Expara

Expara, established in 2003, is a Singapore-based venture capital firm with offices in Thailand and Vietnam. The company focuses on investing in early-stage (seed to series A) technology companies across Southeast Asia. Expara provides not only capital but also comprehensive support, including incubation, mentorship, and advisory services, to foster innovative high-growth ventures. It works closely with entrepreneurs and industry leaders to create successful startups and contribute to the region's tech ecosystem.

Krista Arunanondchai

Partner

Noel Fernandes Ph.D

Venture Partner - Expara Asia Ventures

Lee Junior

General Partner - Expara Ventures III

Tran Duy Khiem

Senior Associate

Mathilda Ma

Partner

Satinka Ma

Partner

Mike Plichta

Partner

Krista Supavatanakul

Partner

Rosalind Tan Yan Ching

Partner

Jerry Wang

Partner

34 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 headquartered in Singapore, founded in early 2018. The company provides a platform designed to assist businesses in converting website visitors into call leads. With a presence in over 42 countries and serving more than 2,000 businesses, Novocall's solution automates and streamlines the scheduling of sales and marketing calls. It efficiently routes incoming calls to the appropriate team members or departments based on specific lead routing rules, such as the language spoken, the location of leads, and relevant business functions. This capability enhances the ability of sales and marketing teams to engage with potential customers across digital channels, ultimately improving lead conversion rates and customer experience.

Meticuly

Series A in 2019
Meticuly is a medical device company founded in 2017 that specializes in AI-driven design and 3D-printed patient-specific titanium implants for cranial, maxillofacial, and orthopedic surgeries. The company utilizes in-house developed AI technologies and precision manufacturing to produce custom implants that are tailored to the unique anatomy of each patient, which allows for the fastest lead time in the industry. Meticuly has completed over 1,700 cases across more than 160 hospitals in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the UK, and has expanded its flagship product families to the U.S. market with multiple regulatory clearances. It holds 71 intellectual properties, highlighting its commitment to innovation and quality, and has received the 2024 WIPO Global Award for excellence in intellectual property. Meticuly adheres to ISO 13485 and Medical Device Single Audit Program standards, emphasizing its dedication to improving clinical outcomes and patient care. By implementing scalable 3D printing solutions at the point of care, Meticuly is redefining the future of medical implants.

Bellugg

Series A in 2019
Bellugg is a Bangkok-based startup offering an on-demand luggage delivery service between airports and hotels in Thailand. It facilitates baggage transfer without the need for customers to wait in lines or carry their luggage themselves, enhancing travel convenience. The company tracks luggage status in real-time, ensuring a smoother travel experience.

Hungry Hub

Seed Round in 2019
Hungry Hub is a unique dining platform based in Thailand that provides a fixed-price dining experience at a variety of restaurants. By allowing customers to book tables in advance, Hungry Hub eliminates the uncertainty of final bills, enabling diners to enjoy meals at top establishments without concern for costs. The platform features exclusive deals that are not available to walk-in customers, enhancing its appeal. Additionally, by offering buffet deals and shared set menus, Hungry Hub supports restaurants in boosting their revenue and improving customer engagement through sustainable promotions. This innovative approach to dining transforms the way consumers interact with restaurants while simplifying the dining experience.

salutat

Seed Round in 2019
Salutat specializes in intelligent communication solutions for financial institutions. The company has developed a technology that automates and enhances customer relations, offering two-way personalized smartphone chats. This innovation allows banks to streamline client conversations, significantly reducing communication time and costs. By improving customer interaction, Salutat's technology enhances repayment services, sales, and customer retention capabilities, ultimately driving better outcomes for financial institutions and their clients.

Boxgreen

Seed Round in 2019
Boxgreen is an e-commerce subscription platform based in Singapore, founded in 2014. The company specializes in curating and delivering a selection of nutritious snacks directly to customers' offices or doorsteps. With a choice of 20 snack options, Boxgreen focuses on providing healthy snacks made from wholesome ingredients that are free from artificial flavoring and coloring. This approach allows consumers to enjoy convenient snacking without compromising their health and fitness goals.

XO (former Rooit)

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Rooit is an internet company based in Taipei City, Taiwan, founded in 2016, that offers a gamified mobile application aimed at enhancing communication among young people. The application connects users through anonymous themed chat rooms, allowing them to engage in conversations centered around specific topics while also incorporating fun games to facilitate interaction. It features a phone registration mechanism that enables users to create friend lists and share their emotions, helping to alleviate feelings of loneliness. Rooit seeks to transform the way millennials communicate and make friends in a digital landscape.

Event Banana

Seed Round in 2018
Event Banana is an online marketplace designed to connect users with various event venues, including hotels, restaurants, bars, and unique spaces. The platform allows venue owners to list their properties, making it easier for clients to search for and shortlist available venues. Users can input specific criteria such as location, type of occasion, and the number of guests to efficiently find the ideal space for corporate and other events. By streamlining the process of searching and obtaining quotes, Event Banana aims to facilitate economical event organization for its clients.

dipp

Seed Round in 2018
Dipp is a brand management software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that enhances e-commerce operations by facilitating agile workflows. The platform combines brand asset management, design automation, and team collaboration, allowing businesses to efficiently manage their marketing efforts. Dipp's artificial intelligence-powered technology automates the creation of marketing content, enabling clients to produce on-brand digital marketing campaigns effortlessly. This functionality supports cross-departmental collaboration and streamlines the online store management process. The company has served notable international brands, including Levi's and The Estee Lauder Companies, as well as e-commerce enabling agencies like Baozun, helping them optimize their digital marketing strategies and improve overall operational efficiency.

PEAK

Seed Round in 2018
PEAK is a prominent online accounting software provider in Thailand, catering primarily to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The company manages nearly 100,000 transactions valued at over 2 billion baht each month, significantly streamlining accounting processes for its users. By reducing paperwork and automating accounting tasks, PEAK enhances productivity and efficiency, allowing businesses to focus on growth. Additionally, the platform improves access to financial resources, increasing the likelihood of securing loans for expansion. Supported by True Incube and backed by investments from True, GSB, and SET, PEAK has garnered several awards for its innovative solutions, positioning itself as a key player in developing the infrastructure needed for a data-driven economy in Thailand.

Ooca

Seed Round in 2018
Ooca is a telemedicine platform that connects individuals with qualified psychiatrists and psychologists through a mobile application. The platform facilitates video consultations, allowing users to book appointments and select their preferred mental health professionals. Ooca aims to enhance mental wellness support for both corporate clients and individual users, providing a secure and private environment for counseling services. By leveraging technology, Ooca offers a convenient solution for accessing mental health care, helping users build confidence and improve their self-esteem through professional guidance.

salutat

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Salutat specializes in intelligent communication solutions for financial institutions. The company has developed a technology that automates and enhances customer relations, offering two-way personalized smartphone chats. This innovation allows banks to streamline client conversations, significantly reducing communication time and costs. By improving customer interaction, Salutat's technology enhances repayment services, sales, and customer retention capabilities, ultimately driving better outcomes for financial institutions and their clients.

Compliy

Venture Round in 2018
Compliy is an AI-driven regulatory compliance platform designed for financial institutions, specifically fund management companies. It leverages APAC's largest financial regulatory database to streamline regulatory change management through collaborative review and analysis processes. By centralizing data and providing cross-jurisdiction regulatory comparisons, Compliy enables compliance teams to efficiently map regulatory requirements to their business units. The platform offers automated policy management and compliance monitoring, empowering users with extensive access to various regulatory data sources across the Asia-Pacific region. Additionally, Compliy utilizes artificial intelligence to extract insights and facilitate quick identification of necessary compliance actions, making regulatory change management more effective and accessible for organizations of all sizes.

DaNAgreen

Venture Round in 2018
DaNAgreen provides crosslink proteins to make scaffolds that help scientists culture cells in 3D. Their scaffolds can be easily manipulated in typical cell culture dishes, plates, and inserts in standardized procedures.

WisePass

Seed Round in 2017
WisePass, established in 2016 and headquartered in Singapore, operates a subscription-based lifestyle application. For a monthly fee starting at SGD 80 (approximately 239,000 VND), subscribers gain access to three daily 'PASS', enabling them to enjoy complimentary products, services, or events sponsored by brands across various venues, including restaurants, hotels, bars, and clubs. The platform personalizes recommendations, offering exclusive experiences at discounted prices.

Hiip

Seed Round in 2017
Hiip Company Limited is an automated influencer platform based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with additional offices in Singapore, Bangkok, and Jakarta. Established in 2016, Hiip connects brands and advertisers with social influencers through a data-driven approach. The platform utilizes algorithms and social data to facilitate collaborations, helping businesses effectively reach their target customers and enhance brand reputation. By streamlining the process of influencer marketing, Hiip aims to support e-commerce and other companies in promoting their products and boosting sales. With its significant presence in Vietnam, Hiip has emerged as a leading player in the online advertising sector.

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 Company Limited is an automated influencer platform based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with additional offices in Singapore, Bangkok, and Jakarta. Established in 2016, Hiip connects brands and advertisers with social influencers through a data-driven approach. The platform utilizes algorithms and social data to facilitate collaborations, helping businesses effectively reach their target customers and enhance brand reputation. By streamlining the process of influencer marketing, Hiip aims to support e-commerce and other companies in promoting their products and boosting sales. With its significant presence in Vietnam, Hiip has emerged as a leading player in the online advertising sector.

Smartly

Seed Round in 2016
Smartly is a Singapore-based financial technology company that operates a robo-advisor platform designed to simplify investing for individuals with limited financial knowledge. The company addresses common barriers to investment, such as complexity, lack of transparency, and high management fees associated with traditional asset management. By utilizing algorithms, Smartly recommends personalized, globally diversified portfolios of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tailored to individual risk profiles, allowing investors to participate with relatively small amounts of capital at lower costs. In addition to its investment platform, Smartly is developing an educational component that aims to enhance financial literacy among users through animated videos, thereby providing clarity and confidence in the investment process.

SwarmX

Seed Round in 2016
SwarmX is a Singapore-based company founded in 2015 by Pulkit Jaiswal, specializing in autonomous drone operations. It develops innovative technologies aimed at enhancing the capabilities of drone fleets for security and surveillance applications. The company's flagship product, Hive, serves as an autonomous drone base station equipped with weather sensing technology to facilitate effective mission planning. Additionally, SwarmX offers HiveMind OS, a command and control center that enables the management of drone swarms and provides alerts for user-defined events involving people, vehicles, and static objects. Through its platform, SwarmX empowers clients to gather detailed insights, enabling them to make data-driven decisions for improved operational efficiency.

Boxgreen

Seed Round in 2016
Boxgreen is an e-commerce subscription platform based in Singapore, founded in 2014. The company specializes in curating and delivering a selection of nutritious snacks directly to customers' offices or doorsteps. With a choice of 20 snack options, Boxgreen focuses on providing healthy snacks made from wholesome ingredients that are free from artificial flavoring and coloring. This approach allows consumers to enjoy convenient snacking without compromising their health and fitness goals.

Flying Chalks

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Flying Chalks is a tech-driven platform designed to simplify the study abroad process for students. By digitalizing up to 80% of this journey, the company aims to eliminate the complexities associated with traditional agencies, thereby improving the success rates of school, visa, and scholarship applications. As one of the pioneering Edtech companies in its region, Flying Chalks provides a comprehensive solution that supports students from the initial stages of their study abroad journey through to completion. The company is strategically positioned to capitalize on two significant trends: the increasing number of Asian students seeking to study closer to home and the accelerated move towards digitalization, particularly in the wake of the pandemic. Headquartered in Singapore, Flying Chalks also maintains branch offices in South Korea, Vietnam, and Hong Kong.

ShopVenture

Seed Round in 2016
ShopVenture is a web-based platform that allows fashion and lifestyle consumers to share and review their online shopping experiences. Founded in 2014 by Min Yong and Julie dePontbriand, the company is headquartered in New York City. Users can add various shops to the platform's database, categorized by areas such as fashion, accessories, books, food, children, pets, and sporting goods. The platform enables users to rate and review their experiences, helping others make informed purchasing decisions. Additionally, ShopVenture features a customized recommendation engine that assists users in discovering new stores and products, while also providing online retailers with tools to request customer reviews, enhance brand trust, and engage with both new and potential customers.

STYLHUNT

Seed Round in 2016
STYLHUNT Pte Ltd operates a community-driven social commerce platform based in Bangkok, Thailand. Founded in 2014, the platform addresses the challenges shoppers face in finding reliable stores by aggregating thousands of merchants and allowing users to filter their search based on style and trustworthiness. Unlike traditional search engines, STYLHUNT optimizes results for social media content, making it easier for consumers to connect with shops that align with their preferences. The company also maintains a directory of shops indexed by popularity and trust, enhancing the shopping experience by providing a curated selection of merchants.

Organo-Circuit

Seed Round in 2016
Organo Circuit specializes in the development of innovative display screens for indoor advertising. The company's offerings include flexible and lightweight LED displays that utilize proprietary data transfer systems and color electronic paper technology. These products are designed to provide a cost-effective and energy-efficient solution for digital signage, making it accessible for various businesses. By focusing on low power consumption and affordability, Organo Circuit aims to enhance the effectiveness of indoor advertising with modern display technology.

Vybes

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Vybes is a Singapore-based platform established in 2019 that enables influencers to promote and sell products on social media, earning commissions from each sale. The company provides marketplace tools that allow influencers, regardless of their follower count, to reach a broader audience and potentially double their income. By leveraging proprietary technology and a deep understanding of the influencer landscape, Vybes effectively connects brands with suitable influencers, facilitating partnerships that benefit both parties. This innovative approach not only enhances the visibility of upcoming brands but also empowers influencers to monetize their social media presence.

Hoozing

Seed Round in 2016
Hoozing Co. Ltd, established in 2015, operates a digital platform that facilitates apartment searches, rentals, and purchases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The company's core business is an online marketplace that connects users with long-term accommodation options, fostering a community of renters. Hoozing's unique approach involves sourcing listings directly from current tenants who are moving out, providing potential renters with firsthand insights into the properties and neighborhoods. Additionally, Hoozing offers a mobile application for real estate agents to boost their income and consultancy services for property sales and leasing.

AxleRate

Seed Round in 2015
AxleRate is a technology-driven company that provides a comprehensive platform for the fintech logistics ecosystem. It focuses on enhancing logistics management by enabling users to monitor and manage their expenses effectively. Additionally, AxleRate develops innovative solutions for passenger security and engagement, offering applications that facilitate real-time vehicle tracking, distance calculations, and complex fare assessments. This dual approach ensures that individuals remain secure, informed, and engaged throughout their logistics experience.

Couper Pte

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.

Wootag

Seed Round in 2015
Wootag Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore-based company established in 2013 that specializes in video marketing services. It operates a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to enhance the video consumption experience through interactive content. This platform enables marketers to create videos that not only engage viewers but also provide real-time analytics on consumer interactions, thereby facilitating a deeper understanding of audience behavior. With over five million viewers globally engaging with Wootag's videos, the company empowers both individuals and businesses to promote their works and connect with audiences in innovative ways. By enabling features such as direct product purchases from videos and delivering informative content within the viewing experience, Wootag aims to transform traditional marketing strategies and enhance communication objectives for its clients.

Yogatrail

Seed Round in 2015
YogaTrail is a business-management platform designed specifically for yoga professionals to manage and grow their yoga businesses. It offers a comprehensive marketing package tailored for yoga providers, facilitating updates from preferred yoga teachers and studios. The platform allows users to manage yoga classes, engage with students, accept bookings, and attract new clients. By providing a centralized space for yoga practitioners to access unbiased information, share opinions, and stay informed about local news and events, YogaTrail supports yoga professionals in maintaining effective communication with their clients and enhancing their overall business operations.

ShopVenture

Seed Round in 2015
ShopVenture is a web-based platform that allows fashion and lifestyle consumers to share and review their online shopping experiences. Founded in 2014 by Min Yong and Julie dePontbriand, the company is headquartered in New York City. Users can add various shops to the platform's database, categorized by areas such as fashion, accessories, books, food, children, pets, and sporting goods. The platform enables users to rate and review their experiences, helping others make informed purchasing decisions. Additionally, ShopVenture features a customized recommendation engine that assists users in discovering new stores and products, while also providing online retailers with tools to request customer reviews, enhance brand trust, and engage with both new and potential customers.

2C2P

Seed Round in 2008
2C2P is a comprehensive payments platform based in Singapore that enables enterprises to securely accept and process payments through a single integration point. The company supports a wide range of payment methods across online, mobile, and offline channels, boasting a network that includes over 400,000 alternative payment locations. 2C2P caters to both banked and unbanked transactions, providing e-commerce and mobile commerce payment solutions that facilitate peer-to-peer payments, money transfers, and other banking activities. Additionally, the platform offers value-added services such as issuing, 3D Secure, bill payments, and digital goods, making it a preferred choice for technology firms, online marketplaces, retailers, and global enterprises seeking efficient and secure payment solutions.
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