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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture 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 | ||
Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India | Early Stage Venture | Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia |
At SeedRound we track over 200,000 investors and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these firms. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, LP’s and funding organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top Finance Early Stage Venture 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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Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India
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, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and other emerging hubs of innovation in this region. Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India collaborates with a network of venture funds across US, China and Israel, under the auspices of Vertex Holdings, providing local knowledge with global perspective.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
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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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Monk’s Hill Ventures
Founded in 2014 by entrepreneurs Peng T. Ong and Kuo-Yi Lim, Monk’s Hill Ventures (‘MHV’) is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology startups in Southeast Asia.
Backed by institutional investors and family offices worldwide, MHV works with great entrepreneurs to use technology to improve the lives of millions of people in the region.
We take a first-principles approach in how we operate and make decisions at MHV. We break down ideas and business models to understand the fundamentals.
Since our founding in 2014, Monk’s Hill Ventures has invested in more than 40 fast-growing startups spanning multiple business models and industry verticals.
We look to work with founders in the early stages of the development of their businesses, and typically invest at the pre-Series A and Series A stages. We are entrepreneurs backing entrepreneurs. This runs in our DNA.
With the utmost respect for the founder, the firm is led by entrepreneurs and operators, CEOs, and CTOs of successful tech companies both in Asia and in Silicon Valley.
Our footprint spans across Southeast Asia with on-the-ground teams in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand.
Our network comprises entrepreneurs, investors, former CEOs, engineers, academics, media and a team of operating advisors with strong domain expertise from cybersecurity, data science, financial services, to healthcare, to provide our founders with the right access and advice as they scale and build.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, 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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Signum Capital
They are a Singapore-based firm that exclusively consults in Blockchain-enabled companies. Their mission is to realize the future of Blockchain economy by consulting in game changing projects and companies. They participate in Pre-sale stages of Token Generation Events and Equity investments.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Blockchain, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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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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Anthill Ventures
Anthill Ventures is a Speed Scaling Ecosystem that helps early growth global startups in Urbantech & Lifestyle, Healthtech & Mediatech from Pre-Series A stage to go to Series ‘A’ & ‘B’ in 1-2 years through India & SEA Market Access by providing Scale up Capital Funding, Market Access Platform & Venture Returns Maximization Technology
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Integra Partners
Integra Partners caters to the financial services industry with capital, advisory service, and opportunities to connect with investors. Integra Partners was founded by Christiaan Kaptein and Jinesh Patel in July 2015. It is based in Singapore.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, 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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Tembusu Partners
Established in 2006, Tembusu Partners is a boutique private equity firm in Singapore dedicated to supporting high growth ventures across Emerging Asia. Leveraging our strategic location at the heart of Asia, we specialise in venture and growth-stage investments in fast-growing markets of Greater China, India, and Southeast Asia. Our deep understanding of markets, investment cycles and complex cultural nuances grants us clarity and insight in making our investments. We manage capital from our investors and partners across Asia, Europe, and America. To date, we have completed more than S$300 million worth of private equity transactions. Tembusu invests in disruptive technology that we believe have strong potential to drive innovation in key focus sectors such as financial and business services, consumer services, education and healthcare. With an advisory board and investment committee comprising well-connected corporate leaders and industry veterans ranging from technology to business services, we are committed to supporting founders and companies in their global growth.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Blockchain, eSports, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Information Technology
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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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Northstar Group
The Northstar Group is a Singapore headquartered private equity firm managing more than US$2.5 billion in committed equity capital dedicated to investing in growth companies in Indonesia and to a lesser extent, other countries in Southeast Asia. The Northstar Group has a solid track record of actively growing the businesses of its investee companies over its investment horizon. Since its founding in 2003, the Northstar Group has raised five private equity funds and invested in more than 40 companies across the banking, insurance, retail, technology, telecom, and agribusiness sectors. The Northstar Group has invested over US$3.0 billion with its co-investors in the Southeast Asian region.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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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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Asia Partners Fund Management
Asia Partners is a growth equity firm focusing on investments in technology and technology-enabled companies that are transforming Southeast Asia’s economy.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Funding Platform
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BlueRed Partners
BlueRed Partners is a venture capital fund that invests in the e-commerce, finance, healthcare, agriculture, technology, and retail sectors. The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in Singapore.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Health Care, Software, Venture Capital
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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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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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RF International Holdings
RF International Holdings (瑞丰国际控股), an international financial group focusing in the Digital Economy that includes (i.) RF Fund Management (瑞丰基金管理), a Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) (新加坡金融管理局) Registered Fund Management Company permitted to manage assets of not more than S$250 million where he is a Director & (ii.) a US$3 million private equity investment as a critical shareholder after SGX & Heliconia Capital Management (wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings) in the world first MAS regulated platform for issuance, custody & trading of digitised securities using blockchain & smart contract; iSTOX.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Consulting, Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology
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The Origin Capital
Origin Capital is an investment entity focused on blockchain enabled technologies. Based in Singapore and Silicon Valley, the firm has invested in blockchain companies since late 2016, and participates in both equity and tokensale events. Having built strong relationships with entrepreneurs, top investors, and ecosystem leaders, Origin Capital helps startups forge strategic partnerships and brings industry-specific resources to it’s portfolio companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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DM Partners Asia
DM Partners was established as a single family office in 2004. DMP is headquartered in Singapore. DMP concentrates on Global Macro trading and alternative investments with a particular focus on proprietary in house research and direct investment in early stage Silicon Valley technology companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Finance
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Stack Funds
Stack is a Monetary Authority of Singapore-regulated platform bridging the old world economy with the emerging digital assets space. Partnering with best-in-class financial service providers, Stack provides accredited investors and traditional financiers with streamlined, secure, and simple ways to capture the opportunities presented by digital assets. As the first to launch an institutional-grade digital asset index fund in Asia, Stack structures the delivery of its products to the highest degree of security, flexibility and compliance. Its services bring investors ease of mind with fully-insured custody and the familiarity of a traditional investment vehicle. Stack represents the coming of age for investments in digital assets and the evolution of traditional wealth management services. The company is headquartered in Singapore.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Secondary Market
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, Asia
Industries: Asset Management, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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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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