
UOB Venture Management
80 Raffles Place #30-20 UOB Plaza 2, Singapore, 048624
Overview
UOB Venture, an investment firm, finances privately-held companies through direct equity investment, mainly in Southeast Asia and China.
- Total investments
- 39
- Lead investments
- 10
- Investments · 12mo
- 8
- Active investors
- 9
Sector focus
- Banking
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Stride
Participated · Series B · May 2026
Stride provides financing solutions that let households and SMEs pay for rooftop solar installations through flexible payment plans instead of large upfront costs. The company operates in Vietnam and targets rapid adoption of residential and commercial rooftop solar, leveraging a network of installers and digital project-management tools. Following the $15 million Series B led by Lightrock and TRIREC’s Accelerate7, with participation from Clime Capital and UOB Venture Management, Stride plans to scale operations domestically and expand across Southeast Asia. It will deploy capital to expand its installer network, improve digital tools for project management, and uphold quality-control standards across projects. The company’s growth strategy aligns with rising rooftop solar capacity in Vietnam and increased investor interest in decentralized clean-energy finance.
- Derivio
Participated · Equity · Mar 2026
Derivio builds a full-stack trading terminal optimized for AI-driven or "agentic" trading, combining a high-speed data engine that ingests on-chain signals and market ticks with optimized execution routing and physical node placement. The platform emphasizes non-custodial operation, advanced risk-management features, a universal margin system for multi-asset collateral, and planned Liquidity-as-a-Service (LaaS) market-neutral setups. Derivio’s interface includes an "Agent" section (reported as "coming soon") that will let users deploy AI agents to monitor markets and execute strategies autonomously. The company aims to expand asset and chain coverage and improve capital efficiency for traders and liquidity providers. Following a $6 million financing round in March 2026, Derivio plans to accelerate development of its agentic infrastructure, data engine, and user-facing features to bring its AI-native workflows to market.
- PixVerse
Participated · Equity · Mar 2026
PixVerse develops generative video models including a V-Series for consumer/API use, a C-Series for professional film and commercial workflows, and an R-Series of world models for game development and world building. Its tool can generate videos up to 4K resolution with audio baked in, and the company reports over 150 million registered users and more than 15 million monthly active users. The startup offers image-to-video generation at a cited competitive rate of $4.80 per minute. PixVerse released its R-Series world models earlier this year and plans to launch a new V-Series model and a new world-model version within the year. The company has about 150 employees across offices in Singapore, Beijing, and Shanghai and has commercial relationships including a deployment deal with investor Alibaba.
- AIsphere
Participated · Series C · Mar 2026
AIsphere develops multimodal video large models and related products, including the consumer-facing PixVerse (for overseas markets) and PaiWo AI (for domestic users). The company launched its real-time world model PixVerse R1 in January 2026, which supports 1080p real-time generation and on-the-fly video edits via natural language, and released PixVerse Game in July 2026 to apply real-time video generation to interactive entertainment. AIsphere reports that PixVerse has accumulated over 150 million global users and its PixVerse V6 model ranks on international benchmarks for text-to-video and image-to-video. Commercial partnerships and pilots include collaborations with Mango Media and enterprise partners such as Alibaba, Giant Group, China Ruiyi, BlueFocus and 37 Interactive Entertainment across short drama, animation, variety, promotional assets, interactive games and multilingual content. Financially, the company has completed multiple financings since its 2023 founding, including a March 2026 $300M C round that valued the company at $1.0B, and most recently the ¥2.98B C+ tranche led by Alibaba to fund further R&D and global expansion.
- Pruv Finance
Led · Series A · Nov 2025
Pruv Finance operates a digital finance platform focused on the tokenization and on-chain distribution of real-world assets for institutional customers. Its core offering supplies the technical and compliance infrastructure needed to bridge traditional assets with blockchain networks, making it easier for banks, asset managers, and other institutions to issue and manage RWA tokens. The company positions itself as a key facilitator of traditional-to-crypto convergence, aiming to unlock new liquidity channels and improve asset transparency. With fresh Pre-A capital, Pruv Finance plans to broaden its platform features and scale its infrastructure to support a larger volume of institutional transactions. The management team intends to accelerate product development that enhances security, regulatory alignment, and cross-chain functionality. The $3 million raise also strengthens the balance sheet, giving the firm additional runway to pursue strategic partnerships with traditional financial institutions and blockchain ecosystems.
Team
Seah Kian Wee
Founder, Managing Director & CEO
LinkedInKuah Cheng Ooi
Associate Director
Jean Thoh
Executive Director
Mark Yeo
Executive Director