Top 15 Marketplace Angel Investors in Malaysia in December 2024
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Marketplace startups based in Malaysia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Malaysia. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Marketplace Angel Investors in Malaysia in December 2024
Investor | Marketplace Malaysia investments |
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Brad Flora | 1 |
Roman Kirsch | 1 |
Wei Guo | 1 |
Edith Yeung | 1 |
Noel Zeh | 1 |
Jason Tsai | 1 |
Manoj Menon | 1 |
Matthias Wilrich | 1 |
Andress Goh | 1 |
Ganesh Kumar Bangah | 1 |
Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu | 1 |
Toivo Annus | 1 |
Eric Tan | 1 |
Jin Hui Wong | 1 |
Duygu Oktem Clark | 1 |
Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience.
Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
- Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
- Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.
Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Italy, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
- Bending Spoons — We create cutting-edge technologies and products, 500 million app downloads, 100 million monthly active users.
- Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
- Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
- Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Edith is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and creator of the China Internet Report, and Silicon News.Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund. A few sectors we are particularly interested in are infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech verticals. She has invested in over 50 startupsincluding Agora.io (Nasdaq: API), Lightyear/Stellar (valued at $1.2B), Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Chirp (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), Solana, Oasis Labs, Hooked, DayDayCook, AISense, and many more.Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies. Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk.She frequently speaks on China and Silicon Valley technology and the investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and a commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc.Edith attended Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Purdue University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Malaysia, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Serum — Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permission less – we do not hold special power anymore. Itis up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will.
- Telepathic — Telepathic is redefining storytelling for the Snapchat generation. They believe there is a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing "lean" principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. Their first product is HOOKED, a “twitter for fiction” mobile app thatmakes reading addictive for teens. Their longterm vision is to release stories across multiple channels, including apps, video and virtual reality.The founders are Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, veterans from the mobile app world. They previously built music apps, like AutoRap, that have helped over 150MM people experience the joy of music creation. They've also produced several viral videos totaling over 300MM views. You can read more about the journey that led us to founding a storytelling startup in this piece they wrote for Vogue.
- AppOnboard — AppOnboard is a Los Angeles-based software company empowering creators to build businesses without any programming experience. The company offers two no-code products: Buildbox, the largest no-code mobile game engine, and AppOnboard Studio, a mobile, interactive design studio that enables anyone to create playable ads and app prototypes.
Noel Zeh has been a partner at Alstin Capital since June 2020 and has worked in the start-up environment for almost 20 years. He knows best how to support founders on their path to success: He has successfully founded and sold companies on several occasions; the first in the field of e-commerce was during his studies in 2002.From 2013 onwards, hehas passed on his broad experience as a founder as an active investor. Among other things, he accompanied the logistics start-up PackLink in fundraising and internationalisation. With his vehicle LITTLEROCK he invested in seed-phase tech companies worldwide. Together with the LITTLEROCK team he developed a special Founder Scoring, which analysed 19 KPI’s to evaluate the founding team.From 2017 to 2020, Noel Zeh was a partner at Reimann Investors in Munich, where he helped expand the venture capital area. As a proven expert in Fintech and SaaS, he also served on the advisory board of numerous investments such as credi2, Fintecsystem and Usercentrics on their way to success. He has not yet given up his passion for e-commerce and also invested for Reimann Investors in companies such as Highsnobiety.Noel Zeh studied business administration at the FH Giessen-Friedberg.When asked why he enjoys this profession so much, he says: „I simply love accompanying founders and am convinced that my own experience as a founder helps me to understand them and their business. Especially when the founders have to go through the valley of tears, it helps to have someone at their side who has lived through these situations themselves.“
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Austria, India
Portfolio highlights
- iPrice Group — Shop now with the largest selection of top brands and products in the region - all in a single website! Discover new products, compare smartphone prices and products. Get the latest coupon and voucher codes for Lazada, Zalora, Qoo10, Grab Car, and more!
- Hygraph — Hygraph is the next generation GraphQL-Native Headless CMS powering mission-critical applications. Streamline content workflows, iterate faster and deliver to any destination of choice using our content APIs.
- Hygraph — Hygraph is the next generation GraphQL-Native Headless CMS powering mission-critical applications. Streamline content workflows, iterate faster and deliver to any destination of choice using our content APIs.
Jason Tsai is a Machine Learning Lead/Consultant, Angel Investor
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Borong — Dropee is a SaaS-enabled marketplace that connects local independent retailers with brands in South East Asia via an ordering app. The marketplace's unique value proposition makes it easier for businesses both big and small to manage their procurement and supply chain ecosystem. It allows businesses to get connected in order to buy and sell inbulk and the enterprise solution allows businesses to streamline their operational processes to work more efficiently and effectively.Dropeee’s platform connects suppliers with small-to-medium enterprise (SME) business owners in real-time to streamline the product fulfillment process and facilitate bulk purchases through a suite of enterprise solutions. The supply-chain in Malaysia and across Southeast Asia lacks meaningful real-time connectivity between suppliers and retailers. The modern, digital approach to the wholesale industry allows retailers to discover, purchase, and manage inventories for their store all on a single marketplace platform.
Manoj Menon is a Founder & CEO at Twimbit. He attended ICFAI Business School from 1994 to 1996.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Internet, Consulting
- Seed, Angel
- India, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- 3ciety — 3ciety
- SocialCops — SocialCops are partner with leaders and organizations around the world to make data-driven decisions easier and more effective. Their work helps build a world with smarter cities, happier citizens, better policies, and a brighter future.Today's model of engaging with data — both the data they use and how they use it — is broken. Dataintelligence is the solution. It starts with finding all the data you need for your decision — extracted from elaborate internal systems, sourced from places you never would have thought to look, and unified with real-time data. they then transform this mass of data into intelligent insights that make the best decision obvious.SocialCops is backed by 500 Start-ups; Rajan Anandan, Managing Director of Google India; and Manoj Menon, Managing Director of Frost and Sullivan APAC. Its team consists of engineers and data scientists. The company won the love of the Forbes India '30 under 30', World Summit Youth Award, and IBM Smart Planet Challenge.
Matthias Wilrich is the VP Vehicles and Supply Chain at TIER Mobility.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Delivery Service, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Austria, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
- MAYD — MAYD provides telepharmacy platform providing healthcare-related goods in a convenient way by delivering it to doorstep.
- HELLO INSIDE — HELLO INSIDE is a scientific self care company empowering people to have data-driven conversations with their bodies. Unlock your best self.
Andress Goh is Managing Director and Head of the Singapore office. She focuses primarily on expanding APEP’s Asian investment activities and is a member of the APEP global Investment Committee. Prior to working for APEP, Andress was employed at GIC Special Investments (GIC SI) (UK & Germany) where she was active in leading European privateequity fund and co-investments from 1999. Her first job was with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore (Singapore, Germany & USA). Andress holds an MA from the University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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Investment focus
- Consumer, Food and Beverage
- Series A
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Kind Kones — We deliver plant-based ice cream and wholesome treats!
Ganesh Kumar Bangah is an award winning Technology Entrepreneur and Startup iInvestor. Ganesh was the .Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Malaysia 2012 and one of Asia’s most influential people according to Society Magazine 2015. He was also recognised as one of South East Asia’s Top 30 Tech Founders by Tech In Asia in 2016 andwas recognized as one of the the most inspiring Malaysian technology entrepreneurs by Top 10 of Malaysia. He has received many accolades including being recognised by Top 10 of Malaysia as among the 10 most inspiring Malaysian technology entrepreneurs and by Society Magazine as one of the 100 people you must know in Asia. Ganesh founded his first internet business, MOL Global Inc. (“MOL”) in the year 2000 at the tender age of 20. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of MOL for 15 years since its inception. Ganesh was certified by the Malaysia Book of Records as the youngest Chief Executive Officer of a Malaysian public listed company when MOL was originally listed on the Malaysian Stock Exchange in 2003. Through a series of acquisitions all over the world, he built MOL to become South East Asia’s leading online payment gateway and South East Asia’s first internet company to be listed on the NASDAQ in 2014. He was also the Founder and Director of MOL Ventures, an investment holding company which made successful private investments in global social media and mobile internet companies such as Facebook, Friendster and Kakao. Ganesh founded Commerce.Asia, and All In One eCommerce Ecosystem in 2017 anfwithin 3 years to have a database of over 8,000,000 SME's across 7 countries with over 61,000 sellers that sell RM1.5 billion (USD375m) worth of products.Commerce.asia's ecosystem includes Commerce.Asia Data, the largest SME database in South East Asia; Leading e-commerce platform, Sitegiant; Malaysia’s largest dropshipping platform, Kumoten; Malaysia’s largest direct-to-garment merchandise creation platform, Famsy and Malaysia's leading rural social commerce platform, Bizapp.Ganesh is a well respected industry leader and is currently the Immediate Past Chairman of the National ICT Association of Malaysia (“PIKOM”) and Chair of E-Commerce Malaysia, a Chapter of PIKOM. Ganesh is currently also on the Board of MaGIC, the Malaysian Global Innovation & Creative Centre.Ganesh has received many awards including as Overall Top Award Winner for the Prestige Top 40 Under 40 2012 Awards, Winner of the JCI Creative Young Entrepreneur Award 2009, Winner of the Technopreneur Excellence Award at the PIKOM ICT Leadership Awards in 2009 and Winner of the Young Indian Entrepreneur Award in 2009.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Corporate Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Malaysia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- pitchIN — Your one stop crowdfunding platform
- Sprintla — Mobile Print-On-Demand Application
- Y Ventures Group — Based in Singapore, Y Ventures Group is a data-driven e-commerce company. Capitalizing on our data analytics capabilities, we partner with the world’s leading brands to sell their products in multiple countries across various online marketplaces. Y Ventures make sense of loose data with a customized data analytics dashboard. Visualize sales trendsin a glance and translate them into actionable that adds to the bottom line. Empower your supply chain management with more accurate sale forecasts.
Pawoot is like an icon of Thailand online business. Many people call him "the godfather of E-Commerce"
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Thailand, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- DayWork — People and Part-time marketplace
- PEAK — PEAK (peakaccount.com) is one of the leading online accounting software provider in Thailand. We manage accounting record of almost 100,000 transactions valued over 2 billion bath per month. PEAK is a supported startup from True Incube and is invested by True, GSB, and SET. We won several awards and recognitions including winner prize for Ease ofDoing Business Solution, Design Innovation, True Incube Batch 2. We are not only providing online accounting software but we are building business infrastructure for future data-driven economy. We help SMEs in Thailand have a better accounting system and have a better chance of getting loan or money they need to expand their business.
- Protoss Technology — Technology outsourcing company
Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Singapore, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
- GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.
Eric Tan is a CEO & Co-Founder at Instahome & he attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2013.
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Investment focus
- Rental, Internet
- Seed
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Instahome — Instahome leverages new-age design and technology to help renters improve the home rental experience for tenants, agents, and landlords.
Jin Hui Wong
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Investment focus
- Apps, Tourism, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Tourplus — Tourplus is the one stop travel and lifestyle app in Malaysia to provide travel information such as nearby business, address, location, reviews, photos, videos, discounts, vouchers, products and services offered by businesses like restaurant, spa, attractions, premium outlet, hotel, resort and any lifestyle retails. Users also can book airport transfers, hotel rooms, food vouchers, attraction ticketing, day tour, customized tours from Tourplus App
Duygu Oktem Clark is the Founder & Managing Partner at DO Venture Partners.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Coffee
- Seed
- United States, Turkey, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Seed — Seed is simply a better way to bank. As a mobile first banking service designed with the small business in mind, Seed empowers small businesses with modern, easy-to-use digital tools and customer-support resources for starting, running, and growing a business. With Seed, business banking has never been easier.
- Cloosiv — Cloosiv is an ordering platform that allows users to order in advance from their favorite coffee shop, skip the queue, and get rewards from the platform to save time and money.
- Pop Meals — Expect exciting, locally trending meals at an affordable price! Now with dine-in, pickup and delivery .
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