MSA Novo
VC Fund
Singapore, Singapore
MSA Novo is a VC fund in Singapore focused on Financial Services and E-Commerce. MSA Novo is one of the only global, institutional funds investing systematically across ETMs. Our portfolio includes 50+ companies across 14 different countries in LATAM, Africa, MENA and India, in companies like NuBank (NYSE:NU), Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR), Uber (NYSE: UBER), Boss Zhipin (NASDAQ:BZ), NIO (NASDAQ: NIO), Klarna, Swvl, Gorillas and manymore
- Total investments:
- 64
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Industries MSA Novo invests in
Stages MSA Novo invests in
Countries MSA Novo invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$11M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.5M–$6.5M
- Series A
- $6.6M–$32M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 15 (23%)
- E-Commerce 12 (19%)
- FinTech 11 (17%)
- Payments 7 (11%)
- Internet 6 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 23 (36%)
- Pre-Seed 13 (20%)
- Series A 9 (14%)
- Series B 6 (9%)
- Series C 3 (5%)
Country
- Egypt 7 (11%)
- India 5 (8%)
- Pakistan 4 (6%)
- United Arab Emirates 4 (6%)
- Nigeria 3 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Prakhar Khanduja
Investor
|
Investor | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Ben Harburg
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 25 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Tap Protocol
|
Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system. | $4.2M / Seed / Dec 16, 2023 | |
| Kaso is an all-in-one AI-powered platform and growth suite for the foodservice industry. It's digital procurement and ordering platform uses data-driven tools and AI-powered automation to connect restaurants with suppliers - streamlining orders, reducing errors and food waste, and enabling smarter, more sustainable supply chains. | $10.5M / Seed / Jul 12, 2023 | ||
| Fintech company that provides Gold loan | $3M / Seed / Mar 15, 2023 | ||
| Zid is an e-commerce in a box - solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail. Zid helps them to build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with the supply chain players to enable them to manage and with ease. The company aims to enable the retail sector to enter the world of electronic retail in aneasy and professional.Zid was founded in 2017 and based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia. | $50M / Series B / Oct 17, 2022 | ||
| Tamatem is a mobile games publisher in the MENA market. The company partners with international studios and developers, take their games, localizes them, and makes them culturally relevant for the Arabic gamer. It focuses on publishing MMO-RPG, strategy, and card games. Their experience in localization, user acquisition, distribution,cross-promotion, monetization, user acquisition, and whales management can help get your game on the top of the charts, increase revenue and ensure its success in the Arabic market.Tamatem has published 40 games that have achieved more than 50 million downloads, in its HQ in Amman, Jordan which currently has 26 employees. | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 14, 2022 | ||
| Brazilian fintech founded in 2019 with the purpose of transforming the reality of micro and small entrepreneurs. Our mission is to help millions of Brazilians thrive by driving their businesses forward through agile and accessible financial solutions. We were pioneers in using PIX as a credit and payment platform, launching our solution in 2022.Today we process over R$2.7 billion in transactions per year, demonstrating the exponential growth of our business. Recently we reached breakeven, a milestone that highlights the strength of our business model. | $16.7M / Series A / Jun 08, 2022 | ||
| We build tools that allows enterprises verify information about a user *before* processing it - whether it is processed by a human or an AI agent.Traditionally, these verifications including but not limited to background checks cost ~$10. Using our advancements in AI and Cryptography, we're able to send that cost to a few cents. Thisenables enterprises to do verification at scale, earlier in their work-flows, and enables new kinds of businesses - which were not performing these verifications because of prohibitively high costs.For example, it makes no sense that a recruiter does a candidate's document verification and background checks AFTER the candidate has cleared all the interviews. That's because that verification is cumbersome and expensive. They can't afford to verify all the candidates at the top of the funnel. Many such workflows are ripe for disruption. Another example of a product that was not possible before. A dating app uses our tools to verify the users' information - including their employment, education and financial background. This was something that would have been too expensive to verify at a $10 pricepoint where the ARPU is only $8. Not only that, we're designing the tools ground up - so that AI agents can utilize these verifications before ingesting information, so that they take action basis truthful information.We have 3 tools1. BlueCheck : our flagship product for background verification. The cheapest option to verify users' employment, education and financial background. A few cents instead of a few tens of dollars. Several Billion Dollar+ revenue companies are customers. A solution designed for enterprises that works out of the box!2. Reclaim Protocol : our underlying infrastructure that makes BlueCheck possible. With advancements in cryptography, specifically zero knowledge proofs - our research over the last 3 years have resulted in inventing a new cryptographic primitive called zkTLS, which allows us to verify information from any website using the cryptography of the existing internet pipes (TLS). This is our secret sauce!3. Questbook : our dog-fooding tool. Questbook is a tool to give out research and open source software development grants. These grants are reviewed by AI agents that we built inhouse. The biggest scam people try is to fake who they are when they are applying for grants. We dog-food our own tools to make sure we verify all the claims the users are making when they apply for grants. Our tools secure more than $10M of grants being given out on the platform. So it's high stakes, and it works! | $8.3M / Series A / May 18, 2022 | ||
| Xepelin is a fintech company that offers a SaaS platform for small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America that can organize their financial information in real-time. It seeks to simplify access to capital for its clients by creating a Simple, Fast, and Safe experience. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Las Condes, Chile. | $111M / Series B / May 02, 2022 | ||
| AppsForBharat is a product studio focused on building apps for spiritual and devotional needs of Indian users. | $9M / Secondary Market / Apr 04, 2022 | ||
| Finblox is the alternative crypto investment and savings account. | $4M / Seed / Mar 15, 2022 | ||
| See all 64 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does MSA Novo invest in?
MSA Novo invests primarily in Financial Services, E-Commerce and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 64 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Egypt. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does MSA Novo invest in?
MSA Novo typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$11M at Seed, $1.5M–$6.5M at Pre-Seed and $6.6M–$32M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not MSA Novo's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds MSA Novo took part in.
How do I contact MSA Novo?
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Who are the partners at MSA Novo?
The team at MSA Novo includes Prakhar Khanduja (Investor) and Ben Harburg (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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