Investors

1982 Ventures is an early stage VC firm focused on fintech in Southeast Asia.

500 Global is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in founders building fast-growing technology companies.

Aavishkaar Capital is an Impact fund manager focused on the Global South.

Accelerating Asia is an accelerator and early stage venture capital fund focused on Southeast and South Asia.

ADB Ventures is the venture investment arm of the Asian Development Bank.

Alter Global is an early stage venture capital firm investing in emerging markets.

Anchorless Bangladesh is an early stage venture fund focused on Bangladeshi startups.

Ant Group strives to enable all consumers and small businesses to have equal access to financial and other services through technology.

Early stage venture firm investing in defensible businesses

AVV is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in the growth of Southeast Asia.

Bangladesh Angels operates as an angel investing platform with a mission to nurture innovation and entrepreneurship.

Bangladesh Startup Investment Company (BSIC), launched in Dhaka in 2026, is an institutional venture capital platform capitalized by 39 commercial banks under Bangladesh Bank guidance, each contributing up to 1% of annual net profits. Its inaugural vehicle, ONKUR Bangladesh Fund I, is a US$35Mn fund targeting late-seed to Series A startups, co-investing alongside global lead investors through equity, SAFEs, and convertible instruments.

Bangladesh Venture Capital aims to create an alternative investment opportunity for the business with high-growth potential.

B/deshi Invest is a platform that connects the Bangladeshi diaspora and the global network with dynamic startups, offering a unique opportunity to invest in Bangladesh’s growth story.

BD Venture is a venture capital that funds early and late stage private companies in the life sciences and biotechnology sectors.

FMCG conglomerate that provides market-ready solutions for customers by listening to their needs and designing products

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports initiatives in education, world health and population, and community giving.

Biniyog Briddhi operates as an investment firm.

Black Kite Capital is a single-family investment office based in Singapore.

Blue Aura Ventures is a venture capital firm

Blue is an investment firm in Brooklyn, New York. We invest in phenomenal people building phenomenal businesses.

Century Oak Ventures is a VC firm investing in early-stage, tech-enabled companies in emerging markets.

Cocoon Capital is a Singapore-based venture capital firm focusing on early-stage, enterprise tech companies across Southeast Asia. We invest at a stage where fine-tuning of the product and business model remains but where some initial traction has taken place. Cocoon Capital's experienced partners work closely with portfolio companies toaccelerate them to the Series A stage.

Coinbase Ventures is a corporate investor based in San Francisco Bay Area that has invested in Affine.

Colopl Next supports start-ups specializing in VR/AR, entertainment, emerging technologies, and other internet businesses.

Conjunction Capital, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Dubai, is an early-stage venture capital fund investing from Seed to Series A in technology companies across frontier markets. The US$50Mn fund operates as a sister fund of RTP Global and focuses on Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, backing entrepreneurs and operators building leading companies in these markets. The firm is led by Managing Partner Kirill Kozhevnikov, a Kauffman Fellow who previously served as a Partner at RTP Global and concentrates on early-stage investing across MENA, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, Conjunction Capital led the Pre-Series A round for 10 Minute School, an online education platform, marking its first investment in the country. Its broader portfolio includes Abhi, Flextock, Krave Mart, Maqsam, NymCard, PostEx, Waseela, Zambeel, and Ziina across the Middle East and Pakistan.The fund provides portfolio companies with strategic guidance, drawing on its experience in emerging and frontier markets to help founders navigate growth.

For Angels, by Angels. The future of early stage investments in emerging markets.

CVS Health Ventures, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, is the corporate venture capital arm of CVS Health, backing technology-enabled digital health and care delivery companies in the U.S. from Seed through later rounds. It launched with an initial US$100Mn allocation and is led by co-founder and Managing Partner Vijay Patel. Portfolio companies include Abridge, Maven, Monogram Health, Strive Health, and Thirty Madison.

Dekko ISHO Venture Capital (DIVC) is a sister concern of one of the leading conglomerates, Dekko ISHO Group.

DSG Consumer Partners is an investment company focusing on identifying, investing in, and growing consumer businesses in India & SE Asia.

Ecom Express is a logistics solutions company that allows for customization, scalability, and delivery service processing.

EDP Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of EDP.

Expa, founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, is a startup studio and early-stage venture fund that both builds companies in-house and invests in founders outside its own portfolio. The firm combines design and operational support with capital, and typically enters at the Pre-Seed and Seed stages, before a company has established product-market fit. Expa was founded by Garrett Camp, who co-founded Uber and StumbleUpon. The firm has raised multiple vehicles since, including a US$200Mn fund announced in 2022 for early-stage investments, and has made more than 100 investments to date. Portfolio companies include Metabase, Current, Aero, Collective, Layer, and Cmd. Expa's Bangladesh-linked exposure comes through Fin.com, the cross-border payment infrastructure company co-founded by Bangladeshi-born Nabeel Alamgir. Expa led Fin.com's US$20Mn Seed round, which closed in August 2026 and was disclosed the following month, alongside Garrett Camp personally. The connection runs in both directions: Mustafa Dar joined Expa as an investor in 2023 and left to co-found Fin.com, and Expa founding partner Vitor Lourenco took his place as a co-investor in the round. The firm describes its partners as immigrants who grew up in different countries, and has pointed to that background in explaining its interest in cross-border payments and emerging markets. Expa works with founders on product design, hiring, and go-to-market in the period before a company scales.

F6 Ventures, launched in 2025 and headquartered in Cairo, is the venture capital arm of F6 Group, the holding company that also operates the accelerator platform Flat6Labs. The firm invests at the pre-seed and seed stages in technology companies across the Middle East and Africa, with planned expansion across the GCC, the Levant, and the wider African continent. F6 Ventures manages over US$90Mn in assets across six funds and has set a target of US$200Mn in assets under management within five years. The firm is co-founded by Dina el-Shenoufy, who also serves as CEO of F6 Group, and Ramez El-Serafy, supported by a regional partner team covering the GCC, the Levant, and Africa. Its leadership has collectively backed more than 300 companies through Flat6Labs and earlier vehicles. Portfolio companies include RemotePass, Strataphy, Agrona, and Andalusi. The firm provides founders with capital, hands-on support, and access to its regional network to help them scale beyond their home markets.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Their investments are seed and series A. The investment range of the company is $50,000 to $5,000,000.

Flourish backs entrepreneurs whose innovations advance financial health and prosperity for individuals and small businesses.

Gojek is an app that provides a variety of services from payments, food delivery, transportation, and logistics.

Golden Gate Ventures is a SouthEast Asian venture capital firm founded in 2011.

Goodwater Capital is a consumer tech investor that empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better.

Greenbridge Capital

Greycroft, founded in 2006 by Alan Patricof, Dana Settle, and Ian Sigalow, is a venture capital firm headquartered across New York, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area, with more than US$3Bn in assets under management. The firm invests from seed through growth stages, running separate funds for early checks of roughly US$100K to US$5Mn with follow-on capacity up to US$10Mn, and later-stage pre-IPO rounds with first checks near US$10Mn and up to US$35Mn in total. Greycroft focuses on entrepreneurs building category-defining companies across software, consumer, and sustainability sectors, and its portfolio includes Bird Global, Bumble, HuffPost, Goop, Scopely, The RealReal, and Venmo. The firm participated in funding rounds for Stability AI, the generative AI image and audio company. Greycroft positions itself as a multi-stage partner able to follow companies from an initial seed check through growth-stage rounds within a single relationship, rather than specializing in one stage alone.

HOF Capital is a global multistage VC firm with $1 billion in AUM that partners with ambitious entrepreneurs from idea to IPO.

Hustle Fund backs hilariously-early founders at the pre-seed and seed stages.

Hyper is an early-stage venture firm focused on the things modern startups.

i2i Ventures backs bold founders solving Pakistan's biggest problems. The Karachi-based pre-seed and seed-stage fund invests in sector-agnostic startups with initial check sizes ranging from $250K–$500K, and provides hands-on support through its global network, expert bench, talent resources, and research arm i2i Insights. Co-founded by Kalsoom Lakhani — who also founded Invest2Innovate in 2011, one of Pakistan's earliest startup ecosystem players — and Misbah Naqvi, the fund has backed companies including CreditBook, Abhi, Safepay, Oraan, and Tazah.

The "innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA)" is moving forward to build a sustainable startup culture in Bangladesh

IDLC is the Largest Non-Banking Financial Institution in Bangladesh

International Finance Corporation is a private equity and venture capital subsidiary focused on the private sector in developing countries.

Iterative is an accelerator focused exclusively on Southeast Asia.

Jiji is Africa's leading online classifieds platform operating across six markets, known for a compete-then-acquire growth strategy that has expanded its footprint to Bangladesh through the acquisition of Bikroy.

Joa Capital invests in seed to early-stage FinTech, SaaS, and social network companies within the software and financial services sectors, focusing on the Middle East, particularly in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Khosla Ventures, founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is a venture capital firm investing across enterprise technology, consumer internet, health care, and climate and energy companies, from seed through growth stage.

LearnCapital is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on funding entrepreneurs with a vision for better and smarter learning.

Linear Venture provides early-stage investments and is a China-based venture capital firm.

Mir Holdings is a property development firm that has managed to seal a position in the high end of the development market.

Mount Parker Ventures is a seed-stage VC with a focus on early-stage tech investments

An operator-led investment firm focused on opportunities in digital media in emerging markets.

Openspace is a venture capital firm using active intelligence to find and back transformative companies in Southeast Asia.

Oraseya Capital, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Dubai, is the venture capital fund of Dubai Integrated Economic Zones (DIEZ), investing in technology startups from pre-seed to Series B. The firm focuses on the UAE and the broader MENA region, with particular attention to startups that have existing ties to Dubai. Oraseya Capital manages a fund of AED 500Mn, equivalent to roughly US$136Mn, and backs companies across fintech, edtech, digital health, SaaS, artificial intelligence, logistics, and e-commerce. The fund is chaired by Dr. Mohammed Al Zarooni, who also leads DIEZ, and includes Partner Julien Plouzeau, who has worked in the UAE startup ecosystem since 2012 and oversees portfolio management across stages. Its portfolio of more than 60 companies includes Calo, RemotePass, Silkhaus, NymCard, and Ziina. Oraseya Capital was named the UAE's most active investor by MAGNiTT for two consecutive years and received Entrepreneur Middle East's Venture Capital Firm of the Year award in 2025. The fund supports founders with capital, mentorship, strategy sessions, and network introductions.

Partech is a technology venture firm that invests in seed, venture, and growth stages.

Peak XV Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in consumer, technology, and healthcare.

Pegasus Tech Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based global venture capital firm.

Prosus Ventures is a venture investing arm of Prosus that invests in technology startups.

Ratio Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.

Reflect Ventures invests in B2B and B2B2C in frontier markets - logistics, supply chain, and distribution - core industrial areas.

Sajida Foundation is a non-profit organization that offers healthcare, medical, and social services

Salesforce Ventures is a corporate investor based in San Francisco Bay Area that has invested in Fabric.

SBK invests in startups that solve problems of the masses, leveraging technology to create a transformative impact.

An early stage venture capital firm dedicated to investing in emerging and frontier markets. The fund targets asset light and scalable models in b2b Fintech, Saas and marketplaces.

SELISE is a software firm engaged in the creation of digital platforms from strategy to execution.

Early stage Venture Capital & Debt fund focused on the MENAP region. Invested in 45+ companies. Portfolio generated $1.5+bn of equity value.

Skycatcher is a software and Internet investor across the full stack of public, private, venture, and onchain digital asset classes.

SoftBank Vision Fund specializes in growth capital and social impact investments.

SOSV is a venture capital firm that focuses on human and planetary health and operates HAX, IndieBio, orbit startups, and dLab.

Speedinvest is a venture capital fund investing in pre-seed, seed, and early-stage tech startups.

Spiral Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides its services for the Southeast Asia and Japan market.

Startup Bangladesh is the venture capital fund sponsored by the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.

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Sturgeon Capital is a London-based investment boutique focused on building leading tech businesses in frontier markets.

Surge is a rapid-scale up program by Sequoia Capital India for early-stage startups in India and Southeast Asia.

Symbiotics Group, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, is an impact investing platform providing debt financing, asset management, and capacity building services to financial institutions and SMEs across emerging and frontier economies. The firm operates across nearly 75 markets through eight or more regional offices, with a focus on inclusive finance, SME lending, sustainable agriculture, and energy access.

Taavet+Sten is a venture capital fund that primarily invests in early-stage European founders.

Techstars is a global platform that provides investment and innovation.

Tekton Ventures is a seed-stage investment firm that partners with technology-focused entrepreneurs to build category defining companies.

The Osiris Group is a private equity firm scaling transformative impact in emerging Asia.

TVC is a transformational, early-stage venture firm backed by world class entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally in both public and private markets.

Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies.

VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

Veon Ventures is a corporate venture arm of VEON.

Vibe VC is a venture capital firm.

Investing in classifieds, marketplaces, businesses with strong network effects and digital health

Wavemaker is a crossborder early-stage VC firm that focuses on early-stage tech startup opportunities.

Xffirmers supports founders across fintech, ecommerce and software.

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups.