Startup-O

Startup-O is a global venture platform based in Singapore, established in 2016, that specializes in assessing and scaling startups. It operates under an 'Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs' ethos, focusing on post-revenue startups and leveraging a data-driven methodology that combines expert evaluations and ranking algorithms to identify top tech opportunities. The platform has gained the trust of over 2,000 startups across more than 40 countries, facilitating access to venture funds and extensive partner networks in 15 countries. Startup-O has successfully assisted numerous companies in securing seed to pre-Series A funding and has engaged many others in cross-border scaling initiatives. The organization collaborates with various partners, including Enterprise Singapore, to support first-time founders and has been instrumental in commercializing deep tech innovations alongside institutions like A*Star Accelerate. Recognized for its significant contributions to the startup ecosystem, Startup-O was awarded the top position in Asia in 2019, standing out among numerous participants, including prominent venture capitalists and innovation entities.

Hemant Jai

Portfolio Manager and Managing Director - Startup-O Ventures

Konno, Satoshi

Partner - Startup-O, Japan

Nitin Nath

Co-Founder and CEO Startup-O Ventures

Sudeep Sarma

Managing Director

Saurav Sen

Managing Director

Gurbir Singh

Financial Analyst

24 past transactions

InvestaX

Series A in 2022
InvestaX is a financial services company that offers an online platform that focuses on digital securities and financial investment for real estate, private equity, and venture capital. Its platform specializes in real estate investment, finance, technology, private equity, digital securities, DSO, and blockchain. InvestaX was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Singapore.

Elude

Seed Round in 2021
Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to. Think, 'Where can I go next weekend for $500 bucks?' Elude books your trip and shows true market transparency in the otherwise cloudy and non-linear travel space.

Veremark

Seed Round in 2021
Veremark is a pre-employment screening startup. Veremark provides an automated solution that helps companies verify employee credentials such as employment history as well as academic, criminal, and credit records.

Elude

Seed Round in 2021
Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to. Think, 'Where can I go next weekend for $500 bucks?' Elude books your trip and shows true market transparency in the otherwise cloudy and non-linear travel space.

Flying Cape

Series A in 2021
Flying Cape Pte Ltd is an edtech company based in Singapore that operates an online booking and advisory platform for tuition and enrichment classes. Established in 2015, it caters to a wide range of learners, including preschool, primary, secondary, tertiary, and adult students. The platform offers classes across various categories, such as mind and body, character building, real-world skills, tuition, student and child care, and learning techniques. Flying Cape also provides diagnostic tools supported by validated research, helping users gain insights into their unique profiles and interests. This enables students to enhance their efficiency and effectiveness in lifelong learning, while also assisting education providers in reaching a global audience.

Distichain

Seed Round in 2021
Distichain is a B2B solution automating global trade through its ecosystem of verification, fintech, customs and regulations, and supply-chain solutions. The platform enables end-to-end transactions, fully digitizing import and export across all sectors and industries.

WorkOnGrid

Seed Round in 2020
WorkOnGrid is an information technology and services company. It is specialized in data collection, data analytics, data visualization, reporting, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and more. It is to help businesses adopt technology through products and services with a focus on enabling data-driven decisions. It is to create internal applications that delight employees while helping them build data as a digital asset.

Lumitics

Seed Round in 2020
Lumitics, based in Singapore and incorporated in 2017, specializes in developing a sensor-based food waste tracking system known as Insight. This innovative solution utilizes advanced sensors and proprietary image recognition technology to accurately weigh and identify the types of food discarded by restaurants and kitchens. By providing businesses with critical data on their food waste, Lumitics aims to help the food and beverage industry reduce waste, improve operational efficiency, and enhance profitability. Through its smart tracking system, Lumitics empowers food establishments to gain valuable insights into their waste management practices, ultimately fostering a more sustainable approach to food consumption and disposal.

SGeBIZ

Seed Round in 2019
SGeBIZ is a SME Fintech Enabler. Over 4,000 organizations rely on SGeBIZ for digital solutions ranging from procurement to invoicing, payment, and collection. SGeBIZ's innovative platform enables businesses, both locally and globally, with more effective operations through real-time data and analytics, thanks to significant ties with financial institutions, schemes, and a solid client base.

Good Foods Group

Seed Round in 2019
Good Foods Group manufactures processed refrigerated food and juices.

Pivotchain Solutions

Seed Round in 2019
PivotChain is a Data science company focused on Deep learning and advanced analytics based out of India. The team has a strong background in Financial modeling, Deep learning and statistical techniques.

KyePot

Seed Round in 2019
Kyepot is a mobile platform that offers users with social financial services, including community-based saving, lending, and borrowing facilities. Users can find a group or create a group and carry out their financial transactions. They can perform real-time, automated payments over web and mobile platforms. Kyepot is focussed on India's markets

Elude

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to. Think, 'Where can I go next weekend for $500 bucks?' Elude books your trip and shows true market transparency in the otherwise cloudy and non-linear travel space.

Pragyaam

Seed Round in 2019
Pragyaam provides information technology and data analytics services.
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) is the lead agency for fostering world-class scientific research and talent for a vibrant knowledge-based and innovation-driven Singapore. A*STAR oversees 18 biomedical sciences and physical sciences and engineering research entities, located in Biopolis and Fusionopolis as well as their immediate vicinity. A*STAR supports Singapore's key economic clusters by providing intellectual, human and industrial capital to its partners in industry. It also supports extramural research in the universities, hospitals, research centres, and with other local and international partners.

Almug Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Almug provides structured and unstructured data management solutions using AI, enabling businesses to recognize the value inherent in their data. They provide financial professionals and institutions in investment research and decision support with data products and solutions.

MedLabz.com

Seed Round in 2018
MedLabz aims to organise diagnostics in India with primary focus on customer service, quality and affordability. Through us, patients in need can search and book diagnostic tests from reputed diagnostics labs. They can compare various labs based on affordability, location, ratings and accessibility. While onboarding the labs, we keep a considerable focus on lab and report quality.

impress.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Launched in 2017, impress.ai is a no-code, self-service platform that is highly focused on simplifying and accelerating various parts of the recruitment workflow. AI chatbots are utilised to create a seamless interview experience for candidates, answering queries with a 96 percent accuracy rate while simultaneously providing assessments and assigning an overall metric value to the candidate. Based on industrial organisation (I/O) psychology, the AI algorithm can be localised to account for different hiring regulations, language, practices and cultural sensitivities to help enterprises stay agile in the dynamic world of recruitment.

impress.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Launched in 2017, impress.ai is a no-code, self-service platform that is highly focused on simplifying and accelerating various parts of the recruitment workflow. AI chatbots are utilised to create a seamless interview experience for candidates, answering queries with a 96 percent accuracy rate while simultaneously providing assessments and assigning an overall metric value to the candidate. Based on industrial organisation (I/O) psychology, the AI algorithm can be localised to account for different hiring regulations, language, practices and cultural sensitivities to help enterprises stay agile in the dynamic world of recruitment.

Whizpace

Seed Round in 2017
Whizpace is specializes in white-space communications specifically on TV White Space. Whizpace provides communication solutions to harness underutilized spectrum in an opportunistic manner using intelligent technologies to enable better utilization of spectrum. We start with the opportunistic use of TV spectrum using this technology which is termed as TV White Space or a.k.a. Super Wi-Fi. ​

HackerTrail

Seed Round in 2017
A candidate-first recruitment solution that leverages smart tech & a growing community to connect techies with top jobs.
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