# Phillip Private Equity

> Phillip Private Equity is a VC fund backing Hospitality. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 18%
- Fund size: $50M
- Last fund: Jan 2005
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/philipprivateequity
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/phillipcapital
- Website: http://phillipprivateequity.com/en/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phillipcapital/

Phillip Private Equity is a VC fund in Singapore focused on Hospitality and Financial Services. Phillip Private Equity Pte Ltd is one of the leading private equity firms in Singapore. They manage 3 funds with over S$450 million in committed capital. They provide capital in the form of equity and debt, to innovative enterprises across select stages, sectors and geographies. They work closely with Their investee companies to accelerate theirgrowth and help them achieve their potential. Their goal is to create businesses with lasting and significant value.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.8M–$15M |
| Series B | $3M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hospitality | 3 | 27% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 27% |
| FinTech | 2 | 18% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 18% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 55% |
| Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Series B | 2 | 18% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 8 | 73% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Koo | VP | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-koo |
| Grace Tang | Director | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grace-tang-2 |
| Patrick Yang | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-yang-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Surfin | Surfin is a financial services company that offers wealth management and risk management tools through fintech applications. | $14M | Series A | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| Capital C Corporation | Capital C Corporation is a Singapore-based financial services provider. Capital C Corporation capitalises on fintech and the best emerging technologies in the market to provide financial services to the under-served in Singapore. |  | Seed | Nov 05, 2024 |  |
| Lendela | Founded in 2018, Lendela is a fast-growing fintech on a mission to simplify financing and enable greater financial access. The platform matches borrowers with personalised loan offers through one simple application, empowering borrowers with choice and transparency while offering an alternative to the cumbersome and opaque traditional lendinglandscape. Since its inception, Lendela has enabled over 300,000 consumers with the clarity and confidence to make informed financial decisions alongside more than 100 lending partners. In 2023, Lendela successfully raised US$5M in an oversubscribed Series A to scale its unique model across Asia Pacific. The company’s backers include Singlife co-founder Walter de Oude’s Chocolate Ventures as well as prominent Singapore-based VC firm Cocoon Capital. Lendela currently serves customers in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia. | $5M | Series A | Nov 23, 2023 |  |
| Aigens | Aigens is a tech start-up that has helped steer the digital revolution of the F&B and Hospitality industry in Asia Pacific. The company led the way with mobile ordering and popularized scan-to-order long before Covid-19 triggered the mainstream adoption of their use.Founded in 2012 by Hans Paul (CEO) and Peter Liu (CTO), Aigens has grown intoa SaaS company known for being a market leader with significant wins, essentially being the first to introduce BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) QR code ordering technology to Hong Kong and Singapore.Headquartered in Hong Kong, Aigens serves more than 500 brands in F&B and Hospitality, including global names like KFC, Burger King, Starbucks, and IKEA. In the last three years, the company experienced its most significant growth, resulting in 6 regional offices and 120 team members. | $14M | Series A | Dec 05, 2022 |  |
| Big Tiny | Founded in March 2017, Big Tiny is the first company in Singapore to integrate the concept of “tiny houses” with eco-tourism. We are based in Singapore and the company has a presence in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines and Australia. Big Tiny leverages on our prefabricated panels to build and assemble tiny houses within a short span of 3hours. “Tiny houses” are part of an international trend of simplifying lives by reducing the size, and therefore the resource consumption, of homes without sacrificing quality of life. Big Tiny takes the movement one step further by placing its beautifully designed compact homes on wheels in spectacular rural settings. The intent – to amplify the benefits of the “tiny house” movement by pairing the advantages of a thoughtfully efficient abode with the recharging potential of an intimate connection with Mother Nature. | $3M | Seed | Nov 30, 2021 |  |
| Clozette Group | With a network of 6.4 million tastemakers in Asia, we enable brands to engage the new-age consumer via Content, Community and Commerce.In the past decade, Clozette has been recognised with awards from Emerging Enterprise, Red Herring Global and Marketing Magazine, amongst others. We are a diverse team of digital strategists, storytellers andstyle advocates who consume way too much coffee. Always up for a good conversation: info@clozette.co For more details, check out https://clozettegroup.co/ | $10M | Series C | Apr 09, 2019 |  |
| Igloohome | Igloohome manufactures security locks for residential and commercial purposes. It helps people to manage homes and properties through technologies. Igloohome offers igloohome Smart Keybox, a solution for short-term rental hosts and home or property owners; Smart Padlock, a remotely-managed security solution that provides owners with convenientaccess control to their properties and assets; and Igloohome mobile app, which allows the user to pair and manage various locks in various home listings, perform Bluetooth unlock and easy unlock, generate and manage one-time and duration PIN codes, change master PIN code, and check lock battery status. Its igloohome Smart Keybox opens with PIN code and Bluetooth. Igloohome sells its products through resellers and online. Anthony Chow, Kelvin Jo, and Sharon Goh founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Singapore. | $4M | Series A | Feb 23, 2018 |  |
| ViSenze | ViSenze is an artificial intelligence startup that develops advanced visual search and image recognition solutions to help businesses in eCommerce, mCommerce and online advertising.Using R&D in machine learning and computer vision technology, ViSenze can recommend visually similar items to online shoppers, either on e-commerce platforms whenthey browse or search by uploading a picture or on content publishers platforms like social media and video networks.The company is a spin-off from NExT, a leading research center jointly established between National University of Singapore and Tsinghua University of China. ViSenze is invested by Rakuten Ventures, Walden International and UOB Venture Management. | $10.5M | Series B | Sep 16, 2016 |  |
| TabSquare | TabSquare provides AI-Powered 'Smart' In-Restaurant solutions to the F&B industry that leverage rich consumer data and deep learning algorithms to provide an engaging dining experience for restaurants’ diners and helps to double restaurants’ profitability. TabSquare’s solutions currently collect over 30 million customer interactiondata points on a monthly basis. With a unique data-driven approach to restaurant management and customer engagement, TabSquare helps partner restaurants drive higher sales, streamline operations, and provide a better customer experience. A Market Leader in Singapore with customers in Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand. TabSquare currently has 6000 active terminals in the region, serving over 12 million diners annually. Clients include well-known F&B brands such as Minor Food Group, Sushi Tei, Paradise Food Group, Japan Foods Holding, Zingrill Holdings, Chili’s, Strike Bowling, Old Town White Coffee, and PappaRich. | $2.8M | Series A | May 23, 2016 |  |
| Clozette Group | With a network of 6.4 million tastemakers in Asia, we enable brands to engage the new-age consumer via Content, Community and Commerce.In the past decade, Clozette has been recognised with awards from Emerging Enterprise, Red Herring Global and Marketing Magazine, amongst others. We are a diverse team of digital strategists, storytellers andstyle advocates who consume way too much coffee. Always up for a good conversation: info@clozette.co For more details, check out https://clozettegroup.co/ | $3M | Series B | Nov 24, 2013 |  |

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## FAQ

### What does Phillip Private Equity invest in?

Phillip Private Equity invests primarily in Hospitality, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Phillip Private Equity's check size?

Phillip Private Equity typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$15M at Series A and $3M–$11M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Phillip Private Equity participates in.

### How do I contact Phillip Private Equity?

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### Who are the partners at Phillip Private Equity?

The team at Phillip Private Equity includes Alex Koo (VP), Grace Tang (Director) and Patrick Yang (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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