Top 20 Travel Startup Investors in Hong Kong in October 2023

Radiant Tech Ventures Ltd., based in Hong Kong and licensed with the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong to carry on Type 9 (asset management) regulated activities. Radiant manages the Radiant Tech Ventures Fund LP which is a co-investment fund of HK Government's ITVF Corporation.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Hong Kong, United States, China

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TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
Springdel — Move beyond cloud and legacy MDM with an enterprise-grade EdgeOps platform purpose-built for the interactive Edge of Things.
Geekbang Technology — Geekbang Technology is a Enterprise services company.

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Their newly launched GWC Innovator Fund is a venture fund focused exclusively on investing in global innovators that are improving the world. Some of their recent investments include 3D Robotics in the US, Goqii in India, DayDayUp in China and Qraved in Indonesia. G-Startup Worldwide (https://angel.co/g-startup-worldwide) is theirglobal startup competition held around the world to find the most innovative, early stage startups, invest $1,000,000 in them, support them with a global network and enable them to change the world.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

BabyQuip — Rent baby equipment for holidays and vacation. All the baby gear and furniture you need: cribs, strollers, car seats, toys, etc. We deliver, setup and pick-up.
Edwin — Edwin is an AI-powered service for learning foreign languages.
FriendlyData — FriendlyData helps enterprise companies make data accessible for non-technical people by providing natural language interface to databases. FriendlyData is a San Francisco-based enterprise software company backed by 500 Startups and other Silicon Valley investors.

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Linear Capital (Linear Venture) was founded by Jingdong, Lynx former executives and early Facebook employees Chuan Wang Huai, attention Pan smart, technology-driven big data early in the project area. Has invested horizon robot, Rokid, with shield, melting point, etc. more than 30 start-up team, and is trying to become China's best intelligentapplication data Fund (Applied-Data-Intelligence). Our existing limited partners from Asia's top hedge funds, but also from Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, the public comment, go, people network, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and other well-known Internet company founders or executives and Xue Manzi, Mr Leung and other aspect of capital investment sector for decades veterans. We strive to use industry expertise and resources to help the investment company move fast and break fewer things, and ultimately the linear path and nonlinear growth.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

JINGdigital — JINGdigital is China's Leading Marketing Automation Platform. Since our founding in 2014, JINGdigital has been providing brands with digital marketing optimization solutions through our JINGsocial platform. The platform enables brands to better understand customers and empowers brands to create valuable personal connections at scale.
Mindverse — Create autonomous AI agents for your professional tasks. MindOS offers advanced AI solutions for a wide array of professional tasks. Let AI Work Like You.
Bizhen Technology — Bizhen Technology provides the creation, publishing and trading of 3D real-time interactive virtual spaces.

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Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

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ZoomAgri — ZOOMAGRI provides an assessment of agricultural commodities to all participants of Agri supply chain via AI, computer vision and IoT.
Supplynote — End-to-end supply chain management tool to track inventory, orders, payments and suppliers online
Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.

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Linear Capital Partners is a corporate finance firm that specializes in mergers, reverse mergers, and acquiring private capital.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, Hong Kong, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Agile Robots AG — Connecting artificial intelligence and the physical world. Agile Robots AG is a high-tech startup based in Munich. We are a spin-off of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) looking to push the boundaries of robotics.
Sensors Data — Sensors was founded in 2015 by Sang Wenfeng, former technology manager at Baidu Inc's big data department. It currently provides big data analysis services for over 300 companies, including bike sharing company ofo, Chinese workout mobile app Keep, and video sharing and live streaming app Miaopai.
GV20 Therapeutics — GV20 Oncotherapy is a Healthcare Company.

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Investment focus

Information Technology, Travel, Machine Learning
Series A, Series B, Seed
Hong Kong, China

Portfolio highlights

Hex Trust — Access custody, DeFi, brokerage, and financing services built on regulated infrastructure with Hex Trust, fully-licensed and insured digital asset custodian in Asia.
Zeek — Zeek is a data-driven intelligent logistics technology platform that provides one-stop O2O last-mile delivery solutions for F&B, lifestyle and FMCG merchants in Southeast Asia. Founded in Hong Kong, Zeek has expanded its business presence to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, etc with customers that comprise global top-five F&B brandsand fast-food chains, leading supermarkets and department stores, convenience store chains, online e-commerce and food platforms, etc. Zeek has become one of the leading delivery partner for global fast-food chain in Southeast Asia and is confident to become one of the leading intelligent on-demand logistics players in F&B and lifestyle sectors in Southeast Asia.
FreeD Group — Freed Group empower your business with smart adaptive technology Freed Group Provides "Enterprise E-commerce Solution" "AI Powered Chat-Commerce Solution" "Merchant Marketplace" "RCS Enterprise Messaging" "Enterprise D2C EPOS Solution" "Smart City Solution"

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Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users. Gree shares development and operational expertise across all its studios as Gree always works to create new game models for its customers.

Investment focus

Mobile, Gaming, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Oasys — Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.
AppBrew(Lips) — AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, hair care, and other related products of different brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Bankers Holding — Bankers Holding controls the bankers group companies that provide financial services via internet.

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SPK AI Travel Tech is an investment arm of Lazard Korea.

Investment focus

Travel, Big Data, Analytics
Series A
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

FreeD Group — Freed Group empower your business with smart adaptive technology Freed Group Provides "Enterprise E-commerce Solution" "AI Powered Chat-Commerce Solution" "Merchant Marketplace" "RCS Enterprise Messaging" "Enterprise D2C EPOS Solution" "Smart City Solution"
FREED GROUP LIMITED — TravelFlan Official Website

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Founded in 2013, Aria is a family office focused on investments in the digital asset and blockchain space

Investment focus

Supply Chain Management, Travel, Logistics
Seed, Series A
Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Trip Guru — The booking platform that connects like-minded travelers via the best group experiences around the world. A FUN AND SOCIAL WAY TO TRAVEL. Offering tour packages for individuals or groups.
GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
Truck Lagbe — Truck Lagbe network is the first and the largest online platform in Bangladesh. In this app based truck rental service you can hire trucks & pickups in a minutes.

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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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, Malaysia, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

CompAsia — Device lifecycle solutions for a greener world.
Kiddocare — They are on a journey to create an ecosystem to support working parents – giving them the gift of freedom and time by connecting them with babysitters to care for their children. It is also their aim to empower women who want to pursue childcare as a career or to generate extra income by giving them the platform to do so.
CAS Linkfiber — CAS Linkfiber is concentrating on key material technology research and manufacturing for hydrogen fuel cells, overcoming foreign suppliers' monopolies and attaining key material localization.

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FIH Mobile is a handset manufacturing and Integrator services company.

Investment focus

Apps, Consumer Electronics, Augmented Reality
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Lingxi AR — Lingxi AR is an AR optical display technology provider, providing optical solutions for partners developing AR glasses. It is committed to the development of lightweight glasses with large field of view. The optical modules are equipped with nano-scale coupling gratings and optical waveguide technology. AR 3D imaging can be achieved with an angleof view of up to 36 degrees.
HMD — HMD Global mission to make modern mobile technology accessible to everyone. Learn more about Nokia phones, tablets, products and services.
Journey Technology — An augmented reality technology company.

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Investment

Investment focus

Travel, Big Data, Analytics
Series A
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

FreeD Group — Freed Group empower your business with smart adaptive technology Freed Group Provides "Enterprise E-commerce Solution" "AI Powered Chat-Commerce Solution" "Merchant Marketplace" "RCS Enterprise Messaging" "Enterprise D2C EPOS Solution" "Smart City Solution"

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Nada Sami - Partner @ FasterCapital

Investment focus

Internet, B2B, B2C
Seed, Angel
United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

PutTag — PutTag is an online service that helps you and your friends tag by text, audio or video any place on the map.PutTag will be offering several mobile and web applications that allow users to easily tag places, add their audio/video comments and share those comments with friends. PutTag has already developed its core functionality that isused on its website and it can be used as a standalone product.
TVlize — TVlize is a company specialized in improving and socializing TV experience. At TVlize we change the viewing experience from lean backward to lean forward.
BeamGift — BeamGift consists of leaders in digitization of coupons. We strive to put our clients in the best position in the market of cashing and capitalizing on the digitization of coupons. We are determined to offer the best solution globally for geo-location digitization of gift coupons such that the customer experience is satisfying, the merchant experience is useful, and the advertisement company experience is fruitful.

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Swiss Founders Fund is a seed and early stage investment fund based in St.Gallen, Switzerland. SFF invests in and builds companies globally.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Singapore, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hybr1d — Hybr1d is an end-to-end workforce management system. Manage everything from onboarding, procurement, devices, and attendance to offboarding from a single platform.
Orderli — Orderli is the platform for restaurants, we help you sell more and efficiently through our QR based ordering solution.
Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.

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Founded in 2013, with an AUM of over $700 million, MindWorks Capital invests in early-stage Pan-Asia venture capital across Greater China and Southeast Asia. In Greater China, MindWorks' emphasis is on seeking innovative and disruptive companies, taking technology and business model risk, typically at Series A. In Southeast Asia, the emphasisis on investing in proven business models from the West and China, typically at Series B. MindWorks' investment thesis and outlook are theme-based and continually revised on a six-month basis, with the current target sectors including logistics, fintech, and enterprise tech.MindWorks has a team of 12 investment professionals across three offices including Hong Kong, where it is headquartered, Beijing, and Jakarta. The team often provides value-add to its portfolio companies, including helping businesses to scale, forming partnerships, and acquiring follow-on funding from strategic investors.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Series B
Hong Kong, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Finture — Finture is the first Neobanking fintech company to provide Credit card and Credit payment business in SEA
Jumppoint — Founded in Hong Kong since 2020, Jumppoint developed in house its own multi-layer dynamic routing algorithm, jumppoint.ai, to offer highly efficient yet cost-saving logisitics services to B2B and B2C users, with real-time logisitcs data embeded. Beyond Hong Kong headquarters and R&D centre, Jumppoint also has extensive presence in Asia suchas Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Southeast Asia headquarters, Singapore, providing localised logsitics services.
Sending.Me — SendingMe is Web3 native community chat software that engages, transacts, and compensates users.

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SkyChee Ventures focuses on Hardware as a Service investments that combine highly competitive Asian manufacturing capabilities with global software and talent to enable new business models and revenue opportunities. They create value by combining global markets with technology innovation and value-add services. They focus on early stage technologyenabled investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
China, United States, Hong Kong

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TouchELX — TouchELX develops software and hardware design solutions for IoT consumer devices. It focuses on developing embedded software on the MCU to create small-screen touch screen products. TouchELX 's core technologies feature microprocessor optimization, MCU offload, create controls, rendering algorithms, and graphics objects. The company wasfounded in 2017 and is headquartered in
autowise.ai — autowise.ai is an autonomous driving technology developer.
Gongdadi Innovation Technology — Gongdadi is an artificial intelligence automation development and training platform and technical service provider. Through the self-developed AI development and training platform, it provides enterprises with 0 codes and 1 hour to build independent AI capabilities, helping enterprises to reduce the cost, cycle and time of AI development. Thethreshold of use is widely used in fields such as smart cities, industrial testing, communities, electricity, and energy.

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Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.

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Welight Capital is an investment firm that invests in enterprise services, B2B, e-commerce, finance, education, new retail companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Education, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Space Kill — Space Kill is a web3-based multiplayer play2earn party game with Game-Fi and Social-Fi elements built in.
Laifei Smart — Laifei Smart offers AI intelligent lawn mowing robots for global lawn care, and provides customers in this field with more standardized, precise and efficient intelligent solutions.
Volant Aerotech — Volant Aerotech is a company specializing in the R&D, manufacturing, and service of passenger eVTOL, an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.

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500 TukTuks is a $15M USD micro-fund focused on promising Thai startups. Key to the fund’s operations and with a particular focus on fashion, beauty and ecommerce opportunities in Thailand and South East Asia, Sapprasert has been pivotal in investing in some 48 startups in her two years there.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series B
Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Salary Hero — Salary Hero offers a user-centric engagement solution to foster financial resilience among workforces.
Funding Societies — Funding Societies is a SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia. It is licensed in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and registered in Malaysia. It is backed by Sequoia India and Softbank Ventures Asia Corp amongst many others and provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is funded by individual andinstitutional investors. In 6 years, it has helped finance over 4 million business loans with over S$2 billion in funding. It was given the MAS FinTech Award in 2016, the Global SME Excellence Award at the United Nations’ ITU Telecom World in 2017, KPMG Fintech100 in 2018, Brands for Good in 2019, and in 2020 recognised by IDC as amongst the 5 fastest growing FinTechs in Singapore, won the Stevie® Award for Innovation in Technology, and named ASEAN Startup of the Year by Global Startup Awards.In 2015, co-founders Kelvin Teo, Iwan Kurniawan, and Reynold Wijaya headquartered Funding Societies | Modalku in Singapore, Central Region.
Globish Academia (Thailand) — Globish Academia (Thailand) is beyond just for native English countries, it already has become global. How nice would it be if EVERY THAI can speak English with confidence a little more. Thais can befriend the whole world. When Global English meets Innovation and Change-makers, Globish Academia was established for those who are actively making aa better society through innovating EVERYDAY education. We do want to change the fact that “English Proficiency” is rank 2nd of “Thai Youth Fear Toward AEC Competitiveness”, with only 3% lower than our unfortunate political problem.

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