Private Equity Round in 2022
Carrot General Insurance is a digital insurance company.
TeamFresh is a cargo and freight company that provides logistics services.
Ninjacart operates an online business-to-business platform that connects farmers, manufactures, and brands to retailers directly through the lean and connected supply chain. Its platform enables the distribution of vegetables and fruits to retailers and restaurants across India. Ashutosh Vikram, Kartheeswaran K K, Sharath Loganathan, Thirukumaran Nagarajan, and Vasu Devan founded Ninjacart in July 2015. It has its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.
Private Equity Round in 2022
Musicow allows investors to buy or sell stakes in copyrights to K-Pop songs in a public auction or an online marketplace.
Coolmate is a Vietnamese menswear brand offering a wide range of apparel and accessories for men, from sportswear and office attire to everyday styles. They operate exclusively online through their own e-commerce website and popular e-commerce platforms in Vietnam. The company is headquartered in Hanoi & Hochiminh City, Vietnam.
BIORCHESTRA is a biotech company that develops RNA-based therapeutics for treating neuroinflammatory diseases. They focus on changing the therapeutic paradigm from treating the symptoms to providing a fundamental cure for diseases. BIORCHESTRA develops neuroinflammatory disease therapeutics, with a particular emphasis on comprehensive patient care. BIORCHESTRA's complementary discovery platforms range from diagnosis to treatment monitoring.
RSQUARE is a prop-tech startup based Korea. Started as an IT-based commercial real estate startup, RSQUARE is steadily expanding the business into new areas including interior design, remodeling, furniture, and electronics product sales. Rsquare.co.kr offers full service to search for vacant office spaces in the localities of Korea. Brokerage Office leasing, Leasing Management, Transaction, Warehouse leasing, and real estate services in foreign countries based on Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (www.rsquare.vn). Also, we provide interior design and remodeling service(www.rsquaredesign.co.kr) for our customers.
Tiki is an e-commerce company that specializes in an end-to-end supply chain, partnering with brands to deliver a wide range of products. The platform features over 300,000 items across various categories, ensuring high customer satisfaction through efficient logistics and customer service.
Private Equity Round in 2021
Carousell is a classifieds marketplace that allows people to buy and sell preloved items. It is a Singapore-based consumer-to-consumer marketplace app for iOS and Android. The Carousell marketplace has a diverse range of products across a variety of categories, including cars, lifestyle, gadgets, and fashion accessories. It has been ranked as the top Shopping app in Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Australia, and is backed by leading international Venture Capitalists Sequoia Capital, Rakuten Ventures, 500 Startups, Golden Gate Ventures, and QuestVC. Launched in Aug 2012, Carousell began in Singapore and has expanded to 19 cities around the world, spanning 7 countries.
Carrot General Insurance is a digital insurance company.
Coolmate is a Vietnamese menswear brand offering a wide range of apparel and accessories for men, from sportswear and office attire to everyday styles. They operate exclusively online through their own e-commerce website and popular e-commerce platforms in Vietnam. The company is headquartered in Hanoi & Hochiminh City, Vietnam.
Hansoll Textile is a global textile company that manufactures and exports mainly knit apparel.
Vpon Big Data Group is an Asia’s leading big data ad technology company founded in 2008. Possessed with extensive media resources reaching over 21 billion biddable inventories across Asia-Pacific, and advanced big data analytics technology, Vpon offers cross-border marketing solutions for O2O and e-commerce businesses to raise brand awareness and drive profitable transactions. Vpon is highly capable to serve clients across 12 Asia-Pacific countries with its five offices stationed in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo. As a progressive front runner in data technology, Vpon has an ever-expanding user coverage of 60 million of Asia tourists in 2017 and 900 million unique devices per month in 2016, raising tens of millions of US dollars in Series A and B funding rounds. Besides, Vpon works continuously with third-party tracking on embracing viewability and transparency, dedicated to maintain a healthy ecosystem and sustainable development in the industry. Vpon has also been widely recognized in the industry by winning a Bronze award for Greater China Specialist Agency of the Year for two consecutive years in 2016 and 2017. The company has also won the third place in 2015 Forbes China’s Top 100 Privately Held Small Businesses, making a substantial boost from its sixth place in 2014, and proving convincingly its excellent services and profession over 1500 renowned brands.
SYSTRAN S.A., founded in 1968 and headquartered in Paris, France, specializes in language translation software solutions, primarily serving clients in Europe and North America. The company offers a range of desktop translation products, including the SYSTRAN 7 series, which caters to various user needs by supporting multiple file formats such as plain text, PDFs, and professional documents. Additionally, SYSTRAN provides an enterprise server solution that integrates with business applications, facilitating efficient communication across diverse platforms. Its online services, accessible through SYSTRANet and other tools, enable the translation of web pages and documents. SYSTRAN has also adapted its technology for mobile use with its Mobile Translator for Apple devices. With a commitment to research and development, SYSTRAN has introduced advanced solutions like Neural Machine Translation, enhancing the capabilities of machine translation for corporate users. The company serves a diverse clientele, including individuals, enterprises, and governmental bodies, by offering both products and professional services to manage large volumes of multilingual data effectively.
Grab operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for driver-partners and customers in South East Asia. It offers services like GrabTaxi, GrabCar, GrabHitch, GrabShare, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus, GrabFamily, JustGrab, GrabNow, and GrabRental. Grab offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Lng founded it in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore. It has additional offices in Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta, and Vietnam.
Carplat is an integrated mobility platform that provides car rental and community car-sharing services.
Dunzo is a hyper-local delivery app that connects users to the nearest delivery partner. The delivery and e-commerce company offers services that include delivery of packages, groceries, food, medicines, pet supplies, and more. It strives to advance the retail landscape by providing micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) with digital tools and solutions to streamline and facilitate eCommerce sales. Dunzo is backed by investors Alteria Capital, Google, Lightbox, Evolvence, LGT Lightstone Aspada, and S Korea's Hana Financial Investment. It was co-founded by Ankur Aggarwal, Dalvir Suri, Kabeer Biswas, and Mukund Jha in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India in 2015.
Carplat is an integrated mobility platform that provides car rental and community car-sharing services.
M.MONSTAR is a software development firm that specializes in e-commerce solutions for fashion shopping malls.
swIDch is an information technology company that offers secure authentication through dynamic codes. Through our patented algorithm, we enable our clients to generate dynamic authentication codes in a network-less environment, that can alone be used to authenticate users. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, England.
inventory Lab is promoting the development of new and improved drugs for the treatment of refractory and chronic diseases by establishing a new drug delivery system. In addition, inventory will strategically develop various consumer-oriented pipelines to create new values of human happiness and technological innovation.
ulalaLAB is a South Korean startup company specializing in IIoT, SaaS and Machine Learning technologies, that develops, manufactures, and sells affordable and easy to implement IoT Smart Factory platform with AI based industrial big data analytics for small and medium size enterprise manufacturers both in Korea and abroad. We are dedicated to address issues that industries, people and society face every day by providing cost effective, easy to implement solutions that effectively combine innovative technologies with ‘human’ at the center of everything. We emphasize on importance of connected technology in human and machinery daily work balance with people and businesses conveniently utilizing our solutions to perform better more informed decisions. Our Smart Factory Platform a 'WimFactory' is a simplified solution that conveniently & cost effectively transforms SME factories into Industry 4.0 standards 'in minutes not month' by simply installing one or few of self-developed IIoT Devices 'Wicon' that works in a principal of plug & play technology. And jointly with Cloud Platform and Machine Learning capabilities enable factories to gain instant access to real time data by capturing, analyzing and displaying operations data from all types of sensors surrounding production line, even from old and outdated equipment, as a result significantly increasing quality control over factory operations - all without changing existing production line equipment and process or retraining employees and staff.
Tiki is an e-commerce company that specializes in an end-to-end supply chain, partnering with brands to deliver a wide range of products. The platform features over 300,000 items across various categories, ensuring high customer satisfaction through efficient logistics and customer service.
'Best business structure that connects crowdfunding, e-commerce, and brand business', 'Ready to go public on the Korean stock market', 'Accumulated transaction value of more than U$ 1 billion', '6.6 mil members, 10 mil monthly visitors', 'More than 18,000 crowdfunding projects in a year', 'Selected Korea’s Top 10 game changer brand by interbrand'
In the early days of E-Sports, unrivaled skills and overflowing enthusiasm towards games were the only two requisites to become a professional gamer. Nowadays with the rise of global E-Sports fandoms, performance became only one of many requisites of a pro-gamer. Fans are connected to pro-gamers everywhere through various channels such as SNS and live & video platforms. In order to satisfy their needs and be loved by them, a professional gamer needs more than just playing games. E-Sportainment is the compound word of E-Sports and Entertainment. It’s the most explicit and mission-oriented word to describe what STILL8 does. Combining entertainment factors with E-Sports, we help current pro-gamers to boost their talents and retired pro-gamers to sustain their career. Playing games is one part, amusing fans with various entertainments is another. As so, STILL8 ultimately pursues the E-Sports of the gamer, by the gamer, and for the gamer.
Yanadoo is a fast-growing English conversation training company. Yanadoo offers an English vocabulary app that is designed to help users learn new words in 10 minutes a day.
Private Equity Round in 2014
SYSTRAN S.A., founded in 1968 and headquartered in Paris, France, specializes in language translation software solutions, primarily serving clients in Europe and North America. The company offers a range of desktop translation products, including the SYSTRAN 7 series, which caters to various user needs by supporting multiple file formats such as plain text, PDFs, and professional documents. Additionally, SYSTRAN provides an enterprise server solution that integrates with business applications, facilitating efficient communication across diverse platforms. Its online services, accessible through SYSTRANet and other tools, enable the translation of web pages and documents. SYSTRAN has also adapted its technology for mobile use with its Mobile Translator for Apple devices. With a commitment to research and development, SYSTRAN has introduced advanced solutions like Neural Machine Translation, enhancing the capabilities of machine translation for corporate users. The company serves a diverse clientele, including individuals, enterprises, and governmental bodies, by offering both products and professional services to manage large volumes of multilingual data effectively.
PlaySpan™ is the global leader in monetization solutions for over 1,000 online games, virtual worlds, and social networks. PlaySpan's patent-pending in-game digital goods commerce and micropayment platform enables game publishers and developers to generate new revenues, acquire new users, and extend the loyalty of existing users. PlaySpan also provides global payment solutions through its UltimatePay product which enables users to make safe, convenient, and friendly in-app purchases using over 85 global payment methods in 180 countries. UltimatePay includes PlaySpan’s ULTIMATE GAME CARD, which is a pre-paid card available in over 45,000 retail locations across North America and growing rapidly worldwide. PlaySpan is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Ohio, Virginia, and Mumbai. Investors include Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, STIC and Novel TMT Ventures. The company won the 2009 OnHollywood Category Award for Best Gaming Company.
Bermai is pioneering high performance, ultra-integrated chipsets for wireless applications and delivering innovative systems for single and multi-band connectivity that support the IEEE 802.11 family of standards. Bermai's designs with unmatched integration are optimized to deliver extended range and performance, power efficiency and flexibility at a significant cost advantage. These ultra-integrated solutions greatly simplify product development and enable wireless equipment manufacturers to design high performance products faster and with dramatic cost efficiencies. With a "done it before" management team, over 50 decades of combined engineering experience, and core competencies in RF analog, digital signal processing, OFDM and CMOS disciplines, Bermai is strongly positioned to play a key role in advancing wireless communications technologies. Founded in March 2001, Bermai's renowned co-founders are Dr. Ramesh Harjani, a recognized authority in the fields of CMOS radio frequency circuits, low-power analog design and mixed-signal testing, and Dr. Jaekyun Moon, a recognized authority in the fields of channel characterization and signal processing for digital communications. Bruce Sanguinetti, wireless industry veteran and former president and co-founder of BreezeCOM (now known as Alvarion), leads Bermai as president and chief executive officer. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Bermai has received a total of $34 million in financing from key venture capitalists and strategic investors including Advanced Technology Ventures, Blueprint Ventures, Brightstone Capital, Mobius Venture Capital (formerly Softbank), the STIC Ventures fund backed by LG Electronics, and Walden International Investment Group.
Softonnet Inc. in virtualization and cloud computing market of East Asia. Softonnet’s patented on-demand-based streaming technology, along with software and disk virtualization technology, has been providing “the complete cloud computing” environment to various types of organizations.