Brian Ma
Founder and Managing Partner @ Iterative
San Francisco, United States
Brian Ma is a seed investor at Iterative in San Francisco focused on Real Estate and FinTech. Brian Ma is the Founder and Managing Partner at Iterative Capital. Co-Founder at Decide.com, recently acquired by Ebay. He is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor at various startups.
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 34%
Last updated:
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Industries Brian Ma invests in
Stages Brian Ma invests in
Countries Brian Ma invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $890k–$7.8M
- Pre-Seed
- $160k–$1.2M
- Series A
- $12M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Real Estate 8 (23%)
- FinTech 7 (20%)
- Property Management 7 (20%)
- Software 5 (14%)
- Financial Services 5 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 18 (51%)
- Pre-Seed 8 (23%)
- Series A 3 (9%)
- Debt Financing 1 (3%)
- Convertible Note 1 (3%)
Country
- Singapore 6 (17%)
- Indonesia 5 (14%)
- United States 4 (11%)
- Thailand 3 (9%)
- India 2 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Our mission at SPUN is to make exploring the world easier by minimizing administrative hassles, so you can focus on the adventure, not the paperwork. Our platform can help you with visa, work permit, housing, and more! Hassle-free, quick help when you need it the most. Save time and don’t worry about your traveling and relocating logistics anylonger. | $1.8M / Seed / Jan 19, 2026 | ||
| Blitz provides electric vehicles and fleet management software to food and beverage delivery, courier, and logistics companies. | $2M / Seed / Aug 25, 2025 | ||
| PARADYSE is a tech-enabled platform that makes luxury holiday homes in Asia accessible and investable through managed fractional ownership.We allow buyers to co-own premium villas and vacation homes across top tropical destinations for as little as 1/8th of the cost, starting from just $30,000 per share. Each share entitles owners to up to45 days of personal use annually, or they can opt to generate 15%+ rental returns through our fully managed leasing program.Our end-to-end service handles everything — from property sourcing and legal structuring to maintenance, concierge services, and owner coordination — delivering a seamless and hassle-free ownership experience.PARADYSE addresses the growing demand among affluent middle-class and remote-working buyers who value both lifestyle and financial returns, while providing developers with a new channel to sell high-value inventory.We’re currently focused on Southeast Asia, starting with Bali, and plan to expand into other high-demand resort markets globally. | $550K / Pre-Seed / Jul 01, 2025 | ||
| Seedflex Technologies is a cashless commerce platform developer that helps businesses prepare for huge unforeseen expenses, emergency repairs, or urgent replacements. Its platform provides a pay-as-one-sell advance mechanism for online merchants. | $3.2M / Seed / May 07, 2025 | ||
| Our mission at SPUN is to make exploring the world easier by minimizing administrative hassles, so you can focus on the adventure, not the paperwork. Our platform can help you with visa, work permit, housing, and more! Hassle-free, quick help when you need it the most. Save time and don’t worry about your traveling and relocating logistics anylonger. | Pre-Seed / Mar 18, 2025 | ||
| SmartSolar is a Saigon-based EnergyTech company working to decarbonise Southeast Asia. With SmartSolar, businesses save on their electricity bill from day 1. SmartSolar is currently busy building the critical financing infrastructure to get SMBs equipped with solar energy. We help our customers save money and enable our partners to reach morecustomers. Renewable energy is at an inflection point across the region and we are on a mission to make it available for everyone. | $1.9M / Seed / Mar 03, 2025 | ||
| Belli builds next generation air cargo software for airlines to help digitize end-to-end operations. Built by founders from McKinsey, SpaceX, Boeing, Booking.com, and AirAsia and VC-backed. | $2.3M / Seed / Mar 01, 2025 | ||
| WaxWing is an AI-powered task management platform specifically designed for growth marketers. It assists with project ideation and planning, providing tools for defining target audiences, generating ideas and plans, and analyzing website data. Currently in beta, it offers a suite of features for streamlining growth initiatives, including smartideation, efficient planning, and team collaboration tools. The platform enables users to unlock business intelligence, set measurable goals, generate AI-driven suggestions for growth strategies, and manage tasks and subtasks efficiently. WaxWing is marketed towards growth-focused professionals looking to leverage AI for business expansion. | $160K / Pre-Seed / Mar 21, 2024 | ||
| Belli builds next generation air cargo software for airlines to help digitize end-to-end operations. Built by founders from McKinsey, SpaceX, Boeing, Booking.com, and AirAsia and VC-backed. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2024 | ||
| In Bangladesh, nearly 97% of retail transactions are driven by small neighbourhood retailers, yet they operate within fragmented supply chains, limited access to working capital, and inefficient procurement systems that restrict growth and reduce profitability. PriyoShop is building the infrastructure layer that transforms this system byintegrating direct brand procurement, an optimised logistics network, embedded working capital credit, retail media monetisation, and a data intelligence engine into a unified platform, PriyoShop is organising one of the largest informal retail ecosystems into a scalable and data driven network. | $2.6M / Seed / Feb 19, 2024 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Iterative
Iterative is a venture capital firm that runs accelerator programs for early-stage startups in Southeast Asia. It invests in startups through biannual cohorts and works with founders on product development, market validation, and fundraising. Each program ends with a demo day where startups present to investors. Iterative also offers support inlegal matters, pitch preparation, and investor connections.
Iterative Contacts
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Brian Ma
Founder and Managing Partner
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Franklyn Chien
Partner
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Hsu Han Ooi
Co-Founder and Partner
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Hsu Ken Ooi
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Junxian Lee
Venture Partner
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FAQ
What does Brian Ma invest in?
Brian Ma invests primarily in Real Estate, FinTech and Property Management startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Brian Ma's check size?
Brian Ma typically joins rounds of $890k–$7.8M at Seed, $160k–$1.2M at Pre-Seed and $12M–$20M 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 Brian Ma participates in.
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When did Brian Ma last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brian Ma closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 35 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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