Top 10 Social Media Startup Investors in Vietnam

Investor	Social Media Vietnam investments
IT-Farm	2
Next Billion Ventures	2
Insignia Ventures Partners	2
Stonebridge Capital	1
Frontier Digital Ventures	1
TNB AURA	1
RHL Ventures	1
FEBE Ventures	1
GS Shop	1
SBVA	1

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cogsmart — Cogsmart provides services for brain function research and development. In hopes of helping prevent dementia and maintain and improve other cognitive functions, they manufacture and sell software for medical and healthcare devices.
Tupu — Tupu engages in the manufacture and supply of mushroom-based foods.
German Bionic — German Bionic is backed by renowned international technology investors such as Samsung Catalyst Fund, Storm Ventures and MIG, which is also invested in Covid-19 vaccine developer BioNTech. The company and its products are regularly featured in top-tier publications and are the recipients of numerous awards including the German Entrepreneur Award,the Land of Ideas Award, the Automatica Award as well as a nomination for Hannover Messe’s coveted Hermes Award.The German Bionic Cray X is the world’s first connected exoskeleton. Linked to the Smart Factory, it self-learns to reinforce lifting movements and prevent incorrect posture, thus becoming an intelligent link between humans and machines. In doing so, it delivers data that underscores its ability to protect the health of workers, measurably reduce the risk of accidents, and thereby make quantifiable improvements to work processes.

A venture capital partnership for emerging markets.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
TopUp Mama — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.
Advance Tech Lending — Advance Tech Lending is an online salary loans provider. They help employees cover their daily financial needs with a click of a button. They don’t charge interest, just a processing fee to get funds to you immediately.

Insignia Ventures Partners is a venture capital firm that specializes in startup investment. Insignia Ventures Partners is an investment firm managed by a former Sequoia Asia partner, Yinglan Tan.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

bluesheets — Build a solid data foundation with Bluesheets, the all-in-one tool that connects, categorises and automates your finanical data. Set up once, automate forever.
Fluid — Fluid offers fast and secure B2B payment processing, which decreases payment delays and streamlines financial transactions between buyers and sellers.
Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.

Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Gaonchips — Gaonchips is a chip enterprise that engages in system semiconductor development. They provide an optical solution to clients based on technology. It also provides all solutions necessary for developing and producing massive system semiconductors, ranging from RTL and platform design and verification, DFT insertion, layout, and packaging to testing.
onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
OPENEDGES Technology — OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. is the world's only total memory subsystem and AI platform IP provider that delivers NoC interconnect, DDR memory controller, DDR PHY, and NPU IPs.

We partner with highly motivated entrepreneurs who want to build market leading online marketplace businesses in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Marketplace, Social Media
Series A, Convertible Note
Vietnam, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Propzy — Propzy is a full-stack real estate platform that originates and facilitates property sale and leasing transactions in Vietnam. By combining a real estate marketplace on the front end with logistics, documentation, and transaction services on the backend, Propzy has created a strong value proposition for consumers and has established a clearcompetitive advantage in Vietnam.Vietnam has a total population of 92m with a very high mobile penetration rate of 147%. By 2017 all 4 major mobile operators had been issued 4G licenses, providing the platform for strong increases in Internet and smartphone penetration. Strong listing growth in 2017 is expected to significantly drive revenue growth due to the transaction focused business model. In Q1 2017, Propzy facilitated a total of $190mm in property transactions with an average share of the total commission of 0.40% and is currently on track for $300mm for Q2 (150% QoQ growth). In 2015 there were a total of 357k property sale transactions in Vietnam, with potential agency commissions for the whole Vietnamese market as high as US$1bn.The CEO and founder of Propzy, John Le, is a highly successful entrepreneur having founded and sold several technology businesses in North America. In 1999, he founded one of the Internet’s first mortgage trading platforms (LoanTrader) and attracted top tier investors including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Koch Industries. John Le has been awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Orange County) and Deloitte’s Fast50 winner. In 2009 John Le returned to Vietnam to found Vietnam’s first international credit bureau along with operating and financial partner TransUnion.
Zameen.com — Zameen, the leading property portal based in Pakistan - offering the highest levels of service to property buyers sellers landlords tenants alike and to real estate agents in Karachi Lahore Islamabad and all over Pakistan. We are providing quality property - commercial plots, lands and markets - villas - apartments - bungalows - home buying and villa rentals.

As a thesis-led, high-conviction venture capital firm, we use data-driven methodologies to identify and invest in select companies that are primed for the future and ready to change the very face of their categories.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Retail, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Ora — ORA specializes in direct-to-patient healthcare transformation. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Singapore.
AcadArena — AcadArena is the home of campus gaming in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Join tournaments, earn esports scholarships and meet new friends all for free!
Révi Coffee & Tea — Révi Coffee & Tea is a tech-enabled coffee chain company.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Private Equity
Malaysia, Indonesia, United States

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.

FEBE Ventures (“For Entrepreneurs, By Entrepreneurs”) is an early stage Venture Capital fund supporting outstanding entrepreneurs in Vietnam & Southeast Asia. The fund is managed by 4 entrepreneurs with +28 years of experience building and scaling companies in Vietnam & Southeast Asia, and investing in tech startups in Asia, Europe andSouth America. We apply a value-added approach, backing the best founders and offering our local business expertise, operational know-how, and global network.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Elfie — We fight high blood pressure and increase treatment adherence by rewarding patients for self-monitoring. World #1 app for hypertension. Download now.
FR8Labs — Optimize your freight business with our AI Freight Forwarding Software. Boost efficiency and stay ahead in logistics.
HD — HD is a healthcare and surgery marketplace, powering over 1,500+ healthcare providers including some of the biggest hospitals. HD connects patients to hospitals, clinics, operating rooms, and surgeons while offering healthcare financing solutions to increase access to affordable care and surgeries. To date, over 250,000 patients have benefited frommore accessible and affordable healthcare and surgeries through the company's platform.

GSHS is Korea’s foremost multimedia retailer as well as a global leader in TV home shopping.GSHS strives to fulfill its corporate vision of ‘Value No. 1 Online Commerce Leader’, working tirelessly to create a new quality of life by enabling our customers to shop conveniently whenever and wherever. This vision is the guiding light that hasfueled our growth to the very apex of Korea’s multimedia retail industry.GSHS focuses on creating a shopping environment that is convenient and accessible. To this end, we provide shopping services not only via TV, internet, and shopping catalogs but also through new media platforms, including digital cable TV, IPTV (internet protocol television), smartphones, and tablet PCs.We continuously strive to enhance our customers’ quality of life. We search all corners of the globe for quality products that can further enrich our customers’ lives, and we never stop thinking about new services that would provide added convenience.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketing
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
Guhada — Guhada platform serves as a luxury goods distribution hub, connecting local boutiques in Europe, domestic conglomerate shopping malls, and luxury goods and fashion vertical commerce. Guhada has been supplying the domestic market with luxury goods owned by European boutiques, ranging from high-demand high-end luxury goods to contemporary onlineproducts.
Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.

SoftBank Ventures Asia is the corporate venture capital arm of SoftBank Group. The firm prefers to invest in the information technology, smart robotics industry artificial intelligence, internet of things and information, communication, and technology sectors. It is based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2000.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

ImpriMed — Find the best chemo drugs for treating your dog's lymphoma BEFORE treatment begins. You and your veterinarian can make the best cancer treatment decisions just for your dog.
Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.