# ICE71

> ICE71 is a VC fund in Singapore backing Security and Cyber Security. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ice71/
- Website: https://x.com/ICE71_
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ICE71-1988727194782918

ICE71 is a VC fund in Singapore focused on Security and Cyber Security. ICE71 ‘Innovation Cybersecurity Ecosystem at Block71’ is the region’s first cybersecurity entrepreneur hub. Founded by Singtel Innov8, the corporate venture capital unit of Singtel, and the National University of Singapore (NUS), through its entrepreneurial arm NUS Enterprise, we aim to strengthen Singapore’s growing cybersecurity ecosystem byattracting and developing competencies and deep technologies to help mitigate the rapidly increasing cybersecurity risks in the region.Supported by the CSA and the IMDA, we are Singapore’s first integrated cybersecurity entrepreneur hub, supporting and developing early and growth stage cybersecurity entrepreneurs and startups from around the world.We run a range of programmes designed to support cybersecurity individuals and startups from idea development to the creation, acceleration and scaling of cybersecurity startups. In addition, through our ICE71 community we will provide startups with go-to-market access, introductions to corporates and channel partners.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Security | 5 | 83% |
| Cyber Security | 4 | 67% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 67% |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| Network Security | 2 | 33% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 3 | 50% |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 3 | 50% |
| Vietnam | 2 | 33% |
| Australia | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ashish Thapar | Lead Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashish-thapar |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aversafe | Aversafe provides decentralized credential issuance and verification services to jobseekers, employers, and educational institutions around the world.Aversafe combats credential fraud by providing decentralized credential issuance and verification services to jobseekers, employers and educational institutions around the world. The company'smission is to improve trust, lower costs, speed up hiring and enable more efficient capital use for everyone on its network. |  | Seed | May 09, 2019 | https://x.com/aversafehq |
| 689Cloud | 689Cloud is a cloud-based platform and customized solution that makes simplify secured file sharing and collaboration on Cloud for internal and external business. Unlike other cloud services 689Cloud protects documents in transit, at rest and at work with Information Right Management technology to allow business owner end-to-end control documenteven after they have been shared, downloaded; such as controlling who is open, print, copy, edit or revoke access to documents every time, everywhere.689Cloud helps businesses to increase 100% security for sharing confidential information with client/partner and reduces 50% time spent communicating and collaborating on business works. |  | Seed | May 09, 2019 | http://www.689cloud.com |
| Secucial | Secucial is an information technology company that provides a digital identity wallet based on a distributed ledger and private blockchain network technologies. It features a mobile application that links a users’ physical identity with their digital identities and enables the users with complete control over personal data.Secucial was founded in2018 and headquartered in Singapore. |  |  | Jul 01, 2018 | https://x.com/secucial |
| Cloudpurge | Cloudpurge allows the user to protect themselves from the cyber dangers on the Internet.The company builts a platform to protect Enterprise and individual users from the growing risk of Cyber Breach initiated through Web interaction. Cloudpurge was founded in March 2016 with a mission to protect individuals and businesses from the growing threatof malicious Internet activity. For SMB's do not have the same resources large enterprises have to combat cyber security's ever-evolving threat landscape. We believe our solution can reduce the risk to these businesses by 80% by simply ensuring untrusted browser, email and document content is not executed on local machines thus allowing all to 'Click With No Fear'. |  |  | Jul 01, 2018 | https://www.cloudpurge.info/ |
| SocView | SocView is an integrated security operations platform that manages multiple security processes within one centralized console. SocView offers technology agnostic, centralized alerts, and automated ticket opening. Its platform features a security operations center and Vulnerability Remediation Management. |  |  | Jul 01, 2018 | https://x.com/socviewsolution |
| Apvera | Apvera is an information technology and services company that offers cybersecurity services for businesses, firms, and companies. It offers a software platform that provides insights for its clients to monitor the data flow within their own company. Apvera specializes in security, machine learning, data analytics, big data, and behavioral analysisThe company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Singapore.. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 01, 2018 | https://www.apvera.com/ |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CyLon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cylon) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does ICE71 invest in?

ICE71 invests primarily in Security, Cyber Security and Information Technology startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 6 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 ICE71?

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### Who are the partners at ICE71?

The team at ICE71 includes Ashish Thapar (Lead Mentor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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