Top 25 Enterprise Software Startup Investors in Hong Kong in October 2023

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• Hex Trust — Access custody, DeFi, brokerage, and financing services built on regulated infrastructure with Hex Trust, fully-licensed and insured digital asset custodian in Asia.
• Zeek — Zeek is a data-driven intelligent logistics technology platform that provides one-stop O2O last-mile delivery solutions for F&B, lifestyle and FMCG merchants in Southeast Asia. Founded in Hong Kong, Zeek has expanded its business presence to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, etc with customers that comprise global top-five F&B brandsand fast-food chains, leading supermarkets and department stores, convenience store chains, online e-commerce and food platforms, etc. Zeek has become one of the leading delivery partner for global fast-food chain in Southeast Asia and is confident to become one of the leading intelligent on-demand logistics players in F&B and lifestyle sectors in Southeast Asia.
• FreeD Group — Freed Group empower your business with smart adaptive technology Freed Group Provides "Enterprise E-commerce Solution" "AI Powered Chat-Commerce Solution" "Merchant Marketplace" "RCS Enterprise Messaging" "Enterprise D2C EPOS Solution" "Smart City Solution"

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• Pimlico — Leverage Pimlico to get more users by unlocking the full potential of gas sponsorships.
• HyperPlay — HyperPlay is a web3-native game launcher that enables players to carry their wallet, NFTs, tokens, and achievements into every game.
• Intuition — Intuition provides decentralized infrastructure, developer tools, and applications enabling the creation of an open, flexible knowledge graph enhancing the quality and availability of social knowledge.

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• Qupital — Qupital helps e-commerce sellers with our Fintech, bringing them a financing solution that is easier to apply, more efficient and at a lower cost.
• Jumppoint — Founded in Hong Kong since 2020, Jumppoint developed in house its own multi-layer dynamic routing algorithm, jumppoint.ai, to offer highly efficient yet cost-saving logisitics services to B2B and B2C users, with real-time logisitcs data embeded. Beyond Hong Kong headquarters and R&D centre, Jumppoint also has extensive presence in Asia suchas Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Southeast Asia headquarters, Singapore, providing localised logsitics services.
• ICW — ICW is an integrated software-as-a-service quality & product compliance management platform and certification marketplace for retailers and e-commerce companies

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• Arcade2earn — Arcade2earn is the GameFi platform that gives its community the opportunity to earn access to the ecosystem.
• HitBox Games — HitBox Games was founded by industry veterans to provide dev teams around the world with a transparent and ethical publishing option.
• Aether Games — Aether Games are the creative talent behind both of the widely expected NFT-based game titles: Gates of Ethernity and Cards of Ethernity. In addition, the studio's creative efforts are up to be represented by the CGI mini-series "Aether" and many more.

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• NWP Retail — Formed in 2015, NWP Retail is a joint venture between PT. Nirvana Development Tbk. (NIRO) and Warburg Pincus, formed to build and develop a best-in-class retail platform in Indonesia. The Venture focuses on developing hypermarket-anchored shopping malls in Indonesia to capitalize on the country’s growth potential which is driven by rapidurbanization, emerging consumption and outsized economic growth. This strategic partnership is founded on a common vision to expand NWP Retail’s footprint across high potential areas for retail development throughout Indonesia.
• Horizon Robotics — Horizon Robotics is a provider of energy-efficient computing solutions for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) for smart vehicles, with the mission to make human life safer and better. As a pioneer to commercialize embedded passenger-vehicle ADAS and AD products in China, Horizon Robotics is committed to enhancingnext-generation smart driving experiences by integrating hardware and software, including low-power hardware computing solutions and open software development tools. By closely collaborating with a community of partners, Horizon Robotics offers products and services that enable an open ecosystem of smart vehicle transformation.
• Know Your Customer — Build the perfect automated KYC, KYB and AML process for your business with Know Your Customer. Discover how our Modular Compliance solutions can help.

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• ChaZence — ChaZence is an environmental consulting and biotechnology company that manufactures, innovates, and designs naturally degradable materials for a sustainable lifestyle.
• Scolioscan — Scolioscan focuses on medical imaging technology research & development, self-service production and technology distribution and promotion.
• Great Bay Bio — Great Bay Bio Ltd. is a high-tech company that develops blue ocean biopharmaceuticals with a digital platform. It has a long history of biomedical research and development and rich experience in product development. Adhering to the national strategic concept of scientific and technological innovation and coordinated development of the Greater BayArea, Dawan Biotechnology brings together high-quality resources from Europe, the United States, Singapore, and Hong Kong to build a biopharmaceutical development platform centered on AI technology, big data, and Internet of Things technology, which greatly shortens The drug development cycle significantly reduces development costs and has great industry competitive advantages.

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• NeoSwap — NeoSwap is a multi-party, multi-item NFT swap platform that redistributes items in a win-win-win manner, using minimal currency. It provides neo-barter solutions to unlock value within existing marketplaces and enable marketplaces where they were previously unsustainable. It was founded by John Ennis.
• Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
• Klang Games — Klang Games is an entertainment & game development studio in Berlin, developing the MMO Simulation and Virtual World, Seed. Klang is always hiring!

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• SpacemiT — SpacemiT is a computing chip company developing natively integrated cloud-edge-device architecture. It focuses on building RISC-V high-performance CPUs and providing computing solutions with integrated hardware and software optimization. The company's mission is to be the cornerstone of computing power in the digital age, driven to become asignificant global computing powerhouse.
• Springdel — Move beyond cloud and legacy MDM with an enterprise-grade EdgeOps platform purpose-built for the interactive Edge of Things.
• Yuchao Technology — Yuchao Technology is a digital collecting platform that uses blockchain technology to protect intellectual property.

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• Superfuse — Superfuse specializes in R&D and production of high-performance fuse products & new generation Pyrofuse instantaneous breaker products for new energy vehicles, charging piles, wind and solar storage, two-wheeled vehicles, electric ships, data centers.
• Aikeda Bio — Aikeda Bio provides R&D production, sales and technical services. Its products cover coagulation detection systems, specific protein detection systems, reproductive detection systems and immune detection systems
• Matrix Software — Matrix Software is a research organization that focuses on the analysis, management, and prevention of information technology risks.

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• SuiPad — SuiPad is an IDO&INO platform, with selected projects, flexible whitelist, and fair level as the core positioning.
• Exverse — Empowering the gaming experience
• Vee Finance — Bridge the gap between traditional banking and crypto Defi Earn fixed/flexible return on deposited assets

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• Frontrunner — Frontrunner is a decentralized sports prediction market where users can buy shares of sports propositions and trade them like they would stocks. Unlike traditional sportsbooks where users place a bet and wait, Frontrunner gives users full control over their portfolios, allowing them to dynamically buy and sell positions as the odds change. Byleveraging the power of free markets and the blockchain, we create fully transparent markets and liquid positions which fundamentally change the way that people invest in their sports knowledge and beliefs. The vision is to bring DeFi concepts like AMMs, margin trading, and perpetuals to a marketplace of sports derivatives, creating parity between financial and sports betting markets.
• MetaVersus World — MetaVersus combines gaming with Web3 to provide a hyper-realistic digital environment for brands to build in and for users to discover as MetaCitizens
• Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy

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• VIP3 — VIP3 is the FIRST all-in-one web3 benefits and membership platform, providing users with rewards and discounts.
• Dmail — Dmail Network is a decentralized mailbox that provides a safe and private environment for users' communication, storage, tokens, and NFTs. The company was founded by Mittal S. and Lucas L. in 2021.
• The Great Escape — The Great Escape a 2D Play and Earn platform where players must collect as many fruit as possible in a given time in a level full of enemies and traps.

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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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• Homeppl — Homeppl reveals consumer's real transactional ability. We leverage open banking, risk and financial algorithms, and unique fraud detection tests to allow consumers inclusive financial access to all financial or risk products in the world.Clients use Homeppl to increase revenue, prevent fraud, and eliminate transactional friction. Homepplhas reviewed hundreds of thousands of transactions and approved millions of pounds of revenue for clients in the UK.We are a Techstars company. Our team is comprised of ambitious, international, and passionate individuals. We are from 24 nationalities and speak over 17 languages!
• Finquest — Finquest is the premier deal origination provider delivering personalized connections to its clients who seek M&A and direct investment opportunities in Europe, North America, and APAC.With a unique database, machine learning and a team of experts, Finquest provides targeted, curated and actionable connections, whilst maintaining completeconfidentiality throughout the process. With Finquest, clients can broaden their market access, creating a more efficient deal-making environment.Finquest is headquartered in Singapore and has offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Bangalore, and Hong Kong.
• Crown Digital — Crown Digital harnesses the future-ready power of robotics and Artificial Intelligence to open doors with cutting-edge solutions for the not-so-distant future.

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• Smarto — Smarto is an IOT technology company vertical to the logistics field. Committed to creating a logistics IOT cycle ecology. Link users, logistics, platforms, and merchants to empower perception, and interaction, improve efficiency, and save resources for each package. Based on IOT technology, it provides solutions for circular environmentalprotection, smart logistics, and packaging carbon neutrality.
• Smarcle — Smarcle helps customers enter the market accurately. From warehousing and logistics to sales operations, channel analysis, policy consulting, market strategy, and marketing and public relations planning, a brand management company provides marketing, public relations, and advisory services.
• Qiangua Technology — Qiangua Technology is a Chinese autonomous driving truck company that provides logistics and transportation services based on automated driving technology.

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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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• XOOCITY — XOOCITY is a platform that allows users to own virtual land in a replica of Hong Kong in the metaverse. The metaverse is a virtual world that is rapidly growing and becoming more popular as technology advances. In this virtual world, users can buy, sell, and develop NFT-based applications on their virtual land. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are atype of digital asset that is unique and cannot be exchanged for another asset. They are commonly used in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency.The replica of Hong Kong in XOOCITY is designed to be a virtual world that visitors can tour and explore, much like a real city. The platform features attractions, skyscrapers, amusement parks, temples, landscapes, shops, and trade expos that are all replicated in the virtual world. This allows users to experience the sights and sounds of Hong Kong in a virtual setting, without having to physically travel to the city. The platform also allows users to stake their virtual land, which means they can hold and lock up their assets for a period of time to earn rewards. This provides a way for users to earn passive income from their virtual assets.XOOCITY is an innovative platform that combines virtual real estate ownership with NFT-based applications to create a unique and immersive virtual world. It provides a way for users to experience the sights and sounds of Hong Kong in a new and exciting way, while also allowing them to earn rewards from their virtual assets.Internet is going into Web3 era, our Internet operation experience tells us that a localized community will provide sense of belonging to create user stickiness to the platform itself. Localized services will ultimately allow the businesses to acquire frequent users and profitable from its promptly services. Vision: Building the most interactive and interesting localized city lifestyle in the Meta world!Mission: Elevate and satisfy people's spirits and desires in a virtual world experience!
• Immuno Cure — Immuno Cure, it is a biotechnology company it is specialized in the study and creation of immunotherapies for cancer, inflammatory, and infectious disorders.
• Expando — Expando enables B2B startups to create frictionless partnerships with one platform. Partner with the best partners and build lasting client relationships together!

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• Custonomy — Custonomy offers a groundbreaking enterprise key management solution which is not only improving the enterprise digital asset security with granular access control mathematically built in, it also enables enterprises to innovate with value-added customer services and keep pace with rapid changes.

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• Saito — Saito is a layer 1 blockchain that provides the foundation for building open and scalable web applications.

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• Loship — Lozi is the fastest-growing Tech startup that operates a one-hour-delivery E-commerce platform called Loship. Made by Vietnamese for Vietnamese, Loship offers the most effective distribution networks in Vietnam, filling the massive demand for immediate deliveries in a bustling and modern life, with a wide range of services including food delivery(Loship), grocery delivery (Lomart), ride-hailing (Lo-xe), medicine delivery (Lomed), laundry service (Lozat), package delivery (Lo-send), beauty products delivery (LoBeauty), flower delivery (Lo-hoa) and B2B supply delivery (Lo-supply).Loship now has a fleet of more than 70,000 drivers and 200,000 merchants, serving almost 2,000,000 customers across four big cities of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Can Tho – all dedicated to fulfilling the Vietnamese consumers’ one-hour delivery needs.
• Zeek — Zeek is a data-driven intelligent logistics technology platform that provides one-stop O2O last-mile delivery solutions for F&B, lifestyle and FMCG merchants in Southeast Asia. Founded in Hong Kong, Zeek has expanded its business presence to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, etc with customers that comprise global top-five F&B brandsand fast-food chains, leading supermarkets and department stores, convenience store chains, online e-commerce and food platforms, etc. Zeek has become one of the leading delivery partner for global fast-food chain in Southeast Asia and is confident to become one of the leading intelligent on-demand logistics players in F&B and lifestyle sectors in Southeast Asia.
• Codemap — Hire no-code, automation and technology experts & agencies vetted by Codemap. Build software faster with minimal or NO coding - launch in days or weeks. Learn no-code and automate processes to supercharge your business.

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• Saito — Saito is a layer 1 blockchain that provides the foundation for building open and scalable web applications.
• SIL Finance — SIL Finance is a decentralized automatic investment platform providing users with DeFi financial management services. SIL Finance provides dual-token liquidity for variable swaps, automatic LP matching, and automatic compound interests. It selects and configures products that best suit the interests of users, making complex liquidity mining tobecome simple. The SIL’s model is unique in the DeFi market, it’s single-sided functionality is solely contributed by users, the product gives all the possible choices back to the community, and is way more open than yield products.
• Trace Network Labs — Enabling Metaverse for fashion and lifestyle

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• Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
• Micro Connect — Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
• MasterExchange — Trading platform for music rights leveraging emerging technology to create friction free and compliant investment opportunities to everyone.

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• Updater Services — Updater Services (P) Limited is India's largest facility management services company, with more than 35,000 people spread across the country with a strong branch network. UDS offers a comprehensive and integrated facility management services for Commercial, IT Parks, Township, Manufacturing, Hospitality, Healthcare, Residential, Retail, BFSIand other industries.
• ideaForge — ideaForge develops and produces Unmanned Aerial Systems that offer unmatched usability due to its user-centric innovations and design. With a focus on sustainable use in operation, it ensures the highest quality and performance of its products. It is in constant pursuit of creating products that inspire a new vision.Founded in 2007 by IIT Mumbaialumni Ankit Mehta, Rahul Singh, Vipul Joshi, and Ashish Bhat, IdeaForge is headquartered in Mumbai, India.
• LINE Securities — LINE Securities is a provider of remote securities brokerage and securities investment consultation services.

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• Joystream — JoyStream is a blockchain powered decentralized media distribution, curation, discovery, and monetization platform.
• Web3Auth — Web3Auth is simple, non-custodial auth infrastructure that enables Web3 wallets and applications to provide seamless user logins for both mainstream and native Web3 users.
• Vee Finance — Bridge the gap between traditional banking and crypto Defi Earn fixed/flexible return on deposited assets

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• 0xPass — Frictionless auth and login for your dapp
• D3 Labs — D3 Labs is to simplify and empower finance through seamless blockchain adoption, delivering confidence and benefits to individuals and organizations alike.
• Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.