Top 50 Mobile Angel Investors in Singapore in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Mobile startups based in Singapore. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile companies from Singapore. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Mobile Angel Investors in Singapore in November 2024
Investor | Mobile Singapore investments |
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Toivo Annus | 5 |
Boon Hwee Koh | 5 |
Gokul Rajaram | 2 |
Owen Van Natta | 2 |
Sriram Krishnan | 2 |
Anand Chandrasekaran | 2 |
Julian Farrior | 2 |
Darius Cheung | 2 |
Daniel Curran | 1 |
Josh Manchester | 1 |
Russell Simmons | 1 |
Neeraj Bhargava | 1 |
Nihal Mehta | 1 |
Sachin Bhatia | 1 |
Eduardo Saverin | 1 |
Samvit Ramadurgam | 1 |
Rajat Khare | 1 |
Michael Gryseels | 1 |
Ratan Tata | 1 |
Bill Lee | 1 |
Anatoly Yakovenko | 1 |
Kishore Ganji | 1 |
Matilde Giglio | 1 |
Bill Lee | 1 |
Dr. Rohitha De Silva | 1 |
Peng T. Ong | 1 |
Anatoly Yakovenko | 1 |
Danny Oei Wirianto | 1 |
Tim Lee | 1 |
Brian McClendon | 1 |
Richard Chen | 1 |
Andrew Broad | 1 |
Ronnie Wee | 1 |
Pras Hanuma | 1 |
Huey Lin | 1 |
Mitchell Kapor | 1 |
Rajive Keshup | 1 |
Khailee Ng | 1 |
Sumit Jain | 1 |
Sagi Shorrer | 1 |
Henry Chan | 1 |
Sandeep Tandon | 1 |
Alok Mittal | 1 |
Roshan Rajappa | 1 |
Timothy Teo | 1 |
Rajan Anandan | 1 |
Nicolas Mas | 1 |
Gilbert Relou | 1 |
HY Sia | 1 |
J.J. Chai | 1 |
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.
Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
- Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
- Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.
Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Vultron — Compress proposal production timeframes from weeks into days with Generative AI.
- Tabs — Tabs provides AI-powered accounts receivable software to save time analyzing contracts, improve cash flow, and avoid billing errors.
- Slingshot AI — Slingshot is an AI research company driven by our mission to exponentially increase global access to mental healthcare.We’re developing technology to help humans feel and perform better, be more connected, and adapt to the future in a time where the demand for mental health support far exceeds providers by 10,000:1, and the large-scale changesahead are unprecedented.By leveraging AI to delve deep into human psychology, we expect to learn something about human nature that no humans have before, in order to help people change their minds.Based in NYC and London, our cross-disciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and broader mental health experts is dedicated to building tools that empower individuals to take on any challenge that arises.
Owen Van Natta is currently Founder and Managing Partner of Prefix Capital, an early stage investment fund founded in 2019. Owen is also a Founder and Managing Partner at 415 Investments. Previously, Owen was the Executive Vice President of Business at Zynga. He was responsible for the company's revenue strategy, corporate development,international expansion, and brand. Owen was also a member of Zynga's Board of Directors.Before Zynga, Owen served as Chief Executive Officer of MySpace, where he was responsible for all aspects of the company's strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. Owen joined the MySpace team after serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Project Playlist, a music sharing website allowing users to search for music, create custom playlists, and share the content with friends.Prior to Project Playlist, Van Natta was the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, where he focused on revenue operations, business development, and strategic partnerships.Earlier in his career, Owen was Vice President of Worldwide Business and Corporate Development at Amazon.com, where he managed global marketing programs and strategic partnerships. He was part of the founding team of A9.com, the Amazon.com search company, and was responsible for site operations and sponsored-link advertising.Owen holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Singapore, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
- Bags — Grow your business with access to fair and flexible funding options designed to help you do your thing. Bags is the best place for business owners to get dollars for working capital, inventory, marketing, expansion, or anything else you need to grow.
- Wheels Up — Wheels Up is a membership-based private aviation company that focuses on reducing the upfront cost to fly privately, providing flexibility, service, and safety. Its mobile app enables members to book flights, manage their accounts, and participate in ride-share opportunities. Its members also have given access to the Wheels Down program.
Sriram Krishnan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests in early stage consumer startups. Today, Sriram serves on the board of Hopin. Prior to joining a16z, Sriram held numerous senior product roles. Most recently, he led core consumer teams at Twitter where he was responsible for products including the home timeline, newuser experience, search, discovery, and audience growth. Before this, Sriram created and oversaw various mobile ad products for both Snap and Facebook, including Snap’s Direct Response ads business and the Facebook Audience Network, one of the largest networks in display advertising. Sriram started his career at Microsoft where he touched numerous projects related to Windows Azure. He is the author of "Programming Windows Azure" published by O'Reilly.Sriram writes actively at @sriramk on Twitter and at sriramk.com. Along with his wife Aarthi Ramamurthy, he also co-hosts The Good Time Show on Clubhouse, a nightly show through which they interview innovators around tech and culture.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Demox Labs — Demox Labs develops a decentralized, trustless oracle protocol for the connection of smart contracts to any off-chain data source. The company's data bridge from web2 to web3 unlocks all online data for smart contract development. Demox Labs was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
- Lasso Labs — Lasso Labs is a data integration platform that provides real-time information flows that helps to stay current with new opportunities, and approachable analytics that helps in understanding of communities, by ingesting real-time data from on-chain and off-chain sources.
- Aviator — Avoid broken builds, long code-reviews, cumbersome merge processes and flaky tests. Put your mundane, frustrating workflows on autopilot.
Anand Chandrasekaran is a Partner at General Catalyst. He previously worked at Facebook and attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
- OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
- Fold Health — Crafting the building blocks of modern primary care
Julian Farrior
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Film, Comics
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
- Instawork — Instawork connects local businesses with proven hourly workers for temp, temp-to-hire shift work.
- Graphic India — Graphic India Pte. Ltd. is a character entertainment company focused on creating leading characters, comics and stories through mobile and digital platforms. Founded by media entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman, Graphic India is owned by U.S. comic book Company, Liquid Comics and CA Media LP, the Asian investmentarm of The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG). The company’s partners and investors bring together decades of experience in building businesses in character entertainment, media and India. Graphic believes that India is home to some of the most creative talent in the world, with more than 500 million people under the age of 25 and more than 850 million mobile phone users in the country. The Company’s mission is to create enduring stories and heroes that foster the imaginations and fuel the inspirations of a new globalized generation of youth in both India and around the world. Graphic’s stories include, Ramayan 3392A.D., The Leaves and The Sadhu, in development as Hollywood films; 18 Days, a reimagining of the great eastern epic, the Mahabharata, by acclaimed graphic novel creator, Grant Morrison which was launched as an animated digital series in partnership with YouTube India; Devi, a female superhero from acclaimed filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur; Chakra The Invincible, the first superhero for India from legendary creator Stan Lee; and numerous other heroes and stories.
Darius Cheung is co-founder of BillPin and CEO/co-founder of McAfee-acquired tenCube.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
- Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
- Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
- GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Josh loves studying companies or trends which have touch points with governance or with large industries or parts of society that are off the Silicon Valley radar. He previously founded Champion Hill Labs, which performed consulting services for venture firms and hedge funds, and through which he invested in SpaceX, Flexport, and RigettiComputing. Before that he cut his teeth in the venture industry during six years on the team at TrueBridge Capital Partners, committing about $1 billion to venture capital firms globally as an LP, and leading the team’s investments in several mid-stage companies. He began his career in finance at USAA Real Estate Company. Before becoming an investor, Josh spent about six years as an officer in the US Marine Corps, in infantry and combat engineering roles, and has led three different platoons ranging from 10-60 Marines. In his last role he led a reinforced rifle platoon and was responsible for the security and civil development of a city of 10,000 people along the Euphrates River. He graduated from Duke University. When not chasing his young kids he enjoys Alan Furst novels and any time spent in the great outdoors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Satellite Communication
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Bifrost AI — Build AI in a day instead of a year, at a fraction of the price, with the Bifrost synthetic data engine.
- Skiff — Everything on Skiff is end-to-end encrypted. Your most sensitive data is private, decentralized, and truly owned by you.
- Swarm Aero — Swarm empowers small teams to mobilize thousands of uncrewed vehicles in communications-limited, contested environments.
Russell Simmons CEO, Rush Communications Entrepreneur, author, activist and philanthropist Russell Simmons has launched scores of groundbreaking careers and innovative enterprises in arenas as varied as music, film, television, fashion, comedy, poetry, digital platforms, theater and finance. His lifelong mission has been giving a voice toextraordinary talent and empowering underserved communities as they in turn shape the mainstream of culture. After having produced or managed artists such as Kurtis Blow, Run DMC, Whodini and Jimmy Spicer, Simmons joined forces with producer Rick Rubin to found Def Jam Recordings. Under Simmons’ leadership as Chairman, Def Jam signed acts including the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Jay Z and Kanye West.Simmons’ long-running HBO series “Def Comedy Jam” helped make household names of comics including Jamie Foxx, Chris Tucker, Martin Lawrence, Bernie Mac, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart and JB Smoove. “Def Poetry Jam,” also on HBO, won a Peabody Award and a Broadway version netted Simmons a Tony®. Simmons’ numerous big-screen hits include The Nutty Professor, which grossed more than $273 million.Simmons has written three New York Times best-selling books, including Success Through Stillness: Meditation Made Simple, which was published in 2014. He has also launched a multitude of diverse business ventures including pop-culture website Global Grind, UniRush Financial Services, Simmons Jewelry, Run Athletics and clothing subsidiaries Phat Farm, Baby Phat, Argyleculture, and American Classics. Most recently, he has been building All Def Digital, a premium, multi-platform digital media company and entertainment hub, curating, developing and connecting a new generation of content creators to global fans. He also co-founded the digital marketing firm Narrative.A longtime champion of social justice and equality, Simmons was honored with the 2011 GLAAD Excellence in Media Award. He is also a leading animal rights activist, having been named PETA Man of the Year in 2011. His charitable endeavors include the Diamond Empowerment Fund, a global organization that supports educational initiatives for disadvantaged people in diamond-producing African nations, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, which gives young people opportunities to create and appreciate art, and Foundation for Ethnic Understanding which he serves as chairman promoting understanding and cooperation between and among ethnic groups to help reduce the existing tensions among diverse racial and ethnic communities.A native of Queens, NY, Simmons has two daughters, Ming Lee and Aoki Lee.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Apps, News
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Flyp — Flyp gives you the highest quality calling and texting from multiple phone numbers, all from your personal device. No more unreliable Wi-Fi calling.
- Hooch — HOOCH is the free app that rewards you up to 10% back plus exclusive perks when you travel, shop or dine with global partners.
- Gushcloud International — Gushcloud International is a top influencer marketing agency based in several locations around Asia - Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Korea, Japan, Greater China and in the West - USA, Australia.
Neeraj Bhargava is the Founder, Chairman, and Group CEO of Rainshine Global Inc. He previously worked at Allygrow as a Director. Neeraj Bhargava attended NYU Stern School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Film, Consumer Goods
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Juno Clinic — Juno Clinic is an online platform that helps people get online counseling for emotional and psychological problems from our therapists.Inhibition to approach and lack of access to experienced mental health care providers in India is a massive growing problem with most cities in India lacking mental health therapists. The total number of mentalhealth care providers in India is less than the number of cardiologists in Delhi and Mumbai. More than 80% patients with mental health issues don’t ever see a trained therapist; Juno Clinic is there to address this problem.
- Graphic India — Graphic India Pte. Ltd. is a character entertainment company focused on creating leading characters, comics and stories through mobile and digital platforms. Founded by media entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman, Graphic India is owned by U.S. comic book Company, Liquid Comics and CA Media LP, the Asian investmentarm of The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG). The company’s partners and investors bring together decades of experience in building businesses in character entertainment, media and India. Graphic believes that India is home to some of the most creative talent in the world, with more than 500 million people under the age of 25 and more than 850 million mobile phone users in the country. The Company’s mission is to create enduring stories and heroes that foster the imaginations and fuel the inspirations of a new globalized generation of youth in both India and around the world. Graphic’s stories include, Ramayan 3392A.D., The Leaves and The Sadhu, in development as Hollywood films; 18 Days, a reimagining of the great eastern epic, the Mahabharata, by acclaimed graphic novel creator, Grant Morrison which was launched as an animated digital series in partnership with YouTube India; Devi, a female superhero from acclaimed filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur; Chakra The Invincible, the first superhero for India from legendary creator Stan Lee; and numerous other heroes and stories.
- Kinsane Entertainment — Kinsane Entertainment, Inc., a US corporation, and its India subsidiary, Kinsane Digital LLP, has a simple mission: to create great content for kids, and, in so doing, create brands that are globally recognized. On this page is some of the press/media coverage Kinsane has received.
Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Street FC — 100+ Street soccer games every month. Join a club or build one with us.
- Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
- SportsIcon — Venture Studio and Sports Agency harnessing frontier technology to build innovative approaches in sports, media, and entertainment.
Sachin Bhatia is the Vice President of Product overseeing Avvo's product management and user experience.Sachin has spent over 15 years in the internet business in various product, technical, and design roles. He started his career at Microsoft in the travel product group and arrived just in time to help with initial launch of Expedia.com.At Expedia, he was a founding member of the Expedia Labs team that focused on building next-generation travel products. He also drove Expedia's efforts to put traveler itineraries onto mobile devices and to make their shopping path more dynamic. In between 2 stints at Expedia, Sachin served a technical role at ViAir, a startup focused on powering mobile email for major phone carriers.Sachin holds dual degrees in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Washington.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Apps, Email
- Seed
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zocalo.in — "Zocalo" is the Mexican term for a public square or plaza. They expect it to be "the marketplace" for an ideal property search.The idea of Zocalo was born as a result of frustration and an inspiration. "Frustration", because of having heard and undergone the horrors of a house search (5 times in 3 years to beprecise) and still being clueless on the way to go about finding the right accommodation. "Inspiration", as they knew that they could truly add value and cater to this inherent need.
- Wigzo Technologies — Wigzo offers the best customer retention solution to drive user engagement with email, SMS, and WhatsApp marketing. Increase repeat orders with mobile marketing strategies.
- Little Black Book — Discover a complete guide to where to shop, best places to eat, top bars & nightlife, things to do, top places to see, and best tourist attractions in Delhi. Find curated reviews and tried and tested recommendations, hidden gems, and new spots in town on LBB.
Eduardo Saverin is a Co-founder at Meta. Eduardo attended Harvard University.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Financial Services, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Sugar.fit — Book your FREE webinar today and solve the root cause of metabolic health.
- Antler — Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
- Hopscotch — Hopscotch is an online store offering insider access to baby and kids brands from around the world, at unbeatable prices. F
Samvit went through the Y Combinator program and started his first venture-backed company when he was nineteen years old. Prior to starting Equidate, Samvit co-founded Streem, a cloud storage company which was acquired by Box in 2014. Samvit is an active angel investor and frequently invests in startups through S2 Capital, where he serves asfounding partner. His previous work spans numerous startups,most recently including Asana where he built out distributed systems infrastructure and Livemagic where he developed audio fingerprinting algorithms. In a previous life, he conducted research on high temperature superconductivity at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Samvit holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- AiPrise — Combine identity verification, fraud protection and compliance in one single platform, allowing you to expand globally hassle free.
- Integration Labs — RootFi provides a dependable and secure integration layer with an expanding list of APIs, allowing you to focus on developing features that your consumers will appreciate. Begin shipping solutions for credit risk assessment, accounting automation, and analytics.
- Grey — Open international bank accounts for free to receive and make foreign payments instantly or convert currencies - all in one place.
An Internet-age investor and a serial entrepreneur, Rajat Khare is the founder of the European (luxembourg based) investment firm -Boundary Holding. A prominent investment fund with presence in France and Luxembourg, Boundary Holding invests globally in spaces related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and allied fields such as Data Analytics andMining, Machine learning and Predictive Analytics.Each field contributes significantly to the development of various industries. Data Analytics optimizes business decisions, enhances healthcare, and fortifies cybersecurity. Machine Learning propels autonomy, refines user experiences, and advances predictive maintenance. Predictive Analytics revolutionizes finance, streamlines supply chains, improves healthcare, and tailors customer relations.Boundary Holding primarily acts as a Bridge fund for startups and organizations, facilitating funds across Safe cities, Internet of Things, Algorithmic trading, AI and Analytics. The company has a network of startup programs around the world.Rajat khare holds a Computer Science degree from IIT-Delhi, and has interned at RUCA, University of Antwerp in the Department of Mathematics. He has been a keynote speaker in over 20 major conferences and events across the globe. His work as an investor has also been cited as a case study in the course of Entrepreneurship run by Professor Patrick Turner in INSEAD Business School. He has authored various research papers published in international conferences and books, such as Data Mining V by WIT press. Rajat has co-authored Make the Move on entrepreneurship and Science of Achievement on education. Both the books reflect Rajat’s inclination towards promoting entrepreneurship and a holistic incubation of innovative solutions around the world.An active member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE), the IIT Delhi alumni association and the Indian angel network, Rajat proactively supports and encourages entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ventures around the world. For his efforts to promote entrepreneurship, he was appreciated by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam at the President’s house in 2006, spotlighting his significant role in promoting entrepreneurship on a global scale.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Robotics, Security
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- France, Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- CYSEC — Secure your sensitive data in the cloud and in the edge with ARCA Trusted OS and open the door to innovation with confidential computing.
- Scewo — Scewo is a medical technology platform that develops stair-climbing wheelchair. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland.
- EdallSystems — EdallSystems provide Educational Service (Aerospace Engineering Training), UAV development, Engineering Service(Lab Development) and consulting in INDIA. Their moto is to become a major Product Development company in the filed of Aerospace In India and to support and Develope Aerospace products in India.
Dr. Michael Gryseels is the President of True Digital Group, the innovation unit set up by True Corporation, part of the Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group. True Digital was set up to capture new growth opportunities from digital, analytics, IoT, robotics, and related technologies. True Digital is headquartered in Thailand but has subsidiaries inIndonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, and investments in China, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Michael is also the Group Chief Digital Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of True's parent shareholder Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, Thailand's largest private corporation and one of the largest conglomerates globally, operating across 13 industries and 20+ countries, employing over 300,000 people.
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Investment focus
- Software, Energy, Mobile
- Seed, Series A
- Singapore, India, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Ackcio — Ackcio builds real-time, reliable, wireless, monitoring solutions for industrial applications.
- PixCap — PixCap - Web-based editor. Easily create 3D designs. We ship with thousands of assets, animations, poses, and characters to help you quickly get started. Best 3D software with no downloads for designers.
- VFlow Tech — VFlowTech is a Singapore based company that aims to produce the world's best Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries to the power the sustainable future with pure renewable energy.
Heading the Tata Group since 1991, Ratan Tata is the Chairman of Tata Sons, holding company of the Tata Group and major Group companies including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power and more. He is also Chairman of two of the largest private sector promoted philanthropic trusts in India. During his tenure, the Group hasfurther expanded its global reach, with its revenues growing over eleven-fold to around USD$70 billion, after the most recent acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover. Tata joined the Tata Group in December 1962. After serving in various companies, he was appointed the Director-in-Charge of the National Radio & Electronics Company Limited (Nelco) in 1971. In 1981, he was named Chairman of Tata Industries, the Group's other holding company, which he was responsible for transforming into the Group's strategy think-tank and a promoter of new ventures in high-technology businesses. He is associated with many organizations in India and abroad in varying capacities, some of which are the government of India’s Investment Commission, the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry, South Africa’s International Investment Council, several prestigious universities and several philanthropies. Tata received a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1962, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.The government of India honored Tata with one of its highest civilian awards, the Padma Vibhushan, this year.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- GOQii — GOQii is headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. It is dedicated to enabling a permanent shift to a healthier lifestyle with the combination of advanced wearable technology, the world's leading experts, coaches and karma. GOQii focuses on sustained engagement & goal reinforcement and offers a complete ecosystem asa single integrated solution, which is a powerful combination of technology and human connection. GOQii is a collaboration of some of the world's leading experts and an amazing management team who are driven by a passion for healthy sustainable living, and who believe that all of us contain boundless potential. GOQii's goal is to enable millions of people across the world to "be the force" by helping them unleash their untapped potential.
- Repos energy — Repos energy is a e-commerce of Fuel to move towards a carbon neutral future.
- Goodfellows — Goodfellows aims to offer companionship to lonely senior citizens.
Bill Lee was CEO and co-founder of Remarq, a Benchmark Capital-backed collaboration company. At Remarq, Bill guided the company in its development of a complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration platform. Before its acquisition by Critical Path in March 2000, the company developed high-volume messaging platforms for sites such aseBay, Sun, Novell, and Amazon. The company raised over $43 million in venture and debt financing.Bill has been appointed by the Mayor of San Jose to the Redevelopment Committee of San Jose. Bill also graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in accounting/finance and received a JD/MBA from UCLA.
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- Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
- Lightning Labs — Building faster, cheaper, global layer-two bitcoin
- Goldin Auctions — Goldin Auctions is the leading marketplace for trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other collectibles. Founder Ken Goldin has sold more than $1 billion in memorabilia from many of the biggest names in sports, history, and pop culture. The company routinely sets records for the most expensive trading cards and other memorabilia ever sold.Lifelong collectors and new hobbyists alike trust Goldin Auctions because the company professionally authenticates everything it sells.
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
- Blockcast — Blockcast is a next-generation content delivery network that utilizes one-to-many distribution to save costs. It is an open content delivery network (CDN) with a distinct caching architecture that offers large, flexible capacity.
Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, United States, Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- Lal10 — Lal10 enables creative manufacturing MSMEs to easily digitize, manage and sell their inventories for cross-border wholesale. Lal10 is Shopify + Alibaba for Indian MSMEs. Small manufacturers use Lal10’s Karigar application to digitize physical inventories which are available for RFQs on our global wholesale platform. We are creating a maker’srevolution by digitizing micro and small manufacturers to take their creative products to global markets. India has over 1.2mn such MSMEs involved in the manufacturing of apparel, home furnishings, decor products. We have digitized 30k SKUs to date and are the largest vertical platform for MSMEs for cross-border wholesale in India. Post pandemic layers of middlemen/ export houses and traditional channels of sales like exhibitions have been disrupted. We have created an efficient alternative with innovative technology-led solutions catering to these large and untapped supplies. We are seeing strong organic adoption of technology for quick market access by local manufacturers and pandemic has only accelerated its requirement. We believe that the future of retail is local. We are targeting small & medium-sized buyers in the US, UK, and Middle east using efficient data analytics and aggressive marketing. We provide them the benefits of a big-box retailer, i.e. affordable sourcing, contemporary design curation & assortment of products. These buyers are resellers on Amazon, Etsy, or Mom & Pop shops, Private labels, and have traditionally been only dependent tradeshows.
- Teleport — Planning a trip? Say goodbye to visa hassles with Teleport! We've made applying for visas online super easy. Explore our site now to get started now!
- Monitra Healthcare — Monitra Healthcare is a Hyderabad based med-tech company developing solutions that capture cardiac events anytime anywhere. Our products detect cardiac arrhythmias and cardiovascular disease at real-time for pre-emptive treatments. Cardiac monitoring is widely used to identify heart disease, to monitor cardiac activity before and after surgery andother cardiac procedures, and to assess the effects of therapeutic drugs on cardiac activity. The Company’s vision is to dramatically reduce the effects of heart disease by making monitoring and pre-emptive cardiac care a seamless part of everyday life.
Matilde Giglio is the Co-Founder of Even and an angel investor in over 30 companies globally
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Turno — Turno Finance makes owning EV very affordable. Turno Club is a community around commercial EVs. Turno Battery Future is our solution to keeping batteries on the road for longer.
- 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.
- Hubble Network — a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY.
Bill Lee was CEO and co-founder of Remarq, a Benchmark Capital-backed collaboration company. At Remarq, Bill guided the company in its development of a complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration platform. Before its acquisition by Critical Path in March 2000, the company developed high-volume messaging platforms for sites such aseBay, Sun, Novell, and Amazon. The company raised over $43 million in venture and debt financing.Bill has been appointed by the Mayor of San Jose to the Redevelopment Committee of San Jose. Bill also graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in accounting/finance and received a JD/MBA from UCLA.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
- Lightning Labs — Building faster, cheaper, global layer-two bitcoin
- Goldin Auctions — Goldin Auctions is the leading marketplace for trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other collectibles. Founder Ken Goldin has sold more than $1 billion in memorabilia from many of the biggest names in sports, history, and pop culture. The company routinely sets records for the most expensive trading cards and other memorabilia ever sold.Lifelong collectors and new hobbyists alike trust Goldin Auctions because the company professionally authenticates everything it sells.
Dr. Rohitha De Silva
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Mobile Apps, Casual Games
- Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Leeg — Play your favorite games on Leeg and win daily. Choose from variety of games & play in Tournaments or 1-vs-1 Battle rooms of your choice! Win Rewards Daily!
Peng is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a leading early-stage tech venture capital firm in Southeast Asia. Peng is an industry veteran with over 25 years of industry as an entrepreneur, founder, and investor in Silicon Valley and in Asia. He is based in Indonesia and is a board member of Glints, ELSA, Intelligent VideoSolutions, STOQO and Escapex.Prior to Monk’s Hill Ventures, he was a Venture Partner at GSR Ventures in China. The firm is known for its successful investments in companies like Didi Chuxing and Qunar. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded a series of successful companies including Electric Classifieds (today known as Match.com), Interwoven and Eccentuate, which combined today generate over USD$1 billion in revenues annually.Peng is currently the Chairman of SolveEducation! and serves as a board member of the International Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin and SEA Founders.Peng earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.
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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Singapore, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Osome — Osome helps foreign and Singaporean entrepreneurs to manage their businesses. Register and get your new company operational with our certified agents backed by modern technology
- WeGoWhere — Discover things to do with your favorite people. Sync plans with your friends so you never miss out. Know where your friends are doing today, this week or next and join their plans IRL.
- Pie — Making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time.
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
- SOON — SOON is building the highest throughput stack that allows for any SVM L2 to be deployed on any L1.
Danny Oei Wirianto is Co-Founder of MINDTALK and CEO of MCM Group. Previously he was Chief Marketing Officer of Kaskus.
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- E-Commerce, Classifieds, Marketplace
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Carousell — Great deals & variety on electronics, fashion, used cars, aircon servicing, handyman services, furniture and more on Carousell.
Timothy Lee, Former Sequoia Partner.
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- Software, Wellness, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Sirka — Aplikasi Diet Online. Sehat Bersama Ahli Gizi Bersertifikasi
- Arta Finance — Arta is a digital wealth platform offering unifying your investments, financial planning, tax and estate planning in one. Access elite private investment fund managers, along with intelligent investment tools for public markets.
- Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
Brian McClendon is the Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Niantic and previously founder and VP engineering Keyhole Inc. He attended in The University of Kansas.
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- Software, iOS, Analytics
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Teleo — Teleo is revolutionizing material moving industries by turning heavy equipment into supervised autonomous machines.
- uMake — Design in 3D. Anywhere. The first 3D design app for the iPhone & iPad. Explore your ideas in 3D. Simple. Get uMake Now for iPhone & iPad.
- beans.ai — Core offerings include: - Beans Maps+: Hyper-accurate location information for apartments, condos, hospitals, and universities, along with access codes, parking locations, and other important information to access a destination. - Beans Route: Logistics app and platform to simplify dispatch, improve operations, and manage driver schedules. BeansRoute comes with preexisting integrations for safety, fleet, telematics, and insurance management. - Beans Optimize: A fast, dynamic route planning engine that provides unlimited customization in route sequencing, route planning, and assisted dispatch.
Richard Chen is a General Partner at 1confirmation and a Board Director at Hatena Co. Ltd. Before that, he was a Trustee at UC Berkeley Foundation. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business and the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Mobile, Software, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Farel — Say farewell to piecing together different vendors, integrations, and clunky software. Farel delivers one seamless, all-in-one, software platform engineered for growing airlines.
- Maslo — We make companions that care about people.
- Kinnek — Potential customers are looking for reasons to trust your company, and they want third-party sources to vouch for you. Kinnek helps suppliers like you build a world-class online reputation and easily share it. Because when you win more trust, more prospects become loyal customers.
Andrew Broad - Co-Founder @ Crypto IB
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Investment focus
- iOS, Apps, Android
- Angel, Funding Round
- Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- LibreCall — Hey, I started using LibreCall! Its a cool FREE App that saves you money by helping you maximise your Unli Promos. You can get it here: http://librecall.com/dl
- Pollenizer — Pollenizer is a co-founder of start-up web businesses in Australia. They partner with strong founders and take equity stakes at a concept stage on consumer and SaaS businesses. The skill sets cover technology, marketing and capital raising. They also occasionally make seed investments. Their businesses include;* * ** * * * * * * * * * Their team includes;* Phil Morle, ex-CTO of Kazaa, Omnidrive.* Mick Liubinskas, ex-CMO of Kazaa, Tangler, ZaprThey are also investors and partners with
Ronnie has several years in consulting, startups, angel investment, financial services, government, telco and technology. He started his career with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) focusing primarily in Technology Solutions in Financial Services, Telecommunications and Government sectors.Ronnie was the founder of PlaNET Technology Solutions,a software and solutions company, which was eventually sold to Singapore-listed Datacraft Asia.He was also involved in several startups throughout Asia, one of which was successfully listed on the NASDAQ second board . A co-founder of Sirius Angel Fund, a $20m angel fund co-investing with the Singapore Government in innovative, early stage companies, Ronnie continues his work in partnering, assisting and investing in innovative companies, as well as position Singapore as a hub for innovation and development through IncuVest.
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, FinTech, Mobile Payments
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- GoCoin — Launched in 2013, GoCoin.com is a digital currencies platform that offers a payment getaway consisting of merchant APIs for online and retail merchants to accept mobile, bitcoin, litecoin, and dogecoin transactions as payment methods. Assuming any risk associated with such transactions, merchants can walk away with paying GoCoin a fee of 1% only.The list of merchants using the platform includes companies like General Electric, Cozy Games, BitFury, and Tesla Motors. GoCoin is headquartered in Singapore and operates as a B2B company.
CEO & President.
An Advisor & Strategic Partner.
Cross functional Director, CEO & a high Influencer with well planned Strategic Enterprise Management.
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- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Iobot — Build Secure and Robust IoT Solutions with Thingsup IoT Platform, Gateways and Sensor Node Devices from iobot Technologies India
- MoneyyApp — We at MoneyyApp are helping Creators to grow their businesses. The struggle of the creators trying to make a mark has been tiring, and we understand that! The inception of MoneyyApp lays the foundation for creators’ atrocities.
- Paisagrowth — Paisagrowth is a loan origination, screening, and decision automation software designed for local financial advisors.
Huey Lin is a Venture Partner with GGV Capital where she supports and advises the fund's portfolio companies. She also leads special projects at Terraformation whose mission is to catalyze global forest restoration to solve climate change. Prior to this, she was the President of Asia at Flexport, a modern freight forwarder and one of thefastest-growing companies in global trade. She led all activities for Flexport across Asia, the company’s most strategic market. She was responsible for the region’s overall strategy and P&L.Before her time at Flexport, Huey was the founding Chief Operating Officer at Affirm (NYSE: AFRM). Huey began her career at PayPal, where she spent 12 years in a variety of key leadership roles with increasing responsibilities in multiple geographies.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Colombia, Singapore, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Truora — Connect with your users via WhatsApp Optimize your onboarding process using WhatsApp.
- CapitalOS — Embedded spend management for vertical SaaS platforms
- Fintecture — Under continuous control and supervision of the financial regulator, Fintecture is an authorised Payment Institution (ACPR-17248).First bank to bank instant payment solution in France, Fintecture Pay by Bank enables merchants and businesses to :+ Bypass card ceilings + Avoid illegitimate declined payments + Significantly reduce theirtransaction costs + Receive funds rapidly into their bank account + Reduce fraud by removing chargebacks + Increase security, protecting their customersFintecture Pay by Bank makes payments easy and adapts to your needs : may it be B2B payments, recurring payments, Pay by link, you name it !=======Sous le contrôle et la supervision continus du régulateur financier, Fintecture est un établissement de paiement agréé (ACPR-17248).Première solution instantanée de paiement banque à banque en France, Fintecture Pay by Bank permet aux marchands et aux entreprises de : + Contourner les plafonds des cartes + Éliminer les rejets illégitimes + Baisser considérablement les coûts de transactions + Disposer plus rapidement des fonds collectés + Réduire la fraude en supprimant les chargebacks + Augmenter la sécurité, protégeant leurs consommateursFintecture Pay by Bank facilite les paiements et s’adapte à vos besoins : B2B, paiements récurrents, abonnements, Pay by Link et bien plus.
Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Software, Mobile, Education
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
- Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.
- DuckDuckGo — The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
Successfully Exited Founder/Operator turned Venture Capitalist. I’m fortunate to partner with dent making teams to build extraordinary global companies at Cathay Innovation, an early and growth stage venture capital firm with $3B AUM across San Francisco, Paris, Shanghai and Singapore, and closely affiliated with Cathay Capital PrivateEquity, a global private equity firm with $6B in AUM.Our partnerships with the startups we back, sustain from the initial stages of refining product-market fit to IPO and beyond. Personally, fulfillment comes from helping others achieve their full potential. I’m energized by founders with authentic ideas who have the guts and determination to change the world. Hard problems (KaiOS), the transformation of industries (Igloo, Coherent, Lifepal), and enormous green field opportunities (FinAccel, LeadIQ, Reebelo) get me up in the morning! At the end of the day my goal is to be my founder’s, entrepreneur’s and management team’s first phone call in great and not-so-great times.Series A to C // USD $2-30M
Southeast Asia & India
Twitter - @raj1ve**Not a Corporate VC and not to be confused with the airlines or insurance company of the same name.
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- FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Pakistan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Abhi — Abhi provides employees salary advances based on accrued wages.
- Igloo — As a top insurtech company, Igloo makes insurance easy across Southeast Asia by working with reputable insurers and distribution partners.
- Intellect — Intellect is a modern-day mental health company with a mission to make mental healthcare & wellbeing support accessible for everyone. Today, Intellect is the largest and fastest growing mental health tech company in Asia, and serves over 2 million members and leading organisations globally through our mental health platform. Intellect wasalso selected as one of Google’s Best Apps of 2020. Intellect is backed by leading investors including Insignia Ventures Partners, Y Combinator, and an extensive list of family offices, big tech executives & renowned angel investors.
Khailee Ng is Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder and CEO of SAYS. He graduated from the University of Technology Sydney, the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.
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- FinTech, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Talkpush — Talkpush is the leading conversational CRM for recruitment. Automate the repetitive stuff and focus on the right talent.
- YogaTrail — YogaTrail connects yoga providers with their yogis. Get everyone's classes in one simple place and always know what's up in your yoga world.
- Call Levels — Don't let the markets drive you crazy - we watch the markets so you don't have to.
Sumit Jain is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur, He started online real-estate portal commonfloor.com for property seekers in 2007. Prior to that, he used to work with Oracle. As the co-founder and CEO, Sumit is responsible for driving the strategic direction for Commonfloor.com as well as delivering on company goals Hisresult-oriented approach ensures a constant and relentless focus on end-user satisfaction. Sumit Jain finds solace in a game of billiards. The game not only relaxes him, it also helps him catch up with friends or at times, make new acquaintances.
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- Mobile Apps, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- AdmitKard — Want to study abroad ? Get expert advice and information on colleges, courses, exams, admission, student visa, and application process to study overseas.
- Fixcraft — Fixcraft is changing the way car owners get their car repair done. Its tech enabled startup which plans to bring "Quality Service at Fair Price" to every user. Currently, the market is ruled by Authorised workshops on one end which charge exorbitant amount in the name of brand on one end and local mechanics which is a sub-standard qualitywork at lower price.
- All Is Well — AI Driven Integrated Fitness App to Unlock Sports Performance Book Demo Testimonials Jordan Gregory Head Coach, Gary Kirsten Cricket India "All Is Well App exceeded all expectations, delivering a truly exceptional experience. The professionalism of the All Is Well team was outstanding, and their dedication to knowledge sharing with GKCI coaches left me thoroughly impressed.
Sagi Shorrer is an Entrepreneur, advisor and angel investor in the digital media and technology space, with 15 years of strategic and operational experience across large companies and startups (including: Google, BBDO, i-Touch, Brainbow).
Strong focus on mobile apps, monetization and Internationalization.
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Investment focus
- Digital Entertainment, Gaming, Mobile
- Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Intellect — Intellect is a modern-day mental health company with a mission to make mental healthcare & wellbeing support accessible for everyone. Today, Intellect is the largest and fastest growing mental health tech company in Asia, and serves over 2 million members and leading organisations globally through our mental health platform. Intellect wasalso selected as one of Google’s Best Apps of 2020. Intellect is backed by leading investors including Insignia Ventures Partners, Y Combinator, and an extensive list of family offices, big tech executives & renowned angel investors.
- Trailblazer Games — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!
- Trailblazer Games — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!
Henry Chan - CEO, Co-Founder @ ShopBack
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Investment focus
- Personal Health, Health Care, Medical
- Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
- Intellect — Intellect is a modern-day mental health company with a mission to make mental healthcare & wellbeing support accessible for everyone. Today, Intellect is the largest and fastest growing mental health tech company in Asia, and serves over 2 million members and leading organisations globally through our mental health platform. Intellect wasalso selected as one of Google’s Best Apps of 2020. Intellect is backed by leading investors including Insignia Ventures Partners, Y Combinator, and an extensive list of family offices, big tech executives & renowned angel investors.
- Unravel Carbon — Unravel Carbon is a enterprise software for companies to track and reduce their carbon emissions, specialising in Asia's businesses and supply chains.
Sandeep Tandon Co-founded Accelyst Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2010 and has been its Chief Business Officer since September 1, 2015. Sandeep Tandon serves as Managing Director at Tandon Technology Ventures (Tandon Group).He serves as Managing Director and Chairman of the Board at Infinx Services Private Limited. Sandeep Tandon serves as the Chairman andManaging Director at Infinx Healthcare. He oversees the strategy and operations of all group companies. He has been involved in the technology industry for over 20 years. During this time he has contributed significantly to the growth of Information Technology exports from India. He was co-founder and a former director of IQBackOffice - a leading Accounts Payable Processing company. He was also a co-founder and Director at Freecharge.com - among India’s fastest growing internet commerce ventures. He is active in the Angel Investor community and serves as a mentor to various technology start-ups. He served as Chairman of the Electronics Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) and is a member of Young President Organization (Mumbai Chapter). Sandeep Tandon completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
- ScratchNest — ScratchNest creates technologies from scratch, giving them a personalized touch, and exhilarating user experience. Striving in this direction, ScratchNest stands as the first Indian company to design, develop, and manufacture UHF RFID, NFC, BLE, and Datalogging devices in India. Founded in 2019, we are a culmination of innovation and hard work bya highly brilliant team of IITians consistently striving to provide you with the best worth of your time and money.We aim to extract the most and best out of technology so that the world relishes the power of automation. By developing the never-before technologies in India, ScratchNest aims to lay a milestone in the Make in India campaign.
Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, India's leading full-stack platform for enabling debt financing for small businesses. Alok is also an active angel investor, co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi. Prior to starting Indifi, Alok setup and ran Canaan Partners' venture investmentbusiness. Earlier, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business in India.Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.
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- Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Helium — Helium handles the front end, and Shopify is the back end for Helium's headless solution. Your current Shopify integrations, apps, and data will continue to function flawlessly.
- DigitalPaani — DigitalPaani builds cutting-edge IoT and digital management tools that redesign wastewater operations.
- leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.
Roshan Rajappa
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Leeg — Play your favorite games on Leeg and win daily. Choose from variety of games & play in Tournaments or 1-vs-1 Battle rooms of your choice! Win Rewards Daily!
- Cookr — No.1 Healthy Indian Home Cooked Food Delivery|Order Biryanis, Desserts, Idly & more. Serving Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore & more cities. Enjoy convenient home delivery.
Timothy Teo - Member Council of Advisors @ St. Luke's Hospital
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Investment focus
- Mobile, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Call Levels — Don't let the markets drive you crazy - we watch the markets so you don't have to.
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
- Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
- mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.
Nicolas Mas Chief Technology Officer at Zenika. He attended EFREI Paris.
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Investment focus
- Consumer, Nutrition, Advertising
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- YoRipe — YoRipe helps household to enjoy easy, healthy, and personalized cooking while empowering real time personalized marketing for FMCGs and retailers. The mobile platform brings more efficient marketing and actual shopper behavior insights to brands and stores. YoRipe’s aim is to make managing grocery at home more pleasant and efficient to save timeand money.YoRipe gives recipes for diet, allergies, and cravings. This mobile app also tracks food and send reminders before they expire whenever and wherever.
Gilbert Relou is a individual investor
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- Mobile, Travel, Internet
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Truely Travel eSIM — Redefining global connectivity one travel eSIM at a time!Truely eSIM aims to be the lightest thing you pack for your travels. Our Travel eSIM gives you access to the best local data rates from wherever you are in the world. No need to SIM switch nor worry about spending on roaming charges ever again. Available in 200+ destinations, we partnerwith the top network providers to ensure smooth and seamless connectivity throughout your trip. Whether you’re a digital nomad in Bali or a honeymooner in Italy—we’ll have a data plan customisable for your type of journey.
HY Sia is a Strategic Advisor of Impiro Pte Ltd.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Travel, Internet
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Truely Travel eSIM — Redefining global connectivity one travel eSIM at a time!Truely eSIM aims to be the lightest thing you pack for your travels. Our Travel eSIM gives you access to the best local data rates from wherever you are in the world. No need to SIM switch nor worry about spending on roaming charges ever again. Available in 200+ destinations, we partnerwith the top network providers to ensure smooth and seamless connectivity throughout your trip. Whether you’re a digital nomad in Bali or a honeymooner in Italy—we’ll have a data plan customisable for your type of journey.
J.J. Chai is the CEO and co-founder of Rainforest.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Travel, Internet
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Truely Travel eSIM — Redefining global connectivity one travel eSIM at a time!Truely eSIM aims to be the lightest thing you pack for your travels. Our Travel eSIM gives you access to the best local data rates from wherever you are in the world. No need to SIM switch nor worry about spending on roaming charges ever again. Available in 200+ destinations, we partnerwith the top network providers to ensure smooth and seamless connectivity throughout your trip. Whether you’re a digital nomad in Bali or a honeymooner in Italy—we’ll have a data plan customisable for your type of journey.
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