mobile devices.
ProCredit — Your Trusted Financing Partner Welcome to ProCredit THE PROCREDIT DIFFERENCE Our unique value proposition is built on the foundation of leveraging advanced technology and the deep domain expertise of the founders to offer rapid, accurate, and risk-adjusted financing solutions tailored to the nuanced needs of SMEs. With a commitment to filling the substantial credit gap...

Falcon Partners is a leading private equity and venture capital investment firm licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) headquartered in Hong Kong with offices in Shenzhen and Shanghai. Founded by former investors at institutions such as Warburg Pincus, Apax Partners, Capital Group, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, Falcon partners withexceptional management teams to build enduring, category-defining businesses over the long-term by providing value-added capital and strategic support at all stages of the company’s development – from pre-seed to pre-IPO. Returns from our investments have reflected the success of this approach, with portfolio companies backed by Falcon at the pre-seed stage raising over US$500 million in follow on investments at unicorn valuations, and later-stage companies achieving rapid growth across Asia and attaining valuations well north of US$1 billion. Falcon primarily focuses on high impact innovation areas such as AI/machine learning, consumer, e-commerce, education, and pharma life-sciences in the China Greater Bay Area. See less

Investment focus

Travel, Cycling, Leisure
Seed, Funding Round
Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Gbike — Gbike is a mobility sharing startup in Korea, innovating green urban mobility in Korea where currently car-centric environment. Our service includes bike and scooter sharing with IT services specialized for Korean market with 50MM population.
KLOOK — Klook is a developer of travel activities and services booking platform designed to connect travelers with experiences. With Klook’s innovative technologies, travelers can book on-the-go and redeem the services by using QR code-enabled e-vouchers. Each day, Klook empowers countless travelers to indulge in their wanderlust and spontaneity throughover 100,000 offerings in more than 400 destinations.The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
GetLinks — GetLinks is a platform and ecosystem connecting tech talents to opportunities across Asia.

Radiant Tech Ventures Ltd., based in Hong Kong and licensed with the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong to carry on Type 9 (asset management) regulated activities. Radiant manages the Radiant Tech Ventures Fund LP which is a co-investment fund of HK Government's ITVF Corporation.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Hong Kong, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
Springdel — Move beyond cloud and legacy MDM with an enterprise-grade EdgeOps platform purpose-built for the interactive Edge of Things.
Geekbang Technology — Geekbang Technology is a Enterprise services company.

Gobi Partners GBA is part of the Pan-Asian venture capital platform Gobi Partners. Gobi GBA is the sole general partner (GP) of the Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund (AEF) as well as the AEF Greater Bay Area Fund (AEF GBA Fund) and has formed strategic partnerships with other renowned financial institutions such as HSBC and Hang Seng Bank.Gobi GBA has invested in over 70 start-ups across the Greater Bay Area and has fostered the growth of 7 unicorns including Airwallex, Amber, Animoca Brands, GoGoX, Prenetics, and more.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Hospitality
Seed, Angel, Series A
Hong Kong, China

Portfolio highlights

Immuno Cure — Immuno Cure, it is a biotechnology company it is specialized in the study and creation of immunotherapies for cancer, inflammatory, and infectious disorders.
Guoke Ling Fiber — Guoke Ling Fiber focuses on technological research and industrialization of key materials for hydrogen fuel cells. Guoke offers carbon fiber base paper and carbon paper production lines.
BioMed Technology Holdings — BioMed offer a comprehensive service that includes a range of sophisticated tests performed by professionals, together with an interpretation and recommendations for how to live a healthy life.

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.

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.

Edward Tiktinsky is the Founder and President of RBI. He attended Leningrad State Polytechnic Institute.

Investment focus

Rental, Software, Hospitality
Seed, Pre-Seed
Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Entry — XIX.ai operates as a biometric identity provider for web applications.The company's product Entry is a biometric identity provider that enables users to authenticate in their favorite apps, without compromising privacy, security, and user experience. Users can sign in to their favorite web apps by face using web cameras on laptops anddesktop devices. Entry helps organizations prevent account takeover attacks, credential breaches, phishing, and password spraying attacks by using biometric authentication, as a superior alternative to a legacy MFA solutions.
Keygo — Keygo is a business that is creating a short-term apartment rental service with an automated check-in and check-out system. Keygo is a PropTech and hospitality firm that helps you maintain your listing, clean, furnish, and rent out your apartment for short-term stays.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aigens — Aigens is 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.