Top 5 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Malaysia in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Machine learning startups based in Malaysia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Machine learning companies from Malaysia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Malaysia in May 2025

Investor	Machine Learning Malaysia investments
Patamar Capital	2
Cradle Seed Ventures	2
Wavemaker Partners	1
ZB Capital	1
Frankel Commercialization Fund	1

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Patamar Capital is Southeast Asia's leading impact-driven venture capital firm. Founded in 2011, Patamar invests in early-stage companies building sector-defining platforms that maximize positive impact and financial returns.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jana Care — Jana Care develops and manufactures Aina Blood Monitoring Device, a novel connected blood diagnostic device.Jana Care founders Sidhant Jena, Michal Depa, and Prof. Tarun Khanna were challenged by an enterprising physician-entrepreneur (Dr. Devi Shetty) to build a smartphone app for health workers to screen for Oral Cancer and CardiovascularDisease in remote rural communities in India. What started off as a side project during graduate school, became one of the largest chronic disease screening programs in the world and eventually led to Jana Care.
Vigo Retail — Vigo Retail is an e-commerce platform that provides retail services by connecting suppliers, brands, and distributors.
Lhoopa — Making homeownership achievable for every Filipino family.

Cradle Seed Ventures (CSV) is the venture capital arm of Malaysia’s premier early stage financier and influencer, Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd.CSV manages an early stage venture fund based out of Malaysia and is always on the lookout for start-ups with high growth potential, led by passionate founders with high levels of enthusiasm.CSV is delightedto be part of this new dawn of excitement in the start-up world, both in Malaysia and globally.CSV mandated investments will be in the technology sector with specific focus on selected verticals. CSV has the added strength of being able to leverage on Cradle’s long experience in supporting early stage start-ups, understanding the funding and operational needs of a start-up and also be a supportive partner when they scale in the Malaysian market and to foreign shores.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Crowdsourcing
Seed, Series A, Series B
Malaysia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Philippines

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.
Oneteam — We acquire small to medium businesses and help next-gen hardworking employees grow into capable owners of these businesses. Using digital-first solutions to drive growth, synergies and innovation, we collaborate with your employees to transform your business into global enterprises.
Soul Parking — Soul Parking is a parking management service company, which has successfully developed motorcycle storage equipment as a solution for traffic and parking problems that are cluttered using 100% designs and raw materials. Soul Parking provides solutions by developing a modern, safe and comfortable vehicle parking system that takes into accountlimited land area.

Over the years, ZB capital has been working with numerous regional entrepreneurs, family offices, industrial investors, business operators, as well as professional parties to co-invest in growth-stage companies and businesses. Our portfolio companies are from all around the globe including China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, North America, and Israel.They cover a broad range of industries including fintech, cloud computing, IoT, advanced manufacturing, and consumer goods. Our primary objective is to focus on both the new demand created by the applications of the latest technologies, and the potential improvement in efficiency in traditional industries through technological upgrades.Our founding and execution teams, along with our advisory committee, come from a diversified background and have rich experiences in handling cross-broader transactions. We maintain the greatest level of flexibility in dealing with the local business culture and regulations, and we are always very thoughtful on connecting the resources from different regions in order to create the best synergies as well as business opportunities.We usually look at the fundamentals of the business and its market potential when evaluating any investment opportunities. At the same time, we apply a stringent internal process during the due diligence stage to validate the business itself. For post-investment management, we spend a lot of resources to follow up with the development plan of each business so that we are aware of the latest status of each portfolio company in order to protect our capital.