Top 40 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Malaysia in October 2023

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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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• Go Zero — Go Zero is an innovative ice cream company dedicated to provide deliciousness without guilt.
• Sole Threads — Sole Threads offers an online store that enables its users to find and buy from a range of flip-flops.
• SuperBottoms — Want to buy reusable cloth diapers for your babies at the best price? Use SuperBottoms's organic cotton diapers, which are absorbent, soft & gentle for newborns.

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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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• 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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• GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
• Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
• Blue Ocean Gear — Blue Ocean Gear designs and builds GPS tracking buoys capable of surviving the brutal operational demands of the modern fixed gear fisher. Our patented SmartBuoy product suite allows fishers, aquaculture farmers and ocean scientists to track and monitor data from their gear anytime and anywhere, enhancing operational efficiency and profitability byreducing fuel costs and lost gear while gaining previously unavailable insights into the local ocean conditions. Our 'IoT for the oceans' also directly address the environmental impacts of lost gear and entanglements.

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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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• Paper.id — Atur tempo pembayaran bisnis serta kirim & terima pembayaran dengan kartu kredit, invoice juga langsung sah dengan e-Meterai. Coba Sekarang!
• Fairatmos — Create your Green House Gasses sequestration project proposal, verify for credits, support projects and buy credits all in one platform.
• PickUp Coffee — PickUp Coffee is a start-up that aims to increase the accessibility of espresso and milk-based beverages. PickUp Coffee is located in Taguig, Philippines.

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• Bake With Yen — Bake With Yen is best known for baking ingredients retail stores in Malaysia that provide various baking classes, share the latest recipes baking techniques.

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• CorgiAI — CorgiAI is an API-based end-to-end fraud detection + prevention product suite, built on a core of customizable and explainable AI
• SpaceBasic Inc. — AI-driven campus automation, digital learning, and analytics platform from Space Basic helping you transform your University and institution digitally.
• Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.

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• Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
• MAYD — MAYD provides telepharmacy platform providing healthcare-related goods in a convenient way by delivering it to doorstep.
• HELLO INSIDE — HELLO INSIDE is a scientific self care company empowering people to have data-driven conversations with their bodies. Unlock your best self.

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• Hygraph — Hygraph is the next generation GraphQL-Native Federated Content Platform. Integrate all your services with our unique content federation approach and deliver to any destination of choice using our content APIs
• Bidnamic — Bidnamic is a marketing technology platform that helps retailers unlock the full potential of Google Shopping.
• 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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• 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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• medIQ — medIQ is integrated virtual care platform’ providing on-demand healthcare at the point of need in Pakistan.
• Truckistan — Truckistan is developing a logistics platform to make shipping faster and cheaper. The company provides real-time tracking, a customer dashboard, account management, and guaranteed transit time, as well as SaaS tools for routing, vehicle loading, and RFID implementation throughout the supply chain.
• Happioh Inc — Almost one in five people waste more than a third of their time at work. We care about freeing up people's time at work so they can spend more time on deep work and what makes them happy. Happioh is the only platform-and language agnostic SaaS meeting intelligence product in the market - born to safeguard and protect people againstlow-quality meeting hours. Happioh was nominated for the 2022 Product Award and 100 Most Promising Technology Companies. Semi-finalist at the Startup World Cup Silicon Valley, 2022, and WEF Technology Pioneer, 2023.The Scandinavian UX and design make it delightful and super easy to use. Happioh turns complex and manual meeting processes at work into simple automated solutions. A side-effect of Happioh is it helps you improve your attention, and memory, and lower your cognitive stress. Please contact us if you are interested in investing in our future rounds or learning more.

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• GoodGudi — GoodGudi is a Lifestyle retail shopping destination. Our Stores sell Travel Accessories, Fashion Accessories, Home Improvement products, Toys and Cosmetics
• Vantient — Bring your people together with engaging experiences, and collect zero-party data consentingly. Build trusted data relationships with your community.
• Simplus — Simplus offers customers more fashionable and cost-effective small home appliances.

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• Aruna — Aruna adalah integrated fisheries commerce startup di Indonesia, yang berusaha mewujudkan ekosistem perikanan dan perdagangan hasil laut yang adil.
• SariSuki — SariSuki is a community selling platform that helps you become an online neighborhood grocery store.
• Terra.do — Learn about climate change and start working on climate change solutions today with the Terra.do community.

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• Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
• LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
• Stacked — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.

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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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• KFit — KFit gets you into the best fitness studios, classes and gyms in your city. Get access to unlimited group fitness classes and activities with just one monthly membership. Transform your workouts.Never get bored. Discover new ways to move. Take as many classes per month as you’d like. Try a different studio everyday. It’s time to work out the wayyou want to.
• TheLorry — We offer a wide range of moving services from house moving to cross-border relocation.
• Signature Market — Healthy Snacks Malaysia - Buy natural & organic products at 20% - 50% off. Signature Market wants to make healthy living accessible & affordable to all Malaysian families.

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• Eatcosys — Eatcosys is a food and beverage and retail tech platform that comprises a score of relevant brand subsidiaries under its roof, aiming to provide our clients with an ecosystemic solution and integrated platform that offers all-round retail solutions operated by specialists from respective fields, covering the entire business lifecycle from birth togrowth stages.
• Impact Guru — ImpactGuru is a No.1 crowdfunding platform in India offering fundraising solutions for medical treatments, emergencies, NGOs & startups. Start a crowdfunding campaign now!

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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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• AMILI — Asian Microbiome Library microbiome company and a stool bank serving as a hub for gut microbiome therapy.
• Thryve.Earth — Thryve Earth is a platform that unites multiple stakeholders to nature-based carbon projects in a scalable manner.
• FoodMarketHub — Manage your F&B procurement orders, inventory and so much more in Food Market Hub. Streamline your backend operations today!

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• TableApp — Dine in best restaurants in Malaysia and Thailand, book a table and get instant confirmation. Find out restaurant news, promotions, menus, photos and reviews. No reservation costs, 24 hours online restaurant reservation. All in TABLEAPP.com

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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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• SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
• Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
• Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

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• Tabby — With Tabby, you can split your purchases into 4 interest-free payments at your favourite stores. Download the Tabby app to get started.
• TP24 — Tradeplus24 is a provider of SME Lending using receivables as security. Operational in Europe and APAC.
• 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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• 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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• 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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• ento — The future of food is now here. Love tasty, nutritious and sustainable snacks? Meet ento. Non-processed, all natural protein. Check out our exciting new products. Snack and save the planet! Worldwide shipping available.
• Kyberlife — Kyberlife is an e-commerce marketplace startup for life sciences, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries.
• Propseller — Sell, buy and rent property smarter with Propseller. Get premium service and full transparency for a fair commission. Sell for only 1%.

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• InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.
• Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
• Livewire — Livewire offers complete brand services including talent engagement, programmatic and digital advertising, gaming, and esports marketing.

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• Aigens — Aigens is a tech start-up that has helped steer the digital revolution of the F&B and Hospitality industry in Asia Pacific. The company led the way with mobile ordering and popularized scan-to-order long before Covid-19 triggered the mainstream adoption of their use.Founded in 2012 by Hans Paul (CEO) and Peter Liu (CTO), Aigens has grown intoa SaaS company known for being a market leader with significant wins, essentially being the first to introduce BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) QR code ordering technology to Hong Kong and Singapore.Headquartered in Hong Kong, Aigens serves more than 500 brands in F&B and Hospitality, including global names like KFC, Burger King, Starbucks, and IKEA. In the last three years, the company experienced its most significant growth, resulting in 6 regional offices and 120 team members.
• ZYTLYN Technologies — Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, ZYTLYN is a data analytics and AI company, helping customers address their most urgent problems and opportunities with granular, qualified, and actionable data, predictions and insights. Its Prediction as-a-Service product gives customers the ability to optimize critical decision making through predictiveinsights. Together with customers, ZYTLYN is helping the world’s largest industries adapt, recover and grow faster, with a total addressable market of close to $50 billion.
• Hyper Food Robotics — We transform fast food delivery restaurants into fully automated units.

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• pitchIN — Your one stop crowdfunding platform
• Sprintla — Mobile Print-On-Demand Application
• Y Ventures Group — Based in Singapore, Y Ventures Group is a data-driven e-commerce company. Capitalizing on our data analytics capabilities, we partner with the world’s leading brands to sell their products in multiple countries across various online marketplaces. Y Ventures make sense of loose data with a customized data analytics dashboard. Visualize sales trendsin a glance and translate them into actionable that adds to the bottom line. Empower your supply chain management with more accurate sale forecasts.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Kind Kones — We deliver plant-based ice cream and wholesome treats!
• D2M Biotherapeutics — D2M Biotherapeutics focuses on the development of novel immunotherapeutics. The company is a tumor immunological drug developer that aims to expand the potential of immunotherapy.
• ClinChoice昆翎 — Fountain Medical Development Ltd., a contract research organization, provides ICH GCP compliant clinical research services for the multinational clients in China and the United States. It offers consulting, project management, regulatory affairs, clinical operations, central laboratory services, site management, biometrics, and clinical trialdesigns, as well as AE/SAE collection, review, assessment and reporting services, data and safety monitoring board handling, and signal detection services. The company is based in Beijing, China.

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• Kind Kones — We deliver plant-based ice cream and wholesome treats!

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• TableApp — Dine in best restaurants in Malaysia and Thailand, book a table and get instant confirmation. Find out restaurant news, promotions, menus, photos and reviews. No reservation costs, 24 hours online restaurant reservation. All in TABLEAPP.com

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• Triphie — Triphie is an AI-powered, all-in-one, customised, collaborative trip-planning platform that assists travellers in discovering, organising, and booking their vacations.
• Manis Leting — Manis Leting produces healthier substitute foods with no white sugar.

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• Kind Kones — We deliver plant-based ice cream and wholesome treats!

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• Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
• Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.
• Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.