Venture capital firms that most actively invest in Southeast Asia

Entrepreneur First brings together the world’s most ambitious people to build startups from scratch in Europe and Asia. We help individuals form teams, develop ideas, and subsequently raise funding from investors to build the world’s most important companies.

500 Startups is a new kind of seed fund and startup accelerator. We believe successful internet startups are born from usable design, customer-focused metrics, and online distribution.

Wavemaker Partners is a member of the Draper Venture Network, the world’s leading venture capital collective with 10 funds spread across 4 continents.

East Ventures is an early stage venture fund focused on Southeast Asia and Japan. Over several years, East Ventures has invested in hundreds of companies in Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand. The majority of East Ventures’ portfolio firms have been able to raise follow-on financing rounds. East Ventures has a strong track record in developing pan-Asia tech-ecosystems and backing startups in their early days. Success cases include companies such as Tokopedia, Traveloka, Mercari, Disdus (acquired by Groupon), Kudo (acquired by Grab), Tech in Asia, Omise, IDNTimes, Ruangguru, Jurnal, Cermati, MokaPOS, ShopBack, EVHive, Pasar Polis and Loket (acquired by Gojek).

Alpha JWC Ventures is an institutional and independent venture capital firm with a strong Indonesia focus which invests in early- to growth-stage technology companies. We are sector-agnostic, as we strive to back extraordinary founders as a value-added partner to build great companies. Our Team has a strong track record in investing in many exciting technology companies.

Insignia Ventures Partners is a Singapore-headquartered early stage technology venture capital firm, primarily focusing on Southeast Asia.

We focus on enabling the entrepreneurial potential of ambitious men and women who believe they can build a start-up in Singapore.

Sequoia Capital helps founders turn imaginative ideas into enduring companies. As the “Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs,” the Sequoia team has worked closely with legendary founders such as Steve Jobs of Apple, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner of Cisco, David Filo and Jerry Yang of Yahoo!, Max Levchin, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel of PayPal, Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley of YouTube, and Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn. Sequoia is now helping the next generation of innovators build the lasting companies of tomorrow.

1337 Ventures is a technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital focused on doing pre-seed and seed stage investments in Malaysia as well as South East Asia.

We love great teams! We focus on companies building out consumer internet products and services for Southeast Asia. You’ll catch us frequently traveling between Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. We prefer companies with a launched product (stealth is fine) or that have establish valuable distribution partnerships in the region.

Plug and Play is a global innovation platform that connects startups to corporations, and invest in over 100 companies every year.

Antler is a company that helps talented founders to start their business by providing investment, finding co-founders, and connects them to mentors.

Convergence Ventures is an early stage technology venture fund focused on investing in Indonesia.

Gobi Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focusing on IT and digital media investments in China.

Spring Seeds Capital provides an equity-based co-financing option for Singapore-based start-ups with innovative products and/or processes with intellectual content and strong growth potential across international markets.

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India invests in high-growth start-ups seeking their first round of institutional venture capital funding across Asia (excluding China), with a focus on Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, and India, among other emerging hubs of innovation in this region.

SOSV is a multi-stage venture capital investor that provides intellectual and financial capital to accelerate founders’ big ideas for positive change.

Venturra is an Southeast asian focused venture capital firm investing in early stage consumer technology-enabled internet businesses. Our firms primarily investment focus is in consumer internet companies that are ready to expand internationally, in sectors such as e-commerce, financial technology, marketplaces, healthcare and education amongst others.

Jungle Ventures is a Singapore based, entrepreneur backed venture firm that funds and helps start-ups scale across Asia Pacific. We invest in global start-ups that are solving problems relevant to Asia Pacific markets. We currently have investments in US, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and India across ecommerce, Fintech, Saas and marketplaces.

muru-D is the global startup accelerator backed by Telstra, which aims to support the very best tech entrepreneurial talent that the Asia Pacific region has to offer.

SeedPLus is a Singapore-­based seed-stage venture firm that invests S$500k to 1M in early stage companies on market terms.

Beenext is a venture capital firm investing in early stage technology startups from India, Southeast Asia, Japan, and USA.

Openspace Ventures, previously known as NSI Ventures, makes investments in early-stage technology companies based in Southeast Asia.

SparkLabs is a business incubation company providing investment solutions and mentoring for startups who wish to expand to the global market.

KK Fund is a venture capital fund to invest in seed stage internet and mobile startups across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Cocoon Capital is a S$10 million seed-stage venture firm focusing on early-stage, digital companies across Southeast Asia and India.

MDI is a corporate venture capital initiative by Telkom Indonesia which is based in Jakarta with operations in Singapore and Silicon Valley.

Quest Ventures is a venture fund for technology companies that have scalability and replicability in large internet communities.

Line Ventures is a LINE subsidiaty on investment fund.

Kejora is a venture builder that invests in bold entrepreneurs and help them launch technology companies in large and high growth market verticals.

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital that invested in Mosquitone.

Spiral Ventures, formerly known as IMJ Investment Partners, was established in 2012 by IMJ Corporation, a major digital marketing company, as an independent venture capital subsidiary in Japan. After IMJ was acquired by Culture Convenience Club (CCC) in 2013, Spiral Ventures continued their investment activities independently, and eventually relocated the office to Singapore to change the strategy and start a venture capital fund for the Southeast Asia market. In 2015, Spiral Ventures established the Japan office and started a venture capital fund for the Japanese market.

Discovery Nusantara Capital is an early stage technology venture fund focusing on internet startups investment in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

REAPRA Ventures focuses on the only pre-seed funding to brilliant entrepreneurs who start great businesses.

Mandiri Capital Indonesia (MCI) is a Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), which operates under the auspices of the largest financial institutions in Indonesia, Mandiri Group.

Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you’re getting started.

Qualgro is an Asean-focused fund that invests into internet and technology-based businesses, as well as into education, and healthcare.

SoftBank Capital makes early and growth stage investments in companies that connect people, devices, and the world.

Fenox VC is an early stage investment firm that is targeting disruptive opportunities in IT, Health IT, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Robotics, Big Data, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, FinTech and Next Generation Technologies.

SoftBank Ventures Asia, previously known as SoftBank Ventures Korea, is the global early-stage venture arm of SoftBank Group with expertise lies in ICT investments. SoftBank Ventures Asia look for and invest in startups with a strong potential in Asia, the U.S., Israel, and the EU, focusing on AI, IoT, and smart robotics industry.

Walden International is the leading firm focused on cross-border investments – our integrated team is dedicated to helping you build the next industry leading companies.

GDP Venture is a venture builder focusing on digital community, commerce, media and solution companies in Indonesian consumer internet sector.

Endeavor Catalyst is an innovative co-investment vehicle designed to support Endeavor Entrepreneurs with their equity financing rounds and contribute to the long-term sustainability of Endeavor.

ZhenFund is primarily a TMT-focused fund, with investments in the IOT, mobile internet, gaming, enterprise software, O2O, e-commerce, and education sectors.

SBI Group moved to a holding company structure effective July 1, 2005. Therefore the SBI Group makes a fresh new start under the unified group brand “SBI.”

SBI Investment is a core company in the asset management business of the SBI Group.

GREE Ventures focuses on investing in early stage (pre-Series A and Series A) internet and mobile companies.

SIG (Susquehanna International Group) is a global quantitative trading, research, and technology firm.

TRi5 Ventures is a venture investment company focusing on seed-stage investment in technology startups across Southeast Asia. Sector focus includes Information Communication Technology (ICT), Financial Technology (FinTech), Smart Nation Initiatives and Data Science. Contrary to late stage investors, we take an active role in helping our portfolio startups to scale beyond their domestic markets.

SMDV is a tech-focused venture capital that partners with entrepreneurs building exceptional technology companies that aim to change the landscape in Indonesia and the region by providing venture investments, strategic network, and mentorship.

Skystar Capital is a fund that invests in technology focused start ups in the Asia Pacific region, particularly Indonesia, at their early and growth stages.

Enterprise Singapore, previously known as SPRING Singapore, is the government agency championing enterprise development that works with committed companies to build capabilities, innovate, and internationalize.

Kickstart Ventures Inc. puts big company resources – capital, facilities, expertise and business connections – behind startups, so investees can launch faster, and achieve scale and profitability sooner. Kickstart is a subsidiary of Globe Telecom, backed by SingTel and Ayala Corporation.

RHL Ventures is a private investment firm founded to champion long term growth and support businesses in ASEAN countries.

Incorporated in 1974, Temasek is an investment company based in Singapore, with a net portfolio value of S$266 billion as at 31 March 2015.

B Capital Group backs brash entrepreneurs building the next generation of groundbreaking technology companies.

Cradle Seed Ventures (CSV) is the venture capital arm of Malaysia’s premier early stage financier and influencer, Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd.

Kakaku.com is an internet media company which runs variety of user generated web sites.

Investing since 1991, EDBI is a Singapore-based global investor in select high growth technology sectors ranging from Information & Communication Technology (ICT), Emerging Technology (ET), Healthcare (HC) and other strategic industries. As a value creating investor, EDBI assists companies achieve their ambitious goals by leveraging our broad network, resources and expertise. With our patient capital, EDBI supports companies seeking to grow in Asia and globally through Singapore.

InnoVen Capital (formerly SVB India) is one of India’s first and largest venture debt and specialty lending business.

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm and an internet management consulting in Japan.

Global Brain (GB) is an early stage venture capital firm based in Tokyo, expanding its investment activities in the US and Asia. Since 2001, GB has invested in about 30 companies selectively, provided full services and resources and achieved 8 IPOs and 15 M&As. GB accelerates growth of portfolio companies in a long run by providing not only capital but also supports to build strategies, partnerships and a team to achieve their milestones.

Orange Growth Capital (OGC) is a financial technology investment firm.

Chiratae Ventures, previously known as IDG Ventures, is an India-focused technology venture capital fund.