# UOB Venture

> UOB Venture is a VC fund in Singapore backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 128 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 128
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 23%
- Fund size: $60M
- Last fund: Jan 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.uobvm.com.sg

UOB Venture is a VC fund in Singapore focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. UOB Venture, an investment firm, finances privately-held companies through direct equity investment, mainly in Southeast Asia and China.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$15M |
| Series A | $3.5M–$40M |
| Series B | $10M–$65M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 19 | 15% |
| Cryptocurrency | 15 | 12% |
| FinTech | 13 | 10% |
| Financial Services | 12 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 8% |

120 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 30 | 23% |
| Series A | 22 | 17% |
| Series B | 19 | 15% |
| Series C | 16 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 9 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 23 | 18% |
| China | 15 | 12% |
| Singapore | 15 | 12% |
| Indonesia | 6 | 5% |
| Vietnam | 5 | 4% |

20 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ajinkya Sadavarte | SVP Ecosystem Partnership | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajinkya-sadavarte |
| Jean Thoh | Executive Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-thoh |
| Kuah Cheng Ooi | Associate Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kuah-cheng-ooi |
| Mark Yeo | Executive Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-yeo |
| Ng Kate Jain | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ng-kate-jain |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PayGo | PayGo is a financial technology platform built for the machine-to-machine economy, allowing artificial intelligence (AI) agents and software tools to pay each other instantly. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| Stride | Stride is a forward-thinking renewable energy firm to advance a sustainable future by providing eco-friendly home renovation projects, smart home technology, energy-efficient products, and solar energy access to every household. | $15M | Series B | May 21, 2026 |  |
| Xinmaide | Xinmaide focuses on the specialized fields of pulmonary drug delivery, nasal drug delivery, and brain drug delivery devices, dedicating its efforts to the research, design, and development of advanced medical technologies that improve how drugs are administered and absorbed in the body. | $43.7M | Series B | Apr 07, 2026 |  |
| Derivio | Derivio is a trading platform that helps the traders for digital options, DeFi derivative products, and provide provide quick transaction. | $6M | Seed | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| AIsphere | AIsphere focuses on visual multimodal large models and empowering content producers in many sectors and scenarios with AIGC technology. | $300M | Series C | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Pruv Finance | Pruv Finance is an RWA infrastructure that brings real-world assets to the DeFi ecosystem. It allows users to access trusted, tokenized assets that are freely tradable and fully composable with DeFi across multiple chains. | $3M | Seed | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| Mu Digital | Mu Digital is a Web3 platform that offers global stablecoin holders access to top tokenized yield products. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| LISA | LISA is an LLM-based smart security analysis platform that focuses on Solidity smart contracts, providing automated, intelligent vulnerability detection and in-depth code analysis for blockchain developers. | $12M | Seed | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| pieverse | Pieverse is a Web3 platform that turns people’s time into tradable digital value. | $7M | Seed | Oct 24, 2025 |  |
| Bluwhale | Established in 2022, Bluwhale is a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence platform that specializes in extracting and analyzing comprehensive data from content across various blockchains, as well as contextualizing NFT data for personalization and discovery purposes. This pioneering approach equips DApps and marketplaces with the intelligencenecessary to boost retention, engagement, and revenue. Offering user-friendly tools and analytics, Bluwhale delivers a complete understanding of content, tokens, smart contracts, and wallet activities by employing a graph representation of the underlying data.Through cataloging, labeling, and examining over 200 million NFTs and wallets, Bluwhale enhances on-chain data with valuable contextual information, assisting users in making informed investment decisions and facilitating the seamless integration of data-driven intelligence into their applications. | $10M | Series A | Oct 22, 2025 |  |

10 of 128 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Signum Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/signum-capital) — VC Fund, 48 deals together
- [Openspace Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openspace-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does UOB Venture invest in?

UOB Venture invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 128 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is UOB Venture's check size?

UOB Venture typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$15M at Seed, $3.5M–$40M at Series A and $10M–$65M 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 UOB Venture participates in.

### How do I contact UOB Venture?

Public channels for UOB Venture include the website linked on this profile. 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 UOB Venture?

The team at UOB Venture includes Ajinkya Sadavarte (SVP Ecosystem Partnership), Jean Thoh (Executive Director) and Kuah Cheng Ooi (Associate Director), among 11 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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