# Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Malaysia in May 2026

## Asia Venture Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage

Asia Venture Group is a hands-on, private Internet Holding Company and focuses on long-term value creation in South East Asian online markets. Asia Venture Group targets the sweet spots of the Asian internet space by combining: state of the art international know-how and expertise, rigorous execution excellence, outstanding international managementtalent, and the best local partners. Asia Venture Group focuses on digital distribution models and is extremely selective in terms of the companies it supports, which allows strong engagement in day-to-day operations.

## Quest Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace

Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.

## Cradle Seed Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Crowdsourcing

Cradle Seed Ventures (CSV) is the venture capital arm of Malaysia’s premier early stage financier and influencer, Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd.CSV manages an early stage venture fund based out of Malaysia and is always on the lookout for start-ups with high growth potential, led by passionate founders with high levels of enthusiasm.CSV is delightedto be part of this new dawn of excitement in the start-up world, both in Malaysia and globally.CSV mandated investments will be in the technology sector with specific focus on selected verticals. CSV has the added strength of being able to leverage on Cradle’s long experience in supporting early stage start-ups, understanding the funding and operational needs of a start-up and also be a supportive partner when they scale in the Malaysian market and to foreign shores.

## KK Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet

KK Fund is a venture capital fund to invest in seed stage internet and mobile startups across South East Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

## Gobi Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet

Gobi Partners is the most interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital firm with US$1.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, the firm supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets.Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 15 funds to date, invested inover 350 startups and nurtured 10 unicorns. Gobi has grown to 15 locations across key markets in Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Surabaya.As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Gobi Partners is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption to ensure long-term value creation and sustainability across our portfolio.

## East Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Captii Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Apps

Captii Ventures is a multi-stage investor in Southeast Asian start-ups. It invests in marketplace that facilitates better matching of supply and demand, new media publishers that disrupt traditional channels of communications, and start-ups that use technology to solve age-old enterprise problems.

## Indelible Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Learning, E-Commerce, SaaS

Indelible Ventures is a early-stage venture capital firm.

## Vynn Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Vynn invests in entrepreneurs with strong operational involvement and capability to maintain a well-cultured team. Key industries for us are Travel, Property, Food & FMCG and Female Economics. We also focus on industry enablers such as logistics fulfilment and fintech in enhancing industry efficiencies.

## Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd (Cradle)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

WHO IS CRADLE?Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd (Cradle) is Malaysia's early stage start-up influencer, incorporated under the Ministry of Finance Malaysia (MOF) in 2003 with a mandate to fund potential and high-calibre tech start-ups through its Cradle Investment Programme (CIP).Throughout its 13-year history, Cradle has helped fund over 700Malaysian tech start-ups and holds the highest commercialisation rate amongst government grants in the country. Having more than a decade of experience in the nation's grant funding scene, Cradle further expanded its role from grant provider to investor through the establishment of its venture arm, Cradle Seed Ventures in 2015 and following its portfolio expansion to equity investment in early 2017, Cradle now offers both funding and investment assistance. Cradle's product offerings are not only restricted to monetary aid, but also include commercialisation support, coaching and various other value-added services to cater today's entrepreneurs' diversified needs.OUR MISSIONTo be the leading pre-seed, seed and start-up stage funding agency in Malaysia, that provides effective grant and equity funding, commercialisation support, coaching, and industry value-add to accelerate the growth of start-up companies.Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

## Venturra
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Health Care

Empowering outstanding entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia in creating the next defining technology companies.

## UpHonest Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

UpHonest Capital is a sector agnostic early-stage VC based in Silicon Valley. We invest in Seed, Pre-A, and Series A stages and many of our portfolio companies go on to receive later-stage investments from Sequoia, Accel, a16z, and others. We have invested in over 400 portfolio companies including Checkr, Boom, Astranis, Rippling, Turing, etc.  We have an overseas vision and an active innovative ecosystem, which integrates a high-quality entrepreneur community, innovation events, media & communication coverage, and entrepreneurship education.

## TH Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology

TH Capital is a Malaysian based Venture Capital firm with strong South East Asian connections. TH Capital is a platform that empowers and accelerates ventures with capital infusion, business consultancy, strategic mentorship and strong networking opportunities. TH Capital occupies a unique position in the Malaysian funding landscape with a strongfocus on technology innovation geared towards nation building activities.

## Orbit Startups
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.

## Accord Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.

## Argor Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Food and Beverage

Go-Ventures was initially conceived as a way for investors in Gojek to get exposure to the rapidly expanding technology ecosystem in Southeast Asia. The decision was ultimately made to set up an independent, but ecosystem-linked, fund that GoTo, its investors, and other value additive groups could invest in, which could deliver attractive financialreturns.

## M Venture Partners (MVP)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Financial Services

M Venture Partners (MVP), based in Singapore, is an early stage investor and partner to innovative and disruptive start-up ventures that are founded by “professionally-skilled” entrepreneurs with vision, true-grit and passion to create a "built to last" different future. We support entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia, and selectivelyIndia.

## ZB Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: AgTech, Drones, Fitness

Over the years, ZB capital has been working with numerous regional entrepreneurs, family offices, industrial investors, business operators, as well as professional parties to co-invest in growth-stage companies and businesses.  Our portfolio companies are from all around the globe including China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, North America, and Israel.They cover a broad range of industries including fintech, cloud computing, IoT, advanced manufacturing, and consumer goods.  Our primary objective is to focus on both the new demand created by the applications of the latest technologies, and the potential improvement in efficiency in traditional industries through technological upgrades.Our founding and execution teams, along with our advisory committee, come from a diversified background and have rich experiences in handling cross-broader transactions.  We maintain the greatest level of flexibility in dealing with the local business culture and regulations, and we are always very thoughtful on connecting the resources from different regions in order to create the best synergies as well as business opportunities.We usually look at the fundamentals of the business and its market potential when evaluating any investment opportunities.  At the same time, we apply a stringent internal process during the due diligence stage to validate the business itself.  For post-investment management, we spend a lot of resources to follow up with the development plan of each business so that we are aware of the latest status of each portfolio company in order to protect our capital.

## Susquehanna International Group (SIG)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## DSG Consumer Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care

We are DSG Consumer Partners - India & Southeast Asia's leading consumer-only venture capital fund. We partner with founders in the region to build world-class consumer brands.

## NFQ Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Tourism

NFQ accelerates the success of entrepreneurs with a current team of 250 specialists delivering company-building services.

## Catcha Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Real Estate, Property Management

The Catcha Group has a proven track record of investing in small- to medium-sized businesses to achieve rapid growth, profitability, IPO, and beyond. We do this by taking sizable stakes in companies with the ability to alter or define markets and mentoring them to unlock their true potential. We love talking about ideas, finding ways to createvalue, and developing businesses to realize tremendous growth. We are always ready to work with our portfolio companies through challenges, celebrate their successes, and do whatever it takes to make them number one in their fields.

## Wavemaker Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

## Cento Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Finance, Internet

Cento Ventures is a venture capital firm specialised in under-invested emerging digital markets, primarily Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Since 2011, we have been backing digital companies that blend local insights with proven digital business models. We support entrepreneurs in their ambition to build companies thatare regional leaders in Southeast Asia.Cento is a Series A investor, committing on average US$1M initially, and up to US$4M over the lifetime of each investment.

## Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, SaaS

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India invests in high-growth start-ups seeking their first round of institutional venture capital funding in Southeast Asia and India, with a primary focus on Singapore, India, Indonesia, Thailand and other emerging hubs of innovation across the region. It has a long and strong track record of investing in early-stage startups and building champions like Grab, Patsnap, 17Live, Nium, FirstCry, Licious, AsianParent, Validus, Warung Pintar, and others. 

## Woowa Bros
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Robotics

WOOWA BROS (우아한형제들) is a Korean developer of smartphone applications and advertising platforms. Its service portfolio also includes local marketing and web services solutions and products, such as a sports events app and a food delivery app.
WOOWA BROS was established in March 2011 in Seoul, Korea.

## InnoVen Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet

InnoVen Capital is Asia's leading venture lending firm with offices in Mumbai, Singapore and Beijing. Started in India in 2008, the platform was re-branded InnoVen Capital following a buyout of the business led by Temasek Holdings and UOB Group in 2015. InnoVen Capital currently has investor commitments of US$200 million.In India, InnoVenCapital is positioned as the first and largest venture debt provider to venture capital backed start-ups in India across stages of growth and sectors. The Company has a credit rating of ‘IND AA-’ for its term borrowing and ‘IND A1+’ for its commercial paper issuances.InnoVen provides debt financing to high growth and innovative tech startups, and has since supported and provided over 190 loans to more than 150 start-ups across India and Southeast Asia. The platform offers multiple debt capital solutions, including venture debt, acquisition finance, growth loans, and syndication.

## Q Cap
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce

Q Cap is an investment firm.

## Eric Tan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Rental, Internet

Eric Tan is a CEO & Co-Founder at Instahome & he attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2013.

## Effective Shields
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce

Effective Shields is a investment firm.

## Lazada Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1

Lazada is the number one online shopping and selling destination in Southeast Asia – present in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Lazada helps more than 100,000 local and international sellers, as well as 2,500 brands, serve the 560 million consumers in the region through its marketplace platform, supportedby a wide range of tailored marketing, data, and service solutions. Lazada offers an excellent customer experience through a wide network of logistics partners and it's own first- and last-mile

## Crescent Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Manufacturing, Medical, Enterprise Software

Crescent Capital is a Belfast based venture capital fund manager

## ZALORA Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1

ZALORA is an e-commerce platform and website that provides fashion and footwear products. It provides users with clothing and footwear from fashion labels such as Mango, Nike, Puma, Casio, Calvin Klein, Levi's, and more.Users can view images of their desired fashion product and purchase it online. It also provides users with fashion tipsand advice. In addition, it offers users with an online magazine and discounts.ZALORA received $112 million private equity on December 3, 2013. It was launched in March 2012, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

## Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Mobile, Payments, Point of Sale

Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company develops various businesses with various customers based on the credit card business. The content of their business is Credit card business, debit card, prepaid card, other settlement business, loan business, guarantee business, gift card business, and other incidental businesses.It was established in 1967 and isbased in Tokyo, Japan.

## Sea Unicorn
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Restaurants

Sea Unicorn

## Venture Builders
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Incline Village, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Flowers, Internet, E-Commerce

A consulting company for start-up businesses.

## aucfan Co.,Ltd.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet

Aucfan is the only company in Japan that provides all the eCommerce price data across the big three market, America, China and Japan. The data Aucfan aggregates has reached more than 800millions with last 8 years coverage and Aucfan provides these data through its website Aucfan.com. (www.aucfan.com).The data Aucfan provides both to theconsumers and the retailers include the the price across the major global EC and Auction sites such as Rakuten, the No1 shopping site in Japan, Yahoo! Auction, the No1 Auction site in Japan, and Amazon Japan as well as eBay.com, the No1 EC site in US, and Taobao, the No1 Auction site in China.By visiting the Aucfan.com, buyers and sellers can easily find the price and the value of the product globally.Aucfan currently focuses on the consumer buesinss but Aucfan's next strategy is to expand its business to the BtoB by providing the price data to the EC and retail markets and helping them make the critical judgement for the price setting and purchsing just like the Bloomberg providing the financial informationto the financial brokers and helping them make the business judgement.Aucfan's next ambition is to expand its business globally and as the part of that strategy, Aucfan has already launched the Chinese website in JULY/2010 and plans to open the US site in SEP/2010.

## Partners for Growth
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce

We partner with companies at an inflection point in their business, who are seeking flexible and customized financing, matched to their trajectory and needs.

## Asad Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce

Asad Capital is an investment firm.

## MRANTI Malaysia
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Education, Automotive

MRANTI Malaysia provides a community of researchers and innovators with the right platform for ideas and purposeful innovations to thrive and make an impact.

## Jin Hui Wong
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Tourism, E-Commerce

Jin Hui Wong

## Perennial Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

Perennial Partners is a specialist, active investment management firm. Formed in 2000 and led by well-known Value investor, John Murray. The company's sole focus is to deliver excellence in funds management through equity ownership and the alignment of interests between key investment management staff and our clients. Perennial Value nowmanages over $5 billion on behalf of institutional and retail clients.

## Commerce.Asia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Corporate Round, Seed

Commerce.Asia integrates best of breed technology solutions, talent development, data analytics and insights for South East Asian businesses to succeed online.

## GT-MAX
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Tourism, E-Commerce

GT-MAX

## Wei Guo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

## InnoStart Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video Games, Financial Services, E-Commerce

InnoStart Capital is a small venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments.

## Incubate Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

## First Move
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Retail, Marketplace

First Move is a founder-led early stage VC that invests in visionary executives and founders building scalable, tech-enabled businesses for a better future in Southeast Asia

## Kathrein Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Restaurants

Kathrein Ventures is a micro-venture capital fund that finances startups in Southeast Asia and Latin America.

## Rocket Internet
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech

Rocket Internet incubates, builds, develops operationally and strategically invests in internet and technology companies globally. It provides operational support to its companies and helps them scale internationally. Rocket Internet's selected companies are active in a large number of countries around the world.

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