• Jewel Paymentech

  Participated · Series A · Jan 2016

  Jewel Paymentech is a Singapore-based fintech founded in 2014 by Sean Lam that provides intelligent solutions for banks and payment facilitators to conduct merchant due diligence and manage transaction fraud risks using predictive analytics. It also offers automated solutions to large merchants and marketplaces to identify illegal and counterfeit goods as part of their KYC process. The company intends to use the funds to expand its team of developers, data scientists and business development managers to support its client portfolio across Asia. It also plans to roll out new solutions. Jewel Paymentech is a recipient of the ACE startup grant awarded by SPRING Singapore. In January 2016 it raised over S$1.5M in a Series A funding round.

• Glints

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2015

  Glints operates a talent development and recruitment platform that connects employers with professionals across five markets. Its platform hosts three million professionals and 50,000 companies, including AIA, IKEA, GetGo, KKday and Gameloft. The company says annual revenue and gross profits grew 2.5x year-over-year and that annual revenue has been growing at a triple-digit percentage. Glints reports positive contribution margins across all business units, with Indonesia and Vietnam remaining profitable. Remote hiring is a major growth driver: remote cross-border job postings grew more than 3x year-over-year and over 11x in the past two years. The company plans to expand its talent supply base in the Philippines, grow employer demand globally, and hire for its product and tech teams. Glints operates a full-stack career platform that includes a job marketplace, community features, and online skills education targeted at young to mid-level professionals. The platform hosts more than 7,000 active job listings and attracts roughly 4 million visitors per month. Glints says it has been used by over 1.5 million professionals and 30,000 organizations, including Gojek, Tokopedia, Starbucks and Mediacorp. One of its products, TalentHub, is a cross-border remote work hub that doubled its business in 2020 as employers became more open to remote hiring. The company positions itself as a solution to regional tech talent shortages by helping firms hire teams across Southeast Asian countries. Glints plans to use new capital to expand further in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan and to hire for its product and engineering teams. Glints is a Singapore-headquartered recruitment and hiring platform. The company is described in the article as a recruitment platform. Glints has raised $6.8 million in a Series B round led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, according to a statement. The article identifies the financing as a Series B round. No other investors or additional financial details were disclosed in the article. The article did not provide operating metrics, future plans, or use-of-proceeds information. Glints operates a career discovery and development platform that helps young people explore internships, graduate roles and professional-development resources in Singapore. The platform aims to guide users to discover career paths and develop the right skill sets while enabling employers to attract suitable talent. It lists internships, graduate jobs and career-development content and tools for early-career professionals. The company is led by Oswald Yeo, Ying Cong Seah and Qin En Looi. Glints raised funding to support regional expansion and product development. The company reported a $2M Series A to finance those plans. Glints is a Singapore-based platform that helps graduates and students enter the workforce by pairing job and internship listings with training, employer challenges, personality tests and profile badges. It operates a talent-scout model where employers list vacancies for free and pay only when they interview a candidate. The site reports over 7,000 registered students and some 600 companies on its platform in Singapore. Glints runs employer-set challenges (examples include Easy Taxi and SPH) to give candidates practical experience and badges to help them stand out. The founding team graduated accelerator JFDI Asia and includes three founders who deferred graduate-school offers. The company is weighing regional expansion (Indonesia or the U.S.) later in the year and expects to seek another funding round to support growth. The business recently closed a seed financing of SG$475,000 (US$380,000).

• HipFlat

  Participated · Equity · Dec 2013

  Hipflat operates an online real estate portal that lists residential, commercial and industrial properties and connects buyers and renters with sellers and landlords. The company uses a proprietary data-mining solution to collect, extract and process pricing data from hundreds of unstructured sources. Its data set—assembled with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning—includes asking prices for over 2,500 projects going back as far as eight years, achievable rental yields and pricing trends. Hipflat currently lists 260,000 active property listings and receives over 30,000 monthly inquiries from homebuyers and renters. The company plans to use new capital to introduce innovative products aimed at increasing transparency in emerging property markets. Hipflat was incorporated in 2013 and is led by founder and CEO Denis Nemtsev. HipFlat is a Thai real estate search site that aggregates property listings and local information. It has developed an automated system that collects and processes offers from agents, owners, online classifieds and forums, and aggregates nearby restaurants, shops, schools and parks. The service includes a price trend graph to help users research and make informed decisions. The company raised $335k in funding and plans to use the proceeds to launch and build the team. Backers include Crystal Horse Investments, 8capita and a Thailand-based group of angel investors led by Kris Nalamlieng. HipFlat is hiring.

• Collabspot

  Participated · Seed · Oct 2013

  Collabspot is a browser extension that integrates Highrise and SugarCRM with Gmail to let sales teams save emails to their CRM with one click and manage contacts, sales activity and opportunities without opening the CRM. The startup follows a lean model and is Singapore-based. Most users are small- to medium-sized businesses and the company says most of its current users are in the U.S.; it has doubled paying monthly active users to 1,000 in four months since June after completing the JFDI accelerator. Collabspot positions itself against competitors such as Yesware and ToutApp and emphasizes a tighter CRM integration that allows about 80% of sales rep tasks to be done from within Gmail. The company plans to scale by integrating more leading CRM platforms into Gmail and adding email automation for sales departments comparable to marketing automation. Collabspot will use new funding to ramp up marketing and grow its customer relations team to target new markets. Collabspot provides a service that layers CRM functionality directly into Gmail, letting users save emails into the company CRM without manual data entry. The product targets small and medium-sized enterprises and relies on a development team in the Philippines. The company was founded in Singapore last year and went through JFDI.Asia’s 100-day bootcamp, receiving mentorship and angel support. Collabspot reports about 500 paying customers, a 2% churn rate, and says revenue covers its overheads. Sixty percent of customers are in the US, 25% in Europe and 15% in the Asia-Pacific; the company has signed three resellers in North America and three outside the region. Management plans to raise a seed round to build a stronger US marketing team.

No current team members are available.