Top 10 Restaurants Startup Investors in Malaysia in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Restaurants startups based in Malaysia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from Malaysia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Restaurants Startup Investors in Malaysia in January 2026

Investor	Restaurants Malaysia investments
Gobi Partners	2
Argor Capital	2
Susquehanna International Group	2
YJ Capital	1
Ganesh Kumar Bangah	1
AC Ventures	1
East Ventures	1
Velocity Ventures	1
Sea Unicorn	1
Capital Code	1

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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.
SleekFlow — SleekFlow makes customer messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook connected to one platform for teams to better support and engage customers.
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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.
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Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jualo — Situs jual beli online barang baru dan bekas yang mudah dan aman untuk digunakan bagi masyarakat Indonesia. Jadikan Jualo.com teman jual belimu.
Lentra — Lentra provides a secure technology platform for banking services.
Hyperlayer — Build and launch modular financial products in weeks, not years. The programmable orchestration fabric for finance and loyalty.

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 a new membership platform where fans get the most out of their support for creators.

Ganesh Kumar Bangah is an award winning Technology Entrepreneur and Startup iInvestor. Ganesh was the .Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Malaysia 2012 and one of Asia’s most influential people according to Society Magazine 2015. He was also recognised as one of South East Asia’s Top 30 Tech Founders by Tech In Asia in 2016 andwas recognized as one of the the most inspiring Malaysian technology entrepreneurs by Top 10 of Malaysia. He has received many accolades including being recognised by Top 10 of Malaysia as among the 10 most inspiring Malaysian technology entrepreneurs and by Society Magazine as one of the 100 people you must know in Asia. Ganesh founded his first internet business, MOL Global Inc. (“MOL”) in the year 2000 at the tender age of 20. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of MOL for 15 years since its inception. Ganesh was certified by the Malaysia Book of Records as the youngest Chief Executive Officer of a Malaysian public listed company when MOL was originally listed on the Malaysian Stock Exchange in 2003. Through a series of acquisitions all over the world, he built MOL to become South East Asia’s leading online payment gateway and South East Asia’s first internet company to be listed on the NASDAQ in 2014. He was also the Founder and Director of MOL Ventures, an investment holding company which made successful private investments in global social media and mobile internet companies such as Facebook, Friendster and Kakao. Ganesh founded Commerce.Asia, and All In One eCommerce Ecosystem in 2017 anfwithin 3 years to have a database of over 8,000,000 SME's across 7 countries with over 61,000 sellers that sell RM1.5 billion (USD375m) worth of products.Commerce.asia's ecosystem includes Commerce.Asia Data, the largest SME database in South East Asia; Leading e-commerce platform, Sitegiant; Malaysia’s largest dropshipping platform, Kumoten; Malaysia’s largest direct-to-garment merchandise creation platform, Famsy and Malaysia's leading rural social commerce platform, Bizapp.Ganesh is a well respected industry leader and is currently the Immediate Past Chairman of the National ICT Association of Malaysia (“PIKOM”) and Chair of E-Commerce Malaysia, a Chapter of PIKOM. Ganesh is currently also on the Board of MaGIC, the Malaysian Global Innovation & Creative Centre.Ganesh has received many awards including as Overall Top Award Winner for the Prestige Top 40 Under 40 2012 Awards, Winner of the JCI Creative Young Entrepreneur Award 2009, Winner of the Technopreneur Excellence Award at the PIKOM ICT Leadership Awards in 2009 and Winner of the Young Indian Entrepreneur Award in 2009.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
Corporate Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Malaysia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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Y Ventures Group — Based in Singapore, Y Ventures Group is a data-driven e-commerce company. Capitalizing on our data analytics capabilities, we partner with the world’s leading brands to sell their products in multiple countries across various online marketplaces. Y Ventures make sense of loose data with a customized data analytics dashboard. Visualize sales trendsin a glance and translate them into actionable that adds to the bottom line. Empower your supply chain management with more accurate sale forecasts.

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

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Koltiva — Koltiva is a farmer first global tech company empowering over 480,000 farmers and business users across 27 countries. We support some of the largest multinational companies by digitizing global supply chains and technology. Our focus is to enhance traceability, inclusiveness, and sustainability.
Simplus — Simplus offers customers more fashionable and cost-effective small home appliances.

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, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
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Prefab — Prefab offers cutting-edge AI SaaS solutions tailored for the construction industry, enhancing efficiency, safety, and decision-making through data-driven insights.

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.

Sea Unicorn

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Restaurants
Series A
Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

TableApp — Dine in best restaurants in Malaysia and Thailand, book a table and get instant confirmation. Find out restaurant news, promotions, menus, photos and reviews. No reservation costs, 24 hours online restaurant reservation. All in TABLEAPP.com

Capital Code is a bespoke advisory and investment firm that works with participants across the food and agribusiness value chain to deliver targeted outcomes through capital and corporate development.