While all we know how challenging it is to secure funding to develop startup technology, there are investors who are always looking for portfolio companies. Here’s the list of investors who are looking for their next portfolio company, and the best part is, they actively respond to fundraising startup’s Connect requests:
1. AC Ventures
Investment: Angel / Pre Seed, Seed, Pre-Series A / Bridge, Series A
Verticals: All verticals
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Straight from AC Ventures: AC Ventures is an early-stage technology venture fund that focuses on investing in Indonesia’s digital disruptors. We leverage our industry insights, support services and global network to empower our founders to build impactful, significant and scalable businesses for Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
As an Indonesia VC, ACV primarily invests in companies with a focus on Indonesia or with the intention to win the Indonesian market. We research technology-driven business models which have demonstrated successful adoption in more mature and emerging markets such as the US, China and India to build a localised thesis for Indonesia.
At ACV we take a hands-on approach in providing support to our portfolio companies, ensuring that they are equipped with the best resources to succeed. Our portfolio’s success is our success.
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2. Antler
Investment: Angel / Pre Seed
Verticals: All / Any
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Straight from Antler: We are on a mission to fundamentally improve the world by investing in the world’s most exceptional people building the defining companies of tomorrow.
We work with founders from the earliest stages to ensure that they have a big impact and to accelerate their growth through our investment, platform and network.
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We establish a relationship as a long-term investor with our portfolio companies. We are investing in founders from around the world and across a wide range of areas from emerging sectors like robotics and AI, to sectors such as healthtech, fintech and proptech. As our portfolio companies scale, we continue to invest in them alongside top-tier VCs in the later rounds.
Investment: Series A / Series B
Verticals: All / Any
Straight from Cento Ventures: Cento Ventures (previously known as Digital Media Partners, DMP) is a venture capital firm specialised in under-invested emerging digital markets, primarily Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Since 2011.
Our investments are usually at Series A, where we lead the round. This helps us establish a solid relationship with the founder, and to influence company strategy. We only invest once a company can show that a market exists for its product and that it is ready to use extra capital to scale.
We look for founders who want to build large digital companies that are leaders in their category. In a fragmented region, such as Southeast Asia, operating across multiple countries is often essential. Our preference is for business models that are light on physical assets and where the founders have ambitious plans to scale internationally.
4. Burda Principal Investments
Investment: Series A, Series B, Series C & Above
Verticals: Automotive, Consumer, E-commerce, Education, Finance, Food & Beverage, Healthtech, Human Resources, Marketplace, Mobile, Platform, Real Estate, Sharing Economy, Software as a Service, Sports, Travel
Straight from Burda Principal Investments: BPI is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast-growing digital technology and media companies. Hubert Burda Media is one of Europe’s largest media and technology conglomerates with a strong investment track record in internet-centric businesses, since 1998.
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We have been partners of visionary entrepreneurs, leveraging Burda’s capital, brands and sector expertise, particularly in the areas of business expansion, internationalization and localization.
We are invested in a portfolio of highly successful consumer internet companies in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. In the past, Hubert Burda Media has invested in internet platforms such as Etsy, zooplus, HolidayCheck, or Xing AG.
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5. RHL Ventures
Investment: Pre-Series A / Bridge, Series A, Series B
Verticals: All / Any
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Straight from RHL Ventures: Based in Malaysia, we are a multi-family private investment firm championing growth for the best businesses in Southeast Asia.
RHL was founded in 2016 and is currently led by Rachel Lau, Raja Hamzah Abidin and Jo Jo Kong. Our firm aims to drive transformative growth in the ASEAN through investing in small and medium-sized companies in the region.
Our extensive investing, corporate advisory, and capital markets experience give us scope to add value to businesses in a variety of ways. As investors, we are looking to be long-term capital and strategic partners for businesses we invest in. As fund managers, we are on the constant lookout for outsized investment returns.
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