Surge
VC Fund
Singapore, Singapore
Surge is a rapid-scale up program for startups in India and Southeast Asia. Surge combines $1 million to $2 million of seed capital with company-building workshops, global immersion trips and support from a community of exceptional mentors and founders. The goal to supercharge startups and give founders an unfair advantage during the early-stagesof company building. For more information on Surge, visit http://surgeahead.com
- Total investments:
- 228
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 61%
Last updated:
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Industries Surge invests in
Stages Surge invests in
Countries Surge invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Payal Banerjee
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 37 (16%)
- Information Technology 26 (11%)
- SaaS 24 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 20 (9%)
- E-Commerce 18 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 116 (51%)
- Series A 49 (21%)
- Pre-Seed 19 (8%)
- Series B 6 (3%)
- Funding Round 3 (1%)
Country
- India 54 (24%)
- Singapore 28 (12%)
- United States 26 (11%)
- Indonesia 15 (7%)
- Australia 3 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Payal Banerjee
Director and Head of Communications, India and Southeast Asia
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Director and Head of Communications, India and Southeast Asia | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Pieter Kemps
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 17 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Vaaree
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Vaaree is a home furnishing and decor marketplace that offers over 90,000 home products. The company provides a wide range of products from kitchenware catering to home cooks to bedding that ensures maximum comfort. Prioritizing affordability, Vaaree curates products from carefully vetted exporters and manufacturers. Through its factory-to-homeapproach, the company aims to enhance logistics and supply chain efficiency while reducing expenses on advertising and packaging, all in an effort to maintain competitive prices. | $6.8M / Series A / Aug 04, 2026 | |
Hoola Health
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Hoola Health facilities are designed to be warm and welcoming, with each visit feeling like a small celebration of your child's unique journey. | $5M / Series A / Jun 10, 2026 | |
Newtrace
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Newtrace develops novel electrolyzers for affordable green hydrogen production at scale. | $6.2M / Seed / Mar 10, 2026 | |
ELIVAAS
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ELIVAAS offers luxury villa vacations in coveted global destinations, to transform vacations into an effortless, seamless journey. | $9.9M / Series B / Aug 12, 2025 | |
Qbeast Analytics
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Qbeast Analytics SL is a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Qbeast is a Big Data cloud platform with a patented data storage technology that reorganizes and manages data through multidimensional indexing and sampling techniques so that it can be analyzed up to 100 times faster. Qbeast provides data teams with the option toadjust the precision of data analytics to produce high-quality insights while only accessing a fraction of the available data. This speeds up their work massively and at the same time produces savings on computational resources and energy. | $7.6M / Seed / Aug 04, 2025 | |
SixSense
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SixSense is an AI-powered industrial visual inspection platform for smarter manufacturing. SixSense uses cutting-edge technologies in the field of AI such as deep learning and computer vision to automatically identify defects on the manufacturing floor. They are building the future of self-intelligent factories by enabling automation forimage-based industrial applications. | $8.5M / Series A / Jul 31, 2025 | |
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Vaaree
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Vaaree is a home furnishing and decor marketplace that offers over 90,000 home products. The company provides a wide range of products from kitchenware catering to home cooks to bedding that ensures maximum comfort. Prioritizing affordability, Vaaree curates products from carefully vetted exporters and manufacturers. Through its factory-to-homeapproach, the company aims to enhance logistics and supply chain efficiency while reducing expenses on advertising and packaging, all in an effort to maintain competitive prices. | $2.1M / Seed / Jul 12, 2025 | |
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Vaaree
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Vaaree is a home furnishing and decor marketplace that offers over 90,000 home products. The company provides a wide range of products from kitchenware catering to home cooks to bedding that ensures maximum comfort. Prioritizing affordability, Vaaree curates products from carefully vetted exporters and manufacturers. Through its factory-to-homeapproach, the company aims to enhance logistics and supply chain efficiency while reducing expenses on advertising and packaging, all in an effort to maintain competitive prices. | $2.1M / Seed / Jul 12, 2025 | |
MasterChow
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MasterChow is a ready-to-cook Asian cuisine brand. | $6.5M / Series A / Nov 30, 2024 | |
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MasterChow
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MasterChow is a ready-to-cook Asian cuisine brand. | $6.5M / Series A / Nov 30, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Surge invest in?
Surge invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 228 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Surge?
The team at Surge includes Payal Banerjee (Director and Head of Communications, India and Southeast Asia) and Pieter Kemps (Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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