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Top 25 Startup Investors in Myanmar

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 25 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 25 Startup Investors in Myanmar

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

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.
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

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.
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.
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.

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, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
Kenya, India, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
Ipak Yuli Bank — Kredir, Karta, Visa virtual, Omonat, Valyuta kurslari, Avtokredir, Pul o`tkazmalari
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

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

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.
Qashier — One Qashier solution streamlines POS & payment operations empowering businesses to thrive in the digital economy. Be More with Qashier.
The Iterative Collective — The Iterative Collective is a video game ecosystem, focused on the end to end support of independent game development studios' game development cycle.

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

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.
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.
Light Microfinance — We are one of the top Microfinance companies in India. Light Microfinance head office is located in Ahmedabad.

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

Sempli — Sempli is building the leading all-in-one finance digital bank for small businesses in Colombia.
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.

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

My Salon — My Salon is an AI cosmetics recommendation service that provides skin care services.
Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.
Thinker — Thinker provides sales of proximity sensors and proposed solutions using these products.

Daiwa PI Partners is a private equity firm focused on non-performing loan investments and energy investments.

Investment focus

Travel, Banking, FinTech
Series B, Series C, Series D
Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Carsome — Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowingthe customers to sell their cars.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.
Quantifeed — Quantifeed is Asia's leading digital wealth management platform for financial institutions.
Rent 2 Own(Myanmar) — Rent2Own is the first company in Myanmar offering a flexible rental service to help prospective buyers acquire asset . Providing tailored options to those in need of asset, but lacking the means to buy in one go. Their main focus is helping entrepreneurs, often farmers, to buy the asset they need to generate income and grow their business.Life isdynamic and ever changing and they help their clients adapt to new circumstances with their flexible contracts that include maintenance and insurance. The contracts can be adjusted anytime and early-terminated without penalty. Thinking about swapping your old motorcycle for a new one? Rent2Own offers the possibility to upgrade. In addition, the option to purchase the bike is available for the whole duration of the contract. After all payments are completed, the ownership of the bike is transferred to the client. They take pride in improving rural mobility. The impact of the availability of transportation can be hardly overstated. A motorcycle helps kids go to school and receive an education. It makes it possible for farmers to sell their products at more distant markets, where they might fetch a higher price. And for those who have found a job further away, a motorcycle allows them to commute.

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

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, Credit
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

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

Kiwigo, by Kiwipay, are an app and a token currency based on real value and real economy. We developed a super app for financial services (wallet) ride hailing, last mile logistics and on-demand delivery in Asian and African frontier markets.

Investment focus

Retail, Delivery, E-Commerce
Seed
Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

FreshGora — Food and Grocery delivery in Yangon, Myanmar.

Asia Impact Investment Fund

Investment focus

Finance, Non Profit, Association
Funding Round
Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Alliance for Microfinance in Myanmar — Microfinance in Myanmar

Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Water
Funding Round
France, Zambia, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

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
Africa GreenCo — Our mission - addressing creditworthiness to increase generation and growth of renewable energy markets through partnerships and innovative solutions.
Alliance for Microfinance in Myanmar — Microfinance in Myanmar

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Namdev Finvest — Namdev Finvest operates a non-banking finance platform that provides loans to rural and semi-urban agriculture, as well as the priority sector.
Rite Water Solutions — Rite Water Solutions offers potable water and water quality improvement solutions. It aims to provide safe drinking water to habitations across India which are affected by chemical and biological contamination of available ground and surface water source.The company’s portfolio of water and process technologies includes electrolytic processtechnologies, nanotechnology-based water quality solutions, membrane and filtration technology, monitoring solutions, analytical instruments, mobile water capabilities, and disinfection solutions.Its products include fluoride removal systems, auto chlorination systems, electro chlorinators, filtration systems, nanotech-based arsenic removal plants, iron removal systems, reverse osmosis systems, CIO2 generator systems, chemical dosing systems, and more.Rite Water Solutions is ISO 9001:2008 certified and is registered under the small scale industry in India.Rite Water Solutions is based in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
Varashakti Housing Finance — Varashakti Housing Finance operates as a rural housing finance provider.

Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe

Investment focus

Social Media, Content, SNS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
bond Japan — Bond Co., Ltd. is a video learning platform specializing in Japanese language studies.
Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

dru — dru is the Middle East and Africa's (MEA) first patient-centric, digitally-enabled lifestyle and diabetes management platform. dru aids the prevention and management of Diabetes, Pre-diabetes, and Obesity- serving millions in Egypt and across MEA and harnessing cutting-edge technology and an extensive network of providers. By usingdru's app, users can keep track and continuously monitor their blood sugar and blood pressure levels. dru users also have a full and organized record of their medications, lab and radiology results by logging them all in dru’s digital logbook intended for all types of medical records. One of the very unique features of dru is that it can connect its users to a wide array of monitoring devices, including continuous glucose monitoring. The insight dru users have access to as a result of dru’s features enables them to attain full 360 degree visibility over their health and state of wellbeing. dru’s round-the-clock medical support team are also available through the in-app's chat feature to answer all user queries and to connect users with a wide network of providers that are specialized in their cases.dru is now available for users, patients and patient caregivers to download on the Apple Store and on Google Play. dru was launched in 2023 by Almouneer, the leading digital transformation platform revolutionizing healthcare for patients and doctors across MEA.
Almouneer — Healthcare, Diabetes, Practice Management, Technology
NCBA Group — NCBA Group Plc, is a financial services conglomerate in East and West Africa.

Norfund is an active, strategic minority investor. They offer risk capital and expertise to help building sustainable businesses in poor countries.Norfund aim to invest in countries where they can have the greatest impact. In countries where the private sector is weak and access to capital is scarce. This is primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa, butalso in some countries in South East Asia and Central America.

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.
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.
OH Ecosystems — OH Ecosystems is a confectionary company that produces and operates cocoa processing and confectioneries.

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

Investment focus

Health Care
Seed
Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

MyanCare — MyanCare is the platform between doctors and patients.

KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Debt Financing, Grant, Funding Round
India, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Copia Global — Copia is currently serving customers and rapidly growing in Kenya and Uganda with additional East African and West African countries expected in the next two
Indorama Fertilizers — Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers forlocal farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe
Ecobank — A regional commercial bank operating in many African countries.

Phyz is an EC solutions services" for the company business.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Management Consulting
Seed
Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries

Investment focus

Internet, Consulting, Information Services
Seed
Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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.
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.

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

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.
Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.

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
Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.

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