Expara

Expara is a venture capital firm established in 2003 and headquartered in Singapore, with additional offices in Thailand and Vietnam. It focuses on incubating, mentoring, and investing in early-stage companies across Southeast Asia, particularly in the interactive and digital media sectors. The company collaborates with entrepreneurs and leaders in both public and private organizations to foster entrepreneurial success through innovative, high-growth ventures. Expara provides a range of services including web tools, business strategy, technology innovation advisory, and experiential training, leveraging deep industry expertise and extensive networks. The firm aims to support the development of a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southeast Asia, akin to the Silicon Valley model.

Krista Arunanondchai

Partner

Noel Fernandes Ph.D

Venture Partner - Expara Asia Ventures

Tran Duy Khiem

Partner

Satinka Ma

Partner

Mathilda Ma

Partner

Mike Plichta

Partner

Krista Supavatanakul

Partner

Jerry Wang

Partner

29 past transactions

Advantir Innovations

Seed Round in 2021
Advantir incorporates processing technologies, a system of sensors, and processing algorithms to ensure the right consistency of the dessert in its Swirl.GO machines.

Novocall

Seed Round in 2019
Novocall is a B2B Software-as-a-service (SaaS) company based in Singapore. Founded in early 2018, Novocall supports businesses from more than 2,000 businesses across 42 countries. Novocall’s platform helps businesses schedule and automate their sales and marketing call processes, reducing manual work when scheduling conversations with business prospects.

Meticuly

Series A in 2019
Meticuly is a medical device company that specializes in AI-driven design and 3D-printed patient-specific titanium implants for cranial, maxillofacial, and orthopedic surgeries. Founded in 2017, the company leverages in-house developed AI engines and precision manufacturing to create custom implants tailored to individual patients, allowing Meticuly to achieve the fastest lead time in the industry. The company has served over 1,700 cases across more than 160 hospitals in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the UK. As the SEA market leader, Meticuly has expanded the flagship product families to the U.S. with two 510(k) clearances in 2022 and 2024. Meticuly holds 71 intellectual properties in its portfolio, globally applied across relevant markets. This achievement reflects its recognition as the 2024 WIPO Global Award winner from the World Intellectual Property Organization for innovation and intellectual property excellence, marking Meticuly as the first Thai startup to receive this honor. Meticuly complies with ISO 13485 and Medical Device Single Audit Program standards for quality management, reflecting its focus on enhancing clinical outcomes and patient care. Leveraging this foundational knowledge, Meticuly is now shaping the future of medical implants by deploying robust and scalable 3D printing at the point of care, marking a world-first milestone.

Bellugg

Series A in 2019
Bellugg is an On-Demand Luggage Delivery Service between Airport and Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Baggage delivery provides total travel convenience without the hassle and inconvenience of waiting in line and having to drop off your luggage before your vacation can begin. Just Leave your luggage by luggage storage or luggage delivery service send your luggage to hotel or airport in Bangkok and Pattaya.

Hungry Hub

Seed Round in 2019
Hungry Hub is Thailand’s unique dining offer web/app. We offer an exclusive fixed-price concept at normal À la carte restaurants! There’s no need to worry about how much you are going to pay at the end of your meal anymore. With Hungry Hub, you just have to book a table and enjoy a fixed price meal at top restaurants around Thailand. Plus, the offers on Hungry Hub are exclusive and not available for walk-in or customers who call to reserve.

salutat

Seed Round in 2019
intelligent communications for financial institutions

BoxGreen

Seed Round in 2019
BoxGreen is an e-commerce platform subscription platform that curates and delivers a variety of natural snacks directly to a customer's office or doorstep. It has 20 snacks options to choose from. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Singapore.

XO (former Rooit)

Pre Seed Round in 2018
XO is an internet company that provides a gamified application that specializes in communication guided by chatbots to facilitate interaction between two users by providing fun games. The company is driven by its mission is to disrupt the way young people communicate and make friends. Rooit was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Taipei City, Taiwan.

Event Banana

Seed Round in 2018
EventBanana is an online marketplace for event venues that allows venue owners to list their properties i.e. hotels, restaurants, bars, or even unique spaces and enables users to search, shortlist and get quotes - all in one place.

dipp, inc.

Seed Round in 2018
dipp is a brand management SaaS solution that leads e-commerce operation teams into an agile workflow. Combining brand asset management, design automation, and team collaboration, dipp has serviced international brands, like Levi's, and The Estee Lauder Companies as well as e-commerce enabling agencies, like Baozun to streamline the online store management workflow.

PEAK

Seed Round in 2018
PEAK (peakaccount.com) is one of the leading online accounting software provider in Thailand. We manage accounting record of almost 100,000 transactions valued over 2 billion bath per month. PEAK is a supported startup from True Incube and is invested by True, GSB, and SET. We won several awards and recognitions including winner prize for Ease of Doing Business Solution, Design Innovation, True Incube Batch 2. We are not only providing online accounting software but we are building business infrastructure for future data-driven economy. We help SMEs in Thailand have a better accounting system and have a better chance of getting loan or money they need to expand their business.

Ooca

Seed Round in 2018
Ooca is a digitize employee-assisted engagement platform solution for corporates and a telemetry health platform for individuals. We aim to be the hearty solution for company's mental wellness support. At Ooca, we provide counseling services conducted by a group of qualified psychiatrists and psychologists online at the highest level of privacy through our video-call Ooca app with live test/survey.

salutat

Pre Seed Round in 2018
intelligent communications for financial institutions

WisePass

Seed Round in 2017
WisePass is a lifestyle app enabling its subscribers to access products, services or events sponsored by brands. Starting from 239,000 VND per month, a subscriber gets 3 PASS a day to enjoy anything brands provide on the platform.

Hiip

Seed Round in 2017
Hiip is an online advertising platform with the first impact and the largest in Vietnam years. They helping brands and advertisers to connect and collaborate with the right people directly affected based on data networks Assembly and algorithms.

Minecraftly

Angel Round in 2016
Minecraftly is a single sharded orchestration layer that combines infinite virtual worlds into one under an unified namespace, it provides a good user experience for gamers while solving the massive scalability issues that has existed in online gaming for the past 20 years. We create an infinite virtual universe built on top of Minecraft that is community generating. Petabytes of data and hundreds of thousands players capacity inside a single universe. It solves the impossible issues in MMO gaming, which are scalability and network optimization. We joined Expara Accelerator batch in 2016

Hiip

Venture Round in 2016
Hiip is an online advertising platform with the first impact and the largest in Vietnam years. They helping brands and advertisers to connect and collaborate with the right people directly affected based on data networks Assembly and algorithms.

Smartly

Seed Round in 2016
Smartly is a Singapore based financial technology company building a new-generation robo-advisor platform. Investing has always been viewed as complex and risky by many. There is limited transparency in the majority of investment products, coupled with high management fees charged by asset managers. Moreover, financial literacy is poor among a majority of the population. These leave the average investor with little investment opportunities that meet their investment appetite. We are an automated wealth management platform that requires minimum financial knowledge to invest globally, with relatively small amounts, while minimizing fees and having full transparency. Together with our investment platform, we are developing an educational platform to educate our users on the basics of investing through a series of animated videos. This would complement our investment platform by simplifying, as well as giving clarity and confidence on our investment approach. Visit us at www.smartly.sg

SwarmX

Seed Round in 2016
SwarmX is an autonomous drone operation platform that focuses on developing autonomous robots which gathers information to make data driven decisions. The company operates Hive, an autonomous drone base station with weather sensing technology that assists in planning surveillance mission plans. HiveMind OS is a command and control center for drone swarms that identifies and generates alerts for various user-defined events relating to people, vehicles, and static objects. SwarmX is a Singapore-based company that was founded in 2015 by Pulkit Jaiswal.

BoxGreen

Seed Round in 2016
BoxGreen is an e-commerce platform subscription platform that curates and delivers a variety of natural snacks directly to a customer's office or doorstep. It has 20 snacks options to choose from. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Flying Chalks

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Flying Chalks is a Tech-Driven one-stop platform for students looking to study abroad. We digitalize up to 80% of the study abroad journey to make studying abroad no longer the complicated and laborious process dominated by traditional brick-and-mortar agents, and increase the success rate of a student's school, VISA and scholarship application. We are amongst the first Edtech companies in this region to offer students a comprehensive study abroad solution (assisting them from start to end) and have nicely positioned ourselves to ride on two key macro trends that have emerged over the past 3 years: (1) Asian students studying abroad but moving closer to home and (2) strong push towards digitalisation, especially following the pandemic. Headquartered in Singapore, we also operate branch offices in South Korea, Vietnam and Hong Kong.

ShopVenture

Seed Round in 2016
ShopVenture is a web-based platform for fashion and lifestyle consumers to share their online shopping experiences. ShopVenture users can add shops to the website’s database based on categories such as fashion and accessories, books, foods, children, pets, and sporting goods. Users can then rate and review their online shopping experiences at these shops and help others make smart purchase decisions. ShopVenture was founded by Min Yong and Julie dePontbriand in 2014. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York.

STYLHUNT

Seed Round in 2016
STYLHUNT is an online platform that helps shoppers in finding and connecting with different shops. This use case is currently underserved by Google search because it is not optimized for social media content and does not return relevant search results that signal or factor in trustworthiness. It addresses this issue by aggregating thousands of merchants and allowing shoppers to quickly filter through them on the basis of style and trust. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand.

Organo-Circuit

Seed Round in 2016
Organo-Circuit develops flexible organo screens for indoor advertising. Organo-Circuit offers low cost, low power consumption and large digital signage solution by combining their proprietary data transfer device and colour electronic paper technology.

Axlerate

Seed Round in 2015
Axlerate is a unified one stop solutions for fintech logistics ecosystem platform for logistics. Monitor and manage all your expenses with Axlerate!

Wootag

Seed Round in 2015
Wootag is a SaaS video marketing and analytics platform that aims to unleash the potential of video. Its proprietary platform redraws the boundaries of the video consumption experience, empowering marketers to create interactive videos that bring them closer to understanding their consumers and achieving their communications objectives. To date, more than 5,000,000 viewers across the globe have watched and interacted with videos that have been Wootagged. At Wootag, we believe that video is the best tool to share information and ideas instantly without barriers. Whether you’re an individual looking to promote your works or a company looking for new ways to engage your audience, see your work come to life with Wootag. With an enhanced analytics engine, increased functionality and additional video engagement capabilities all packaged in an easy-to-use platform built from the user up, no longer do you have to compete to keep your consumers interested in knowing more about your brand. Buy products directly from videos, or feed people information they need while engaging with your video. The possibilities are endless, as is our commitment to innovation. Go beyond views, choose Wootag.

Couper Pte Ltd

Angel Round in 2015
Couper offers a gaming platform that enables its users to download and play games to earn Couper Coins. Players are able to use the Couper Coins to buy in-application games. It offers its services in Korea, North America, Southeast Asia, and France. Couper enables game developers to promote their products. Couper was founded by Narmeet Singh in 2013.

Yogatrail

Seed Round in 2015
YogaTrail is a place for yogis to go to for unbiased information, to share opinions, and to stay up-to-date with local news and events.

ShopVenture

Seed Round in 2015
ShopVenture is a web-based platform for fashion and lifestyle consumers to share their online shopping experiences. ShopVenture users can add shops to the website’s database based on categories such as fashion and accessories, books, foods, children, pets, and sporting goods. Users can then rate and review their online shopping experiences at these shops and help others make smart purchase decisions. ShopVenture was founded by Min Yong and Julie dePontbriand in 2014. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York.
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