East Ventures

East Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2009, with offices in Singapore, Tokyo, and Jakarta. The firm specializes in seed, early-stage, and Series A investments, focusing on technology and consumer sectors, including fintech, e-commerce, and education technology, primarily in Southeast Asia. East Ventures has supported over 170 companies across the region, with notable investments in Indonesia's unicorns such as Tokopedia and Traveloka. The firm typically invests between $0.1 million and $0.5 million and has been recognized for its consistent performance, being named the most active investor in Southeast Asia. In 2018, it launched a joint venture called EV Growth, aimed at providing growth capital to startups throughout Southeast Asia. East Ventures continues to play a significant role in nurturing the startup ecosystem in the region.

Gavin Adrian

Investment Professional

David Audy

Operating Partner

Batara Eto

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Devina Halim

Principal

Sang-Uh Han

Partner

Tomoki Hirata

Principal

Wai Kit Koh

Managing Partner

Yinwei Liang

Principal

Taiga Matsuyama

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Jumpei Mouri

Director

Yoshiharu Okubo

Principal

Avina Sugiarto

Partner

Emily Tampi

Managing Director, Finance

Wesley Tay

Principal

Jordy Tenka

Investment Professional

Alda Wardhana

Principal

Zhengyi Zhu

Investment Professional

Past deals in EdTech

Creative Galileo

Series A in 2022
Creative Galileo is an Edtech startup dedicated to enhancing early childhood education through a gamified mobile application. The app provides a user-friendly interface for both children and parents, allowing for immediate engagement with games and videos. It features a parent zone that enables customization of learning topics, ensuring a personalized educational experience for each child. By integrating engaging content with beloved cartoon characters, Creative Galileo aims to make learning enjoyable. The company plans to utilize funding to scale operations, develop new products, enhance existing offerings, forge partnerships with leading animation studios, and recruit skilled talent.

MySkill

Seed Round in 2022
MySkill is an online educational platform designed to assist users in advancing their careers. The company offers a range of services, including certified e-learning programs that can be accessed anytime and anywhere, interactive boot camps, and private mentoring with industry experts. Additionally, MySkill features job discovery tools that help users identify and pursue relevant employment opportunities. By providing these digital solutions, MySkill aims to equip job seekers with the skills and knowledge necessary for career development.

Firstcard

Venture Round in 2022
Operator of a financial technology company intended to help students save money on everyday purchases. The company offers debit cards without any annual sign-up or overdraft fees, requires no minimum account balance, and offers cashback at every transaction, enabling college students to easily manage their finances via a mobile application.

Geniebook

Series A in 2021
Geniebook Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore-based company that offers an online learning platform designed to enhance students' educational experiences. Founded in 2016, the platform delivers personalized lessons through live online classes and curated worksheets tailored to each student's needs. Utilizing artificial intelligence, Geniebook identifies areas where students struggle, providing targeted questions to help them improve. Additionally, the platform generates detailed progress reports, allowing parents to monitor their child's development and assign appropriate practice materials. By focusing on individual learning challenges, Geniebook aims to foster better academic performance and build students' confidence in mastering various subjects.

T-LAB

Seed Round in 2021
T-Lab is an AI-driven international Chinese language learning platform. It offers a live course is a comprehensive study program that covers the four key teaching areas of Phonetics, Word Recognition, Contextual Understanding, and Humanities.

Mindtera

Seed Round in 2021
Mindtera is an education-focused company based in Jakarta, Indonesia, established in 2021. It leverages technology to promote personal growth through a comprehensive understanding of multiple intelligences, including Emotional, Social, Physical, and Occupational Intelligence. Mindtera provides personalized online life coaching and a range of resources designed to enhance individuals' quality of life. The platform also serves as an employee assistance tool, aiming to improve productivity and well-being within organizations. By offering assessments, coaching, and daily productivity resources, Mindtera helps businesses cultivate a more effective and sustainable workforce.

Progate

Series A in 2020
Progate is a service that you can learn programming online.

Croom College

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Croom Co., Ltd. develops an online learning platform for college students. The company’s platform, croom college, allows students to select careers. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Hacktiv8

Seed Round in 2020
Hacktiv8 is a prominent coding bootcamp in Indonesia, dedicated to transforming absolute beginners into job-ready developers. The institution offers comprehensive training programs that focus on essential skills such as HTML, CSS, and advanced JavaScript, preparing students for the demands of the tech industry. As a pioneer in the region, Hacktiv8 provides Income Share Agreements (ISA), allowing students to access education without upfront costs. Instead, students commit to sharing a portion of their future income, making quality education more accessible and reducing financial barriers. Through its innovative approach to coding education, Hacktiv8 aims to equip individuals with the skills necessary to thrive in the evolving digital landscape.

LAMILA

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Developer of a cloud platform designed to shape future work style that focuses on creativity. The company's platform converts manuals and knowledge into videos in-house, helping companies to change the way they work with videos.

Ruangguru

Series B in 2019
Ruangguru is the largest technology company in Indonesia focused on education-based services, serving over 6 million users and employing more than 150,000 teachers across 100 subject areas. Founded in 2014 by Belva Devara and Iman Usman, Ruangguru aims to enhance the quality of education in collaboration with local governments, having partnered with 32 out of 34 provincial governments and over 326 municipalities and districts in the country. The platform offers a range of services, including subscription learning videos, a private tutoring marketplace, on-demand tutoring, and online exam tryouts. It also provides an online marketplace that connects students with private tutors, covering various subjects and skills, from standardized test preparation to music and computer courses. Through its Learning Management System, Ruangguru facilitates easy access to educational materials, enabling students to track their progress and prepare effectively for exams.

Div

Venture Round in 2018
DIV operates TECH::CAMP, a programming school, a short-term intensive training course designed to turn students into engineers.

Cicil

Series A in 2018
PT Cicil Solusi Mitra Teknologi is a Jakarta-based company that has developed a financing platform aimed at supporting students in their educational pursuits. The platform facilitates education loans tailored for university students and educational institutions, addressing their specific credit needs. It assists students in completing loan applications and evaluating their credit scores to secure financing. Additionally, Cicil enables students to make installment payments for essential educational items, such as tuition fees and laptops, through various e-commerce platforms, eliminating the need for credit cards. This approach provides accessible financial solutions, helping students manage their educational expenses effectively.

Tech in Asia

Venture Round in 2017
Tech in Asia is an online technology media company based across Asia and the US. Tech in Asia was founded in August 2010 by Willis Wee. It is based in Singapore. As a crew of journalists and bloggers with a culture and passion for new ways of delivering tech and startup news, we’ve bonded together under one goal – to share with the world and their regional audiences on the latest happenings in Asia’s tech and startup scene. Tech in Asia constantly write news about technology and startups Asia. They also curate from other sources that we think are great. They’ll frequently experiment with data and charts, photos and videos. There’s no office and no printing press, no whiteboards and no J. Jonah Jamieson. With a virtual newsroom that spans many countries, they aspire to find a story, cover it, and send it out to the world within minutes. It’s unconventional, but exciting. Call it an experiment. But as with any experiment, they’ll mess up up occasionally, but always with the best of intentions. They’re learning too, and they’d love your feedback and support to become better.

Ruangguru

Series B in 2017
Ruangguru is the largest technology company in Indonesia focused on education-based services, serving over 6 million users and employing more than 150,000 teachers across 100 subject areas. Founded in 2014 by Belva Devara and Iman Usman, Ruangguru aims to enhance the quality of education in collaboration with local governments, having partnered with 32 out of 34 provincial governments and over 326 municipalities and districts in the country. The platform offers a range of services, including subscription learning videos, a private tutoring marketplace, on-demand tutoring, and online exam tryouts. It also provides an online marketplace that connects students with private tutors, covering various subjects and skills, from standardized test preparation to music and computer courses. Through its Learning Management System, Ruangguru facilitates easy access to educational materials, enabling students to track their progress and prepare effectively for exams.

Cicil

Seed Round in 2016
PT Cicil Solusi Mitra Teknologi is a Jakarta-based company that has developed a financing platform aimed at supporting students in their educational pursuits. The platform facilitates education loans tailored for university students and educational institutions, addressing their specific credit needs. It assists students in completing loan applications and evaluating their credit scores to secure financing. Additionally, Cicil enables students to make installment payments for essential educational items, such as tuition fees and laptops, through various e-commerce platforms, eliminating the need for credit cards. This approach provides accessible financial solutions, helping students manage their educational expenses effectively.

Quintal

Seed Round in 2016
Quintal is an academic portal which integrates the functionalities of Learning Management System (Academic) and Student Information System (Administrative) to serve Indonesian schools, catering National and SPK (previously known as national plus and international) schools. We serve as a data-sharing and communication platform between a school and its teachers, students and parents. Each and every role has unique features and means to share data and communicate among one another. While we start off as an LMS+SIS platform, we aim to be the backbone of Indonesian education system. Empowering schools with affordable yet effective tools and services to constantly better our education system. Our fundamental vision is to: Fully digitized national education.

SpeakBUDDY

Seed Round in 2016
SpeakBUDDY is a web / mobile app development company that believes in "creating something that shouldn't be there now, not something you've seen before". Ourselves solved the difficult English learning problems and released “A serious English conversation! "Lapping English" and "Last English Learning! Two works of “Majitan” have won the first place in the AppStore rankings.

Infratop

Venture Round in 2016
Infratop Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan, specializes in education programming and human resources. The company provides a range of services including a programming boot camp designed for graduates, an agent service that assists engineers in career transitions, and a media service tailored for beginners in programming. Infratop aims to empower individuals by enhancing their skills and providing career support, thereby facilitating personal and professional growth. Their educational offerings utilize a blended learning approach that combines online lessons with face-to-face instruction, ensuring effective skill development. As a subsidiary of DMM.com LLC since November 2019, Infratop continues to focus on creating opportunities for students to maximize their potential and achieve their career aspirations.

Progate

Seed Round in 2015
Progate is a service that you can learn programming online.

Tech in Asia

Series C in 2015
Tech in Asia is an online technology media company based across Asia and the US. Tech in Asia was founded in August 2010 by Willis Wee. It is based in Singapore. As a crew of journalists and bloggers with a culture and passion for new ways of delivering tech and startup news, we’ve bonded together under one goal – to share with the world and their regional audiences on the latest happenings in Asia’s tech and startup scene. Tech in Asia constantly write news about technology and startups Asia. They also curate from other sources that we think are great. They’ll frequently experiment with data and charts, photos and videos. There’s no office and no printing press, no whiteboards and no J. Jonah Jamieson. With a virtual newsroom that spans many countries, they aspire to find a story, cover it, and send it out to the world within minutes. It’s unconventional, but exciting. Call it an experiment. But as with any experiment, they’ll mess up up occasionally, but always with the best of intentions. They’re learning too, and they’d love your feedback and support to become better.

Elephantech

Seed Round in 2015
Elephantech Inc., founded in January 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan, focuses on innovating the manufacturing of electronic circuits. The company seeks to revolutionize this field by employing inkjet printing technology, which allows for the precise application of metal only where needed, in contrast to traditional photolithography methods that waste materials and increase costs. This novel approach not only reduces the quantity of materials used but also minimizes the number of manufacturing processes, resulting in a significant cost reduction of up to 80% for prototype production. Elephantech's technology is particularly advantageous for on-demand manufacturing, making it an appealing option for small-batch production without the need for substantial initial investment. With a commitment to enhancing global manufacturing capabilities, Elephantech aims to lead the industry with its advanced techniques for producing printed wiring boards.

School With

Venture Round in 2014
School With Inc. is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in providing an online review platform for language study programs. Founded in 2013, the company focuses on planning, developing, and operating a word-of-mouth information site aimed at prospective students interested in studying abroad. By leveraging technology, School With offers comprehensive information and reviews on various language studies worldwide, empowering users to make informed decisions about their educational journeys. The platform serves as a valuable resource for individuals looking to navigate the complexities of studying language in foreign countries.

Progate

Seed Round in 2014
Progate is a service that you can learn programming online.

Willfu

Seed Round in 2014
Willfu is an education-focused platform that provides a range of courses centered on business operations and entrepreneurship. It leverages technology to deliver training and educational services aimed at supporting business development. In addition to its courses, Willfu offers market research services to assist clients in launching and sustaining their businesses. The platform is designed to equip individuals and organizations with the necessary skills and knowledge to thrive in the competitive business landscape.

Ruangguru

Seed Round in 2014
Ruangguru is the largest technology company in Indonesia focused on education-based services, serving over 6 million users and employing more than 150,000 teachers across 100 subject areas. Founded in 2014 by Belva Devara and Iman Usman, Ruangguru aims to enhance the quality of education in collaboration with local governments, having partnered with 32 out of 34 provincial governments and over 326 municipalities and districts in the country. The platform offers a range of services, including subscription learning videos, a private tutoring marketplace, on-demand tutoring, and online exam tryouts. It also provides an online marketplace that connects students with private tutors, covering various subjects and skills, from standardized test preparation to music and computer courses. Through its Learning Management System, Ruangguru facilitates easy access to educational materials, enabling students to track their progress and prepare effectively for exams.

OKpanda

Seed Round in 2014
OKpanda Inc. operates a mobile-based English learning application that combines social interaction and gaming elements to facilitate language acquisition. The platform offers live video lessons, instant messaging, and a comprehensive digital curriculum, allowing users to engage in interactive conversations with qualified English teachers. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tokyo and Berlin, OKpanda targets the multi-billion dollar English learning market in Asia, particularly focusing on Japan. This market is characterized by poor learning outcomes and a heavy reliance on traditional language schools. By providing personalized learning paths and affordable online instruction, OKpanda aims to enhance the learning experience and prevent students from giving up, addressing a common obstacle faced by learners in the field.

Life is Tech

Venture Round in 2014
Life is Tech is a developer of education platform intended for elementary and junior high school students.The company's platform organizes coding and IT camps, collaborating with local governments and running several schemes such as Tech for Local, Be Startup, Code Girls and Tech for Teachers, enabling students to improve their coding skills and creativity

Techouse

Seed Round in 2014
Techouse Inc. is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in internet media and website service consulting. Founded on January 10, 2012, it provides information technology consulting services, focusing particularly on collaboration with human resources teams within businesses. Through its expertise, Techouse Inc. aims to enhance digital strategies and optimize online presence for its clients.

Tech in Asia

Series B in 2013
Tech in Asia is an online technology media company based across Asia and the US. Tech in Asia was founded in August 2010 by Willis Wee. It is based in Singapore. As a crew of journalists and bloggers with a culture and passion for new ways of delivering tech and startup news, we’ve bonded together under one goal – to share with the world and their regional audiences on the latest happenings in Asia’s tech and startup scene. Tech in Asia constantly write news about technology and startups Asia. They also curate from other sources that we think are great. They’ll frequently experiment with data and charts, photos and videos. There’s no office and no printing press, no whiteboards and no J. Jonah Jamieson. With a virtual newsroom that spans many countries, they aspire to find a story, cover it, and send it out to the world within minutes. It’s unconventional, but exciting. Call it an experiment. But as with any experiment, they’ll mess up up occasionally, but always with the best of intentions. They’re learning too, and they’d love your feedback and support to become better.

Tech in Asia

Seed Round in 2011
Tech in Asia is an online technology media company based across Asia and the US. Tech in Asia was founded in August 2010 by Willis Wee. It is based in Singapore. As a crew of journalists and bloggers with a culture and passion for new ways of delivering tech and startup news, we’ve bonded together under one goal – to share with the world and their regional audiences on the latest happenings in Asia’s tech and startup scene. Tech in Asia constantly write news about technology and startups Asia. They also curate from other sources that we think are great. They’ll frequently experiment with data and charts, photos and videos. There’s no office and no printing press, no whiteboards and no J. Jonah Jamieson. With a virtual newsroom that spans many countries, they aspire to find a story, cover it, and send it out to the world within minutes. It’s unconventional, but exciting. Call it an experiment. But as with any experiment, they’ll mess up up occasionally, but always with the best of intentions. They’re learning too, and they’d love your feedback and support to become better.
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