Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Vietnam in December 2024

Investor	Media (entertainment) Vietnam investments
Insignia Ventures Partners	4
Insignia Ventures Partners	4
IT-Farm	2
Next Billion Ventures	2
IT-Farm	2
Hustle Fund	2
Hustle Fund	2
Aza Ventures	2
Next Billion Ventures	2
Asva Ventures	1
Stonebridge Capital	1
Jonathan Keidan	1
OKX Ventures	1
VinaCapital Ventures	1
Kangaroo Capital	1
Mekong Capital	1
Avalon Wealth Club	1
Icetea.io	1
AU21 Capital	1
Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India	1
Do Ventures	1
Gaw Capital Partners	1
Susquehanna International Group (SIG)	1
Touchstone Partners	1
GS Shop	1
AngelCentral	1
FEBE Ventures	1
Makers Fund	1
TNB Aura	1
Skystar Capital	1
OKEx	1
Axia8 Ventures	1
Susquehanna International Group (SIG)	1
FEBE Ventures	1
Jonathan Keidan	1
VinaCapital Ventures	1
OKX Ventures	1
Mekong Capital	1
Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India	1
Makers Fund	1
OKEx	1
Skystar Capital	1
Megala Ventures	1
Thai Van Linh	1
AU21 Capital	1
Aza Ventures	1
GS Shop	1
Axia8 Ventures	1
Frontier Digital Ventures	1
TNB Aura	1

Insignia Ventures Partners is a venture capital firm that specializes in startup investment. Insignia Ventures Partners is an investment firm managed by a former Sequoia Asia partner, Yinglan Tan.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

bluesheets — Build a solid data foundation with Bluesheets, the all-in-one tool that connects, categorises and automates your finanical data. Set up once, automate forever.
Fluid — Streamline B2B transactions with Fluid. Receive upfront payments, offer flexible payment terms, and boost conversion rates with Fluid's B2B payment solutions.
Dr Clear Aligners — Dr Clear Aligners, the leading high-quality transparent braces in Malaysia for the perfect smile. Discover our advanced teeth straightening solutions today.

Insignia Ventures Partners is a venture capital firm that specializes in startup investment. Insignia Ventures Partners is an investment firm managed by a former Sequoia Asia partner, Yinglan Tan.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Surfin — Surfin is a financial services company that offers wealth management and risk management tools through fintech applications.
First Circle — First Circle is an award-winning FinTech company that has been supporting SMEs since 2016. We help businesses increase sales, fund projects, manage payments, and ultimately overcome the biggest barriers to their growth.
Dr Clear Aligners — Dr Clear Aligners, the leading high-quality transparent braces in Malaysia for the perfect smile. Discover our advanced teeth straightening solutions today.

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
EV Motors Japan — EV Motors Japan provides sales and services for commercial vehicles in the automotive industry.
Honeycomb — Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do.

A venture capital partnership for emerging markets.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
Caantin — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.
Advance Tech Lending — Overcome cashflow disruptions with our credit solutions so you can focus on what matters: building your business.

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
EV Motors Japan — EV Motors Japan provides sales and services for commercial vehicles in the automotive industry.
Honeycomb — Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do.

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

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.
Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
Phaseshift Technologies — Phaseshift Technologies is developing a Computational Materials Engineering (CME) platform to help accelerate the Research and Development of High-Performance Alloys. The CME platform is driven by Quantum Chemistry calculations and aided by Machine Learning based predictive algorithms.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Secludy — Secludy is privacy-guaranteed AI training made easy. We use advanced privacy technology to generate synthetic datasets that mimic your original dataset so that you can train your AI models on your most valuable data – without risks of leaking PII.With Secludy, you can:- Enable privacy-guaranteed fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) forAI assistants, chatbots, and other machine learning applications.- Deploy within your cloud - use Secludy without sharing any data with us.- Stay compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA.
Agree.com — Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments.
Clout Kitchen — Combining fandom and emerging technology, Clout Kitchen builds generational digital products with supercharged distribution. We help creators become icons that last.

Aza Ventures is your dependable partner in the volatile world of cryptocurrency investments.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed
Turkey, Vietnam, United States

Portfolio highlights

DOS Labs — DOS stand for Decentralized Operating System. We build a blockchain gaming platform for web3.
Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
GameBeast — GameBeast is a multi-chain gaming platform developer in the Solana ecosystem.Gamebeast offers a wide range of games, from minigames to AAA blockbusters, giving consumers more token consumption options.

A venture capital partnership for emerging markets.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
Advance Tech Lending — Overcome cashflow disruptions with our credit solutions so you can focus on what matters: building your business.

Asva Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in revolutionary Web 3.0 trends from Defi, NFTs, and the Metaverse sector. We take a holistic approach towards projects we invest in. A well-rounded strategy that will ensure Project success through support in Marketing Strategy, Influencers and KOLs connections, Fundraise, PartnershipConnections, Advisory Support, etc.

Investment focus

Music, Gaming, Online Games
Seed
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

GameBeast — GameBeast is a multi-chain gaming platform developer in the Solana ecosystem.Gamebeast offers a wide range of games, from minigames to AAA blockbusters, giving consumers more token consumption options.

Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

iTruck — iTruck is a transportation application that offers an integrated trading platform for used trucks.
Gaonchips — Gaonchips is a chip enterprise that engages in system semiconductor development. They provide an optical solution to clients based on technology. It also provides all solutions necessary for developing and producing massive system semiconductors, ranging from RTL and platform design and verification, DFT insertion, layout, and packaging to testing.
OPENEDGES Technology — OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. is the world's only total memory subsystem and AI platform IP provider that delivers NoC interconnect, DDR memory controller, DDR PHY, and NPU IPs.

Jonathan is the Founder of Torch Capital. A long time entrepreneur and investor, he has spent his career at the intersection of the media, technology and entertainment industries. He is the Co-Founder of digital media company InsideHook and has spent a decade as an active early stage investor and advisor to a number of New York and LA's topstart-ups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cityrow Go — Cityrow Go is a rowing-based fitness app for smartphones or tablets. It offers rowing classes programmed to deliver an effective, efficient, and motivating workout to the at-home user. It was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, United States.
Lobos 1707 — Developed over the course of five centuries, Lobos 1707 Tequila is the continuing legacy of jimadors, crafters, and contributors from around the world. Founded by Diego Osorio, a descendent of the original family line, Lobos Tequila welcomes you into the pack and invites you to craft your legacy.
Jane Technologies — Jane Technologies is a cannabis retail tech company that provides its consumers with a confident, safe and simple shopping experience. Users can browse local products in real-time, compare by price, proximity or popularity and place orders at local stores for free. Jane partners with dispensaries on a win-win basis; stores only pay for completedorders at a fraction of the price of other industry software.

OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!

Seeded by VinaCapital Group, VinaCapital Ventures is a USD100 million Vietnam-focused venture capital platform focused on investing in and building world-class technology companies and incorporating them into a full digital ecosystem. Their mission is to support entrepreneurs with big ideas and to help them build companies that make a significantimpact on the lives of people in Vietnam and beyond. We partner with entrepreneurs and empower them with capital, access to our extensive business network, and local know-how from their years of experience in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Vietnam, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

M3TA — M3TA is a Web3 data analytics company that seeks to empower businesses in Web3 with the power of data.
QUICKOM — The U.S-patented decentralized teleconference platform for large-scale conferences, classrooms, and theaters.Quickom’s sister service, Quickom.net, is a comprehensive conference management system that manages ticket sales and payments for both online and offline events. Together, they are all-in-one platform for conferences, helping conferenceorganizers to focus on producing the best conference content, not the technology, in order to delight the audiences worldwide. Visit more at: https://quickom.net/
Protos Labs — Unify cyber risk data for actionable insights and reduced exposure with the Nexus integrated cyber risk analytics platform by Protos Labs.

Kangaroo Capital is a community driven blockchain and cryptocurrency venture capital that is dedicated to helping young startups and more established projects accelerate.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India, Sweden, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

DOS Labs — DOS stand for Decentralized Operating System. We build a blockchain gaming platform for web3.
STAGE — Always-on music competitions powered by the blockchain. Vote for your favorite artists and share their success.
KOKODI — KOKODI is a cross-chain, multi-platform MMO game that allows players to play with zero-knowledge cryptography.

Mekong Capital is a Vietnam-focused Private Equity firm, specializing in consumer driven businesses. Mekong Capital’s investee companies are typically among the fastest growing and market leading companies in Vietnam’s consumer-driven sectors such as retail, restaurants, consumer products and distribution.Established in 2001, Mekong Capitalhas the most extensive private equity track record in Vietnam. Our funds have completed 30 private equity investments, of which 22 have been fully exited and 1 has been partially exited. Mekong Capital has managed 5 funds, one of which is currently making new investments. Mekong Capital has a team of 50+ full-time people in our offices in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, who have an average tenure at Mekong Capital of around 6 years. Three Partners with combined 31 years at Mekong Capital.Mekong Capital invests in fast-growing companies, with ambitious expansion plans, and a strong commitment to building management teams that will apply best practices and successfully execute on those expansion plans. These companies are typically well-established companies in their sectors, but which typically operate in fragmented and fast growing markets which present attractive growth opportunities.Mekong Capital is strongly committed to adding significant value at each of its investee companies – through operational improvements, building management teams, introduction of best practices and outside experts, and applying other elements of our Vision Driven Investing framework.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Retail, Service Industry
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Vietnam, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Rever.vn — Rever is a technology company operating in the field of Real Estate, officially launched in early 2016. With a team of senior personnel in many fields, Rever develops online real estate distribution system based on the map, providing the perfect brokerage service, creates a smart and high-performance process of buying, selling, renting real estate,based on a combination of modern technology and commodity consultants. head.
Husk Ventures — Generate new revenue streams for rural communities by upcycling rice husk to create sustainable products that contribute to a circular economy.Husk Ventures aims to increase the incomes of rice farmers’ and rural communities with access to innovative technologies and capacity building to convert rice husk into valuable products for local andinternational markets.The unique characteristics of rice husk (high lignin and silica content) make it an ideal material that benefit from being strong, fireproof, mould, and insect resistant.Some innovations exist in the market to create alternatives to wood by mixing rice husk with plastic or natural resins to create furniture or construction materials using similar technologies to wood plastic composites (WPC).Creating products using Rice Husk Composites is an opportunity to reduce deforestation and plastic consumption.
Gene Solutions — Gene Solutions is a genetic testing company in Vietnam and the market leader for reproductive health tests, which respond to critical healthcare needs, such as helping parents detect chromosomal disorders during pregnancy, or preventing genetic problems, and helping to conceive a child (in-vitro fertilization – IVF).

Avalon Wealth Club is a dynamic group of marketing experts, blockchain veterans, real estate investors and event organizers

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, Grenada, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

DOS Labs — DOS stand for Decentralized Operating System. We build a blockchain gaming platform for web3.
Affyn — Affyn is a Blockchain-powered metaverse project developing a free-to-play and play-to-earn mobile game with integrated geolocation and augmented reality capability. Making use of geolocation capability and AR mechanics, it incorporates the fun element of gaming with Blockchain technology such as the utility of NFTs and their official currency andensures that the rewards stay attractive to both new and existing players.Affyn was founded by Lucaz Lee.
Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.

We support visionary founders and energetic teams to create a long-lasting positive impact through decentralization technologies.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Vietnam, United States

Portfolio highlights

GoFungibles — GoFungibles is a cross-chain state-of-the-art NFT marketplace equipped with all the existing features of conventional NFT marketplaces but augmented with DeFi and gamified components.
Fantom Maker — Fantom Maker provides an efficient and easy way to invest in the most promising and innovative projects in the Fantom ecosystem.
The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.

A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India invests in high-growth start-ups seeking their first round of institutional venture capital funding in Southeast Asia and India, with a primary focus on Singapore, India, Indonesia, Thailand and other emerging hubs of innovation across the region. It has a long and strong track record of investing in early-stage startups and building champions like Grab, Patsnap, 17Live, Nium, FirstCry, Licious, AsianParent, Validus, Warung Pintar, and others.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

COOLMATE — Coolmate is an online shopping mall committed to providing a complete shopping experience for Vietnamese male customers. It allows users to order up to 10 items like t-shirts and socks for under US$20. The company is headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam.
BigEndian — BigEndian is a platform for fabless semiconductor development in surveillance vertical.
Pilgrim — Pilgrim - Premium International Brand | No Animal Testing, No Harmful Chemicals, Natural, Vegan Friendly, FDA Approved.

DO Ventures is a venture fund with the mission to support tech startup companies in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. We provide finance, mentorship, connections to both global and regional startups

Investment focus

E-Commerce, EdTech, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

MFast (DigiPay J.S.C.) — MFast operates as a fintech platform. MFAST is a brand under Digital Payment Solution Joint Stock Company - DigiPay JSC.
Vuihoc.vn — Vuihoc.vn is an online platform which provides courses for elementary, middle and high school students.
Advance Tech Lending — Overcome cashflow disruptions with our credit solutions so you can focus on what matters: building your business.

Gaw Capital Partners is a positioned private equity fund management company that focuses in real estate markets in greater China and other high barrier-to-entry markets globally. Their services includes gateway real estate funds, separate account investments, venture capital, private equity investment and credit investments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Hotel, Property Management
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Blackpanda — Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.
Mol Breeding — Mol Breeding is a biotech firm that focuses on animal and plants molecular breeding technology R&D and services.
Gusto Collective — First brandtech group using the latest technology to help brands create content and experiences across the physical and virtual worlds.

Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
Datch — Built on top of a powerful connected platform, the Datch Voice Assistant allows you to use the most natural form of communication - your voice - to converse with your site, allowing you to connect and interact with your existing in-house systems through simple integrations.
Sporttrade — Combining proprietary technology, thoughtful design, and capital markets expertise, our platform endeavors to modernize sports betting.

Touchstone is a start-up investment frim.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Renewable Energy, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Vietnam, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Alternō — Alternō was founded with a vision to create Asia's first low-cost thermal energy storage solution for renewable energy, to be deployed widely across the region by 2050. Alternō received early stage funding from Antler VC in Jan 2023 to kick off the research & development.
Happynest — Happynest is a platform facilitating idea exploration, professional networking, and home shopping all in one place
Révi Coffee & Tea — Révi Coffee & Tea is a tech-enabled coffee chain company.

GSHS is Korea’s foremost multimedia retailer as well as a global leader in TV home shopping.GSHS strives to fulfill its corporate vision of ‘Value No. 1 Online Commerce Leader’, working tirelessly to create a new quality of life by enabling our customers to shop conveniently whenever and wherever. This vision is the guiding light that hasfueled our growth to the very apex of Korea’s multimedia retail industry.GSHS focuses on creating a shopping environment that is convenient and accessible. To this end, we provide shopping services not only via TV, internet, and shopping catalogs but also through new media platforms, including digital cable TV, IPTV (internet protocol television), smartphones, and tablet PCs.We continuously strive to enhance our customers’ quality of life. We search all corners of the globe for quality products that can further enrich our customers’ lives, and we never stop thinking about new services that would provide added convenience.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketing
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
Guhada — Guhada platform serves as a luxury goods distribution hub, connecting local boutiques in Europe, domestic conglomerate shopping malls, and luxury goods and fashion vertical commerce. Guhada has been supplying the domestic market with luxury goods owned by European boutiques, ranging from high-demand high-end luxury goods to contemporary onlineproducts.
Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.

AngelCentral is an angel investment network for angel investors in Singapore & SEA to learn through angel investing workshops, get quality deal flow & syndication services.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Property Management
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Meiro — Designed for marketing and built for IT, Meiro is composable, privacy-first Customer Data Platform balancing the delivery of consistent, hyper-personalized experiences with uncompromised data governance, security and control.
Ailytics — Ailytics is the region's leading video analytics solution for operational safety and efficiency in the construction and manufacturing industry.
Motorist — Motorist is a Singapore-based automotive platform that simplifies vehicle ownership through smart solutions. We help drivers and car owners to manage their vehicle by providing them with a range of auto services. Stay informed with our network of motorists and motor services.

FEBE Ventures (“For Entrepreneurs, By Entrepreneurs”) is an early stage Venture Capital fund supporting outstanding entrepreneurs in Vietnam & Southeast Asia. The fund is managed by 4 entrepreneurs with +28 years of experience building and scaling companies in Vietnam & Southeast Asia, and investing in tech startups in Asia, Europe andSouth America. We apply a value-added approach, backing the best founders and offering our local business expertise, operational know-how, and global network.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Locad — Locad is a cloud-based solution for global e-commerce fulfillment. Access to an international warehousing network. Distributed fulfillment keeps products close to customers, reducing shipping time and cost.
Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
Flywheel Dynamix — Flywheel Dynamix is a cloud meta-marketplace transforming how enterprises buy and sell cloud software with unmatched trust, visibility, and efficiency.

Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Hybe IM — HYBE INTERACTIVE MEDIA (HYBE IM) is broadening the scope of HYBE's entertainment offerings by creating games and publishing them for people all over the world. HYBE IM creates numerous contents and services by combining cutting-edge interactive media technology with music, artists, and entertainment components, resulting in new viewpoints andexperiences.
Rune — Rune is an automated friend or squad finder and voice chat for players on mobile games. Users can hang out and share amazing experiences together. The company builds the future of LFG for mobile gamers.
THINKR — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.

Founded by entrepreneurs and fund managers who have established, grown and exited several businesses, TNB Aura looks to become the marquee venture capital fund in Southeast Asia.We believe in people and companies with strong fundamentals, and invest $1 – $5 million per investee company at either Series A or B.In combination with our innovationand corporate advisory arms, we provide more than just equity – we provide the tools for companies to scale and succeed in the region.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Retail, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Techcoop — At TechCoop, we are proud to be the pioneer that provides multiple support to the farmers, suppliers, financial institutions.
PEXX — Discover PEXX, the ultimate solution for quick and secure stablecoins to fiat conversions. Send USDT and USDC globally, enjoying competitive rates in Euros, USD, IDR and more.
MediSun Energy — MediSun Energy is a technology-driven company dedicated to providing clean and affordable energy. The company's WEGEN Reverse Electrodialysis (RED) technology transforms saltwater into electricity, unlocking the ocean's immense potential for renewable energy. Dedicated to achieving a net-carbon-neutral future, the goal is to build a worldpowered entirely by clean, sustainable energy through the seamless integration of commercial viability and eco-friendly solutions.

We are Skystar Capital, an early-stage VC firm committed to supporting tech entrepreneurs to create a lasting and profound positive difference in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Komunal — Komunal is a financial technology-based company that provides Peer-to-Peer Lending services in Indonesia which helps create relationships between potential SME and funders to support economic growth in Indonesia.
Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a climate-tech startup that provides waste management and recycling services to optimise the waste value chain.
Klinik Pintar — Klinik Pintar membantu pasien mendapatkan layanan kesehatan primer terbaik di klinik, rumah, dan kantor.

OKEx is a digital asset exchange that provides advanced financial services to traders globally by using blockchain technology.OKEx provides hundreds of token & futures trading pairs to help traders to optimize their strategy. They are also one of the top digital asset exchanges by trading volume, serving millions of users in over 100countries. Their BTC futures trade has nearly $1.5B of volume daily, and is widely recognized as the gold standard for the industry.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, China, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Kollider — Kollider build tools and services to make financial markets available to everyone, across borders, instantly and simply using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
Sidus Heroes — gaming company
Legends of Mitra — Legends of Mitra is a Free-to-Play-to-Earn game that rewards players with tokens and NFTs depending on their engagement and skills in the game.

Axia8 Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in both digital asset and equity.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Oh Gamers — Oh Gamers is a developer and operator of an online community platform for Web3 gamers. The company evaluates high-quality Web3 games and delivers information to blockchain game users.
Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.

Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Datch — Built on top of a powerful connected platform, the Datch Voice Assistant allows you to use the most natural form of communication - your voice - to converse with your site, allowing you to connect and interact with your existing in-house systems through simple integrations.
BlockGames — BlockGames is a cross-game, cross-chain, decentralized player network accelerating user growth for games, with personalised rewards for players.
WEE marketplace — WEE is an internet-based company operating from the United Arab Emirates, focusing on providing a marketplace platform that caters to the needs of its users by offering a wide selection of goods with the convenience of fast delivery services. Established in 2021, WEE aims to enhance the shopping experience by ensuring that customers can shop onlineand receive their orders swiftly, emphasizing the value of saving time. With a team of 45 employees, WEE supports various payment methods, including Cash on Delivery, and promotes customer satisfaction with a 14-day free return policy. The company also engages in community activities, such as sponsoring events, to maintain a close relationship with its user base.

FEBE Ventures (“For Entrepreneurs, By Entrepreneurs”) is an early stage Venture Capital fund supporting outstanding entrepreneurs in Vietnam & Southeast Asia. The fund is managed by 4 entrepreneurs with +28 years of experience building and scaling companies in Vietnam & Southeast Asia, and investing in tech startups in Asia, Europe andSouth America. We apply a value-added approach, backing the best founders and offering our local business expertise, operational know-how, and global network.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Elfie — We fight high blood pressure and increase treatment adherence by rewarding patients for self-monitoring. World #1 app for hypertension. Download now.
FR8Labs — Optimize your freight business with our AI Freight Forwarding Software. Boost efficiency and stay ahead in logistics.
HD — HD is a healthcare and surgery marketplace, powering over 1,500+ healthcare providers including some of the biggest hospitals. HD connects patients to hospitals, clinics, operating rooms, and surgeons while offering healthcare financing solutions to increase access to affordable care and surgeries. To date, over 250,000 patients have benefited frommore accessible and affordable healthcare and surgeries through the company's platform.

Jonathan is the Founder of Torch Capital. A long time entrepreneur and investor, he has spent his career at the intersection of the media, technology and entertainment industries. He is the Co-Founder of digital media company InsideHook and has spent a decade as an active early stage investor and advisor to a number of New York and LA's topstart-ups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cityrow Go — Cityrow Go is a rowing-based fitness app for smartphones or tablets. It offers rowing classes programmed to deliver an effective, efficient, and motivating workout to the at-home user. It was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, United States.
Lobos 1707 — Developed over the course of five centuries, Lobos 1707 Tequila is the continuing legacy of jimadors, crafters, and contributors from around the world. Founded by Diego Osorio, a descendent of the original family line, Lobos Tequila welcomes you into the pack and invites you to craft your legacy.
Jane Technologies — Jane Technologies is a cannabis retail tech company that provides its consumers with a confident, safe and simple shopping experience. Users can browse local products in real-time, compare by price, proximity or popularity and place orders at local stores for free. Jane partners with dispensaries on a win-win basis; stores only pay for completedorders at a fraction of the price of other industry software.

Seeded by VinaCapital Group, VinaCapital Ventures is a USD100 million Vietnam-focused venture capital platform focused on investing in and building world-class technology companies and incorporating them into a full digital ecosystem. Their mission is to support entrepreneurs with big ideas and to help them build companies that make a significantimpact on the lives of people in Vietnam and beyond. We partner with entrepreneurs and empower them with capital, access to our extensive business network, and local know-how from their years of experience in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Vietnam, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

M3TA — M3TA is a Web3 data analytics company that seeks to empower businesses in Web3 with the power of data.
QUICKOM — The U.S-patented decentralized teleconference platform for large-scale conferences, classrooms, and theaters.Quickom’s sister service, Quickom.net, is a comprehensive conference management system that manages ticket sales and payments for both online and offline events. Together, they are all-in-one platform for conferences, helping conferenceorganizers to focus on producing the best conference content, not the technology, in order to delight the audiences worldwide. Visit more at: https://quickom.net/
Protos Labs — Unify cyber risk data for actionable insights and reduced exposure with the Nexus integrated cyber risk analytics platform by Protos Labs.

OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Castile — Castile is a Web3 gaming platform that promotes a revolutionary game model that enables users to earn more sustainably.
Nodepay — Nodepay is a network infrastructure that offers decentralized bandwidth for AI training.
Amnis Finance — Amnis Finance is a staking technology built on the Aptos blockchain. It is the game-changing liquid staking solution that offers a simple way to earn rewards on your APT tokens. By staking with Amnis, your tokens remain liquid and may be utilized in a variety of DeFi applications, earning additional incentives.

Mekong Capital is a Vietnam-focused Private Equity firm, specializing in consumer driven businesses. Mekong Capital’s investee companies are typically among the fastest growing and market leading companies in Vietnam’s consumer-driven sectors such as retail, restaurants, consumer products and distribution.Established in 2001, Mekong Capitalhas the most extensive private equity track record in Vietnam. Our funds have completed 30 private equity investments, of which 22 have been fully exited and 1 has been partially exited. Mekong Capital has managed 5 funds, one of which is currently making new investments. Mekong Capital has a team of 50+ full-time people in our offices in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, who have an average tenure at Mekong Capital of around 6 years. Three Partners with combined 31 years at Mekong Capital.Mekong Capital invests in fast-growing companies, with ambitious expansion plans, and a strong commitment to building management teams that will apply best practices and successfully execute on those expansion plans. These companies are typically well-established companies in their sectors, but which typically operate in fragmented and fast growing markets which present attractive growth opportunities.Mekong Capital is strongly committed to adding significant value at each of its investee companies – through operational improvements, building management teams, introduction of best practices and outside experts, and applying other elements of our Vision Driven Investing framework.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Retail, Service Industry
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Vietnam, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Rever.vn — Rever is a technology company operating in the field of Real Estate, officially launched in early 2016. With a team of senior personnel in many fields, Rever develops online real estate distribution system based on the map, providing the perfect brokerage service, creates a smart and high-performance process of buying, selling, renting real estate,based on a combination of modern technology and commodity consultants. head.
Husk Ventures — Generate new revenue streams for rural communities by upcycling rice husk to create sustainable products that contribute to a circular economy.Husk Ventures aims to increase the incomes of rice farmers’ and rural communities with access to innovative technologies and capacity building to convert rice husk into valuable products for local andinternational markets.The unique characteristics of rice husk (high lignin and silica content) make it an ideal material that benefit from being strong, fireproof, mould, and insect resistant.Some innovations exist in the market to create alternatives to wood by mixing rice husk with plastic or natural resins to create furniture or construction materials using similar technologies to wood plastic composites (WPC).Creating products using Rice Husk Composites is an opportunity to reduce deforestation and plastic consumption.
Gene Solutions — Gene Solutions is a genetic testing company in Vietnam and the market leader for reproductive health tests, which respond to critical healthcare needs, such as helping parents detect chromosomal disorders during pregnancy, or preventing genetic problems, and helping to conceive a child (in-vitro fertilization – IVF).

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India invests in high-growth start-ups seeking their first round of institutional venture capital funding in Southeast Asia and India, with a primary focus on Singapore, India, Indonesia, Thailand and other emerging hubs of innovation across the region. It has a long and strong track record of investing in early-stage startups and building champions like Grab, Patsnap, 17Live, Nium, FirstCry, Licious, AsianParent, Validus, Warung Pintar, and others.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

BeepKart — BeepKart is building a buyer-focused brand of used 2-wheelers. It is taking a digital-first approach to provide the trust that buyers seek in this high consideration & involvement category. BeepKart is helping write buyer-friendly rules to make the experience of buying and owning a used 2-wheeler as haggle-and-hassle-free as with new2-wheelers.
BigEndian — BigEndian is a platform for fabless semiconductor development in surveillance vertical.
METUB Network — Make your passion your paycheck

Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Hybe IM — HYBE INTERACTIVE MEDIA (HYBE IM) is broadening the scope of HYBE's entertainment offerings by creating games and publishing them for people all over the world. HYBE IM creates numerous contents and services by combining cutting-edge interactive media technology with music, artists, and entertainment components, resulting in new viewpoints andexperiences.
Dusk — Rune is an automated friend or squad finder and voice chat for players on mobile games. Users can hang out and share amazing experiences together. The company builds the future of LFG for mobile gamers.
THINKR — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.

OKEx is a digital asset exchange that provides advanced financial services to traders globally by using blockchain technology.OKEx provides hundreds of token & futures trading pairs to help traders to optimize their strategy. They are also one of the top digital asset exchanges by trading volume, serving millions of users in over 100countries. Their BTC futures trade has nearly $1.5B of volume daily, and is widely recognized as the gold standard for the industry.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, China, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Kollider — Kollider build tools and services to make financial markets available to everyone, across borders, instantly and simply using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
Sidus Heroes — gaming company
Legends of Mitra — Legends of Mitra is a Free-to-Play-to-Earn game that rewards players with tokens and NFTs depending on their engagement and skills in the game.

We are Skystar Capital, an early-stage VC firm committed to supporting tech entrepreneurs to create a lasting and profound positive difference in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Komunal — Komunal is a financial technology-based company that provides Peer-to-Peer Lending services in Indonesia which helps create relationships between potential SME and funders to support economic growth in Indonesia.
Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a climate-tech startup that provides waste management and recycling services to optimise the waste value chain.
Klinik Pintar — Klinik Pintar membantu pasien mendapatkan layanan kesehatan primer terbaik di klinik, rumah, dan kantor.

Megala Ventures is a Southeast Asia based blockchain fund that focuses on primary market investment and exploration in edging ideas of technology and economics.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Blockchain, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Vietnam, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MetaFi — MetaFi operates as a Trading Metaverse. Trading Metaverse is a new kind of social trading experience governed by its users.
Heroes & Empires — Heroes & Empires is the next-gen NFT gaming project.
Octopus Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.

CEO, TVL Group; Senior Advisor, Openspace Ventures; Angel and Early Stage Investor

Investment focus

Audio, Internet, Audiobooks
Seed
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Fonos — Fonos is a digital content application including Copyrighted Audiobooks, Book Summary, Meditation and many other rich content, to support the development of spiritual life and career for busy people.
Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam

A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.
Cryption Network — Cryption Network is crypto company. Its can swap, farm, Invest and predict with cryption's unique and user-friendly DeFi 2.0 products. Bringing mass adoption to DeFi. PolyDEX is cryption's flagship product, which is completely gasless, instant, cross-chain AMM DEX with yield farming.

Aza Ventures is your dependable partner in the volatile world of cryptocurrency investments.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed
Turkey, Vietnam, United States

Portfolio highlights

DOS Labs — DOS stand for Decentralized Operating System. We build a blockchain gaming platform for web3.
Edu3Labs — Edu3Labs combines education and blockchain technology to create a platform where content creators, learners, and NFE token holders can all benefit. Edu3Labs is a new and innovative way to make learning more engaging and rewarding for everyone.Also, Edu3Labs is a brand-new blockchain ecosystem aimed at the education sector, with the mission ofboth giving ownership and rewarding all parties in the ecosystem. The Edu3Labs ecosystem, which currently has an education and publishing-focused NFT marketplace and metaverse platform, is also planning to provide blockchain solutions to educational institutions.A short description of Edu3Labs; A new learning experience created by the integration of the online education sector and the blockchain technology.
Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.

GSHS is Korea’s foremost multimedia retailer as well as a global leader in TV home shopping.GSHS strives to fulfill its corporate vision of ‘Value No. 1 Online Commerce Leader’, working tirelessly to create a new quality of life by enabling our customers to shop conveniently whenever and wherever. This vision is the guiding light that hasfueled our growth to the very apex of Korea’s multimedia retail industry.GSHS focuses on creating a shopping environment that is convenient and accessible. To this end, we provide shopping services not only via TV, internet, and shopping catalogs but also through new media platforms, including digital cable TV, IPTV (internet protocol television), smartphones, and tablet PCs.We continuously strive to enhance our customers’ quality of life. We search all corners of the globe for quality products that can further enrich our customers’ lives, and we never stop thinking about new services that would provide added convenience.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketing
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
Guhada — Guhada platform serves as a luxury goods distribution hub, connecting local boutiques in Europe, domestic conglomerate shopping malls, and luxury goods and fashion vertical commerce. Guhada has been supplying the domestic market with luxury goods owned by European boutiques, ranging from high-demand high-end luxury goods to contemporary onlineproducts.
Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.

Axia8 Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in both digital asset and equity.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Oh Gamers — Oh Gamers is a developer and operator of an online community platform for Web3 gamers. The company evaluates high-quality Web3 games and delivers information to blockchain game users.
Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.

We partner with highly motivated entrepreneurs who want to build market leading online marketplace businesses in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Marketplace, Social Media
Series A, Convertible Note
Vietnam, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Propzy — Propzy is a full-stack real estate platform that originates and facilitates property sale and leasing transactions in Vietnam. By combining a real estate marketplace on the front end with logistics, documentation, and transaction services on the backend, Propzy has created a strong value proposition for consumers and has established a clearcompetitive advantage in Vietnam.Vietnam has a total population of 92m with a very high mobile penetration rate of 147%. By 2017 all 4 major mobile operators had been issued 4G licenses, providing the platform for strong increases in Internet and smartphone penetration. Strong listing growth in 2017 is expected to significantly drive revenue growth due to the transaction focused business model. In Q1 2017, Propzy facilitated a total of $190mm in property transactions with an average share of the total commission of 0.40% and is currently on track for $300mm for Q2 (150% QoQ growth). In 2015 there were a total of 357k property sale transactions in Vietnam, with potential agency commissions for the whole Vietnamese market as high as US$1bn.The CEO and founder of Propzy, John Le, is a highly successful entrepreneur having founded and sold several technology businesses in North America. In 1999, he founded one of the Internet’s first mortgage trading platforms (LoanTrader) and attracted top tier investors including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Koch Industries. John Le has been awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Orange County) and Deloitte’s Fast50 winner. In 2009 John Le returned to Vietnam to found Vietnam’s first international credit bureau along with operating and financial partner TransUnion.
Zameen.com — Zameen, the leading property portal based in Pakistan - offering the highest levels of service to property buyers sellers landlords tenants alike and to real estate agents in Karachi Lahore Islamabad and all over Pakistan. We are providing quality property - commercial plots, lands and markets - villas - apartments - bungalows - home buying and villa rentals.

As a thesis-led, high-conviction venture capital firm, we use data-driven methodologies to identify and invest in select companies that are primed for the future and ready to change the very face of their categories.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Retail, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Techcoop — At TechCoop, we are proud to be the pioneer that provides multiple support to the farmers, suppliers, financial institutions.
PEXX — Discover PEXX, the ultimate solution for quick and secure stablecoins to fiat conversions. Send USDT and USDC globally, enjoying competitive rates in Euros, USD, IDR and more.
Révi Coffee & Tea — Révi Coffee & Tea is a tech-enabled coffee chain company.