# Top 15 Platforms Startup Investors in Singapore in October 2023 ## Innosight Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Social CRM Innosight Ventures leverages more than 20 years of applied research by innovation thought leaders like Clayton Christensen and field work by the Innosight Consulting Team. We have distilled that work into a set of proprietary tools and work practices that allow us to quickly screen opportunities and work side-by-side with entrepreneurs to helpthem build great companies. We invest only in Singapore-based early-stage startup companies that have high potential for disrupting existing markets and creating new ones.Generally speaking, we ask 5 questions about any potential investment:Is there an important problem that customers can't address because existing solutions are expensive or inconvenient?.Is there a disruptive way to solve the problem by being simpler, more convenient, or more affordable?.Is there a plausible hypothesis about an economically attractive, scalable business model?..Does the team have the 'right stuff' to manage the process of emergent learning?.Can early profitability be a choice?.Our usual investment quantum is up to half a million Singapore dollars in each company. However, if the answer to all the above questions is positive and the team is going to need more that , we are open to co-investing with other venture capital firms and/or angels. In the past, we have lead investment rounds where some of the companies have raised in the range of SGD 1 – 2 million. ## FIH Mobile - Type: VC Fund - Location: Langfang, Hebei, China - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Apps, Consumer Electronics, Augmented Reality FIH Mobile is a handset manufacturing and Integrator services company. ## Brian McClendon - Type: Angel - Location: Lawrence, Kansas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, iOS, Analytics Brian McClendon is the Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Niantic and previously founder and VP engineering Keyhole Inc. He attended in The University of Kansas. ## Transmedia Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet Transmedia Capital is a top performing technology venture fund providing deep domain expertise, operating experience, and advisory relationships. ## Leave a Nest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Corporate Round - Focus: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Leave a Nest thrives to achieve global happiness by enhancing everyday life through science and education for future generation. ## Bill Lee - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce Bill Lee was CEO and co-founder of Remarq, a Benchmark Capital-backed collaboration company. At Remarq, Bill guided the company in its development of a complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration platform. Before its acquisition by Critical Path in March 2000, the company developed high-volume messaging platforms for sites such aseBay, Sun, Novell, and Amazon. The company raised over $43 million in venture and debt financing.Bill has been appointed by the Mayor of San Jose to the Redevelopment Committee of San Jose. Bill also graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in accounting/finance and received a JD/MBA from UCLA. ## 47 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, iOS, Android 47 Ventures invest in high growth Pakistani businesses that leverage technology for scale. ## JAFCO Asia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology Since its establishment in 1990, JAFCO Asia has grown to become a leading brand in the venture capital industry in the Asia Pacific region. Currently, JAFCO Asia has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and Beijing.With more than US$1.2 billion funds under management in aggregate, JAFCO Asia's experienced investment team hasinvested in over 368 companies in 13 countries (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, India, Israel and Vietnam) and divested more than 260 companies of which at least 86 have been publicly listed.Since the new millennium, JAFCO Asia has shifted its focus entirely to technology related investments and is now one of the pre-eminent venture capital technology investors in the region. They believe that their existing portfolio in the Asia Pacific region and the worldwide business network offer their portfolio companies significant potential for synergistic partnerships. ## Accel - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce First partner to exceptional teams everywhere ## CRV - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 400 startups at their most crucial stages, including DoorDash, Airtable, Patreon, Drift and Iterable. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com. ## RAPZO CAPITAL - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, iOS, Mobile Investment Venture Capital Property Family Office Start-Ups Incubation Funding ## Run Capital Investment Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, iOS, FinTech Run Capital Investments in tech startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. ## ABC Dream Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Osaka, Osaka, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Social Media, Information Technology, Content ABC Dream Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Japanese media firm Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings. ## Earlsfield Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Real Estate We provide venture capital investment for early-stage startups & business models run by aspirational founders, with the ability to nurture and scale organizations | Earlsfield Capital ## Mitchell Kapor - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Mobile, Software, Education Mitchell David Kapor was the founder of Lotus Development Corporation (/organization/lotus-development-corporation) and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" often credited with making the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. He is known as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist,and philanthropist.Kapor has been the Chair of the In 1990 Kapor's new company On Technology introduced their new product On Location, an application designed for the Macintosh that contained an indexing system that permit quick retrieval and display of text on the Mac's hard disk. "We think we're being cagey by bringing it out on the Mac first," Kapor said. "It's a richer medium than MS-DOS, and if we have a hot product in the Mac market, it will be easier to get into the PC market."In 2001, Kapor founded the Open Source Applications Foundation, where he is now working on Chandler, a modern personal information manager built using open source tools and methods.In 2006, Kapor founded his latest startup, # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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