Top 35 Community Startup Investors in Malaysia (October 2023)

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• ZumVet — ZumVet provides access to affordable and convenient veterinary care through video calls and medication delivery. They are passionate about animals and want them to get the best possible care by offering video consults, referrals, home visits, and emergency services. It was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Singapore.
• Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.
• Smoothly — Startup is a place where ideas are built. A place where we are always looking toward the future; new horizons in design and development are just ahead.

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• CompAsia — Device lifecycle solutions for a greener world.
• Kiddocare — They are on a journey to create an ecosystem to support working parents – giving them the gift of freedom and time by connecting them with babysitters to care for their children. It is also their aim to empower women who want to pursue childcare as a career or to generate extra income by giving them the platform to do so.
• CAS Linkfiber — CAS Linkfiber is concentrating on key material technology research and manufacturing for hydrogen fuel cells, overcoming foreign suppliers' monopolies and attaining key material localization.

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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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• Bob W — Book the smartest alternative to hotels and random rentals. Climate-neutral and locally designed apartments in handpicked districts. Stay days, weeks or months.
• GoTrendier — Gotrendier.com.co is a platform to sell the clothes that you no longer use and to buy in the closet of other girls throughout Colombia. Posting your products on gotrendier.com.co is completely free! They are sure that in your closet you have many fashion garments that you have not even put on, or that are new, even with a label. At GoTrendier wegive you the opportunity to sell these items and earn money. In addition, you can buy clothes from other users, and find your new favorites
• Lunar — Get a free account and card - just like 750,000 others. Spend smart. Achieve financial peace of mind. Sign up in minutes.

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• Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
• appsNmobile — A leading payment solutions provider licensed by the Bank of Ghana. Service delivery is hinged on integrity, innovation and excellent customer service.
• FanAnywhere — Your one-stop blockchain solution for a celebrity to engage the fan base, exclusive Fan Tokens, exchange in FAW pairs & own exclusive celebrity artworks

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• Joystream — JoyStream is a blockchain powered decentralized media distribution, curation, discovery, and monetization platform.
• Forward Protocol — Create Blockchains, Subnets, and dApps with A No-Code Interface Wordpress for Web 3.0 Cross-Chain Compatible Industry Agnostic Adoption-Focused Deploy Your dApp Now Join the Community Featured In Deploy and go live in a few minutes. No programming skills required. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K07z8cQPQGI&ab_channel=ForwardProtocol Lowest Barrier to Entry Easy to use Open Source Drag and drop Complete control Set
• The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids

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• Momos — Only restaurant management growth platform, purposely built to help brands grow through our combination of customer engagement, digital marketing and analytics tools.
• Curlec — Online Payments Malaysia: Start accepting payments with Curlec's payments suite, which supports FPX, Direct Debit, Credit Cards & Debit Cards, eWallets, DuitNow.
• Sendhelper — Verified and licensed service providers | Attractive rates | Secure online payment | Guaranteed customer support

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• UXUY — UXUY is the easiest and most secure decentralized exchange built on MPC wallet. Begin your Web3 journey with the native DEX and start making money today.
• Safeheron — Safeheron is a platform that enables open and transparent self-custody of digital assets.
• Volare Finance — Volare Finance provides a transparent, trustless, and convenient decentralized option trading without intermediaries.

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• Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
• Wicrypt — Wicrypt is a dynamic organization that consistently allows its users to get paid by sharing their Wi-Fi.
• Bella Protocol — Bella Defi suite allows users to simply deposit and enjoy high yield from sophisticated arbitrage strategies, either on-chain or via custodian service.

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• Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.

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• Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
• Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
• fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.

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• GPU.Net — GPU Network is a decentralized graphics processing unit on-demand infrastructure that supports the next generation of Generative AI, Web3 Metaverses, high-end graphics rendering, and cryptocurrency mining.
• Bubblemaps — Explore DeFi tokens and NFTs through bubbles in our crypto dApp. Cryptocurrency data for beginners, degens, and experts.
• Aethir — Power Ultra-Low Latency Gaming & AI Experiences.

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• MADCash — Our mission is to fund women micro-entrepreneurs in Malaysia to improve their income and credit standing by providing micro-funding and facilitating digital financial inclusion.
• Kiddocare — They are on a journey to create an ecosystem to support working parents – giving them the gift of freedom and time by connecting them with babysitters to care for their children. It is also their aim to empower women who want to pursue childcare as a career or to generate extra income by giving them the platform to do so.

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• MADCash — Our mission is to fund women micro-entrepreneurs in Malaysia to improve their income and credit standing by providing micro-funding and facilitating digital financial inclusion.
• Kiddocare — They are on a journey to create an ecosystem to support working parents – giving them the gift of freedom and time by connecting them with babysitters to care for their children. It is also their aim to empower women who want to pursue childcare as a career or to generate extra income by giving them the platform to do so.

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• Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.

Portfolio highlights

• Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.

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• imajin — Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem for Indonesia. Focus on B2B Manufacturing, partner of Ministry of Industry Indonesia as Manufacturing hub. Help to connect, Supplies raw material until project financing.
• Appboxo — Appboxo enables apps to be launched inside of other apps to create beautiful and lightning fast mobile experiences.
• eFishery — eFishery startup Aqua-Tech pertama di Asia, membangun ekosistem Akuakultur berkelanjutan dengan teknologi yang membantu budidaya ikan/udang.

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• Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
• FanAnywhere — Your one-stop blockchain solution for a celebrity to engage the fan base, exclusive Fan Tokens, exchange in FAW pairs & own exclusive celebrity artworks
• D/Bond — Decentralized derivatives

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• Polybase — Polybase Labs is building fair, accessible and safe blockchain infrastructure to make the world more equitable. Our main product is a layer 2 blockchain with private transactions and MEV-resistance powered by zero knowledge proofs.
• Gleen AI — Delight your customers. Get Gleen, the world's most accurate & capable generative AI-based chatbot. Trustworthy answers. Automatic actions. Unify knowledge.
• Orb Labs — Enable apps to access users on any chain without account fragmentation

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• Ethis — Our platforms feature exciting and sustainable campaigns. You are the ethical crowdfunders. When good intentions converge, we inspire change in the world. Impact Investment. Participatory Project Financing. Effective Charity. We are Ethis.

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• Ethis — Our platforms feature exciting and sustainable campaigns. You are the ethical crowdfunders. When good intentions converge, we inspire change in the world. Impact Investment. Participatory Project Financing. Effective Charity. We are Ethis.

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• Ethis — Our platforms feature exciting and sustainable campaigns. You are the ethical crowdfunders. When good intentions converge, we inspire change in the world. Impact Investment. Participatory Project Financing. Effective Charity. We are Ethis.

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• WORQ — Customized office space and private suites for rent, 24/7 accessibility, near MRT station. Our workspace solutions cater to all business sizes, from startups to enterprises. Join our community and elevate your business. Get a quote now.
• SCB Abacus — First advanced data analytics spin-off in Thai financial industry
• 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.

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• WORQ — Customized office space and private suites for rent, 24/7 accessibility, near MRT station. Our workspace solutions cater to all business sizes, from startups to enterprises. Join our community and elevate your business. Get a quote now.

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• Ethis — Our platforms feature exciting and sustainable campaigns. You are the ethical crowdfunders. When good intentions converge, we inspire change in the world. Impact Investment. Participatory Project Financing. Effective Charity. We are Ethis.

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• Nomic AI — Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI.
• Amber Bio — Amber Bio is rewriting the rules of medicine.
• Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.

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• Octav — Securely interpret DeFi and crypto portfolios with Octav's best-in-class cross-chain monitoring & pre-tax facilitator. Maximize efficiency for finance, accounting, tax professionals. Advanced labeling, reporting & reconciliation of DeFi investments. Latest Web3 dashboard. Elevate Decentralized Finance now.
• Spearbit — Web3 Security At Scale
• Informal Systems — Informal Systems offer research and development at the intersection of formal verification and distributed systems.

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• WORQ — Customized office space and private suites for rent, 24/7 accessibility, near MRT station. Our workspace solutions cater to all business sizes, from startups to enterprises. Join our community and elevate your business. Get a quote now.
• Helicap — Explore the world of private credit investing, a powerful approach to impactful lending and investment in alternative opportunities. Discover the benefits of deal structuring and the potential for high yield while making a positive social and environmental impact.
• Capital C Corporation — Capital C Corporation is a Singapore-based financial services provider. Capital C Corporation capitalises on fintech and the best emerging technologies in the market to provide financial services to the under-served in Singapore.

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• Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
• Capillary Technologies — Capillary’s technology solutions help businesses get ahead of the digital evolution and stay ‘Always Consumer Ready’. The experience platform integrates Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to make it easy for brands to get deep understanding and insights into their consumers, engage consumers through personalized 1:1 communication,provide easy and connected cross-channel commerce experiences and build loyalty to reward and retain their best consumers.Over 300 marquee brands across 30+ countries, including Pizza Hut, VF Brands, Walmart, Al-Futtaim, KFC, Starbucks, Madura Garments, Courts and Samsung, trust Capillary to enable easy and seamless consumer experiences. With over 300 million consumers and 25,000 stores on the platform, Capillary is Asia’s leading SaaS product company. Over 700 Capillary associates across 11 global offices are continually innovating to find new ways for brands to make their consumers’ lives easier, and experiences memorable.Founded in 2008, Capillary is backed by Warburg Pincus, Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, and American Express Ventures. Explore more at https://www.capillarytech.com/
• Ace Turtle — We help retail businesses in India, Singapore & Malaysia convert multichannel sales & marketing strategies to omnichannel on marketplaces & own websites

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• Nuren Group — Nuren Group is South East Asia leading female platform, focusing on motherhood. Our community consist of 2,000 baby brands and 2.5 million active moms across 3 countries. Founded in September 2013, we currently have 70+ employees in Malaysia. Singapore & Thailand. More about us: https://www.nurengroup.com.REGIONAL PLATFORM[Malaysia Site] --> https://www.motherhood.com.my [Thailand Site] --> https://www.motherhood.co.th [Singapore Site] --> https://www.mamahood.com.sg
• Digital Media Nusantara — Digital Media Nusantara is a media company that operates and manages a stable of brands which include The ASEAN Post, Spotlight Labs, Reimagining Southeast Asia, and Discovery Technologies, the unique ASEAN-focused financial markets’ infrastructure technology that is currently in development.

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• Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
• AlloyX — AlloyX makes it simple and accessible for protocols, DAOs, and institutional investors to create diversified RWA investment strategies. We provide lenders with a flexible and efficient platform for managing all of their RWA assets based on their yield, risk, and liquidity preferences.
• Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.

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• Salary Hero — Salary Hero offers a user-centric engagement solution to foster financial resilience among workforces.
• 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.
• Globish Academia (Thailand) — Globish Academia (Thailand) is beyond just for native English countries, it already has become global. How nice would it be if EVERY THAI can speak English with confidence a little more. Thais can befriend the whole world. When Global English meets Innovation and Change-makers, Globish Academia was established for those who are actively making aa better society through innovating EVERYDAY education. We do want to change the fact that “English Proficiency” is rank 2nd of “Thai Youth Fear Toward AEC Competitiveness”, with only 3% lower than our unfortunate political problem.

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• Bereev — A death preparation app that helps you create a plan which will guide your loved ones when you're gone. Sign up for free!
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• Kumoten — Kumoten is a Malaysia's largest dropship service provider. they help online retailers start and grow their business by taking away the risk of buying stocks.

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• Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
• The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.
• Cryption Network — Cryption Network is crypto company. Its can swap, farm, Invest and predict with cryption's unique and user-friendly DeFi 2.0 products. Bringing mass adoption to DeFi. PolyDEX is cryption's flagship product, which is completely gasless, instant, cross-chain AMM DEX with yield farming.

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• ShapesXR — ShapesXR is a provider of a web-based platform for content creation and collaboration for VR applications.
• Space DOTS — The first modular pico-labs for active in-space testing of advanced materials, from LEO to Cis-lunar and Interplanetary orbits.
• Cascade Biocatalysts — Cascade Biocatalysts is built on a novel way to immobilize enzymes. Our technology keeps enzymes active and stable under difficult industrial conditions.