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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Singapore

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in Singapore. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Singapore. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Singapore

Investor	Payments Singapore investments
Balaji Srinivasan	7
Toivo Annus	4
Matthew Tan	2
Do Kwon	2
Kain Warwick	2
Loi Luu	2
Chris McCann	2
Tiang Lim Foo	2
Sandeep Nailwal	2
Ryan Selkis	2
Jose L Sampedro Mazon	2
Kevin Hu	2
Owen Van Natta	2
Ana Andrianova	2
Mohandass Kalaichelvan	2
Naga King	1
Pims The Batllama	1
Steve Kokinos	1
Dan McArdle	1
Hassan Ahmed	1
Dennis Jacobs	1
Chun Yang-Hyun	1
Jagdish Chanrai	1
Qiao Wang	1
Immad Akhund	1
Kum Hong Siew	1
Ned Lowe	1
Nino Ulsamer	1
Projjal Ghatak	1
Shiyan Koh	1
Vanessa Ho	1
Zach Tan	1
Martin Krung	1
Jeremy Gardner	1
Tekin Salimi	1
Daniel Curran	1
Tanmay Bhat	1
Brad Flora	1
Tony Fadell	1
Nelson Ryan	1
Sai Choy Tham	1
Edith Yeung	1
Jaynti Kanani	1
Aleksander Leonard Larsen	1
Jun Du	1
Sumit Gupta	1
John Terry	1
Milan Milan	1
Mr. Block	1
David Tung	1

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Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZeroMark — ZeroMark is a defense product company building technology to ensure safety and precision when using kinetic and non lethal weapons.
Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
ImmuneAGE Bio — ImmuneAGE Bio is the first drug discovery platform company focused on immune system rejuvenation.

Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.

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.

Matthew Tan is the creator of Blockchain 2.0 Explorer, API & Analytics Platforms Etherscan.io (Ethereum Smart Contracts Platform), Blockscan.com (Counterparty Tech) and also a Co-Founder of a 20 person internet and web software related services development company. More than 15 years in the IT industry with experience in managing, operating anddeveloping technical solutions for clients from various industries.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, IaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Gomu — Gomu supercharge your app, dapp, wallet with actions and data in NFTs, DeFi, DEX, DAO. Built by a team hailing from Coinbase, CoinMarketCap, Chainlink, Zendesk and Millennium. Request for a demo today.
Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
Nirvana Labs — Our mission is to make blockchain infrastructure economical and accurate, ultimately lowering the barriers to entry for Web3 engineers.

Do Kwon is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Terraform Labs. Do Kwon is the Founder & CEO at Terraform Labs . Do Kwon attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
Treehouse — Explore Treehouse Protocol, a decentralized application introducing tAssets and Decentralized Offered Rates (DOR). Deposit ETH or LST to receive tETH and unify fragmented on-chain ETH rates.

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
Firewall — Firewall is building a security layer for Web3, including the Safe Sequencer and its modular components that mitigate smart contract hacks before they impact users. Backed by NIV, Breyer Capital and Hack VC.
Polynomial — Trade DeFi options with highly efficient liquidity.

Loi Luu is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON.Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technology. Much of his work revolves around this community. He developed Oyente,the first open-source security analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts. Loi also cofounded SmartPool, another open source project which embraces decentralization of mining pools in existing cryptocurrency. He continues to champion decentralisation and trustless properties of the Blockchain with KyberNetwork, taking inspiration and developing value for the community.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

BlonkFi — BlonkFi enables users to borrow stablecoins with volatile mid-market money, such as Meme tokens, as collateral.
Crestal — Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.
Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.

Chris McCann is the Partner at Race Capital and a Seed Investor at Solana, Lightning Labs, Kado, Notifi, Zeet, Hedge Labs, Bundlr Network, and Opaque Systems. He is also the Co-Founder of StartupDigest. Prior to that, Chris was a Community Lead at Greylock Partners. Mr. McCann attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, Malta

Portfolio highlights

Delta One — Delta One is a yield generation protocol on Solana that offers novel delta-neutral and impermanent loss-free farming markets. Its mission is to create novel, easy-to-use Defi primitives that democratize the best risk-adjusted yield opportunities to achieve mass adoption of crypto investing.
Aleph.im — Aleph.im is a distributed cloud platform that provides serverless trusted computing services, file storage, and database hosting to its users.
Headquarters — Headquarters (HQ.xyz) helps Web3 teams be automate their financial activities and reporting. Aggregated balance overview, Payments and Payouts, book-keeping tailored for Web3/Crypto.

Tiang Lim Foo is a Partner and co-founder of Forge Ventures. He currently serves as a Venture Partner at Next Billion Ventures. He was also a partner at SeedPlus, a leading seed fund in Southeast Asia backed by SGInnovate, Jungle Ventures, Cisco, and IFC. Previously, he launched and managed Evernote's operations in Asia. Tiang has invested incategory-leading startups in the region and currently serves as a board member of Qoala, a Sequoia-backed insurance tech company in Indonesia. Tiang graduated from Stanford with a degree in Management and Engineering and holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Honors from the National University of Singapore.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

GajiGesa — GajiGesa is the preferred financial wellness partner for employers in Indonesia. GajiGesa's powerful fintech platform is built to help millions of hardworking Indonesians take control of their financial lives with dignity. The GajiGesa app provides member employees with earned wage access, financial education, and other financial managementtools to improve their long-term financial health responsibly. It also empowers employer partners with an enterprise-grade HR analytics platform to improve employee productivity, engagement, and retention by reducing financial stress for their teams. The company has seen 12x growth since January with more large enterprises keen to embrace this financial wellness solution. And we have doubled our overall enterprise customer base in the last quarter and now partner with 60+ companies, serving tens of thousands of employees. Based on GajiGesa’s most recent survey, for employers that partner with GajiGesa, over 75% of their employees have stopped using informal lenders for short term needs because our EWA solution gives them the financial security they need under the purview of the employer. GajiGesa is also increasingly popular for employees that have micro-businesses at home. They often use GajiGesa and use their salary as working capital rather than turning to informal lenders. Health related expenses is another common reason for GajiGesa usage. In early May, the company launched GajiTim, Southeast Asia’s first employee management app for MSMEs and SMEs to manage their workforce efficiently bringing transparency in income tracking and salary calculation. The app is aimed at businesses with between 5 to 100 workers and has gained more than 50,000 active users since it was launched in mid-March. This latest product innovation supercharges GajiGesa’s effort to expand financial resilience - establishing greater transparency in employee management as well as creating a holistic and meaningful integrated employee benefits solution for businesses of all sizes and their employees.The company was founded in 2020 by Martyna Malinowska (formerly Product Lead at Standard Chartered Bank, Product Director at LenddoEFL) and Vidit Agarwal (formerly Head of Business Development APAC at Stripe, COO at CARRO, and first employee at Uber in Asia). The company is Headquartered in Jakarta with a distributed team also based in India and Singapore. GajiGesa announced a US$2.5 million Seed round in February (led by Defy.vc and Quest Ventures) and an undisclosed growth round in early May from additional strategic investors including OCBC NISP Ventura, the Founders of Kopi Kenangan, and other Indonesian investors and family offices.
Finantier — Finantier is building the (go-to) Open Finance platform of SEA to become the heart of it's digital economy. Provides the infrastructure and data products required by businesses to build the next generations of financial services.
Arrow — Arrow is the best checkout experience for your online businesses that drastically increases your conversions rates. Arrow supports the all major payment gateways and is pre-built with the latest and greatest payment methods in Southeast Asia (SEA).

Sandeep Nailwal - Co-Founder @ Polygon

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
Compute Labs — computing Labs is a tokenized real-world asset (RWA) company dedicated to democratizing access to the computing industry using blockchain technology.
OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Agora — Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform.
StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.

Jose is a VC-backed founder, investor and advisor to both emerging tech start-ups and funds. As a Principal at Silicon Valley’s Mach49 Venture Investing practice, he specializes in advising Fortune 1000 organizations on how to design and manage world-class corporate venture capital funds, from developing the optimal investment thesis to unlockingaccess to top startup founders and investors globally, leveraging his network spanning from Silicon Valley to Asia.Notably, Jose is also an Advisor to pebblebed, a frontier tech venture fund started by founding engineers at Facebook AI Research and OpenAI; and a Seed Investor and Advisor at Web3 company poko.fund (YC W22), among several others. Prior to joining M49’s Venture Investing team, Jose also worked as a Venture Builder at Mach49, making him a trusted advisor to corporates seeking strategic advice across the ‘build, invest, partner, buy’ spectrum. Jose also has an extensive background advising Fortune 1000 companies in various other capacities, including as a New York qualified corporate finance lawyer at Linklaters, Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group, and Cloud Insight Director at Oracle. He has helped companies reach critical corporate milestones — from the design and execution of multimillion-dollar go-to-market strategies and digital transformations that tackled emerging markets across Southeast Asia — to helping banks restructure and navigate new regulatory requirements in order to withstand the European debt crisis of the 2010s. Jose holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree from King’s College London. He also obtained a diploma in venture capital fund formation from 500 Global, and holds certifications as a Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, Professional Scrum Master, and member of the New York State Bar.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Gaming, FinTech
Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
Poko Technologies — Building something new in web3

Kevin Hu is a General Partner - Head of Liquid Strategies at Dragonfly Capital. He was an Alternative Investments at BlackRock. He attended the University of Toronto.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

BounceBit — BounceBit is a chain solution that aims to provide a smart contract execution environment centered on the BTC Token.
Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
Manta Network — Manta Network delivers plug-and-play privacy for the entire DeFi stack.

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.

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.

Ana Andrianova

Investment focus

Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A
Kenya, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mara — Mara is a company operating in the sub-Saharan Africa region. Mara offers a suite of crypto products including a cryptocurrency exchange, token collateralized lending, and an NFT marketplace.
Nansen — The Nansen analytics platform analyzes millions of data points on Ethereum wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.

Mohandass Kalaichelvan is the CEO & Founder at Spenmo . Mohandass Kalaichelvan attended Dartmouth College.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Evo — Social Commerce Software
Evo — Evo provides health and wellness direct-to-consumer services.
Headquarters — Headquarters (HQ.xyz) helps Web3 teams be automate their financial activities and reporting. Aggregated balance overview, Payments and Payouts, book-keeping tailored for Web3/Crypto.

Naga King

Investment focus

Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

YieldNest — Restake with YieldNest. A protocol delivering next-gen ETH Yield with isolated and tailored restaking strategies powered by EigenLayer. Simple, secure, and high-yielding LRTs.

Pims The Batllama

Investment focus

Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

YieldNest — Restake with YieldNest. A protocol delivering next-gen ETH Yield with isolated and tailored restaking strategies powered by EigenLayer. Simple, secure, and high-yielding LRTs.

Steve is responsible for the strategic direction and management of Thinking Phone Networks. Under his leadership, the company is transforming the way enterprises view communications as a key driver of business visibility, process improvement, and results.Previously, Steve was a founder of BladeLogic, Inc., a recognized leader in the data centerautomation market with a Fortune 500 client list that includes GE, Time Warner, Microsoft, Cable & Wireless, Walmart, and Sprint, among others.Prior to BladeLogic, Steven was founder, president, and CEO of WebYes, Inc., an early market leader in the Web hosting and application service provider arena. WebYes provided the electronic software distribution platform for all of Sun Microsystems’ software products, including Java, and was acquired by Breakaway Solutions in 1999. At Breakaway, Steve established and ran the company’s ASP business. He played a critical role in driving the business to $120M in revenue and taking the company public, and in just 18 months was responsible for Breakaway’s #2 worldwide ASP industry ranking.Steve holds a B.A. from McGill University

Investment focus

Gaming, Web3, Music
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Dequency — Dequency is a web3 synchronization licensing marketplace. Dequency builds a platform for music and visual creators to connect and collaborate on NFT art and metaverse content.
YieldNest — Restake with YieldNest. A protocol delivering next-gen ETH Yield with isolated and tailored restaking strategies powered by EigenLayer. Simple, secure, and high-yielding LRTs.
Sequoia Games — Sequoia Games is a team of all-stars working together to bring to life your favorite games. We combine professional sports with the latest technology and leadership with passion. What you get is greatness.

Dan McArdle is the Co-Founder at Messari.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.

Hassan Ahmed is the Head of Southeast Asia at Coinbase. Hassan Ahmed attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Web3, Finance, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Crestal — Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.
Arrow — Arrow is the best checkout experience for your online businesses that drastically increases your conversions rates. Arrow supports the all major payment gateways and is pre-built with the latest and greatest payment methods in Southeast Asia (SEA).

Dennis Jacobs

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TenX — Latest updates on the TenX Visa Card and Wallet, PAY & TENX Tokens, and other community announcements.

Chun Yang-Hyun

Investment focus

Finance, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Corporate Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Haru Invest — Haru is a trusted digital asset management platform. We provide up to 16% earn rates for deposits of BTC, ETH, and USDT. What we offer aims to shift a paradigm of investment — investing in crypto can be stable and comfortable, too. Crypto in, more crypto out. It’s that simple.

Jagdish Chanrai - Non-executive Director @ FTMSGlobal College

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Messaging
Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Fastacash — fastacash™ provides a global social payments platform which allows users to transfer value (money, airtime, other tokens of value, etc.) along with digital content (photos, videos, audio, messages, etc.) through social networks and messaging platforms. The company has developed a patent pending link generation technology that enables the valuetransfer with a secure link.

Qiao Wang is a believer in decentralized technologies such as cryptocurrencies that shift the balance of power from the elite to the commoner.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
NEBRA Labs — NEBRA Labs is a blockchain services company.
TiTi Protocol — TiTi Protocol always monitors changes in the total value of reserve to calculate the average price of TiUSD in circulation and adjusts the market-making peg price of TiUSD in the primary market through the ReOrders mechanism.

Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Browse AI — Monitor any webpage for changes. Download any data on the web as a spreadsheet. Turn any website into an API.
Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.
Honey Homes — Hassle-free Home Upkeep

Kum Hong Siew is a Chief Operating Officer, Airbnb China.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Recruiting
Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
heymax.ai — Heymax.ai gives you a free trip every year by rewarding you with Max Miles. Heymax.ai doubles your favorite miles! heymax helps you find the best credit card to use anywhere you shop, and double dip to earn your preferred loyalty points and miles at 20+ airlines and hotels by shopping with our partners like Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Apple,Trip.com, Singapore Airlines and so many more.For businesses, heymax.ai is a simple and efficient way to convert high-spending customers who like rewards on their terms.

Ned Lowe is the Head Of Engineering at Singlife. Attended Imperial College London.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

heymax.ai — Heymax.ai gives you a free trip every year by rewarding you with Max Miles. Heymax.ai doubles your favorite miles! heymax helps you find the best credit card to use anywhere you shop, and double dip to earn your preferred loyalty points and miles at 20+ airlines and hotels by shopping with our partners like Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Apple,Trip.com, Singapore Airlines and so many more.For businesses, heymax.ai is a simple and efficient way to convert high-spending customers who like rewards on their terms.

Currently building StashAway, with the goal of empowering people to accumulate and manage wealth for the long-term. StashAway is an automated investment engine, that helps people to better manage their savings in an intelligent, simple, transparent, and cost-efficient way. We have a very strong, fastly growing team. If you think you can contributeto changing the way people invest in APAC, please SEND YOUR CV to jointheteam@stashaway.com My profile: * 10+ years business & management experience in eCommerce and SaaS startups * Broad tech knowledge across stacks (Frontend, Backend, Databases, DevOps, Security, Big Data) * Co-Founder and leadership roles in tech, product and operations teams (80+ employees) * International exposure to Germany, Russia, US and Asia

Investment focus

FinTech, Shopping, E-Commerce
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

heymax.ai — Heymax.ai gives you a free trip every year by rewarding you with Max Miles. Heymax.ai doubles your favorite miles! heymax helps you find the best credit card to use anywhere you shop, and double dip to earn your preferred loyalty points and miles at 20+ airlines and hotels by shopping with our partners like Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Apple,Trip.com, Singapore Airlines and so many more.For businesses, heymax.ai is a simple and efficient way to convert high-spending customers who like rewards on their terms.

Projjal Ghatak

Investment focus

Apps, Education, E-Learning
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jackett — Jackett is your assessment automation platform for eliminating the hassle of writing & marking (quizzes, tests, worksheets, homework) - and so much more.
heymax.ai — Heymax.ai gives you a free trip every year by rewarding you with Max Miles. Heymax.ai doubles your favorite miles! heymax helps you find the best credit card to use anywhere you shop, and double dip to earn your preferred loyalty points and miles at 20+ airlines and hotels by shopping with our partners like Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Apple,Trip.com, Singapore Airlines and so many more.For businesses, heymax.ai is a simple and efficient way to convert high-spending customers who like rewards on their terms.

Shiyan leads NerdWallet's Personal Financial Management products. Before NerdWallet, she was an investment professional at Bridgewater Associates.Shiyan was also a Senior Investment Associate at Institutional Venture Partners, and began her career as an Investment Banking Analyst at JPMorgan, serving technology and healthcare clients.She is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Swarm — Swarm is the professional network for expert fractional tech folk in AI, Design, and Software Engineering.
heymax.ai — Heymax.ai gives you a free trip every year by rewarding you with Max Miles. Heymax.ai doubles your favorite miles! heymax helps you find the best credit card to use anywhere you shop, and double dip to earn your preferred loyalty points and miles at 20+ airlines and hotels by shopping with our partners like Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Apple,Trip.com, Singapore Airlines and so many more.For businesses, heymax.ai is a simple and efficient way to convert high-spending customers who like rewards on their terms.
Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

Vanessa Ho currently works as the Venture Capital Analyst for Quest Ventures. She previously worked at EY-Parthenon as a Consulting Analyst.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, InsurTech
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

CHOYS — CHOYS is a holistic wellness subscription platform for organizations and employees that strives to offer every employee with access to benefits and impact that are tailored to their individual requirements, with the goal of making work more humanized and meaningful. CHOYS is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region and was founded in 2022.
heymax.ai — Heymax.ai gives you a free trip every year by rewarding you with Max Miles. Heymax.ai doubles your favorite miles! heymax helps you find the best credit card to use anywhere you shop, and double dip to earn your preferred loyalty points and miles at 20+ airlines and hotels by shopping with our partners like Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Apple,Trip.com, Singapore Airlines and so many more.For businesses, heymax.ai is a simple and efficient way to convert high-spending customers who like rewards on their terms.

Zach Tan - VP, Product & Business Strategy @ Secondmind

Investment focus

FinTech, Shopping, E-Commerce
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

heymax.ai — Heymax.ai gives you a free trip every year by rewarding you with Max Miles. Heymax.ai doubles your favorite miles! heymax helps you find the best credit card to use anywhere you shop, and double dip to earn your preferred loyalty points and miles at 20+ airlines and hotels by shopping with our partners like Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Apple,Trip.com, Singapore Airlines and so many more.For businesses, heymax.ai is a simple and efficient way to convert high-spending customers who like rewards on their terms.

Martin Krung

Investment focus

Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

YieldNest — Restake with YieldNest. A protocol delivering next-gen ETH Yield with isolated and tailored restaking strategies powered by EigenLayer. Simple, secure, and high-yielding LRTs.

Jeremy Gardner (born January 20, 1992), is an American serial entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist based in Beverly Hills, California. He is primarily known for his early investments in Bitcoin, Crypto Castles brand, and as a co-founder of Augur. His early investments in cryptocurrency made him a self-made millionaire. He is currently thefounder and CEO of MadeMan, a men's skincare cosmetic company featured in publications Maxim, The Daily Front Row, and Wealth Magazine.

Investment focus

SaaS, Grocery, Delivery
Seed
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Qtum — Qtum is an open sourced public blockchain platform, leveraging the security of UTXO while enabling multiple virtual machines including EVM and the revolutionary x86 VM. Qtum is PoS based and boasts a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP) allowing specific blockchain settings to be modified by making use of smart contracts. For instance, the blocksize of Qtum can be increased without the need of a hard fork.Qtum is a global project that aims to be the bridge between the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities, the real world and blockchain world. Therefore it only makes sense that the Qtum team comes from both the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities as well traditional companies like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, NASDAQ and more. The Qtum project is proud to be backed by some of the most notable blockchain players, traditional Venture Capitalists, and executives from some of China’s largest technology companies.
Indemand — The leading source brandable domain names. Competitive prices. Excellent service. Get your domain name today.

Tekin Salimi is the founder of dao5, a $125 million experimental cryptocurrency venture fund that will convert into a decentralized autonomous organization. Prior to founding dao5, Tekin was a general partner at Polychain Capital where he focused on research and early-stage venture investments in emergent cryptocurrency protocols and companies.Tekin also previously co-founded and advised the Blockchain Association, the preeminent lobbyist group advocating the policy interests of the blockchain industry within the U.S. Prior to entering the crypto word, Tekin was a lawyer at Torys LLP with a focus in public and private M&A, securities and debt financing. He holds a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
Prophetic — Prophetic is a mega-project to expand, explore, and understand the true nature of consciousness. We are a neuromodulation company that brings together state-of-the-art neural "reading" and "writing" technologies to advance this megaproject. We are looking for the world's ...
Root Protocol — Root is building an operating system with the composition of an intent-centric aggregator of digital identity, virtual accounts, social graphs, and more to enable unified access to Web3.

Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Canada

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

Tanmay Bhat, SuperteamDAO.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Digital Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unikon.ai — Unikon.ai has solved the issue of access on this open-source platform. Every user has a personal profile that they can modify to include different prices for direct messaging, video calls, and audio calls."Unikon" means "you and I connect."
EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
Offline — Offline is a private members' community for the top 10% tech founders and CEOs in India. Apply online to become a member.

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
Wallets Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.

Tony Fadell led the team that created the first 18 generations of the iPod and the first three generations of the iPhone. Before Apple, Tony built the Mobile Computing Group at Philips Electronics. Tony has authored more than 100 patents. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelors in Computer Engineering.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Prenuvo — Changing the medical paradigm from sick care to proactive healthcare
bolttech — bolttech is an international insurtech shaping the future of insurance. Our vision is to connect people with more ways to protect the things they value.
Nothing — Nothing is a London-based company removing the barriers between people and technology to create a seamless digital future.

Nelson Ryan is the Principal at Eden Block. Nelson Ryan attended QUT (Queensland University of Technology).

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Samudai — Samudai brings project management, collaboration & payments management all under one roof. Integrating important tools enabling teams to create impact seamlessly.

Mr. Tham Sai Choy was appointed to the Board of Directors of DBS Group Holdings Ltd and DBS Bank Ltd. on 3 September 2018. He is Chairman of each of the Audit Committee and Nominating Committee as well as a member of the Board Risk Management Committee. In addition, he is a director of DBS Bank (China) Limited and also chairs its Audit Committeeand Board Compensation Committee. He is also a director of DBS Foundation Ltd, a not-for-profit company established to strengthen DBS’ corporate social responsibility efforts across Asia.Until his retirement in 2017 as the chairman of KPMG in Asia Pacific, Mr. Tham was a member of KPMG’s global board. At various times, he was leading or participating in its committees charged with board nominations, executive compensation and risk management. As a member of the executive committee responsible for KPMG’s global strategies and planning, he played a key role in the firm’s investment in and development of its capabilities in cybersecurity, data analytics and digital transformation. In his 36 years of practice, he worked with many of Singapore’s listed companies in their audits and on a wide range of their other needs. This has included assisting them with the raising of capital in Singapore and the US, acquisitions of a variety of businesses, investigations into major corporate failures and restructuring of complex business operations.He currently serves on the boards of Keppel Corporation Limited, Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd, Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Mount Alvernia Hospital, LCM Pte. Ltd., LHC Pte. Ltd., MKC Holdings (Pte.) Ltd. and VIVA Foundation for Children with Cancer. He is also the Chairman of E M Services Private Limited and SGX Listings Advisory Committee.Mr. Tham holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Economics, University of Leeds, UK. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and the Singapore Institute of Directors.

Investment focus

Payments, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

dtcpay — We help businesses to grow quickly by accepting the payment methods that your customers prefer across fiat and digital currencies.

Edith is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and creator of the China Internet Report, and Silicon News.Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund. A few sectors we are particularly interested in are infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech verticals. She has invested in over 50 startupsincluding Agora.io (Nasdaq: API), Lightyear/Stellar (valued at $1.2B), Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Chirp (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), Solana, Oasis Labs, Hooked, DayDayCook, AISense, and many more.Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies. Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk.She frequently speaks on China and Silicon Valley technology and the investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and a commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc.Edith attended Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Purdue University.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Malaysia, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Serum — Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permission less – we do not hold special power anymore. Itis up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will.
Telepathic — Telepathic is redefining storytelling for the Snapchat generation. They believe there is a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing "lean" principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. Their first product is HOOKED, a “twitter for fiction” mobile app thatmakes reading addictive for teens. Their longterm vision is to release stories across multiple channels, including apps, video and virtual reality.The founders are Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, veterans from the mobile app world. They previously built music apps, like AutoRap, that have helped over 150MM people experience the joy of music creation. They've also produced several viral videos totaling over 300MM views. You can read more about the journey that led us to founding a storytelling startup in this piece they wrote for Vogue.
AppOnboard — AppOnboard is a Los Angeles-based software company empowering creators to build businesses without any programming experience. The company offers two no-code products: Buildbox, the largest no-code mobile game engine, and AppOnboard Studio, a mobile, interactive design studio that enables anyone to create playable ads and app prototypes.

Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.

Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.

Investment focus

Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Norway, Singapore, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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!
Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

Jun Du is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Feichang Danao.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Information Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Singapore, Germany

Portfolio highlights

0xScope — Discover the comprehensive suite of trading and research products leveraging 0xScope's cutting-edge Web3 Data Layer architecture. Trade with confidence using Scopechat, access advanced analytical tools with Scopescan, and tap into the extensive capabilities of ScopeAPI for traceable entity insights.
BiKi.com — BiKi.com is a global digital currency trading service provider that is committed to creating a safe, stable, and efficient digital currency trading platform for users around the world. Currently, BiKi.com has supported many languages such as Chinese and English, and serves nearly 100 countries and regions, with over 1 million users worldwide.Itwas founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
MXC Foundation — MXC is building a global data network that allows the devices of tomorrow to connect, commit and communicate more efficiently than ever before. Cities, companies and individuals benefit by building the network, or using it to transmit and manage their data.

Sumit Gupta is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at CoinDCX.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Apps, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Kandle — Kandle offers ways to make money in Crypto & Stocks through fantasy trading games. Trusted globally by 180,000+ users and growing.
Investorey — Start investing with as low as INR 50k with Annual Returns upto 22% across categories
Slick App — Go Slick, and declare your true feelings like nobody's watching!

John Terry is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre back. He is a former captain of the England national football team

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Caduceus Foundation — Caduceus a foundation building a blockchain protocol for the metaverse. Caduceus has developed a meta-array full-merge transaction engine that draws on the matric processing methods of GPUs and AI NPUs.

Milan founder of Endemic.app

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.

Mr. Block is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin
Seed
Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.
Infrared Finance — Infrared Finance is a proof-of-liquidity protocol that enables liquidity staking within the Berachain ecosystem using Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL).