# 500 Southeast Asia

> 500 Southeast Asia is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 28%
- Fund size: $18M
- Last fund: Aug 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/500southeastasia/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/500Startups_SEA
- Website: https://sea.500.co/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/500SoutheastAsia/

500 Southeast Asia is a 500 Startups’ family of funds dedicated to the region. The 500 Southeast Asia funds have backed more than 250 companies across multiple sectors from consumer internet to deep technology, including Grab, Bukalapak, Carsome, and Carousell. It connects founders with capital, expertise, and powerful regional and global networksto help them succeed.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $787k–$4M |
| Series A | $7M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 17% |
| Software | 4 | 14% |
| Automotive | 4 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 14% |
| FinTech | 3 | 10% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 66% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Series A | 2 | 7% |
| Series D | 2 | 7% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 10 | 34% |
| Indonesia | 4 | 14% |
| Malaysia | 3 | 10% |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 10% |
| Thailand | 2 | 7% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Husain Albar | Manager, Strategic Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/husain-albar |
| Khailee Ng | Managing Partner | 36 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khailee-ng |
| Vishal Harnal | Managing Partner & Co-founder | 34 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vishal-harnal |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chickin | Chickin provides an IoT and data analytics system for broiler chicken production. Its tech allows for livestock monitoring, cage management, and climate control. | $15M | Series A | Oct 10, 2024 |  |
| Edukita | Edukita is an early-stage education technology company that provides an online platform to deliver an effective English teaching experience. Its platform delivers a program that is effective in building fluency in an affordable way and offers live classes delivered by native speakers in an Internationally-benchmarked curriculum. |  | Seed | May 02, 2024 |  |
| Persona Studios | Official AI Personas for Creators, Influencers, and Celebrities | $600K | Pre-Seed | Aug 10, 2023 |  |
| eFishery | eFishery is an internet of things startup for fish/shrimp farming. The company builds technology solutions from smart feeding, cloud-based dashboard, and data platform to help the fish/shrimp farmers to grow their business sustainably. eFishery is trying to solve the biggest problem from one of the most crucial and fastest-growingindustries in the world: aquaculture. | $92M | Series D | Jul 03, 2023 |  |
| imajin | Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem for Indonesia. Focus on B2B Manufacturing, partner of Ministry of Industry Indonesia as Manufacturing hub. Help to connect, Supplies raw material until project financing. |  | Seed | Jan 06, 2023 |  |
| Invesko | Invesco allows you to trade across firms, sectors, or geographies easily. Begin developing your investing portfolio today. | $1.6M | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Boxo | Appboxo is an app platform that allows companies to discover and integrate full-screen mini-apps and monetize the userbase of their apps.Using only one Appboxo SDK any app can become a super app and start offering multiple services in a matter of minutes. On the other side, service providers can build embeddable mini-apps and unlock newpartnerships to drive affiliate traffic to their mini-apps.The company was founded in 2019 by Nursultan Keneshbekov and Kaniyet Rayev and is headquartered in Singapore. | $7M | Series A | Feb 15, 2022 |  |
| Peddlr | Jumpstarting Philippine Micro and Small businesses to digital world. Peddlr is a free POS app for micro and small entrepreneurs in the Philippines and South East Asia that helps them earn more and better manage their businesses. | $4.3M | Seed | Feb 05, 2022 |  |
| Clinikk | Clinikk is a healthcare platform that offers health insurance and smart plans for patients and families. With a Clinikk Smart Plan consult a doctor, get medicines, or get tested at any Clinikk Health Hub for ZEEEERO Cost. The company's full-stack package includes family health insurance coverage, as well as unlimited OPD consultations,delivered digitally and in Clinikk care centers, all for an affordable monthly subscription.Clinikk was founded in 2016 and is based in Bengaluru, India. | $4M | Seed | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Ion Mobility | ION Mobility is a tech and automotive OEM on a mission to create and deliver aspirational and sustainable mobility and energy solutions for everyone. We are committed to creating great products and seamless user experiences for our customers. Our products combine advanced hardware and software technology with human-centred design to deliver smartelectric motorbikes and energy charging and storage solutions that are for everyone to use. Our vision is to be Southeast Asia’s top technology company leading our region’s transition towards a low-carbon economy across Southeast Asia, starting with the ION M1-S. For more information, please visit www.ionmobility.com and ionmobility.substack.com. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [500 TukTuks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-tuktuks) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Seeds Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seeds-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [TNB Aura](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tnb-ventures-pte-ltd) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [1337 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1337-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does 500 Southeast Asia invest in?

500 Southeast Asia invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Automotive startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is 500 Southeast Asia's check size?

500 Southeast Asia typically joins rounds of $787k–$4M at Seed and $7M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds 500 Southeast Asia participates in.

### How do I contact 500 Southeast Asia?

Public channels for 500 Southeast Asia include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at 500 Southeast Asia?

The team at 500 Southeast Asia includes Husain Albar (Manager, Strategic Development), Khailee Ng (Managing Partner) and Vishal Harnal (Managing Partner & Co-founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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