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 GovTech

Playground

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Playground is a Singapore-based platform focused on Web3 gaming and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It aims to address the challenges of information access within these rapidly evolving sectors. The platform allows users to explore various trusted entertainment projects interactively, providing updates and milestones for both new and existing offerings. By fostering engagement with different ecosystems and communities, Playground facilitates meaningful discussions and debates in a neutral environment, enhancing the user experience in the Web3 landscape.

Evo

Seed Round in 2022
EVO designs and develops social commerce software that help brands and merchants with back-office operations, such as managing orders, payments, and reconciliation. The company's solution provides services, such as creating deals, uploading inventory, and selling products on different social commerce platforms. EVO was founded in 2020 and is based in Singapore, Singapore.

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.

Nat

Seed Round in 2022
nat, a data company, is changing the gas station industry by providing gas delivery app and service in Japan. nat is also providing advisory service in data strategy and data analysis.

StaffAny

Series A in 2022
StaffAny Pte Ltd is a Singapore-based company that specializes in workforce management software solutions, particularly for businesses employing hourly workers. Founded in 2018, StaffAny offers a cloud-based platform that includes features such as scheduling, an onsite time clock, smart timesheets, leave applications, and real-time reporting. The software is designed to enhance the connection between human resources and operational management, thereby improving the overall efficiency of workforce management.

Civichat

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of guide tool designed to offer automatically recommend the subsidy suitable for an individual. The company's tool uses the national application system to help users find public welfare services such as scholarships, support for pregnancy and childrearing, and grants, enabling customers to find appropriate subsidy policies for themselves.

Advotics

Venture Round in 2021
Advotics is a company that develops a cloud-based platform aimed at digitizing supply chain activities for stakeholders involved in offline field, trade, and distribution operations. Founded in 2016 and based in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia, the platform facilitates the management and tracking of sales and distribution, enabling retailers to implement marketing campaigns and access real-time data through mobile technology. Advotics also offers product tracking solutions that utilize digital identities, such as QR codes embedded in packaging, to safeguard against counterfeiting and monitor product movement and inventory. The platform enhances operational efficiency by providing tools for workforce management, warehouse management, advocate relationship management, and delivery planning, ultimately improving visibility into inventory levels and overall business performance.

Lanturn

Seed Round in 2020
Lanturn provides one-stop online corporate services.

99.co

Series B in 2019
99 Pte Ltd operates www.99.co, a website to browse, post, import, and manage properties. Its website allows users to buy, rent, and sale houses, condominiums, apartments, and HDBs in Singapore. The company also offers its services through mobile applications. 99 Pte Ltd was founded in 2013 and is based in Singapore.

Advotics

Seed Round in 2019
Advotics is a company that develops a cloud-based platform aimed at digitizing supply chain activities for stakeholders involved in offline field, trade, and distribution operations. Founded in 2016 and based in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia, the platform facilitates the management and tracking of sales and distribution, enabling retailers to implement marketing campaigns and access real-time data through mobile technology. Advotics also offers product tracking solutions that utilize digital identities, such as QR codes embedded in packaging, to safeguard against counterfeiting and monitor product movement and inventory. The platform enhances operational efficiency by providing tools for workforce management, warehouse management, advocate relationship management, and delivery planning, ultimately improving visibility into inventory levels and overall business performance.

Eatsy

Seed Round in 2019
Eatsy Pte. Ltd., headquartered in Singapore, operates as a restaurant technology company focused on streamlining restaurant operations and enhancing customer retention. Through its Diners App, the company offers a platform that allows diners to book meals for dine-in or take-away, facilitating order-ahead and payment at local eateries and coffee shops. This feature enables users to have their orders ready for pick-up, saving time and avoiding long queues. Additionally, diners benefit from cashback rewards and personalized in-app promotions from their favorite restaurants, further incentivizing in-dining experiences. Eatsy Technologies is supported by Quest Ventures, a venture fund dedicated to technology companies.

Rovo

Seed Round in 2018
Rovo Pte Ltd. is a sports technology company based in Singapore, founded in 2017. The company offers an application that facilitates the connection between players and the organization of games. By leveraging online forums and social media groups, Rovo enables users to create personal profiles, discover fellow players and coaches in their area, and engage with individuals who share similar interests. This platform not only helps users find partners for their sporting activities but also empowers experienced players and amateur coaches to assist others in enhancing their skills.

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.

Kaodim Group

Series B in 2017
Kaodim Group is a leading service marketplace in Southeast Asia, headquartered in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Established in 2014, the company operates platforms in Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Indonesia, connecting users with verified service professionals for a variety of tasks. The services offered include plumbing, electrical work, photography, personal training, and more, catering to needs in homes, events, health and fitness, automotive, and office settings. Through its mobile and web applications, Kaodim facilitates the hiring process by providing customized quotations, detailed service provider profiles, and user reviews, ensuring that customers can make informed decisions when selecting a service provider. By linking local communities with trustworthy professionals, Kaodim aims to enhance the overall service experience in the region.

Beer and Tech

Series A in 2017
Beer and Tech Inc. operates an e-commerce website to sell plants and flowers. The company also offers flower delivery services. Beer and Tech Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Saitama, Japan.

99.co

Series A in 2017
99 Pte Ltd operates www.99.co, a website to browse, post, import, and manage properties. Its website allows users to buy, rent, and sale houses, condominiums, apartments, and HDBs in Singapore. The company also offers its services through mobile applications. 99 Pte Ltd was founded in 2013 and is based in Singapore.

Glints

Series A in 2016
Glints Intern Pte Ltd is a Singapore-based online platform that facilitates internship and graduate job opportunities. Established in 2013, Glints connects young professionals with potential employers by enabling companies to post job listings, review applications, and schedule interviews. The platform covers a wide range of sectors, including administrative, consulting, finance, engineering, and design. Glints aims to bridge the gap between education and employment by helping youth identify the skills needed for various careers. It matches them with suitable jobs, internships, and courses, thereby allowing young individuals to discover their interests and develop relevant skills. This approach not only assists job seekers in finding opportunities but also helps employers attract the right talent more effectively.

Loket

Series A in 2016
PT Global Loket Sejahtera operates an event management platform that provides a comprehensive suite of services for ticketing and registration. The platform is designed to assist event organizers in managing various types of events, including concerts, festivals, sports, exhibitions, and conferences. Key features include a ticketing system, crew access monitoring, RFID technology, secure ticketing, and audience profiling services. Loket enables users to personalize their branding and sell tickets directly through their websites, enhancing revenue opportunities for events. The company is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, and has been a subsidiary of PT Go-Jek Indonesia since 2017.

BizReach

Series A in 2016
Launch pad for a wide array of HR Tech services, which has focused on revolutionizing the world’s second largest Japanese HR services industry thru technology enabled business models. BizReach: Japan's premier online career networking service, which has transformed the Japanese business community in allowing career-driven executives to freely share and directly connect with talent-seeking employers and recruiters.Often referred to as the “LinkedIn of Japan” in the HR industry, the service has allowed over half a million executives to explore their career options by sharing their resume information in a closed online database shared amongst only employers and recruiters. The service has disrupted the executive search (recruitment) market by becoming a cloud-based talent sourcing platform for employers to recruit and hire business executives directly. CareerTrek: The service was built on the needs of BizReach clients (employers) wanting to recruit and hire “young” professionals (20s and early 30s) more efficiently thru direct sourcing methods. Hence, the service is branded and targeted to become an online career networking service connecting young professional jobseekers and employers. Together with BizReach, the 2 cloud-based talent sourcing platforms deliver similar results to what Linkedin delivers to enterprise clients outside of Japan. An added feature of CareerTrek due to its focus on a younger audience is its recommendation engine, which supports jobseekers in not only proactively finding jobs that they think fit them, but being introduced to positions that other similar users find interesting. Stanby: Stanby is a job search engine, which aggregates job postings from hundreds of third-party job sites. This “Google for Jobs” service enables jobseekers to search from over 4 million jobs posted online from all over the country in just one search. Stanby ATS is a service provided to employers, and is a cloud-based applicant tracking system for employers, and is free to use. Employers can create job postings, source applicants and track applicants, together functioning as a central platform for all recruitment efforts. Stanby thrives to bring every job opening to the online world, and become the largest original source of hiring information.

Kaodim Group

Series A in 2015
Kaodim Group is a leading service marketplace in Southeast Asia, headquartered in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Established in 2014, the company operates platforms in Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Indonesia, connecting users with verified service professionals for a variety of tasks. The services offered include plumbing, electrical work, photography, personal training, and more, catering to needs in homes, events, health and fitness, automotive, and office settings. Through its mobile and web applications, Kaodim facilitates the hiring process by providing customized quotations, detailed service provider profiles, and user reviews, ensuring that customers can make informed decisions when selecting a service provider. By linking local communities with trustworthy professionals, Kaodim aims to enhance the overall service experience in the region.

Adskom

Series A in 2015
Adskom Pte. Ltd. is an advertising technology company based in Singapore, with additional offices in Jakarta, Indonesia, Palo Alto, California, and Noida, India. Founded in 2013, the company specializes in providing digital advertising solutions tailored for the ASEAN market. Adskom develops programmatic advertising platforms designed to meet the inventory optimization needs of publishers, enhance campaign performance for advertisers, and optimize budget spending for ad buyers. The company's mission is to empower the digital advertising industry through effective technology and insightful business services.

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.

Kaodim Group

Seed Round in 2015
Kaodim Group is a leading service marketplace in Southeast Asia, headquartered in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Established in 2014, the company operates platforms in Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Indonesia, connecting users with verified service professionals for a variety of tasks. The services offered include plumbing, electrical work, photography, personal training, and more, catering to needs in homes, events, health and fitness, automotive, and office settings. Through its mobile and web applications, Kaodim facilitates the hiring process by providing customized quotations, detailed service provider profiles, and user reviews, ensuring that customers can make informed decisions when selecting a service provider. By linking local communities with trustworthy professionals, Kaodim aims to enhance the overall service experience in the region.

Glints

Seed Round in 2015
Glints Intern Pte Ltd is a Singapore-based online platform that facilitates internship and graduate job opportunities. Established in 2013, Glints connects young professionals with potential employers by enabling companies to post job listings, review applications, and schedule interviews. The platform covers a wide range of sectors, including administrative, consulting, finance, engineering, and design. Glints aims to bridge the gap between education and employment by helping youth identify the skills needed for various careers. It matches them with suitable jobs, internships, and courses, thereby allowing young individuals to discover their interests and develop relevant skills. This approach not only assists job seekers in finding opportunities but also helps employers attract the right talent more effectively.

Shelfy

Venture Round in 2014
Shelfy, Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan, operates an online platform designed for interior design companies. The platform serves as a web service that facilitates the creation, management, and operation of safety documents at construction sites. It aims to promote effective connections between clients seeking to open or renovate their spaces and specialized contractors, thereby enhancing productivity and efficiency within the construction industry. By fostering a competitive environment, Shelfy seeks to improve user satisfaction and streamline processes for businesses and industry stakeholders.

Adskom

Seed Round in 2014
Adskom Pte. Ltd. is an advertising technology company based in Singapore, with additional offices in Jakarta, Indonesia, Palo Alto, California, and Noida, India. Founded in 2013, the company specializes in providing digital advertising solutions tailored for the ASEAN market. Adskom develops programmatic advertising platforms designed to meet the inventory optimization needs of publishers, enhance campaign performance for advertisers, and optimize budget spending for ad buyers. The company's mission is to empower the digital advertising industry through effective technology and insightful business services.

Life is Tech

Venture Round in 2014
Life is Tech, Inc. is an educational organization based in Tokyo, Japan, that specializes in IT boot camps for elementary and junior high school students. Founded on July 6, 2010, the company offers programs focused on mobile application development, game development, programming, and movie-making. The curriculum is designed to teach students the latest IT technologies and foster skills in creativity and design, aiming to empower them with the ability to create and innovate in the digital space. By engaging students in hands-on learning experiences, Life is Tech encourages a deep understanding of the "art of making" and equips them with valuable technical skills for the future.

Teleborder

Seed Round in 2014
Teleborder helps companies hire, manage and retain international employees. Our software platform enables companies to manage immigration, reporting, and compliance all in one place, and our network of providers deliver related services through our platform. Our customers range from small startups to large corporations, and our investors include Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, IDG, and others.

99.co

Seed Round in 2014
99 Pte Ltd operates www.99.co, a website to browse, post, import, and manage properties. Its website allows users to buy, rent, and sale houses, condominiums, apartments, and HDBs in Singapore. The company also offers its services through mobile applications. 99 Pte Ltd was founded in 2013 and is based in Singapore.

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.

Teleborder

Seed Round in 2013
Teleborder helps companies hire, manage and retain international employees. Our software platform enables companies to manage immigration, reporting, and compliance all in one place, and our network of providers deliver related services through our platform. Our customers range from small startups to large corporations, and our investors include Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, IDG, and others.

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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