Top 10 Photography Startup Investors in Singapore (September 2026)

Jungle Ventures is one of Southeast Asia's largest independent venture capital firms based in Singapore. We invest in early and growth-stage startups in Southeast Asia and India, focused on building category-defining businesses that stand the test of time.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: India, Singapore, Indonesia

Investor stats

Total investments: 206
Round size: Seed $628k–$6.5M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $8.3M–$45M
Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $600M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

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Showroom B2B — SHOWROOM B2B is building the largest B2B “Phygital” platform for India’s $108 Bn fashion industry by connecting Tier 2+ clothing retailers directly with small to mid-scale apparel manufacturers and providing all parties with solutions for distribution, credit, logistics, and marketing.Showroom works on “Touch & Feel” mode of selling where itsunique distribution model ensures that there is almost NO RETURN of products sold. It creates Experience Centres for its retailers which gives them the confidence to buy without any iota of doubt about product quality.Showroom's offerings = Better Margins for Clothing Retailers + Aggressive Growth for Clothing Manufacturers
Escape Plan — Enchante Brands Private Limited

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Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan

Investor stats

Total investments: 163
Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$75k; Series A $1.8M–$10M
Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

AidMi — AidMi is an AI clinical assistant that works inside behavioral health EHRs to automate clinical workflows, documentation, billing.
CoFab — AI-powered quoting automation agent for high-end manufacturing industries
Kamereo — Purchasing platform and Tech-enable Veggie supply for Restaurants in Vietnam

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

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam

Investor stats

Total investments: 61
Round size: Seed $850k–$5M; Series A $3M–$11M; Series B $6M–$60M
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

JULO — JULO provides affordable unsecured personal loan (KTA) exclusively to smartphone users.They strive to provide low cost loan product to the masses while ensuring that it's economically viable to their lender partners. This is achieved by exercising prudent underwriting assessments to ensure that approved applicants are both able and willing topay back.They also reward positive behavior by giving cashback bonus and allowing good customers to borrow a higher amount at lower interest rate at loan maturity.
Ledgerowl — From bookkeeping to tax, Ledgerowl is the all-in-one AI powered financial solution that your business can trust.
Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a Clean- & Climate-Tech Company that enables circular economy implementation in the waste supply chain by leveraging proprietary waste management operation systems to transform waste into recycled materials and renewable resources.

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GDP Venture is a venture builder focusing on commerce, consumer product, media & entertainment and solution companies

Investment focus

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: Indonesia, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 58
Round size: Seed $181k–$6.5M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $17M–$20M
Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

Yumi — YUMI is a leader in stage-based nutrition for baby and kids. Organic, nutrient dense, dairy free, gluten free, Clean Label Project approved.
PINTAR — Tingkatkan karir Anda dengan kursus bersertifikat, program Kartu Prakerja, dan kuliah online dari universitas terbaik di PINTAR. Daftar sekarang!
Indonesia Creators Economy — Indonesia Creators Economy is a content creator platform, enabling brand-creator collaborations to drive business growth through technology.

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BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: India, Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

Total investments: 390
Round size: Seed $453k–$5M; Series A $2.1M–$15M; Series B $5.5M–$50M
Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
First Coffee — Discover the best specialty coffee in India with our range of single origin Arabica beans and exclusive merchandise. Shop online at First Coffee for freshly roasted, quality blends.
Kita Technologies — Kita Technologies uses computer vision and vision language models to transform unstructured documents into structured underwriting data.

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East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 632
Round size: Seed $263k–$7M; Series A $2M–$31M
Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

Hyper8 — Hyper8 has been expanding Mespo through profits earned by operating social events.
Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
BASE — BASE provides web-based services that develop and build e-commerce platforms. The company provides its services across Japan, such as net shop creation, development of shopping applications, development of online payment, and other services.

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Orbit helps scale breakthrough startups from around the globe across emerging and frontier markets.

Investment focus

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

Total investments: 519
Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $2.6M–$12M
Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
Cypien AI — Cypien learns your brand and visitor behavior, then composes segment-specific content, visuals, product order, search, landing pages, and UI.
MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.

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James Tan is Managing Partner at Quest Ventures, a top venture capital fund in Asia. Prior to this, James was co-founder and COO of 55tuan, a NASDAQ listed e-commerce group that grew to more than 200 cities and 5,000 employees across China.James is a board member or angel investor in top tier startups in Asia such as 99.co, Carousell, Carro,Ethis, Glife, and Shopback.James serves on several non-profit organisations. He is Chairman of the Social Impact Catalyst – Southeast Asia’s largest youth network for social impact. He is a board member on the Applied Innovation Institute – global leaders in industries, government, and academia for business transformation; and Sports Excellence Business – helping athletes excel with life after sport transition. He is a former Chairman of the Action Community for Entrepreneurship – Singapore’s national voice for entrepreneurship; and former Chairman of the Business Angel Network of Southeast Asia – Asia’s oldest angel investment network.He has been guest speaker at Asia-focused and private equity events such as ITB Berlin, Private Equity Insights, Stanford-PARC Digital Cities, SWITCH, and World Islamic Economic Forum. He has guest lectured at universities including Fudan, IE, NTU, Tsinghua, and UC Berkeley.James was recognised as an outstanding overseas Chinese by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China. He is a recipient of the Alumni Award from the University of South Australia. He received scholarships from both Beijing and Singapore governments for his MBA from Tsinghua University in partnership with MIT. During the first dot-com era, he studied and dropped out of computer science at NUS to work on two-sided markets.For leisure, James enjoys photography and has been featured in ComputerWorld, Readers’ Digest, and commercially represented by Liaison Agency. He backpacks Asia and volunteers in marine conservation as a PADI scuba-diving instructor.Accurate as of Jan 2024

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Internet, Automotive
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
Geography: Singapore, Vietnam, Kazakhstan

Investor stats

Total investments: 11
Round size: Seed $150k–$3.5M
Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

Portfolio highlights

Burpple — Burpple - great food and local experiences, where people gatherFounded in Silicon Valley by three Singaporeans, Burpple was launched in May 2012 with a mission to help people find the perfect places to enjoy their meals with the people that matter. Three years on, Burpple is now the food discovery platform of choice in Singapore and KualaLumpur. Powered by over two million photo reviews from the community, in 2015 alone, over four million people used Burpple to discover great places to eat – be it for first date, a quick meal nearby, brunch with friends, or a family celebration. We believe that food has a special bonding power, and the idea at the core of our company is simple: enjoyment.Burpple is supported by leading international venture capitalists, Tembusu Partners, SPH Media Fund, Triumph Capital, Silicon Straits, Neoteny Labs, QuestVC, NUS Enterprise and Brad Porteus. For more information, visit www.burpple.com.
Dolbom Dream — Dolbom Dream develops smart products to assist the daily lives of families with developmentally disabled children. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.
Spiking — Spiking, founded by Dr. Clemen Chiang, PhD. is the No. 1 stock market trading, cryptocurrency, options trading AI data platform for legal insider trading.

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Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 76
Round size: Series A $5M–$27M; Series B $6.2M–$200M; Series C $16M–$70M
Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
welevel — Building games with attitude

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