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Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia

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Overview

Established in Hong Kong in 2002, SCEA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation ("Sumitomo"), one of the biggest multinational conglomerates in Japan with business and investment covering metal products, transportation & construction systems, infrastructure, chemical & electronics, mineral resources & energy, media, network & lifestyle retail, general products, real estate and financial & logistics services. The entire Sumitomo Corporation Group consists of over 800 subsidiaries and associated companies with more than 65,000 employees all over the world.

Total investments
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Lead investments
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Investment portfolio

  • Naluri Life

    Participated · Series B · Aug 2025

    Naluri provides digital employee health and wellbeing services from its base in Singapore. The company has secured a $5 million tranche led by Telus Global Ventures’ Pollinator Fund for Good. Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia, M Venture Partners and unnamed investors also participated in the raise. The $5 million is part of a broader $14 million Series B round. Proceeds will be used for working capital, market expansion and to support a new commercial partnership. The raise is framed as an expansion-focused round to accelerate the company’s commercial growth. Naluri operates a digital platform (the Naluri app) that pairs evidence-based interventions with human-led clinical expertise to deliver integrated, person-centred care for people at risk of or managing chronic and mental health conditions. The company serves more than 75 of the region’s leading employers across industries including financial services, oil and gas, property development, telecommunications, tertiary education and aviation. Founded in 2017 and based in Malaysia, Naluri currently operates in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia and has imminent plans to expand into the Philippines, Hong Kong and Australia. Its core offering blends digital tools with coaching and clinical support to prevent and manage pervasive chronic and mental-health conditions. The business recently secured new capital to accelerate regional expansion and bolster operations across existing markets. Leadership emphasizes rapid, effective scaling of prevention and care services to reach more people in the region. Naluri Hidup is a Malaysia-based digital health service provider. The company announced it closed a $5 million Series A funding round. The article does not provide details on the company's specific products or services beyond describing it as a digital health provider. No operating metrics, founding year, or use-of-proceeds information are included in the article. Participating investors and any strategic or financial partners were not disclosed. The article also does not describe the company’s future plans or roadmap. Naluri is a Malaysia-based digital health startup. The company provides digital health services and is eyeing regional expansion. Naluri announced it had closed a $1.5 million pre-Series A funding round. The round was led by German venture capital firm Global Founders Capital. No operating metrics, past rounds, or other investors were disclosed in the report. Naluri Hidup is described in the article as a Malaysia-based digital health startup. The report states the company closed seed financing totaling roughly RM1 million (approximately $258,570). The round was led by Singapore-based healthcare analytics firm BioMark alongside Silicon Valley’s 500 Startups participating via its Southeast Asia-focused fund, 500 Durians. The article does not disclose details about Naluri Hidup’s specific products, services, user metrics, revenue, or financial runway. No information on the company’s future plans, product roadmap, or additional operating metrics was provided in the article. Further company or market details were not included in the sourced text.

  • AI-LINK

    Participated · Series A · Feb 2024

    艾灵网络 develops 5G network and mobile edge computing (MEC) platforms and provides an integrated 5G+MEC product line spanning terminals, base stations and cloud platforms. The company partners with industry players to build a 5G edge-cloud commercial ecosystem. It offers customized 5G+MEC solutions across multiple scenarios including transportation, real estate, communities, schools, industry and tourism. Recently the company completed a RMB150 million Series A financing. Management says the funds will be used to deepen R&D on industrial 5G and industrial-intelligence core products, accelerate deployment across more industries, and drive large-scale commercial rollouts in key sectors. The company also plans to speed up expansion into overseas markets. AI-LINK builds industrial ICT infrastructure centered on 5G edge intelligence and OICT convergence, offering end-to-end Local 5G products, lightweight industrial edge intelligence centers, and an open application management platform. The company delivers scenario-based "5G+IIoT" solutions across sectors including building materials, warehousing, 3C, and high-end manufacturing. AI-LINK has commercial integrations such as a Local 5G Data Integration Solution listed on SAP Store and joint solutions developed with Siemens for industrial-grade wireless interaction between PLCs, monitoring systems, and distributed I/O. It collaborates with Amazon Web Services on a 'cloud-net-edge-end' convergence model and supported a leading e-commerce customer to run hundreds of 5G AGVs concurrently in a Changsha smart warehouse. AI-LINK says it will use new funding to drive product innovation, technology iteration, and rapid promotion and commercial deployment of digital solutions to expand its global business footprint.

  • Komunal

    Led · Series A · Jan 2024

    Komunal operates two business lines: DepositoBPR by Komunal and Komunal P2P Lending. DepositoBPR enables Indonesian residents to make digital deposits in rural banks at government‑guaranteed deposit rates without visiting branches. Komunal P2P Lending connects local micro, small and medium enterprises with lenders able to provide loans. The company announced completion of a $5.5M A+ financing round. The financing was described in the article but no revenue or user metrics were provided. The article focuses on the product offerings and the recently closed A+ round. Komunal digitizes Indonesia's rural banks (BPRs) through its DepositoBPR platform, enabling users to make deposits and apply for loans digitally without visiting physical branches. It also operates a peer-to-peer lending platform that connects MSMEs with lenders. The startup partners with more than 220 banks in tier 2 and tier 3 cities across 19 provinces and was founded in 2019 in Surabaya, East Java. In 2022 its platform channeled IDR 3.6 billion (about $230 million) in deposits and loans, a 350% year-over-year increase from $50 million in 2021, and it expects transaction volume to exceed $500 million this year. Komunal has recorded positive EBITDA since October 2022. Its DepositoBPR app lets customers choose rural banks and deposit products, create virtual accounts, transfer funds, and access government-guaranteed deposits with higher interest rates.

  • Semaai

    Participated · Series A · Jan 2024

    Semaai is an agricultural technology services company focused on the agricultural services sector. It provides seeds and pesticides, farmland planting consulting, and crop sales. The company operates a trading-services application and supplies crops to B2B enterprises and supermarket chains. Semaai recently announced it raised $4.7 million in a Pre-A round via a combination of equity and debt financing. The financing was led by Japan-based corporate VC Cyber Agent Capital and included existing investors Surge, Accion Venture Lab and Beenext alongside new backers Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia, Ruvento, MyAsiaVC and Heracles Ventures. The article did not disclose operating metrics or uses of proceeds. Semaai builds a full-stack agri-tech platform offering customized agronomy consultancy, soil-testing technology, and fairly priced farming inputs like seed and fertilizer. The company primarily operates in Central Java and focuses on enabling toko tanis (agri-retailers) and rural MSMEs to better serve smallholders. In its first five months since launch, Semaai says gross merchandise value (GMV) of products sold to agri-retailers and MSMEs increased tenfold. The startup aims to deliver services and impact to up to 100,000 smallholders and rural MSMEs by next year. Semaai plans to expand its network of service delivery centers across rural Indonesia to scale distribution. A large portion of the new funding will be used to grow engineering and product teams in India, with a target to triple tech headcount by the end of 2022. The company was founded in April 2021 by Abhishek Gupta, Gaurav Batra and Muhammad Yoga Anindito.

  • CXA Group

    Participated · Equity · Mar 2019

    CXA builds a platform that lets corporations offer employees tailored, health-flexible benefits drawn from a catalogue of more than 1,000 programs and options. The company uses data and technology to recommend personalized choices aimed at improving employee health and lowering employer premiums. CXA says it works with about 600 enterprises, including Fortune 500 firms, and reaches a collective 400,000 employees; it has more than 200 staff. To expand its footprint in China it has acquired two traditional insurance brokerages to obtain licenses and logistics for services such as health checkups. The firm is primarily focused on China, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia and is targeting SMEs in addition to large firms by partnering with banks, telcos and large service companies for distribution. Management has stated ambitions to expand to Europe and North America in the future. CXA Group offers a SaaS-based employee benefits and workplace wellness platform that uses health screening, lifestyle risks, sensor and claims data to predict future premiums. Employers use the platform to consolidate all their vendors into a single marketplace, digitizing claims, health data and payment flows between employees, companies, insurers and providers. Led by founder and CEO Rosaline Chow Koo, the company raised $25m in a Series B round. Backers included B Capital Group, EDBI, Philips and RGAx, and B Capital’s venture investor Eduardo Saverin joined the board. CXA intends to use the funds to scale its existing platform and operations beyond Singapore and Hong Kong. Target expansion markets listed include China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.

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