Led · Seed · Dec 2025

BON Credit operates an AI-powered platform designed to automate credit card selection, debt repayment, budgeting and credit-score optimization for U.S. consumers, with a special focus on Gen Z. The company’s proprietary co-pilot, CredGPT, delivers conversational, personalized guidance that places credit and debt management on autopilot while rewarding responsible financial behavior. Rolled out in October 2025, the BON Credit app aspires to reshape the $18 trillion U.S. consumer credit market and improve financial literacy for more than 100 million debt-carrying Americans. Recent funding provides resources to expand product features and scale its next-generation credit management tools. Co-founders Samder Singh Khangarot and Darwin Tu bring prior experience in engineering, fintech scoring and entrepreneurial ventures in both Silicon Valley and Asia. The company was incubated by Foundation Capital and Inception Studio before attracting outside capital. With $3.5 million in fresh seed funding, BON Credit is positioned to accelerate user acquisition and further develop its AI infrastructure.

Participated · Series B · Mar 2022

AI Rudder develops voice-based AI solutions for B2C communications, including speech recognition, text-to-speech, and natural language understanding. Its platform supports more than 15 languages today (English, Chinese, Hindi, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese among them) and is used by about 200 companies across banking, fintech, and eCommerce. The company plans to expand language coverage further by adding Arabic, Cantonese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese. AI Rudder intends to use new funding to roughly double headcount to around 300 employees and to serve more clients. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Singapore, the team focuses on scaling product and commercial reach across additional markets. AI Rudder builds voice AI and voice automation software to help businesses automate B2C communications and reduce call-center costs by automating repetitive tasks and lowering agent workload. Its solutions are used across industries including banking, fintech, and e-commerce, with clients such as Kredivo, Adira Finance, and FinVolution. Founded in July 2019 and based in Singapore, the company focuses on enhancing AI and product capabilities to provide more intelligent voice and language services. In November 2021 AI Rudder raised $10.0M (S$13.5M) in a Series A funding round. Existing investors Zhen Fund, IMO Ventures, Zizhu Xiaomiao Fund, and Huashan Capital participated alongside the co-leads. The company plans to use the funding for growth and expansion into more countries in the Asia Pacific and beyond, and to advance product and AI development.

Participated · Series B · Feb 2022

Dowsure (豆沙包) operates a digital API platform serving cross-border e‑commerce sellers. In 2017 it pioneered cross-border e‑commerce insurance in China, and in 2019 it launched digital financial products with banks using its API technology, models, and algorithms. Over years in the sector it has accumulated cross-border scenario understanding, system implementation capabilities, and risk‑control technology output. On July 19 the company completed a B3 financing round totaling several tens of millions of RMB. The financing came from the Service Trade Innovation Development Guidance Fund. Dowsure says it will use technology‑driven product innovation to empower domestic and foreign financial institutions and provide inclusive, reasonable, and convenient financial services to domestic cross‑border e‑commerce SMEs. Dowsure is a Shenzhen-based fintech that provides unified lending experiences and lending technology for cross-platform sellers on marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Shopee, Lazada and Shopify DTC sellers. It serves as Amazon’s lending service provider and has built a proprietary assessment model with data API connectivity and account-locking features. The company works with dozens of Chinese banks to enable pure credit loans based on store data with no collateral, acting as technology and data provider. Its lending technology business has operated for eight months and has facilitated more than CNY 35 billion in GMV for Chinese sellers on the Amazon platform. Dowsure says its assessment model and algorithms can be implemented for other digital assets that have continual online cash flow but are underbanked by traditional financial institutions. Following the $20M Series B, the company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth and expand operations.

Led · Seed · Dec 2015

Verlocal is a San Francisco–based marketplace that lets individuals host or join local experiences, including cooking classes, outdoor activities, and arts-and-crafts projects. The platform is available in nine major U.S. cities, including San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle. Will Lee is the founder and CEO. The company offers an open marketplace model that allows anyone to create and monetize experiences. Verlocal intends to use newly raised funds to ramp up growth and traction across its markets. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2014

OKCoin is a Chinese bitcoin trading platform and global trading exchange led by CEO Star Xu. It focuses on providing stable Bitcoin transactions. The exchange reports a current daily trade volume of approximately 50,000 bitcoins and has recorded over 300,000 bitcoin and 13 million litecoin trades. On March 17, 2014 the company raised $10m in a Series A round led by Ceyuan, with participation from Mandra Capital, VenturesLab and other angel investors. OKCoin intends to use the funds for team and international expansion, research and development, and security improvement. The financing supports its planned expansion and product development efforts.