Gobi Partners

Gobi Partners is the most interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital firm with US$1.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, the firm supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets. Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 15 funds to date, invested in over 350 startups and nurtured 10 unicorns. Gobi has grown to 15 locations across key markets in Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Surabaya. As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Gobi Partners is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption to ensure long-term value creation and sustainability across our portfolio.

Wing Hu

Partner

Filippo Huang

CFO

Don Jiang

Partner

Kay-Mok Ku

Managing Partner

Leo Liu

Venture Partner

Thomas Tsao

Co-Founder

Lawrence Tse

Partner

Cindy Zhang

Senior Investment Director

Michael Zhu

Partner

Arya Putra Ketut Masagung

Venture Partner

Past deals in Malaysia

Funding Societies

Venture Round in 2025
Funding Societies is a digital financing company that specializes in providing loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through its online platform. This platform connects individual and institutional investors with SMEs in need of financing, allowing these businesses to secure funds quickly and efficiently, often avoiding the lengthy processes associated with traditional banks. Operating in several Southeast Asian countries, including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand, Funding Societies offers a range of flexible financing options such as microloans, term loans, and invoice financing. The company employs advanced credit scoring and risk assessment models to evaluate the creditworthiness of borrowers, helping SMEs address urgent cash flow needs and support their growth objectives.

Lapasar.com

Venture Round in 2024
Lapasar.com operates as a B2B marketplace that connects corporate buyers with suppliers throughout Malaysia. The platform offers integrated procurement tools, enhancing corporate governance while streamlining the purchasing process. By utilizing e-procurement features, Lapasar.com facilitates efficient workflow, transaction management, and document management for businesses. This design helps companies achieve cost savings, improve operational efficiency, and enhance transparency, all while reducing procurement timelines and boosting sales.

Ejen2u

Seed Round in 2023
Ejen2u is a reseller ecosystem provider focused on enhancing income opportunities for businesses and resellers. The company has developed a cloud-based agent management platform that facilitates the management of stockists, agents, and dropshippers. This integrated and data-driven platform streamlines product ordering processes, offers comprehensive reporting, and features systems for managing commissions and rewards. Additionally, it provides databases and performance monitoring tools, all aimed at improving productivity and profitability for its users. Ejen2u has gained recognition in the startup community, achieving accolades such as being a Top 30 startup in the Global Accelerator Programme and a participant in various notable accelerator programs in Malaysia.

Carsome

Venture Round in 2023
Carsome is an online platform that simplifies the process of selling used cars for individuals and businesses. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded its operations to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Carsome's services include vehicle inspection, valuation, and a bidding system that connects sellers directly with dealers, allowing for a quick and efficient sale, often within a day. The platform also manages logistics and ownership transfers, ensuring a seamless experience for customers. In addition to selling cars, Carsome offers a curated selection of pre-owned vehicles for buyers. Overall, Carsome aims to provide a hassle-free and transparent car selling and buying experience.

PitchIN

Venture Round in 2023
pitchIN could be described as Malaysia's national crowdfunding platform. Since inception in 2012, the pitchIN rewards venture has become the most successful rewards crowdfunding platform in South East Asia. It holds records for projects that raised the most funds and for the most number of backers for a single project. It has also successfully executed a slew of groundbreaking crowdfunding projects such as the first ever Indie festival in Penang, TAPAUfest, on-demand movies Movie GoGo project, the pitchIN-MaGIC Challenge, MDeC’s social project to assist the flood victims in East Malaysia, TeeSomethingNice, the tee-shirt project in celebration of Hari Malaysia and Merdeka 2014 and helped to secure a permanent place for Wok It, a Malaysian mobile kitchen that serves quick and customised meals to raise finances to build their kitchen and to set up a permanent home.

Carsome

Series D in 2021
Carsome is an online platform that simplifies the process of selling used cars for individuals and businesses. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded its operations to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Carsome's services include vehicle inspection, valuation, and a bidding system that connects sellers directly with dealers, allowing for a quick and efficient sale, often within a day. The platform also manages logistics and ownership transfers, ensuring a seamless experience for customers. In addition to selling cars, Carsome offers a curated selection of pre-owned vehicles for buyers. Overall, Carsome aims to provide a hassle-free and transparent car selling and buying experience.

Carsome

Series C in 2019
Carsome is an online platform that simplifies the process of selling used cars for individuals and businesses. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded its operations to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Carsome's services include vehicle inspection, valuation, and a bidding system that connects sellers directly with dealers, allowing for a quick and efficient sale, often within a day. The platform also manages logistics and ownership transfers, ensuring a seamless experience for customers. In addition to selling cars, Carsome offers a curated selection of pre-owned vehicles for buyers. Overall, Carsome aims to provide a hassle-free and transparent car selling and buying experience.

Carsome

Series B in 2018
Carsome is an online platform that simplifies the process of selling used cars for individuals and businesses. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded its operations to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Carsome's services include vehicle inspection, valuation, and a bidding system that connects sellers directly with dealers, allowing for a quick and efficient sale, often within a day. The platform also manages logistics and ownership transfers, ensuring a seamless experience for customers. In addition to selling cars, Carsome offers a curated selection of pre-owned vehicles for buyers. Overall, Carsome aims to provide a hassle-free and transparent car selling and buying experience.

Zoom

Seed Round in 2018
Zoom connects businesses, online e-commerce and brick & mortar retailers to on demand same day delivery specialists, ensuring fast and seamless delivery. Zoom ensures ease of use with its platform as well as acting as a trusted business partner to businesses across Malaysia.

Carsome

Series B in 2017
Carsome is an online platform that simplifies the process of selling used cars for individuals and businesses. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded its operations to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Carsome's services include vehicle inspection, valuation, and a bidding system that connects sellers directly with dealers, allowing for a quick and efficient sale, often within a day. The platform also manages logistics and ownership transfers, ensuring a seamless experience for customers. In addition to selling cars, Carsome offers a curated selection of pre-owned vehicles for buyers. Overall, Carsome aims to provide a hassle-free and transparent car selling and buying experience.

Nuren Group

Series A in 2016
Nuren Group is a leading technology company, which is female-led and VC-funded. We are the leading ecommerce & digital content provider, focusing on parenting education, maternity wellness and women livelihood. Our digital products include Motherhood, Kelabmama, Ibuencer & the recently launched Motherhood Parenting Superapp. To date, our community consist of 5,000+ merchants/brands and 5 million+ active users across 3 countries (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand). Nuren Group is a strong supporter on women-in-tech and career-comeback-program. Our mission is to build an innovative and AI-driven platform to effectively deliver sustainable, quality health, wellness and education to our community of mothers and children. With this, we are aiming to drive growth in our domestic digital economy through technology adoption, as well as increasing digital export sales, by becoming the tech-enablers and superapp bridging the engagement between brands and our community across Southeast Asia. We currently hire 50+ knowledge workers who specialize in AI, big data, digital media and ecommerce space. Under the leadership of Petrina (CEO & Founder), Nuren Group is fortunate to have received backing & support from corporates and venture capital firms. Throughout the years, Petrina and the company has also received awards & recognitions such as Southeast Asia Top 50 Rising Women in Tech 2021, Top 12 Best Startup in Asia 2019, MVCA Outstanding Women Entrepreneur 2018, APICTA Malaysia Award 2017, Inti Alumni Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2016.

The Recommend Group

Seed Round in 2016
The Recommend Group was created with a simple goal to make home improvement safer and more convenient for homeowners in Southeast Asia, and bring trust and transparency to the process. After launching in 2015 in Malaysia as Recommend.my, the group quickly expanded to Indonesia as Sejasa.com. Through the Recommend platform, homeowners can hire services such as renovators, interior designers and cabinet contractors. Homeowners can also hire "on-demand" services such as cleaning, aircon servicing, plumbers or handyman services.
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