Daren Tan
Managing Partner @ Golden Equator Ventures
Daren Tan is a Series B investor at Golden Equator Ventures focused on FinTech and Payments. Daren provides strategic guidance to transform GEC’s portfolio companies into full-fledged businesses while facilitating their expansion. His extensive management experience as well as planning capabilities allows him to oversee business growth while maintaining overall strategic partnerships for the company. Those who know Daren would describehim as a fitness fanatic with one too many hobbies. He loves discovering new open spaces to fly his drones as well as hosting blind wine-tasting parties. One of his mantras that he lives by is that there are only good days or great days.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries Daren Tan invests in
Stages Daren Tan invests in
Countries Daren Tan invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 2 (20%)
- Payments 2 (20%)
- Apps 1 (10%)
- Video 1 (10%)
- Dating 1 (10%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (40%)
- Series A 3 (30%)
- Seed 2 (20%)
- Funding Round 1 (10%)
Country
- Singapore 4 (40%)
- Taiwan 1 (10%)
- Australia 1 (10%)
- Indonesia 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Sorabel
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Sorabel is a rapid-growing startup who breathes data and technology in its core business.Sorabel gives access to affordable, high-quality clothes to everyone who needs it. You can't live without clothing and the fashion industry is crooked and elitist. They sell clothes for 5-10 times of its manufacturing price and offer bogus discounts attheir whim. They cater only to the fortunately privileged and abandon the working class and the underprivileged.Sale Stock's team members hail from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Purdue, UCLA, NTU, NUS, Imperial College London and ANU Graduates with top company background such as NASA, Google, Palantir, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Yahoo!, Sony, IBM, Microsoft, Citibank, McKinsey & Company and Accenture. Our offices are located in several different cities in Jakarta, Tangerang, Yogyakarta, Bandung, Bali, and Singapore. | $27M / Series B / Aug 16, 2017 | |
17 Media
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17Media was established in 2015 in Taiwan. Having raised $10m during Series A, 17Media is considered as one of the fastest growing startups in Asia.17app is a social media app that enables you to livestream, share photos, upload videos and interact with streamers. Celebrities, actors and singers are all live on the app, join us and interactwith them. Who knows, you might be the next internet celebrity! | $40M / Aug 02, 2017 | |
Vault Dragon
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VaultDragon is an integrated urban storage company that provides affordable, secure and on-demand storage solutions with flexible terms. They aim to become the "Dropbox" of physical storage, simplifying the storage process while allowing users to deposit, manage and retrieve their belongings on the go with their web and mobileapplications. | $1.2M / Seed / Feb 20, 2017 | |
Glints
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Glints is Southeast Asia’s largest talent platform for career development and recruitment. Founded in 2013 in Singapore, Glints has empowered more than 1.5 million professionals and 30,000 organizations to realize their human potential. Every day, we are helping organizations build great teams and pairing talent up with great opportunities, onematch at a time. | $2M / Series A / Sep 05, 2016 | |
MC Payment
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Mobile Credit Payment is an electronic transaction processing company headquartered in the sunny city-state of Singapore. With a relentless commitment to go far and wide for their customers, they seek to ensure all of their payment processing services meet the demanding needs of present businesses while setting the standards for the future. Theytake pride in their service efficiency and security compliance to every transaction, every service, every product and every system. Mobile Credit Payment partners Acquiring Banks, Payment Service Providers/ISO to offer Merchants a secure PCI Compliant, international payment processing platform enhanced with innovative technology. They provide customers with global transaction currencies and regional card settlement currencies, a high-end reporting interface and risk management solution. | $4.6M / Series B / Aug 25, 2016 | |
Paktor
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Paktor was founded in July 2013 with the mission of connecting singles in Asia through technology-enabled platforms. To date, Paktor’s platforms have grown rapidly across the region and established leadership positions in each of the company’s key markets in Southeast Asia. With one of the largest user bases in the region of over 5 million, Paktorhas facilitated 5 billion profile reviews and over 100 million matches to date. Leveraging Paktor’s proprietary technology and first-mover advantage in the region, Paktor’s flagship app has become the most popular dating app for singles in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. The company is poised to become the first in the region to provide a comprehensive suite of products across the dating vertical, focused on creating value for its users and, in the process, developing the most diverse and largest network in its markets.Paktor emphasises anonymity, locality, and usability for their users. They find out who you’d like to meet nearby and create the opportunity to connect you with them, only if they’re interested as well. This helps curate who you talk to and who gets to talk to you. Or, to put it simply, they bring people together - without the pressure. After all, that’s what Paktor means. | $10M / Series B / Jul 11, 2016 | |
Eunoia
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Eunoia is an empowering and revolutionary F&B platform that seamlessly integrates all technological solutions associated with the industry, resulting in an ecosystem that allows merchants to focus on the main task of running their business efficiently. Eunoia’s basis is the belief in an open eco-system that allows innovative and open-mindedfood tech providers to work together and collaborate, enabling cross pollination of ideas and solutions. This would allow the building and creation of new innovations and experience.F&B merchants will also benefit from this open eco-system as it allows them to seamlessly pull together the best technology providers to work for them.Specialties | $800K / Seed / Jun 17, 2016 | |
MYPAY
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MYPAY provides Social Media payments and helps you to pay via your smartphone. Money can be sent and received from friends and family. They have partnered with MYSQUAR to make remittance and payments fun and easy for over half a million users. Their cooperation with the mobile wallet provider Cellum ensures that your money is 100% safe. They use anetwork of agents where you can cash in or cash out your money near you. Their service will help everyone in Myanmar to make money transfers easier, quicker and saver. | Series A / Nov 01, 2015 | |
Fastacash
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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. | $15M / Series B / Jul 14, 2015 | |
Oaxis
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An award-winning technology company, OAXIS is a known leader in the consumer electronics space for their innovative products and software platforms. Established in Singapore, OAXIS’ focus is to empower users to both make healthier choices and make them much easier, with wellness technology that easily integrates into an active lifestyle. OAXISis currently owned by Gajah and has previously been recognized for the award-winning InkCase, a second screen for smartphones. | Series A / Apr 01, 2015 |
Co-Investors
About Golden Equator Ventures
Golden Equator Ventures (GEV) is a venture capital firm that invests in high-growth technology companies in Southeast Asia. As the partner of visionaries, we believe in empowering the leaders and businesses of tomorrow to grow their businesses, create value for consumers and investors, while unleashing the potential to transform future realities.GEV is a subsidiary of Golden Equator Group. Through its ecosystem of businesses and networks, Golden Equator invests in the future generation through its key pillars of Capital, Technology, and Community to build financially rewarding businesses while driving positive social impact.For more information, please visit: https://www.goldenequatorventures.com
Golden Equator Ventures Contacts
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Daren Tan
Managing Partner
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Cindy Teoh
Associate Director, Investments
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Grace Chiong
COO
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Phuong Nguyen
Associate, Operations
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Shane Ang
Analyst
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FAQ
What does Daren Tan invest in?
Daren Tan invests primarily in FinTech, Payments and Apps startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Daren Tan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Daren Tan closed in Aug 2017. Shizune tracks 10 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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