Top 10 Restaurants Startup Investors in Vietnam in October 2023

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early-stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

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YourTrade — YourTrade helps cross-border e-commerce companies to resale rejected goods and backlogged inventory from overseas sales through local sales channels.It also provides services such as collection and inspection of returned items, as well as resale through local sales channels.
UMAMI UNITED — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
Friend Microbe — Friend Mike Robe is Developing new market with microbe-related technology

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Golden Gate Ventures is a venture capital firm investing across Southeast Asia. Since 2011, the firm has launched four funds, managed US$250M AUM, and invested in 60+ companies in over 7 countries in Asia. The firm focuses on investing in technology companies driven by the rising consumer class in Southeast Asia.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand

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13o3 — 13o3 is a boutique investment firm specializing in providing tailored solutions to complex and sophisticated business challenges for discerning clientele, mainly high-profile individuals. Launched in 2013 and founded by Asfand Yar Saeed, the company operates under the
Locofy — Locofy provides a service that converts designs into code. Locofy.ai aims to take away the menial work of engineers without adding complexity i.e. automating 50% or more of the current workflow starting with frontend code, allowing teams to convert their designs to code and an interactive and responsive live prototype (that runs on code), withoutwriting a single line of code.
Yisheng — Yisheng is a digital service platform for door-to-door car washing.

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Vietnam-focused, early-stage investment fund invest in talented founders addressing enormous markets and solving real problems using technology. Velocity Ventures Vietnam

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Seed
Vietnam

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KAMEREO — Purchasing platform and Tech-enable Veggie supply for Restaurants in Vietnam

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Accelerating workflows and decision-making by eliminating manual processes with proprietary artificial intelligence platform and solutions.

Investment focus

Delivery, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed
Vietnam

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Loship — Lozi is the fastest-growing Tech startup that operates a one-hour-delivery E-commerce platform called Loship. Made by Vietnamese for Vietnamese, Loship offers the most effective distribution networks in Vietnam, filling the massive demand for immediate deliveries in a bustling and modern life, with a wide range of services including food delivery(Loship), grocery delivery (Lomart), ride-hailing (Lo-xe), medicine delivery (Lomed), laundry service (Lozat), package delivery (Lo-send), beauty products delivery (LoBeauty), flower delivery (Lo-hoa) and B2B supply delivery (Lo-supply).Loship now has a fleet of more than 70,000 drivers and 200,000 merchants, serving almost 2,000,000 customers across four big cities of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Can Tho – all dedicated to fulfilling the Vietnamese consumers’ one-hour delivery needs.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan

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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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Rekanext is a Southeast Asean focused venture capital fund based in Singapore. Rekanext invest in early stage startups and companies with potential to be unicorns in Southeast Asia!

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam

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SEPPURE — Up to 15% of the world’s total energy is spent on industrial-scale chemical separations. This is economically and environmentally inefficient. SEPPURE is disrupting the energy-intensive chemical separation processes, such as distillation and evaporation, through the introduction of novel chemical-resistant nanofiltration membranes. SEPPURE’ssustainable process does not use heat, thus lowering global energy use, emissions, and pollution substantially.
Halofina — Halofina is a mobile app that helps young professionals to achieve their future need by giving them investment recommendation and portfolio tracking.
Scantist — Discover your secure, continuous, AI-driven DevSecOps solution. scan, remediate, and ensure security, licensing, and compliance across your software development lifecycle. Get Started Now!

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Cool Japan Fund was founded in November 2013 as a public-private fund with the aim of supporting and promoting the development of demand overseas for excellent Japanese products and services.Cool Japan Fund aims to commercialize the “Cool Japan” and increase overseas demand by providing risk capital for businesses across a variety of areas,including media & content, food & services, and fashion & lifestyle.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Education
Funding Round, Series C, Seed
Japan, United States, Taiwan

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Spiber Inc. — Established in September 2007, Spiber Inc. is a Japanese biotechnology startup utilizing cutting-edge synthetic biology, polymer, and material science for the development of its novel Brewed Protein™ materials. Produced through microbial fermentation and utilizing agricultural feedstocks as primary raw materials, Brewed Protein™ polymers arewell-positioned to make significant contributions to animal- and plastic-free initiatives in a range of fields such as the apparel and automotive industries. Leveraging its R&D expertise, Spiber pursues its mission of positively contributing to sustainable human well-being. Operation of Spiber’s first mass production plant in Rayong Province, Thailand, is slated to commence within 2021. The company is also constructing a second mass production facility with partner ADM in Iowa, USA, which is scheduled to begin operating in 2023 at the earliest.
Pizza 4P's — Pizza 4P's is Vietnam-based Japanese Itarian pizza restaurant. Always the best with our mission of "Delivering Wow, Sharing Happiness"
JumpStart Coffee — JUMPSTART COFFEE is Indonesia first fully automated self serve coffee shop, serving freshly brewed coffee anywhere you are, anytime you want, in just under 1 minute. Equipped with the newest technology and beautiful wood design, we seek to give you the ultimate convenience of drinking coffee.

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Dt&Investment

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea, Vietnam

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Quriously — Quriously is an integrated platform for video lectures in Korea.
Slid — Slid is a tool that helps online learners capture, record, and take notes while watching online lectures.
Onconic Therapeutics — Onconic Therapeutics specialises in the research and development of cancer treatments.

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Mekong Capital is a Vietnam-focused Private Equity firm, specializing in consumer driven businesses. Mekong Capital’s investee companies are typically among the fastest growing and market leading companies in Vietnam’s consumer-driven sectors such as retail, restaurants, consumer products and distribution.Established in 2001, Mekong Capitalhas the most extensive private equity track record in Vietnam. Our funds have completed 30 private equity investments, of which 22 have been fully exited and 1 has been partially exited. Mekong Capital has managed 5 funds, one of which is currently making new investments. Mekong Capital has a team of 50+ full-time people in our offices in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, who have an average tenure at Mekong Capital of around 6 years. Three Partners with combined 31 years at Mekong Capital.Mekong Capital invests in fast-growing companies, with ambitious expansion plans, and a strong commitment to building management teams that will apply best practices and successfully execute on those expansion plans. These companies are typically well-established companies in their sectors, but which typically operate in fragmented and fast growing markets which present attractive growth opportunities.Mekong Capital is strongly committed to adding significant value at each of its investee companies – through operational improvements, building management teams, introduction of best practices and outside experts, and applying other elements of our Vision Driven Investing framework.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Retail, Service Industry
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Vietnam, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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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