Top 15 Social Startup Investors in Singapore in October 2023
Top 15 Social Startup Investors in Singapore in October 2023
| Investor | Social Singapore investments |
|---|---|
| Click Ventures | 2 |
| Vertex Ventures | 2 |
| Antler | 2 |
| Peng T. Ong | 1 |
| Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India | 1 |
| Vertex Ventures China | 1 |
| Min-Liang Tan | 1 |
| Phanindra Sama | 1 |
| Infocomm Investments | 1 |
| Bossanova Investimentos | 1 |
| Sujeet Kumar | 1 |
| Goodwater Capital | 1 |
| Farquhar VC | 1 |
| Neoteny Labs | 1 |
| Kalyan Krishnamurthy | 1 |
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Vertex US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, China, Israel
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- CloseFactor — CloseFactor uses machine learning to reimagine the business to business sales process, bringing the benefits of greater automation and precision targeting to sales teams.
- ElevateBio — We provide the tools, time, and environment to innovate and accelerate development of life-saving Cell and gene therapies.
- Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
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- FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
- Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
- Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
Peng is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a leading early-stage tech venture capital firm in Southeast Asia. Peng is an industry veteran with over 25 years of industry as an entrepreneur, founder, and investor in Silicon Valley and in Asia. He is based in Indonesia and is a board member of Glints, ELSA, Intelligent VideoSolutions, STOQO and Escapex.Prior to Monk’s Hill Ventures, he was a Venture Partner at GSR Ventures in China. The firm is known for its successful investments in companies like Didi Chuxing and Qunar. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded a series of successful companies including Electric Classifieds (today known as Match.com), Interwoven and Eccentuate, which combined today generate over USD$1 billion in revenues annually.Peng is currently the Chairman of SolveEducation! and serves as a board member of the International Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin and SEA Founders.Peng earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.
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- Software, Health Care, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Singapore, United States, Indonesia
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- Osome — Osome helps foreign and Singaporean entrepreneurs to manage their businesses. Register and get your new company operational with our certified agents backed by modern technology
- WeGoWhere — Discover things to do with your favorite people. Sync plans with your friends so you never miss out. Know where your friends are doing today, this week or next and join their plans IRL.
- Pie — Making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time.
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.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- India, Singapore, Indonesia
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- Speedoc — Speedoc is an industry leader in the digital health space with a mission to provide accessible and affordable healthcare to patients. As a virtual clinic and hospital care provider combining physical-digital services to challenge the traditional centralized, facility-based model, Speedoc believes that this will be the solution to the agingpopulation faced by many countries in the region as the demand for medical care increases. Their services include house call doctors, nurses, medications delivery; and is complemented by telemedicine, remote diagnostics and health monitoring. With Speedoc, home medical services need not be limited to only certain groups of patients, but to everyday people who may require GP or A&E visits for themselves or their loved ones.
- Fairatmos — Create your Green House Gasses sequestration project proposal, verify for credits, support projects and buy credits all in one platform.
- Validus — Validus offers fast SME working capital loan in one day, free SME business account for growing businesses and startups, and instant corporate debit cards.
Vertex Ventures China invests in high-growth internet and technology start-ups across mainland China, and provides funding support and value-add services to portfolio companies in their growth stage. Based in Beijing and Shanghai, Vertex Ventures China collaborates with the Vertex network of ventures funds across US, Israel, Southeast Asia, andIndia, and under auspices of Vertex Holdings providing local knowledge with global perspective.
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- E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Singapore
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- Evolusia — Evolusia is Justice
- CrossSpace — CrossSpace is the ideal place to acquire knowledge, establish connections, and create a meaningful impact in the realm of Web3. By bringing together authentic individuals and communities, we facilitate a seamless and efficient entry into Web3.
- Chenglian Technology — Chamlion 3D is a national high-tech enterprise incubated and established by the Additive Manufacturing Institute of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Digital solutions for dental 3D printing, leading the digital transformation and upgrading of the industry. Chenglian Technology is deeply engaged in the field of dentistry, with itsin-depth understanding of the industry and rich product development.
Min-Liang Tan is the co-founder and CEO of Razer, where he directs and oversees the design and development of all Razer products. Mr. Tan was born in Singapore and resides in San Francisco. He graduated from the National University of Singapore Law School and was a lawyer before turning his passion for gaming into a 500-person global company.Min-Liang Tan was recently elected to the board of the PC Gaming Alliance. In March 2012 he contributed $10,000 USD to the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter project, admitting it was to atone for pirating Wasteland when he was a child. (Wasteland designer and Interplay CEO Brian Fargo replied that Mr. Tan has more than made up for his piracy of the game.)Min-Liang Tan has been named one of "The 25 Most Creative People in Tech" by the Business Insider together with Jonathan Ive and Gabe Newell. He has also been ranked one of the top 40 most powerful people in gaming by Kotaku in their "The Kotaku Power 40" list.
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- NextBlock — NextBlock enables neighbors to share deals and promotions, news updates, or simply list items on sale in the neighborhood.
Co-Founder of Redbus.
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- Internet, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
- Jovian — Learn practical skills from Silicon Valley engineers, build real-world portfolio projects, and earn a certification. Kick start your data science career!
- Bytebeam — Accelerate your IoT initiatives with Bytebeam - our platform makes it 10X simpler and quicker to build cutting-edge smart products
Managing more than $200 million, Infocomm Investments builds and invests in start-up companies in Singapore and globally. Through our investments, global reach, and partnerships across private and public sectors, we accelerate the development of start-ups in their formative phase, and invest further as they move forward with growth and expansion.We play a central role in building a vibrant tech start-up ecosystem in Singapore, and we are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.
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- Mobile, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series C, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, Japan
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- Gengo — People-powered translation at scale. Gengo provides fast, affordable and quality translations by native speakers located worldwide.
- TabSquare — Look to the future of the F&B industry - Tabsquare's POS integrated online restaurant system increases hospitality profitability through AI Technology.
- Secondmind — Helping automotive engineers design better cars, faster.
BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList.
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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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- Tarvos — Tarvos is an automated insect monitoring platform with real-time insights from smart traps.
- Ping. — SaaS
- Doutor Ao Vivo — Doutor ao Vivo is a digital health platform for telemedicine. Doutor Ao Vivo is a health tech software company.
Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, Kenya
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- Mainstreet — Browse through our vast collection of premium streetwear like sneakers, apparel & accessories. Mainstreet is India's premiere hype outlet for all sneaker-heads out there!
- Third Wave Coffee — Third wave coffee is a manufacturer and distributor of easy coffee bags that help to make barista-quality coffee anytime without any equipment. The third wave roasts coffees in small batches and introduce specialty cofee.
- GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.
Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, South Korea
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- Vendah — Social commerce platform democratizing the e-commerce in LATAM through local entrepreneurs
- Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
- TANGGapp — Send money to the Philippines with the best exchange rates! Money transfers are received in minutes. Get full transparency on your transaction - no FX markups or secret costs. Download TANGapp today and get started!
Farquhar VC operates as an early stage venture capital firm.
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- Information Technology, Social Media, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia
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- BintanGO — Creator Marketing Platform terbaik di Indonesia, lebih dari 40.000 Kreator dan 100 Brand sudah bergabung. Buat campaignmu jadi fleksibel, terlacak dan terukur.
- NextBlock — NextBlock enables neighbors to share deals and promotions, news updates, or simply list items on sale in the neighborhood.
- EMERGE Group — EMERGE Group is a leading Martech organisation that specialises in developing optimal commercialisation solutions for content creators, intellectual property right holders, advertising inventories and brands.
Neoteny Labs is an early stage fund focused on consumer Internet startups in Asia and the Middle East.
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- TV, Messaging, Video Streaming
- Series A, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, Singapore, China
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- TripVillas — Largest holiday home rental portal in Asia. Browse your ideal vacation home from over 100,000 holiday homes spread across destinations.
- Twine Health — Fitbit Health Solutions' wellness and health solutions can help keep your population healthy and drive meaningful employee engagement. Learn more.
- littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
Mr. Kalyan Krishnamurthy is the CEO of Flipkart. Prior to joining Flipkart, Mr. Krishnamurthy served as the Director of Finance and Portfolio Companies at Tiger Global Management. Prior to Tiger Global, Mr. Krishnamurthy held various senior positions such as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at eBay Asia-Pacific and Country FinanceDirector (South-east Asia, Hong Kong) at eBay. He worked at Procter & Gamble. Mr. Krishnamurthy holds an MBA degree from Asian Institute of Management, the Philippines, and another MBA in Finance from UIUC College of Business, Illinois (US).
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- Internet, B2B, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- India, Singapore, United States
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- Protonn — Protonn is an all-in-one solution to empower independent professionals
- Turnip — Empowering online communities to run, discover and join interactive experiences.
- The Whole Truth — Healthy Snacks with No Added Colors, Sugar, Preservative, Flavor, Gluten, Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Peanut butter, Protein Bars, Muesli, Energy Bars
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Click Ventures is a Seed to Series A venture capital firm investing in highly scalable technology startups across promising sectors.
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Reby
— Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
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Oddup
— Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method.
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Bite Investments
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