Vertex Growth

Vertex Growth is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and headquartered in Singapore, specializing in growth stage investments primarily in the technology and healthcare sectors. It focuses on making minority later-stage and growth equity investments across a diverse range of industries, including software, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, fintech, health technology, and robotics, among others. As part of a global network of venture capital funds, Vertex Growth collaborates with partners across innovation hubs in China, Israel, Southeast Asia, India, and the United States. This extensive network allows portfolio companies to leverage shared resources and expertise, facilitating their potential for growth and success in competitive markets.

Hiok Chiou Chan

Executive Director, Investment

Yuki Hayashi

Director, Investment

Honghui Jiang

Managing Director, Investment

Tracy Jin

Senior Executive Director, Investment

James Lee

General Partner

Hock C Tam

General Partner

26 past transactions

Ace Turtle

Series B in 2023
Ace Turtle Services Pvt Ltd is a technology and services company based in Bengaluru, India, specializing in e-commerce and multichannel solutions for brands and retailers. Established in 2013, the company offers a comprehensive platform that integrates online and offline retail channels, facilitating automated omnichannel fulfillment. Its services include technology, logistics, customer support, and marketing, aimed at improving the post-click commerce experience. Ace Turtle's enterprise solutions enable businesses to optimize inventory management, enhance margins, and increase in-store traffic through a robust order management system. The company also provides marketing solutions focused on proximity, augmented, and performance marketing, allowing brands to extend their reach into new markets and business models. With an additional office in Singapore, Ace Turtle is committed to helping brands and retailers navigate the complexities of omnichannel transformation.

Cymulate

Series D in 2022
Cymulate Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for breach and attack simulation, enabling organizations to evaluate their security posture. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Rishon LeZion, Israel, with additional offices in New York and Tokyo, Cymulate's platform allows users to simulate various attack strategies employed by hackers. This helps businesses identify vulnerabilities, validate their security controls, and gain actionable insights to enhance their defenses against cyber threats. The platform supports a range of applications, including immediate threat assessment, security posture evaluation, and compliance enablement, thereby assisting organizations in safeguarding their critical assets in an increasingly complex security landscape.

Geek+

Series E in 2022
Geek+ has delivered the largest numbers of logistics robots among its peers in China. The company's customers include e-commerce platforms, third-party logistics providers, express delivery companies, offline retailers and manufacturers of apparels, pharmaceuticals, automobiles and electronics products. Geek+ has also established strategic partnerships with a number of key customers to co-develop customized AI and robotic solutions across different industries and applications.

Kissht

Venture Round in 2022
Kissht is a financial technology platform that offers instant credit solutions for consumers, facilitating purchases at both online and offline digital points of sale. Operated by Onemi Technology Solutions Private Limited, the platform features easily integrable gateway APIs that allow merchants to incorporate seamless credit access into their checkout processes. Kissht employs a proprietary self-learning algorithm to evaluate customers' credit profiles based on their digital footprints, enabling the rapid processing of loan applications. This approach ensures that users can access a variety of financing options with flexible repayment plans, aiming to provide a swift and hassle-free lending experience across India.

Janio

Series A in 2022
Janio provides cross-border logistics services that simplifies deliveries across borders. The company integrates the logistics chain by creating strategic partnerships with a wide network of quality service providers, connecting clients with logistics partners through the proprietary data-driven platform. The company is committed on simplifying logistics to give clients control over the supply chain. The company provides solutions across different locations in Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Mainland China, and Thailand. Janio was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.

al+

Series H in 2022
al+ is a Personal Artificial Intelligence which reconstructs individual personalities on the cloud by analyzing life log data of individuals and their groups. Based on the analysis of individual personalities, unproductive parts of labour will be automated and alt’s operating efficiency will be maximized. al+ users can focus on more productive, creative and sophisticated work. Using this methodology, we sincerely hope to contribute to the solution of different kinds of social problems.

OHouse

Series D in 2022
O-House is a home furnishing and interior platform. The company believes that beautiful homes can change peoples' lives for the better. Its mission is to help users decorate homes with fun, ease, and confidence. O-House revolutionizes the home furnishing and remodeling market in Korea with its user-generated style gallery, which helps users discover their preferred styles before purchasing products. On top of the marketplace for home furnishing products, it provides home remodeling services. O-House won the Best App Award by Google Play in 2018, and its app is downloaded by more than 10 million users.

Cylus

Series B in 2021
Cylus is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting railway and metro systems from cyber threats. Founded by experts from the Israeli Defense Forces’ Intelligence Corps and seasoned professionals from the railway sector, Cylus provides tailored solutions to address the unique challenges faced by the railway industry. Their technology is designed to detect and mitigate cyber threats in signaling and control networks, both trackside and onboard. By facilitating timely responses to potential cybersecurity events, Cylus helps railway companies prevent safety incidents and service disruptions caused by cyber-attacks, ensuring the safety and comfort of passengers and operational systems.

Verbit

Series E in 2021
Verbit is a technology company that specializes in providing transcription and captioning solutions through a combination of artificial intelligence and human expertise. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Verbit offers a platform that utilizes automated speech recognition to convert both live and recorded audio into accurate transcripts and captions. Its services cater to various sectors, including education, media, legal, and financial services, allowing organizations to enhance the accessibility and usability of their audio and video content. The platform features an interactive editor, billing and analytics tools, and offers 24/7 support to ensure a seamless user experience. By making verbal data searchable and actionable, Verbit helps organizations maximize the value of their multimedia assets.

Licious

Series F in 2021
Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.

Licious

Series G in 2021
Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.

Allay Therapeutics

Series C in 2021
Allay Therapeutics offers analgesic products for post-surgical pain management and recuperation. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.

Sunday

Series B in 2021
Sunday Ins Co., Ltd. is an insurance technology company based in Bangkok, Thailand, founded in 2017. It provides a range of insurance products, including health, motor, travel, and electronics protection, through an online platform. The company aims to enhance the insurance experience by offering a user-friendly app that allows businesses and individuals to manage their insurance needs. This app facilitates access to claim data, health information, and employee welfare planning, while also streamlining claim submissions and management of employee benefits. By personalizing coverage options and simplifying the claims process, Sunday seeks to make insurance more accessible and transparent, thereby supporting sustainable living and quality healthcare for its clients.

Sunday

Series B in 2021
Sunday Ins Co., Ltd. is an insurance technology company based in Bangkok, Thailand, founded in 2017. It provides a range of insurance products, including health, motor, travel, and electronics protection, through an online platform. The company aims to enhance the insurance experience by offering a user-friendly app that allows businesses and individuals to manage their insurance needs. This app facilitates access to claim data, health information, and employee welfare planning, while also streamlining claim submissions and management of employee benefits. By personalizing coverage options and simplifying the claims process, Sunday seeks to make insurance more accessible and transparent, thereby supporting sustainable living and quality healthcare for its clients.

Nium

Series D in 2021
Nium is an advanced payments platform redefining the way consumers and businesses send, spend, and receive funds across borders. Nium’s goal is to make the movement of money seamless through being a universal plug for financial services. The company uses agile, elegant, and modular solutions for complex business problems. Be it an Individual, new-age digital bank, or a traditional industry behemoth, Nium pride itself on creating financial infrastructure for every level of sophistication​.​ Nium has created a payment mesh in Asia, which is being leveraged by individuals and corporates. The company also offers a configurable, multi-featured platform MassPay that helps corporate and SME users to manage and control their high-volume remittances to multiple beneficiaries in multiple currencies via a seamless process, enabling them to reduce cross-border money transfer costs by up to 80%. The company is licensed in the EU, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, and Singapore. It is backed by marquee investors such as Vertex Ventures, Fullerton Financial Holdings, Global Founders Capital, GSR Ventures, and SBI-FMO Ventures. Its services and business model have been recognized on prestigious platforms such as Singapore Fintech Festival and India Fintech Awards in 2017.

Licious

Series F in 2021
Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.

Verbit

Series D in 2021
Verbit is a technology company that specializes in providing transcription and captioning solutions through a combination of artificial intelligence and human expertise. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Verbit offers a platform that utilizes automated speech recognition to convert both live and recorded audio into accurate transcripts and captions. Its services cater to various sectors, including education, media, legal, and financial services, allowing organizations to enhance the accessibility and usability of their audio and video content. The platform features an interactive editor, billing and analytics tools, and offers 24/7 support to ensure a seamless user experience. By making verbal data searchable and actionable, Verbit helps organizations maximize the value of their multimedia assets.

Cymulate

Series C in 2021
Cymulate Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for breach and attack simulation, enabling organizations to evaluate their security posture. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Rishon LeZion, Israel, with additional offices in New York and Tokyo, Cymulate's platform allows users to simulate various attack strategies employed by hackers. This helps businesses identify vulnerabilities, validate their security controls, and gain actionable insights to enhance their defenses against cyber threats. The platform supports a range of applications, including immediate threat assessment, security posture evaluation, and compliance enablement, thereby assisting organizations in safeguarding their critical assets in an increasingly complex security landscape.

Verbit

Series C in 2020
Verbit is a technology company that specializes in providing transcription and captioning solutions through a combination of artificial intelligence and human expertise. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Verbit offers a platform that utilizes automated speech recognition to convert both live and recorded audio into accurate transcripts and captions. Its services cater to various sectors, including education, media, legal, and financial services, allowing organizations to enhance the accessibility and usability of their audio and video content. The platform features an interactive editor, billing and analytics tools, and offers 24/7 support to ensure a seamless user experience. By making verbal data searchable and actionable, Verbit helps organizations maximize the value of their multimedia assets.

Taranis

Series C in 2020
Taranis is a precision agriculture intelligence platform that leverages advanced computer vision, data science, and deep learning algorithms to monitor agricultural fields effectively. The platform assists farmers in making informed decisions by identifying early signs of various issues, including weeds, nutrient deficiencies, diseases, insect infestations, water damage, and machinery problems. By overseeing millions of acres across countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States, Taranis provides real-time insights that help farmers enhance their yields and reduce costs. Headquartered in San Francisco, Taranis operates with a team of over 100 employees and has subsidiaries in Israel, Argentina, and Brazil.

Validus

Series B in 2020
Validus Capital Pte. Ltd. operates an online lending marketplace that connects small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with accredited and institutional investors. Founded in 2015 and based in Singapore, Validus is the largest SME financing platform in the country, focusing on providing short-term and medium-term financing to underserved SMEs. The platform facilitates early approval for loans, offers competitive interest rates, and allows for revenue growth. Investors benefit from a range of options without onboarding fees and can minimize risk through fractionalization and portfolio management. Validus employs data analytics and artificial intelligence to enhance its services and aims to promote inclusive growth for SMEs across the ASEAN region, with operations also in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand. The company is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and has received necessary registrations in its regional markets.

17LIVE

Series D in 2020
17LIVE Inc. is a live streaming platform operating primarily in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan, the company offers its live streaming services under the brand 17 Media and online dating services through its Paktor and Goodnight brands. The platform allows users to connect globally through instant audio and video, enabling them to showcase their talents and engage with audiences in real time. 17LIVE Inc. aims to create an interactive environment where individuals can pursue their passions and build meaningful connections. The company, previously known as M17 Entertainment Limited, rebranded in October 2020 and maintains additional offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Jakarta, and Kuala Selangor.

Licious

Series E in 2019
Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.

Cymulate

Series B in 2019
Cymulate Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for breach and attack simulation, enabling organizations to evaluate their security posture. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Rishon LeZion, Israel, with additional offices in New York and Tokyo, Cymulate's platform allows users to simulate various attack strategies employed by hackers. This helps businesses identify vulnerabilities, validate their security controls, and gain actionable insights to enhance their defenses against cyber threats. The platform supports a range of applications, including immediate threat assessment, security posture evaluation, and compliance enablement, thereby assisting organizations in safeguarding their critical assets in an increasingly complex security landscape.

Nium

Series C in 2019
Nium is an advanced payments platform redefining the way consumers and businesses send, spend, and receive funds across borders. Nium’s goal is to make the movement of money seamless through being a universal plug for financial services. The company uses agile, elegant, and modular solutions for complex business problems. Be it an Individual, new-age digital bank, or a traditional industry behemoth, Nium pride itself on creating financial infrastructure for every level of sophistication​.​ Nium has created a payment mesh in Asia, which is being leveraged by individuals and corporates. The company also offers a configurable, multi-featured platform MassPay that helps corporate and SME users to manage and control their high-volume remittances to multiple beneficiaries in multiple currencies via a seamless process, enabling them to reduce cross-border money transfer costs by up to 80%. The company is licensed in the EU, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, and Singapore. It is backed by marquee investors such as Vertex Ventures, Fullerton Financial Holdings, Global Founders Capital, GSR Ventures, and SBI-FMO Ventures. Its services and business model have been recognized on prestigious platforms such as Singapore Fintech Festival and India Fintech Awards in 2017.
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