Top 25 Artificial Intelligence Startup Investors in Malaysia (October 2023)

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• FlashIntel — Unlock a network of 1+ billion prospects. Utilize AI-powered workflows for streamlined engagement and faster deal closures with ideal buyers.
• Pebble — Pebble is a electric vehicle manufacturing startup.
• Klarity — Klarity provides nurse practitioners and physician assistants with the marketing, software, and human resources they need to succeed in offering profitable telehealth services online.

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• Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
• Saladin — Saladin is an online platform that provides life, health, automotive, and travel insurance services.
• Bunker — Bunker is a financial analytics platform that provides modern executives deep visibility of their numbers. Bunker provides intuitive financial dashboards and monthly reports.

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• Raus — Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
• Productpine — Discover, experience, and buy emerging brands and products from all over the world, at Productpine. Shop online through a personalized journey and be inspired!
• The Naked Market — The Naked Market is a next-generation consumer products company that is creating a portfolio of food & beverage brands.

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• KarirLab — Cari kerja dan magang, buat resume ATS-friendly, evaluasi resume oleh ahli, dan ikuti webinar persiapan kerja #MulaidariKarirLab
• Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
• Sirius — At Sirius we feel technology should be less complex and more accessible to everyone. Therefore we have developed our own middleware platform based on Gartner's Hybrid Integration Platform capability framework and following Mesh Application and Service Architecture. This enables large or fast-growing organizations to accelerate their digitalcapabilities, transformations and ecosystem development by providing cost-effective integration through our run-time platform as well as composable software solutions. There is no other platform that provides similar levels of flexibility and scalability in the same cost-effective manner.

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• SUPA — SUPA BOLT | Get insights to turn label noise into trusted and usable data. Begin your data-centric AI journey today.
• SUPA — Supahands is the leading end-to-end data labelling partner for AI/ML companies. Find out more and set up a POC within 48 hours by speaking to us today!
• MoneyMatch — MoneyMatch is a FinTech startup enabling cross-border international payments and remittances which are cheaper, faster and more convenient than traditional banks. Starting off in Malaysia, MoneyMatch has since expanded out to Australia as well with plans for further expansion in Southeast Asia. Since just the past 1.5 years, MoneyMatch has alreadytransacted over MYR 260 million sending money out from Malaysia to over 70 countries worldwide helping under-served SMEs (small and medium enterprises) save hundreds of thousands in margins

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• Pop Meals — Expect exciting, locally trending meals at an affordable price! Now with dine-in, pickup and delivery .
• Livescale — Try the Live Shopping solution with e-Commerce and checkout integration. Boost your real-time sales and skyrocket your brand awareness among communities!
• Ludex — A web3 protocol that enables video games to operate on-chain.

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• SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
• Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
• Wallets — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.

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• Moladin — Launched in 2017, Moladin helps consumers get information about used automotive vehicles and buy them online. The startup has partnered with over 40 dealers and several big financing companies in the country to provide consumers with various options and discounts.
• Igloohome — Award-winning smart digital locks for homes, real estate, infrastructure and more. Our keyless access solutions include the Smart Mortise, Deadbolt, Keybox and Padlock. igloohome products work with a mobile app, so access can be granted from anywhere, at any time.
• Naluri Life — Naluri is a human-driven, AI-augmented digital health solution that delivers improvements in mental and physical health.

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• Predictry — Predictry provides a machine learning technology envisaging user preferences, sentiments & behavior. Founded in 2013, it offers a world-class online Recommendation as a Service (RaaS), customised solutions for predictive analytics, big data mining services, business intelligence and also bespoke consulting in whatever industry you are in.Predictry’s main advantage lies in its ability to customise SaaS recommendations for any types of e-commerce or web listing business, be it from fashion, music, financial products to home listing. Think of it as an Amazon-like product recommender that could be customised to whatever you are selling or listing online.Considering that we were able to employ multiple analytics tools such as content and collaborative filtering created and refined by established data scientists. With it's proprietary A/B algorithm testing method and the ability to go right down to the mathematical formulas of the algorithm, the team at Predictry ensures that this highly scalable recommendations is always fine-tuned to each specific customer, with the goal of improving conversation rate and/or sales to your business. Predictry is run by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and data scientist from well established universities together.This company is a V Ventures portfolio company based in Asia.
• Arbor Photonics — Arbor Photonics, LLC engages in the development of optical-fiber technology and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Are You a Human — Are You a Human is the curator of The Verified Human Whitelist™, which allows anyone using it to be certain they are addressing a verified human before they serve content, services or ads. Automated programs, called bots, account for 59% of overall internet traffic today – and, as the world becomes more digital, this will only increase. Botsclutter the Internet with fake social media profiles, hacked accounts and are responsible for nearly all fraud. Ultimately, they make it more difficult for real humans to get what they need from the Internet, and more difficult for companies to address humans with high quality content and services cost-effectively. This includes e-commerce, online banking, social media, and, of course, media and advertising. Instead of searching for bots, which evolve in a matter of days, they find and verify humans by analyzing natural user behavior across millions of websites. After they have consistently seen and verified a user as human, they’re added to the Whitelist™, and then re-verified over and over again each day. Bots can’t consistently look and act like real humans on every page, every day, so they’re never added to the list, and all that's left are real humans.

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• 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.

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• CO2 AI — Empowering decision-makers to sustain our world via advanced software that shifts carbon emissions reduction from the theoretical to the impactful.
• UpSlide — Produce high-quality reports and presentations faster in PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Save up to 8h each month in just a few clicks!
• Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
• Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.

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• Naluri Life — Naluri is a human-driven, AI-augmented digital health solution that delivers improvements in mental and physical health.

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• Joepegs — Dive into Joepegs, the leading Web3 platform for NFTs and digital collectibles. As a cultural hub in the Web3 space, we offer secure buying, selling, and discovery of innovative digital assets.
• Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
• Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.

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• Orgtomic — The Employee Discovery Layer -Dynamic Org Chart Software and People Directory. Ideal for growth companies and remote teams. Get started for free on Orgtomic.
• VOX AI — We develop conversational interfaces for virtual assistants and messengers, empowering voice-based conversational UIs for smart devices with artificial intelligence. We design humanlike conversations through voice able to understand context over any channel, in any language.
• Vase.ai — Know what consumers are saying when it comes to your brand, product and ads. Get insights in as little as 24 hours.

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• Naluri Life — Naluri is a human-driven, AI-augmented digital health solution that delivers improvements in mental and physical health.

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• Poladrone — Founded by a team of engineers, Aonic aims to build a future-proof ecosystem of solutions that propels traditional industries forward. Through our 5 business verticals, we are able to provide turnkey,
• Aonic (Formerly Poladrone) — Founded by a team of engineers, Aonic (Formerly Poladrone) is an all-in-one drone solutions provider for enterprises that are looking to modernise and streamline their operations workflow. A staple in the commercial drone industry, Poladrone is rapidly expanding beyond the skies and later rebranded into what we are today – Aonic, demonstrating ourcommitment to our clients to provide them with a holistic ecosystem beyond our core drone capabilities.
• Rice Robotics Limited — The #1 Autonomous Workforce Provider in Hong Kong. Made and Designed in Hong Kong.

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• Pop Meals — Expect exciting, locally trending meals at an affordable price! Now with dine-in, pickup and delivery .
• 90 Seconds — Shoot high quality video anywhere in the world with 90 Seconds.
• Coffee Meets Bagel — Online dating can be different. Make Authentic Connections with Coffee Meets Bagel.

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• Seed — Seed is simply a better way to bank. As a mobile first banking service designed with the small business in mind, Seed empowers small businesses with modern, easy-to-use digital tools and customer-support resources for starting, running, and growing a business. With Seed, business banking has never been easier.
• Cloosiv — Cloosiv is an ordering platform that allows users to order in advance from their favorite coffee shop, skip the queue, and get rewards from the platform to save time and money.
• Pop Meals — Expect exciting, locally trending meals at an affordable price! Now with dine-in, pickup and delivery .

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• 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.
• Glife Technologies — Glife is a Singapore-based food tech company seeking to grow a better food future in the Southeast Asia region.

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• Elfie — We fight high blood pressure and increase treatment adherence by rewarding patients for self-monitoring. World #1 app for hypertension. Download now.
• CleanHub — Become plastic neutral with CleanHub and prevent ocean bound plastic before it can cause damage
• Sirius — At Sirius we feel technology should be less complex and more accessible to everyone. Therefore we have developed our own middleware platform based on Gartner's Hybrid Integration Platform capability framework and following Mesh Application and Service Architecture. This enables large or fast-growing organizations to accelerate their digitalcapabilities, transformations and ecosystem development by providing cost-effective integration through our run-time platform as well as composable software solutions. There is no other platform that provides similar levels of flexibility and scalability in the same cost-effective manner.

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• Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
• Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
• Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.

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• Openlane — Remarketing, Simplified: we make wholesale easy so our customers can be more successful.
• Cloud Account — Cloud Account is a financial software developer that uses CRS management and services in the accounting industry.
• idealista — idealista.com is a real estate website in Spanish.idealista.com is a meeting point for buyers and sellers and its database consists currently of more than 280,000 unique listings; also provides the buyer and the seller with useful information to help and guide them in their buying-selling.Since 2000, idealista.com has been specializing inhelping millions of people overcome the anxiety and frustration of finding a home.

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• iPrice Group — Shop now with the largest selection of top brands and products in the region - all in a single website! Discover new products, compare smartphone prices and products. Get the latest coupon and voucher codes for Lazada, Zalora, Qoo10, Grab Car, and more!
• BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
• Flower Chimp — Best Price online for fresh Flowers by #1 florist in Malaysia with same day FREE Delivery on all orders. Shop for Roses, Sunflowers, Baby Breath flower bouquets & gifts from a wide selection for any occasion at FlowerChimp. Over 200 bouquets, stands and hampers to choose from - all prepared by experienced professionals

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• Samsara Eco — Samsara Eco is an enviro-tech company creating infinite recycling to end plastic pollution.
• COVU — COVU delivers AI-driven technology to empower Insurance agencies and their customers.
• Genecis — Genecis proprietary technology utilizes bacteria to convert food waste into PHA plastic, a biodegradable alternative to traditional plastics