Top 25 Social Impact VC Funds in Asia
A list of 25 VC funds that invest in Social impact startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social impact companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Social Impact VC Funds in Asia
Investor | Social Impact Asia investments |
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1/0 Capital | 2 |
MIRAISE | 2 |
ANRI | 2 |
Z Venture Capital | 2 |
Daiichi Kogyo Credit Union | 1 |
Monex Ventures | 1 |
Kiraboshi Bank | 1 |
Nogle Group | 1 |
SparkLabs Group | 1 |
Concept Vines | 1 |
Enabling Future | 1 |
MyAsia VC | 1 |
Zayn Venture Capital (Formally Zayn Capital) | 1 |
Blue Horizon Corporation | 1 |
Fatima Gobi Ventures | 1 |
Infinity-KBR Group | 1 |
Thunes | 1 |
Building Capital | 1 |
Taarah Ventures | 1 |
Arif Habib Corp | 1 |
Cordoba Logistics & Ventures | 1 |
EmergeVest | 1 |
Japan Finance Corporation | 1 |
NewMargin Ventures | 1 |
Insitor Partners | 1 |
1/0 Capital is a privately held partnership that invests in growth stage companies.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Singapore, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Span.IO — Span reinvented the electrical panel. Control every circuit in your home from your phone. Contact us!
- abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
- Climb Credit — Climb Credit (NMLS# 1240013) is an innovative student lending platform that makes career creation and transformation more accessible, affordable, and accountable than ever before. Driven by a mission to empower individuals to unlock their career potential – no matter what their credit profile – Climb identifies programs and schools with ademonstrated ability to improve the earnings of their graduates. Then they provide learners with financing options that are priced and structured to meet the unique needs of those seeking career elevation and increased earning power.Recognizing the dynamic and diverse nature of an economy in rapid change, Climb partners with schools that teach everything from cybersecurity to pilot training, heavy machine operation to data science, and culinary arts to coding. While some colleges are struggling to meet the real-world needs of their students, Climb and its partner schools are committed to an inspiring practicality that brings real career results as individuals Own Their Next chapter.
We are engineers investing in engineers. With experienced mentors, MIRAISE supports you hands-if basis, for business model, financial planning and presentation. All founders of our potfolio automatically join MIRAISE online community that gives you the peer-learning opportunities with other founders. Join us updating the normal!
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Investment focus
- Apps, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Japan, Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- oVice — oVice is a virtual spatial platform that allows people to gather in one place, move, talk, and collaborate freely as avatars. With the mission of “maximizing effective online communication”, oVice develops and provides lifelike features that offer users a close-to-reality interactive online experience. Featuring customization, you can change thelayout to match the theme of your usage, build lockable rooms, place down static objects, and more!Use it as a remote office, an event venue, an academic conference hall, and even a space for parties!
- Webacy — A safer web3 for everyone
- pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
- xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
- Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Content
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, Japan, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- Metalogos — Metalogos operates a public stock information service. It provides individual investors with easy-to-understand and unambiguous information regarding public offerings.
- Kinolights — Kinolights is a movie rating and recommendation services provider.
- TicketMe — TicketMe is Japan's largest NFT, allows to freely purchase and sell tickets for live music, theater, sports, and other events. Its purpose is to ''find the hidden value in the world and deliver the appropriate value to the right location.
Daiichi Kogyo Credit Union is provides financial services.
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Investment focus
- Service Industry
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Age well Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
- Mediclo — Mediclo is a real estate company that provides renting, property management, and B2C services.
- Otetsutabi — Otetsutabi is a regional revitalization platform that offers the opportunity for participants to help at accommodations and breweries in rural areas that struggle with seasonal labor shortages. The locals offer transportation expenses and places to stay in return, so participants can travel to the areas with ease.
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
- pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
- MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision
Kiraboshi Bank starts by merging Tokyo Tomin Bank, Yachiyo Bank, and ShinGinko Tokyo on May 1, 2018.
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Investment focus
- Education, Hotel, Communities
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- FSX — FSX is a rental hand towel company
- Age well Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
- TAILOR WORKS — TAILOR WORKS is a web platform for discussing issues, sharing information, and connecting with new people.
Nogle Group
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Payments
- Series A
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- TNG FinTech Group — TNG FinTech Group pioneers a global social banking platform for e-wallets, financial institutions, and merchants delivering frictionless interoperable real-time fund transfers and instant messaging. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Founded in 2013, SparkLabs Group comprises of SparkLabs Accelerator, Asia’s premier accelerator network, SparkLabs Global Ventures, a global seed-stage fund; SparkLabs Capital, a late-stage investment vehicle; SparkLabs Ventures, our new early-stage fund for South Korea; and SparkChain, our new blockchain focused early-stage fund.SparkLabs Groupcomprises of SparkLabs accelerator network,Asia’s premier startup accelerators; SparkLabs Global Ventures, a leading seed stage fund; SparkLabs Ventures, a localized early-stage fund (Series A & B) in South Korea; SparkLabs Capital, a late stage investment vehicle.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Pakistan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mahaana — Mahaana is Pakistan’s first digital wealth manager. They make sure your savings are invested in a diversified portfolio best suited for your goals.
- Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
- Global Mortgage Group — Connecting our international clients to our network of lenders around the world. GMG offers financing solutions in the U.S, U.K., France, Canada, Singapore, and Australia.
ConceptVines offers Consulting and Product Engineering Services focused on disruptive technologies & fueled by progressive startups.
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Social Impact
- Seed
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
Enabling Future (EF) is a sector agnostic, family office backed Venture Capital firm head quartered in Dubai. EF provides seed and early stage funding to entrepreneurs who challenge conventional wisdom and look to create true disruption. Our goal is to enable entrepreneurs to build companies of the future. We provide our portfolio companies withcapital, experience, strategy and network.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United Arab Emirates, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- NÜWATER — NÜWATER was born out of a desire to combat the harmful impact that plastic bottles have on our environment today. With approximately 8 million tonnes of plastic ending up in the ocean every year, NÜWATER is a recyclable alternative to plastic bottled water. We'd like to put the UAE at the forefront of driving sustainability, to ensure ourfuture generations live in a cleaner, healthier, plastic free world. NÜWATER is sourced from an artesian spring 500 meters underground, one of the deepest springs in the world. Filtered through rich volcanic rock, NÜWATER supplies the body with essential minerals for life. In comparison to desalinated water - a process that is highly energy intensive, removes all the minerals and produces toxic waste in the process. We are proud to say our manufacturing process is 100% Carbon Neutral. We aim to be a Carbon Net Positive company by 2023. see less
- Trifacta — Trifacta has joined Alteryx to help customers and partners bring even more value to their businesses, powered by breakthrough data analytic insights.
- Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.
MyAsia VC
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Deciml — Deciml is an investment app in India that enables Indians to start investing young by investing the spare change from their online transactions. Download App.
- Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Pakistan, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AdalFi — AdalFi provides digital lending infrastructure services.It identifies, qualifies, engages, activates, and delights lending prospects for our partner banks.
- Haball — Reimagining the way money flows through the supplychain Haball provides a fully automated alternative to manual order processing, invoicing, reconciliation and paper-based payment methods. An omni channel platform for digitizing payments across the entire supply chain. Fueling supplychain efficiency by providing: Supply Chain Entrenchment Supply Chain Entrenchment Platform for all value-chain partners from large corporates, distributors and retailers. Multiple Industry Verticals Multiple Industry Verticals A single platform customized for industry
- Zaraye — Zaraye is a secure, user-friendly B2B platform that facilitates the free exchange of raw materials through a reverse-bidding model. It help the customers get the best prices at the fastest rate while preserving their autonomy to choose suppliers effortlessly. Conversely, It suppliers are guaranteed detailed insights about buyer behaviour, whichaids them in providing tailor-made orders to increase conversions and client satisfaction.
Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a new Sustainable Food System that delivers outstanding returns for investors and the planet.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- WOW EARN — WOW EARN connects users to the blockchain, enabling them to mine, earn, and trade via decentralised mining, earning, and trading systems.
- New School Foods — Whole-muscle, plant-based seafood
- Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.
We focus on technology-enabled businesses that address current pain points in Pakistan’s booming market. From travel and logistics to FinTech and TaqwaTech, our startups are disrupting the industry and changing the way Pakistanis live.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Pakistan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AdalFi — AdalFi provides digital lending infrastructure services.It identifies, qualifies, engages, activates, and delights lending prospects for our partner banks.
- DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
- PriceOye — Priceoye is Pakistan's No.1 marketplace for buying original mobile phones and electronics. Priceoye is Pakistan's most trusted online store and offers the lowest prices every day.
Infinity-KBR Group
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Payments
- Series A
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- TNG FinTech Group — TNG FinTech Group pioneers a global social banking platform for e-wallets, financial institutions, and merchants delivering frictionless interoperable real-time fund transfers and instant messaging. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Payment infrastructure for a connected world.
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, Forestry
- Seed, Series A
- Togo, Singapore
Building Capital provides technical services for national and local government transport initiatives.
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Social Impact
- Seed
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
Taarah Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Social Impact
- Seed
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
Arif Habib Corporation Limited primarily engages in the securities and commodities brokerage business in Pakistan and Dubai. The company offers equity and debt brokerage, and corporate finance services to various institutional, corporate, high net worth, and retail clients; and financial and investment solutions relating to raising of equity anddebt, mergers and acquisitions, financial advisory, and structured finance.
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Social Impact
- Seed
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
Cordoba Logistics & Ventures Limited is principally engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling, and export of textile products.
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Social Impact
- Seed
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, FinTech, Women's
- Seed
- Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Detected — Detected fills the critical KYB gap in the payments technology stack. Customers can complete Know Your Business requirements within their own CRM via API.
- Lucy — Lucy is a free mobile banking app that allows women to save, spend and budget. Spend online or in stores with the prepaid Mastercard.
Is a public corporation that provides financial services in Japan and internationally.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Ediscovery
- Debt Financing, Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Edeyans — Edeyans provide almighty cleaning services for various accommodation facilities.
- Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
- Emulsion Flow Technologies — Emulsion Flow Technologies offers rare metal recycling, utilizing emulsion flow technology, emulsion.
NewMargin Ventures is a Chinese venture capital management company that supports emerging entrepreneurs.Founded in July 1999, NewMargin Ventures offers a unique and compelling combination of strong local and national government support within an organizational culture defined by independent decision-making, professionalism, and teamwork.NewMargin currently has about $520 million under management.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Manufacturing, Internet
- Series A, Angel, Series B
- China, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Humi.com — Humi.com is an industrial Internet service platform.
- ZS Robotics — ZS Robotics specializes in technological innovation and the provision of dependable intelligent storage products and solutions.
- Shexu Technology — Established in 2020, Shanghai Shexu Technology Co., Ltd. is an AI-driven industrial design software R&D technology enterprise and design service provider. The company has a professional scientific research and technical team, and has independently developed automatic industrial design software based on AI computing engine. The design softwarehas been widely used in the field of automotive industry equipment, significantly improving the design efficiency of industrial machinery designers.
Insitor Partners pioneered impact investing as the first impact fund manager to set up operations in Southeast Asia, and a pioneer investor in India and Pakistan. We back entrepreneurs building life-changing solutions for low-income consumers.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- India, Cambodia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- WorkIndia — With WorkIndia.in a Job seeker can search the best jobs throughout India and schedule the Interview at their convenience. And an employer can post the vacancy and get calls directly from the prospective candidate.
- HROne — HROne helps companies to automate the employee lifecycle. Awarded best cloud-based software in India & trusted by 4+ lacs users across 18+ industries.
- Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
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