Top 10 Restaurants Startup Investors in Malaysia in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 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 April 2025

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

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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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SkyeChip — Your Preferred cutting edge IP & IC Design solutions for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.
Phase — Design and prototype websites and apps visually and intuitively, in a new powerful product reworked for the digital age.
Funding Societies — Funding Societies is a SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia. It is licensed in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and registered in Malaysia. It is backed by Sequoia India and Softbank Ventures Asia Corp amongst many others and provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is funded by individual andinstitutional investors. In 6 years, it has helped finance over 4 million business loans with over S$2 billion in funding. It was given the MAS FinTech Award in 2016, the Global SME Excellence Award at the United Nations’ ITU Telecom World in 2017, KPMG Fintech100 in 2018, Brands for Good in 2019, and in 2020 recognised by IDC as amongst the 5 fastest growing FinTechs in Singapore, won the Stevie® Award for Innovation in Technology, and named ASEAN Startup of the Year by Global Startup Awards.In 2015, co-founders Kelvin Teo, Iwan Kurniawan, and Reynold Wijaya headquartered Funding Societies | Modalku in Singapore, Central Region.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.
Sporttrade — Sporttrade is America's most dynamic sports betting platform. Sports betting, meet stock trading.

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

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Education, Mobile Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Aruna — Aruna adalah integrated fisheries commerce startup di Indonesia, yang berusaha mewujudkan ekosistem perikanan dan perdagangan hasil laut yang adil.
SariSuki — Online grocery for high-quality chicken, pork, beef, fruits and vegetables, rice, pantry staples, and household essentials. Guaranteed freshness delivered within Metro Manila. Next-Day Delivery. Free Shipping Min. Spend P500.
Terra.do — Learn about climate change and start working on climate change solutions today with the Terra.do community.

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 — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.com

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

Broom — Broom ID memberikan pelayanan terbaik untuk pengalaman Jual Beli Mobil Bekas Anda, banyak pilihan Variasi merek dan tipe Mobil Bekas yang berlimpah
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.
Supermom — Supermom helps parents make the right decisions on what to buy and where to buy at the lowest prices. Best prices guaranteed for millions of mom, baby & kids products.

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.

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.

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