# Jia Chai

> Jia Chai is a seed investor at Rainforest Life backing Artificial Intelligence. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Rainforest Life](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rainforest-life)
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjchai/?originalSubdomain=sg
- Website: https://x.com/jjchai

Jia Chai is a seed investor at Rainforest Life focused on Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology. Jia Jih Chai is the CEO & co-founder at Rainforest. He attended National University of Singapore.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$2.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $260k–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 40% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 20% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |
| Software | 2 | 13% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 47% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 33% |
| Angel | 2 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 8 | 53% |
| Thailand | 2 | 13% |
| Indonesia | 2 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Akro AI | Akro AI develops platforms that automate document-heavy data workflows. The company deploys a network of proprietary specialized models instead of a single general-purpose system to process handwritten forms, scanned files, and unstructured enterprise records at a lower cost. Its value proposition is anchored on total data sovereignty, allowinghighly regulated enterprises to securely run end-to-end data extraction, analysis, and conversational knowledge layers entirely within their own infrastructure. | $700K | Pre-Seed | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| The Wild Ventures | The Wild Ventures creates brands for a wild world by concentrating on high engagement categories where brands are important, businesses are positioned for success through unfair advantages, and markets are ready for disruption. | $750K | Angel | Apr 03, 2025 |  |
| HeyMax | Heymax.ai gives you a free trip every year by rewarding you with Max Miles. Heymax.ai doubles your favorite miles! heymax helps you find the best credit card to use anywhere you shop, and double dip to earn your preferred loyalty points and miles at 20+ airlines and hotels by shopping with our partners like Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Apple,Trip.com, Singapore Airlines and so many more.For businesses, heymax.ai is a simple and efficient way to convert high-spending customers who like rewards on their terms. | $2.6M | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| NodeFlair | Career Transparency for the Tech Community (think Glassdoor for Tech Talents)NodeFlair's vision is to be a career recommendation engine for the 25M tech talents globally. We aim to help companies hire the best tech talents with our recruitment products and services.Today, >20% of Tech talents in Singapore make better career decisionsusing our verified career data. We are best known for our payslip-verified salary data. | $2M | Series A | Jul 06, 2023 |  |
| Needle | We believe in a world where every visionary can defy the odds. Needle, founded by seasoned e-commerce entrepreneurs and operators, is an end-to-end AI marketer for founders of rising brands. It starts with identifying business and marketing priorities. It then provides personalized recommendations for effective tactics and helps execute theserecommendations. From creating email marketing outreach to preparing and launching ad campaigns, Needle helps brands take action quicker using generative AI. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Jul 05, 2023 |  |
| Mito Health | Mito Health is an AI-powered medical healthtech that provides technological advances to revolutionize the future of personalized preventative care. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 18, 2023 |  |
| Evo | Social Commerce Software | $2M | Seed | Jan 05, 2023 |  |
| Aigis | Aigis provide full stack comprehensive employee health benefits in one easy-to-manage platform. | $1M | Seed | May 12, 2022 |  |
| KitaLulus | KitaLulus provides and offers employment opportunities for each individual through access to community education and technology. It assists users to take relevant courses and build professional networks before applying for jobs in its app. KitaLulus was founded in 2021 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia. |  | Seed | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| PropertyScout | PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia. |  | Seed | Jan 11, 2022 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Iterative](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iterative-capital-e970) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Swiss Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swiss-founders-fund-ag) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [33 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/33-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Rainforest Life

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

Rainforest buys e-commerce brands and grows them with a focus on long-term success. They believe that being part of Rainforest improves the brands’ longevity, financial returns, and sustainability outcomes.

5 contacts available at Rainforest Life.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Bradshaw | Acquisition Specialist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-bradshaw-2 |
| Christine Ng | VP of Brands | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christine-ng |
| Jason Tan | CFO and Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-tan-a8e7 |
| Jia Chai | CEO & co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jj-chai |
| J.J. Chai | CEO & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-j-chai |

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## FAQ

### What does Jia Chai invest in?

Jia Chai invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and SaaS 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.

### What is Jia Chai's check size?

Jia Chai typically joins rounds of $1M–$2.6M at Seed and $260k–$1.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jia Chai participates in.

### When did Jia Chai last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jia Chai closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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