Top 10 Non Profit VC Funds &amp; Investors in Asia (October 2023)

BOPA is a Singapore-based equity investor in microfinance institutions.

Investment focus

Industry: Finance, Non Profit, Association
Geography: Myanmar

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Navadhan Capital — Navadhan Capital offers capital to under-banked households.
Alliance for Microfinance in Myanmar — Microfinance in Myanmar

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Huobi Eco is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: China, Singapore, Japan

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Round size: Series A $1.4M–$51M
Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

MetaOne — MetaOne offers guild management solutions for GameFi developers.
Optix — Optix is a multi-chain option protocol service provider.
BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.

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Investment focus

Industry: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Sales
Stage:Series A, Angel
Geography: China, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Round size: Series A $1.4M–$15M
Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

G-Wave — G-Wave is a blockchain financial technology company that provides digital asset trading services.
CoffeeNow — CoffeeNow is a single-serve coffee brand based in China.
Longmi Agro — Longmi Agro is a private company engaged in the agricultural products industry chain. It began operation on October 25, 2015, with its headquarters in Guangzhou in China.

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Alto Partners is the first Multi-Family Office founded by and for Asia’s entrepreneurs. Since our establishment in 2013, we have invested in dozens of Southeast Asia's leading founders. Many entrepreneurs we backed with our financial and strategic capital have become Asia's most celebrated success stories.As we achieve exitsalongside founders, we become the family office of choice for new entrepreneurial wealth, which is often re-invested into next generation start-ups. This entrepreneur-focused cycle of venture funding, exits and re-investment underpins the growth of our family office, which today includes the founders of Gojek, Bank Jago, Kopi Kenangan, Jobstreet, Northstar and others from Asia's venture ecosystem.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: Indonesia, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 74
Round size: Seed $450k–$11M; Series A $1M–$42M; Series B $10M–$40M
Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

Aman — Aman provides modern technology for growing companies to set up and manage their employee benefits, simplifying complexity of benefit administation and delivering a world-class experience. Our platform enables companies to competitively recruit, engage and retain top talents.
AgriAku — AgriAku is a technology-based local agribusiness company that enables traders & farm shop owners to get saprotan(agriculture production facilities) at affordable prices through it's apps - Agroaku Mitra app, and Agroaku Hub app. AgriAku offers full-stack agriculture services for small and medium-sized businesses and farmers. AgriAku offerscomplete agricultural equipment such as seeds, fertilizers, agrochemicals to agro equipment.
Nafas — Nafas is simple people need to be aware of the air they breathe, and the impact that the quality of air has on their health and their life.

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K2VC (Xianfeng Evergreen) was founded in 2010, focused on early stage investment in technology start-ups in China, focus on promoting change and technological progress, innovative business models and lifestyles.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
Geography: China, United States, Japan

Investor stats

Total investments: 135
Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Angel $412k–$2.7M; Series A $1.4M–$23M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

Spatomics — Spatomics is focusing on creating a cutting-edge multi-omics tool platform for single cells.
Aocai — Aocai is an E-commerce company that offers various items.
Cornerstone Robotics — Cornerstone Robotics operates to improve the accessibility of high-end medical services in China.

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LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 130
Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9M; Initial Coin Offering $1.2M–$16M
Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
Ola — Ola is a ZKVM-based, High-performance, Privacy-focused layer2 platform.
Earn Network — Onboarding millions to make billions in DeFi economy

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Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

Total investments: 131
Round size: Seed $300k–$2.3M; Series A $1M–$13M
Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

GramVaani — Gram Vaani [meaning 'voice of the village'] is a social tech company based at IIT-Delhi. Their objective is to reverse the flow of information, that is, to make it bottom-up instead of top-down, by helping connect communities with companies/governments/dev agencies. Using simple technologies and social context to design tools,Gram Vaani has been able to impact communities- more than 2 million users in over 15 Indian States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Namibia and South Africa.
Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.
ReCircle — They are a Waste Management service that provides a free doorstep pick-up service for offices, institutions, households and schools to dispose their recyclable waste (Raddi). They further supply this recycled waste to authorized recycling centres, ensuring safety and sustainability.

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Insitor Partners pioneered impact investing as the first impact fund manager to set up operations in Southeast Asia, and a pioneer investor in India and Pakistan. We back entrepreneurs building life-changing solutions for low-income consumers.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: India, Cambodia, Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 29
Round size: Seed $742k–$2M; Series A $1.8M–$5.4M
Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $42M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

WorkIndia — With WorkIndia.in a Job seeker can search the best jobs throughout India and schedule the Interview at their convenience. And an employer can post the vacancy and get calls directly from the prospective candidate.
HROne — HROne helps companies to automate the employee lifecycle. Awarded best cloud-based software in India & trusted by 4+ lacs users across 18+ industries.
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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Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries

Investment focus

Industry: Water, Energy, Finance
Geography: France, Myanmar

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Eranove — The Eranove group counts more than 9000 employees all engaged in developping hydroelectric solutions to allow all the pan african citizens to access electricity and drinking water
Africa GreenCo — Our mission - addressing creditworthiness to increase generation and growth of renewable energy markets through partnerships and innovative solutions.
Alliance for Microfinance in Myanmar — Microfinance in Myanmar

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