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

Senior Associate

Anix Lynch

Managing Partner

Satinka Ma

Partner

Mathilda Ma

Partner

Mike Plichta

Partner

Krista Supavatanakul

Partner

Rosalind Tan Yan Ching

Partner

Jerry Wang

Partner

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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. The company serves over 2,000 businesses across 42 countries, offering a platform that streamlines the scheduling and automation of sales and marketing calls. Novocall’s technology converts website visitors into call leads by automatically routing calls to appropriate team members based on predefined criteria such as language, location, and business function. This functionality enhances the efficiency of sales and marketing teams, allowing them to better convert digital leads into meaningful sales conversations while improving overall customer experience.

Meticuly

Series A in 2019
Meticuly is a medical device company that specializes in AI-driven design and 3D-printed titanium implants tailored for cranial, maxillofacial, and orthopedic surgeries. Founded in 2017, the company utilizes advanced AI technology and precision manufacturing to create custom implants, ensuring the fastest lead times in the industry. Meticuly has successfully completed over 1,700 cases in more than 160 hospitals across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the UK, and has recently expanded into the U.S. market. The company holds 71 intellectual properties, underscoring its commitment to innovation and quality, which has earned it recognition as the 2024 WIPO Global Award winner for excellence in intellectual property. Meticuly adheres to ISO 13485 and Medical Device Single Audit Program standards, emphasizing its dedication to enhancing clinical outcomes and patient care. The company is pioneering the future of medical implants by implementing scalable 3D printing technology at the point of care, marking a significant advancement in personalized patient treatment.

Bellugg

Series A in 2019
Bellugg is an on-demand luggage delivery service operating in Bangkok and Pattaya, Thailand. The company focuses on providing travelers with a convenient solution for transporting their luggage between airports and hotels. By allowing customers to leave their luggage at designated storage locations or directly at their hotels, Bellugg eliminates the need for waiting in long lines and carrying heavy bags, thereby enhancing the overall travel experience. Additionally, the service offers real-time tracking of luggage status, ensuring peace of mind for users. Through its platform, Bellugg aims to streamline the travel process, making it easier and more enjoyable for travelers.

Hungry Hub

Seed Round in 2019
Hungry Hub is a dining platform based in Thailand that specializes in fixed-price meal offers at various restaurants. It allows diners to book tables and enjoy meals at predetermined prices, eliminating the uncertainty of final bills. The service provides exclusive deals that are not available to walk-in customers or those who reserve by phone, ensuring a unique dining experience. Additionally, Hungry Hub supports restaurants by helping them enhance customer engagement and drive revenue through sustainable promotions, while also offering diners the advantage of knowing their food costs upfront.

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 service based in Singapore that specializes in curating and delivering a selection of natural snacks. Founded in 2014, the company offers a variety of 20 snack options, all made with wholesome ingredients and free from artificial flavoring and coloring. BoxGreen aims to provide consumers with nutritious snacks that support a healthy lifestyle, delivering them directly to offices or doorsteps on a monthly basis. The service focuses on making it easy for individuals to enjoy healthy snacking without compromising their well-being.

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 operates as an online marketplace for event venues, facilitating a seamless connection between venue owners and users seeking locations for events. The platform allows venue owners to list a variety of properties, including hotels, restaurants, bars, and unique spaces. Users can search for available venues based on criteria such as location, type of occasion, and guest count. This streamlined approach enables clients to efficiently short-list options and receive quotes, simplifying the process of organizing corporate and other events.

dipp

Seed Round in 2018
dipp is a brand management software-as-a-service solution designed to enhance the efficiency of e-commerce operations. By integrating brand asset management, design automation, and team collaboration, dipp caters to both international brands and e-commerce agencies, streamlining the management of online stores. The platform employs artificial intelligence to automate the creation of marketing content, facilitating storytelling through on-brand digital marketing campaigns. Additionally, it supports cross-departmental collaboration and offers cloud-based management of brand assets, enabling clients to efficiently distribute marketing content across various digital platforms. Notable clients include Levi's and The Estee Lauder Companies, showcasing dipp's capability to serve prominent brands in the e-commerce sector.

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 web platform designed to assist financial institutions with regulatory compliance management. Leveraging the largest financial regulatory database in the Asia-Pacific region, it offers tools for collaborative regulatory review, centralized data access, and cross-jurisdiction regulation comparisons. The platform streamlines regulatory change management by using artificial intelligence to automate policy management and compliance monitoring, thus providing valuable insights and facilitating the identification of key compliance actions. This solution is particularly beneficial for fund management companies of all sizes, enabling them to efficiently navigate complex regulatory landscapes and respond effectively to regulatory changes.

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 is a subscription-based lifestyle application that allows subscribers to access a variety of products, services, and events offered by various brands. For a monthly fee starting at 239,000 VND, subscribers receive three PASS each day, which can be used to enjoy the offerings available on the platform. The application not only provides structured information but also generates personalized recommendations, allowing users to attend exclusive events and experiences at discounted rates. By connecting users with sponsored opportunities, WisePass enhances their lifestyle choices while promoting brand engagement.

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 that operates a next-generation robo-advisor platform designed to simplify the investment process for users with limited financial knowledge. The platform offers an automated wealth management solution, utilizing algorithms to create personalized, globally diversified portfolios of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tailored to individual risk profiles. Smartly aims to make investing accessible by allowing users to invest small amounts of money while minimizing fees and ensuring full transparency. In addition to its investment services, Smartly is also developing an educational platform featuring animated videos to enhance financial literacy and provide users with a better understanding of investing fundamentals. This dual approach seeks to empower average investors, offering them more opportunities and confidence in managing their financial futures.

SwarmX

Seed Round in 2016
SwarmX is a Singapore-based company founded in 2015 by Pulkit Jaiswal, specializing in autonomous drone operation solutions. The company has developed Hive, an autonomous drone base station equipped with weather sensing technology for effective mission planning. SwarmX also offers HiveMind OS, a command and control center that allows users to manage drone swarms and generates alerts for various user-defined events concerning people, vehicles, and static objects. By providing a digital interface for fleet management, SwarmX aims to enhance security and surveillance applications, enabling clients to gain detailed insights for informed decision-making.

Boxgreen

Seed Round in 2016
BoxGreen is an e-commerce subscription service based in Singapore that specializes in curating and delivering a selection of natural snacks. Founded in 2014, the company offers a variety of 20 snack options, all made with wholesome ingredients and free from artificial flavoring and coloring. BoxGreen aims to provide consumers with nutritious snacks that support a healthy lifestyle, delivering them directly to offices or doorsteps on a monthly basis. The service focuses on making it easy for individuals to enjoy healthy snacking without compromising their well-being.

Flying Chalks

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Flying Chalks is a technology-driven platform designed to simplify the study abroad experience for students. By digitalizing up to 80% of the study abroad journey, it aims to eliminate the complexities associated with traditional agents and increase the success rates of school, visa, and scholarship applications. As one of the pioneering Edtech companies in the region, Flying Chalks offers a comprehensive solution that guides students from start to finish in their pursuit of international education. The company is well-positioned to capitalize on emerging trends, including the growing number of Asian students studying abroad and the increasing demand for digital solutions, particularly following the pandemic. Headquartered in Singapore, Flying Chalks also has branch offices in South Korea, Vietnam, and Hong Kong.

ShopVenture

Seed Round in 2016
ShopVenture is a web-based platform designed for fashion and lifestyle consumers to share and evaluate their online shopping experiences. Founded in 2014 by Min Yong and Julie dePontbriand and headquartered in New York City, the platform allows users to contribute to a comprehensive database of shops across various categories, including fashion, accessories, books, food, children, pets, and sporting goods. Users can rate and review their experiences, helping others make informed purchasing decisions. Additionally, the platform features a recommendation engine that enables users to discover new stores and products. By facilitating customer reviews, ShopVenture assists online retailers in building trust and engaging with both new and existing 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 founded in 2019 that connects influencers with brands, allowing influencers to promote and sell products to their followers. The platform provides marketplace tools that enable influencers to select items from emerging brands and earn commissions on each sale, effectively broadening their income potential. By leveraging proprietary technology and a deep understanding of the influencer landscape, Vybes facilitates partnerships between influencers and brands, enhancing exposure and engagement for both parties. This model empowers millions of influencers to monetize their social media presence while helping brands reach targeted audiences.

Hoozing

Seed Round in 2016
Hoozing is an online marketplace focused on facilitating the search and rental of long-term accommodations, aiming to make the process straightforward and reliable. The platform connects users with a community of renters, sourcing listings directly from current tenants who are preparing to move out. This approach allows prospective renters to engage with existing tenants, gaining valuable insights about the properties and their neighborhoods. Hoozing's model enhances transparency and trust, enabling users to find suitable residences that meet their budget and amenity requirements in their desired locations.

AxleRate

Seed Round in 2015
Axlerate is a comprehensive platform designed for the fintech logistics ecosystem, providing a unified solution for managing expenses and logistics operations. The company has developed innovative technology that enhances passenger security and engagement through real-time vehicle tracking and complex fare calculations. This application enables users to remain secure, informed, and aware of their transportation options, thus improving overall efficiency and safety in logistics. Axlerate's focus on integrating technology with logistics aims to streamline operations and enhance the user experience in the transportation sector.

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., founded in 2013 and based in Singapore, specializes in video marketing services through its innovative software-as-a-service platform. This platform allows businesses to create interactive videos that enhance viewer engagement and provide valuable insights into consumer behavior. By enabling users to incorporate in-video experiences across various mediums and advertisements, Wootag helps marketers better understand their audience and achieve their communication goals. The platform's enhanced analytics engine offers real-time insights, allowing businesses to adapt their strategies based on viewer interactions. With over 5 million global viewers engaging with Wootag's videos, the company emphasizes the potential of video as a dynamic tool for generating leads, driving sales, and fostering deeper connections between brands and consumers.

Yogatrail

Seed Round in 2015
YogaTrail is a business-management platform designed to support yoga professionals in managing and growing their practices. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools that includes marketing packages for yoga providers, updates from preferred yoga teachers and studios, class management, student engagement, booking acceptance, and client acquisition. This platform serves as a hub for yogis, providing them with unbiased information, the ability to share opinions, and access to local news and events. By streamlining business operations and enhancing communication, YogaTrail enables yoga professionals to effectively connect with their clients and keep them informed about classes, events, and announcements.

ShopVenture

Seed Round in 2015
ShopVenture is a web-based platform designed for fashion and lifestyle consumers to share and evaluate their online shopping experiences. Founded in 2014 by Min Yong and Julie dePontbriand and headquartered in New York City, the platform allows users to contribute to a comprehensive database of shops across various categories, including fashion, accessories, books, food, children, pets, and sporting goods. Users can rate and review their experiences, helping others make informed purchasing decisions. Additionally, the platform features a recommendation engine that enables users to discover new stores and products. By facilitating customer reviews, ShopVenture assists online retailers in building trust and engaging with both new and existing customers.

2C2P

Seed Round in 2008
2C2P is a comprehensive payments platform based in Singapore that facilitates secure payment acceptance and processing for enterprises worldwide. It offers a single point of integration for online, mobile, and offline transactions, connecting to over 400,000 alternative payment locations to help businesses reach a diverse customer base. The platform supports both banked and unbanked transactions, enhancing e-commerce and m-commerce capabilities. In addition to payment processing, 2C2P provides a range of value-added services, including issuing, 3D Secure, bill payments, and digital goods, catering to the varied needs of its clients. The company serves a wide array of industries, including technology, online marketplaces, and retail, making it a preferred choice for global enterprises seeking efficient and secure payment solutions.
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