East Ventures is an early stage venture fund focusing on SEA and Japan with 4 unicorns in its portfolio.
Founded in 2009, East Ventures is an early-stage sector-agnostic venture capital firm. The firm has supported more than 170 companies in the Southeast Asian region that are present across Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.An early believer in the startup ecosystem in Indonesia, East Ventures is the first investor of Indonesia's unicorn companies, namely Tokopedia and Traveloka. Other notable companies in the portfolio include Mercari, Ruangguru, Warung Pintar, Fore Coffee, Kudo (acquired by Grab), Loket (acquired by Gojek), Tech in Asia, Xendit, IDN Media, MokaPOS, ShopBack, CoHive, Koinworks, Waresix, and Sociolla.In 2018, to further support and capitalize on the development of their ecosystem, East Ventures set up a growth-stage fund named EV Growth. The following year, East Ventures was named the most consistent top performing VC fund globally by Preqin, and most active investor in SEA and Indonesia by various media.
Date
Company Name
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Round | Money Raised | Industry | Lead Investor |
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Nov 29, 2022
ESQA
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Series A | Rp93.60B | Beauty | — |
Nov 22, 2022
7.5 Degree
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Seed | $1.40M | Information Technology | Yes |
Oct 25, 2022
AWST
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Seed | $1.70M | Art | Yes |
Oct 10, 2022
ALAMI
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Series B | — | Financial Services | Yes |
Aug 22, 2022
Avium
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Pre-seed | $2M | Information Technology | — |