East Ventures

East Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2009, with offices in Singapore, Tokyo, and Jakarta. The firm specializes in seed, early-stage, and Series A investments, focusing on technology and consumer sectors, including fintech, e-commerce, and education technology, primarily in Southeast Asia. East Ventures has supported over 170 companies across the region, with notable investments in Indonesia's unicorns such as Tokopedia and Traveloka. The firm typically invests between $0.1 million and $0.5 million and has been recognized for its consistent performance, being named the most active investor in Southeast Asia. In 2018, it launched a joint venture called EV Growth, aimed at providing growth capital to startups throughout Southeast Asia. East Ventures continues to play a significant role in nurturing the startup ecosystem in the region.

Gavin Adrian

Investment Professional

David Audy

Operating Partner

Batara Eto

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Devina Halim

Principal

Sang-Uh Han

Partner

Tomoki Hirata

Principal

Wai Kit Koh

Managing Partner

Yinwei Liang

Principal

Taiga Matsuyama

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Jumpei Mouri

Director

Yoshiharu Okubo

Principal

Avina Sugiarto

Partner

Emily Tampi

Managing Director, Finance

Wesley Tay

Principal

Jordy Tenka

Investment Professional

Alda Wardhana

Principal

Zhengyi Zhu

Investment Professional

Past deals in Business Development

RPG Commerce

Series B in 2022
Developer of direct-to-consumer brands designed to build, launch, acquire, and scale an e-commerce business globally. The company builds a three-sixty-degree product that is consumer-centric, providing customers with various products in one place.

Grow Commerce

Seed Round in 2022
Grow Commerce specializes in acquiring and scaling brands to maximize their growth potential. The company provides brand owners with fair and flexible valuation options, facilitating their ability to sell their businesses. By leveraging a technology-driven approach, Grow Commerce aids in accelerating the growth of acquired businesses, allowing owners to achieve their financial objectives more swiftly. This combination of operational support and strategic valuation empowers business owners to make informed decisions about cashing out their investments.

Fraction

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a fractional ownership platform designed to invest, sell, and manage fractional ownership of assets including real estate. The company's platform helps users to achieve fractional ownership objectives from the initial digitization and fractionalization of an asset to the initial offering of those fractions to investors, enabling companies, administrators, and promoters to manage ownership of co-investments, crowdfunding, and pooled capital.

Data Viz Lab

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a proposal-based consulting firm intended to offer consultations on data analysis, visualization, and data strategy planning. The company supports clients from the digital strategy design phase to data analysis and visualization, and internal promotion, and offers training on various digital tools, enabling clients to have access to digital consulting to implement digital transformation in their businesses.

Ex-Work

Venture Round in 2021
Developer of cloud personnel system designed to support job-type organizational development and human resources management. The company offers a job type of HR cloud that realizes job-type introduction and operation by multiplying JD and human resources information, enabling clients and candidates to assist in finding the right people for the right job.

GarageBank

Seed Round in 2020
GarageBank Corporation specializes in the planning and development of sales and lease bank. It was launched on January 22, 2020.

Crafter

Series A in 2019
ChatBook is a SaaS platform for marketers who work in B2B area to automate acquiring leads and evaluate leads in your absence.We remove the trouble of spending lots of money on online marketing and make better conversions. If you are using ChatBook, users don’t have to visit the website, it comes to you on your social media advertisements. ChatBook delivers more solid targeting based on social media activity and profiles.

Div

Venture Round in 2018
DIV operates TECH::CAMP, a programming school, a short-term intensive training course designed to turn students into engineers.

Baseconnect

Series A in 2018
Baseconnect Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Kyoto, Japan, specializes in developing and operating BaseconnectList, a corporate sales support database. The company provides Musubu, a cloud-based platform that leverages artificial intelligence to streamline corporate sales processes. Musubu helps users target prospective customers and create tailored company lists, significantly enhancing the efficiency of sales operations. By connecting global data, Baseconnect aims to reduce the time needed for businesses to identify and engage potential clients.

BRD

Series A in 2018
BRD designs, develops, and markets financial software. It offers a platform that delivers crypto purchasing, commercial register, credit rating information, management, figures, contact and news, trading, and merchant services. BRD serves customers worldwide. Aaron Voisine and Adam Traidman founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Zurich in Switzerland.

Crafter

Seed Round in 2018
ChatBook is a SaaS platform for marketers who work in B2B area to automate acquiring leads and evaluate leads in your absence.We remove the trouble of spending lots of money on online marketing and make better conversions. If you are using ChatBook, users don’t have to visit the website, it comes to you on your social media advertisements. ChatBook delivers more solid targeting based on social media activity and profiles.

Babel

Seed Round in 2018
Babel, Inc., founded on August 25, 2017, and based in Japan, focuses on the development of a video advertising platform aimed at enhancing marketing strategies for businesses. The company specializes in smartphone video-based advertising, allowing users to create and distribute meaningful media that effectively reaches target audiences. By offering innovative marketing options, Babel enables companies to engage in digital marketing and leverage their own media production capabilities. The organization is also committed to expanding its presence globally, reflecting its ambition to influence the video media landscape on an international scale.

Taliki

Seed Round in 2017
Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.

Baseconnect

Seed Round in 2017
Baseconnect Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Kyoto, Japan, specializes in developing and operating BaseconnectList, a corporate sales support database. The company provides Musubu, a cloud-based platform that leverages artificial intelligence to streamline corporate sales processes. Musubu helps users target prospective customers and create tailored company lists, significantly enhancing the efficiency of sales operations. By connecting global data, Baseconnect aims to reduce the time needed for businesses to identify and engage potential clients.

BRD

Seed Round in 2017
BRD designs, develops, and markets financial software. It offers a platform that delivers crypto purchasing, commercial register, credit rating information, management, figures, contact and news, trading, and merchant services. BRD serves customers worldwide. Aaron Voisine and Adam Traidman founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Zurich in Switzerland.

Crafter

Seed Round in 2016
ChatBook is a SaaS platform for marketers who work in B2B area to automate acquiring leads and evaluate leads in your absence.We remove the trouble of spending lots of money on online marketing and make better conversions. If you are using ChatBook, users don’t have to visit the website, it comes to you on your social media advertisements. ChatBook delivers more solid targeting based on social media activity and profiles.

BizReach

Series A in 2016
Launch pad for a wide array of HR Tech services, which has focused on revolutionizing the world’s second largest Japanese HR services industry thru technology enabled business models. BizReach: Japan's premier online career networking service, which has transformed the Japanese business community in allowing career-driven executives to freely share and directly connect with talent-seeking employers and recruiters.Often referred to as the “LinkedIn of Japan” in the HR industry, the service has allowed over half a million executives to explore their career options by sharing their resume information in a closed online database shared amongst only employers and recruiters. The service has disrupted the executive search (recruitment) market by becoming a cloud-based talent sourcing platform for employers to recruit and hire business executives directly. CareerTrek: The service was built on the needs of BizReach clients (employers) wanting to recruit and hire “young” professionals (20s and early 30s) more efficiently thru direct sourcing methods. Hence, the service is branded and targeted to become an online career networking service connecting young professional jobseekers and employers. Together with BizReach, the 2 cloud-based talent sourcing platforms deliver similar results to what Linkedin delivers to enterprise clients outside of Japan. An added feature of CareerTrek due to its focus on a younger audience is its recommendation engine, which supports jobseekers in not only proactively finding jobs that they think fit them, but being introduced to positions that other similar users find interesting. Stanby: Stanby is a job search engine, which aggregates job postings from hundreds of third-party job sites. This “Google for Jobs” service enables jobseekers to search from over 4 million jobs posted online from all over the country in just one search. Stanby ATS is a service provided to employers, and is a cloud-based applicant tracking system for employers, and is free to use. Employers can create job postings, source applicants and track applicants, together functioning as a central platform for all recruitment efforts. Stanby thrives to bring every job opening to the online world, and become the largest original source of hiring information.

SpeakBUDDY

Seed Round in 2016
SpeakBUDDY is a web / mobile app development company that believes in "creating something that shouldn't be there now, not something you've seen before". Ourselves solved the difficult English learning problems and released “A serious English conversation! "Lapping English" and "Last English Learning! Two works of “Majitan” have won the first place in the AppStore rankings.

Bindo

Seed Round in 2014
Bindo is a retail platform that offers a cloud-based point-of-sale solution designed for retailers to manage their businesses effectively. The platform enables local stores to establish an online presence, index their inventories, and facilitate sales through seamless integration of online and offline transactions. Bindo's software includes features such as inventory management, customer relationship management, and reward programs, along with analytics and online dashboards for comprehensive business insights. It also supports credit card processing, allowing merchants to efficiently manage their stores and track customer interactions. By providing sophisticated tools, Bindo aims to enhance the operational capabilities of retailers in a competitive market.
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