Top 10 Hospitality Startup Investors in Vietnam in February 2025
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hospitality startups based in Vietnam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from Vietnam. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Hospitality Startup Investors in Vietnam in February 2025
Investor | Hospitality Vietnam investments |
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Y1 Ventures | 2 |
VIC Partners | 1 |
KB Investment | 1 |
GS Shop | 1 |
Jaewoong Lee | 1 |
SV Investment Corp | 1 |
Genesia Ventures | 1 |
Nextrans | 1 |
STIC Ventures | 1 |
Founders Capital | 1 |
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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.
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
- Software, B2B, Online Portals
- 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.
- Communi — Transforming brands worldwide, an in-app conversations platform propels engagement, conversions, and customer satisfaction. Seamlessly integrate social, marketing, and support chat within your app to unlock boundless potential and drive unprecedented success.
- 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
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Emocog — Emocog monitors and provides customized cognitive training to increase memory for dementia patients.
- Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
- Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
GSHS is Korea’s foremost multimedia retailer as well as a global leader in TV home shopping.GSHS strives to fulfill its corporate vision of ‘Value No. 1 Online Commerce Leader’, working tirelessly to create a new quality of life by enabling our customers to shop conveniently whenever and wherever. This vision is the guiding light that hasfueled our growth to the very apex of Korea’s multimedia retail industry.GSHS focuses on creating a shopping environment that is convenient and accessible. To this end, we provide shopping services not only via TV, internet, and shopping catalogs but also through new media platforms, including digital cable TV, IPTV (internet protocol television), smartphones, and tablet PCs.We continuously strive to enhance our customers’ quality of life. We search all corners of the globe for quality products that can further enrich our customers’ lives, and we never stop thinking about new services that would provide added convenience.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
- Guhada — Guhada platform serves as a luxury goods distribution hub, connecting local boutiques in Europe, domestic conglomerate shopping malls, and luxury goods and fashion vertical commerce. Guhada has been supplying the domestic market with luxury goods owned by European boutiques, ranging from high-demand high-end luxury goods to contemporary onlineproducts.
- Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.
Jaewoong Lee is the founder of Daum Communications Corp. which is one of the leading Internet portal service companies in Asia. He also served as CEO of Lycos Inc., which was acquired by Daum in 2004 and also served as CEO of Daum for 12 years since he founded the company in 1995. He is currently a partner at "sopoong" which is asocial venture incubating company focusing on social ventures. Jaewoong also founded and served as CEO of Daum Foundation which is a non-profit focusing on solving media divide problems. He is an entrepreneur interested in social ventures and internet/media industry and he has served as board member of various internet/media companies and non-profits. Jaewoong holds B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science from Yonsei University. He is also one of Young Global Leader from World Economic Forum.
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Investment focus
- News, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Vietnam, South Korea, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Byline — BYLINE is a London-based crowdfunding journalism startup that enables journalists and bloggers to directly reach their readers. Writers can contribute regularly to a particular topic and stand the chance of getting paid per article or per month while interacting with their readers through Supporter’s Café and offer them special rewards to encouragepayment. Byline was founded by Seung Yoon Lee and Daniel Tudor in January 2007 and is based in London, England.
- Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
- 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
SV Investment Corp is a venture capital firm that provides companies with finance, strategic advice and information at critical stages of their development.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cyclewell — Cyclewell is a provider of integrated equipment and complete solutions for intelligent directional recycling of lithium batteries. It is committed to the Research and Development of green recycling technology and equipment for waste power batteries.
- Underdogs — Underdogs is a company specializing in social innovation entrepreneurship education.
- INKA Entworks — INKA Entworks specializes in the field of digital rights management and mobile application security.
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
- Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
- PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
- Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.
Nextrans is a Korean-based venture capital firm invest in early-stage startups in Vietnam, Korea and the US. Our mission is to create a global network of talented and passionate founders pursuing world-changing impact.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Vietnam, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MedInTech — Our mission is to help both doctors and patients through our intuitive and intelligent medical devices
- Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
- Colosseum — Colosseum is a logistics company that provides e-commerce logistics services to various locations.
STIC Ventures invests in small and mid-sized venture companies with core technologies and new business models.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Portfolio highlights
- XCENA(formerly MetisX) — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
- Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
- Nota AI — Hardware-aware AI optimization and edge AI solutions
Founders Capital is An early-stage fintech focused investment firm based in London, UK.Their investment objective has been to identify and capture opportunities in the following emerging key alternative finance and FinTech areas:Market Place Lending (MPL) – invested in a range of market place lending companies including those focusingconsumer finance (Bondora), real- estate (EstateGuru) and SME lending and invoice finance (Investly)
Secondary Market for Private Shares – creating a market place / secondary market where investors / founders can offload private shares (SharesBook)
Balance Sheet Lending (BSL)- capitalising on the changing regulatory landscape in the the EU and backing up new types of ethical alternatives to payday lending (Credio)
MPL Robolender – setting up a buy-side MPL operation that would give investors a single entry-point to market place lending across multiple platforms (PeerCap)
ETF Roboadvisors – disrupting the mainstream wealth management space and offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional wealth managers and independent financial advisors, initially by focusing on the expat market (WealthPat)
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Communities
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Vietnam, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cooky.vn — The community loves food, cooking and baking. Join the community to share recipes and cooking tips.
- Freja — Award-winning bone broths from Freja Foods. Responsibly sourced and conveniently packaged, Freja bone broth is available online and via leading retailers.
- Winefi — Invest in collections of fine wine and spirits at low cost. Expertly-curated, diversified and managed for you from sourcing to sale. Only with Winefi.
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