Vertex Ventures SEA and India

Golden Gate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on Southeast Asia. Golden Gate invests in Seed, Series A and bridge rounds in mobile and internet startups across multiple sectors. Although we prefer startups based in Southeast Asia, we also look at companies based in offshore markets that are interested in expanding to SE Asia. We have local partners in each country and co-invest with local investors. All of our founding partners have built startups of their own, and we have access to a deep network of mentors and advisors to support our investee companies.

Cocoon Capital is a Singapore-based early-stage venture capital firm focusing on digital companies across Southeast Asia. Typically we invest post a MVP (Minimum viable product), but where fine-tuning of the product and business model remains. With a stellar track record of its seasoned partners, Cocoon Capital has the experience to help you get your business off the ground. We have a unique model. We select only 6 companies per year to ensure sufficient capacity to support our founders - a model we have followed for last 15 years. We engage with our start-ups like trusted advisors providing the founding teams additional resources with the objective to guide, counsel and help them develop new skills. To best support our start-ups, we surround ourselves with a range of partners, each experts in their field to support and guide businesses towards global best practices. Note that we invest in the whole of South East Asia & India, however all companies must have their holding company in Singapore before we write the cheque. We primarily target B2B businesses with a preference for SaaS, ecommerce and fintech. We believe this verticals have the largest chance of success in the current market environment.

K2 Global is a venture capital firm focused on private companies. We invest from seed to growth in Internet, software and technology-enabled companies.

SGInnovate is a Singapore government-owned venture capital fund that invests in deep tech startups, helping scientists commercialize research from Singapore.

Wavemaker Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore. In Southeast Asia, Wavemaker focuses on enterprise and deep technology companies. We have invested in more than 80 companies in the region (80% in enterprise, 20% deep tech). In Los Angeles, we have a long history of technology investments across a number of categories. We usually start with small investments in early-stage companies, and work with these companies before participating (where appropriate) in larger follow-on fundraisings. We invest in a larger number of companies per fund than most VCs and believe this approach maximises returns to our investors. Wavemaker is the regional partner for Southern California and South East Asia for the Draper Venture Network (DVN), one of the world's leading VC collectives.

East Ventures provides early stage seed capital to startups in Southeast Asia, Japan and the USA. We are one of the most active investors in Southeast Asia and since commencing in 2010, we have invested in some of the region's most successful startups. We invest in consumer internet, mobile and SaaS business models (including commerce, social, games), and look for companies with strong founding teams, product traction, and big markets.

B Capital Goup invests in B2B startups in four areas: consumer enablement, financial services & insurance, health & wellness, and industrial & transportation. Our team has substantial expertise and connections in these areas and is able to leverage this skillset to assist our investee companies in reaching scale. We look for transformative startups and invest in an early expansion stage (usually Series B or C), at a time when the company is reading for rapid growth and acceleration. We focus on India, South East Asia and the United States and we have a partnership with Boston Consulting Group and its BCG Digital Ventures accelerator. B Capital was founded by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and Raj Ganguly.

Antler is a global early-stage venture firm investing at inception and pre-seed; its Antler Elevate fund invests from Pre-A through Series C. Its founder residency includes co-founder matching, team formation and business-model validation.

Singtel Innov8 is Singtel Group’s corporate venture capital fund. It invests in companies from seed to early growth and manages an investment fund focused on growth-stage AI companies.

Jungle Ventures is one of Southeast Asia's largest independent venture capital firms based in Singapore. We invest in early to growth-stage startups in India and Southeast Asia across B2B and B2C themes, forming long-term partnerships with Founders from idea to IPO and beyond.