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East Ventures

East Ventures is an early-stage, sector-agnostic venture capital firm founded in 2009, with offices in Tokyo, Singapore, and Jakarta. The firm has invested in over 170 companies across Southeast Asia, with a strong emphasis on Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is recognized as a pioneer in the Indonesian startup ecosystem, being the first investor in notable unicorns such as Tokopedia and Traveloka. East Ventures' diverse portfolio includes prominent companies like Mercari, Ruangguru, and Fore Coffee. In 2018, the firm established a growth-stage fund called EV Growth to provide further support to startups in the region. East Ventures has garnered accolades for its consistent performance, being named the most active investor in Southeast Asia and Indonesia, as well as a top-performing VC fund globally by various industry observers. The firm primarily targets investments in technology, consumer web, fintech, and mobile sectors, typically investing between $0.1 million and $0.5 million in early-stage ventures.

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Batara Eto

Co-Founder & Partner

Michito Fukkai

Associate

Keisuke Fukumura

Associate

Devina Halim

Investment Associate

Sena Hamilton

Investment Manager

Wai Kit Koh

Managing Partner

Taiga Matsuyama

Co-Founder & Partner

Jordy Tenka

Senior Investment Associate

Amanda Umezono

Associate

Past deals in Language Processing

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.

super.AI

Seed Round in 2018
super.AI is a data labeling platform for AI that uses AI and humans to generate, structure, and label any type of data. It has a new approach to data labeling and machine learning called data programming which runs on the AI Compiler that they created. The platform breaks apart a complex task into small pieces like an assembly line and then automates those pieces over time. super.AI compiler quickly transforms computer code from one programming language to another without human intervention for ingesting and analyzing data with machine learning, enabling developers to create machine learning applications quickly and cheaply at a large scale.

Bahasa.ai

Seed Round in 2018
Bahasa.ai develops an artificial intelligence platform for processing Indonesian language. The technology allows businesses to automate the process of interaction with customers and build NLP/NLU (Natural Language Processing/Understanding) in order to help businesses execute their chatbot strategy. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

PeraPera

Venture Round in 2017
PeraPera provides foreign media translation services into Japanese. It operates a crowd-funding platform which allows users to share the translation cost. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Japan.

Lang-8

Venture Round in 2016
Lang-8, Inc. owns and operates a language exchange social networking portal. It develops computer assisted language learning (CALL) technology for writing skills. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Flamingo

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Flamingo Inc. develops an application through which one can take lessons for 2,000 yen per hour by calling native speaker to a cafe. The company is based in Kusatsu City, Japan.

Polyglots

Seed Round in 2015
POLYGLOTS designs and develops English news-reader mobile applications. It helps its application users learn English while reading news updates. POLYGLOTS is a development and operation of the English learning application "POLYGLOTS", the Japanese learning application "MONDO", and the finance / accounting specialized learning application "Bigo", and the development and provision of an adaptive learning platform.