Top 30 Startup Investors in Sri Lanka in May 2026
Top 30 Startup Investors in Sri Lanka in May 2026
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Find investors — It's Free!BOV Capital is a Venture Capital Firm based in Sri Lanka and Singapore.BOV Capital was established to help Sri Lankan startups capture regional and global opportunities.BOV Capital will engage with ventures across all aspects of the business.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sri Lanka, India, Switzerland
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- nCinga — We are a technology investment and venture builder platform. We work on ideas and businesses demonstrating to create value leveraging data affinity, and automation.
- Linear Squared — Linear Squared is specialized in data science and advanced analytics solutions in Sri Lanka and is home to the country's best resources in AI and ML and other big data technologies.
- Roar Media — Unlock your content potential with Roar Media. We specialize in creating platform-specific content for global brands and agencies at scale.
LAN is a group of investors who have a passion for promoting entrepreneurship. LAN comprises of individual investors, venture capitalist, and angel investors. First of its kind in Sri Lanka, LAN was officially launched with the purpose of bringing together the Sri Lankan investor and mentor community and to scale the startup ecosystem.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Credit
- Seed, Series A
- Sri Lanka
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- OMAK — Discover advanced POS software, inventory management, & stock control systems to streamline your business. Manage sales, stock, & orders efficiently with OMAK.
- Mintpay — With Mintpay you can Shop Better, both online & in-store and Pay Better with features like, BNPL & Instant Cashback Rewards at 2,500+ partner brands in Sri Lanka.
- ZigZag.lk — Zigzag Online Women's Clothing Store in Sri Lanka delivering Internationally. Find the latest women's fashion online at zigzag.lk. With 100s of new styles every month from dresses, tops, tshirts, denims, pants categories. Shop Now. Look out for party wear, work wear, denim, linen outfits from the available styles.
NVentures is a seed fund with a specific focus on investing in B2B (business-to-business) fintech startups located in the regions of South and Southeast Asia. The fund aims to support early-stage companies within the fintech sector that are operating in business-oriented domains. By providing financial backing and potentially other resources,nVentures seeks to foster innovation and growth within the fintech ecosystem of South and Southeast Asia.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sri Lanka, Singapore, Bangladesh
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- Dossiers — Dossiers brings onboarding, screening, and monitoring together into one platform. Fight financial crime with AI-powered trust infrastructure built for banks, fintechs, and financial institutions.
- Hishabee — Empowering 300,000+ unbanked small businesses to access embedded finance Hishabee finances informal retailers to stock products at zero upfront cost so they can stock now, sell and pay later. Track your business records using Hishabee and get access to instant finance. Equipping MSME with the right tools for growth Small businesses are key to our
- Shopbook — Record credit, send reminders, and collect payments on your phone. Free app for shopkeepers.
NVIDIA is a computing platform company innovating at the intersection of graphics, HPC and AI. The company specialises in the manufacture of graphics processor technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and mobile devices. The company is a major supplier of integrated circuits used for personal computer motherboard chipsets, graphicsprocessing units (GPUs), and game consoles.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Series B, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, Canada
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- Pliops — Pliops' Extreme Data Processor (XDP) speeds up databases, applications, and analytics by 10x while reducing infrastructure costs up to 5x.
- Deepgram — Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom-trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale. Deepgram's deep learning speech recognition system searches for keywords in transcripts by sound and text within audio and video files, used for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails for searchable notes,providing businesses with a fast, high accuracy speech-to-text on an easy-to-use API.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Deep Infra — Deep Infra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.
Explore Creation Investments' impact-driven private equity and credit portfolios focused on financial inclusion in emerging markets, promoting social and financial growth.
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- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Funding Round, Series C, Series A
- India, Mexico, Sri Lanka
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- techreo — techreo is a digital platform that offers integral financial services for the underbanked in LATAM. Through a partnership with Regulated financial institutions, techreo focuses on customer acquisition for the Financial institutions, offers its technology and the customer journey for customers to buy financial products and services.
- Agrolend — Agrolend was born to revolutionize the agribusiness sector for small and medium size farmers in Brazil, giving them access to sustainable credit that is needed to finance the development of their production and incentivize investment in equipment/technology. We help farmers to increase their productivity and profitability. Using cutting edgetechnology and an innovative credit analysis, Agrolend provides loans without any physical guarantees such as farms or grains. Our target is to avoid the slowness of the traditional banking system as this is a major problem for farmers looking for additional credit.
- AVLA — AVLA is a pioneering insurance group in offering financial solutions in Latin America.
The Digital Innovation Fund is focused on providing venture capital for Sri Lankan based digital start-ups. Backed by Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s largest telco and managed by BOV Capital, a Sri Lankan venture capital fund.
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- Insurance, Digital Media, Life Insurance
- Series A
- Sri Lanka
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- Roar Media — Unlock your content potential with Roar Media. We specialize in creating platform-specific content for global brands and agencies at scale.
- InsureMe Insurance Brokers — InsureMe offers motor vehicle full insurance, third-party insurance, travel insurance, life insurance, per-day motor vehicle insurance, and global health insurance services. The company is deployed in the insurance and banking sectors to facilitate focused customer interaction, providing convenience and saving precious time.
Seedstars International Ventures is an investment firm Invest in pre-seed & seed-stage startups.
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- Shipping, GreenTech, Logistics
- Seed
- Brazil
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- MatBook — MatBook is a technology-driven company focused on transforming the cross-border procurement of building materials, primarily serving the construction industry. MatBook offers a one-stop material procurement platform that enables users—such as contractors and real estate developers—to browse a wide variety of building products, request samples,obtain estimates, and place orders directly through the platform
- Lorien Finance — Lorien Finance is a cross-border FinTech platform providing affordable student loans and retail banking services to immigrants (students and temporary workers) moving to the US.
- Courageous Land — Courageous Land is to counteract climate change while improving the health and abundance of all living things. Courageous Land designs and operates biodiverse multi-strata agroforestry systems, as well as develops technologies that are critical to our operations and beneficial to land stewards and buyers.
Bill Lynch
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- Health Care, Medical Device, Information Services
- Seed
- Sri Lanka
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- oDoc — Channel doctors now through online video consultations at your convenience through the oDoc Mobile App. Download now to consult top doctors of Sri Lanka.
Bernard Sinniah
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- Credit, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Sri Lanka
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- Mintpay — With Mintpay you can Shop Better, both online & in-store and Pay Better with features like, BNPL & Instant Cashback Rewards at 2,500+ partner brands in Sri Lanka.
Striders specialize in IT, real estate lease management, food, and hotel businesses.
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- Fitness, Wellness, Psychology
- Series A, Series B
- Malaysia, Sri Lanka
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- Naluri Life — Naluri is a human-driven, AI-augmented digital health solution that delivers improvements in mental and physical health.
- Roar Media — Unlock your content potential with Roar Media. We specialize in creating platform-specific content for global brands and agencies at scale.
Startup Grind is a startup community in 120 countries delivering education, connections, and opportunities to help startups and scaleups grow.
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- Face Insights AI — Face Insights AI is a tech startup revolutionizing real-time face analysis with advanced AI and computer vision technology. We offer innovative solutions for user verification, emotion recognition, age and gender estimation, and mask detection, all designed to work seamlessly in various lighting conditions. Our software is built forquick,single-frame detection and easily integrates with ATS and HRMS platforms. Prioritizing security and data management, we adhere to the highest data protection standards. Homem Digital is here to elevate your business with reliable and efficient face analysis technology.What We Offer:User Verification: Seamlessly authenticate users with state-of-the-art facial recognition technology. Emotion Recognition: Gain powerful insights into your users’ emotions, enhancing engagement and personalization. Age & Gender Estimation: Make data-driven decisions with accurate age and gender predictions, optimizing customer interactions. Mask Detection: Ensure safety and compliance with our efficient mask detection solutions, even in dynamic environments.Why Choose Face Insights AI?Lightning-Fast, Single-Frame Detection: Experience ultra-fast results without compromising accuracy—ideal for real-time applications. Seamless Integration: Easily integrate our technology into your existing ATS and HRMS systems, driving smooth workflows. Data Security at Its Core: We take data protection seriously—adhering to the highest standards to keep your user information safe and secure.At Face Insights AI, we are transforming industries by offering AI solutions that are not just smart, but also intuitive and user-friendly. Whether you're in HR, retail, or security, our innovative face analysis technology empowers your business to unlock new possibilities while maintaining the highest standards of privacy and security.
- iChat Pro Solutions — iChat Pro Solutions is an innovative CRM provider that leverages advanced AI and machine learning (ML) technologies to transform how businesses manage customer relationships and streamline operations. Designed to help organizations enhance customer engagement and operational efficiency, iChat Pro integrates powerful AI-driven analytics andpredictive tools directly into the CRM. This approach enables businesses to gain actionable insights, automate routine tasks, and provide personalized customer experiences at scale. From lead scoring and customer segmentation to proactive service management, iChat Pro’s AI and ML capabilities make it a robust solution for companies seeking to stay ahead in a competitive market.
David Pieris Group offers motor vehicles, renewable energy, financial services, logistics, and leisure solutions.
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- Transportation, Travel, Logistics
- Seed, Corporate Round
- Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates
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- HelaGo — HelaGo is an emerging ride-hailing platform built on an open and fair operating model.
- Navire Logistics — Navire Logistics is a logistics company that provides customs clearance, freight forwarding, and transportation services.
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Mexico
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- Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
- Kyte — Kyte delivers rental cars straight to your door. We deliver and pick up the vehicle. No lines, no paperwork, freedom to explore. Fully flexible. Book today!
- EQUIP — In the region, SMB construction companies, which represent 90% of the market buy supplies manually at local hardware stores or retailers at high markup prices, which affects access to housing in LatAm. EQUIP’s platform offers a more efficient and cost-effective alternative, allowing construction companies to buy all the materials they need, get thedelivery and credit, all in one place.Our founding team has strong tech and construction backgrounds. Our investors include Pareto VC, Unpopular VC, GG Capital and angels from Rappi, Mercado Libre, and Amazon.
Suranga Priyashantha is the Head of Growth at BrighteSuranga Priyashantha attended BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
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- Credit, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Sri Lanka
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- Mintpay — With Mintpay you can Shop Better, both online & in-store and Pay Better with features like, BNPL & Instant Cashback Rewards at 2,500+ partner brands in Sri Lanka.
SGAN is an early stage VC anchored by the multi billion dollar Thakral Group of Companies and has investments across India, Singapore and the USA.
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
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- MyCaptain — MyCaptain is an online learning and teaching platform offering online courses with placements and certification programs. Upskill industry knowledge in the fields of business, marketing, design, content, and more.
- Dawaa Dost — Dawaa Dost specializes in the pharmacy retail chain of generic medicines in India. The company focuses on the availability of affordable generic medicines. Dawaa Dost was founded by Amit Choudhary and Yash Harlalka and is based in India.
- The Ayurveda Experience — The Most Trusted and Recognized Ayurveda Platform in North America and Australia, Your One-Stop Shop for All Things Ayurveda! Customized to your Dosha or Body Type, enabling the most personalized Ayurveda Experience. Free Shipping to most parts in the world for orders over 30 USD!
Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).
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- Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
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- Xurya — Xurya is a renewable energy platform in providing commercial and industrial rooftop owners access to solar lease product on one side. And investors access to a stable and safe investment in rooftop solar plants on the other side. Both are achieved by maintenance service which enables both parties peace of mind.
- Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
- India Grid Trust — IndiGrid was established on October 21, 2016 by our Sponsor, Sterlite Power Grid Ventures Limited, and is registered with SEBI pursuant to the InvIT Regulations.Their Sponsor is one of the leading independent power transmission companies operating in the private sector, with extensive experience in bidding, designing, financing, constructing andmaintaining power transmission projects across India.
A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.
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- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- India, Brazil, United States
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- Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
- iyzico — iyzico was founded with the aim of providing a secure payment management platform to online companies of different sizes operating in different industries. Currently it offers iyziPos (secure virtualPOS solution with automated fraud prevention and high authorization-rate bank integrations) , iyziBazaar (manage marketplace payments), iyziLink (payby link, without the need of a shopping site), and Buyer Protection (secure shopping experience) as the flagship products.
- Candela — We build electric hydrofoil boats and ferries for leisure and commercial use. Explore the Candela C-8 and the Candela P-12.
Over 15 years experience in the Internet industry back Heissam Hartmann's solid knowledge about the online business.Prior to joining Rebate Networks as the Vice President of Eastern Europe, Heissam was Head of International Business Development at the largest German online fashion shopping club brands4friends. Before that, Heissam was CEOof the online postcard service AhaOho, which sent real postcards, and was soon successfully sold to Greetz.As the former Marketing & Business Development Director from the biggest German online video community MyVideo, Heissam, worked on new concepts for new media and video advertising within the online and media industry.He started his career as one of the first staff members at the German auction platform Alando.de, which was acquired by eBay in 1999. He grew with the company as Head of Entertainment on to the position of Senior Manager, helping to build up eBay Switzerland and Austria from the scratch.On an entrepreneurial level he co-founded various companies and, as a Business Angel, advises start-ups in building and growing their businesses. Following his passion he also co-founded fashion brands and personally supported motion pictures and music projects.As the founder of Passiontainment, he advises influential people from the entertainment & sports industries and celebrities on their internet strategies and by that, bridges the worlds between influential investors and up-and-coming startups.
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- Retail, E-Commerce, Shopping
- Angel, Seed
- Germany, Austria, Ukraine
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- meinKauf — meinKauf/miKunu offers an innovative web & mobile platform for mobile retail marketing & brand promotions. Our services are available in Austria, Hungary and Turkey as we are about to enter another new market this year. We are proud to work with the top high street and brick and mortar as well as top FMCG companies in our activemarkets.
- Inventorum — Inventorum’s software enables small retailers to manage their offline and online businesses by supporting daily processes such as point of sale and inventory management. Inventorum combines cash management, inventory management, customer support and e-commerce capability in one system.
- Rubina Real Estate — A full service real estate agency based in Berlin with offices in Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Washington and Singapore.
Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity and venture capital funds.
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- Financial Services, Information Technology, Education
- Private Equity, Series A, Series B
- India, Kenya, Sri Lanka
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- Ripplr — Ripplr is a full-stack tech distribution and logistics player that offers data-driven analytics and plugs and play system.
- ZUMI — ZUMI connects apparel wholesalers and retailers in a transparent, affordable marketplace. It empowers women retailers with the technology, logistics, and financial services to scale. Through ZUMI, customers order via SMS, call, or with a ZUMI Agent. It collects orders from suppliers early each morning. Its logistics partners deliver to customerswithin 18 hours of ordering then customers pay with mobile money.ZUMI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Ed Partners — Get School Development Loan up to Ksh 20 million in 3 days, School Transportation Loan, School Techy Loan and School Upgrade Loans Available!
Leonard Lynch
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- Information Services, Education, Health Care
- Seed
- Sri Lanka, United States
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- oDoc — Channel doctors now through online video consultations at your convenience through the oDoc Mobile App. Download now to consult top doctors of Sri Lanka.
- Mainstay — Our AI Success Coaching provides personalized guidance directly to students' mobile phones, boosting engagement and success rates.
- inspeq ai — Explore how Inspeq.ai transforms inspections with AI-powered solutions, delivering real-time insights, enhanced efficiency, and smarter decision-making.
Hyperion is a venture capital firm that invests in founders who are passionate, creative and dedicated to executing their vision. We are stage agnostic & partner with seed to late-stage companies across all sectors.Hyperion’s ethos is founder-centric which means an investment in your company is an investment in you. Our team is available,responsive and committed to you, when and where you need it.
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- Digital Media
- Series A
- Sri Lanka
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- Roar Media — Unlock your content potential with Roar Media. We specialize in creating platform-specific content for global brands and agencies at scale.
Founded in 2008, AV is one of the most active and influential Mexican VC firms in Latin America. The Firm invests in early-stage to early-growth companies by becoming a leading Series Seed and Series A investor in startups that drive innovative business models tailored for the Latin American market.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, United States, Argentina
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- Blooms — Blooms provides trade finance and global payments solutions for LatAm produce exporters.
- Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
- Monato — Monato is a fintech that builds modular, scalable financial infrastructure that allows companies to integrate financial services in compliance with regulations.
Browns Investments is an investment company. They provide investments in plantations, leisure travel, media, entertainment, marketing and construction, continue to develop their investments to enhance value, and also manage a portfolio of investments.
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- AIIoTechnology — AIIoTechnology is a cutting-edge provider of AI-powered IoT solutions that help businesses revolutionize customer experiences, enhance operational efficiency, and drive growth. Our platform combines advanced analytics and intelligent tools to deliver actionable insights, enabling companies to understand customer behavior, tailor personalizedstrategies, and optimize service delivery.We specialize in AI-driven tools like Sentiment Analysis, which gauges customer emotions, Customer Segmentation for targeted strategies, and Dynamic Pricing that adapts to market trends. Additional features like Personalized Recommendations, Journey Tracking, and Satisfaction Scoring ensure an elevated customer experience and improved loyalty.By leveraging the power of AI and IoT, AIIoTechnology empowers businesses to make adaptive, data-driven decisions that streamline operations and ensure sustainable growth. From enhancing marketing strategies to enabling seamless customer interactions, our solutions are designed for immediate impact and long-term scalability.
AGIMDC invests in start ups, transforming NBFCs and mature MFIs. AGIMDC was sponsored by the Dutch fund Goodwell Microfinance Development Company. AGIMDCâ€:tm:s investment managers have extensive experience in private equity and microfinance.
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- Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- India, Indonesia, United States
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- Altum Credo — Altum Credo Home Finance (ACHF) is a Housing Finance Company Registered with National Housing Bank (NHB). Head Quartered at Pune, they aim to expand in various locations, Cities and States in the near future. Cater to Home Finance needs of customer segment which has limited access to Long Term Finance & provide best in class personalizedservice at affordable cost with key thrust on “Convenience, Relevance & Simplicity”. Altum Credo is promoted by three professional entrepreneur with rich experience in retail asset lending with leading banks and financial institution.
- LEO1 — Financepeer is a unique peer to peer lending platform designed to address financial needs of self-employed, entrepreneurs & salaried individuals through a highly secure, digital medium.
- Ergos — Ergos is building an integrated supply chain by setting up micro warehouses. Ergos is a transformational bank for the farmer which leverages technology to seamlessly provide custodial services (warehousing, loans, and market-linkages, enabling the farmer to convert his produce to a financial asset.Through their grid of digitally connected ruralmicro warehouses, they enable farmers to store their produce, avoid distress sales during harvest season, reduce wastage by scientific warehousing, tide over their immediate liquidity/ financing needs by working with NBFCs/ Banks, and thereby empower farmers to sell their produce as and when they desire, thereby resulting in farmers achieving 25%-30% higher incomes. Ergos was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Patna, Bihar.
SBI Ven Capital, founded in 2007 and based in Singapore, is a private equity firm that invests in financial services and technology sectors across Asia.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- India, Vietnam, Indonesia
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- Innoviti — Accept card, UPI & EMI payments using payment links, modern contactless POS machines, and make more money, faster with SaaS tools. Holder of RBI PA license.
- Colossus — Technical provider in institutional blockchain infrastructure, bridging the gap between Asset Holders and yield generation. We empower financial institutions to manage assets while maintaining the highest standards of security and transparency.
- VIMO Technology — VIMO Technology is an operator of mobile wallets for fund transfers, bill payments, online shopping, top-ups, and cash withdrawal channels.
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
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- EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
- CompScience — Kinetic Eye's ground-breaking technology allows for detection of risk within hours rather than days. Protecting your bottom-line and more importantly, your employees.
- FutureMoney — Introducing FutureMoney: the only investing app designed for parents. FutureMoney helps you give your kids more by growing your money, effortlessly. Start investing in your kids today with unlimited accounts, contributions and deposits, tax optimization, and fully-managed custom portfolios.
Cherif Habib is a co-Founder and the CEO at Dialogue. He is also a mentor at Creative Destruction Lab.
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- Health Care, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, Sri Lanka
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- Wingocard — Receive money instantly and shop at your favorite brands. No overdrafts, ever.
- Ditch Labs — Ditch Labs is a digital health company pioneering nicotine addiction treatment with artificial intelligence and a revolutionary device.
- Pathway Medical — Pathway is an accurate and efficient point-of-care reference tool that gives you rapid access to evidence-based guideline summaries, interactive algorithms, key findings from landmark trials, clinical calculators, and more. Available anytime, anywhere.
As Canada's regional economic development agency for Western Canada, Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) strives to maintain Western Canada’s competitive position by investing in projects and activities that help improve productivity and competitiveness through the development, adoption and commercialization of new technologies andbusiness processes. WD also supports higher value-added production and access to international markets.Abundant natural resources, thriving technology and services sectors, and low business costs make Western Canada an attractive place to do business. Its geographic proximity to Asian markets, access to inland and sea ports, and excellent transportation services to locations throughout North America have created increased efficiencies in exporting products to international markets.Western Canada is a significant contributor to the overall Canadian economy. In 2014, Western Canada accounted for 38% of Canada’s real gross domestic product (GDP) by industry and 42% of Canada’s exported goods.1 Western Canada’s export activity is closely linked to the largest economy in the world, the United States, and increasingly to the large and growing economies of the Asia-Pacific. The United States is Western Canada’s closest trading partner accounting for roughly 77% of goods exported from Western Canada in 2014. In the same year, exports to the Asia-Pacific region accounted for roughly 15% of Western Canada’s total exports; a 24% increase over the past 5 years.2Economic growth in Western Canada is anchored by the natural resources sector, with resource-based goods accounting for approximately 68% of total exported products in 2014. This focus has been a benefit to the economy by providing the foundation for the creation of industry clusters in sectors such as mining, forestry, oil and gas and agriculture.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Canada, Sri Lanka, United States
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- Co.Labs — We work with exceptional founders & teams to navigate the path from idea to $1M in annual revenue.
- Platform Calgary — Platform Calgary focuses on supporting Calgary's innovation-driven companies by providing access to space, programming, and advocacy, while also championing the vision for the new Platform Innovation Centre's design, activity, and culture. The firm is formerly known as Calgary Technologies Inc. and rebranded as Platform Calgary in 2019.
- Virtual Gurus — Our virtual assistants provide superhero admin support to help busy organizations accomplish more. Find out today how our assistants in Canada and the United States can help you.
Vir Kashyap is the Director, International Strategy & Operations at Indeed.com.
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- Health Care, Mobile Apps, Construction
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, Sri Lanka
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- oDoc — Channel doctors now through online video consultations at your convenience through the oDoc Mobile App. Download now to consult top doctors of Sri Lanka.
- Kolo — Get instant answers from your dedicated Kolo expert. Discuss construction doubts, interior design choices, quotation comparisons, material selection, and budget planning through real-time chat.
- VAMA — VAMA is a one-stop virtual platform that provides easy access to e-pujas, e-darshans, and astrology services, to devotees from across India and the world.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
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- Synthium — Synthium offers Cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS) for consumer robotics, using gamified web-based simulations to crowdsource human cognitive data for training robot AI models. Users engage in robotics tasks like spatial navigation via webcam and microphone inputs, generating diverse datasets for model training across robot types such as humanoids anddrones. Data captures human intuition in dynamic environments, enabling scalable AI development without physical robots.
- Alchemyst AI — Alchemyst AI is an innovative generative AI software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup that leverages cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to deliver unique solutions tailored to various industries. Alchemyst aims to empower businesses to harness the potential of generative AI for enhanced creativity, efficiency, and decision-making.We arebuilding force multipliers within teams across various verticals - starting with Maya, our first Alchemyst for Sales Development. We would soon be horizontally scaling to other roles as well, integrating into wherever you work.Since inception, we have taken a bottom-up approach to building our platform as opposed to a top-down approach usually seen in SaaS products - keeping the client experience first.
- Cooper Pet Care — Just Russel honden- en kattenvoeding op maat. Op basis van ras, leeftijd, gezondheid en gewicht. Makkelijker voor jou, beter voor je huisdier!
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