Catcha Group

Catcha Group, founded in 1999 and based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is a venture capital investment firm that specializes in investing in small- to medium-sized businesses, particularly those in disruptive technology sectors. The firm focuses on identifying companies with the potential to significantly impact their markets and provides substantial support to help them achieve rapid growth and profitability. Catcha Group typically invests between USD 2 million and USD 6 million through its Catcha Venture Fund, which targets sectors including media, real estate technology, technology, media, and telecommunications, as well as commercial services. The firm is dedicated to mentoring its portfolio companies, assisting them through challenges, and celebrating their achievements to ensure they excel in their respective industries.

Peggy Lee

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Carsome

Series D in 2021
Carsome Sdn Bhd operates an online platform that connects customers with used car dealers across Malaysia and has expanded its services to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Petaling Jaya, the company streamlines the car-selling process by offering services that encompass inspection, valuation, bidding, payment, and logistics. This comprehensive approach allows individuals and entities to efficiently sell their vehicles directly to dealers through an online bidding portal. By facilitating each step of the transaction, Carsome aims to enhance the overall experience for customers looking to sell their cars.

Carsome

Corporate Round in 2021
Carsome Sdn Bhd operates an online platform that connects customers with used car dealers across Malaysia and has expanded its services to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Petaling Jaya, the company streamlines the car-selling process by offering services that encompass inspection, valuation, bidding, payment, and logistics. This comprehensive approach allows individuals and entities to efficiently sell their vehicles directly to dealers through an online bidding portal. By facilitating each step of the transaction, Carsome aims to enhance the overall experience for customers looking to sell their cars.

BoozeBud

Venture Round in 2021
BoozeBud is an online alcohol marketplace and delivery platform based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2012. The company specializes in the retail and delivery of a wide range of alcoholic beverages, including beers, craft beers, whiskey, spirits, white wine, red wine, champagne, rum, and cider. By providing a comprehensive selection of products, BoozeBud caters to diverse consumer preferences, ensuring convenient access to various alcoholic drinks.

Instahome

Seed Round in 2020
Instahome Sdn Bhd owns and operates a digital home rental platform in Malaysia. It offers Instahome that provides HD virtual tours, videos, and photos of homes, and is used to pay rent, collect rewards, and find maintenance services. The company’s Instahome is used by tenants, agents, and landlords. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

iMedia

Seed Round in 2020
iMedia is a digital media company that sells media advertising solutions for popular local language sites, social influencer platforms and mobile apps.

Hitchbird

Seed Round in 2018
Hitchbird is a tourism company that offers an online portal for couples to plan their dream wedding anywhere in Asia. The website connects couples to wedding vendors across 43 cities in Asia. Couples can book wedding venues and find all the information they need. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

iflix

Series B in 2017
iflix is the world’s leading entertainment service for emerging markets, offering users unlimited access to thousands of TV shows, movies and more. With a vast selection everyone’s favourite comedies, drama, K-drama, Turkish drama, Bollywood, Nollywood, cartoons, movies and more from Hollywood, The UK, Asia, The Middle East and Africa, iflix places the entertainment people want at their fingertips to either stream or download. For one low monthly fee, iflix subscribers can watch on their mobile phone, laptop, tablet, TV… wherever, whenever.

Common Ground

Seed Round in 2016
Common Ground is Malaysia’s largest leading coworking space that prides itself on not just being a communal workspace but building a sustainable and integrated coworking community. Common Ground is redefining workspaces by creating a lifestyle that resonates with today’s workforce and creating a vibrant ecosystem of like-minded people. With the tagline “Ambition Lives Here”, Common Ground attracts today’s go-getters.

iflix

Series A in 2015
iflix is the world’s leading entertainment service for emerging markets, offering users unlimited access to thousands of TV shows, movies and more. With a vast selection everyone’s favourite comedies, drama, K-drama, Turkish drama, Bollywood, Nollywood, cartoons, movies and more from Hollywood, The UK, Asia, The Middle East and Africa, iflix places the entertainment people want at their fingertips to either stream or download. For one low monthly fee, iflix subscribers can watch on their mobile phone, laptop, tablet, TV… wherever, whenever.

Zameen.com

Series A in 2014
Zameen Media Pvt Ltd. operates an online property advertising portal. The company connects buyers with sellers and owners with renters to buy, sell, and rent their properties. It provides houses, flats and apartments, plots, and commercial properties. Zameen Media Pvt Ltd. was founded in 2006 and is based in Lahore, Pakistan with additional offices in Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi, Pakistan and London, United Kingdom.

Frontier Digital Ventures

Seed Round in 2014
Frontier Digital Ventures is focused on becoming the world leader in online classifieds businesses in frontier and emerging markets. We are experts in the online classifieds space with a particular focus on automotive and property verticals and general classifieds websites, and we are proud of our amazing track record in building and supporting great companies. We love frontier markets and thrive on the excitement and challenge they present and the opportunity they offer to self-starting entrepreneurs to become effective game changers. We seek out entrepreneurs with integrity, unwavering self-belief in their online classifieds business and extraordinary passion to make it succeed. With the extensive support we offer to them coupled with their own energy and work ethic, Frontier Digital Ventures is bringing outstanding online classifieds companies of global significance to their full potential and setting a new global standard of excellence in the field.

iCar Asia

Seed Round in 2012
iCar Asia Limited develops, owns, and operates internet based automotive portals for used and new car buyers in South East Asia. It operates automotive portals under the Carlist.my and LiveLifeDrive brands in Malaysia; Mobil123.com, Otospirit.com, and carmudi.co.id brands in Indonesia; and one2car.com, Autospinn.com, and Thaicar.com brands in Thailand. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

iProperty.com

Seed Round in 2007
iProperty.com Malaysia is an online portal focused on the sale and rent of real estate properties in the country. It features classifieds on apartments, condominiums, bungalows, semi-detached houses, terrace and link houses, townhouses, service residences, penthouses, and offices. iProperty.com Malaysia is operated from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is a part of the iProperty Group, an ASX-listed company that owns the Asian network of property portals under the iProperty.com umbrella brand.