About the Singapore angel investor scene
Datapile tracks verified angel investors and venture capital firms based in Singapore, Singapore. Each profile is sourced from public records and continuously verified — explore the interactive list above to filter by industry, stage, role, or company.
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Ten active angel investors in Singapore, Singapore
A sample of the 552 investors Datapile tracks in Singapore, Singapore. Verified emails and LinkedIn profiles are available in the full database.| Investor | Role | Firm | Focus |
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| Takeshi EbiharaBacks The Founder Institute | Founding General Partner | Rebright Partners | VC PartnerTechnologyVenture Capital & Private Equityinvestors in Singaporeventure capitalprivate equity |
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| Minal Shah | Vice President - Strategy and Partnerships | ThinKuvate | Angel/Individualventure capital & private equityindonesia startupsvietnam startupstechnology |
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| Andrea Campagnoli | Partner | Bain & Company | VC PartnerAI/MLInvestmentsPrivate EquityDue Diligence |
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| Vivek Kapoor | CFO AMEA | Guardant Health AMEA | InvestorHealthcareinvestors in Singapore |
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| Hannah FangBacks First Steamship | Investor relations | First Steamship | InvestorTechnologyinvestors in Singaporeangel investorInvestor Relations |
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| Ravi Kumar | Co-Founder and CTO | Atomionics | InvestorTechnologyinvestors in Singapore |
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| Huiying Chen | Vice President - Digital and Consumer Marketing | NETS | InvestorConsumerinvestors in Singapore |
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The Singapore, Singapore funding landscape
Southeast Asia's most concentrated startup hub, serving as regional HQ for ASEAN expansion. Zero capital gains tax and strong IP protection. Home to Grab, Sea Group, Nium, and Carro.
Raising in Singapore: how the market actually works
Singapore is Southeast Asia's funding capital in the most literal sense: the companies raise here even when their customers are in Jakarta, Manila or Ho Chi Minh City. Regional funds domicile in Singapore for the legal system and the tax treaty network, founders incorporate a Singapore holdco because every serious SEA investor asks for one, and the state participates directly through Temasek, EDBI and SGInnovate. There is no capital gains tax, which keeps exited founders in the city as angels. For a founder, pitching Singapore means pitching a Southeast Asia expansion story to investors who underwrite six markets at once.
Active investors and funds in Singapore
The funds and networks writing the most cheques into Singapore-based startups, from first money in to growth rounds.
Vertex Ventures SEA & India
Temasek-anchored seed to Series B; the first institutional money into Grab
Openspace Ventures
Series A and B across Southeast Asia; early backer of Gojek
Jungle Ventures
Seed to growth for SEA category leaders, headquartered in Singapore
Golden Gate Ventures
Early-stage consumer and fintech across the region
Monk's Hill Ventures
Series A B2B and B2C, founded by two exited operators
Wavemaker Partners
Pre-seed and seed deep tech and B2B; among SEA's most active first cheques
Antler
Global venture builder whose Singapore HQ runs residency cohorts twice a year
SGInnovate
Government-backed deep-tech investor for research-born companies
Landmark Singapore funding rounds and exits
The deals that set valuation expectations and produced the operator-angels now investing in Singapore.
Grab
NASDAQ listing via the largest SPAC merger ever completed, valuing the company near $40B, 2021
Sea Group
NYSE IPO that grew into Southeast Asia's most valuable public tech company, 2017
Carousell
$100M round led by STIC Investments at a $1.1B valuation, 2021
Carro
$360M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at unicorn valuation, 2021
Ninja Van
$578M Series E with Alibaba participating, 2021
What gets funded in Singapore
Fintech
MAS runs the region's most navigable licensing regime, so payments and wealth products launch from Singapore before passporting into neighbouring markets.
B2B SaaS
Software sold across six SEA markets needs the multilingual sales talent and regional HQ infrastructure that concentrates on the island.
Deep tech
A*STAR institutes and NUS/NTU spinouts feed SGInnovate's pipeline, giving research founders a state-backed first cheque that most of Asia lacks.
Digital assets
MAS's payment-services licensing brought exchanges and infrastructure firms onshore while other jurisdictions were still undecided.
Angel networks, accelerators and events in Singapore
BANSEA, the Business Angel Network of Southeast Asia, is the oldest formal angel group in the region and runs monthly pitch sessions; AngelCentral is the other structured syndicate worth applying to. Antler and Iterative are the accelerator routes with capital attached, and SGInnovate runs its own deep-tech programmes. The calendar peaks at SWITCH and the Tech in Asia Conference, where regional funds stack their sourcing meetings. Incorporate the Singapore holdco before you open the round — SEA investors will require the flip eventually, and doing it mid-round burns weeks of legal time you do not have.
Frequently asked questions about raising in Singapore
How do I contact angel investors in Singapore?
Singapore angels are dense but discreet: many are exited founders and family-office principals who do not advertise. Use Datapile to pull verified emails and LinkedIn profiles for Singapore-based angels with real cheques in your sector, and reference your Singapore entity and regional expansion plan in the first two lines — SEA investors screen for both immediately. BANSEA and AngelCentral pitch sessions convert cold applicants into funded rounds regularly, and an Antler or Iterative alumni intro shortcuts most doors in the city.
What cheque sizes do Singapore angels write?
Individual angels typically write S$25,000 to S$100,000, with family offices and super-angels going considerably higher. Pre-seed rounds of S$500K to S$1M assembled from a syndicate plus one institutional lead are the standard shape; the absence of capital gains tax keeps exited founders recycling into new rounds.
Do I need a Singapore entity to raise there?
In practice yes. Regional funds and most organised angels require a Singapore private limited as the investment vehicle because the legal system and tax treaties are the reason the capital sits there. Founders operating in Indonesia, Vietnam or the Philippines almost universally flip into a Singapore holdco at or before their first priced round.
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