# Justin Nguyen

> Justin Nguyen is a seed investor at Monk’s Hill Ventures backing Comics and EdTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Monk’s Hill Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/monk-s-hill-ventures)
- Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinnguyen/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/justin_t_nguyen
- Website: https://www.monkshill.com/team-members/justin-nguyen

Justin Nguyen is a seed investor at Monk’s Hill Ventures in Ho Chi Minh City focused on Comics and EdTech. Justin is a Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a leading early-stage tech venture capital firm in Southeast Asia. He has over two decades of experience in Silicon Valley and in Asia as a founder, entrepreneur, and engineer of early-stage tech startups and global tech companies. Based in Vietnam, he has strong expertise in building world-class teams,fundraising, and operations.In his career so far, he has helped his startups grow from zero revenue to more than US$50M in revenue before its exits. He has also built and led world-class engineering teams, recruiting from the likes of Google, Alibaba and eBay. He has helped raise over US$80 million across 10 rounds of financing for three start-ups in Silicon Valley, Shanghai and Vietnam.Prior to MHV, he founded one of Asia’s leading game supplier Aspect Gaming, which raised more than US$18 million in funding. Before that, Justin was the China CEO of StarCite, which he helped transform from a dotcom consumer play into a thriving enterprise SaaS company, growing from zero to more than $50 million in revenue.In his early career, Justin led a team of engineers at Silicon Gaming and served as the founding software engineer of Maximum Information, one of the earliest Internet acquisitions in that era. Justin studied engineering at the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo. He is also a proud SEA turtle and foodie.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Comics | 1 | 13% |
| EdTech | 1 | 13% |
| Content | 1 | 13% |
| Insurance | 1 | 13% |
| Automotive | 1 | 13% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vietnam | 2 | 25% |
| Singapore | 2 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Saladin | Saladin is an online platform that provides life, health, automotive, and travel insurance services. |  | Series A | Dec 12, 2025 |  |
| Vucar | Vucar.vn is a buyer-focused online used car consignment platform. All of our listings are pre-verified legally. We provide end-to-end services for both sellers and buyers to ensure a fast and hassle-free experience. Currently, the hassle-full process and car quality uncertainty make it painful for 65% of people to buy used cars in Vietnam. |  | Seed | Sep 01, 2024 |  |
| Saladin | Saladin is an online platform that provides life, health, automotive, and travel insurance services. | $2.4M | Seed | Sep 08, 2023 |  |
| INKR | INKR is a digital comics platform that allows comics publishers and creators to make comic content available to the readers. | $3.1M | Seed | Jul 29, 2021 |  |
| UIlicious | UI-licious is a test automation solution the helps online businesses continuously test their user journeys and detect errors in their app with minimal effort. Software teams struggle to automate UI testing using traditional tools with tests that difficult to keep up to date with rapid changes to the UI because the tests are wired to the UIimplementation. With our patented ambiguity resolution test engine, tests can be written using simple instructions to describe a user journey that can be written by a non-engineer, and works on any UI implementation. It takes minutes instead of hours to setup continuous testing with our integrated solution. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| Elsa | ELSA is the most comprehensive, AI-powered English learning platform. ELSA now includes an AI Tutor, the most human-like experience in providing gen AI real-time conversations and in-depth feedback. ELSA also includes speaking lessons with personalized learning paths, test and interview preparation, as well as our Speech Analyzer feature thatallows learners to record and receive a full performance assessment report and tutorial plan | $15M | Series B | Jan 11, 2021 |  |
| Elsa | ELSA is the most comprehensive, AI-powered English learning platform. ELSA now includes an AI Tutor, the most human-like experience in providing gen AI real-time conversations and in-depth feedback. ELSA also includes speaking lessons with personalized learning paths, test and interview preparation, as well as our Speech Analyzer feature thatallows learners to record and receive a full performance assessment report and tutorial plan |  | Series A |  |  |
| Elsa | ELSA is the most comprehensive, AI-powered English learning platform. ELSA now includes an AI Tutor, the most human-like experience in providing gen AI real-time conversations and in-depth feedback. ELSA also includes speaking lessons with personalized learning paths, test and interview preparation, as well as our Speech Analyzer feature thatallows learners to record and receive a full performance assessment report and tutorial plan | $23M | Series C |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Peak XV Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-india-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Vietnam Investments Groups](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vietnam-investments-groups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Endeavor Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor-catalyst) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Globant Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/globant-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Monk’s Hill Ventures

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

Founded in 2014 by entrepreneurs Peng T. Ong and Kuo-Yi Lim, Monk’s Hill Ventures (‘MHV’) is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology startups in Southeast Asia. Backed by institutional investors and family offices worldwide, MHV works with great entrepreneurs to use technology to improve the lives of millions of people in theregion.We take a first-principles approach in how we operate and make decisions at MHV. We break down ideas and business models to understand the fundamentals. Since our founding in 2014, Monk’s Hill Ventures has invested in more than 20 fast-growing startups spanning multiple business models and industry verticals. We look to work with founders in the early stages of the development of their businesses, and typically invest at the Series A stage. We are entrepreneurs backing entrepreneurs. This runs in our DNA. With the utmost respect for the founder, the firm is led by entrepreneurs and operators, CEOs, and CTOs of successful tech companies both in Asia and in Silicon Valley.Our footprint spans across Southeast Asia with on-the-ground teams in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand. Our network comprises entrepreneurs, investors, former CEOs, engineers, academics, media and a team of operating advisors with strong domain expertise from cybersecurity, data science, financial services, to healthcare, to provide our founders with the right access and advice as they scale and build.

5 contacts available at Monk’s Hill Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Peng T. Ong | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peng-t-ong |
| Ali Darwish | Head of Corporate Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ali-darwish |
| Aswin Andrison | Venture Scout | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aswin-andrison |
| Justin Nguyen | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-nguyen-4 |
| Kuo-Yi Lim | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kuo-yi-lim |

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## FAQ

### What does Justin Nguyen invest in?

Justin Nguyen invests primarily in Comics, EdTech and Content startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Vietnam. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Justin Nguyen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Justin Nguyen closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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?

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