Top 20 Sports Startup Investors in Malaysia in April 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in Malaysia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Malaysia. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Sports Startup Investors in Malaysia in April 2025
Investor | Sports Malaysia investments |
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M Venture Partners (MVP) | 2 |
Daniel Shin | 1 |
INP Capital | 1 |
TH Capital | 1 |
Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia | 1 |
Gobi Partners | 1 |
Sequoia Capital | 1 |
Wavemaker Partners | 1 |
BioMark | 1 |
Duopharma Biotech | 1 |
Susquehanna International Group | 1 |
Integra Partners | 1 |
RHL Ventures | 1 |
Venturra | 1 |
V Ventures | 1 |
Axiata Digital Innovation Fund | 1 |
Joel Neoh | 1 |
Palm Drive Capital | 1 |
Global Founders Capital | 1 |
Hibiscus Fund | 1 |
M Venture Partners (MVP), based in Singapore, is an early stage investor and partner to innovative and disruptive start-up ventures that are founded by “professionally-skilled” entrepreneurs with vision, true-grit and passion to create a "built to last" different future. We support entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia, and selectivelyIndia.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Education, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, India, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Tictag — Tictag's innovative mobile UI, allows your data science team to label your datasets efficiently and accurately. Let's talk data!
- Pallav Technologies — Pallav leverages AI to analyze customer applications, enhancing approval rates and improving loan repayments. Our cutting-edge machine learning models and deep technology integration provide real-time creditworthiness insights to banks.
Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
- Port One — Experience every payment in the world with one line of code
- Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea.KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end ofhis business life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.
INP Capital is a global private-market investor with international offices in Canada, Australia, China, UK and Germany. We back and invest in entrepreneurs looking to change the world. We are committed to building long-term relationships with our investors, investment partners and colleagues.
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- Financial Services, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.
- Eden Brew — Eden Brew is a ground-breaking new way to enjoy dairy products sustainably and nutritiously.
- Power to Hydrogen — Power to Hydrogen (P2H2) is simplifying hydrogen. Our technology enables a brighter energy future by solving the technical and economic challenges that come with producing hydrogen. Our AEM-based, electrolysis technology produces high pressure, high efficiency hydrogen from renewable energy with lower cost materials thancompeting electrolyzers. This technology can reduce the total cost of hydrogen to enable clean transportation, store energy efficiently, and decarbonize industrial processes. In addition to low-cost, high-pressure hydrogen production, the technology can produce high-pressure oxygen and be used reversibly to produce electricity. Both services can create additional revenue streams to make the total cost of hydrogen $1/kg.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Moladin — Moladin adalah platform terpercaya untuk jual beli mobil bekas & baru dengan penawaran terbaik. Temukan berbagai merek, model, harga terjangkau, dan pastikan kualitas dengan inspeksi profesional. Nikmati transaksi yang aman, mudah, dan transparan di Moladin.
- Igloohome — igloo's mission is to revolutionize the way property owners secure and manage access for their homes, buildings and shared assets, that works every time and anywhere around the world.
- Naluri Life — Naluri is a human-driven, AI-augmented digital health solution that delivers improvements in mental and physical health.
Established in Hong Kong in 2002, SCEA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation ("Sumitomo"), one of the biggest multinational conglomerates in Japan with business and investment covering metal products, transportation & construction systems, infrastructure, chemical & electronics, mineral resources & energy,media, network & lifestyle retail, general products, real estate and financial & logistics services. The entire Sumitomo Corporation Group consists of over 800 subsidiaries and associated companies with more than 65,000 employees all over the world.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Logistics, B2B
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, Japan, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- AI-LINK — AILINK is committed to being a pioneer and leader in mobile network and edge computing infrastructure in the AI era. The company currently focuses on intelligent manufacturing and other digital transformation scenarios. Its products are built on OICT (Operational and Information Communications Technology) integration, with a focus on industrial environments. AILINK offers end-to-end, scenario-driven 5G-to-B products and solutions, providing seamless industrial adaptation, enhanced smart operations, and simplified management. This enables plug-and-play deployment of private 5G network, accelerating the growth of new productivity models.
- Locad — Locad is a cloud-based solution for global e-commerce fulfillment. Access to an international warehousing network. Distributed fulfillment keeps products close to customers, reducing shipping time and cost.
- clearing zero carbon — Clean Capture is an innovative company that uses artificial technology and provides low-cost carbon removal technology solutions through the research and development and commercialization of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology.
Gobi Partners is the most interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital firm with US$1.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, the firm supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets.Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 15 funds to date, invested inover 350 startups and nurtured 10 unicorns. Gobi has grown to 15 locations across key markets in Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Surabaya.As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Gobi Partners is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption to ensure long-term value creation and sustainability across our portfolio.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, Malaysia, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- SkyeChip — Your Preferred cutting edge IP & IC Design solutions for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.
- Phase — Design and prototype websites and apps visually and intuitively, in a new powerful product reworked for the digital age.
- Funding Societies — Funding Societies is a SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia. It is licensed in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and registered in Malaysia. It is backed by Sequoia India and Softbank Ventures Asia Corp amongst many others and provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is funded by individual andinstitutional investors. In 6 years, it has helped finance over 4 million business loans with over S$2 billion in funding. It was given the MAS FinTech Award in 2016, the Global SME Excellence Award at the United Nations’ ITU Telecom World in 2017, KPMG Fintech100 in 2018, Brands for Good in 2019, and in 2020 recognised by IDC as amongst the 5 fastest growing FinTechs in Singapore, won the Stevie® Award for Innovation in Technology, and named ASEAN Startup of the Year by Global Startup Awards.In 2015, co-founders Kelvin Teo, Iwan Kurniawan, and Reynold Wijaya headquartered Funding Societies | Modalku in Singapore, Central Region.
We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- Paid — Paid is a business platform for AI agents.
- The Open Network Foundation — A decentralized and open internet designed to onboard 500M people on-chain, built by the community using technology developed by Telegram.
- Neros Technologies — Neros is vertically integrating production of unmanned defense systems in the United States, securing the autonomous supply chain. Are you with us?
Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
- Oneteam — We acquire small to medium businesses and help next-gen hardworking employees grow into capable owners of these businesses. Using digital-first solutions to drive growth, synergies and innovation, we collaborate with your employees to transform your business into global enterprises.
- Soul Parking — Soul Parking is a parking management service company, which has successfully developed motorcycle storage equipment as a solution for traffic and parking problems that are cluttered using 100% designs and raw materials. Soul Parking provides solutions by developing a modern, safe and comfortable vehicle parking system that takes into accountlimited land area.
BioMark is the platform that aims to link patients, doctors and medical laboratories to move towards healthcare that is more personalised, predictive and preventative.
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Wellness, Psychology
- Series A
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Naluri Life — Naluri is a human-driven, AI-augmented digital health solution that delivers improvements in mental and physical health.
Duopharma Biotech is pharmaceutical company in Malaysia that provides quality and innovative solutions.
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Wellness, Psychology
- Series A
- Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Naluri Life — Naluri is a human-driven, AI-augmented digital health solution that delivers improvements in mental and physical health.
Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
- Lava — Lava is a Bitcoin lending platform.
- Sporttrade — Sporttrade is America's most dynamic sports betting platform. Sports betting, meet stock trading.
We invest in early stage companies run by exceptional founders using technology to drive change and inclusion in financial services and digital health.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Chickin — Solusi teknologi peternakan ayam berbasis IoT dan aplikasi manajemen kandang, hingga produk ayam segar dan frozen yang berkualitas.
- My Kindred — Enhance your well-being at our renowned women's health clinic. Experience top-notch care at our online clinic in the Philippines. Visit us today!
- ProCredit — Your Trusted Financing Partner Welcome to ProCredit THE PROCREDIT DIFFERENCE Our unique value proposition is built on the foundation of leveraging advanced technology and the deep domain expertise of the founders to offer rapid, accurate, and risk-adjusted financing solutions tailored to the nuanced needs of SMEs. With a commitment to filling the substantial credit gap...
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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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.
Empowering outstanding entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia in creating the next defining technology companies.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam
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- FR8Labs — Optimize your freight business with our AI Freight Forwarding Software. Boost efficiency and stay ahead in logistics.
- Saladin — Saladin is an online platform that provides life, health, automotive, and travel insurance services.
- Klinik Pintar — Klinik Pintar membantu pasien mendapatkan layanan kesehatan primer terbaik di klinik, rumah, dan kantor.
Vventures support cutting-edged technology investment focus on sustainability, urbanization and life-science on AI and quantum based. In the heart of SEA, Vventures operates in Singapore and Thailand while invested worldwide in USA, UAE, Israel, Singapore, Hong Kong and China.
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Investment focus
- Software, Transportation, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, China, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Wobby — Wobby is changing the way professionals use data in a variety of industries. Locating public official data and connecting your own is simple with our all-in-one platform.
- Deemples — Deemples isn't just for finding golf buddies? It allows you to book your golf games, pay in advance, and find the best rates online. One app does it all.
- SCREENSHOT Media — SCREENSHOT Media is a media company, social-first publisher and full-service agency that simply gets Gen Z
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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Investment focus
- Apps, Retail, Fitness
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka
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.
Joel Neoh is the Founder and CEO of Fave. He attended Monash University.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Fashion
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- KFit — KFit gets you into the best fitness studios, classes and gyms in your city. Get access to unlimited group fitness classes and activities with just one monthly membership. Transform your workouts.Never get bored. Discover new ways to move. Take as many classes per month as you’d like. Try a different studio everyday. It’s time to work out the wayyou want to.
- Ejen2u — Platform Sistem Pengurusan Ejen paling Komprehensif
- ULive — Live Commerce Enabler for Social Media Live Sellers.
We’ve partnered with entrepreneurs globally who have created technology firms with over one trillion dollars of combined market cap to help you grow your business.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Colombia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- MealMe — MealMe: We compare services for delivery pickup and groceries to ensure that we are the fastest food delivery app, the cheapest food delivery app, and the food delivery app with the largest selection.
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
- LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 16 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Distru — Seed-to-Sale Cannabis ERP that helps operators manage their inventory, orders and customers from a single interface, while staying compliant with Metrc.
- Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
- Scribe Health AI — HIPAA-compliant clinical documentation tool that seamlessly integrates with 50+ EMR systems including Epic, Cerner & Athena . Automates SOAP notes and medical coding while ensuring data security. Perfect for healthcare providers seeking efficient, compliant documentation workflows
Hibiscus Fund LP by RHL Ventures Sdn Bhd, one of the venture capital (“VC”) fund managers under the Dana Penjana Nasional programme
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Mobile
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Malaysia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Soft Space — From its inception in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2012, Soft Space has grown to become the leading mobile Point of Sales (mPOS) provider in the South East Asia region, present in 13 banks across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.The Soft Space centralised Mobile Point-‐of-‐Salespayment platform aims to revolutionise the payment industry by enabling anyone to accept card based payments. It is certified EMV Level 2, the first in Asia to achieve this, and is also certified by MasterCard and Visa; a testament to its security, credibility and is recognised globally.Soft Space has won multiple awards including the Red Herring Top 100 Asia 2014, Merit Winner of the WITSA’s Global ICT Excellence Awards, APICTA’s Best Financial Application Award 2013, APICTA’s Best Start Up 2013, and AICTA’s award for the Best Start Up in the ASEAN region.
- Versa Asia — Versa is a digital wealth management app that makes saving and investing easy and accessible, so you can achieve financial wellness.
- StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
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