Top 50 Social Network Startup Investors in Singapore in November 2024

Investor	Social Network Singapore investments
Tom Varkey	3
Shubhrendu Koche	3
JMS Ventures	2
Samsung NEXT	2
HashKey Capital	2
Hashkey Exchange	2
Digital Currency Group	2
Antler	2
Balaji Srinivasan	2
Hustle Fund	2
Coinbase Ventures	1
Animoca Brands	1
PALcapital	1
Sanjay Popli	1
Nicole Zhang	1
Suji Yan	1
Ryan Selkis	1
WAGMI Ventures	1
Germaine Jiang	1
Hashed	1
SNZ Holding	1
CoinDCX	1
Solana Ventures	1
Token Bay Capital	1
Consor Capital	1
Sino Global Capital	1
Manit Parikh	1
Kraken Ventures	1
Liang Xinjun	1
John Lindfors	1
Anatoly Yakovenko	1
JAFCO Asia	1
OKX Ventures	1
Goodwater Capital	1
Du Capital	1
Craig Hewett	1
DCG Expeditions	1
Josh Hannah	1
Blockchain Founders Fund	1
Forge Ventures	1
Fantail Ventures	1
Nick Gundry	1
Evernew Capital	1
Aurum Investments	1
Ray Chan	1
Anatoly Yakovenko	1
Decentralised	1
Raj Gokal	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
Arcane Group	1

Tom is a veteran in financial markets and is Principal at Stonehill Capital. Prior to this he has held positions with Lazard Asset Management & Fidelity Investments focusing on emerging markets and corporate debt. Tom is an MBA from Harvard Business School & has a MA in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, E-Learning, Education
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Knocksense — A local news and recommendations platform.
Clever Harvey — Clever Harvey JuniorMBA is an online programme led by IIM and Ivy league alumni to teach your child the essentials of entrepreneurship, strategy and technology!

Shubhrendu Koche

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sports, eSports
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.
BazaarNXT — BazaarNXT is an e-commerce company that optimizes the packaging procurement for Businesses using technology. It is a modern, futuristic, and extended version of the local bazaar. BazaarNXT was founded by Gaurav Badharkhe and Dhananjaya S. in 2017 and is headquartered in Karnataka, India.

Early Stage Investor

Investment focus

Sports, eSports, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform

Samsung NEXT Ventures is an investment arm of Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics dedicated to identifying new growth opportunities that will define the next decade. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, and media technology sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
Centaur Labs — Centaur Labs offers accurate and scalable medical data labeling across a variety of modalities and data formats including CT, ultrasound, image, video, text and many more.
Wildfire Systems — We are the only white-label cashback and shopping rewards loyalty platform that helps companies monetize e-commerce everywhere.

HashKey Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
Castile — Castile is a Web3 gaming platform that promotes a revolutionary game model that enables users to earn more sustainably.
Kiva AI — Kiva AI is a platform designed to supply high-quality and compliant data solutions at scale to create specialized AI applications in domains such as healthcare, finance, and law.

Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
Supra — Supra is the world's highest-performing, fully vertically integrated L1 blockchain, and it's about to change everything.
Panoptic — Panoptic is a perpetual, oracle-free, instant-settlement options trading protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. Panoptic enables the permissionless trading of options on top of any asset pool in the Uniswap v3 ecosystem and seeks to develop a trustless, permissionless, and composable options product, i.e., do for decentralized options markets whatx*y=k automated market maker protocols did for spot trading.Read the whitepaper behind our product here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14232

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
Spire — Spire a zk appchain system with atomic adaptability.

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Uprise — Uprise is building wealth management for all - bringing the tools and the tricks of the 1% to everyone :). The company was founded by Chris Goodmacher and Jessica Chen Riolfi.
Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
Phaseshift Technologies — Phaseshift Technologies is developing a Computational Materials Engineering (CME) platform to help accelerate the Research and Development of High-Performance Alloys. The CME platform is driven by Quantum Chemistry calculations and aided by Machine Learning based predictive algorithms.

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Focus — The Crypto Social Network.
Shadow — Shadow operates as a crypto data platform.
Polymer Labs — Polymer Labs is building a universal IBC routing/roll-up protocol to enable E2E IBC connectivity across ecosystems.

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Clozer — Sell experiences & run gamified giveaways to grow your music streams
move.ai — FREE YOUR MOTION. CAPTURE YOUR IMAGINATION. No more suits, no more restrictions. High fidelity motion capture made easy
Forge — Forge is where gamers go to earn rewards and recognition from their achievements in gaming.

Founded in 1995, Pacific Alliance Limited, LLC (â€œPacific Allianceâ€) is a merchant bank providing advisory services to companies in the USA, China and Latin America seeking to create strategic opportunities, raise funds or create joint ventures. Its services include broad financial advisory, mergers & acquisitions advice, restructuringadvice, and private placements of debt and equity securities.Pacific Alliance is a merchant bank that focuses on US, Chinese and Latin American companies seeking to engage in cross border transactions. The firm advises companies seeking capital or strategic acquisitions to expand and consolidate their market position between these important markets.Pacific Alliance has a unique competitive advantage in its target markets. The principals of Pacific Alliance have been responsible for many significant transactions for Chinese companies in the international markets, including the first listing of a Chinese company on the New York Stock Exchange (Ek Chor China Motorcycle) and the first listing of a Chinese power company on the international markets (Hopewell Holdings). In Latin America, the company was responsible for the sale of the largest Spanish Language On-line Advertising Network to FOX Networks (Digital Ventures/FOX).In addition to the investment banking services, Pacific Alliance provides advisory services and seed investment to internet startup companies. Current Pacific Alliance serves on the advisory board to Nestio, Offtrackplanet and OnTrade. It has founded the [PALgensis] (http://www.palgenesis.com) as a seed investment fund to invest in early stage businesses. It also servies on the board of Nxtp.Labs, a latin-america based incubator.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Blockchain, Consulting
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Lamina1 — LAMINA1 is a Layer1 blockchain optimized for the Open Metaverse, providing builders and creators a flexible framework to create and innovate a better online future.
OrdinalsBot — We make it easy to inscribe ordinals. Like, really easy.
ECOMI TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. — ECOMI brings a range of exciting decentralized applications and hardware products to blockchain and distributed ledgers. ECOMI offers two blockchain-backed products - protection of digital assets, and the exciting new world of digital collectibles.

Sanjay Popli is the Co-Founder and Group CEO of Cryptomind Group Holdings.

Investment focus

Social Network, Information Technology
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.

Nicole Zhang is a Partner at Lingfeng Innovation Fund. She is a former Executive Director at Binance Labs.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Crestal — Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.
ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.
yoloyolo — In order to match the top NFT IPS with leading brands and uncover growth opportunities and revenue models for both these brands and the NFT IP holders, Yoloyolo is developing new infrastructure.

Suji Yan is the founder and CEO of Dimension/Mask Network.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
EarlyFans — Welcome to EarlyFans! A new way to find your favorite creators, support them early, and get rewarded for it.

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Agora — Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform.
StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.

Join our syndicate to gain access to venture backed web3 startups. WAGMI Ventures is a global syndicate of 10,000+ strategic execs from some of the largest crypto companies giving founders distribution partners.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
LogX — About LogXLogX is the leading Perpetual DEX on Layer 2 networks. Supported by top-tier investors like Sequoia Capital Coinbase Ventures IOSG Hashed and more LogX combines a simple user friendly interface with extremely fast order matching built on proprietary scalable infrastructure. Currently live on 15+ networks LogX stands out as the mostomnipresent Perp DEX in the market.We offer two distinct products to cater to different types of traders1. LogX Pro: An advanced order book-based platform designed for experienced traders, live on three networks. 2. LogX OG: Featuring an innovative AMM based DAMN pool infrastructure, built for scalability and live on over 10 networks, perfect for new traders.Our Competitive Edge and Uniqueness:- Low Cost High Liquidity Offering: LogX sets a new standard in decentralized trading with unmatched cost efficiency and high liquidity across multiple pairs. - Technological Superiority: Our DAMN-based AMM pool enables rapid deployment of perpetual DEXs on new networks and ecosystems. - AI-Based Trading Bots: We are the first in the perps industry to offer fully functional AI trading bots executing strategies like grid trading.At LogX we prioritize composability seamlessly integrating with other protocols while allowing other protocols to integrate with us. This makes LogX a versatile choice for applications like wallets copy trading platforms and analytics platforms.

Germaine Jiang is the Director, General Manager and Head,Strategy & Institutional Relations at Mask Network.

Investment focus

Social Network, Information Technology
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.

Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
IDA — IDA is the leading provider of digital asset solutions, allowing trust, transparency, and speed in payments and commerce. By leveraging blockchain technology, IDA opens up a more connected and inclusive global economy.
Infinit — Infinit is the DeFi Abstraction Layer that removes the enormous friction associated with creating and scaling DeFi ecosystems.

SNZ Holding was founded by a group of engineers, blockchain evangelists.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

TeleportDAO — Trustless cross-chain settlement solution
Puffer Finance — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
Social Future — Social Future is an AI-driven social networking metaverse company.

CoinDCX is India's largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange where you can buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with ease. CoinDCX, with its #TryCrypto mission, provides Indian crypto audience with a simple cryptocurrency trading app for seamless crypto-to-crypto (c2c) and fiat-to-crypto (f2c) experience.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, France

Portfolio highlights

BitOasis — BitOasis is MENA's leading platform that allows you to securely buy, sell and trade crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Bitcoin Cash at the best rates. Currently available in UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
Optic — Optic monitors blockchains to reveal the origins of any NFT and how it’s been reimagined, remixed, or copied.
Unstoppable Domains — Buy .x, .crypto, .eth and other web3 domains to own your digital identity

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

BAXUS — BAXUS is a blockchain-based protocol for storing, authenticating, and tokenizing luxury goods.
Mayan — Swap tokens in Solana protocols from EVM chains
Sanctum — Say hello to the infinite-LST future

Since 2021, Token Bay has invested in digital assets and blockchain companies, providing investors with diversified exposure across the Web3 ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Hong Kong, Israel

Portfolio highlights

MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
Taiko Labs — Taiko is a fully permissionless, Ethereum-equivalent based rollup. Inspired, secured, and sequenced by Ethereum.
MANTRA — MANTRA bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi by offering the necessary infrastructure for tokenizing Real World Assets (RWAs) while adhering to real-world regulatory requirements.

Consor Capital focuses on early-stage companies serving consumers and small businesses.

Investment focus

Dating, Social, Wedding
Series A, Series B
Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Wallop — Wallop is a social networking site that was spun out of a Microsoft research on the social networking space. It was founded by Sean Uberoi Kelly. Wallop is now Coveroo.
vSocial — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!

Local Insights, Global Impact

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
MetaGravity — MetaGravity is a deep-tech startup that is pushing the boundaries of blockchain and the Metaverse. MetaGravity is a deep-tech startup located in London that is pushing the boundaries of blockchain and the Metaverse. They're on a quest to build the next generation of live, breathing digital worlds that will entice gamers and keep them fulfilledand engaged for decades. They are leveraging their significant knowledge in massive-scale processing and engine technologies to create the technical foundation for the Metaverse, a decentralized digital world. MetaGravity is headquartered in London, United Kingdom and was founded in 2021.
OpenTrade — OpenTrade providers web3 treasurers, institutions, and accredited investors access to on-chain structured financial products backed by investment grade RWAs.

Manit Parikh

Investment focus

B2B, Sports, eSports
Angel
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
GlocalBazaar — We connect thousands of MSME sellers and buyers and farmers, enabling & creating economic opportunity for all. Our range of Seller & Buyers Services and tools help Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises to start, manage and scale their businesses online.Our mission is to re-define Local and Global B2B and F2B commerce in ways that build amore fulfilling and lasting world. We are committed to empowering businesses while strengthening communities and engaging people.

Kraken Ventures is a global VC fund investing in the economies of the future. Learn more today.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, France

Portfolio highlights

Agora — Agora operates as a digital dollar and an asset platform.
Usual Labs — Usual is a Stablecoin DeFi protocol that redistributes control and redefines value sharing. It empowers users by aligning their interests with the platform's success.
dvts.network — dvts.network is an ethereum liquidity staking protocol that reduces the initial capital requirements for ethereum validators.

Liang Xinjun is the Founder of the Fosun fashion group. He previously worked at Shanghai Guangxin Technology Development Co as a VP; Deputy GM. Liang Xinjun attended Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

NFTGo — NFTGo is a NFT data aggregator where users can find information about NFT, including NFT Drops, ranking, whale tracking, NFT search engine, market data, transaction data, and many more.
0xScope — Discover the comprehensive suite of trading and research products leveraging 0xScope's cutting-edge Web3 Data Layer architecture. Trade with confidence using Scopechat, access advanced analytical tools with Scopescan, and tap into the extensive capabilities of ScopeAPI for traceable entity insights.
TokenScript — A new standard for bridging web2 and web3

John Lindfors is a Co-Founder of DST Global. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs as the head of tech and media investment banking in the EMEA region before transitioning to Digital Sky Technologies in 2010.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Communities, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Series D
Finland, South Korea, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
Yolk.fm — Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
Pixieray — Pixieray modernizes traditional eyeglass optics by introducing a pioneering adaptive solution giving anyone perfect vision.

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
Blockcast — Blockcast is a next-generation content delivery network that utilizes one-to-many distribution to save costs. It is an open content delivery network (CDN) with a distinct caching architecture that offers large, flexible capacity.

Since its establishment in 1990, JAFCO Asia has grown to become a leading brand in the venture capital industry in the Asia Pacific region. Currently, JAFCO Asia has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and Beijing.With more than US$1.2 billion funds under management in aggregate, JAFCO Asia's experienced investment team hasinvested in over 368 companies in 13 countries (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, India, Israel and Vietnam) and divested more than 260 companies of which at least 86 have been publicly listed.Since the new millennium, JAFCO Asia has shifted its focus entirely to technology related investments and is now one of the pre-eminent venture capital technology investors in the region. They believe that their existing portfolio in the Asia Pacific region and the worldwide business network offer their portfolio companies significant potential for synergistic partnerships.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

MFast (DigiPay J.S.C.) — MFast operates as a fintech platform. MFAST is a brand under Digital Payment Solution Joint Stock Company - DigiPay JSC.
Pixso — Pixso is a cloud-based design tool that supports collaboration among people, one-click delivery, and easy management of design resources.
Savelots — Savelots is a membership-based discount chain brand that primarily operates in discount retail and department store related activities.

OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Castile — Castile is a Web3 gaming platform that promotes a revolutionary game model that enables users to earn more sustainably.
B² Network — B² Network is a Bitcoin Layer 2 network that utilizes ZK rollup and on-chain logical gate commitment verification mechanisms. It is a supplementary network that runs on top of the Bitcoin Network. It also introduces smart contracts to Bitcoin, which could open up new possibilities for DeFi, NFTs, and derivatives.
Nodepay — Nodepay is a network infrastructure that offers decentralized bandwidth for AI training.

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
Reforged Labs — Make every creative a hero creative.

Du Capital is a Singapore-based multi-stage investment firm concentrated on backing companies that venture in the distributed ledger technologies, crypto assets, and the surrounding ecosystem. We have funded a number of top-notch blockchain projects, to which Du Capital has become strategic partner, leveraging our insights, industry resources, andglobal network.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Singapore, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Evrynet — Evrynet Providing infrastructure that enables developers and businesses to build an unlimited number of Centralised/Decentralised Finance (CeDeFi) applications, interoperable with many of the world's leading blockchains for everyone.
Assembly — IOTA has re-engineered the principles of existing distributed ledger technology to provide a feeless, open-source, secure data and financial exchange protocol for everyone
Moonbeam Network — Moonbeam is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on the Polkadot network that makes it easy to build natively interoperable applications.

Craig is the Co-Founder of Wego.com. He has more than 15 years experience in the online travel distribution industry, starting out with Holiday Inn Worldwide (now known as InterContinental Hotels Group) back in 1995 when the company launched the world's first online booking engine. He left Holiday Inn Worldwide in 1999 to join the start upteam for Priceline.com in Asia. He then joined the start up team for Zuji in Singapore where his tenure was cut short by the events of September 11th 2001. Craig then rejoined InterContinental Hotels Group at the time when the company was ramping up its online technology investments across key Asia Pacific Markets. He developed the company's online strategy across the region with key local investments in China and Japan, successfully introducing local language capabilities into the group's global reservation system and marketing websites.

Investment focus

Retail, Coupons, Internet
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Coupay — Coupay offers consumers the ability to be rewarded for their social equity. By using existing conversion methods, being coupons, cashback and comparison, if a user shares via a social network and a sale occurs, that user is rewarded financially for the share. Coupay has partnered with thousands of retailers, and has over 16 million productson site. Coupay, social shopping that pays in cash.

Luno Expeditions is a global early-stage investor supporting fintech & crypto founders on their journeys to build the next generation of financial services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Onmeta — Onmeta
Anchor — Anchor is building the infrastructure needed for businesses to build, launch, and scale banking and payment solutions.
Sealance Corp. — Sealance provides financial services, cryptography and other services.

Josh Hannah

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
Ondo Finance — Institutional Grade Finance. On-Chain. For Everyone.
Meson Network — meson network provides fast,stable,cheap content delivery globally

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
KRNL Labs — KRNL Labs is a decentralized infrastructure protocol that makes smart contracts and develops an open, multichain software registry for the Web3 ecosystem. That allows developers to build dApps that can leverage multiple blockchains simultaneously.
Persist Ventures — We bring visions to life with a full suite of agencies to help our companies start and scale.

Forge Ventures is an institutional seed VC firm looking to partner with ambitious founders to build the future of Southeast Asia.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Yolk.fm — Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
Prefer — delicious. affordable. sustainable. bean-free coffee.
Kinetic — Turning merchant risk into a growth strategy

Fantail Ventures invests in and advises early-stage companies in the fields of data and analytics, digital media, e-commerce, fintech, and wellness.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Paxos — Paxos builds regulated blockchain and digital asset solutions for global leaders in financial services. Designed for enterprises. Built for the future of finance.
Cynamics — Next-generation NDR solution for threat prediction and response.
NewStand — New Stand is a rapidly expanding convenience and engagement platform that blends physical touchpoints with digital perks and location-based media to be consistently helpful and engaging in people’s lives.

Nick Gundry is the Partner Development, Asia + Australia at Microsoft. He attended National University of Singapore.

Investment focus

Retail, Coupons, Internet
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Coupay — Coupay offers consumers the ability to be rewarded for their social equity. By using existing conversion methods, being coupons, cashback and comparison, if a user shares via a social network and a sale occurs, that user is rewarded financially for the share. Coupay has partnered with thousands of retailers, and has over 16 million productson site. Coupay, social shopping that pays in cash.

Evernew Capital is a web3 investment fund backing seed to growth stage crypto companies and protocols. We are developer focused and on a mission to build the blockchain multiverse.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series B, Initial Coin Offering
Taiwan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lootex — Lootex is a blockchain-based trading platform that offers services ranging from software integration to channel sales to its corporate clients. Lootex is located in Taipei City, Taipei.
Chain Crisis — Chain Crisis is a Cyberpunk MMORPG on the Solana blockchain
Exotic Markets — Exotic Markets bring wealth management and structured products out of the bank and in the decentralized finance world. Exotic Markets Maximise the investments with simple and sustainable products.

Aurum is a space and business innovator with a focus on the future of people. It is a core of a trusted network of communities - creating opportunities across diverse industries for businesses, professionals, and individuals seeking growth in Singapore and beyond.

Investment focus

Hospitality, Software, EdTech
Seed, Series B
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ailytics — Ailytics is the region's leading video analytics solution for operational safety and efficiency in the construction and manufacturing industry.
NewCampus — We're a school whose mission is to empower a new global generation of modern leaders through live classes, conferences and meaningful networking events.
Hubble.Build — Build better, faster, safer and cost-effective with our construction management software. Learn how to digitise and automate your construction worksite workflows.

Ray is the co-founder of 9GAG, one of the leading user generated content sites in the world, where he focuses on making a sustainable business out of humor. 9GAG is a Y Combinator and 500 Startups alumnus where Ray and his team spent a large amount of their time in Silicon Valley, learning from the best. Before founding 9GAG, Ray was working onSingboard, a web-meets-karaoke game. He was also a product manager at aNobii, an online reading community that was acquired by a new venture backed by HMV Group, Harper Collins, Penguin and Random House in 2010.

Investment focus

Comics, Software, Web Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.
LOVO — Your Voice for Metaverse. Capture the most realistic AI voices on the web.
Toonsutra — Toonsutra is a developer of a webtoon comics application. It aims at featuring a range of content for audiences across superhero, fantasy, romance, sci-fi, Bollywood, mythology, action, and more and is available for download on both iOS and Android devices. The application helps users to get access to new stories every day from creators andstorytellers in and outside India in English, Hindi, and other regional languages.

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
SOON — SOON is building the highest throughput stack that allows for any SVM L2 to be deployed on any L1.

Decentralised is an advisory and research firm that works with founders to build strong narratives and resilient tokens.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Social Network
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.

Raj leads operations, product, and finance. He has spent 10 years in product management and finance.He was a venture investor at General Catalyst, started the consumer medical device company Sano which attracted over $20m in investment, and led product management at Omada Health as it grew tenfold.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
MeshMap — MeshMap is a decentralized 3D map developer focused on creating a decentralized 3D globe map and augmented reality (AR) content network.
Azura — Azura is a new all-in-one crypto application aggregation layer launched with the assistance of some of the most well-known cryptocurrency pioneers. The company's application and interfacing layer provides reliable access to DeFi assets, real-time market data, and full trade lifecycle support.

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

Arcane Group is a Web3 investment firm that invests in entrepreneurs and concepts that leverage and unleash the power of Web3. Arcane Group is also a digital asset management solutions provider. Arcane Group is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region and was founded in 2022.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.
Puffverse — A dreamland full of Puffs on Web 3, providing comprehensive products in the ecosystem.
Moonveil Entertainment — Moonveil Entertainment is a web3 game studio that uses cutting-edge technology to create authentic gaming experiences.