East Ventures

East Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2009, headquartered in Tokyo with offices in Singapore and Indonesia. It operates as a sector-agnostic investor, providing multi-stage capital from seed to growth for technology startups across Southeast Asia. The firm has backed more than 300 companies in the region, including notable names such as Tokopedia, Traveloka, Ruangguru, and Xendit, and focuses on early-stage technology companies to drive regional growth. East Ventures emphasizes active involvement in the Indonesian and broader Southeast Asian ecosystems and is recognized for its long-standing commitment to responsible investing, having signed the Principles for Responsible Investment. The firm combines investment with guidance and ESG-aligned practices to support sustainable development of the regional tech sector.

Gavin Adrian

Investment Professional

David Audy

Operating Partner

Willson Cuaca

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Batara Eto

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Devina Halim

Principal

Past deals in Restaurants

Runchise

Seed Round in 2024
Runchise develops an integrated restaurant management system designed to enhance operational efficiency and profitability. Its platform offers end-to-end user-centric ecosystem management, Point of Sale (POS) systems, and online ordering channels, enabling clients to expand business reach and manage outlets more directly through a single platform.

UENA

Venture Round in 2023
Uena is a company focused on providing affordable food and beverage options aimed at reducing overall food expenses, thereby increasing discretionary income for its customers. It offers a streamlined online platform where users can access a consolidated menu featuring popular everyday food items. Customers can conveniently order their meals through WhatsApp, facilitating an efficient and user-friendly ordering experience. By delivering essential daily food necessities at competitive prices, Uena aims to enhance the financial flexibility of its clientele, allowing them to allocate their resources toward other priorities.

Runchise

Seed Round in 2022
Runchise develops an integrated restaurant management system designed to enhance operational efficiency and profitability. Its platform offers end-to-end user-centric ecosystem management, Point of Sale (POS) systems, and online ordering channels, enabling clients to expand business reach and manage outlets more directly through a single platform.

UENA

Seed Round in 2022
Uena is a company focused on providing affordable food and beverage options aimed at reducing overall food expenses, thereby increasing discretionary income for its customers. It offers a streamlined online platform where users can access a consolidated menu featuring popular everyday food items. Customers can conveniently order their meals through WhatsApp, facilitating an efficient and user-friendly ordering experience. By delivering essential daily food necessities at competitive prices, Uena aims to enhance the financial flexibility of its clientele, allowing them to allocate their resources toward other priorities.

Ismaya Group

Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2003, Ismaya Group aims to lead the global lifestyle and hospitality industry by consistently delivering exceptional customer experiences. The company creates original concepts for dining, entertainment, and hospitality sectors across Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and internationally.

FoodMarketHub

Series A in 2021
FoodMarketHub operates a procurement and inventory management platform designed to assist restaurants in controlling their purchasing processes. By leveraging big data and artificial intelligence, the company enhances restaurant procurement and food cost management. Its comprehensive solution covers all aspects of the restaurant supply chain, from the restaurant outlet and central kitchen to warehouses and suppliers. Key features include central kitchen management, integration with accounting and point-of-sale systems, notifications, and effective inventory management. This enables clients to seamlessly manage the entire value chain from the farm to the restaurant, ultimately lowering food costs and improving operational efficiency. FoodMarketHub's services are currently available in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and Singapore.

Tacoms

Venture Round in 2021
CAMEL is a restaurant management software firm that operates in managing orders from numerous ordering sources. This service allows you to handle several delivery and takeout services on a single terminal, from ordering to totalling.

AccordX

Seed Round in 2020
AccordX is a platform that allows individuals to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens and sell food by online delivery.

X Kitchen

Seed Round in 2019
X Kitchen is a Tokyo-based operator of cloud kitchen and ghost kitchen networks founded in 2019. The company enables the deployment of ghost restaurants within existing dining venues in partnership with local operators and influencers to build a brand in the delivery ecosystem. It runs directly managed stores to verify sales and operations and uses a networked cloud kitchen model where orders are prepared at a central location and delivered via optimized routing, improving cuisine quality and delivery efficiency. This approach lowers operating costs for existing restaurants and independent chefs by enabling them to run their businesses with shared infrastructure. By connecting restaurants, influencers, and other brands, X Kitchen aims to expand its reach in the delivery space and provide scalable, low-friction kitchen capacity for partners.

AccordX

Venture Round in 2019
AccordX is a platform that allows individuals to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens and sell food by online delivery.

Eatsy Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
Eatsy Technologies operates as a restaurant technology company. The company helps restaurants to simplify their operations and retain their in-dining customers, in a single platform. Diners receive cashback when they order and pay in restaurant with the Diners App, while enjoying personalized in-app promos from their favorite restaurants. Eatsy Technologies is backed by Quest Ventures, a venture fund for technology companies.

TripBox Japan

Venture Round in 2017
TripBox Japan is a Tokyo-based company that has developed a mobile application designed to help users find restaurants and drinking establishments. The app allows users to search for dining options using visual information, such as pictures of the restaurant's interior, exterior, and meals shared on social media platforms. This innovative approach enables customers to discover restaurants that appeal to them while browsing through their social media feeds. TripBox Japan aims to deliver information of consistent quality, helping users access reliable dining recommendations regardless of their location.

New Action

Seed Round in 2017
New Action is a company that specializes in providing food ingredients and online food delivery services, aimed at helping consumers create restaurant-quality meals at home. It offers a range of carefully selected food constituents and seasonings, along with full-scale recipes crafted by professional chefs. By combining high-quality ingredients with easy-to-follow instructions, New Action enables food enthusiasts to prepare a variety of cuisines, enhancing their cooking experience and meal enjoyment. Additionally, the company provides web marketing services, further supporting its mission to connect consumers with the culinary world.

Tasty Table

Seed Round in 2017
Tasty Table is a set of recipes written exclusively for Tasty Table by professional chefs and cooks and also provides a kit for cooking.

Pop Meals

Seed Round in 2017
Founded in 2021, Pop Meals is an innovative food delivery service that leverages artificial intelligence for logistics and cooking automation. It combines centralized production with customer data and machine learning to offer affordable, high-quality meals delivered at industry-low costs.

BrightTable

Seed Round in 2016
BrightTable, Inc. is a Tokyo-based company that develops and operates the gourmet Q&A application known as Pecotter. Founded in February 2012, BrightTable provides a gourmet concierge app designed to streamline the table reservation process for users. The application allows customers to input details such as the restaurant name, date, time, and party size, after which it facilitates the reservation by contacting the restaurant directly. This service aims to enhance the dining experience for food enthusiasts and socialites by making restaurant reservations convenient and hassle-free.
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