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Lavender Hill Capital

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Overview

We are a venture capital firm focusing on early and growth stage technology and technology enabled companies globally.

Total investments
3
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
1
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Investment portfolio

  • Elite Robots

    Participated · Series D · Mar 2026

    Elite Robots develops a range of robotic products including collaborative robots, composite robots, and humanoid-like machines built on a core VLA+T architecture that fuses vision, language, action, and torque-optimized perception. The company emphasizes full-stack in-house capabilities from operating systems to joint modules, enabling integrated "hand, brain, eye, and foot" agent functionality. Its "one brain, multiple forms" strategy seeks to use a unified agent technology across multiple product form factors. Business performance is described as hyper-growth in group revenue, primarily driven by the composite robotics division, and the company is reported to be among the leaders in profitability in the intelligent robot core systems market. About half of its business relates to AI supply chain activities spanning optical modules, servers, smartphones, smart vehicles, and AI drug discovery. Elite Robots maintains dual headquarters in Suzhou and Zhengzhou and has expanded internationally into Europe, North America, and Southeast Asia with orders from several top-tier global clients.

  • Bioworks

    Participated · Equity · Jan 2024

    Bioworks develops PlaX™, a modified polylactic acid (PLA) bioplastic enhanced with the company's proprietary plant-derived additives to improve quality and functionality. PlaX™ aims to substitute petroleum-derived polyester and enable new applications while contributing to carbon neutrality. Key material features reported include a 41% reduction in CO2 emissions during yarn production versus polyester, biodegradability to water and CO2 via microbes, favorable compatibility with chemical recycling, and greatly reduced CO2 and no dioxin generation on incineration. The company plans to use newly raised funds to accelerate R&D, strengthen talent, expand its product portfolio, and enter new markets. Bioworks intends to scale domestic and international distribution, including expanding PlaX™ sales channels through a partnership with long-established textile trader Yagi. The company positions itself as a material-creation firm pursuing a sustainable, circular society backed by its PlaX™ technology. Financially, including the latest round, Bioworks has raised a cumulative ¥2.5 billion.

  • Glints

    Led · Series D · Aug 2022

    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).

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