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Genesis Alternative Ventures

211 Henderson Road, #10-03, Singapore, 159552

Overview

Genesis Alternative Ventures (“Genesis”) is Southeast Asia’s leading private lender to venture and growth stage companies funded by tier-one VCs. Genesis is founded by a team of venture lending pioneers who have backed some of Southeast Asia’s best loved companies. Armed with a strong reputation among entrepreneurs and investors, Genesis is your trusted partner in empowering your company’s growth while minimising shareholders’ equity dilution.

Total investments
6
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
4

Sector focus

  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Triangle Group

    Participated · Debt Financing · Aug 2026

    Triangle Group operates an end‑to‑end live entertainment platform across 18 cities in 9 countries, managing all aspects of live touring and festivals including taking on financial risk and tour/festival P&Ls. Headquartered in Singapore, the company was formerly known as Creation Collective and is led by co‑founders Greg Hargrave and Zaran Vachha. Triangle emphasizes a regional operator approach rather than applying a global template, tailoring market strategies to specific artists and audiences. The company plans to expand infrastructure and consumer‑facing services around events, including travel and hospitality packages. As part of its growth plans, Roger Field, former President of Live Nation Asia Pacific, joined Triangle as Executive Director and Operating Partner after serving as an adviser and investor. Triangle recently completed a US$15 million financing (equity plus venture debt) to accelerate its expansion across the Asia‑Pacific experience economy.

  • Transcelestial Technologies

    Participated · Series A · Feb 2023

    Transcelestial develops shoebox-sized CENTAURI devices that send lasers to one another to form a fiber-like wireless network. The system is designed to avoid underground cables and radio-frequency licensing issues, enabling a lower cost per bit. CENTAURI units have been deployed in South Asian and Southeast Asian markets, and the company demonstrated its technology delivering 5G connectivity at the University of Technology Sydney. Transcelestial plans regional expansion across Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States, and is working under stealth with a few ISPs and a major enterprise cloud and data center company on the U.S. West Coast. The startup is also developing a low-earth-orbit constellation to deploy its wireless fiber optics from orbit. Its Terabit Factory has capacity to manufacture up to 2,400 CENTAURI devices annually, and recent funding will be used in part to harden that facility against supply-chain uncertainties.

  • Pace

    Participated · Series A · Nov 2021

    Pace is a multi-territory fintech offering a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) product that lets customers split purchases into three interest-free payments and matches shoppers with appropriate spend limits. The company is building a cross-border banking engine to operate across countries and help merchants create sales efficiencies. Led by founder and CEO Turochas ‘T’ Fuad, Pace serves merchants through more than 3,000 points-of-sale across the region. The company intends to use recent funding to expand technology, operations, and business development across Taiwan, Japan, Korea and China. Pace targets a Gross Merchandise Value run rate of USD1 billion in 2022 and aims to grow its user base by 25X over the following 12 months. The article reports the company raised USD40M in a Series A to support these plans.

  • Milieu Insight

    Participated · Series A · Nov 2021

    Milieu Insight Pte. Ltd. announced a $5 million fundraising round. The articles do not describe the company’s core product, business model, future plans, or operating metrics. The round was announced on November 11, 2021 and was led by MassMutual Ventures Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd., a fund managed by MassMutual Ventures LLC. Other participants included OSK Ventures International Berhad, Genesis Alternative Ventures and several private investors. The articles do not disclose use of proceeds, instrument type, valuation, prior rounds, founding year, or location. Milieu Insight operates a mobile-first market research platform called Milieu Surveys and offers tools such as Milieu Portraits (consumer segmentation) and Milieu Studies (self-serve custom research). The company focuses exclusively on mobile data to capitalize on growing smartphone penetration across Southeast Asia. Its end-to-end platform connects a managed consumer panel with a SaaS interface to deliver profiling data on-demand and enable bespoke studies with results in hours. Milieu Insight has signed more than 45 clients and positions its pricing to be affordable, offering studies at price points as low as US$350. Competitors named in reporting include traditional research firms like Kantar and YouGov as well as Global Web Index. The startup says its product and automation allow it to serve smaller organisations that previously could not afford market research.

  • Horangi

    Participated · Series B · Mar 2020

    Horangi, founded in 2016 by Paul Hadjy and Lee Sult, builds cloud security products and offers services such as penetration testing and vCISO engagements. Its flagship product, Warden, protects organizations using public cloud infrastructure from critical security threats and compliance violations and is featured on the AWS Marketplace; Horangi is an AWS Select tier partner. The company has worked with over 200 customers, including Gojek, Ninja Van, ShopBack, Tiket and PropertyGuru. Horangi recently became Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore’s first cybersecurity partner in the Asia‑Pacific region. The company will use new funds to support expansion across Southeast Asia and to double its headcount. To date Horangi has raised $23.1 million, including a Series A in November 2017. Horangi Cybersecurity is a Singapore-based cybersecurity startup. The article reports the company raised $3.1 million in a Series A financing led by Monk's Hill Ventures. The round was joined by 500 Startups, Pandoros, Hub Ventures Fund, Right Click Capital, 6Degrees Ventures and private investors. The article does not provide details on the company's core products or specific future plans. No valuation, use of proceeds, revenue figures or user metrics were disclosed. The financing demonstrates external investor interest but the article offers no further financial or strategic details.

Team

  • Martin Tang

    Co-Founder and Partner

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  • Jeremy Loh Ph.D

    Co-Founder & Managing Partner

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  • Ben J Benjamin

    Co-Founder & Partner

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  • Eddy Ng

    Principal, Investment and Portfolio

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