Top 5 Startup Investors in Cambodia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 5 angel investors and VC 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 5 Startup Investors in Cambodia

Investor	Cambodia investments
UNICEF Innovation Fund	2
Opes Impact Fund	1
Jo Ann Corkran	1
David Beatty	1
Quinn Quinn	1

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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.

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.

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A
Kenya, India, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Mygrants — Mygrants is the most widely used educational online platform for refugees and asylum seekers in Italy and Europe.
MunyaxEco — MunyaxEco is working in solar energy as well as energy efficiency sectors by selling and installing environmentally friendly and high-quality equipment.
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.

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.

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.
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EliseAI — Elise is an artificially intelligent leasing agent for multifamily communities. As an AI leasing assistant, Elise responds, follows up, and books showing appointments.

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.

Investment focus

Transportation, Fleet Management, Information Technology
Angel
Cambodia

Portfolio highlights

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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.