Top 15 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Malaysia (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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The Hive Southeast Asia
VC Fund
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1 | Malaysia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Marketplace, Human Resources | $117k–$4M |
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Creador
VC Fund
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1 | India, Malaysia, Philippines | Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed | Financial Services, Manufacturing, Finance | $14M–$137M |
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Pembangunan Ekuiti
VC Fund
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1 | Malaysia | Pre-Seed | Retail, Grocery, E-Commerce | |
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AC Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Indonesia, Singapore, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology | $953k–$87M |
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Alta Group
VC Fund
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1 | India, Malaysia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | EdTech, Retail, Medical | |
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Axiata Digital Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka | Series A, Series B | Apps, Retail, Fitness | $302k–$12M |
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Commerce.Asia
VC Fund
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1 | Malaysia | Corporate Round, Seed | Apps, Retail, E-Commerce | |
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TH Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Malaysia, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $450k–$15M |
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The Radical Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Solar, Water | $1.5M–$3.1M |
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TheVentures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $74k–$4.8M |
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RHL Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Malaysia, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Series A, Private Equity | Health Care, E-Commerce, Social Media | $1M–$25M |
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BEENEXT
VC Fund
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1 | India, Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $500k–$51M |
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Quest Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $50k–$10M |
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Cradle Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Malaysia, Singapore, United States | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $23k–$787k |
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First Move
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, B2B | $300k–$575k |
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The Hive Southeast Asia is a VC fund backed by Palo Alto-based venture capital firm The Hive, Tuas Capital Partners, and Sunway. The Hive applies its entrepreneurial and operational experience to accelerate company building.
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- Industry: FinTech, Marketplace, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Malaysia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $117k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Collektr — Collektr is a live streaming community marketplace where users can buy, sell, and exchange collectible things in a secure environment. It's also a gathering place for keen collectors to discuss their common interests in a wide range of products and categories.
- AI Nusantara — AI Nusantara is research institution that focuses on educating and developing AI talents in Southeast Asia.
- Halogen — Halogen is a developer of a digital platform intended to simplify digital wealth management.
Creador is a private equity firm which partners with passionate entrepreneurs to grow world-class businesses in South and Southeast Asia. We are committed to leveraging our regional experience, deep market knowledge and operational expertise to create superior value for our companies and in turn our investors.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, Finance
- Stage:Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
- Geography: India, Malaysia, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Private Equity $14M–$70M; Secondary Market $30M–$137M
- Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $534M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- La Renon — La Renon Pvt. Ltd. is one of the top pharmaceutical companies. We are expert in Nephrology, Critical Care, Neurology, Cardiac Metabolism, and more.
- Kogta Financial — Kogta Financial (I) Ltd, one of the fastest growing NBFC in western India with its cost effective and efficient value chain for its clients financial needs is an outcome of its experienced and innovative Management Team.
- Shubham Housing Development Finance Company — Shubham.co is a leading housing finance company in India. We offer home loans, loans against property, Shubh Shakti Loans and more at affordable EMIs and interest rates. Apply online!
Pembangunan Ekuiti is a Venture Capital Management Corporation.
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- Industry: Retail, Grocery, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tuulyn — Tuulyn is an online grocery store and e-commerce platform that is involved in the sale and retail of grocery products.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Indonesia, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Seed $953k–$10M; Series A $5M–$31M; Series B $5M–$87M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Xurya — Xurya is a renewable energy platform in providing commercial and industrial rooftop owners access to solar lease product on one side. And investors access to a stable and safe investment in rooftop solar plants on the other side. Both are achieved by maintenance service which enables both parties peace of mind.
- Bibit.id — Beli Reksa Dana & Obligasi Negara dengan mudah di aplikasi. Mitra Distribusi SBN Terbaik 2022-2024. Diawasi OJK.
- Simplus — Simplus offers customers more fashionable and cost-effective small home appliances.
Invest or sell private companies, funds and alternative assets with Fundnel, Southeast Asia's largest private investment technology platform, licensed and regulated by MAS
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- Industry: EdTech, Retail, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: India, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Eatcosys — Your Comprehensive Retail Scaling Solution
- Impact Guru — ImpactGuru is a No.1 crowdfunding platform in India offering fundraising solutions for medical treatments, emergencies, NGOs & startups. Start a crowdfunding campaign now!
Axiata Digital Innovation Fund is a technology venture fund formed by Axiata Berhad.Axiata has controlling interests in six mobile operators under the brand names of ‘Celcom’ in Malaysia, ‘XL’ in Indonesia, ‘Dialog’ in Sri Lanka, ‘Robi’ in Bangladesh, ‘Smart’ in Cambodia and ‘Ncell’ in Nepal, with strategic interests in ‘Idea’ in India and ‘M1’in Singapore.
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- Industry: Apps, Retail, Fitness
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $302k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TheLorry — We offer a wide range of moving services from house moving to cross-border relocation.
- Signature Market — Healthy Snacks Malaysia - Buy natural & organic products at 20% - 50% off. Signature Market wants to make healthy living accessible & affordable to all Malaysian families.
- MyDoctor — MyDoctor is a digital health solution company that provides medical services using technology.
Commerce.Asia integrates best of breed technology solutions, talent development, data analytics and insights for South East Asian businesses to succeed online.
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- Industry: Apps, Retail, E-Commerce
- Stage:Corporate Round, Seed
- Geography: Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BizApp — BIZAPP is specifically designed for Android, iOS and Web users for all entrepreneurs, regular agents, dropship agents, stockists and HQs to manage booking data.
- Kumoten — Kumoten is a Malaysia's largest dropship service provider. they help online retailers start and grow their business by taking away the risk of buying stocks.
- Sitegiant — Omnichannel Commerce Platform
TH Capital is a Malaysian based Venture Capital firm with strong South East Asian connections. TH Capital is a platform that empowers and accelerates ventures with capital infusion, business consultancy, strategic mentorship and strong networking opportunities. TH Capital occupies a unique position in the Malaysian funding landscape with a strongfocus on technology innovation geared towards nation building activities.
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Malaysia, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $450k–$1.5M; Series A $6.8M–$13M; Series B $5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nuel — Nuel is a Supply chain management software company that offers data analytics, inventory mitigation, and data forecasting solutions.
- Versa Asia — Versa is a digital wealth management app that makes saving and investing easy and accessible, so you can achieve financial wellness.
- Naluri Life — Naluri is a human-driven, AI-augmented digital health solution that delivers improvements in mental and physical health.
A climate fund for founders building radical ventures - that (probably) don't look like climate companies.
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- Industry: Software, Solar, Water
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arkadiah — Secure high quality carbon credits & support biodiversity. Arkadiah fuses AI with satellite data and ground truth, transforming degraded lands to be nature-positive.
- Dash Electric — Democratizes access to driver as a fleet solutions. Provides a crucial delivery infrastructure for business by leveraging the power of EV.
- Okapi Technologies — Solar Financing Platform
TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $74k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $714k–$2M; Series A $2.5M–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- AIgement — AIgement enables industrial firms to make data-driven choices, save costs, and improve supplier relationships.
- Sans — Sans is the first alternative coffee brand in Korea to replicate the taste and aroma of coffee without using beans, and it is the only brand in the world to operate specialty alternative coffee stores. Instead of coffee beans, which are designated as one of the "five endangered crops," Sans developed an alternative coffee similar toAmericano by combining 12 ingredients, such as jujube seeds, chicory roots, and barley, which are easy to grow in greenhouses in any country regardless of climate change.
- Alice in Builderland — Alice in Builderland is an interior design and construction service platform that provides kitchen and bathroom construction packages.
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Browse database — It's Free!RHL Ventures is a Multi-Stage Venture Capital Investing Across Southeast Asia based in Malaysia. We invest actively from Series A across different asset classes and industries.
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- Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: Malaysia, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1M–$13M; Series A $1M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Fefifo — Fefifo /fee-fai-fo/ is a technology-first Co-farming company, that focuses on empowering a new generation of progressive farmers in ASEAN by providing traditional smallholder farmers and young agriculture graduates with ready-to-farm spaces and technologies to kickstart a modern farming business.
- Pandai — Pandai is an education app that offers a personalized learning experience through curriculum-based daily quizzes, tests, exams, videos to help students get better grades.
- Yisheng — Yisheng is a digital service platform for door-to-door car washing.
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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 293
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8.5M; Series A $2M–$29M; Series B $4.6M–$51M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.6B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- mewt — Lovable Generated Project
- Driffle — A marketplace built for gamers by gamers. Browse a huge collection of games, gift cards & subscriptions.
- ProsParity — Reimagining Distribution Of Credit In The Electric Mobility Sector
Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $50k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$64k; Series A $1.8M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7.5M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Howuku — Use Howuku to literally see what your web visitors are doing on your website with tools, such as heatmaps, A/B testing, recordings & more.
- OpenAcademy — Upgrade your skills with your preferred learning style. From bite sized mobile lessons to comprehensive courses - you name it, we have it.
- GuruInovatif — Kembangkan skill mengajar Anda untuk kemajuan pendidikan Indonesia bersama para trainer yang berpengalaman pada bidangnya di Guruinovatif.id
WHO IS CRADLE?Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd (Cradle) is Malaysia's early stage start-up influencer, incorporated under the Ministry of Finance Malaysia (MOF) in 2003 with a mandate to fund potential and high-calibre tech start-ups through its Cradle Investment Programme (CIP).Throughout its 13-year history, Cradle has helped fund over 700Malaysian tech start-ups and holds the highest commercialisation rate amongst government grants in the country. Having more than a decade of experience in the nation's grant funding scene, Cradle further expanded its role from grant provider to investor through the establishment of its venture arm, Cradle Seed Ventures in 2015 and following its portfolio expansion to equity investment in early 2017, Cradle now offers both funding and investment assistance. Cradle's product offerings are not only restricted to monetary aid, but also include commercialisation support, coaching and various other value-added services to cater today's entrepreneurs' diversified needs.OUR MISSIONTo be the leading pre-seed, seed and start-up stage funding agency in Malaysia, that provides effective grant and equity funding, commercialisation support, coaching, and industry value-add to accelerate the growth of start-up companies.Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Malaysia, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $176k–$787k; Grant $23k–$117k; Pre-Seed $58k–$93k
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DasAR — DasAR provides a hassle-free and cost-efficient, no-code web-based AR solution. In less than an hour, businesses can subscribe, upload 3D models, link a custom domain, and launch their own mobile responsive AR website, enabling customers to visualise products in real-life settings. Our placement formula showcases objects in their accurate sizingbased on real-world distances, particularly useful for heavy, bulky, and high-value items. With our value of accessibility, practicality, and community, DasAR democratises AR technology. Accessibility is ensured through our self-serve web platform, eliminating customised App development. Practicality extends beyond just visualisation, as our 3D models dynamically react to real-world distances, illustrating precise space usage at home or at work. As our platform evolves, it will foster collaboration among businesses, 3D modellers, and consumers, creating a community for support.
- Axtraction AI — Axtraction AI provides innovative document AI solutions for precise and efficient regulatory compliance in banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI).
- EasyM Mechandiser Sdn Bhd — Looking for a merchandising app in Malaysia? Click on Easym.com.my. We offer a range of merchandising apps that are perfect for your business. Do visit our site for more info.
First Move is a founder-led early stage VC that invests in visionary executives and founders building scalable, tech-enabled businesses for a better future in Southeast Asia
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- Industry: Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, B2B
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Pre-Seed $300k–$575k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FinKnight — FinKnight offers new growth opportunities and financial management experience for companies. It bridges the gap by providing innovative financial leadership.
- Scentses + Co — Malaysia's First Fragrance Subscription, where you can discover different designer perfumes and colognes monthly for just RM49.90.
- Pride Health —
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