Top 5 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Cambodia in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 5 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Cambodia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Cambodia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Cambodia in January 2025

Investor	Cambodia investments
UNICEF Innovation Fund	2
Opes Impact Fund	1
EXS Capital	1
Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter	1
Insitor Partners	1

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The UNICEF Innovation Fund is a pooled funding vehicle to quickly assess, fund and grow open-source solutions that have been developed in new and emerging markets.UNICEF's Innovation (Venture) Fund is a newly established, non-thematic, pooled fund which has been specifically designed to finance early stage, open-source technology that canbenefit children. The core motivation of the Innovation Fund is to identify "clusters" or portfolios of initiatives around emerging technology - so that UNICEF can both shape markets and also learn about and guide these technologies to benefit children. They invest in solutions that can impact the lives of the most vulnerable children. They find these solutions clustered around $100billion industries in frontier technology spaces, such as: blockchain, UAVs, virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, machine learning, quantum computing, genetic engineering, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, nano-satellites and human dynamics.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Seed
Argentina, Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Leaf — Digital financial services for vulnerable populations on a mobile device. Access the convenience and affordability of a digital wallet with savings, remittances, and payments locally and across borders. Backed by blockchain, the safe storage and transport of assets reduces risk while creating an economy identity.
CirroLytix — CirroLytix helps governments, researchers, NGOs, and social enterprises leverage data to achieve positive change.
Grassroots Economics — Grassroots Economics is a non-profit foundation that has been seeking to empower marginalized communities to take charge of their own livelihoods and economic future since 2010.

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A
Kenya, India, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
MunyaxEco — Munyax ECO is an East African solar energy company that is dedicated to providing innovative renewable energy solutions while promoting gender equality. Discover how our sustainable practices and inclusive approach are driving positive change in the industry and beyond.
WidEnergy Africa — Widenergy Africa Ltd , is a women – led company, registered in Zambia, dedicated in the last miles distribution of clean energy solutions. We are the official distributor of Little sun solar products in Zambia (Solar lamps, Solar phone chargers), and will start soon with the distribution of clean cook stoves, with the objective to contribute inreduction of the Zambian deforestation rate, known as one of the highest in Africa.

We focus exclusively on privately-negotiated investments in Asia, seeking either majority or shared control. We invest opportunistically across industries, including real estate, one of the biggest publicly listed businesses in the region. In Asia, we believe the distinction among traditional alternative investment styles – buyout, growth,distressed, mezzanine, PIPEs, activist, real estate opportunity, etc. – is relatively meaningless. Indeed, many of our most successful deals have combined elements of several of these styles. We make the investment suit the opportunity.

Investment focus

Hotel, Travel, Tourism
Series A, Private Equity
Vietnam, Cambodia

Portfolio highlights

Mad Monkey — Mad Monkey is a hostel operator, creating meaningful and sustainable travel experiences for travelers. The purpose of every Mad Monkey hostel is to provide the best customer experience in the most sustainable way for the benefit of the customers, team members, and the communities where we are located. More than just accommodation, Mad Monkey is thehome-away-from-home base for travelers craving immersive cultural experiences, adventures, trips, educational activities, events and meeting like-minded individuals, and forming communities.
SON KIM LAND — SON KIM LAND is an investment and development company that develops people with empowerment culture as career-oriented individuals. The company creates an environment where people with integrity, leadership, and commitment work together as a team to achieve a vision. The company recruits capable employees, encourage, and support the continuousdevelopment of the skills and knowledge, and motivate to produce results.SON KIM LAND was founded on 1993 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Terwilliger Centre for Innovation in Shelter facilitates more efficient and inclusive housing market systems, making affordable and improved housing possible for low-income families.

Investment focus

Water, Service Industry, Supply Chain Management
Seed
Cambodia

Portfolio highlights

TapEffect — TapEffect offers a fully integrated suite of solutions for bringing tap water to last-mile households. We offer the solutions needed to expand piped water networks in remote areas.

Insitor Partners pioneered impact investing as the first impact fund manager to set up operations in Southeast Asia, and a pioneer investor in India and Pakistan. We back entrepreneurs building life-changing solutions for low-income consumers.