Top 40 Transportation Angel Investors in Singapore in November 2024

Investor	Transportation Singapore investments
Ishara Yusdian	5
Edward Ismawan Chamdani	5
Ingo Drexler	4
Ivan Lee	3
Christian Weiss	1
Arnout Wagenaar	1
Lance Gokongwei	1
Maarten Hemmes	1
Ronnie Chia	1
Dr. Cornelius Boersch	1
Anthony Oundjian	1
Nuseir Yassin	1
Serguei Netessine	1
Vinod Kumar Talreja	1
Meng Xiong Kuok	1
Kevin Aluwi	1
Eugene Wong	1
Ng Ho Sen	1
Jasper Lau	1
Alok Mittal	1
Boon Hwee Koh	1
Teng Wen Wee	1
Paulo Campos	1
Huey Lin	1
Markus Bruderer	1
Seung Yoon Lee	1
Lannan Neville Eacott	1
Max Moldenhauer	1
Tim Seithe	1
Harry Markl	1
Oliver Mickler	1
Eugene Wong	1
Marcus Erken	1
Scott Anthony	1
Ross Veitch	1
Tim Marbach	1
Aaron Tan	1
Michael Joseph	1
Martin Li	1
Andreas Penna	1

Investor | Storyologist | Builder

Investment focus

Agriculture, Waste Management, Lifestyle
Seed, Convertible Note, Debt Financing
Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Foom — We are an Indonesian-based tech-enabled consumer product startup with mission to aid adult sm*krs move away from combustible sm*kng and encourage people to shift to safer way of consuming nic. No Hassle, No Worries! Switch Now!
PasarMIKRO — PasarMIKRO, aplikasi perdagangan komoditas pertanian dan hasil laut. Solusi inovatif untuk petani, nelayan dan pedagang mikro indonesia!
Gayo Capital — Investing Tomorrow's Winner

Managing and Founding Partner of Ideosource Venture Capital, an Indonesia focused venture capital firm dedicated on early-stage to later-stage investments.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Lifestyle, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Foom — We are an Indonesian-based tech-enabled consumer product startup with mission to aid adult sm*krs move away from combustible sm*kng and encourage people to shift to safer way of consuming nic. No Hassle, No Worries! Switch Now!
PasarMIKRO — PasarMIKRO, aplikasi perdagangan komoditas pertanian dan hasil laut. Solusi inovatif untuk petani, nelayan dan pedagang mikro indonesia!
Gayo Capital — Investing Tomorrow's Winner

Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
Surfboard — Surfboard WFM features integrated forecasting, capacity planning, automated scheduling and performance analytics for modern support teams.

Ivan Lee - Founder @ Raging Bull

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Lifestyle
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Grain — Grain is a food experience company that offers Meals On Demand and Catering for any occasion. Meals are crafted by chefs with wholesome ingredients and a whole lot of thoughtfulness.
Vanitee — Vanitee is a mobile app to discover new beauty trends and book beauty artists.
Golden Moments —

Christian Weiss is the Founding Partner & Managing director of Data4Life. He previously worked at Project A Ventures as a Founding Partner.Christian has also attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in 1996.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion
Seed, Series A
Germany, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

CHRONEXT — CHRONEXT is a global Platform for buying and selling luxury watches. We take care of logistics, condition and authenticity for every transaction.
Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
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.

Arnout Wagenaar is the Chief Strategy Officer at Cargobase.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Software
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Cargobase — Cargobase TMS is a transportation and freight management system that increases control and visibility & maintains compliance to industry standards. Learn more.

Lance Y. Gokongwei, is the President and Chief Operating Officer of JGSHI. He had been Executive Vice President of JGSHI and was elected President and Chief Operating Officer effective January 1, 2002. He is also President and Chief Operating Officer of Universal Robina Corporation and JG Summit Petrochemical Corporation. He is the Vice Chairmanand Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Robinsons Land Corporation. In addition, he is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cebu Air, Inc., Chairman of Robinsons Bank, Vice Chairman of JG Summit Capital Markets Corporation, and a director of Oriental Petroleum and Minerals Corporation, United Industrial Corporation Limited, and Singapore Land Limited. He is a trustee, secretary and treasurer of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, Inc. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Banking, Payments, Logistics
Seed, Series B
Singapore, Philippines, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

TymeBank — TymeBank is a fully black-owned and controlled investment company based in South Africa. It is an exclusively digital retail bank that aims to provide every South African accessible and affordable banking so that they can take part in, grow and benefit from the country’s economy.
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.
Kraver's Canteen — Kraver's Canteen is an online F&B brand builder, operating the fastest growing cloud kitchen network in the Philippines. Can't agree what to order for the family? Satisfy every craving with the best delivery brands in the Manila, with just one delivery fee!

Tech Entrepreneur, Investor, Lawyer & Business Advisor with over 15 years of experience in building businesses from the ground up in Europe, US and Asia. Background in both technology and law. Leading with a strong hands-on mindset, hoping to inspire by dreaming big, living without limitations but with both feet on the ground.Currentlymanaging our family office (HH Family), actively investing in private & public equities, venture capital and web3 projects.

Investment focus

SaaS, Delivery, Software
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

CarPal — CarPal was one of the pioneering on-demand logistics service based on the sharing economy in Singapore. Through its revolutionary urban logistics & on-demand delivery platform, businesses and consumers could connect real-time with local couriers, who delivered goods or run errands on their behalves anywhere in a city. CarPal opened a new worldwhere local supply chain management and analytics became a breeze and fun to operate.Over the years, CarPal had steadily grown into a popular and reliable last-mile delivery service for consumers and businesses alike, delivering anything from fresh food, flowers, household items to furnitures. Tapping into a pool of over 10,000 freelance drivers with a wide spectrum of vehicles, CarPal maintained a high quality of service through extensive driver onboarding process, driver performance management and unparalleled customer support.In late 2016, CarPal launched “CarPal Fleet” - a cloud-based enterprise technology that allowed businesses to have a transparent overview of last-mile delivery while managing an adaptive hybrid fleet, giving businesses the tool to compete with the likes of Amazon or Uber. The platform provided a fully-customized service, giving businesses a better control of all elements related to last-mile delivery. Some of the key features included order monitoring, live tracking, route optimization, API integrations, data and analytics, etc.The company was acquired by HH VC Investments in 2021 and operations ceased subsequently.

Ronnie Chia is a COO at Minterest Private Limited. He attended the University of Canterbury.

Investment focus

Health Care, Food Delivery, Personal Health
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ketomei — The KETOMEI 21-day Plan is a thoughtfully-crafted meal plan to get you through the first, some say toughest, month of your Keto journey. Our meal plan provides you the convenience of good quality and keto-licious food without you having to figure the meals on your own. Just stick to the plan and success is as good as guaranteed!

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Anthony Oundjian Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Investment focus

Retail, Internet, Logistics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Etaily — A digital innovator revolutionising how brands connect to the Southeast Asia consumer base.
Toki — Discover a world of treasures at Tokiasia.com! Shop for exclusive collectible toys, LEGO sets, Funko Pops, sports cards, and sneakers. Find your passion now!

Nuseir Yassin currently works as the CEO for Nas Academy. He previously worked at Venmo as a Software Engineer. Nuseir Yassin attended Harvard University.

Investment focus

SaaS, B2B, B2C
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Israel, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

klikit — Founded in 2021, klikit is a Singapore-based venture helping restaurants across Southeast Asia grow their business. With a first-of-its-kind enterprise technology stack, klikit helps restaurants become far more efficient in food delivery operations, while also connecting restaurants to role-model creators to launch virtual food brands for extrarevenue. This team of 30 led by ex-Gojek, Uber, Twitch, Nike and other alumni is backed by Global Founders Capital, Wavemaker Partners, Uber alumni syndicate Moving Capital, Gojek co-founder Kevin Aluwi, Nuseir Yassin of NasDaily, Radish Fiction Founder Seung-yoon Lee, and more.In its first seven months, klikit has serviced over US$2.8 million in food delivery orders across 150 brands in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, as well as Taiwan and Australia.We’re hiring — join us as we help restaurants take back their power in food delivery! http://bit.ly/joinklikit
Peech — Peech, an automatic video editing tool, analyzes the verbal content of your video, edits it into a short & catchy version and enhances it with suited visual elements that attract your audience.
Virtualness — Virtualness is a mobile-first platform created to assist brands and creators in navigating the challenging Web3 environment. It prioritizes artists and is developing the manual for simple design, effective sharing, and smooth digital commerce.

Serguei Netessine is Vice-Dean for Global Initiatives and Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He lived and worked in Russia, USA, France and Singapore., author and speaker on innovation.Prof. Netessine receivedBS/MS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology and, after working for Motorola and Lucent Technologies, he also received MS/Ph.D. degrees in Operations Management from the University of Rochester. His current research focuses on business model innovation and operational excellence and he worked on these topics with numerous organizations including Federal Aviation Administration (USA), Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s, Rolls Royce, Comcast, Expedia, ABB and US Air Force. He serves on advisory boards of multiple startup companies and regularly speaks on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.Professor Netessine has been the recipient of several teaching awards for delivering classes to MBA and Executive MBA students at the Wharton School and INSEAD, and he frequently teaches in Executive Education Programs. Prolific academic writer, professor Netessine holds senior editorial positions at several leading academic journals and he co-authored dozens of publications in prominent management journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review and other. His work has received extensive media coverage in CIO Magazine, the Economist, Forbes, Multichannel Merchant, New York Times, US News and Strategy & Business and other press. He regularly blogs about innovation on http://www.renaissanceinnovator.com and HBR Network. His latest book on Business Model Innovation is forthcoming with Harvard Business Press in 2014.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

TabSquare — Look to the future of the F&B industry - Tabsquare's POS integrated online restaurant system increases hospitality profitability through AI Technology.
Comedywire — Comedywire offers an online platform that enables its users to find, share, and create posts of comedic content. Comedywire enables its users to connect with each other and share ideas. Comedywire was founded by Preston Gitlin in December 2014.
Alltius — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.

Vinod Kumar Talreja

Investment focus

Software, Freight Service, Service Industry
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Freightify — Integrated platform for freight rate management, sailing schedules, and freight quotes. Easy rate search to customer management. All in one dashboard.

Meng Xiong Kuok - Founder & Managing Partner @ K3 Ventures

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Transportation
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Cicil — Solusi pembiayaan untuk kegiatan rantai pasok bisnis Anda dari hulu ke hilir yang mudah dan cepat.
SimplyGood — SimplyGood supplies environmentally friendly cleaning and personal care products.
Lottery.com — Lottery.com is the internet's top source for official lottery results, numbers, games, jackpots, winners and news.

Kevin is the CEO of Gojek.

Investment focus

Blockchain, B2B, Video Games
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Argus Labs — Argus Labs is a game developer and publisher built around a collective of hackers and designers in pursuit of the next great paradigm shift in the video game industry. Our mission: Build the Internet of Games.
Dash Electric — Democratizes access to driver as a fleet solutions. Provides a crucial delivery infrastructure for business by leveraging the power of EV.

Eugene Wong has almost 4 decades experience as an investment banker, entrepreneur and angel investor both on the East and West Coasts. He has served as an advisor, director and investor to several companies, including First American International Bank (NY,NY), Optimer Pharmaceuticals (SD,CA), Radixx Solutions International (Orlando, FL)., WeeSPINMusic (LA, CA),Veracast Communications (SF, CA), and the Mountainwest Technology Accelerator (NV). He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business with an M.B.A. in Finance , and of Cornell University with a B.S. in Engineering Physics . Mr. Wong is married to his wife Lai of 43 years, with two adult offspring: Byron (40)-married, and Vanessa (38). He divides his time between the Bay Area-San Francisco,CA and Nevada.Mr. Wong was a founding member of The Aslan Group – a national group of angelinvestors to early-stage companies (1998). 1995 – CEO of AmerAsia Parnters. Mr. Wong was the Managing Partner of IHG-a boutique investment bank in New York in 1990 which did the management buyout of Protection One Alarm Services and subsequent IPO; and was also engaged in the recapitalization of Sunbeam Oster, out of bankruptcy. Prior to that he served as a Managing Director of the High Yield Securities Department at Prudential Bache Securities (1987) and served on the Investment Committee of Prudential Bache Merchant Banking Fund- an $800 million private equity fund. He was a Senior Vice President in the High Yield and Convertible Bond Department of Drexel Burnham Lambert (Los Angeles) in 1983, and began his career on Wall Street with Goldman Sachs & Companyin 1973.Mr. Wong co-founded the SF Bay Chinese Entrepreneurs Association Chapter in 2001. He is on the Advisory Board of the UNLV College of Engineering, the Advisory Board of the UNLV Center for Entrepreneurship, and is a member of the Sierra Angels (Incline Village) and the NV Angels (Switch Comm.).

Investment focus

Software, SMS, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mekhala — Discover Mekhala's plant-based cooking paste. Made with natural ingredients, it offers authentic Southeast Asian flavors to elevate your meals. Try it now!
MessageDesk — Unify text conversations, connect teams, reach more people, and send text message broadcasts from your phone number with a shared SMS inbox.
Dronesmith Technologies — Dronesmith Technologies creates development tools that allow businesses to integrate drone applications into existing workflows. Our software-first solution allows developers to design, test, and iterate their applications in a simulated environment prior to deploying on drone hardware.We help businesses who want to adopt drone technologies goto market faster by lowering the barrier for entry to robotics. Our technologies are being used to incorporate commercial solutions such as hazardous material detection, swarming, precision agriculture, entertainment, and much more. Our aim is to provide a breakthrough platform to power an entire ecosystem of next-generation drone solutions.

Ng Ho Sen is the Chief Manufacturing Officer at ION Mobility.

Investment focus

Electric Vehicle
Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.

Jasper Lau is the Founder and CEO of Era, a global investment firm backed by leading closely-held family enterprises across 19 countries and 25 industries. Era harnesses the collective knowledge, corporate intelligence, and strategic capital of the firm's families to build and back a new era of technology companies that are posed to solvesociety’s greatest industrial challenges. Previously, Jasper co-founded and led 8090 Partners, a private partnership of 20 industry-leading families and self-made entrepreneurs. Seeded by a multi-billion dollar family office, Jasper launched 8090 to invest in growth-stage technology companies and other opportunistic transactions.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Seashell — Seashell is reimagining the flow of money in 2022, making high and stable yield more accessible to all. Consumers can earn up to 10% interest on their cash.
Fabric Systems — At Fabric, AI supercomputing and crypto natives have come together for the first time to deliver the next revolution in computing and break free of the hardware barriers of this era.
Shennon Biotechnologies — Shennon Biotechnologies analyzes and manipulates a massive number of cells on the single-cell level to develop more effective treatments for human diseases. It functionally profiles millions of immune cells to find the best targets for cancer immunotherapy.

Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, India's leading full-stack platform for enabling debt financing for small businesses. Alok is also an active angel investor, co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi. Prior to starting Indifi, Alok setup and ran Canaan Partners' venture investmentbusiness. Earlier, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business in India.Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.

Investment focus

Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Helium — Helium handles the front end, and Shopify is the back end for Helium's headless solution. Your current Shopify integrations, apps, and data will continue to function flawlessly.
DigitalPaani — DigitalPaani builds cutting-edge IoT and digital management tools that redesign wastewater operations.
leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.

Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.

Teng Wen Wee - Founder, Managing Partner @ The Lo & Behold Group

Investment focus

Internet, Food and Beverage, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Grain — Grain is a food experience company that offers Meals On Demand and Catering for any occasion. Meals are crafted by chefs with wholesome ingredients and a whole lot of thoughtfulness.
RedMart — RedMart is an online supermarket in Singapore that delivers groceries and home essentials to your door. RedMart is not a traditional retailer. They are a platform that enables manufacturers to bypass retailers and engage shoppers directly. Their platform provides manufacturers with pioneering marketing capabilities and data analytics.
Eatsy Technologies — Eatsy Technologies operates as a restaurant technology company. The company helps restaurants to simplify their operations and retain their in-dining customers, in a single platform. Diners receive cashback when they order and pay in restaurant with the Diners App, while enjoying personalized in-app promos from their favorite restaurants.EatsyTechnologies is backed by Quest Ventures, a venture fund for technology companies.

Paulo Campos

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
Singapore, Philippines, United States

Portfolio highlights

Peddlr — Peddlr is a free POS mobile app for small businesses. Effortlessly track and manage your sales, expenses, inventory, and transactions. Use it anytime, anywhere, and even offline!
Swarm — Swarm is the professional network for expert fractional tech folk in AI, Design, and Software Engineering.
Armada Brands — Armada invests in and partners with e-commerce brands in the Philippines and in SEA.

Huey Lin is a Venture Partner with GGV Capital where she supports and advises the fund's portfolio companies. She also leads special projects at Terraformation whose mission is to catalyze global forest restoration to solve climate change. Prior to this, she was the President of Asia at Flexport, a modern freight forwarder and one of thefastest-growing companies in global trade. She led all activities for Flexport across Asia, the company’s most strategic market. She was responsible for the region’s overall strategy and P&L.Before her time at Flexport, Huey was the founding Chief Operating Officer at Affirm (NYSE: AFRM). Huey began her career at PayPal, where she spent 12 years in a variety of key leadership roles with increasing responsibilities in multiple geographies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Colombia, Singapore, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Truora — Connect with your users via WhatsApp Optimize your onboarding process using WhatsApp.
CapitalOS — Embedded spend management for vertical SaaS platforms
Fintecture — Under continuous control and supervision of the financial regulator, Fintecture is an authorised Payment Institution (ACPR-17248).First bank to bank instant payment solution in France, Fintecture Pay by Bank enables merchants and businesses to :+ Bypass card ceilings + Avoid illegitimate declined payments + Significantly reduce theirtransaction costs + Receive funds rapidly into their bank account + Reduce fraud by removing chargebacks + Increase security, protecting their customersFintecture Pay by Bank makes payments easy and adapts to your needs : may it be B2B payments, recurring payments, Pay by link, you name it !=======Sous le contrôle et la supervision continus du régulateur financier, Fintecture est un établissement de paiement agréé (ACPR-17248).Première solution instantanée de paiement banque à banque en France, Fintecture Pay by Bank permet aux marchands et aux entreprises de : + Contourner les plafonds des cartes + Éliminer les rejets illégitimes + Baisser considérablement les coûts de transactions + Disposer plus rapidement des fonds collectés + Réduire la fraude en supprimant les chargebacks + Augmenter la sécurité, protégeant leurs consommateursFintecture Pay by Bank facilite les paiements et s’adapte à vos besoins : B2B, paiements récurrents, abonnements, Pay by Link et bien plus.

Markus Bruderer is the Partner at Antler. He attended University of St.Gallen.

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Geekzwolf — Blockchain-powered gaming hub platform that attract the real gamers in a way that gamers enjoy the most: Tournaments, quest hunting, and community
Peddlr — Peddlr is a free POS mobile app for small businesses. Effortlessly track and manage your sales, expenses, inventory, and transactions. Use it anytime, anywhere, and even offline!
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.

Seung-yoon Lee is a Global Strategy Officer at Kakao Entertainment. He attended University of Oxford.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Productivity Tools
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
Hubble — Hubble helps to create world class products by gathering high quality contextual feedback. Use Hubble to start collecting in-product UX insights from your own targeted users.
SkyArk — First Triple AAA Fantasy Anime Blockchain RPG from Veteran Studio

Lannan Neville Eacott

Investment focus

B2B, B2C, Apps
Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

klikit — Founded in 2021, klikit is a Singapore-based venture helping restaurants across Southeast Asia grow their business. With a first-of-its-kind enterprise technology stack, klikit helps restaurants become far more efficient in food delivery operations, while also connecting restaurants to role-model creators to launch virtual food brands for extrarevenue. This team of 30 led by ex-Gojek, Uber, Twitch, Nike and other alumni is backed by Global Founders Capital, Wavemaker Partners, Uber alumni syndicate Moving Capital, Gojek co-founder Kevin Aluwi, Nuseir Yassin of NasDaily, Radish Fiction Founder Seung-yoon Lee, and more.In its first seven months, klikit has serviced over US$2.8 million in food delivery orders across 150 brands in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, as well as Taiwan and Australia.We’re hiring — join us as we help restaurants take back their power in food delivery! http://bit.ly/joinklikit

Max is a founding partner of Sunfish Partners.He has long been an active investor and business angel. He is also an entrepreneur having co-founded seven companies himself. Previously, he was investing in and building companies as Head of Mobile at Project A.Max holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Business & Management from WHU Vallendar.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Poland, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Zaitra — Zaitra reduces data transmission costs while also providing spaceship onboard and artificial intelligence services.
Ramp Network — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.
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.

Tim Seithe - Founder & CEO @ Tillhub

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

liftOS — liftOS allows you to find, access and work with your SaaS tools without friction. Organise your data & apps and spend less time switching tabs.
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.
Widgetbook — Widgetbook is an open source tool for organizing widgets in Flutter. It accelerates UI development and improves the collaboration between developers, designers and clients.

Harry Markl is the Managing Director, Operations of L Catterton Asia and oversees the Value-Add initiatives within its portfolio. Prior to joining L Catterton, he was the CEO and Co-Founder of South-East Asia’s largest E-Commerce fashion company, Zalora, which was sold to Global Fashion Group, the world’s leading online fashion platform foremerging markets backed by Rocket Internet. During Mr. Markl’s tenure at the Company, Zalora achieved more than USD 230 million net sales within its first 4 years. Mr. Markl was also responsible for launching Zalora’s private label, which was solely sold online and achieved more than USD 60 million net-sales per annum. Previously, Mr. Markl spent close to a decade at McKinsey & Company, based both Germany and Singapore. While at McKinsey, he advised clients in the high-tech and private-equity sector across multiple countries, including Australia, Indonesia, India, Malaysia and The Philippines. Mr. Markl was a core member of McKinsey’s Corporate Finance & Strategy practice and a key contributing author of the 5th edition of McKinsey’s published Valuation book. Mr. Markl received his MBA in Economics with a major in Finance from the University Nuremburg, Germany.

Investment focus

Logistics, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

iCommerce Asia — It help businesses do eCommerce, end-to-end, faster and more profitably than anyone else. Any business, small or large, it will help you build a business and manage your backend without the headache.

Oliver Mickler - Co-Founder and MD @ Tillhub

Investment focus

Logistics, E-Commerce, Employee Benefits
Seed
Germany, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

liftOS — liftOS allows you to find, access and work with your SaaS tools without friction. Organise your data & apps and spend less time switching tabs.
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.

Eugene Wong has almost 4 decades experience as an investment banker, entrepreneur and angel investor both on the East and West Coasts. He has served as an advisor, director and investor to several companies, including First American International Bank (NY,NY), Optimer Pharmaceuticals (SD,CA), Radixx Solutions International (Orlando, FL)., WeeSPINMusic (LA, CA),Veracast Communications (SF, CA), and the Mountainwest Technology Accelerator (NV). He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business with an M.B.A. in Finance , and of Cornell University with a B.S. in Engineering Physics . Mr. Wong is married to his wife Lai of 43 years, with two adult offspring: Byron (40)-married, and Vanessa (38). He divides his time between the Bay Area-San Francisco,CA and Nevada.Mr. Wong was a founding member of The Aslan Group – a national group of angelinvestors to early-stage companies (1998). 1995 – CEO of AmerAsia Parnters. Mr. Wong was the Managing Partner of IHG-a boutique investment bank in New York in 1990 which did the management buyout of Protection One Alarm Services and subsequent IPO; and was also engaged in the recapitalization of Sunbeam Oster, out of bankruptcy. Prior to that he served as a Managing Director of the High Yield Securities Department at Prudential Bache Securities (1987) and served on the Investment Committee of Prudential Bache Merchant Banking Fund- an $800 million private equity fund. He was a Senior Vice President in the High Yield and Convertible Bond Department of Drexel Burnham Lambert (Los Angeles) in 1983, and began his career on Wall Street with Goldman Sachs & Companyin 1973.Mr. Wong co-founded the SF Bay Chinese Entrepreneurs Association Chapter in 2001. He is on the Advisory Board of the UNLV College of Engineering, the Advisory Board of the UNLV Center for Entrepreneurship, and is a member of the Sierra Angels (Incline Village) and the NV Angels (Switch Comm.).

Investment focus

Drones, Hardware, Robotics
Seed, Convertible Note
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mekhala — Discover Mekhala's plant-based cooking paste. Made with natural ingredients, it offers authentic Southeast Asian flavors to elevate your meals. Try it now!
Dronesmith Technologies — Dronesmith Technologies creates development tools that allow businesses to integrate drone applications into existing workflows. Our software-first solution allows developers to design, test, and iterate their applications in a simulated environment prior to deploying on drone hardware.We help businesses who want to adopt drone technologies goto market faster by lowering the barrier for entry to robotics. Our technologies are being used to incorporate commercial solutions such as hazardous material detection, swarming, precision agriculture, entertainment, and much more. Our aim is to provide a breakthrough platform to power an entire ecosystem of next-generation drone solutions.

Happy and curious.Marcus is a founding partner of Sunfish Partners, an early stage VC that invests in deep tech startups from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).In addition, he has made angel investments throughout the world and co-lectures an annual university course in which students start their own companies.Previously, Marcus had theprivilege of working with more than 120 student startups at WHU’s university incubator, which he co-built.Marcus holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Business & Management from WHU Vallendar, a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Poland, Germany, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

liftOS — liftOS allows you to find, access and work with your SaaS tools without friction. Organise your data & apps and spend less time switching tabs.
AIRMO — Airmo is a space tech company that offers an independent data source that locates, quantifies, and tracks carbon dioxide and methane emissions through a small satellite constellation.
Blockbrain — Blockbrain analyzes millions of transactions on the blockchain to proactively detect threats and opportunities for digital assets you store in crypto wallets and exchanges.The company manages all types of wallets in one secure technology. Track KPIs, be aware of threats, and manage your assets.Blockbrain was established on May 6, 2022 byJohannes Strachwitz in Hamburg, Germany.

Scott is the Managing Partner of Innosight, a consulting and investment company focused on strategic transformation, disruptive change, and business model innovation. Based in Innosight’s Singapore office since 2010, he also leads its Asian consulting operations and its venture-capital investment activities. He has authored or co-authored sixbooks, including The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas Into the Market (Harvard Business Review Press, May 2014), Seeing What’s Next (with Harvard’s Clayton Christensen) and The Little Black Book of Innovation. Scott was recently named by Inc. Magazine as one of “7 Breakthrough Business Thinkers to Watch.”He is on the Board of Directors of MediaCorp, a diversified media company based in Singapore, and chairs the investment committee for IDEAS Ventures. Scott received a BA in economics, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.He has a regular column at Harvard Business Online (http://blogs.hbr.org/scott-anthony/)

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Logistics
Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Anchanto — Anchanto is a global B2B SaaS company enabling warehouse management, omni-channel retail management; offers inventory management system, order management system and product information management

Ross is CEO & Co-Founder at Wego, an online travel marketplace (aka travel metasearch) operating across APAC and MENA backed by top-tier investors including Tiger Global, Crescent Group, Square Peg Capital, MNC Group and MEVP. Ross is a veteran of the Asian internet industry having established Yahoo!s Southeast Asian operations in Singaporeback in 1998 and leading product development efforts across the region for 6+ years. He is also Singapore Co-Chair of H2, the premier global leadership network for the digital industry. Ross has been an active angel investor in the technology sector for a decade and enjoys working with other passionate entrepreneurs. He has worked in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Kuala Lumpur and is now splits his time between Singapore and Dubai. He travels frequently for business but not nearly enough for leisure.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed
Singapore, Thailand, United States

Portfolio highlights

PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
Light — Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.

Tim is a global entrepreneur and venture investor. He started his first company bonial.com in 2008 and sold it to German media conglomerate Axel Springer SE in 2011. In 2013, Tim relocated to South East Asia and has since co-founded and invested in many successful consumer internet companies through his private internet holding company Asia VentureGroup. Those companies have successfully raised several hundred million USD in follow-on venture capital and employ several thousand employees across the global. Those companies include HappyFresh, iPrice Group, iMoney (sold to iSelect), FlowerChimp, audibene (sold to Sivantos/EQT), Scalable Capital (sold to BlackRock), Jewelcandle (sold to Equistone), Vicampo (sold to Burda), CARS24, Movinga, Homebell, Fave, Stoyo and many more.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Rental Property, Real Estate
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Thailand, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Alpakas — Alpacas, in the storm of delivery services, offer a real alternative. With their e-cargo bikes, they deliver sustainable products, sustainably packaged, directly to their homes. Those delivery products include fresh foods, pastries, beverages, household products, and beauty care. They offer gift packs for new products and on a weekly sales basis.
MYNE Homes — MYNE Homes is a digital co-ownership platform for vacation properties. MYNE Homes was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.

A Programmer by training and a Venture Capitalist by profession, Aaron founded his first startup at 13 and has already sold two companies before turning 21. He is currently the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Carro, an automotive marketplace that offers a full-stack service for all aspects of car ownership. Aaron leads the venture-backedcompany with years of experience in the startup scene and is committed to setting new standards for the used car industry, with professionalism at the heart of Carro’s ethos.Aaron was also most recently awarded the ITMA Future IT Leader Award. Aaron graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BSc from Singapore Management University’s School of Information Systems, and subsequently accepted a scholarship from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore to read Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University where he graduated with an MSc.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
Singapore, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Evo — Social Commerce Software
Evo — Evo provides health and wellness direct-to-consumer services.
uWave — uWave is your lifestyle & community platform to discover content from wide of topics, ranging across Food, Outings, Experiences, Travel, Beauty, Cosmetics, Photography, Tech Reviews and many more.

Michael Joseph is the President and Commissioner at Sampoerna.

Investment focus

Electric Vehicle
Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.

Entrepreneur and Investor based in Hong Kong. Attended Questrom School of Business, Boston University.

Investment focus

Transportation, Logistics, Freight Service
Seed, Series A, Series B
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Kyt — Kyt is an early-stage EdTech startup building a world-class online-first academy for extra-curricular courses, designed by the best instructors from around the world and offering individual and small group live classes for ages 5 to 15 years.They believe that interests and hobbies aren’t just extra – they are essential to all-round development.Nurturing interests outside the world of academia equips children with essential life skills. Plus, access to reputable institutions and respected teachers paves the way for a life-long love for learning.They want the children who sign up for classes to find something that interests them and wish to pursue whole-heartedly.Kyt is backed by Asia's marquee venture capital and industry veterans, that have just embarked on this journey and are excited to change how a child learns.
Sinoiov — SINOIOV is a data technology company that takes data as its core and uses artificial intelligence technology to help the road freight industry reduce costs and increase efficiency and provide comprehensive services for the road freight industry. Up to now, the company has accumulated rich experience in commercial vehicle networking operationmanagement and service, and has established national vehicle networking industrial bases in Beijing and Chongqing, with more than 40 provincial branches covering the whole country
Kargo Technologies — Kargo adalah layanan logistik online yang menyediakan solusi pengiriman barang yang mudah, cepat, dan terpercaya. Temukan layanan yang dapat diandalkan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pengiriman Anda.

Andreas Penna - Co-Founder & General Partner @ West Quad Ventures

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bonsai — Bridging content and commerce. Bonsai brings together products people love and the content they can't get enough of.
Rain — Rain Instant Pay Earned Wage Access grants you a chance to get an advance on your salary before thepay date right into your bank account. Get your Salary Today!
Public — Invest in stocks. Learn from others. Public lets you invest in stocks with any amount of money and see what others invest in.