Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Hong Kong in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Hong kong. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Hong kong. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Hong Kong in January 2025
Investor | Payments Hong Kong investments |
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Integra Partners | 5 |
Fresco Capital | 5 |
Portage Ventures | 4 |
Dragonfly | 4 |
Pantera Capital | 4 |
Linear Capital Partners | 4 |
Vectr | 3 |
Kenetic | 3 |
AEF Greater Bay Area Fund | 2 |
Eminent Vision | 2 |
Pacific Century Group | 2 |
MMV Europe & Asia-Pacific | 2 |
ZhongAn Digital Asset | 2 |
K3 Ventures | 2 |
BAI capital | 2 |
Sky9 Capital | 2 |
Hustle Fund | 2 |
HashKey | 2 |
ZBS CAPITAL | 2 |
Token Bay Capital | 2 |
Mapleblock Capital | 2 |
Caladan | 1 |
Gaorong Capital | 1 |
Esport-Win | 1 |
OKX Ventures | 1 |
NFT Ventures | 1 |
Fuse Capital | 1 |
Phillip Private Equity | 1 |
Velocity Ventures | 1 |
Rockpool Capital | 1 |
Prism Venture Management | 1 |
Big Brain Holdings | 1 |
Ardent Capital | 1 |
SNZ Holding | 1 |
Inventure Partners | 1 |
FutureMoney | 1 |
Arrington XRP Capital | 1 |
MTI | 1 |
Sofia Liang | 1 |
Bertelsmann | 1 |
Arrington XRP Capital | 1 |
SQ Capital Group 尚策資本集團 | 1 |
Momentum 6 | 1 |
Three Point Capital | 1 |
Mount Parker Ventures | 1 |
GameFi Ventures | 1 |
Recharge Capital | 1 |
Parachain Ventures | 1 |
DianLiang Capitals | 1 |
Hex Trust | 1 |
We invest in early stage companies run by exceptional founders using technology to drive change and inclusion in financial services and digital health.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Chickin — Solusi teknologi peternakan ayam berbasis IoT dan aplikasi manajemen kandang, hingga produk ayam segar dan frozen yang berkualitas.
- My Kindred — Enhance your well-being at our renowned women's health clinic. Experience top-notch care at our online clinic in the Philippines. Visit us today!
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Investing at the intersection of people and technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Education, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong, China
Portfolio highlights
- Reap — Reap helps you pay expenses using a credit card, collect payments from around the world, and improve your expense and cash flow management. All in one platform.
- Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
- Tangia — Tangia is an all in one platform that allows content creators to supercharge their viewer engagement, boost income, and unleash viewer creativity
Portage Ventures is a global fintech-focused venture capital investor. The firm makes early-stage investments in promising Canadian financial tech companies that have potential for global impact.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zeal — Zeal is the modern payroll platform that helps you put payroll on autopilot, handle dynamic work, and build a better worker experience. Companies choose Zeal to deliver payroll that's automated, flexible, and native.
- Najar — Welii helps fast-growing companies save time and money by optimizing the purchasing process and management of all their SaaS software.
- Walnut Insurance — Insurance for everyone. Pick from transparent plans made for you.
A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Commonware — Commonware is a startup that supplies developers with a "anti-framework" — effectively all of the building pieces for developing a blockchain — in order to go beyond the era of standardized, general-purpose software kits.
- Fantasy — Fantasy is a decentralized card game where users can engage in card trading and fantasy betting
- Avalanche — Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality, and has the most validators securing its activity of any proof-of-stake protocol.
Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Azra Games — Azra Games is a collection
- Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
- Gradient Network — Gradient Network is a provider of decentralized computing services that aim to improve interoperability between blockchain networks. The company provides a system that allows for liquid staking and computing power sharing while also ensuring cross-chain compatibility and effective resource allocation, allowing developers and enterprises to improvetheir blockchain applications.
Linear Capital Partners is a corporate finance firm that specializes in mergers, reverse mergers, and acquiring private capital.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, Hong Kong, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Agile Robots AG — Connecting artificial intelligence and the physical world. Agile Robots AG is a high-tech startup based in Munich. We are a spin-off of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) looking to push the boundaries of robotics.
- Sensors Data — Sensors was founded in 2015 by Sang Wenfeng, former technology manager at Baidu Inc's big data department. It currently provides big data analysis services for over 300 companies, including bike sharing company ofo, Chinese workout mobile app Keep, and video sharing and live streaming app Miaopai.
- GV20 Therapeutics — We utilize high throughput functional genomics and AI approaches to identify novel cancer immunology drug targets, and discover and develop effective antibody drugs in cancer. GV20's proprietary antibody drug discovery engine has helped establish a solid portfolio of immuno-oncology antibody drug candidates for cancer treatment
Vectr is a venture firm based in Hong Kong. They combine investment, creation and growth to deliver game-changing impact to teams ready to tackle global issues, transform industries and improve the lives of millions.That combines capital, creation and partnership to deliver game-changing impact. We strive to be the ideal partner for founders thatare building transformation products and looking to expand their businesses into asia.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
- Micro Connect — Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
- MasterExchange — Trading platform for music rights leveraging emerging technology to create friction free and compliant investment opportunities to everyone.
Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies. They have developed technology to facilitate their quantitative trading strategies and offer various digital asset related structured products to counterparts.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- DuckChain — DuckChain engages in bridging telegram users into the blockchain space.
- Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
- Avalon Finance — The liquidity hub for BTC LSDFi and CeDeFi Lending.Borrow stablecoins at Fixed rates starting as low as 8%.
AEF Greater Bay Area Fund is an investment fund.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Sports, Sustainability
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Hong Kong, China, Macao
Portfolio highlights
- ORCA-TECH — ORCA-TECH is a manufacturer of self-driving boat.
- SleekFlow — SleekFlow makes customer messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook connected to one platform for teams to better support and engage customers.
- Scolioscan — Scolioscan focuses on medical imaging technology research & development, self-service production and technology distribution and promotion.
Eminent Vision is an investmetnt firm.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Payments
- Series A
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- RD Technologies — RD Wallet is a licenced Stored Value Facility in Hong Kong. It is the first business-focused, multiple-currency mobile wallet. RD Wallet offers deposits, local and cross-border payments and foreign exchange services for businesses.
An Asia-based private investment group
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Hong Kong, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- KICKS CREW — KicksCrew provides everyone globally with a trusted source and the widest selection of sneakers and streetwear needs. From Newest Drops, Classics, Rare collectibles to Sports Needs.
- Neptune Mutual — Need Crypto Insurance? You don't need to submit loss proof to receive payouts. No need to wait after creating a claim. Get a free price quote now.
- Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
MMV is a multistage, global venture capital firm investing in enterprise software, cybersecurity, financial technology, and digital health companies. We help accelerate the growth of the companies we partner with by providing capital, connections and advice.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Singapore, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sikoia — Streamline your decision-making with centralized customer data, comprehensive case management, and automated risk evaluation without complicated integrations.
- Aspire — Multi currency business account, for start-ups & SMEs, to manage your company spends & expenses, accounts receivables & payables, invoices, bills, corporate cards & cross-border payments.
- Scrut Automation — Scrut Automation makes ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and PCI DSS compliance easy, with 70% less Manual effort
ZhongAn Digital Asset is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Payments
- Series A
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- RD Technologies — RD Wallet is a licenced Stored Value Facility in Hong Kong. It is the first business-focused, multiple-currency mobile wallet. RD Wallet offers deposits, local and cross-border payments and foreign exchange services for businesses.
K3 Ventures provides venture capital for technology startups in various sectors such as finance, education, healthcare, food and agriculture and others. The firm is headed by Kuok Meng Xiong.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- WIZ.AI — WIZ.AI Talkbot is a leading Generative AI-powered omnichannel customer engagement solution for enterprises to propel business growth.
- Abound — Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans. It aims to expand access to low-cost personal credit by using the UK’s new Open Banking standard to analyze consumers’ historical bank statement data. Open Banking data allows us to build a granular view of customers’ financial circumstances, properlyunderstand their affordability, and place less reliance on credit reference agency scores.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
- Sending Network — A super-app that combines chat, socializing, and trade, giving you complete control over your social data, while you build communities and share ideas, seamlessly.
BAI Capital is a leading venture capital fund in China. Since 2008, the team of BAI Capital has invested in more than 200 portfolios, including 17+ IPOs and 40+ unicorns. BAI Capital has two main focuses: China-based global companies and China’s structural transformation. BAI Capital seeks to partner with and empower outstanding Chinese companiesand entrepreneurs that can leverage the multiplier effect of China’s technology, talent, and supply chain advantages and to expand globally in consumer retail and services, fintech, media and content innovation, Web3 and metaverse. On the other hand, at the turning point of China’s structural transformation, the fund will also seize major cross-cycle disruption opportunities in frontier and infra tech, electric vehicles and autonomous driving, and industrial upgrade driven by enterprise software development.The investor base for BAI Capital includes institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds, large insurance companies, internet giants and fund of funds globally, as well as Bertelsmann. BAI Capital has its background from Bertelsmann Asia Investments, part of the Bertelsmann Group.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- VITURE — Making the parallel possible...
- Usdx money — usdx.money is a secure and decentralized bankless synthetic stablecoin issuer with the mission to better serve people with next gen stablecoin infra connecting DeFi, CeFi, and TradFi.
- Galactic Holdings — Galactic Holdings offers a series of digital finance products.
Sky9 Capital is a leading venture capital fund dedicated to supporting disruptive technologies and outstanding innovators to drive change and create positive impact for the society, environment and individual lives.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mint BioTech — Mint BioTech is a biotechnology company that provides develops eco-friendly biomolecules and materials to improve sustainability.
- CrytocoinMiner — CrytocoinMiner presents a seamless and easy-to-use cloud mining solution that allows you to easily discover the world of cryptocurrency mining, whether you're interested in Bitcoin or Ethereum.
- Zhihe Computing — Zhihe Computing is an AI intelligent computing company that develops high-performance, scalable AI intelligent computing CPUs and RISC-V processors.
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
- Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
- Phaseshift Technologies — Phaseshift Technologies is developing a Computational Materials Engineering (CME) platform to help accelerate the Research and Development of High-Performance Alloys. The CME platform is driven by Quantum Chemistry calculations and aided by Machine Learning based predictive algorithms.
Established in 2018, HashKey Group is a leading end-to-end digital asset financial services group in Asia that upholds the principle of "compliance first"
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- Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
- Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
- RD Technologies — RD Wallet is a licenced Stored Value Facility in Hong Kong. It is the first business-focused, multiple-currency mobile wallet. RD Wallet offers deposits, local and cross-border payments and foreign exchange services for businesses.
ZBS Capital - distinguished crypto venture fund, backed by major media resources including CryptoDiffer.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
- KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
- Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
Since 2021, Token Bay has invested in digital assets and blockchain companies, providing investors with diversified exposure across the Web3 ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, Hong Kong, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
- Taiko Labs — Taiko is a fully permissionless, Ethereum-equivalent based rollup. Inspired, secured, and sequenced by Ethereum.
- MANTRA — MANTRA bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi by offering the necessary infrastructure for tokenizing Real World Assets (RWAs) while adhering to real-world regulatory requirements.
Mapleblock Capital is an investment firm that exclusively consults and invests in crypto-assets and blockchain companies. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Delhi, India.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- MemeFi — MemeFi is a blending of social technology with Web3 features on-chain Social Tech app might be focusing on integrating blockchain technology with social interactions, which could offer benefits like decentralization and enhanced privacy.
- Rena Labs — Rena was creating the execution environment (TEE) abstraction Layer, designed to streamline deployment and execution workflows. This innovation aimed to enable a broad spectrum of verifiable AI use cases by providing a secure and efficient framework. Rena’s approach bridged the gap between advanced AI applications and the need for trusted, seamlessexecution, offering a foundation for reliability and scalability in AI-driven solutions.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Caladan is a crypto trading firm that specializes in market-making and digital asset trading across 1000+ assets on 65+ exchanges since 2017. Learn more.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Taiwan
Investors of Gaorong Capital include world-class sovereign wealth funds, university endowment funds, family foundations, pension funds and fund of funds, as well as successful entrepreneurs, including founders and managements of Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, JD, Xiaomi, Focus Media and VIPShop. They will provide with valuable industry resources,entrepreneurial experience, and global perspectives.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Dongchedi — The company's platform users interests and hobbies and automatically recommends content, information, and vehicle quotations related to new cars and used cars, providing users with knowledge and car industry information.
- Moonshot AI — Dark Side of the Moon is an AI large-scale model company.
- Allink Biotherapeutics — Allink Biotherapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on oncology and immunological treatment.
Esport Win is a company dealing with investment and management domain in the cryptocurrency business.
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, Ethereum, Gambling
- Private Equity
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- BIT Mining — BIT Mining is a cryptocurrency mining enterprise that acquires cryptocurrency mining machines to mine for both Bitcoin and Ethereum.The company was originally an online sports lottery service provider that aggregates and processes lottery purchase orders. It derives nearly all of its revenue from service fees paid by local sports lotteryadministration centers for the purchase orders of sports lottery products directed to such centers.BIT Mining Limited was founded in October 2001 in Shenzhen as 500wan.com Ltd., with a registered capital of RMB 50 million. The company secured venture capital investments of several million U.S. dollars from IDG Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, and SIG Capital in September 2007. It changed its name to 500.com in October 2013 and went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol WBAI on November 22, 2013.
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- 0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
- Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
We drive the fintech revolution Next Financial Technology Ventures Backing fintech pioneers since 2014 We aim to capture the shift in the financial industry and empower the entrepreneurs to realize their potential Our Story Strong portfolio across Fintech View the full portfolio Exciting news from the NFT portfolio View all news
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
- Invoier AB — Invoier is on a mission to help small and medium sized businesses become more competitive by changing the behaviour to access and price working capital. Founded in Stockholm, the financial technology company revolutionised short term financing with the world’s first spot market in real time for invoice trading. Today Invoier offers a platformfor businesses in Europe to get paid directly, plan the liquidity and grow its business. Backed by the EIC/European Investment Bank and partnering with some of the biggest investors we are quickly changing how the world sees SME financing. Join us on our mission! Visit: https://www.invoier.com/
- Oort Digital — Oort Digital offers users to store, send, borrow, lease, trade, pay, mine, and game with NFTs.
Fuse Capital is an investment firm focused on early-stage tech opportunities.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- VAAS — VAAS is an AML and Compliance platform that offers on-chain and off-chain data integration for crime and suspicious activity prevention.
- Credix — CREDIX is a decentralized credit marketplace connecting investors with FinTechs in emerging markets. Learn more about the future of debt financing now.
- MANTRA — MANTRA bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi by offering the necessary infrastructure for tokenizing Real World Assets (RWAs) while adhering to real-world regulatory requirements.
Phillip Private Equity Pte Ltd is one of the leading private equity firms in Singapore. They manage 3 funds with over S$450 million in committed capital. They provide capital in the form of equity and debt, to innovative enterprises across select stages, sectors and geographies. They work closely with Their investee companies to accelerate theirgrowth and help them achieve their potential. Their goal is to create businesses with lasting and significant value.
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Investment focus
- Hospitality, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Singapore, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Aigens — Aigens is the leading provider of Restaurant Ordering, Loyalty, and Payment solutions in Hong Kong, Singapore, and beyond
- Lendela — Lendela helps you get the best possible personal loan in Asia, completely free of charge. Start by clicking the country you are situated in.
- Big Tiny — Big Tiny builds tiny houses in Australia and New Zealand. Big Tiny hosts your tiny house investment and help rent out on Airbnb for high rental yield.
At Velocity Ventures, we invest in visionary entrepreneurs who are reshaping the Travel & Hospitality sector in Southeast Asia. We focus on Seed to Series A stage growth companies across the Transportation, Travel Services, Accommodation, Food & Beverage and Retail & Experiences sub-sectors. Our team consists of a unique mix of Travel& Hospitality sector specialists & successful entrepreneurs with 13 decades of combined operating and investing experience, coupled with a deep, value-added network in Asia.If you are the founder of a growing start-up with great potential in the Travel & Hospitality sector in SE Asia, please get in touch at reachus@velocityventures.vc.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Software, Hospitality
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, Malaysia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Aigens — Aigens is the leading provider of Restaurant Ordering, Loyalty, and Payment solutions in Hong Kong, Singapore, and beyond
- ZYTLYN Technologies — Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, ZYTLYN is a data analytics and AI company, helping customers address their most urgent problems and opportunities with granular, qualified, and actionable data, predictions and insights. Its Prediction as-a-Service product gives customers the ability to optimize critical decision making through predictiveinsights. Together with customers, ZYTLYN is helping the world’s largest industries adapt, recover and grow faster, with a total addressable market of close to $50 billion.
- Hyper Food Robotics — We transform fast food delivery restaurants into fully automated units.
We are a multi-family office platform with a highly active ecosystem of financial institutions and partners to provide customized wealth management services. Rockpool’s unique in-house Chief Investment Office (CIO) is a part of our DNA, ensuring institutional rigor is firmly at the heart of everything that we do.
Established in 2017 by a team ofexperienced investment professionals, Rockpool Capital is guided by its founding vision to connect, serve, and champion the unique and changing investment needs of Asia’s emerging and next generations.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Bishop Fox — Bishop Fox, the leader in offensive security, continuous pen testing, red teaming, attack surface management, and traditional security assessments.
- Aspen Digital — Aspen Digital is the gateway to Digital Asset allocation, an innovative technology-driven platform that empowers asset and wealth managers to offer / invest into digital asset products with confidence.
- FreeWire Technologies — Experience the future of ultrafast EV charging and energy management with Boost Charger Pro and Boost Power Pro. Elevate your site's reliability with blackout charging and bidirectional energy flow capabilities.
Prism Ventureworks has 5 funds with $1.25 billion in investments. Their most recent fund is for $250M which was raised in June 2005.Each of their team members focuses on different industry sectors within technology and life sciences. These industry sectors in technology include the digital living, wireless, mobile and telecommunicationsmarkets, as well as promising opportunities in next-generation data centers and on-demand and security applications. In life sciences, we focus on medical devices, therapeutics and breakthrough diagnostics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Series C, Series B, Series A
- United States, Canada, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Aigens — Aigens is the leading provider of Restaurant Ordering, Loyalty, and Payment solutions in Hong Kong, Singapore, and beyond
- Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
- Connotate — Connotate transforms web data and content into high-value information assets -- to feed content products, grow market and business intelligence, enable mass data aggregation, migration and integration. Connotate's patented intelligent Agent technology empowers both business users and programmers to quickly create data sets, newapplications and content products. With Connotate, customers experience productivity gains, reduced costs, mitigated risks, more informed decision-making and strategic & competitive advantages.
Big Brain Holdings is Focused on Investing in Solana projects that have strong potential.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Kiva AI — Kiva AI is a platform designed to supply high-quality and compliant data solutions at scale to create specialized AI applications in domains such as healthcare, finance, and law.
- Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
- Flappy Bird — Flappy Bird Foundation is to uphold the Flappy Bird intellectual property and further the Flappy Bird heritage. The Foundation accurately restores our vintage and nostalgic gameplay while adding new features to give back to the worldwide fan base that started the craze.
Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- Laborhack — LaborHack offers a select network of tested and certified carpenters, plumbers, electricians, masons, welders, and other tradespeople. It provides cleaning, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC services.
- Trade Lenda — Trade Lenda: Access to Loans, Investments, Utility Payments, Credit Access, Insurance, and More! Unlock Opportunities to Earn, Invest, and Grow. Secure Personal or Business Loans Toda
- Feather Africa — Feather Africa provides money transaction services, such as enabling users to send and receive money from anyone using the application. It offers withdrawals of cash without ATM cards by sending money to the nearest cash vendors.
SNZ Holding was founded by a group of engineers, blockchain evangelists.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Anichess — Anichess develops a decentralized chess game.
- EarlyFans — Welcome to EarlyFans! A new way to find your favorite creators, support them early, and get rewarded for it.
- CELL Studio — A blockchain software development company with a dedicated focus on the BTC ecosystem, committed to advancing the Nervos BTCKB initiative
Inventure Partners is an innovative investment fund focused on funding disruptive technology startups. The fund looks for teams with a novel approach to business models, and companies that are able to solve real problems and remove inefficiencies in the market. Inventure Partners backs a wide range of ventures across the technology industry, andthe fund’s portfolio currently includes on-demand service Gett (GetTaxi), leader in US telehealth American Well, long-distance bus tickets platform Busfor, and others.
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- E-Commerce, Mobile, Apps
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Russian Federation, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
- Amwell — Telehealth services for health systems, health plans, employers, and physicians. Improving patient experiences with virtual doctor video visits.
- Squirrel Province — Squirrel is a full-scenario living service platform that combines "clothing, food, housing, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment. It creates a shared value network and a closed loop between customers, platforms, and merchants by deeply integrating digital twin technology with the Internet of Things (IoT). system to continuouslycreate societal value.
Future Money Group
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- Apps, Web3, Computer
- Seed
- United States, Hong Kong
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- IoTeX — Make more by democratizing DePIN with modularity. We are breaking down monolith builds to create more resilient DePINs faster.
- DePHY — The best framework to build DePIN Apps
- VETA FINANCE — VETA Finance is the world's first on-chain platform that supports margin trading of structured products, including the entire service chain of decentralized financial platforms, structured product quotations and operations for Exchanges & other channels. VETA Finance offers a variety of products with different returns and risk structures,such as Snowball, Snowball with Floor, Enhanced Snowballs, FCNs, Shark Fins, Dual Currency etc., to meet the needs of diverse customers.
Arrington Capital is a thesis-driven firm investing in digital assets and Web3 since 2017
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, South Korea
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- ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
- Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem
- QED Protocol — A trustless, scalable, decentralized compute protocol for a fairer internet focused on user privacy and platform transparency.
A mobile content provider offering fun and convenient services through its mobile websites.
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- Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- Japan, Hong Kong
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- Diginex — World leading blockchain-enabled software to collect, digitize and improve your ESG and sustainability impact. Accessible, intuitive and affordable.
- Crowd Cast — Crowd Cast, Ltd. is a Tokyo based Fintech startup. Our vision is to enable cashless for the SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) space that opens up a huge opportunity here in Japan. Staple and Staple Card is spend management solution to simplify payment process between company and employees. It includes award-winning apps and GPR (generalpurpose reloadable), VISA branded corporate prepaid card that do not exist yet in Japan. Our mission is to enable startups and SMEs to use cards just like traditional corporate credit cards with very difficult to pass credit examinations and also to replace employees using traditional paper/excel based expense reports. Companies can also save significantly on bank transfer fees by removing the need for reimbursements and visualize cash flow in real-time.
- HiJoJo Partners — HiJoJo Partners sells "funds incorporating high-quality middle and late-stage private companies in Japan and overseas, including unicorn companies," to domestic investors.
Sofia is the Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions Group at ICBC International. Sofia has 17 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining ICBC International, she was Managing Director and Head of Greater China Equity Capital Market at Macquarie Capital. She has an bachelor's degree in International Economics fromPeking University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Software, InsurTech, Blockchain
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- JobsLab.io — JobsLab is a Hong Kong-based digital recruitment exchange. We help companies and talent connect through our unique end-to-end recruitment platform quickly and discretely. Our community has exclusive access to rewards and benefits that goes beyond traditional recruitment agencies. We use advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to matchprofessionals with exceptional employers. Find your dream job today. Visit: www.jobslab.io
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Education
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, India
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- Rupeek — Rupeek is a financial services company that features an online lending platform that specializes in credit risk, gold loans, and personal loans. It offers lending solutions for lenders and borrowers. The company is driven by its mission is to bring financial inclusion for the masses and introduce products that are transparent and people-friendly.Rupeek was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
- Ada Health — Hi. We're Ada. Our app helps people manage their health, and our enterprise solutions help our partners improve health and care. See how we can help you too.
- LighthouseAI — Discover how LighthouseAI provides expert solutions for pharmaceutical regulatory compliance. Explore and optimize your compliance journey.
Arrington Capital is a thesis-driven firm investing in digital assets and Web3 since 2017
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, South Korea
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- ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
- Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem
- QED Protocol — A trustless, scalable, decentralized compute protocol for a fairer internet focused on user privacy and platform transparency.
SQ Capital Group is a financial group engaged in fundraising advisory and venture investment for technology companies in Asia. Leveraging on our strong strategic investor networks in the Greater Bay Area and our IPO and investment banking expertise, we have unique positioning of empowering growth stage companies.
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- Information Technology, Restaurants, Shopping
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Hong Kong, Croatia, Vietnam
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- Loship — Lozi is the fastest-growing Tech startup that operates a one-hour-delivery E-commerce platform called Loship. Made by Vietnamese for Vietnamese, Loship offers the most effective distribution networks in Vietnam, filling the massive demand for immediate deliveries in a bustling and modern life, with a wide range of services including food delivery(Loship), grocery delivery (Lomart), ride-hailing (Lo-xe), medicine delivery (Lomed), laundry service (Lozat), package delivery (Lo-send), beauty products delivery (LoBeauty), flower delivery (Lo-hoa) and B2B supply delivery (Lo-supply).Loship now has a fleet of more than 70,000 drivers and 200,000 merchants, serving almost 2,000,000 customers across four big cities of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Can Tho – all dedicated to fulfilling the Vietnamese consumers’ one-hour delivery needs.
- Zeek — Zeek is a data-driven intelligent logistics technology platform that provides one-stop O2O last-mile delivery solutions for F&B, lifestyle and FMCG merchants in Southeast Asia. Founded in Hong Kong, Zeek has expanded its business presence to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, etc with customers that comprise global top-five F&B brandsand fast-food chains, leading supermarkets and department stores, convenience store chains, online e-commerce and food platforms, etc. Zeek has become one of the leading delivery partner for global fast-food chain in Southeast Asia and is confident to become one of the leading intelligent on-demand logistics players in F&B and lifestyle sectors in Southeast Asia.
- Codemap — Hire no-code, automation and technology experts & agencies vetted by Codemap. Build software faster with minimal or NO coding - launch in days or weeks. Learn no-code and automate processes to supercharge your business.
Building momentum for ideas in WEB3.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- NodeOps — Experience seamless node deployment and management through a permissionless, incentivized, and secure node infrastructure orchestration layer
- RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
- E Money Network — E Money Network is a modular Real-World Asset (RWA) blockchain technology designed with compliance at its core.
Three Point Capital is an investment firm.
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- Blockchain, Lending, Government
- Seed, Series A
- Hong Kong, Seychelles
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- MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
- MANTRA — MANTRA bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi by offering the necessary infrastructure for tokenizing Real World Assets (RWAs) while adhering to real-world regulatory requirements.
Mount Parker Ventures is a Venture Capital Firm backing early-stage startups in Asia. We invest mainly in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and India, backing brave teams with big ideas.
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- E-Commerce, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Hong Kong, India, Bangladesh
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- Fasal — Fasal, an agri-tech platform, developed by Wolkus Technology Solutions, is an AI-powered platform for the Agriculture ecosystem that records a variety of growing conditions on the farm. It then uses artificial intelligence and data science to make on-farm predictions, before delivering the insights anywhere on any device including (iOS, Android,Tablet, and web).Its data-driven precision agriculture solution recommends real-time agronomic solutions to growers using on-farm and micro-climate data collected through agnostic sensors that helps farmers with cost savings in terms of water, energy, fertilizers, and pesticides.
- Wolkus — Wolkus provides technology for domains like agriculture and the environment.
- Global Futures and Options — GFO-X is the UK's first regulated and centrally cleared trading venue dedicated to digital asset derivatives
GameFi Ventures is investing in the most exciting blockchain games.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Israel, Turkey
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- MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
- BLIFE Protocol — BLIFE Protocol's objective is to promote growth and development of Web3 on Bitcoin.
- Nexus Interactive — Nexus Interactive gives collective growth and accrued value to its ecosystem.
Recharge Capital invests capital and operating resources in technology and business solutions that energize the development of high-potential sectors.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, China, Brazil
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- Lava — Lava is a decentralized financing market platform that offers liquidity optimization and temporary loss mitigation across several blockchain networks.
- EcoSapiens — The #1 climate network powered by AI x blockchain.
- Generation Prime — Generation Prime is your trusted destination for comprehensive fertility solutions and assisted conception services. Our expert team offers a range of personalized treatments, including fertility preservation, assisted reproductive technologies, and reproductive health consultations. Start your journey towards parenthood with us today.
Parachain Ventures is the investment branch of CryptoRank.io, a popular and well-respected analytics platform.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Estonia, Gibraltar, Hong Kong
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- IQ Labs — IQ Marketplace offers unique NFTs with exclusive utilities, boosting your in-game experience. With flexible renting parameters and multiple payment options, rent without collateral and unlock the full utility of NFTs. Say goodbye to gas fees with our gasless renting feature and multiply the value of NFT collections with our multi-utility renting. Explore now
- The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.
- Hubble Protocol — Hubble is a decentralized financial protocol that allows for long-term borrowing, lending, and structured products.
DianLiang Capitals is a Shanghai-based venture capital firm.
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- Electronics, Bakery, Beauty
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- China
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- Ellipal — Shop ELLIPAL for the best crypto hardware wallets and accessories. Enjoy top-notch security and user-friendly design. Free shipping and 30-day returns. Buy now!
- ControlSYS — ControlSYS is the provider of energy management and apartment intelligent management solutions.
- 51signing.com — 51signing.com is a Beijing Based Enterprise services Start up.
Access custody, DeFi, brokerage, and financing services built on regulated infrastructure with Hex Trust, fully-licensed and insured digital asset custodian in Asia.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Lending
- Seed, Series A
- Hong Kong, Singapore, Seychelles
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- Synnax — Synnax is an artificial intelligence-powered financial platform which helps to forecast financial performance
- MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
- MANTRA — MANTRA bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi by offering the necessary infrastructure for tokenizing Real World Assets (RWAs) while adhering to real-world regulatory requirements.
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