John Chang
General Partner @ Access Ventures
John Chang is a General Partner and co-founder of Access Ventures LLC. Aside from managing the fund's day-to-day operations, he serves on the investment committee and also focuses on marketing the fund's activities. Prior to co-founding Access Ventures in 2017, John spent 25 years in international finance participating and overseeing theexpansion of global investment banks in Asia Pacific region. John's most recent position was as APAC Co-Head of Equities and Head of Distribution for Barclays Capital Asia Limited. In this role, he was responsible for the management and strategic development of the firm's research, sales and trading divisions for the investment bank in the APAC region. He also served on the Global Equities Executive Committee and was the Chairman for Barclays Capital Taiwan Limited. Before his days at Barclays, John was the Country Head for Barclays Capital Korea Ltd and was also responsible for establishing the Korea operations. Prior to Barclays, John was the CEO of Deutsche Securities Korea and also the head of their Korean Equities business. John was born in Seoul, South Korea but was raised in the US and Canada since the age of four. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Duke University in 1991 and currently resides in Hong Kong with his wife and two children.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 39%
Last updated:
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Industries John Chang invests in
Stages John Chang invests in
Countries John Chang invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (22%)
- SaaS 3 (17%)
- Information Technology 3 (17%)
- Apps 2 (11%)
- Mobile 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (33%)
- Funding Round 4 (22%)
- Series A 3 (17%)
- Series B 3 (17%)
- Series C 1 (6%)
Country
- Vietnam 5 (28%)
- South Korea 5 (28%)
- Singapore 3 (17%)
- Indonesia 1 (6%)
- United States 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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PeopleFund
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Founded in 2015, PeopleFund is Korea's leading data-driven digital lender focused on consumer finance. Our mission is to give financial freedom to all consumers through more affordable loans and better investment opportunities. Leveraging its proprietary, data-driven credit model and eliminating inefficiencies with technology, PeopleFunddelivers better loan rates for borrowers while maintaining an industry low loss rate to benefit retail and institutional investors. PeopleFund is the first digital lender in Korea to surpass $1B in loan originations and has provided an innovative way to invest to nearly 400,000 retail investors. It is notably the first fintech platform to offer loan and investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea's equivalent of WhatsApp. To date, PeopleFund has completed its Series C round of funding with a total of $63.4M of equity capital raised. For more information, visit www.peoplefund.co.kr. | $20M / Series C / Jan 17, 2023 | |
VeXeRe.Com
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Founded in 2013, VeXeRe.com is the largest online bus ticket platform in Vietnam. They help passengers book bus tickets conveniently thanks to their 1,000+ bus companies network and coverage for trips within Vietnam and from Vietnam to neighbor countries. Their payment channels include online payment, payment at 24/7 convenience stores, banktransfers, and other channels that provide customers with convenient booking experience. | Dec 25, 2019 | |
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PeopleFund
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Founded in 2015, PeopleFund is Korea's leading data-driven digital lender focused on consumer finance. Our mission is to give financial freedom to all consumers through more affordable loans and better investment opportunities. Leveraging its proprietary, data-driven credit model and eliminating inefficiencies with technology, PeopleFunddelivers better loan rates for borrowers while maintaining an industry low loss rate to benefit retail and institutional investors. PeopleFund is the first digital lender in Korea to surpass $1B in loan originations and has provided an innovative way to invest to nearly 400,000 retail investors. It is notably the first fintech platform to offer loan and investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea's equivalent of WhatsApp. To date, PeopleFund has completed its Series C round of funding with a total of $63.4M of equity capital raised. For more information, visit www.peoplefund.co.kr. | $6.3M / Series B / Jun 13, 2019 | |
Perx Technologies
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Perx Technologies, a category creating Lifestyle Marketing SaaS solution provider, refounded in 2016 and launched in 2017, is redefining how enterprises engage, monetize and reward their ecosystem in the mobile first economy. Perx helps businesses transform from transient and transactional brands to building meaningful relationships with theirconsumers, partners, and merchants. Businesses can monetize on customer actions by creating personalized, gamified/interactive digital experiences that provide an instantly gratifying experience while driving topline growth. Perx is also a rich ecosystem enabler allowing enterprises to innovate outside of core and create lifestyle ecosystems/partnerships to drive net new business models and revenue streams. Businesses must learn to leverage their core to cross-sell/up-sell to various strategic/lifestyle partnerships to bring value add to their business partners and consumers. | $5M / Series B / Mar 26, 2019 | |
Andalin
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Andalin is an online marketplace for freight forwarders in the first export and import activities in Indonesia. The products we provide related to export and import activities are shipping goods by air, namely Air Courier and Air Cargo, as well as shipping goods by sea, namely Full Container Load and Less Container Load. Andalin has been trustedby several companies and has been assessed as being able to help them overcome various difficulties while undergoing the export and import process. | $500K / Series A / Feb 11, 2019 | |
ABIVIN
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ABIVIN provides AI-powered supply chain optimization solutions for enterprises. They provides an all-in-one solution for WMS and TMS with specialization on Inventory Route Optimization and Machine Learning. | Seed / Jan 01, 2019 | |
KooBits
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KooBits is a software firm focusing on interactive digital publishing. Founded in 2009, it is the developer behind the KooBits 4.0 ebook reader and organizer software.KooBits 4.0 lets users import and organize their computer's ebook collection in addition to titles purchased from within KooBits' Bookstore. The traditional bookshelfdesign and functions such as bookmarking, highlighting, and scrapbooking are reminiscent of real books, and enhance the reading experience for static ebooks.KooBits is producing an array of enhanced interactive ebooks in partnership with leading book distributors, including Tien Wah Press and graphic novel publisher Papercutz. The startup's goal is to make interactive ebooks widely available through KooBits 4.0, which is free to use. | $1.5M / Dec 01, 2018 | |
Common Computer
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Common Computer is building a global backend infrastructure that transforms millions of open-source projects into live services (a.k.a. Open Resource). Through this novel infrastructure, microservices developed by individual developers can be instantly integrated into the network of computers.Common Computer proposes "Open Resource" asthe next evolutionary milestone of Stallman's initial Open Source initiative. Open Resource starts by decoupling the role of developers from the role of resource providers. Developers should be able to upload their programs on the open network freely, and resource providers should only be concerned with operating the program and sharing the revenue to both sides in return, even to open-source developers.AI Network blockchain will serve as a bridge between the program and the resource, offering a stable utility and also monetizing open-source solutions. In addition, Ainize® is a serverless cloud platform, which supports the project AI Network as a “launchpad”. Ainize is not merely designed for blockchianers, but for whom interested in open source and microservices.To further understand our vision and service, please refer to the following sites.• AI Network : http://www.ainetwork.ai • Ainize® : http://www.ainize.ai | $290K / Seed / Dec 01, 2018 | |
ZUZU Hospitality
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ZUZU Hospitality is chain for independent hotels, delivering revenue growth through distribution and revenue management.As such, we are the indisputable primary partner to hoteliers in driving revenue. Acting as their hotel operating system, we power their back office revenue generation business operations, allowing them to focus on being greathoteliers. | $3.7M / Series A / Sep 19, 2018 | |
EcoTruck
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EcoTruck is a tech startup in logistics. Their platform aims to bring efficiency to a very outdated industry by providing cutting-edge technologies with data to streamline operations and save costs for both merchants and vendors | $1.7M / Seed / Sep 18, 2018 | |
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Co-Investors
CLSA Capital Partners
2 deals together
D3 Jubilee
2 deals together
Golden Gate Ventures
2 deals together
LINE Ventures
2 deals together
NCore Ventures
2 deals together
500 Global
1 deal together
About Access Ventures
Access Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on early stage technology companies in Vietnam, Indonesia and Korea. They provide strategic expertise to their founders and access to their unique network of executives and technology professionals. Leveraging their robust network of strategic investors, they also focus their attention on creatingand executing sound exit strategies.
Access Ventures Contacts
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Charles Rim
General Partner
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John Chang
General Partner
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Daniel Song
Senior Associate
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Josh Yongmin Jung
Senior Associate
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Long Leo Pham
Associate
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FAQ
What does John Chang invest in?
John Chang invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Vietnam. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did John Chang last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for John Chang closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 18 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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