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Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gobi Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia | ||
1337 Ventures | Seed | Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia | ||
NEXEA Venture Capital & Angel Investors | Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia | ||
Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund | Early Stage Venture, Grant, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia | ||
Catcha Group | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Private Equity, Seed | Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital Seed investors in Kuala Lumpur. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Kuala Lumpur)
Gobi Partners
Gobi Partners is the most interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital firm with US$1.2 billion in assets under management (AUM) across North Asia, South Asia, and ASEAN. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai, the firm supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets. Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 13 funds to date, invested in over 270 startups and nurtured 9 unicorns. Gobi has grown to 13 locations across key markets in Bangkok, Beijing, Dubai, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Riyadh, Shanghai, and Singapore. 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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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1337 Ventures
1337 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. Our primary investments are O2O based mobility solutions. Pre-seed investment deal flow, is curated by running quarterly pre-accelerator programmes. 1337 will continue expanding through out South East Asia as an accelerator and early stage venture capital focused on scaling companies from ideas to being valued as a multi-million dollar company in less than 10 months. Our central tenets are built into 1337’s core business activities: Idea generation, idea validation, accelerator & growth stage investment. Beginning with mobile gaming apps from its inception and yielding 16 successful alumnis, 1337 Ventures has since diversified to covering some of the most exciting and innovative areas such as retail analytics, indoor positioning systems, automated parking systems, marketplaces, wearable technology, and proximity marketing bringing the total investments completed to 24 startups.
Stages: Seed
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia
Industries: Analytics, Banking, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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NEXEA Venture Capital & Angel Investors
NEXEA is a leading Venture Capital & Accelerator in Malaysia & Southeast Asia. Get business leaders and moguls as your mentors. Get strong business, tech, and investment expert support. Get funded by NEXEA.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia
Industries: Angel Investment, Business Development, Financial Services, Information Technology, Internet, Venture Capital
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Catcha Group
The Catcha Group has a proven track record of investing in small- to medium-sized businesses to achieve rapid growth, profitability, IPO, and beyond. We do this by taking sizable stakes in companies with the ability to alter or define markets and mentoring them to unlock their true potential. We love talking about ideas, finding ways to create value, and developing businesses to realize tremendous growth. We are always ready to work with our portfolio companies through challenges, celebrate their successes, and do whatever it takes to make them number one in their fields.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia
Industries: Internet, Venture Capital
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Asia Venture Group
Asia Venture Group is a hands-on, private Internet Holding Company and focuses on long-term value creation in South East Asian online markets. Asia Venture Group targets the sweet spots of the Asian internet space by combining: state of the art international know-how and expertise, rigorous execution excellence, outstanding international management talent, and the best local partners. Asia Venture Group focuses on digital distribution models and is extremely selective in terms of the companies it supports, which allows strong engagement in day-to-day operations.
Stages: Seed
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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TH Capital
TH Capital is a Malaysian based Venture Capital firm with strong South East Asian connections. TH Capital is a platform that empowers and accelerates ventures with capital infusion, business consultancy, strategic mentorship and strong networking opportunities. TH Capital occupies a unique position in the Malaysian funding landscape with a strong focus on technology innovation geared towards nation building activities.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia
Industries: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech, Space Travel, Venture Capital
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Netrove
Netrove was founded in 1999 as a regional venture capital and corporate finance advisory firm that provides critical capital and venture advisory services. It focuses mainly on risk capital investment and fund raising, corporate finance advisory, IPO, M&A advisory and investment opportunities in the region. Today Netrove has offices in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Guangzhou.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia
Industries: Venture Capital
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Vynn Capital
Vynn invests in entrepreneurs with strong operational involvement and capability to maintain a well-cultured team. Key industries for us are Travel, Property, Food & FMCG and Female Economics. We also focus on industry enablers such as logistics fulfilment and fintech in enhancing industry efficiencies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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CDMA Investment
CDMA Investment (Co registration: 09725376) register in United Kingdom provides corporate advisory and insolvency recovery advice. The firm offers a wide range of professional services to multinationals, public listed companies, private limited companies, charitable organizations and private individuals. The CDMA team has an extensive track-record and experience in delivering comprehensive corporate advisory services to its clients globally. It operate under Venture capital platform and advisory model.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Inmaginator
Inmaginator accelerates glocal talent and collaborates startup ecosystems in inspired Asian locations. While our focus is on web, mobile, media and IoT startups, they are also attracted by those with creative takes on traditional businesses such as education, health, beauty and F&B. Aside from seed funding, co-worker spaces, investor networks, pitching guidance and mentorship, Inmaginator provides accelerated startups with access to 80 tech engineers and 250 designers from 123RF. Inmaginator aims to develop entrepreneurs on the idyllic island of Jeju, Korea and the charming technopolis that is Bandung, Indonesia, and showcase them to the world. At the end of 2014, they launched our first incubator in the Jeju Science Park. This will be followed by an accelerator program in the 2nd half of 2015. They are also working towards creating world-class startup and creative campuses in Jeju and Bandung with full boarding, co-working, conference and R&D facilities, whereby hundreds of entrepreneurs-in-residence can collaborate, invent, pitch, be mentored and funded for 3-6 month periods at a time by a host of leading accelerators. Programs will encourage interactive immersion in cross-cultural, innovative and inspiring surroundings.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia
Industries: Venture Capital
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W100 Venture Capital
A venture capital firm that invest in social enterprises to build a better and sustainable communities.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia
Industries: Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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KERN Ventures
KERN Ventures is a venture building accelerator that provides pre-seed to seed funding and hands-on operational guidance to help initiate, co-create and accelerate startups. KERN Ventures primary goal is to create high-growth startups in key sectors such as on-demand services, fintech and e-commerce/online marketplaces. Twice a year, KERN Ventures invests in sets of five high-potential ideas and find the best talent to build the ideas with them.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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