# GTR Ventures

> GTR Ventures is a VC fund in Singapore backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 93%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/company/gtr-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/GTRVentures
- Website: http://gtrventures.vc/

GTR Ventures is a VC fund in Singapore focused on Financial Services and FinTech. GTR Ventures is the world’s first investment platform dedicated to trade and supply chain.In exclusive partnership with Global Trade Review (GTR), the world’s leader in global trade and trade finance intelligence, publishing, news and events, GTR Ventures enjoys a presence in London, Singapore, and Hong Kong. GTR has a proprietary network of over25,000 decision makers in trade finance, treasury and insurance.Our vision: to pioneer investments in fintechs for trade and champion trade finance as an alternative asset class that has been shown to be low risk, stable, and liquid. Leveraging our trusted brand, influence and global platform of over 20 events across 6 continents, innovative companies in trade finance (or #tradetechs) who join GTR Ventures as our partners and portfolio are able to engage the world’s most powerful trade finance community, as well as investors who appreciate trade finance as an asset class.With this vision in mind, we have defined four promising areas investors can consider looking into, namely: Trade Finance, Trade Insurance, SME Finance and Supply Chain Finance, and Physical Trade.GTR Ventures engages key public and private sector stakeholders in the trade universe. Together we champion trade and trade finance as an asset class and mobilise private capital into trade. Trade just got smarter.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 8 | 53% |
| FinTech | 5 | 33% |
| Supply Chain Management | 4 | 27% |
| Finance | 3 | 20% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 20% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 7 | 47% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 20% |
| China | 1 | 7% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 7% |
| Australia | 1 | 7% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rupert Sayer | Co-founder & CEO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rupert-sayer |
| Kelvin Tan | CO-FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN OF INVESTMENT COMMITTEE OF GTR VENTURES | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kelvin-tan-acc9 |
| Peter Gubbins | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-gubbins |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| JuniGo | JuniGo is a financial technology company that provides a digital wallet and payment platform for micro, small, and medium enterprises. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 21, 2025 |  |
| Dutycast | Dutycast is a browser/app value-added extension that enables customers to purchase goods from selected global e-commerce sites and marketplaces with ease. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| XDC Trade Network | XDC Trade Network is a cutting-edge blockchain technology company that provides trade document digitization and liquidity solutions for traders to allows borrowers to raise capital with the trade documents. |  | Seed | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Havona Technology | Havona Technology is a post-trade platform designed initially for participants within the US$5 trillion global commodities services market. Its platform facilitates fully end-to-end digital trade from T+0 through to settlement. The principle product empowers principal parties, their counterparts and collaborators, including financial institutions,to exchange legally compliant, cryptographically secure electronic transferable records from T+0 through to trade settlement. Made by traders for traders, to derisk complexities of post-trade transactions, especially for physical, soft commodity trades. | $237.4K | Pre-Seed | Oct 28, 2024 |  |
| Octet | Octet is an innovative Financial Technology Business specialising in implementing SCF and Banking Platforms to some of the worlds largest FIs and Banks. Octet Also is a major Financier of SMEs within the Asia Pacific region, providing Trade, receivable and Supply Chain finance to over 4000 SMEs within the region, paying over 30,000 registeredSellers in Octet Network. |  | Seed | Dec 31, 2018 |  |
| RM Tech | RM Tech is a Financial technology company. |  | Series A | Dec 11, 2018 |  |
| Joy Rich Ventures | Joy Rich Ventures is an operating securities company. The investment products provide a compliant investment platform for customers to obtain investment returns. They include legal, banking, business development, securities trading, project investment, and real estate development. The balance between risk and return for customers and investorsthrough internal risk control measures. |  | Seed | Nov 12, 2018 |  |
| Orbitt | Rethinking how investment professionals transact in AfricaOrbitt is an Africa-focused deal origination and processing platform. We help our clients to connect with investors, businesses and intermediaries across Africa’s trade and investment ecosystem.Digitising deal origination, capital raise and business development strategy. By doing this wehelp all our clients to save time, increase their reach and develop new business leads at a fraction of the current business development and origination cost. |  | Seed | Sep 05, 2018 |  |
| Lucidity Digital | Lucidity Digital primarily engages in trade finance solutions. |  | Seed | Jul 12, 2018 |  |
| Incomlend | Incomlend is an alternative trade finance platform delivering factoring and supply chain finance solutions to companies worldwide. Incomlend works as a marketplace, where businesses can optimize their working capital by tapping into a pool of private institutional investors. Once a company is onboarded, it can be funded within 48hrs aftersubmitting an invoice finance application. All the trades on the platform are protected by Credit Insurance, which alleviates the payment worries for the sellers and protects capital of the investors. As a result, businesses get early cash flow on their invoices while investors profit from the invoice discount. The platform is powered by a proprietary technology for risk underwriting, fund matching and transaction processing. |  | Seed | Mar 13, 2018 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gumi-cryptos) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does GTR Ventures invest in?

GTR Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Supply Chain Management startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact GTR Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at GTR Ventures?

The team at GTR Ventures includes Rupert Sayer (Co-founder & CEO), Kelvin Tan (CO-FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN OF INVESTMENT COMMITTEE OF GTR VENTURES) and Peter Gubbins (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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