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IMDA

(Infocomm Media Development Authority)

• More info : https://www.imda.gov.sg/accreditation

• Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzjZYTQgm7M

• A government agency in Singapore, which develops and regulates the converging infocomm and media sectors to build a competitive and sustainable infocomm media industry.

• IMDA’s Landing Pad initiative is intended to facilitate market entry for disruptive best-in-class foreign startups and subsequently accelerate their growth thru’ IMDA’s Accreditation & Spark programme when they setup in Singapore. 

• Till date, more than 150 startups have benefited from our programme, which includes local and foreign unicorns and tech leaders, creating over S$814M worth of project opportunities created for our companies, over 2,000 projects awarded and changing the risk reward ratio to facilitate more than S$450M new growth capital invested into our companies.

  • walkme : https://www.walkme.com/

  • aiven : https://aiven.io/

  • Workato : https://www.workato.com/

• Business model – Enterprise B2B digital product companies

• Stage of companies – Early stage especially for those in frontier/emerging technology or Late stage companies

• Technology areas for finance – AI/Data, Data Protection, Fraud, Cybersecurity, ESG, Metaverse/DeFi, etc

• who are keen to tap on Southeast Asia (SEA) for growth thru’ Singapore as their regional headquarters. 

Cento Ventures 

• More info : www.cento.vc

• One of the first venture capital firms focusing on the emerging markets in Southeast Asia.

• Specialized in Series-A and early Series-B investments in digital companies with proven business model and ambitions to become category and regional leaders. 

• Since its inception in 2011, Cento has invested across Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam, developing a strong presence in sectors such as payments, digital advertising, travel and a variety of last-mile focused marketplaces. 

• Leveraging data-driven reasoning, industry expertise and local insights, Cento has achieved successful exits with investments in 2C2P and CodaPay (payments), FoodRunner (delivery service) and Kaidee (marketplace).  We are now looking to expand our geographic focus to cover Korea.

• Start-ups raising Series-A and Series-B

• Operating in industries and business areas where adopting financial technologies is crucial to their success (not limited to fintech start-ups, but start-ups that embed fintech to unlock value in other sectors)

• Seeking entry into Southeast Asia

Golden Equator Vententures(GEV)

• More info : www.goldenequatorventures.com. 

• SG venture capital firm that invests in high-growth technology companies at the pre-Series-A, Series A and B stages, and has seen them through successful raises of up-rounds and exits through public and private market transactions.

• As part of the firm's evolution, GEV will be launching a fund to bridge opportunities across South Korea and Southeast Asia. GEV is part of the larger Golden Equator Group, which consists of a multi-family office (Golden Equator Wealth), shares workspace (SPECTRUM), and platforms for mezzanine financing (Golden Equator Partners), digital business communities (Swish), next-generation entrepreneurship education (Pinnacle) and financial literacy content (The Simple Sum). 

• As investment professionals who embody the entrepreneurial spirit, we are The Partner of Visionaries, working hand-in-hand with our founders, harnessing our combined operational experience to strategically support their growing companies.