# Startup-O

> Startup-O is a VC fund in Singapore backing Software and Finance. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/13195239/
- Website: http://www.startup-o.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoinStartupO/

Startup-O is a global venture platform for startup assessments, investments & cross-border scaling. It is well recognized for its 'Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs' ethos, data-driven startup assessments, and venture scaling networks for 'post revenue' startups. Established in 2016, Startup-O is trusted by 2000+ startupsfrom 40+ countries by mid-2021. A proprietary methodology combining experts-led online evaluations and ranking algorithms determines top-rated tech opportunities. This provides deserving founders access to associated venture funds and global partner networks spread across 15 countries that help build the startup venture collaboratively. 24 companies on the platform have raised seed to pre-series A size funds successfully, while another 20+ companies are engaged with cross-border venture scaling and scores of other startups have benefitted from the community resources. Startup-O has also partnered with Enterprise Singapore to enable 17 first-time founders with SG Founder grant and has helped commercialize the deep tech company incubated as a partner with Deep Tech institution A*Star Accelerate. It has established its presence with AseanLabs in Japan in May 2021.In 2019, its awarded the No.1 slot in Asia for its outstanding contribution to building the startup ecosystem in a contest among 247 participants including leading VCs, incubators, accelerators, and corporate innovation entities.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $150k–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 28% |
| Finance | 5 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 20% |
| FinTech | 4 | 16% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 16% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 68% |
| Series A | 4 | 16% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 11 | 44% |
| India | 7 | 28% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nitin Nath | Co-Founder and CEO Startup-O Ventures | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nitin-nath |
| Saurav Sen | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saurav-sen-d543 |
| Aniruddha Ganguly | Entrepreneur in Residence | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aniruddha-ganguly |
| Anuj Jain | Co-Founder and Group CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anuj-jain-3 |
| Francis Tay | Member - Investment Committee | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francis-tay-f52a |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| InvestaX | InvestaX is a MAS licensed platform offering end-to-end solutions for the issuance, trading, and custody of digital securities. |  | Series A | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| InvestaX | InvestaX is a MAS-licensed platform for tokenizing real-world assets and accessing institutional-grade yield on stablecoins. For financial institutions, InvestaX provides regulated infrastructure to tokenize, distribute, and trade real-world assets, compliantly and globally. For fintech platforms, InvestaX provides access to institutional-grade,regulated yield on the stablecoins you and your users hold.InvestaX holds both a Capital Markets Services (CMS) licence to deal in capital markets products and a Recognised Market Operator (RMO) licence to operate an organized market for tokenized assets. The InvestaX platform has supported a broad range of asset classes, including private credit, U.S. Treasuries, gold, maritime asset financing, money market funds, commodity funds, and venture capital funds. Notable transactions include Pegasus 1 & Pegasus 2 tokenized ship financing programmes, distribution of Franklin Templeton’s OnChain U.S. Dollar Short-Term Money Market Fund, and the tokenization of a Singapore Variable Capital Company (VCC) in collaboration with UBS, State Street, and PwC. |  | Series A | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| InvestaX | InvestaX is an investment and trading platform for digital securities. InvestaX is a MAS licensed digital securities platform offering end-to-end solutions for the issuance, trading and custody of digital securities for private market assets. |  | Series A | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| InvestaX | InvestaX is a MAS-licensed platform for tokenizing real-world assets and accessing institutional-grade yield on stablecoins. For financial institutions, InvestaX provides regulated infrastructure to tokenize, distribute, and trade real-world assets, compliantly and globally. For fintech platforms, InvestaX provides access to institutional-grade,regulated yield on the stablecoins you and your users hold.InvestaX holds both a Capital Markets Services (CMS) licence to deal in capital markets products and a Recognised Market Operator (RMO) licence to operate an organized market for tokenized assets. The InvestaX platform has supported a broad range of asset classes, including private credit, U.S. Treasuries, gold, maritime asset financing, money market funds, commodity funds, and venture capital funds. Notable transactions include Pegasus 1 & Pegasus 2 tokenized ship financing programmes, distribution of Franklin Templeton’s OnChain U.S. Dollar Short-Term Money Market Fund, and the tokenization of a Singapore Variable Capital Company (VCC) in collaboration with UBS, State Street, and PwC. |  | Series A | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| Elude | Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to. Think, 'Where can I go next weekend for $500 bucks?' Elude books your trip and shows true market transparency in the otherwise cloudy and non-linear travel space. | $3M | Seed | Nov 17, 2021 |  |
| Veremark | Veremark provides digital identity verification and background screening solutions for businesses. The company offers services that include employment history checks, education verification, criminal record checks, and professional reference validation, all delivered through a cloud-based platform. Veremark’s system integrates with recruitment andHR workflows to streamline candidate vetting, reduce manual processes, and ensure compliance with data protection regulations. The platform also allows organizations to manage verifications, store reports securely, and access analytics to support hiring decisions. Veremark works with companies across sectors to facilitate safer and more efficient recruitment and onboarding processes. | $2.8M | Seed | Sep 06, 2021 |  |
| Elude | Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to. Think, 'Where can I go next weekend for $500 bucks?' Elude books your trip and shows true market transparency in the otherwise cloudy and non-linear travel space. | $2.1M | Seed | Aug 04, 2021 |  |
| Flying Cape | Flying Cape is an edtech firm that is developing a global distribution system for learners and education providers. Working with academics from all over the world, we offer tried and tested advisory tools that can help our customers find the right classes based on their unique needs. | $1.5M | Series A | Aug 03, 2021 |  |
| Distichain | Distichain delivers in 2 weeks, B2B e-commerce marketplaces and e-procurement platforms. Using blockchain and AI, our backend trade engine connects verification, logistics, insurance, inspection, and financial institutions to deliver seamless border agnostic trading. Documentation, process governance, and smart contracts all in one place and loggedon the blockchain facilitates secure automated end-to-end transactions. Our user interface, which engages the users, is an intuitive web-based marketplace allowing companies of all sizes and geographies to easily access our technology and benefit from the value it delivers. Distichain integrates with mainstream and innovative solution providers in trade finance, supply chain, and fintech giving SMEs the ability to access these services which otherwise would be limited only to big corporations. Smart contracts govern the end-to-end transactions generating fully automated cross border transactions without the need for a single email. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2021 |  |
| Distichain | Distichain delivers in 2 weeks, B2B e-commerce marketplaces and e-procurement platforms. Using blockchain and AI, our backend trade engine connects verification, logistics, insurance, inspection, and financial institutions to deliver seamless border agnostic trading. Documentation, process governance, and smart contracts all in one place and loggedon the blockchain facilitates secure automated end-to-end transactions. Our user interface, which engages the users, is an intuitive web-based marketplace allowing companies of all sizes and geographies to easily access our technology and benefit from the value it delivers. Distichain integrates with mainstream and innovative solution providers in trade finance, supply chain, and fintech giving SMEs the ability to access these services which otherwise would be limited only to big corporations. Smart contracts govern the end-to-end transactions generating fully automated cross border transactions without the need for a single email. |  | Seed | Jun 05, 2021 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Gate Ventures Plc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gate-ventures-plc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Global Blockchain Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-blockchain-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [JST Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jst-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Sustainability Exchange Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sustainability-exchange-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Token Bay Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/token-bay-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Startup-O invest in?

Startup-O invests primarily in Software, Finance and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Startup-O's check size?

Startup-O typically joins rounds of $150k–$3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Startup-O participates in.

### How do I contact Startup-O?

Public channels for Startup-O include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Startup-O?

The team at Startup-O includes Nitin Nath (Co-Founder and CEO Startup-O Ventures), Saurav Sen (Managing Director) and Aniruddha Ganguly (Entrepreneur in Residence), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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