Hera Capital

Hera Capital is a Singapore-based principal investment firm founded in 2009 that specializes in investing in low to mid-market companies, primarily in the consumer, retail, and media and technology sectors. The firm focuses on small-cap companies in South East Asia, providing investments ranging from USD $1 million to USD $20 million per company, typically taking minority stakes. Hera Capital aims to support its portfolio companies, which either have high growth potential or seek to expand within the region, by offering not only capital but also strategic advice and hands-on business development services. The firm actively participates in the governance of its investments by seeking board representation.

Florent Barret

Partner

Julian Cheong

Partner

Fabian Chua

Associate

Sebastien Guillaud

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Glenville Lee

Senior Associate

Thierry de Panafieu

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Dato' Kunalbir Singh Chahl

Senior Vice President

11 past transactions

Nutrition Technologies

Series A in 2022
Nutrition Technologies Ltd. specializes in the production of sustainable insect proteins, oils, and frass using black soldier fly larvae, catering to the aquaculture, agriculture, and animal feed industries. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in High Wycombe, United Kingdom, the company operates its main production facility in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, where it utilizes a unique modular production system that combines insects and bacteria to optimize nutrient recovery from vegetable and grain by-products. Their product range includes Hi.Protein™, Hi.Oil™, Hi.Dried larvae, Hi.Live larvae, and Hi.Frass, all designed to enhance growth and health metrics in livestock and pets. Nutrition Technologies collaborates with various research institutions across Southeast Asia to advance their offerings, supported by initiatives like the Global Connections Fund and USAID. Recently, the company secured Series A funding to expand its operations, aiming to establish the largest insect protein production facility in the region, thus reinforcing its commitment to providing sustainable feed solutions.

Nutrition Technologies

Funding Round in 2021
Nutrition Technologies Ltd. specializes in the production of sustainable insect proteins, oils, and frass using black soldier fly larvae, catering to the aquaculture, agriculture, and animal feed industries. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in High Wycombe, United Kingdom, the company operates its main production facility in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, where it utilizes a unique modular production system that combines insects and bacteria to optimize nutrient recovery from vegetable and grain by-products. Their product range includes Hi.Protein™, Hi.Oil™, Hi.Dried larvae, Hi.Live larvae, and Hi.Frass, all designed to enhance growth and health metrics in livestock and pets. Nutrition Technologies collaborates with various research institutions across Southeast Asia to advance their offerings, supported by initiatives like the Global Connections Fund and USAID. Recently, the company secured Series A funding to expand its operations, aiming to establish the largest insect protein production facility in the region, thus reinforcing its commitment to providing sustainable feed solutions.

Alodokter

Series C in 2020
Alodokter is a digital health platform that provides an end-to-end digital solution to patients including telemedicine, doctors, and others. It also provides credible information, supportive communities, and in-depth reference material about health subjects that matter to. The platform brings high-quality medical services to its 20 million+ Monthly Active Users by providing an integrated mobile solution for patients and doctors. Alodokter's medical services are fully integrated via an application that can be downloaded on Android and iOS to meet the health needs of the Indonesian public, the latest health content, chat with doctors, an online booking platform for consultation with doctors and/or looking for hospitals. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Alodokter

Series C in 2019
Alodokter is a digital health platform that provides an end-to-end digital solution to patients including telemedicine, doctors, and others. It also provides credible information, supportive communities, and in-depth reference material about health subjects that matter to. The platform brings high-quality medical services to its 20 million+ Monthly Active Users by providing an integrated mobile solution for patients and doctors. Alodokter's medical services are fully integrated via an application that can be downloaded on Android and iOS to meet the health needs of the Indonesian public, the latest health content, chat with doctors, an online booking platform for consultation with doctors and/or looking for hospitals. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gojek

Series E in 2018
Gojek, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, operates as a Super App that offers a wide range of services, including food delivery, transportation, digital payments, shopping, and various on-demand services. Launched in 2015, the Gojek app has rapidly become the largest consumer transactional technology platform in Southeast Asia, driven by its focus on speed, innovation, and social impact. The company aims to empower the informal sector in the region while serving diverse markets such as transport, logistics, food, and entertainment. Gojek has established itself as a leading player in the on-demand economy, contributing significantly to the growth of digital services in Southeast Asia.

SaladStop!

Venture Round in 2016
SaladStop! is a pioneer in the healthy food movement in Singapore and aims to serve the best tasting and most nutritious salads, wraps and grain bowls. SaladStop! currently operates 23 outlets in Singapore and Manila and quickly approaching their vision of becoming the world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness company, expanding to Indonesia and Japan later this year.

My Social Book

Series A in 2016
Established in 2011, My Social Book is today’s global leader in Social Books. Their technology offers you the opportunity to own a book of your life in under 90 seconds. In 2010 the company's founder Nicolas Cazagou invented the Social Book concept. His idea was to transform his greatest moments and milestones already recorded on his social networks into a permanent book. He identified that by printing his Facebook timeline, which already included his status updates, posts and photos in chronological order, he would in fact own an amazing book of his life. He realized that this content, already time-stamped, along with the comments from his family and friends, would provide an amazing archive of his past. It detailed who he was, the places he had visited, and the people he was with. With this perfect coffee table piece he would revisit, share, and enjoy these memories in detail forever, and pass them down through generations. Passionate in the creative arts, skilled in code writing, and committed to his dream of making the Social Book available to everyone, he embarked on a new journey. He believed that every person had a unique life story to tell. He knew his goal was to help them save it into a permanent legacy in a fun, easy, cost effective way. Several years later the 1st ever Social Book launched. Originally named Egobook and later renamed to My Social Book, the My Social Book team has been building beautifully bound books from social content ever since. Today their customers enjoy their books daily. Year on year they add another edition to their My Social Book Life’s Collection by creating their latest Year Book for themselves and their families. To date, their My Social Books are purchased from over 20 countries worldwide and are printed in 10 languages. They're shipped across the full spectrum of time zones from some of the most credible, technologically advanced on-demand book production facilities around. They pride their self on product and service excellence as well as technology innovation to ensure their customers are always receiving the content and quality they deserve.

Linkfluence

Venture Round in 2015
Linkfluence is a social media intelligence company that focuses on analyzing online conversations across various platforms, including social networks, blogs, and forums, to create business opportunities for brands. Its flagship product, the Radarly Product Suite, is a user-friendly, multilingual software-as-a-service solution designed to monitor, measure, and engage with social media content effectively. Radarly aids in reputation management, influencer engagement, community management evaluation, crisis detection, and best practice identification. Linkfluence also supports companies in customizing the tool to meet specific needs such as performance analysis, brand perception audits, and trend research. With over 200 prominent clients in Europe, Linkfluence empowers organizations to enhance their social strategies by leveraging social data intelligence. The company is backed by several venture capital firms, indicating strong investor confidence in its innovative approach to social media analysis.

CashCashPinoy

Series A in 2014
Headquartered in Manila, Philippines, CashCashPinoy is a privately held company dedicated to organise brand sales events over a limited period of time (10 days), available only to members, for brands' end-of-season or overstock inventory up to 90% Off. The website also proposes selected offers for Discounted Services (Restaurants, Spa, Salons…) and exclusive travel deals on hand-picked hotels and resort in Philippines and outside the country CashCashPinoy hand selects both established and up and coming brands relevant to its members. Members: it's the key word for CashCshPinoy. For some companies, customer satisfaction is a 'buzzword' and nothing more. At CashCashPinoy, everything is designed to give the best possible experience to its members (97% Members Satisfaction / Jan 2013 - CCP Survey). CashCashPinoy pioneered the Flash Sales Market in The Philippines in 2010. Today, with 100 new Sale Events, and 200 fresh Deals proposed every week, CashCashPinoy is the #1 Goods Flash Sales Website in The Philippines.

ActSocial

Venture Round in 2013
ActSocial (formerly Wildfire Asia) is the leader in providing both insight and influence in social networks across Asia. ActSocial can give deep information on identifying key trends, social media crises and core topics of interest online. Whether talking online or in the real world, ActSocial's network of 100,000 influencers are experts at creating effective and scalable word-of-mouth for your brand. ActSocial creates measurable business results through a network of 100,000 consumer influencers, a powerful social CRM suite, and proven analytics methodology. ActSocial's WOM programs have boosted brands' marketing and sales performance, from packaged foods to tourism.
Companies face a more complex public policy, regulatory, political and reputational environment than ever before. We keep them connected to this ever changing landscape of NGOs, IGOs, Government, associations, media, academics, investors and many other key opinion leaders. We leverage advanced methodologies, network algorithms and systems to identify key opinion leaders. We systematically collect and maintain these audiences with a dedicate team of data specialists. We connect companies to their key influencers through a highly customized CRM system. We bring together a unique, cross-disciplinary team from the fields of analytics, mathematical algorithms, CRM and software designers led by highly experienced public affairs and corporate communications practitioners.