Top 10 Startup Investors in Cambodia in January 2025
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Cambodia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Cambodia. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Startup Investors in Cambodia in January 2025
Investor | Cambodia investments |
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UNICEF Innovation Fund | 2 |
Quinn Quinn | 1 |
EXS Capital | 1 |
Opes Impact Fund | 1 |
Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter | 1 |
Jo Ann Corkran | 1 |
Insitor Partners | 1 |
Satori Giants | 1 |
David Beatty | 1 |
X Venture Holdings | 1 |
The UNICEF Innovation Fund is a pooled funding vehicle to quickly assess, fund and grow open-source solutions that have been developed in new and emerging markets.UNICEF's Innovation (Venture) Fund is a newly established, non-thematic, pooled fund which has been specifically designed to finance early stage, open-source technology that canbenefit children. The core motivation of the Innovation Fund is to identify "clusters" or portfolios of initiatives around emerging technology - so that UNICEF can both shape markets and also learn about and guide these technologies to benefit children. They invest in solutions that can impact the lives of the most vulnerable children. They find these solutions clustered around $100billion industries in frontier technology spaces, such as: blockchain, UAVs, virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, machine learning, quantum computing, genetic engineering, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, nano-satellites and human dynamics.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Grant, Seed
- Argentina, Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Leaf — Digital financial services for vulnerable populations on a mobile device. Access the convenience and affordability of a digital wallet with savings, remittances, and payments locally and across borders. Backed by blockchain, the safe storage and transport of assets reduces risk while creating an economy identity.
- CirroLytix — CirroLytix helps governments, researchers, NGOs, and social enterprises leverage data to achieve positive change.
- Grassroots Economics — Grassroots Economics is a non-profit foundation that has been seeking to empower marginalized communities to take charge of their own livelihoods and economic future since 2010.
Adrian became a serial entrepreneur who had multiple exits across the USA, Australia and NZ. Adrian is co-founder and lead investor at AngelCube, Melbourne’s first venture accelerator, which provides seed investment and mentoring for technology start-ups and recently won StartupSmart magazine’s “Best Start-up Investor” award. Adrian is alsofounding chairman of Investors' Organisation, whose mission is to grow the pool of investors willing to support Australia’s next generation of entrepreneurs, through collaboration and idea exchange. Adrian has invested in more than 40 Australian and US startups.
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Investment focus
- Transportation, Software, Apps
- Angel, Seed
- Australia, United States, Cambodia
Portfolio highlights
- BookMeBus — Travelling or planning your trip across Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand? Find the best deals on bus, taxi and ferry tickets on BookMeBus.com. Book now!
- PoweredLocal — Wish you could uncover who's walking into your locations? PoweredLocal converts your real world visitors into a digital profile, complete with contact information, and sends this data into your existing marketing and CRM platforms. In real time.
- Freight Exchange Pty Ltd — Multi-Carrier Shipping Software | TMS | FMS | ERP
We focus exclusively on privately-negotiated investments in Asia, seeking either majority or shared control. We invest opportunistically across industries, including real estate, one of the biggest publicly listed businesses in the region. In Asia, we believe the distinction among traditional alternative investment styles – buyout, growth,distressed, mezzanine, PIPEs, activist, real estate opportunity, etc. – is relatively meaningless. Indeed, many of our most successful deals have combined elements of several of these styles. We make the investment suit the opportunity.
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Investment focus
- Hotel, Travel, Tourism
- Series A, Private Equity
- Vietnam, Cambodia
Portfolio highlights
- Mad Monkey — Mad Monkey is a hostel operator, creating meaningful and sustainable travel experiences for travelers. The purpose of every Mad Monkey hostel is to provide the best customer experience in the most sustainable way for the benefit of the customers, team members, and the communities where we are located. More than just accommodation, Mad Monkey is thehome-away-from-home base for travelers craving immersive cultural experiences, adventures, trips, educational activities, events and meeting like-minded individuals, and forming communities.
- SON KIM LAND — SON KIM LAND is an investment and development company that develops people with empowerment culture as career-oriented individuals. The company creates an environment where people with integrity, leadership, and commitment work together as a team to achieve a vision. The company recruits capable employees, encourage, and support the continuousdevelopment of the skills and knowledge, and motivate to produce results.SON KIM LAND was founded on 1993 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Series A
- Kenya, India, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
- MunyaxEco — Munyax ECO is an East African solar energy company that is dedicated to providing innovative renewable energy solutions while promoting gender equality. Discover how our sustainable practices and inclusive approach are driving positive change in the industry and beyond.
- WidEnergy Africa — Widenergy Africa Ltd , is a women – led company, registered in Zambia, dedicated in the last miles distribution of clean energy solutions. We are the official distributor of Little sun solar products in Zambia (Solar lamps, Solar phone chargers), and will start soon with the distribution of clean cook stoves, with the objective to contribute inreduction of the Zambian deforestation rate, known as one of the highest in Africa.
Terwilliger Centre for Innovation in Shelter facilitates more efficient and inclusive housing market systems, making affordable and improved housing possible for low-income families.
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Investment focus
- Water, Service Industry, Supply Chain Management
- Seed
- Cambodia
Portfolio highlights
- TapEffect — TapEffect offers a fully integrated suite of solutions for bringing tap water to last-mile households. We offer the solutions needed to expand piped water networks in remote areas.
Jo Ann Corkran, Managing Partner of Golden Seeds LLC and Lead Partner of Golden seeds Fund 2, has been a lead investor on multiple transactions at Golden Seeds including life sciences, consumer goods and technology deals. Jo Ann sits on the board of Crimson Hexagon, a social media monitoring company, and Bespoke Global, an ecommerce company forartisanal furniture. Prior to joining Golden Seeds, Jo Ann spent the majority of her 20 plus year Wall Street career at Credit Suisse. Most recently at CS Asset Management (CSAM) she was Global Head of Cash and Short Duration. Earlier at CSAM she managed the U.S. domestic securitized assets, and U.S. Core Fixed Income Assets. Previously she was at Morgan Stanley and First Boston. She started her career as a Consulting Actuary in the Econometric Modeling Area of Buck Consultants. She used to sit on the Investment Committee of the Common Endowment Fund of the UUA 2003-2009, and the Socially Responsible Investing Committee UUA 2002-2003. Jo Ann holds a BS in Mathematics from NYU and was a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries.
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Investment focus
- Video Streaming, Fitness, mHealth
- Seed, Angel, Series C
- United States, Cambodia
Portfolio highlights
- FORTË — FORTË enables fitness brands globally to create a high-quality, premium digital fitness platform cost-effectively. FORTË installs its proprietary streaming hardware and software at one or more of its clients’ locations, deploys a customized website and accompanying mobile apps, and assists the client to launch and promote its new virtual offering.End-users can stream live and on-demand fitness classes from their favorite gym while interacting with their community on two-way video, tracking their performance in real-time on leaderboards and through wearable integrations, participate in challenges, and get social with their friends. FORTË powers UFC, Goodlife Fitness, YMCA's, NFL Player's Association, The Edge, Heartcore, GYMVMT, and many other well-known gym chains and boutique studios.
- BookMeBus — Travelling or planning your trip across Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand? Find the best deals on bus, taxi and ferry tickets on BookMeBus.com. Book now!
- EliseAI — Elise is an artificially intelligent leasing agent for multifamily communities. As an AI leasing assistant, Elise responds, follows up, and books showing appointments.
Insitor Partners pioneered impact investing as the first impact fund manager to set up operations in Southeast Asia, and a pioneer investor in India and Pakistan. We back entrepreneurs building life-changing solutions for low-income consumers.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- India, Cambodia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- HROne — HROne helps companies to automate the employee lifecycle. Awarded best cloud-based software in India & trusted by 4+ lacs users across 18+ industries.
- Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
- Butterfly Learnings — Butterfly Learnings is a Leading ABA Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Occupational Therapy Center for parents with special needs children having autism, ADHD, speech delays, down syndrome, learning disabilities & much more.
At Satori Giants we bring ideas to life by providing the capital, resources, network, and expertise to launch and scale successful ventures.
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Investment focus
- Logistics
- Seed
- Cambodia
Portfolio highlights
- Supafaya — Monetizing community sucks. We're here to help the best creators build businesses around & with your communities to provide long-lasting value.
- Jalat Logistics — Same-day Delivery for retailers and logistics powered by Mobile Warehouses.
David is an entrepreneur and Angel investor. He is very active in promoting angel investing around the world as managing director of Golden Seeds and founder and managing partner of two other angel groups: MAIN, the Mekong angel investor network, leading delegations to invest in Southeast Asia, and Digital Irish Angels, a group of Irish Americansinvesting on the island of Ireland.David is Chairman of Empire Messaging, Inc., a company he started in 1993 and ran until 2004, which provides Enterprise Messaging solutions to corporate clients. David has co-founded 3 other tech enabled companies with successful exits. David is a very active supporter of, and mentor to the early stage ecosystem in NY and is a frequent speaker and panelist on the topics of early stage fundraising and seed investing.
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Investment focus
- Transportation, Fleet Management, Information Technology
- Angel
- Cambodia
Portfolio highlights
- BookMeBus — Travelling or planning your trip across Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand? Find the best deals on bus, taxi and ferry tickets on BookMeBus.com. Book now!
X Venture Holdings ("XVH") is a Hong Kong based investment fund that focuses on funding and creating value for startups and early stage growth companies in Southeast Asia. XVH believes in a sector agnostic approach to investing and managing its portfolio companies around the region. Along with its partners and co-investors, XVH focuses ondeveloping mutually beneficial partnerships with innovative and status quo challenging founders who are looking to change the world for the better. XVH's focus sectors primarily include but not limited to tech, healthcare, and consumer services.
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Investment focus
- Logistics
- Seed
- Cambodia
Portfolio highlights
- Jalat Logistics — Same-day Delivery for retailers and logistics powered by Mobile Warehouses.
- XVH Learning Hub — XVH Learning Hub is a learning platform that curates and offers training programs for startup and SME business owners (in Myanmar and beyond) with the aim to equip the program participants with real-world skill sets to help navigate through the entire entrepreneurial journey, from venture ideation to fundraising and cross border expansion. Theoffered programs will aim to provide training and insights into building up, scaling, and expanding the businesses into regional and ultimately international ventures.
- Vikings Entertainment — A full service, entertainment based, event and talent management company that specializes in creating concerts, music festivals, club events, and artist management and promotions across Southeast Asia.
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