Top 10 Restaurants Startup Investors in Malaysia in November 2024
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 November 2024
Investor | Restaurants Malaysia investments |
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Gobi Partners | 2 |
Susquehanna International Group (SIG) | 2 |
Argor Capital | 2 |
AC Ventures | 1 |
Ganesh Kumar Bangah | 1 |
East Ventures | 1 |
Capital Code | 1 |
Sea Unicorn | 1 |
Velocity Ventures | 1 |
SIG | 1 |
Gobi Partners is the most interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital firm with US$1.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, the firm supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets.Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 15 funds to date, invested inover 350 startups and nurtured 10 unicorns. Gobi has grown to 15 locations across key markets in Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Surabaya.As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Gobi Partners is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption to ensure long-term value creation and sustainability across our portfolio.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, Malaysia, Indonesia
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- DCAP Digital — Reimagine Consumer Financing With Our Full Stack Financing Platform and Lending-as-a-Service Platform, first-of-its- kind in Malaysia
Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, China, Singapore
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- WEE marketplace — WEE is an internet-based company operating from the United Arab Emirates, focusing on providing a marketplace platform that caters to the needs of its users by offering a wide selection of goods with the convenience of fast delivery services. Established in 2021, WEE aims to enhance the shopping experience by ensuring that customers can shop onlineand receive their orders swiftly, emphasizing the value of saving time. With a team of 45 employees, WEE supports various payment methods, including Cash on Delivery, and promotes customer satisfaction with a 14-day free return policy. The company also engages in community activities, such as sponsoring events, to maintain a close relationship with its user base.
Argor Capital is an early stage venture fund focused on the fast growing markets of Southeast Asia.
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- E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Indonesia, India, Vietnam
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- ReturnKey — Returns Management for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, and more to come. Sync to your e-commerce platform on Shopify, Magento, and Woocommerce.
- Vigo Retail — Vigo Retail is an e-commerce platform that provides retail services by connecting suppliers, brands, and distributors.
- PickUp Coffee — PickUp Coffee is a start-up that aims to increase the accessibility of espresso and milk-based beverages. PickUp Coffee is located in Taguig, Philippines.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Indonesia, Singapore, India
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- Kargo Technologies — Kargo adalah layanan logistik online yang menyediakan solusi pengiriman barang yang mudah, cepat, dan terpercaya. Temukan layanan yang dapat diandalkan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pengiriman Anda.
- Crackle Technologies — Crackle Technologies is a vibrant digital publisher ecosystem which is essential for a healthy and useful internet.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Corporate Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Malaysia, Singapore
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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.
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
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- SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
- Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
- Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.
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.
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- Fitness, Forestry, Software
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, Malaysia
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- AMILI — Asian Microbiome Library microbiome company and a stool bank serving as a hub for gut microbiome therapy.
- Thryve.Earth — Thryve Earth is a platform that unites multiple stakeholders to nature-based carbon projects in a scalable manner.
- FoodMarketHub — Manage your F&B procurement orders, inventory and so much more in Food Market Hub. Streamline your backend operations today!
Sea Unicorn
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Restaurants
- Series A
- Malaysia
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- 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
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.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Software, Hospitality
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, Malaysia, Hong Kong
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- Aigens — Aigens is a tech start-up that has helped steer the digital revolution of the F&B and Hospitality industry in Asia Pacific. The company led the way with mobile ordering and popularized scan-to-order long before Covid-19 triggered the mainstream adoption of their use.Founded in 2012 by Hans Paul (CEO) and Peter Liu (CTO), Aigens has grown intoa SaaS company known for being a market leader with significant wins, essentially being the first to introduce BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) QR code ordering technology to Hong Kong and Singapore.Headquartered in Hong Kong, Aigens serves more than 500 brands in F&B and Hospitality, including global names like KFC, Burger King, Starbucks, and IKEA. In the last three years, the company experienced its most significant growth, resulting in 6 regional offices and 120 team members.
- 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.
SIG specializes in system integration and IT infrastructure solutions. The company aims to be an IT innovator and responds to the needs of society through self-innovation and study.
It was founded in 1991 and headquartered in
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Education, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, India
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- Aruna — Aruna adalah integrated fisheries commerce startup di Indonesia, yang berusaha mewujudkan ekosistem perikanan dan perdagangan hasil laut yang adil.
- SariSuki — SariSuki is a community selling platform that helps you become an online neighborhood grocery store.
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