Top 25 Hardware Startup Investors in Vietnam in October 2023

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• Rever.vn — Rever is a technology company operating in the field of Real Estate, officially launched in early 2016. With a team of senior personnel in many fields, Rever develops online real estate distribution system based on the map, providing the perfect brokerage service, creates a smart and high-performance process of buying, selling, renting real estate,based on a combination of modern technology and commodity consultants. head.
• LiveSpo Global — LiveSpo is a brand focusing only on R&D, manufacturing, and distribution brand of Spobiotics for digestive and respiratory health.
• Gene Solutions — Gene Solutions is a genetic testing company in Vietnam and the market leader for reproductive health tests, which respond to critical healthcare needs, such as helping parents detect chromosomal disorders during pregnancy, or preventing genetic problems, and helping to conceive a child (in-vitro fertilization – IVF).

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• Kilo — Kilo develops a retail platform that provides retailers access to price, assortment, and inventory management. The platform is designed specifically to serve small and medium-sized retailers. The Kilo network effect creates a virtuous growth cycle for both supply and demand.
• Sky Mavis — Blockchain: Gamified - Games with real, player-owned economies will become places where we live, work, and play - True digital nations
• Axie Infinity — Axie Infinity is a game about collecting and raising fantasy creatures called Axie, on the Ethereum platform. Besides collecting and raising, you can make a team of Axies to battle in the arena. You can also buy, sell, and trade Axies with others on the marketplace.

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• Eratani — Eratani is an Agri-tech company is to focus on building a agricultural ecosystem and seeks to provide farmers with easy access to technology to increase the productivity and welfare of the agricultural ecosystem.
• Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
• Fresh Factory — Fresh Factory runs a web of hyperlocal cold-chain fulfilment centers in Indonesia.

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• Sleek EV — A 5G-IOT enabled Electric Scooter manufacturer designed for urban riding. Sleek's mission is to build innovative and benchmark-setting vehicles designed around urban lifestyles, practicality and performance for a greener future. Sleek’s users enjoy a seamless customer experience through its IOT-enabled vehicles and mobile application.
• Dozer — Connect any data source, combine them in real-time and instantly get low-latency Data APIs. All with just a simple configuration!
• 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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• MFast — MFast operates as a fintech platform. MFAST is a brand under Digital Payment Solution Joint Stock Company - DigiPay JSC.
• Cerebry — Cerebry's artificial intelligence (AI) technology is similar to that of a personal instructor. The AI tutor develops a one-of-a-kind question for the user to answer that is not repeated for any other student and is based on the student's exact level of comprehension. For each created question, the AI tutor can also provide tips andstep-by-step solutions. The AI can alter the complexity of the following question based on the student's answer, pose a question involving numerous topics to challenge the student in a different context, and break down the question into its constituent steps based on the student's answer.
• Retrocausal — Retrocausal is the industry leader in intelligence augmentation systems that help manufacturing workers avoid assembly mistakes, train better, and improve the processes they drive. Our RetroActivity "Virtual Supervisor" platform uses an AI-enabled camera to analyze the tasks performed on your assembly line in real-time, offering audibleand visual alerts when mistakes happen to ensure the operator completes the build correctly before the next step in the process. Our platform also continuously performs time studies on assembly processes to help your business accelerate Kaizen events.

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• Aampe — AI-driven CRM Marketing Automation. Create personalized, omni-channel customer experiences that increase customer engagement and retention.
• ClearFeed — Conversational Support Platform on Slack
• Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.

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• banco — BANCO offers fintech, digital banking, supply chain finance, and corporate financing services.
• Zodia Custody — Zodia is an institutional crypto custodian enabling global institutions, corporations, and investors to realize the potential of the digital asset future.
• My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies — My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies is a financial company that offers financial inclusion for banked and unbanked firms.

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• HIBOX — HIBOX is a leading e-commerce platform that offers a unique and exciting way to shop online. Our platform specializes in mystery boxes that contain random products from a variety of categories, including fashion, beauty, electronics, and more.We're not just about providing fun and surprising shopping experiences, though. Our platform isdesigned to help our customers and partners generate profits and grow their businesses. With our advanced data analytics and marketing tools, we can help businesses of all sizes optimize their sales strategies and reach new audiences.We take pride in offering a reliable and transparent service that ensures our customers and partners can trust us every step of the way. From our secure payment processing to our fast and efficient shipping, we make sure that every aspect of the shopping experience is seamless and hassle-free.At HIBOX, we believe in the power of mystery boxes to unlock new opportunities and generate profits for our partners. Our platform offers a unique way to connect with customers and showcase products, driving engagement and sales in a way that traditional e-commerce can't match. Join us today and discover the exciting world of e-commerce like never before.

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• Jüsto — Jüsto is an online delivery-only grocery store chain that offers a wide range of fruits, vegetables, meat products, beauty products, and house supplies that can be delivered at every consumers' doorstep. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Mexico City.
• Flash — Flash reinvented the food vouchers in Brazil creating an all in one instrument leveraging a MasterCard, a daily used App and an HR platform
• Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.

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• Kilo — Kilo develops a retail platform that provides retailers access to price, assortment, and inventory management. The platform is designed specifically to serve small and medium-sized retailers. The Kilo network effect creates a virtuous growth cycle for both supply and demand.
• Startup Insider — Startup Insider is an industry portal for the startup scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland helping them grow.
• AELER Technologies — All of the benefits of an SOC without any of the challenges - Meet the next generation of maritime logistics

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• Ello — Ello is an app-based reading coach that listens to your child read from real books, teaches and motivates them, and transforms them into enthusiastic readers.
• Brine.fi — The best onchain spot trading crypto exchange
• Automat AI — Robotic process automation for Chrome using GPT3 guided Computer Vision

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• Utop — Utop is an electronic gift exchange and exchange application, allowing you to accumulate points or directly recharge points to redeem gifts and focal points at hundreds of different stores in the Utop partner system in Vietnam.This is the network based on Blockchain - Akachain, which ensures absolute security as well as optimization in thetransaction speed of partners and customers.

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• Medigo — Medigo provides third party administration (TPA) services including claims handling, second medical opinion, and medical concierge with tech-driven efficiency and world-class customer service.
• Stride — Stride is a forward-thinking renewable energy firm to advance a sustainable future by providing eco-friendly home renovation projects, smart home technology, energy-efficient products, and solar energy access to every household.
• Selex Motors — Selex Motors, a startup in electric vehicles, is making urban transportation in busy cities of Southeast Asia green and empowering by offering the next generation of personal mobility.

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• Chainguard — We build products and offer services that help protect organizations from software supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities.
• 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.
• Arrive Recommerce — Arrive offers a premium service powering circular commerce for major brands and retailers. The technology and reverse logistics capabilities of The Arrive Platform enables brands and retailers in any industry to integrate circular commerce - including rental and resale - directly into an existing ecommerce experience. With this unique offering,Arrive makes it possible for any company to seamlessly launch a circular channel - ultimately reaching more consumers, driving more revenue, and promoting a sustainable solution. Arrive, first launched as Arrive Outdoors, is an award-winning company and has been named the 4th Most Innovative Travel Company by Fast Company in 2020 and awarded the 2019 Outdoor Retailer of the Year by the Outdoor Retailer Association.

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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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• JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
• Databricks — Databricks combines data warehouses & data lakes into a lakehouse architecture. Collaborate on all of your data, analytics & AI workloads using one platform.
• Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.

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• Elsa — Improve your English speaking skills. Pronounce English like an American through real-world conversations.
• Citics — Citics is to build a comprehensive real estate data platform in Vietnam by digitizing and centralizing data sources to help in real estate transactions, including real estate valuation, sales-purchase, lease, mortgage, among others.
• VTC Academy — VTC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN ACADEMY (VTC ACADEMY)

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• Coolmate — Coolmate is an online shopping mall committed to providing a complete shopping experience for Vietnamese male customers. It allows users to order up to 10 items like t-shirts and socks for under US$20. The company is headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam.
• CNV HOLDINGS — Saas, Mobile App, Customer Loyalty
• COMPUTER VISION TECHNOLOGIES ., JSC — Computer Vision Vietnam is a rising technology startups that focuses on AI-driven Computer Vision solutions.

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• Kilo — Kilo develops a retail platform that provides retailers access to price, assortment, and inventory management. The platform is designed specifically to serve small and medium-sized retailers. The Kilo network effect creates a virtuous growth cycle for both supply and demand.
• Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts.
• finally — Back Office is a technology-based company that helps small businesses by automating their bookkeeping and accounting. It is a one-stop source for building a strong and vital company back office. Small and medium-sized businesses looking for administrative and operations services, including on-demand experts and back-office personnel turn to themfor help succeeding with their businesses each and every day.Back Office.co was founded in 2018 and is based in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States.

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• Plugo — Indonesia's e-commerce platform for all businesses. Start, manage, and grow your business. Build your own online store website.
• Seoul Robotics — Welcome to Seoul Robotics! We build advanced Lidar perception software powered by deep learning.
• PeopleFund — Founded in 2015, PeopleFund is Korea's leading data-driven digital lender focused on consumer finance. Our mission is to give financial freedom to all consumers through more affordable loans and better investment opportunities. Leveraging its proprietary, data-driven credit model and eliminating inefficiencies with technology, PeopleFunddelivers better loan rates for borrowers while maintaining an industry low loss rate to benefit retail and institutional investors. PeopleFund is the first digital lender in Korea to surpass $1B in loan originations and has provided an innovative way to invest to nearly 400,000 retail investors. It is notably the first fintech platform to offer loan and investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea's equivalent of WhatsApp. To date, PeopleFund has completed its Series C round of funding with a total of $63.4M of equity capital raised. For more information, visit www.peoplefund.co.kr.

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• Cashgrow — Cashgrow operates as a payment platform.
• Agroshift — Agroshift helps farmers sell their produce to businesses and consumers by providing a tech-enabled supply chain.
• Videowise — End-to-end eCommerce Video Platform built for scale & performance to help brands and retailers create interactive shoppable video experiences.

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• JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
• Gem — Gem Security gives SecOps teams the tools they need to respond to cloud threats with context, fast, providing the industry's leading platform for cloud detection and response.
• Ronovo Surgical — Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Shanghai, Ronovo Surgical is founded by industry veterans from global leaders in surgical and industrial robotics, such as Intuitive Surgical, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic and KUKA. Aiming to transform how surgery is performed in China, Ronovo is leveraging robust R&D capabilities and strategicpartnerships globally to accelerate the development of a broad portfolio of MIS and digital surgery solutions that exemplifies the core themes of simplicity, precision, and intelligence.

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• Wiom — Provides affordable and unlimited Internet to Middle and lower middle income households
• Alvys — Alvys is a cloud-based transportation management system with high-tech automation. Specializing in workflow efficiency for small to mid-size carriers. Alvys stands out by saving carriers and freight brokers more time per load than any other TMS! Save up to 30 minutes per load, organize your operations in one place, scale with ease and integrateall your favorite tools. The proof is in the workflows and here's a sneak peek of our popular features:• Driver App • Tracking & Tracing • Source for Truck Capacity • End-to-End Visibility • One Click Accounting • Analytics & Reporting • Safety & Maintenance • Integrations • Benefits for BrokersTRY US FOR FREE! www.alvys.com
• Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.

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• AiderX — AiderX is a technology startup that creates AI assistants for everyone. We believe that AI should be available to everyone and that it has the potential to change the way we live and work. Our goal is to make AI simple, intuitive, and simple to use.
• MathFLAT — MathFLAT is a B2B mobile solution for mathematics education.
• PlayList — PlayList is a web drama production company that produces dramas and music content. The company's two flagship web drama series, Love Playlist and A-Teen have gained huge popularity amongst the 18-24 age segment. Playlist dramas have over 10 million subscribers and 1.3 billion views.

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• Xurya — Xurya is a renewable energy platform in providing commercial and industrial rooftop owners access to solar lease product on one side. And investors access to a stable and safe investment in rooftop solar plants on the other side. Both are achieved by maintenance service which enables both parties peace of mind.
• Stride — Stride is a forward-thinking renewable energy firm to advance a sustainable future by providing eco-friendly home renovation projects, smart home technology, energy-efficient products, and solar energy access to every household.