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Top 20 Startup Investors in Myanmar

Last updated: Sep 2023 A list of 20 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Myanmar. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Myanmar. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Startup Investors in Myanmar

Investor	Myanmar investments
Seed Myanmar	2
Nest Tech	2
Insitor Partners	1
Asia Impact Investment Fund	1
Future Venture Capital	1
BOD Tech Ventures	1
Incofin Investment Management	1
Norfund	1
Nordic Microfinance Initiative	1
Proparco	1
Finnfund	1
SPARX Group	1
Yangon Capital Partners (YCP)	1
Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries	1
Symbiotics Group	1
Vulpes Innovative Myanmar Investment Company	1
Scala	1
Axel Peyriere	1
BOPA	1
Cocoon Capital	1

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Seed Myanmar was launched in 2016 from Vulpes Investment Manager Pte Ltd, a leading alternative investment manager in Singapore. Vulpes has been making emerging market and venture capital investments from Singapore since 2011 and looks for opportunities to invest in markets on the verge of development. Myanmar in 2016 was one such market.

Investment focus

Delivery, Logistics, Automotive
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Better Technologies PTE — Cloud-based HR management software allowing CEOs and HR managers to streamline payroll, attendance, leave, and OT for better employee management for Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam
Flexible Pass — Flexible Pass is the No.1 Health and Fitness App in Myanmar that gives users access to over 70 gyms,fitness centers and hotels offering a wide variety of fitness activities. The vision of Flexible Pass is to help people in Myanmar live a healthier lifestyle by providing them with flexible and affordable fitness options.
Marathon Myanmar — They believe that the Myanmar needs a good logistics system for the supply chain in order to promote the local economy in the rural areas. Their dream is that the local farmers will be able to buy anything from online and get the item delivered on their door, with the access to the good logistics system and payment system. At the same time, theywill be able to sell their local products online by using reliable logistics system and payment system. A good logistics and payment system will give the local SMEs the access to broader markets which leads to higher productivity, competition, job creation and greater consumer choice. The company’s mission is to provide the reliable and affordable delivery solution for local SMEs and retail/online shops to be able to expand their markets nationwide and sell their products to the end customers by reducing middle men and transaction cost.

Nest Tech is a venture capital firm that invests in and nurtures technology entrepreneurs at the seed and early growth stages. They build trust and mentor start-ups to evolve their strategy and vision and help them to expand and compete at the regional and global levels.

Investment focus

Education, Retail, Fantasy Sports
Seed, Funding Round
Myanmar, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Kalpha — Kalpha is a peer-to-peer mobile platform which allows individuals to discover, connect, and meetup to learn and share all skills, knowledge and experiences.
Joosk Studio — Joosk is the leading animation and illustration company in Myanmar. Their sticker packs have been downloaded millions of times, and their weekly animation series have regular audiences in the thousands. With a roster of international clients including Facebook, UN agencies and leading corporates, as well as a talented team of young designers, Jooskis defining the new wave of digital entertainment in Myanmar.
KoneSi — KoneSi is an innovative load-pooling logistics solution provider for small and medium enterprises in the retail sector. The main problems in the logistics are fragmented orders, the immediacy of orders, and poor traffic conditions cause by inefficiencies in Myanmar SMEs. By helping with consolidation and optimization processes, businesses canachieve cost savings and improved workflow on this front. With the service of ️Konesi, the clients save more than 60% of their logistics costs, increase their retail reach, and focus on other productive tasks by taking full responsibilities of their retail distribution.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India, Cambodia, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

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.
WorkIndia — With WorkIndia.in a Job seeker can search the best jobs throughout India and schedule the Interview at their convenience. And an employer can post the vacancy and get calls directly from the prospective candidate.
HROne — HROne helps companies to automate the employee lifecycle. Awarded best cloud-based software in India & trusted by 4+ lacs users across 18+ industries.

Asia Impact Investment Fund

Investment focus

Finance, Non Profit, Association
Funding Round
Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Alliance for Microfinance in Myanmar — Microfinance in Myanmar

Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
IGNITE IMPULSE, INC. — As a digital agricultural enhancing service, Ignite impulse offers a variety of services, some of which include the following: agricultural software and equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and leasing solutions; self-regulated farm shells with pre-installed vertical farming solutions; machined irrigation consulting and installations; artificialintelligence (AI) powered farming solutions; hydroponics farming consultation- partnership and installations; supply chain and logistics partnership; and more.Ignite Impulse also offers hydroponics solutions, as well as controlled farming assistance and consulting, to corporate, government, and educational organizations as part of our cooperation with these entities.

BTV - South East Asia Investments

Investment focus

EdTech, Training, Tutoring
Seed, Series A
Myanmar, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Clevai — Clevai is an AI-enabled after-school tutoring platform for K-12 students, delivering quality education to underserved students.
Flymya — Myanmar No.1 Travel Portal, the first provider of consumer-direct travel services in Myanmar.With a dedicated ticketing and customer support team based in Yangon, Myanmar, flymya.com is a one-stop-shop for all domestic flight purchases.The Myanmar's leading consolidator of travel services, flymya.com aggregates top domestic airlines in one of the world's fastest growing tourist markets.Through process excellence, dedication and passion, our ticketing team aim to surpass customers' expectations by making their travel planning an enjoyable and reliable experience.

Incofin Investment Management (Incofin IM) manages funds that invest in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries. MFIs provide financial services, such as credits, savings and insurances, to people who cannot have recourse to regular banks. As a specialist in rural microfinancing, Incofin IM’s main goal is to reach out to people wholive in more secluded rural areas and/or who are active in the agricultural sector.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
India, Kenya, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Varashakti Housing Finance — Varashakti Housing Finance operates as a rural housing finance provider.
Mufin Green Finance — Mufin Green Finance is an NBFC that specialises in the electric vehicle (EV) market.
Light Microfinance — We are one of the top Microfinance companies in India. Light Microfinance head office is located in Ahmedabad.

Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).

Investment focus

Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Miniplast — Miniplast Limited is one of the leading manufacturers of Industrial and Household products in Ghana with over 25 years of experience in the sector.
OH Ecosystems — OH Ecosystems is a confectionary company that produces and operates cocoa processing and confectioneries.
Hela Clothing — Hela Clothing is a clothing manufacturer. From design to delivery, the firm collaborates closely with brands in the intimate, sleepwear, and children's product lines. With design centers in major markets, they can watch and predict customer preferences. This enables us to provide their customers with unique design options that fit theirrequirements.

The Norwegian Microfinance Initiative (NMI) is an innovative strategic partnership between the Norwegian public and private sectors that will invest in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries and provide professional assistance and technical support for these institutions. The mission of NMI is to contribute to the empowerment ofpoor people and to the creation of jobs, wealth, and economic and social sustainability in developing countries by investing in and supporting MFIs.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Banking
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
India, Uganda, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Light Microfinance — We are one of the top Microfinance companies in India. Light Microfinance head office is located in Ahmedabad.
Sitara — Sewa Grih Rin provides affordable housing finance to the under-served low income households in urban and peri-urban locations.Incorporated in 2011, SEWA Grih Rin Limited was envisaged as a means for the under-served households to access affordable and formal housing finance in urban & peri-urban locations. We learnt that low-income householdsheld two facets of their life very close to their heart: they treasured the education of their children; and aspired to self-own a property, a home of their own.SEWA Grih Rin Limited’s work is aimed at directly improving the quality of life of informally employed households, especially their women members, by creating a tangible financial asset in their name. We provide an affordable alternative to those households whose credit capacity falls behind the widening financing gap given the informal nature of their employment.
Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Energy
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
India, Kenya, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Sabesp — Sabesp is a Brazilian company that engages in providing basic sanitation services such as distribution of treated water, collection, and treatment of sewage. It is currently responsible for supplying water and collecting and treating sewage in the 367 municipalities of São Paulo state. It supplies 27.9 million people with water and provides sewagecollection services to 21.5 million people.Sabesp was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Nuru — Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa.Nuru is arenewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma.Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.
TUHF — TUHF provides commercial & residential property development finance loans in South Africa. Contact us for property development investment or loans to buy residential property.

Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
Kenya, India, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
Kasha — Kasha is an innovative e-commerce platform based in East Africa, built for women's health, personal care and beauty products accessibility within urban and rural areas.
Satya MicroCapital — Satya MicroCapital is an NBFC-MFI that offers collateral-free credit to micro enterprises on the basis of strong credit assessment and a centralised approval system.SATYA started its microfinance operations by adopting the “Joint Liability Group (JLG) Model” with adequate use of technology and new adaptations. JLGs of SATYA means implementationsof Joint Liability of group members which exists up to 10 instalments in Bi-Weekly collections. The Company believes in the ideology to bring social touch and high technology in the Indian microfinance industry.The JLG lending operation mainly focuses on a woman (in case of SATYA, her husband acts as co-borrower) through a credit product that allows her to start a new business or enhance her existing business as well. SATYA provides prompt, convenient and affordable collateral-free credit to people at the bottom of the pyramid through a strong credit assessment and centralized approval.The Company started its microfinance operation from Sikandrabad Branch, Bulandshar District of Uttar Pradesh and the first token disbursement was done in November 2016. SATYA utilized demonetization as an opportunity to rework on the business strategy through cashless transactions. SATYA is an institution build with a vision of change, transformation and will be a differentiator in financial inclusion space and its approach is well recognized by industry experts and professionals across different sectors. SATYA is committed to being a socially responsible organization with a focus on Health, Education, Financial Literacy, Nasha-Mukt Samaaj, Gender Equality, and Swachh Bharat. The Company is spreading social awareness messages in its area of operations.

SPARX Group Co., Ltd. is an independent Asia-based equity and credit asset management services and Asian fund financial specialist with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul for global institutional and individual investors, including financial advisors and financial planners, with alternative strategies (including activist, short-enabled, private equity and quantitative and fund-of-funds) and mutual funds (through SPARX Asia Funds such as SPARX Asia Pacific Opportunities Fund, SPARX Asia Pacific Equity Income Fund, SPARX Japan Smaller Companies Fund and SPARX Japan Fund) managed or sub-advised by SPARX Asset Management Co. Ltd., SPARX Asia Investment Advisors Limited and Cosmo Asset Management Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Blue Laser Fusion — Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor.
UnaBiz — Based in Singapore, Taiwan and Japan, UnaBiz delivers end-to-end customised IoT solutions worldwide. Simple, cost-efficient & low maintenance
ON TIME — ON TIME is a mobile travel service provider company.

Yangon Capital Partners (YCP)

Investment focus

Retail, Logistics, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round
Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

KoneSi — KoneSi is an innovative load-pooling logistics solution provider for small and medium enterprises in the retail sector. The main problems in the logistics are fragmented orders, the immediacy of orders, and poor traffic conditions cause by inefficiencies in Myanmar SMEs. By helping with consolidation and optimization processes, businesses canachieve cost savings and improved workflow on this front. With the service of ️Konesi, the clients save more than 60% of their logistics costs, increase their retail reach, and focus on other productive tasks by taking full responsibilities of their retail distribution.
Flexible Pass — Flexible Pass is the No.1 Health and Fitness App in Myanmar that gives users access to over 70 gyms,fitness centers and hotels offering a wide variety of fitness activities. The vision of Flexible Pass is to help people in Myanmar live a healthier lifestyle by providing them with flexible and affordable fitness options.

Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries

Investment focus

Water, Energy, Finance
Funding Round
France, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Africa GreenCo — Our mission - addressing creditworthiness to increase generation and growth of renewable energy markets through partnerships and innovative solutions.
Eranove — The Eranove group counts more than 9000 employees all engaged in developping hydroelectric solutions to allow all the pan african citizens to access electricity and drinking water
Alliance for Microfinance in Myanmar — Microfinance in Myanmar

Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing. Symbiotics offers investment, asset management and capacity building services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
Debt Financing, Seed, Angel
India, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Accial Capital — Accial Capital is an impact-focused, tech-enabled investor in small business and consumer loan portfolios in Latin America and South East Asia. Accial Capital combines data, technology, capital and credit expertise to contribute to a world of widespread credit access and financial health.
Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
Sempli — Sempli is building the leading all-in-one finance digital bank for small businesses in Colombia.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Nexlabs — We provide advertising, creative, data, and technology solutions for leading businesses.

Scala offers network solution services for search engine of website and Electric commerce site.

Investment focus

Health Care
Seed
Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

MyanCare — MyanCare was founded by the respected and admirable professors of Myanmar medical profession field.

Startups - Mentoring - Advising - Emerging Markets. I am a enthusiastic entrepreneur and angel investor working with startups all around the world. Have worked / mentored / coached / partnered / invested in more than 200 startups around the world. Specially keen on online marketplaces and emerging and frontier markets.

Investment focus

Delivery, E-Commerce, Retail
Seed, Series A
Egypt, Nepal, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
Appetito — Buy all your groceries and household essentials from your online supermarket. Order from the comfort of your home at your finger tips.
FreshGora — Food and Grocery delivery in Yangon, Myanmar.

BOPA is a Singapore-based equity investor in microfinance institutions.

Investment focus

Finance, Non Profit, Association
Funding Round
Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Navadhan Capital — Navadhan Capital offers capital to under-banked households.
Alliance for Microfinance in Myanmar — Microfinance in Myanmar

As an active, early-stage investor, we allocate substantial time to each new company post-investment by only doing 6 new deals per year.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Qashier — One Qashier solution streamlines POS & payment operations empowering businesses to thrive in the digital economy. Be More with Qashier.
Buymed — thuocsi.vn was established in 2018, is one of the successful startups in the field of medical technology Currently, it provides medicine to more than 1,000 pharmacies and clinics throughout Vietnam. As one of the workplace attracts young talents with the passion to apply 4.0 technology to Health.
The Iterative Collective — Your friendly neighborhood indie game incubator & publisher, based out of sunny Singapore, providing a full suite of services for indie devs

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