Top 15 Startup Investors in Sri Lanka
A list of 15 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Sri lanka. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Sri lanka. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Startup Investors in Sri Lanka
Investor | Sri Lanka investments |
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Creation Investments Capital Management, LLC | 3 |
BOV Capital | 2 |
Zephyr Management | 1 |
Western Economic Diversification Canada | 1 |
Bill Lynch | 1 |
Cherif Habib | 1 |
Singapore Angel Network | 1 |
Heissam Hartmann | 1 |
Aavishkaar Venture Capital | 1 |
Norfund | 1 |
SBI Ven Capital | 1 |
Hustle Fund | 1 |
Vir Kashyap | 1 |
Hyperion Ventures | 1 |
Leonard Lynch | 1 |
Private equity investments in Microfinance Institutions, Small-and-Medium Enterprise lenders, Emerging Market Banks, Insurance Providers, FinTech, Payments businesses and other BOP Financial Service Institutions focused on the unbanked and underbanked in the developing world.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Funding Round, Series C, Series A
- India, Mexico, Sri Lanka
Portfolio highlights
- DD360 — DD360 is an intelligent ecosystem for real estate developments.
- Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
- ReshaMandi — reshamandi.com is a one-stop sourcing platform with a wide range of customisable natural-fibres products tailored to cater to your business needs.
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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Investment focus
- Medical, Software, Textiles
- Seed, Series A
- Sri Lanka, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Roar Media — Roar LK covers the deeper issues, untold tales and hidden heroes of Sri Lanka. Our content is presented in a credible and unbiased way, and always aims to inform, educate and inspire.
- Luciole Medical — Transforming cerebral monitoring for brain health.
- nCinga — Solvei8 is an integrated factory cloud solutions provider for the apparel and footwear manufacturing industry. Focused on innovation, agility, and customer-centricity, our company provides solutions that optimize factory processes.
Since 1994, they have sponsored 22 funds with approximately $1.2 billion in committed capital which are managed from their offices in New York, London and Bangalore.With a global network of partners, Zephyr is positioned to identify sustainable secular growth changes which lead to attractive investment opportunities for their investors.While their focus is on the creation and execution of innovative investment strategies, the operating style is conservative and sustainable.Managers strictly adhere to their respective mandates and investments are selected based on rigorous fundamental research. Today, Zephyr manages investment funds in India and Sri Lanka, and they are actively researching new investment opportunities around the world.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, Education
- Private Equity, Series A, Series B
- India, Kenya, Sri Lanka
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Canada, Sri Lanka, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
Bill Lynch
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical Device, Information Services
- Seed
- Sri Lanka
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Cherif Habib is a co-Founder and the CEO at Dialogue. He is also a mentor at Creative Destruction Lab.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, Sri Lanka
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Ditch Labs — Ditch Labs is a digital health company pioneering nicotine addiction treatment with artificial intelligence and a revolutionary device.
- Wingocard — Receive money instantly and shop at your favorite brands. No overdrafts, ever.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- MyCaptain — MyCaptain is an Edtech platform that helps people transform passion into a career, with guidance from 200 plus professionals who have made a mark in their respective fields.. MyCaptain aims to enable every human to pursue careers they truly love, right from Content creation, Writing, Design, to name a few, and facilitate their growth in the field.The platform aims to train more than a Million learners in new age professions in the year 2025.
- 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!
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Shopping
- Angel, Seed
- Germany, Austria, Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- Rubina Real Estate — A full service real estate agency based in Berlin with offices in Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Washington and Singapore.
With Impact Investing at its core, Aavishkaar Capital caters venture capital requirements to scale businesses in the new markets.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Manufacturing, Finance
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- India, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Financepeer — 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.
- Altum Credo — Avail best home loans with simple and quick approval process, we make your dream home buying easier and hassle free.
- AgroStar — AgroStar is India’s foremost AgTech start-up working on the mission of #HelpingFarmersWin by providing a complete range of agri solutions at the fingertips of farmers. AgroStar’s tech platform provides a combination of agronomy advice coupled with service and agri input products that enable farmers to significantly improve their productivity andincome.We use an extensive amount of data, technology and agronomy knowledge to give the right solutions (advice+products) to Indian farmers.AgroStar currently operates in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan and has over 5 Lakh farmers on its digital platform. Farmers in these states can avail agri solutions for their entire crop life-cycle with a simple “missed call” or through its Android app, which is amongst the highest rated farming focused apps in the country.Over the next 5 years, we plan to continue to provide incremental value to farmers in terms of wide range of inputs delivered at their doorsteps, world-class agronomy guidance and also access to market linkages and credit.
Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).
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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.
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- India, Vietnam, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Eratani — Eratani is an Agri-tech company is to focus on building a agricultural ecosystem and seeks to provide farmers with easy access to technology to increase the productivity and welfare of the agricultural ecosystem.
- Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
- Fresh Factory — Fresh Factory runs a web of hyperlocal cold-chain fulfilment centers in Indonesia.
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
- 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.
- SATIM — SATIM provides insights based on satellite radar data acquired regardless of weather and day/night time. Using developed software and algorithms SATIM can solve the problem of optimal information extraction from complex SAR imagery.
Vir Kashyap is the Director, International Strategy & Operations at Indeed.com.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Mobile Apps, Construction
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, Sri Lanka
Portfolio highlights
- Kolo — Kolo is the best way to design & construct your home. Browse interior design photos, home decor, decorating ideas and home professionals online.
- 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.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Digital Media
- Series A
- Sri Lanka
Portfolio highlights
- Roar Media — Roar LK covers the deeper issues, untold tales and hidden heroes of Sri Lanka. Our content is presented in a credible and unbiased way, and always aims to inform, educate and inspire.
Leonard Lynch
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Investment focus
- Information Services, Education, Health Care
- Seed
- Sri Lanka, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — Reach students and employees through SMS text messaging and webchat, and drive outcomes with AI messages and responses proven to spark positive behavior changes.
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