Quest Ventures

Quest Ventures Pte. Ltd. is a venture capital and private equity firm established in 2011 and headquartered in Singapore, with additional offices across several key cities in Asia. The firm specializes in investing across various stages of business development, including seed, startup, early-stage, growth, expansion, and mature stage investments. Quest Ventures focuses on sectors related to the digital economy, such as financial technology, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, agri-food technology, and smart cities. It aims to support technology companies that demonstrate scalability and replicability within large internet communities. The firm's investment strategy is informed by thorough research and local insights, enabling it to drive transformation in industries facing challenges while fostering collaboration with emerging startups throughout the region.

Jeffrey Seah

Partner, Asia Fund II

Past deals in Kazakhstan

CTOgram

Seed Round in 2021
CTOgram is a Kazakhstan-based automotive start-up focused on developing a mobile application that facilitates the quick search for service stations and auto parts. The platform allows customers to efficiently purchase automotive spare parts and access various vehicle services, including repair, maintenance, and washing. By streamlining these processes, CTOgram aims to help customers maintain their vehicles more effectively and at a lower cost.

beGAME

Pre Seed Round in 2021
beGAME lets you to play latest computer games on old PC even without GPU. We use computer clubs computing power to provide which gives us opportunity to decentralize our service.

Bank4.me

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bank4.me service will help financial organizations to get clients, and clients bear minimal labor and time costs to find the financial product they need. The services cover the full cycle of lending and specialize in lending in online stores, retail stores and customer identification of banks.

Python RPA

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We are a tool for automating routine business processes for companies with a staff of more than 500 people who want to improve their efficiency Our clients love us because we make their work more interesting, freeing them from routine, and prefer us to competitors, because we are 3-5 times cheaper than direct competitors and many times faster and easier than traditional automation Employees of large companies spend 30% to 60% of their time daily on routine work. With the help of our automation tool, we free employees from routine, allowing them to do more important and interesting work.

SmarTestPrep

Pre Seed Round in 2021
SmarTestPrep lets you assess your chances of acceptance into a certain university instantly and guides you through finding best school fit and scholarships, test prep, essay writing, and applications for $25 a month.

Clockster

Seed Round in 2020
Clockster LLP designs and develops a cloud based human resource management platform. The company's platform provides a cloud-based time and attendance solution and allows to track attendance, calculate work hours, and get reports and analytics. The company's application is available on the Android and iOS platforms. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Astana, Kazakhstan.

1FIT

Pre Seed Round in 2020
1Fit is a dynamically growing startup offering fitness classes via a mobile app. Our goal is to make a healthy lifestyle as affordable as possible.

Smart Gas Global

Seed Round in 2020
Smart Gas – is an electronic service that unites 3 parties: a driver, a corporate client and a gas station, while not disrupting their usual way of interaction, but only changing and complementing it. For a corporate client, the service provides an electronic document flow and replaces paper coupons and fuel cards, thereby completely eliminating theft and fuel losses. For a private driver, the System is a convenient means of paying and receiving service within their existing banking app, or other popular apps. On the gas station side, the service is a communication channel with Drivers, a marketing tool for increasing sales and serving corporate clients. This service is designed to simplify the refueling process for Drivers, provide fuel control to corporate customers and provide gas stations with a powerful marketing tool to increase sales.

Essential Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Essential Technologies Ltd. is a software development company with a mission of providing innovative services to the market. We are a customer focused IT company, specialized in Computer Vision, high-load systems and cloud computing. Developed two software projects in two years and worked with one of the biggest construction companies - BI Group and providing services to several Kazakhstani universities such as Almaty Management University, Astana Medical University, KazATU etc.

EGISTIC

Pre Seed Round in 2020
EGISTIC Limited develops an online farm management system for farmers and consultants. The company offers an integrated solution for monitoring and managing crop areas. Its software provides satellite imageries and weather data to forecast problems areas, weather forecast, offline maps, and agrochemical analysis. EGISTIC Limited was founded in 2018 and is based in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

Retail Analytica, Ltd.

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Developers of hybrid systems for retail, a portfolio company of Quest Ventures