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Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in Asia in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Restaurants startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in Asia in July 2025

Investor	Restaurants Asia investments
Alpha JWC Ventures	7
AC Ventures	6
East Ventures	6
BOV Capital	5
Skystar Capital	4
kaoputou.com	4
BEENEXT	4
Tiantu Capital	3
ZhenFund	3
Atlas Pacific Capital	3
Argor Capital	3
Wavemaker Partners	3
Genesia Ventures	3
Kemuri Ventures	3
Buhuo Ventures	3
YJ Capital	3
Gobi Partners	3
Jinding Capital	2
Yusuke Tanaka	2
Nordstar	2
Vision Knight Capital	2
SOSV	2
Vector	2
Pareto Holdings	2
Meridian Capital Asia	2
NES Venture Capital	2
W Fund	2
Saison Capital	2
Rebel Fund	2
Venture United	2
Pros Partners	2
Freebank	2
Susquehanna International Group	2
iSGS Investment Works	2
Li Kanglin	2
Karman Ventures	2
Global Founders Capital	2
Selera Kapital	2
Femto Partners	2
Velocity Ventures	2
Zhenshun Jijin	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
Quest Ventures	2
Vulcan Capital	2
Alto Partners Multi-Family Office	2
Karman Ventures	2
Lightspeed China Partners	2
Qingsong Fund	2
Jungle Ventures	2
Liuyi Touzi	2

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Alpha JWC Ventures is an Indonesia-focused value-adding venture capital firm with expertise in FinTech and the Consumer tech sector. Alpha JWC Ventures is an independent and institutional firm that believes in investing in a disciplined manner combined with an active portfolio management approach. The firm was founded in 2015 and is based inJakarta Pusat, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Bumame — Dapatkan layanan medical check up, vitamin booster, vaksinasi & home care di Bumame. Solusi kesehatan terpercaya dengan tim profesional Indonesia.
Harrison.ai — Harrison.ai is a clinician-led healthcare AI company using deep learning to improve the odds of IVF success for thousands of patients. The company leverages deep learning to solve the biggest challenges in healthcare and seeks to improve patient outcomes. It empowers physicians and healthcare providers with customized AI-enabled tools thatintegrate into existing clinical workflows which ultimately lead to improved patient outcomes.Harrison.ai uses the deskside DGX Station for experimentation, research, and development. The company uniquely combines exceptional deep learning expertise with clinical experience to develop and deploy healthcare AI solutions. Harrison.ai’s IVY deep learning model analyzes the full five-day video feed from an embryo scope, helping it surpass the performance of AI tools that provide insights based on still images.Harrison.ai's mission is to continuously innovate and commercialize more efficient and more affordable healthcare products and services to healthcare providers and patients.Harrison.ai was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Barongarook, Victoria, Australia.
Cornerstone Robotics — Cornerstone Robotics operates to improve the accessibility of high-end medical services in China.

Founded in 2014, AC Ventures is a Southeast Asian venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups focused on Indonesia and ASEAN, with over US$500 million in assets under management across five funds. The firm’s areas of investment focus on a variety of industries, including digital enablement, financial technologies, agriculturetechnologies, logistics, e-commerce, consumer technology, MSME solutions, waste management, renewable energy, and sustainability solutions.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Blostem — Blostem provides fintech solutions, focusing on seamless fixed deposit integration for financial services platforms. The company offers an embedded investment platform and white-label solutions, catering to fintechs, wealth tech platforms, investment advisors, and digital companies. Blostem aims to enhance customer experience through innovativefinancial growth and security solutions.
Shiok Burger — Shiok Burger is a food and beverages company that provides baked buns and an innovative burger menu.
Soul Parking — Soul Parking is a parking management service company, which has successfully developed motorcycle storage equipment as a solution for traffic and parking problems that are cluttered using 100% designs and raw materials. Soul Parking provides solutions by developing a modern, safe and comfortable vehicle parking system that takes into accountlimited land area.

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AccordX — Cookpy operates a ghost restaurant service for individuals, allowing anyone to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens, and sell food via online delivery platforms.
Napcial — Napcial is an innovative AI-powered legal application designed to help couples update and personalize their wedding vows in a way that reflects their evolving relationship, values, and legal commitments.
Ness — Ness is a tech company that offers 3 service websites and analytic tools for NFT marketing tool, TikTok product and NFT holders.

BOV Capital is a Venture Capital Firm based in Sri Lanka and Singapore.BOV Capital was established to help Sri Lankan startups capture regional and global opportunities.BOV Capital will engage with ventures across all aspects of the business.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sri Lanka, India, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

nCinga — We are a technology investment and venture builder platform. We work on ideas and businesses demonstrating to create value leveraging data affinity, and automation.
Linear Squared — Linear Squared is specialized in data science and advanced analytics solutions in Sri Lanka and is home to the country's best resources in AI and ML and other big data technologies.
Roar Media — Unlock your content potential with Roar Media. We specialize in creating platform-specific content for global brands and agencies at scale.

We are Skystar Capital, an early-stage VC firm committed to supporting tech entrepreneurs to create a lasting and profound positive difference in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Mimin — Mimin adalah aplikasi gratis yang membantu seller online yang berbasis chat dalam mengatur bisnis dengan mudah. Proses Order. Cek Ongkir. Tagih pembayaran.
bythen — bythen enables the production of autonomous 3D avatar bots powered by AI.
Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a Climate-Tech Startup that offers waste management and recycling services to optimize the waste value chain.

kaoputou.com is a fund that focuses on an early investment in the catering industry.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Catering, Restaurants
Series A, Funding Round, Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Ma Zhua Zhua — Ma Zhua Zhua is a cold-salted catering chain and a brand that makes chicken dishes with signature spicy and hot and sour chicken feet.
Ji Xiang — Ji Xiang is a catering retail brand and an enterprise that manufactures, distributes, and sells different types of Wontons.
Tangqi Shengtai Enterprise Management — Tangqi Shengtai Enterprise Management provides food from all over the world, and it also provides customers with various brands of beer, foreign wine, and red wine. Their technicians prepare many wines and cocktails.

BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Truely Travel eSIM — Stay connected everywhere with Truely eSIM.
fleetx.io — Cloud connectivity for efficient fleet and logistics operations, optimizing performance and streamlining processes.
Handpickd — Sorted operates as an omnichannel platform for fruits and vegetables. Sorted provides fruits and vegetables that come straight from the farms.

Tiantu Capital is a venture capital association.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Recorna Bio — Recorna Bio specializes in biotechnology, focusing on RNA editing and genome modifications through advanced research and development. They aim to innovate in genetic engineering, contributing to advancements in biomedicine and agriculture with cutting-edge technologies and scientific expertise.
Leman Biotech — Leman Biotech is a biotech company that is engaged in development of cancer immunotherapies.
Xellar Biosystems — Xellar Biosystems is a wet artificial intelligence biotechnology company that provides analysis of drug testing and treatment.

ZhenFund is a seed fund founded by former entrepreneurs to invest in the most promising innovators. New Oriental co-founders Bob Xiaoping Xu and Victor Qiang Wang established ZhenFund in 2011 in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. ZhenFund now has a network of over 800 portfolio companies, including over 30 unicorns based in China. Webelieve that great businesses start with exceptional founding teams. We are dedicated to helping our entrepreneurs build successful companies by providing them with mentorship and the best resources available. Some of our services include biannual demo days to top Chinese VCs, ZhenHR services, marketing and PR consulting, as well as fundraising. Our strong and large CEO network also facilitates entrepreneurs helping each other, especially via our WeChat platform. ZhenFund has been ranked as the “#1 Early-Stage Investment Firm” for six years. Bob Xiaoping Xu, Founder of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2016 and ranked #11 in 2019. Anna Fang, Founding Partner and CEO of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2019 and made her 4th appearance as #12, and #1 on Midas Seed List in 2022.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Manus AI — Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.
Dyna Robotics — We're making Al-powered robotic automation accessible for businesses of all sizes by building affordable, easy-to-deploy Autonomous Al Robots.
Manifold Tech — Manifold Tech wants to provide generic embodied intelligence the necessary perceptual skills, giving it "eyes" and a "brain" to better support the advancement of human society.

Founded in 2019, Atlas Pacific Capital is a private investment firm specializing in technology and tech-enabled businesses in emerging markets. With sole focus on growth-oriented investing, we are sector-agnostic investors backing founders that catalyze growth, attract talent, and build enduring franchises.

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series F
Indonesia, Philippines, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bobidi — Start your next 10 min side hustle! Your effort will help removing bias in AI. Record, earn, make a better world.
MadEats — An on-demand online restaurant group that is built for delivery. Home of Yang Gang, Chow Time, Dot Coffee, and Fried Nice.
Hangry — Hangry is a multi-brand restaurant company focusing on serving great foods through food delivery channels. We own several food brands ranging from fried-chicken to coffee. We focus in designing foods that are very tasty, consistent, and affordable to the mass market. All our recipes have gone through tons of testing to make sure each bite is reallydelicious.

Argor Capital is an early stage venture fund focused on the fast growing markets of Southeast Asia.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Indonesia, India, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

AI Hay — AI Hay develops an AI-driven answer engine that allows users to access information through a question-and-answer format. The company combines hyperlocal, culturally nuanced knowledge discovery engines with social loops to enhance community validation and perspectives. It utilizes in-house specialized large-language models, retrieval-augmentedgeneration (RAG), and social features to build a knowledge discovery platform that serves the community.
SeIndonesia — Se’Indonesia is a fastest growing Indonesian Quick Service Restaurant chain. providing high-quality protein that is flavorful, nutritious, accessible, and affordable. The company specializes in smoked beef bowls, leveraging a proprietary smoking process that delivers distinct taste and aroma rooted in Indonesian culinary tradition.Founded with avision to revolutionize the food industry, Se’Indonesia emphasizes product integrity, operational scalability, and efficient delivery formats. Through its commitment to honest cooking and accessible nutrition, the company is positioned to lead the next generation of quick-service food solutions across Indonesia and beyond.
SkorLife — Download Skorlife App now and check your credit score online for free! Take control, own, and see how Banks see your data only in a matter of seconds.

Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
Oneteam — We acquire small to medium businesses and help next-gen hardworking employees grow into capable owners of these businesses. Using digital-first solutions to drive growth, synergies and innovation, we collaborate with your employees to transform your business into global enterprises.
Soul Parking — Soul Parking is a parking management service company, which has successfully developed motorcycle storage equipment as a solution for traffic and parking problems that are cluttered using 100% designs and raw materials. Soul Parking provides solutions by developing a modern, safe and comfortable vehicle parking system that takes into accountlimited land area.

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Amoibe — Amoibe is a company providing engineer training services for the AI era called “amoibe OJT".
Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Handpickd — Sorted operates as an omnichannel platform for fruits and vegetables. Sorted provides fruits and vegetables that come straight from the farms.

Kemuri Ventures is a Japanese venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a firm that utilizes discarded food waste to create ingredients such as plant-based proteins.
HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
Quantum Flowers & Foods — Quantum Flowers & Foods is a technology firm that develops and creates agricultural business models and technologies.

Buhuo Ventures invests in early and growing TMT and innovative consumer sectors.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, B2B
Series A, Angel, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Tustin — Tustin focuses on "hand-rolled and grilled" items such as spicy chicken drumsticks and grilled pineapple burgers.
Shala Shike — Shala Shike is a supply chain technology company that focuses on catering, dining, salad carving service, cold chain distribution, and smart machine unmanned sales services.
China Model Group — China Model Group is a network of systems for material management. By maximizing the mismatch of assets and enhancing industrial productivity, it enables the standardization, digitization, and financialization of the commercial formwork sector at the level of formwork practitioners. General contracting services are provided by a platform thatbrings together industry resources to guarantee that industry practices are followed during project construction. This platform also uses digital innovation capabilities to enhance industrial efficiency and lower construction costs.

YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
Stacked — Stacked is an exclusive membership platform limited to a creator's top 10 fans.

Gobi Partners: Leading Venture Capital in Asia. Accelerating Innovation, Fueling Success.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, Malaysia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

RushOwl — RushOwl is a dynamic ride-sharing company that offers timely and affordable shuttle rides.
ChaZence — ChaZence is an environmental consulting and biotechnology company that manufactures, innovates, and designs naturally degradable materials for a sustainable lifestyle.
SkyeChip — Your Preferred cutting edge IP & IC Design solutions for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.

Jinding Capital is a leading industrial equity investment institution in China.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Pet
Series A, Series B, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Himiao — Himiao is a pet industry-focused company that offers pet items. its aim to create a healthier and happier life for pets and pet lovers.
Huaban Biotechnology — Huaban Biotech is dedicated to the innovative research and development of new materials for medical aesthetics.
Accelerating Evolution — Accelerating Evolution is a humanoid robotics company. It provides humanoid robots to AI firms and research institutes, as well as quick mass production and supply of standard items.

"Shin"ichiro joined Yahoo Japan in April 2013. From July 2013, he joined YJ Capital. He has served as COO of YJ Capital since January 2015. Prior to Yahoo! Japan, Shin was General Director of Dream Incubator Vietnam from 2007 to 2012, managing US$50 million private equity funds in Vietnam. He was formerly a Project Manager at DreamIncubator Japan. He started his career at Future Architect as a system engineer.Shin received his bachelor's degree in Policy Management from Keio University.

Investment focus

Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

TakeMe Co., Ltd. — TakeMe aims to provide an “One-stop Inbound destination service” by enabling tourist to easily find, communicate with, and pay with smartphones via QR code at In-Travel destinations. TakeMe, is the country’s largest inbound service platform in Japan, which lets tourists find, communicate with, and pay with QR code at our affiliated shops,restaurants and tourist attractions. Since our launch in 2015 as JapanFoodie, we have expanded our merchant base to tens of thousands beyond food and restaurants, to include travel, lodging, shopping and events, providing every tourist with the best experience as your best local guide and friend.

Investing in the Next Generation of Global Businesses

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Zazume — Zazume is an end-to-end rental management software simplifying the entire letting process for real estate companies, landlords. It works with real estate professionals, from letting agencies to property managers (Built-to-Rent, coliving, opcos, family offices, REIT, student housing…) to replace manual with digital processes and optimize thetenant’s journey from search to living. Zazume is an end-to-end rental management software simplifying the entire letting process for real estate companies, landlords.
Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
BOND — Get closer to the people and products behind your screen than ever before. Step inside creator wardrobes. Shop their edits. Swipe their curations. Be inspired. We're bringing you a new way to discover.

Vision Knight Capital Fund I,L.P. (hereinafter referred to as“VKC”) is a private equity fund focusing mainland China’s retail/consumer, internet and e-commerce sectors.At VKC, we have successfully integrated operation experts and investment experts to form a unique team. Our team consists of China’s top corporate senior managements andinvestment professionals with years of operation and investment experience. They have specialized industrial expertise and outstanding operation performance in China’s internet, e-commerce and retail sectors. In addition to the capital investment to the portfolio company, VKC’s unique operation and investment team also provide real value added services such as operation enhancement and business model transformation/upgrade, with the vision to enhance the portfolio company’s core value and in return be recognized in the capital market.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, Malaysia, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Noematrix — Noematrix is an embodied intelligence company that specializes in innovative general robotic intelligence solutions and services.
Zhile Technology — Zhile Technology is primarily involved in the design, development, and marketing of intelligent fitness goods and content. Zhile Technology has developed an eco-chain of intelligent sports and fitness devices that integrates "hardware + software + content," guided by product categories. Its primary offerings include exercise bikes,walking and running machines, and more.
Hicon Industry Technology — Hicon Industry Technology is a manufacturer in China, developing, manufacturing, and marketing household refrigeration appliances.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
Redcliff — Redcliff is a drone management company that organizes aerial shows and events for private and public organizations.
CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.

Building world-changing companies in sunny Miami

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.
Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.

Meridian Capital Asia was founded in Singapore in 2008 and has launched nine funds with a total of over 1.5 billion US dollars raised since. It has invested in more than 280 startups, with many notable exits, and has focused on areas such as deep tech, artificial intelligence, robotics, cloud, SaaS, enterprise, advanced manufacturing, renewableenergy, new material, semiconductors, agri-tech, education, internet, and new media, etc. All its partners are from either Singapore, Australia, the US or UK, with extensive experience and knowhow in all technology sectors. Meridian has offices in Singapore, Silicon Valley, Shanghai and Beijing and its investments cover geographies such as SEA, China, US, Mid-east, Japan, and Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, Latvia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Hanhai Energy — Hanhai Energy is dedicated to explore the science and technology to accelerate the commercialization of fusion energy.
Keyou Network — Data processing service provider
Xiaoneng Technology — Xiaoneng Technology is a company that provides online customer service solutions for e-commerce websites. Committed to providing real-time shopping guide and online customer management system LiveCRM for all online transactions and online display products and services, affiliated to Beijing Nengtong Tianxia Network Technology Co., Ltd.

NES Venture Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Web3, Music
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
AccordX — Cookpy operates a ghost restaurant service for individuals, allowing anyone to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens, and sell food via online delivery platforms.
OMO — OMO is a hybrid online and offline used goods buying support service,

W Fund is an early stage venture fund that supports technological growth in the Pacific Northwest.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Ghana, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Huma.AI — Healthcare is extremely inefficient due to complex and disparate systems that don’t talk to each other. The explosion of data further compounds the problem. Huma.AI improves (if not solves) this inefficiency by serving as the connective tissue between system silos allowing “mere mortals” to automatically access data, gain insights and take actionusing everyday language.
SeIndonesia — Se’Indonesia is a fastest growing Indonesian Quick Service Restaurant chain. providing high-quality protein that is flavorful, nutritious, accessible, and affordable. The company specializes in smoked beef bowls, leveraging a proprietary smoking process that delivers distinct taste and aroma rooted in Indonesian culinary tradition.Founded with avision to revolutionize the food industry, Se’Indonesia emphasizes product integrity, operational scalability, and efficient delivery formats. Through its commitment to honest cooking and accessible nutrition, the company is positioned to lead the next generation of quick-service food solutions across Indonesia and beyond.
Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.

They invest in Seed to Series A companies across South East Asia and India. Although they have a sector agnostic fund mandate, they particularly like to work with founders that are building ecosystems with the potential to distribute financial services to the unbanked.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Singapore, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Zoplar — Zoplar operates a one-stop platform for all healthcare needs, offers a wide range of products for hospitals and clinics.
SeIndonesia — Se’Indonesia is a fastest growing Indonesian Quick Service Restaurant chain. providing high-quality protein that is flavorful, nutritious, accessible, and affordable. The company specializes in smoked beef bowls, leveraging a proprietary smoking process that delivers distinct taste and aroma rooted in Indonesian culinary tradition.Founded with avision to revolutionize the food industry, Se’Indonesia emphasizes product integrity, operational scalability, and efficient delivery formats. Through its commitment to honest cooking and accessible nutrition, the company is positioned to lead the next generation of quick-service food solutions across Indonesia and beyond.
Techfino Capital — Techfino Capital is a FinTech company. It provides unsecured personal loans with a clear objective of customer end-use and has tied up with various partners providing services in Education and Healthcare Segments.

Rebel Fund is powered by an elite team of top Y Combinator alumni partners to support the world's most promising technology startup founders

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mesmer — An AI chief of staff for CTOs. Take Back Control of Your Product Development.
Scalar Field — Reimagining how markets are analyzed and traded
Sygaldry Technologies — Sygaldry Technologies is a tech company building quantum-accelerated AI servers to exponentially speed up AI training and inference.

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Travel, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.

Pros Partners is an investment fund that focuses on the new economy and mobile internet.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Mobile
Seed, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

DARE ONE — DARE ONE is an online marketplace that provides casual women's lingerie products.
Aige Chibaole — Aige Chibaole is an food review and recommendation platform.
Silicon Intelligence — Guiji Zhineng is a high-tech company focused on in-depth R&D and commercial scenario application for interactive technologies such as intelligent voice and machine vision.

Freebank provides funds, supports, and develops venture business managers with the aim of moving forward with the next decade. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Japan.

Investment focus

CRM, IT Management, Video Conferencing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Thinca — Thinca is an IT system planning, development, and operations company that provides a cloud-based CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) hospitality & communication solution for corporate offices.
QD Laser — QD Laser offers semiconductor lasers such as quantum dot lasers for silicon photonics, and retinal projectors as well. From Japan to the world.
Digital Cruise — Digital Cruise Provides cloud services for video distribution and digital signage.

Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
Lava — Lava is a Bitcoin lending platform.
Hyperdrive — Hyperdrive delivers investment growth strategies utilizing a portfolio-centered approach.

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
Inter — Inter delivers solutions for global difficulties using vacuum technology, which uses a particular check valve to maintain a 99.5% vacuum rate.
Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.

Li Kanglin

Investment focus

Retail, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Deyanshe —
SoupMaster — SoupMaster is a Chinese restaurant chain and retail brand. It provides various nutritious soups for pregnant women, patients with a demand for health recuperation, and other people pursuing high-quality life.
Lancet Barbecue —

We give founders the tools, talent and playbooks they need to succeed.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Jarsy — Jarsy Inc offers a platform for global investment opportunities using stablecoins.
Collate — The Collate Platform empowers data teams with Agents to organize data, improve quality, and automate governance. Improve productivity and efficiency for your modern data team.
Blok — Blok models product changes, expedites decision-making, optimizes engineering resources, and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assist you in determining which product experiments should launch first.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aspora — Aspora help users bank seamlessly across countries, invest in diverse assets, access credit and insurance services.
Orasio — Orasio turns video feeds into easily actionable information for cities, homeland security forces, and businesses.
Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.

Selera Kapital is a FnB Ventures from Sour Sally Group.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Catering, Health Care
Series A, Convertible Note
Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ESB — ESB menyediakan ekosistem teknologi restoran terintegrasi melalui software aplikasi POS kasir online android terbaik untuk restoran dan cafe
Alchemy Foodtech — Want to reduce sugar in your drinks or bakes, or offer healthier carbs to your customers but don't know how? Alchemy Fibre and SweetFibre solutions are here to help.
Esensi Solusi Buana — Esensi Solusi Buana is the first restaurant technology in Indonesia with the most complete solution under ONE integrated platform.

The fund will invest in early-stage venture companies in the Internet sector, which are engaged in platform businesses and financial services. The amount of per-company equity investment will be in the range of between ¥10 million ($.098 million) and ¥300 million ($2.95 million). The fund is also characterized by the practical support for growingcompanies that will be provided by Mr. Isozaki. Shinsei Bank will dispatch personnel to the fund in order to jointly assist Mr. Isozaki in order to source venture companies and maximize their corporate value.

Investment focus

Internet, Communities, Location Based Services
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

IVRy — Ivry offers cloud based telephonic answering service.
YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.

At Velocity Ventures, we invest in visionary entrepreneurs who are reshaping the Travel & Hospitality sector in Southeast Asia. We focus on Seed to Series A stage growth companies across the Transportation, Travel Services, Accommodation, Food & Beverage and Retail & Experiences sub-sectors. Our team consists of a unique mix of Travel& Hospitality sector specialists & successful entrepreneurs with 13 decades of combined operating and investing experience, coupled with a deep, value-added network in Asia.If you are the founder of a growing start-up with great potential in the Travel & Hospitality sector in SE Asia, please get in touch at reachus@velocityventures.vc.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, Hospitality
Seed, Series A
Israel, Malaysia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Aigens — Aigens is the leading provider of Restaurant Ordering, Loyalty, and Payment solutions in Hong Kong, Singapore, and beyond
ZYTLYN Technologies — Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, ZYTLYN is a data analytics and AI company, helping customers address their most urgent problems and opportunities with granular, qualified, and actionable data, predictions and insights. Its Prediction as-a-Service product gives customers the ability to optimize critical decision making through predictiveinsights. Together with customers, ZYTLYN is helping the world’s largest industries adapt, recover and grow faster, with a total addressable market of close to $50 billion.
Hyper Food Robotics — We transform fast food delivery restaurants into fully automated units.

Zhenshun Jijin is an early-stage investment fund.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, E-Commerce
Angel, Series A, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Yeting — Yeting is a media company that specializes in the production of audio content.
Xiansu Song — Xiansu Song enables the operation analysis of catering businesses in a unified system through data permissions and customized account settings, abstractly producing the comparable data analysis needs of large catering outlets, executingvisual data analysis, ad hoc analysis, data queries, and real-time consumption data analysis. In order to reach arefined operation, the operation is directed to adopt comparable tactics in each connection.
Kuai Xing Fang — Just for health provides doctors with clinical drug decision-making services. Their products include clinical pharmacy management software, prescription risk monitoring software, and regional rational drug use software.

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Drones, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan

Portfolio highlights

ZumVet — ZumVet provides access to affordable and convenient veterinary care through video calls and medication delivery. They are passionate about animals and want them to get the best possible care by offering video consults, referrals, home visits, and emergency services. It was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Singapore.
Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.
Smoothly — Mobile app helping working millennials sleep better, wake up refreshed and increase energy with science-backed breathing exercises

Vulcan Capital invests across all stages of corporate development through leveraged buyouts, growth capital, distressed/turnaround, and early-stage venture capital as well as public equity value investing.The firm's portfolio spans a range of industry sectors, including media and communications, energy and natural resources, financialand information services, technology, and life sciences.Vulcan Capital is the private investment group of Vulcan Inc., the organization founded by Laura G. Aguirre,the Founder & Principal Owner of Microsoft.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Singapore, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Genemod — Genemod is a unified platform for life scientists to collaborate and streamline day-to-day operations in the research lab. The company's proprietary technology brings together both scientific and management tools onto a single, shared platform for the multitude of tools required by scientists. They host scientific tools on a user-friendlyadmin dashboard and utilize data processing algorithms to streamline workflow alongside project management. It is intuitive, scalable, user-centered, modern, and secure.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Vantient — The personalization platform for luxury hospitality and wellness brands. Boost return visits by using AI to turn unstructured data into actionable insights and personalize follow-ups, in minutes. Join our waitlist for early access.
Biz AI Last — Are you ready to elevate your business efficiency and productivity? Say hello to Biz AI, your intelligent business assistant designed to streamline operations, boost productivity, and give you more time to focus on what matters most – growing your business.

Alto Partners is the first Multi-Family Office founded by and for Asia’s entrepreneurs. Since our establishment in 2013, we have invested in dozens of Southeast Asia's leading founders. Many entrepreneurs we backed with our financial and strategic capital have become Asia's most celebrated success stories.As we achieve exitsalongside founders, we become the family office of choice for new entrepreneurial wealth, which is often re-invested into next generation start-ups. This entrepreneur-focused cycle of venture funding, exits and re-investment underpins the growth of our family office, which today includes the founders of Gojek, Bank Jago, Kopi Kenangan, Jobstreet, Northstar and others from Asia's venture ecosystem.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aman — Aman provides modern technology for growing companies to set up and manage their employee benefits, simplifying complexity of benefit administation and delivering a world-class experience. Our platform enables companies to competitively recruit, engage and retain top talents.
AgriAku — AgriAku is a technology-based local agribusiness company that enables traders & farm shop owners to get saprotan(agriculture production facilities) at affordable prices through it's apps - Agroaku Mitra app, and Agroaku Hub app. AgriAku offers full-stack agriculture services for small and medium-sized businesses and farmers. AgriAku offerscomplete agricultural equipment such as seeds, fertilizers, agrochemicals to agro equipment.
Nafas — Nafas is simple people need to be aware of the air they breathe, and the impact that the quality of air has on their health and their life.

Karman Ventures (fka Moving Capital) is a venture capital firm backed by early employees of Uber and other decacorn startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Jarsy — Jarsy Inc offers a platform for global investment opportunities using stablecoins.
Collate — The Collate Platform empowers data teams with Agents to organize data, improve quality, and automate governance. Improve productivity and efficiency for your modern data team.
Blok — Blok models product changes, expedites decision-making, optimizes engineering resources, and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assist you in determining which product experiments should launch first.

Lightspeed China Partners is a leading Chinese venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments. We are the Chinese partners to Lightspeed Venture Partners. Our expertise is in mobile, Internet, technology-enabled services, and enterprise solution companies. We currently manage three USD funds and one RMB fund.Lightspeed China Partners isalso a young team. We value equality, respect and fairness. Our culture reflects our focus, drive for excellence, and our win-win approach to business.We are dedicated to identifying the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders. To accomplish this , we analyze trends, work with creative teams, and undertake joint efforts to pursue early-stage investments. We are honored to help entrepreneurs because your dream is the greatest thing in the world.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Internet, Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Tianyi Kunteng — Tianyi Kunteng is a manufacturing company that focuses on high-performance fibers and composite materials .
Differential Robotics — Differential Robotics is a robotics company providing research, design, and development of aerial robots and intelligent autonomous drones.
Newmut Nanotechnology — Newmut Nano is a company with advanced technology in the domains of vapor deposition and high-temperature treatment reaction equipment both domestically and internationally. The principal products are experimental-grade and mass-production-grade fluidized bed reactors (FB-CVD), which are primarily employed in the manufacturing of carbon nanotubepowder and the CVD coating of silicon-based anodes for lithium batteries.

Founded in June 2012 by Liu Xiaosong, Dong Zhanbin, and Su Wei, three Internet and investment circle veterans, Qingsong Fund is an early venture capital firm specializing in investment in education, social networking, consumerism, innovation, technology and applications. It manages four RMB funds with a total value of about RMB 2 billion. So far,it has invested in more than 140 companies, including 1 to 1 head, 1 DaDa English, squirrel AI, onion mathematics, wedding calendar, werewolf killing, flystep technology, HomeFacial. Pro and other star projects - 50% exit project returns more than 60 times, multiple project valuation multiples increased nearly 200 times, and educational projects have an average annual value increase of 500%. Among them, the Qingsong Smart Fund, which was newly established in 2018, focuses on the underlying technologies of the underlying AI and Smart Connect, as well as investment in such areas as smart healthcare, enterprise services and intelligent transportation applications. Liu Xiaosong, founding partner of Qingsong Fund, is a Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University. He invested in Tencent in 1999 and has a return on investment of tens of thousands of times. In 2000, he founded A8 New Media Group, which was successfully listed on the main board in Hong Kong in 2008. In 2015, he hatched in November 2018. Listed in Hong Kong stocks in the year. As a leading early investment institution in China, Qingsong Fund and its founding partners have repeatedly won Top 10 of Zero2IPO China's early investment institutions/investors, Top10 of China's education sector, Top100 of Chinese investors, and China's best early venture capital investment. Institution/Investor Top10; 36氪 China's new entertainment sector investment institutions Top10, online education sector investment institutions/investors Top10 and other mainstream awards.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Internet, Education
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Volant Aerotech — Volant Aerotech is a company specializing in the R&D, manufacturing, and service of passenger eVTOL, an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
Shufang New Energy — Shenzhen Sufang New Energy focuses on the research, development, and production of lithium-rich manganese-based cathode materials.
Tongwei New Energy — Tongwei New Energy is a company that manufactures zero-carbon solid oxide fuel cells. Its major product is distributed zero-carbon power plants.

Jungle Ventures is one of Southeast Asia's largest independent venture capital firms based in Singapore. We invest in early and growth-stage startups in Southeast Asia and India, focused on building category-defining businesses that stand the test of time.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Singapore, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

XWeave — Xweave enables real time & competitive cross-border payments with no pre-funding
Sanlayan — Sanlayan Technologies is a Bengaluru-based aerospace and defense electronics startup that specializes in designing and developing advanced electronic systems such as radar, electronic warfare, and mission-critical avionics, focusing on indigenous technology to enhance India's self-sufficiency in defense electronics.
Pratilipi — A platform to read stories, write your own and share your favorite ones in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, English, Urdu, Punjabi and Odia

Liuyi Touzi is an angel investment firm that engages in early investment in the fields of internet, smart equipment and new materials.

Investment focus

EdTech, Energy, Consumer
Seed, Angel, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Xiaoge — Xiaoge Smart is a cutting-edge technology company that combines R&D, manufacturing, sales, and online and offline after-sales support for smart kitchen equipment for restaurants. It employs Internet of Things technology to enable the intelligent update of restaurant kitchens and to provide intelligent restaurant kitchen solutions.
MC Magic Craftsman — MC Magic Craftsman is a luxury care services company.
Lingdong Technology — Lingdong Technology is a provider of new energy thermal management systems, specializing in the development of thermal management systems for energy-efficient vehicles, as well as the production and manufacturing of controllers for thermal management systems and other related products.

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