# Top 30 Community Startup Investors in Vietnam in October 2023 ## Mekong Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ho Chi Minh City, NA - Vietnam, Vietnam - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A - Focus: Manufacturing, Retail, Service Industry Mekong Capital is a Vietnam-focused Private Equity firm, specializing in consumer driven businesses. Mekong Capital’s investee companies are typically among the fastest growing and market leading companies in Vietnam’s consumer-driven sectors such as retail, restaurants, consumer products and distribution.Established in 2001, Mekong Capitalhas the most extensive private equity track record in Vietnam. Our funds have completed 30 private equity investments, of which 22 have been fully exited and 1 has been partially exited. Mekong Capital has managed 5 funds, one of which is currently making new investments. Mekong Capital has a team of 50+ full-time people in our offices in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, who have an average tenure at Mekong Capital of around 6 years. Three Partners with combined 31 years at Mekong Capital.Mekong Capital invests in fast-growing companies, with ambitious expansion plans, and a strong commitment to building management teams that will apply best practices and successfully execute on those expansion plans. These companies are typically well-established companies in their sectors, but which typically operate in fragmented and fast growing markets which present attractive growth opportunities.Mekong Capital is strongly committed to adding significant value at each of its investee companies – through operational improvements, building management teams, introduction of best practices and outside experts, and applying other elements of our Vision Driven Investing framework. ## ESP Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Fitness, Internet, Wellness ESP Capital is an Early stage Venture Fund with the mission to support tech startup companies in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. We aim to invest in companies that can create profound impact to improve life qualities ## Golden Gate Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services Golden Gate Ventures is a venture capital firm investing across Southeast Asia. Since 2011, the firm has launched four funds, managed US$250M AUM, and invested in 60+ companies in over 7 countries in Asia. The firm focuses on investing in technology companies driven by the rising consumer class in Southeast Asia. ## Jeff Hohner - Type: Angel - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Consumer, Consumer Goods, Social Entrepreneurship Jeff Hohner President at Tecumseh Capital Ltd. ## Dt& Investment - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Internet, Biotechnology Dt&Investment ## Thuc Vu - Type: Angel - Location: Stanford, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Mobile, Software, Lifestyle Thuc Vu is the co-founder and CEO of OhmniLabs. ## Jack Tai - Type: Angel - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Consumer, Consumer Goods, Social Entrepreneurship Jack Tai - CEO/Co-Founder @ OneClass ## Luke Vigent - Type: Angel - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Consumer, Software, Mobile Apps Luke Vigeant is the chief product officer and co-founder of tilr. ## Innovatube - Type: VC Fund - Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Delivery, Internet, E-Commerce Accelerating workflows and decision-making by eliminating manual processes with proprietary artificial intelligence platform and solutions. ## Sebastian Knutsson - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Music, Public Transportation Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King. ## Rekanext - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Cyber Security, Information Technology, E-Commerce Rekanext is a Southeast Asean focused venture capital fund based in Singapore. Rekanext invest in early stage startups and companies with potential to be unicorns in Southeast Asia! ## Susquehanna International Group (SIG) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets. ## Madeleine Magnerius - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: B2B, Dating, Recycling Madeleine Magnerius is a Vice President at EQT Partners. ## Brian Ma - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Property Management, Real Estate, FinTech Brian Ma is the Founder and Managing Partner at Iterative Capital. Co-Founder at Decide.com, recently acquired by Ebay. He is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor at various startups. ## Sofia Dolfe - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Dating, Mobile Sofia joined Index in April 2018. She spends time in the Nordics and The Netherlands, and focuses on investments in consumer internet and marketplace businesses across all stages. Prior to joining Index, Sofia was an investor at EQT Ventures in Stockholm. Sofia is a graduate of the London School of Economics (M.Sc. Management) and of the Universityof Edinburgh (M.A.), where she graduated at the top of her class. ## REAPRA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Human Resources, Real Estate, Internet Through Research and Practice, we contribute to the betterment of society,by creating industries. We are a venture builder and investment group based in Singapore with a strategic focus on developing sustainable businesses. ## Dimple Mukherjee - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Consumer, Consumer Goods, Social Entrepreneurship Love, Audacity, Flow, Spirit, Command, Tend– my life in words over the course of a six year period.What a journey it’s been to send sweet invitations to my life, one word at a time. In the years that I’ve been committing to this ritual of calling in my word, it dawned on me that life is so delicious when we approach it with curiosity and play.It’s not to say that life will always be easy but having a word to lean on, to share with others and to have others mirror my word back to me has been an eye opening and transformative experience.I find solace in my word and lest I forget to connect with it, it reaches out as a dear friend who I haven’t seen in ages. My word has a tendency to seek me out and nudge me. It shows up when I least expect it but when I need it the most. It’s no stranger to synchronicities and that will become so evident to you as soon as you’ve called in your word. ## NextGen Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lunteren, Gelderland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Medical, Health Care Venture capital fund investing in digital health and medtech startups to improve health care ## Do Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ho Chi Minh City, NA - Vietnam, Vietnam - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, EdTech DO Ventures is a venture fund with the mission to support tech startup companies in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. We provide finance, mentorship, connections to both global and regional startups ## East Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari. ## 31 Atlantic Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology 31 Atlantic Capital ## Mark Groves - Type: Angel - Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Consumer, Consumer Goods, Social Entrepreneurship Mark Groves ## VNV Global - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Marketplace VNV Global is an investment company with the business concept of using experience, expertise and a widespread network to identify and invest in assets with considerable potential for value appreciation. The company has a special focus on online marketplaces and businesses with strong network effects. The common shares of VNV Global are listed onNasdaq Stockholm, Mid Cap segment, with the ticker VNV. ## Jussi Salovaara - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Apps, Retail, FinTech Jussi Salovaara - Co-founder and Managing Partner Asia @ Antler ## Magda Lukaszewicz - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Dating, Dental, Health Care Magda joined Balderton in 2018. Prior to Balderton, Magda spent three years at Goldman Sachs, where she first worked in the financing group covering Nordics and later moved to the Consumer, Retail & Healthcare M&A team, where she was an associate and worked on a number of Nordic transactions. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Magda was involvedin politics and worked in startups. Magda has an MSc in Business & Economics from Lund University, where she was admitted to the Venture Lab for a one-year entrepreneurship programme. She also studied Business at Copenhagen Business School. ## Fredrik Hjelm - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Pet Fredrik Hjelm co-founded Voi Technology in 2018 with a vision of improving the way people move around congested urban centres by offering fleets of electric scooters as a cleaner, affordable and exhilarating alternative to cars. Prior to Voi, Fredrik founded Guestit, the Nordics’ most successful Airbnb management company, and worked in businessdevelopment for Avito.ru, Russia’s leading - and the world’s third largest – classified advertising site. Fredrik’s entrepreneurial career began at 12 years of age when he ran a number of commercial projects including forestry work (he grew up in rural Sweden), events and website sales.After graduating from high school, he attended the Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, within the intelligence branch of Sweden’s special forces, where he studied Russian and linguistics. He served a total of four years in Moscow in the Defence Attache Office, where he worked as an interpreter and analyst, covering Russia as well as Kazakhstan and Belarus. He went on to study business and economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. ## Nextrans - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, B2B Nextrans is the various capital provider including seed capital, human resources and networks but not limited to for the entrepreneurs. ## Founders Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Communities, Hospitality, Sharing Economy Founders Capital is An early-stage fintech focused investment firm based in London, UK.Their investment objective has been to identify and capture opportunities in the following emerging key alternative finance and FinTech areas:Market Place Lending (MPL) – invested in a range of market place lending companies including those focusingconsumer finance (Bondora), real- estate (EstateGuru) and SME lending and invoice finance (Investly) Secondary Market for Private Shares – creating a market place / secondary market where investors / founders can offload private shares (SharesBook) Balance Sheet Lending (BSL)- capitalising on the changing regulatory landscape in the the EU and backing up new types of ethical alternatives to payday lending (Credio) MPL Robolender – setting up a buy-side MPL operation that would give investors a single entry-point to market place lending across multiple platforms (PeerCap) ETF Roboadvisors – disrupting the mainstream wealth management space and offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional wealth managers and independent financial advisors, initially by focusing on the expat market (WealthPat) ## Wang Jian - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Travel, Leisure, Tourism Jian Wang was the Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba from August 2012 to May 2015. ## FengHe Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, E-Commerce F&H welcomes enquiries directly from principals as well as from intermediaries. 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