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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Finance startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Vertex Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia | ||
Antler | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia | ||
JAFCO Asia | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia | ||
Golden Gate | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia | ||
Spiral Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia |
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We’ve ranked the top Finance Seed investors in Singapore. 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 Finance Investors & Funds (Singapore)
Vertex Ventures
Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors who manage portfolios in the U.S., China, Israel, India and Southeast Asia. The firm is a trusted partner to some of the world’s most innovative entrepreneurs, supporting them with unmatched operating experience and deep access to the capital, talent, partners and customers they need to build truly global businesses.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Antler
Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the defining technology companies of tomorrow. The firm has offices across five continents and most major entrepreneurial hubs, including cities such as London, New York, Singapore, and Sydney Founded in Singapore in 2017, Antler is on a mission to fundamentally improve the world by enabling and investing in the world’s most exceptional people building the defining companies of tomorrow. Antler has already invested in over 300 companies since its launch. Of these companies, 40% have at least one female co-founder, and the founders represent 70 nationalities. Antler enables exceptional people to build impactful technology startups by building complementary co-founder teams, supporting the teams with deep business model validation, and providing a global platform for scaling their startups.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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JAFCO Asia
Since its establishment in 1990, JAFCO Asia has grown to become a leading brand in the venture capital industry in the Asia Pacific region. Currently, JAFCO Asia has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and Beijing. With more than US$1.2 billion funds under management in aggregate, JAFCO Asia’s experienced investment team has invested in over 368 companies in 13 countries (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, India, Israel and Vietnam) and divested more than 260 companies of which at least 86 have been publicly listed. Since the new millennium, JAFCO Asia has shifted its focus entirely to technology related investments and is now one of the pre-eminent venture capital technology investors in the region. They believe that their existing portfolio in the Asia Pacific region and the worldwide business network offer their portfolio companies significant potential for synergistic partnerships.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Golden Gate
Golden Gate seeks to invest in sectors of processes and services of businesses, mobile solutions, Software-as-a-Service, e-commerce, financial technology, Internet of things, technology, telecommunications, and media in Southeast Asia. Jeffrey Paine, Paul Bragiel, and Vinnie Lauria founded it on November 1, 2011, with its headquarters in Singapore.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Spiral Ventures
Our former entity “IMJ Investment Partners” was established in 2012 by IMJ Corporation (“IMJ”), a major digital marketing company, as an independent venture capital subsidiary in Japan. After IMJ was acquired by Culture Convenience Club (“CCC”) in 2013, we continued our investment activities independently, and eventually relocated our office to Singapore to change our strategy and start a venture capital fund for the Southeast Asia market. In 2015, we established the Japan office and started a venture capital fund for the Japanese market. In tandem with the expansion of our business, we left the CCC Group, changed our name to “Spiral Ventures” in 2017, and made a fresh start as an independent venture capital firm. taken from https://spiral-ventures.com/en/group-info/
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance
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K3 Ventures
K3 Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm that invests in technology start-ups with talented founders and a vision to develop and transform Southeast Asia. In partnering with K3 Ventures, companies leverage from their exclusive bamboo network that enables strategic opportunities to scale Southeast Asia with pilot projects and by championing adoption that establishes as part of their use case portfolio. The wave of digital disruption on traditional businesses is inevitable and a necessary evil for progress. Yet technology startups often face obstacles from incumbent businesses and other stakeholders that can halt their growth. K3 Ventures bridges technology startups and incumbent businesses to create an ecosystem of collaboration and foundation for the creation of new market leaders.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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JFDI.Asia
Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia) is a Singapore-based seed accelerator modelled on Techstars that has 60% success taking start-up businesses from idea to $600k seed investment in 100 days. JFDI.Asia’s focus is on mobile and digital products and services made in Asia, for Asia. Its customers are business start-up teams, early stage business investor/acquirers, and organizations that seek to inspire innovation and entrepreneurship in their workforce.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Grant, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Incubators
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Enspire Capital
Enspire is one of the largest Singapore family office fund that makes fund and direct investment in Greater China and Silicon Valley. Our main office is in Taipei with presence in Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Bay Area. We focus our direct investment in early stage technology companies in the area of Telecommunication, Media and Technology (TMT), Internet and Mobile. Through fund investment, we also seek to invest in expansion stage companies from the fund portfolio. We bring deep sector expertise, operational excellence, Asia insight and network to our portfolio companies and funds.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Venture Capital
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TNF Ventures
TNF Ventures (TNFV) is founded by a few of us who started this as a passion project to help local startups succeed. They feel that there are many talents locally but few had succeeded because they did not have the right connections to help them to go-to-market, they did not have people whom they can discuss their business challenges with and they did not have guidance in business model development.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing
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500 Southeast Asia
500 Southeast Asia is a 500 Startups’ family of funds dedicated to the region. The 500 Southeast Asia funds have backed more than 250 companies across multiple sectors from consumer internet to deep technology, including Grab, Bukalapak, Carsome, and Carousell. It connects founders with capital, expertise, and powerful regional and global networks to help them succeed.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Spring Singapore
SPRING Singapore is a government enterprise development agency responsible for helping Singapore enterprises grow. SPRING Singapore works with partners to help enterprises in financing, capability and management development, technology and innovation, and accessing new markets. As the national standards and accreditation body, SPRING develops and promotes an internationally-recognised standards and quality assurance infrastructure that builds trust in Singapore enterprises, products and services, thereby enabling their global competitiveness and facilitating global trade.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Grant, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Apps, Finance
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August One
August One is a private investment firm and a Monetary Authority of Singapore registered Venture Capital firm. Through its family office platform and investment funds, August One focuses on enabling exceptional people to make a significant impact on the way they live and work. The company is committed to preserving the legacies, serve the aspirations and out-serve the ambitions of families, investors, founders, and partners. Through its Investment Funds and Venture Building program, August One helps its portfolio companies grow their core businesses, launch new initiatives, enter new markets and build and use technologies to drive long term growth and impact. August One was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: CRM, Family, Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Red Dot Ventures
INTRODUCTION Red Dot Ventures was established by Leslie Loh in 2012 as a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on Singapore-based high-tech startups. It was selected as an official startup incubator under the National Research Foundation’s Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS) with the Singapore Prime Minister’s Office. Since incorporation, the team has adopted an aggressive investment strategy, averaging 1 investment per month. Its investment portfolio exceeds 20 startups. Red Dot Ventures manages its portfolio in a highly collaborative manner through its ecosystem of research institutions, mentors, and co-investors. This fosters innovation clusters that marry business-minded people with technologists and their intellectual property to build disruptive solutions. DIFFERENTIATION Acquiring and developing talent for startups is Red Dot Ventures’ key strength. To fill the ranks of its portfolio companies with the right people, Red Dot Ventures partners with its sister company Tien Academy, Lithan Education, and the Singapore Workforce Development Agency.
Stages: Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Alps Ventures
Alps Ventures is a venture builder that builds, consults, and invests in new consumer internet businesses. We build great companies from the ground up and take an active operating and/or advisory role in each company that we invest it. Companies include Duriana (acquired by carousell), Kochabo (acquired by Marley Spoon), Clusterhaus (exited to existing shareholder), OkieLa (last-mile logistics company in Vietnam), Zebramo (c2c marketplace), FALCON Agency (full-service digital agency based in Singapore) and many more. Alps Ventures was founded by Max-F. Scheichenost and Dirk van Quaquebeke in 2011.
Stages: Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Incubators
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Cardinal Capital
With the mission of becoming the vanguard of the emerging realm of digital asset & distributed ledger technologies. Cardinal Capital focuses on investing and nurturing embryonic blockchain technologies that dwell in MIDDLEWARE, PROTOCOL & SERVICE SPECIFIC DAPPS. We believe that at this point in the evolution of the asset class, a portfolio of emerging crypto asset benefits tremendously from highly informed active management, constant adjustment, continuous market analysis, and a general CARDINAL approach.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology
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Media Development Authority
The Media Development Authority (MDA) was created to develop Singapore into a vibrant global media city as well as foster a creative economy and a connected society. MDA was formed on 1 January 2003 from the merger of the Singapore Broadcasting Authority, the Films and Publications Department, and the Singapore Film Commission. Guiding its work was the Media 21 plan, a blueprint charting the directions for growth for the media industry.
Stages: Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Government, Travel
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Yincubator
Yincubator is a boutique independent investment firm serving the global investment needs of China’s most visionary ventures, those investing in innovative technologies and prestige brands rooted in US, Europe and ASEAN . The firm’s services include, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, global market entry , and early stage investments, across a broad range of asset sectors, with a particular focus on advanced manufacturing, cleantech, consumer products, agriculture, fintech and biotech.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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Prestellar Ventures
Prestellar Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that seeks to partner with passionate entrepreneurs and disruptive startups across South Asia and ASEAN. In addition to financial investment, they provide the necessary infrastructure and guidance to help entrepreneurs shoot for the stars. Their team of proven company builders will join hands with you in all operational, strategic and financial challenges while their partner organizations will provide immense business development value. Together they can shape the future.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Social Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
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Web3 Capital
Web3 Capital is the first decentralized venture capital backed by members of the web3 community worldwide. Web3 is dedicated to providing capital support, community building, marketing exposure and development advisory to early-stage founders of web3 infrastructure projects and equal investment opportunities for all community members with aim of serving startups in all directions.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Grant, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance
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Asia Cleantech Capital Ltd
Asia Cleantech Capital Ltd is a venture capital firm that specializes in early stage investments. The company focuses on investing in clean technology projects, including renewable energy, recycling, energy efficiency, waste management, and emission reduction. Asia Cleantech Capital Ltd was founded by Ron Mahabir and is headquartered in Singappore.
Stages: Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Momentum Works
Momentum Works builds, scales and manages tech ventures across the emerging world, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia. In addition to own venture projects, Momentum Works build joint-venture with partners including established tech companies, successful corporates, and liked-minded investors. We also consult on strategy, venture financing and all areas of operations.
Stages: Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance
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RF Fund Management
RF Fund Management (瑞丰基金管理), a subsidiary of RF International Holdings, is a Monetary Authority of Singapore Registered Fund Management Company permitted to manage assets of not more than S$250 million under paragraph 5(1)(i) of the Second Schedule to the Securities & Futures (Licensing and Conduct of Business) Regulations with an institutional conscience, and a duty towards present and future generations. Our ownership ethos puts the institution above the individual, emphasises sustainability, and aligns employee and investors difference to the financial world or the community interests over economic cycles. With an investment leadership team with over 60 years of combined industry experience, we hope to ‘Redefine the Future’ of the Digital Economy in the Asset Management industry.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Asset Management, Finance, Financial Services, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Wealth Management
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Open Banking Working Group – SE Asia
Southeast Asia’s unified platform for the FIRtech community. Delivered by a regional network of innovation hubs.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Grant, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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