At e27, we are doing our best to empower entrepreneurs with the tools and resources to build and grow their companies –regardless of their funding stage.
We have previously published a list of e27 Pro members who are currently fundraising for their seed funding round. This time, we return with more members that we believe should be on your investment radar.
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H3 Com
H3 Com is a Singapore-based startup that developed HEAL-C, global online telehealth and medical travel platform that targets medical tourists and establishments all over the world. It provides online consultations and booking access to the most reliable clinics around the globe to make sure that patients get the appropriate treatment.
It currently has no investors from outside the company for its seed-stage funding. According to co-founder Alexander Mokretsov, when the seed round is complete, the company plans to implement additional features in the platform, increase marketing activity, hire more people for support, and open additional offices in countries where its partners operate.
Epic Journey Consultancy
Epic Journey Consultancy is operating under EPIC X, a platform that is designed to enhance what the company called “experienced engagement.”
Users can register, buy tickets, track a friend’s location, and find photos for events or activities while seeking out merchants’ deals, sponsors’ promotions as well as activities rewards. The startup said it focusses on the realms of sports, wellness, and technology.
Based in Singapore, EPIC X’s CEO Adrian Mok shared that the company is currently raising funding from private angel investors to prepare its Minimum Viable Products for launching.
“We are pivoting some plans and require the funds to do so for product testing and validation. The app development needs to be ramped out to get the product ready for launch,” said Mok.
InsureVite
Singapore-based InsureVite is an insurtech company with a cloud-based platform named SmarterCS Bot, where users are allowed to automate service delivery through chats.
Some of the features include a dashboard tool that can gather chatbots data to create easy-to-use reports.
Talking to InsureVit in brief, the company confirms that they have raised a seed funding from angel investors Batjargal Dashdorj and Darren Harrison, as well as seed funding from Startupbootcamp Melbourne & Global Insurance Accelerator.
For the use of the funding, the company said it plans to use it to triple the number of current enterprise customers, increase tech developers and business developments headcount, as well as to cover operational expenses.
VITA by Zing Healthcare
Using tech-enabled tools to monitor and measure health data at the workplace, VITA provides insights into personal and corporate health data to help keep track of health policies and assist in formulating a customised health programme.
Based in Malaysia, VITA displays the real-time likelihood of users developing heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and kidney failure. By enhancing digital health data through data application to accredited international medical guidelines and latest medical research, VITA can give patients reliable information to assess the risk of developing dangerous medical conditions.
Dr. Ian Ng, VITA’s founder, confirmed that the pre-seed funding round of the company was backed by private investors who are part of the company. It also has an equity stake by MAHSA Group investment arm, a health sciences academy.
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“Thirty per cent of the funding is to increase the team size to develop and convert the leads that we generate. Twenty per cent to improve the tech team capabilities in UI/UX and also enhance integration with hospital and clinic information systems. The rest will be divided for working capital as most corporate clients work on a credit facility and for increasing marketing efforts in digital platforms,” Ng said.
ConnectUpz
ConnectUpz is a platform that promotes niche businesses to their local community and helps them to easily connect with their customers.
The Singapore-based company’s customer engagement platform features options like digital loyalty and retail ecosystem, that are completed with personalised communication system, access to insights, and secure transactions.
Currently, the company said it’s in the midst of raising a seed round. “We are looking to scale up operations to onboard more merchants onboard the platform and launch the business connector feature to promote collaborations within the ecosystem,” said Vijay Dylan Kumar, CEO and CTO of ConnectUpz.
Workbean
Based in the Philippines, Workbean focusses on helping companies find talents through showcasing authentic stories about people, workplace, and culture to attract the right talent.
It emphasises on the importance of culture in choosing the right workplace, and it has become the company’s mission to do so.
Neil Rojas, the startup’s co-founder said that family and friends are the ones behind its seed-stage funding. “We plan to accelerate the development of a product feature that can capitalise on the immediate need of companies, to virtually measure the engagement of their employees in real-time and on-demand,” explained Rojas.
Rekosistem
The Indonesia-based startup Rekosistem described itself as an end-to-end zero waste management startup that strives for a sustainable ecosystem. It seeks to improve how the waste value chain works to be more productive and efficient –with minimal behavioural changes.
Its services include digital waste management that improves productivity and simplifies the process through Waste Picking Apps and IoT-connected Smart Drop Box. It also includes a Waste-to-Energy and Anaerobic Digestion Method that converts organic waste into renewable energy.
“Currently, we are on the angel round investment, with US$70,000 raised for product development. The investor is an individual businessman who I couldn’t disclose,” said Rekosistem CEO Ernest C. Layman.
“We are looking for a seed round investment with ticket size of US$750,000 for 18 months of expansion, starting from the second half of 2020. If we can raise fund, we plan to use the fund to focus on apps penetration, development of IoT Drop Box 2.0, the increase of B2B Waste Management Services, and to install Biodigester Facility with feeding capacity of five tonnes of waste per day.”
Shuttle
Operating in Seoul, Shuttle Delivery provides delivery services from restaurants with a fully bilingual service, where customers can place orders in either English or Korean.
According to Jason Boutte, the company’s co-founder and CEO, Shuttle specialises in a customer-facing platform that connects people to restaurants in their area and gives them the option to schedule a pickup or get food delivered.
Shuttle Delivery has expanded to multiple delivery areas whilst bootstrapping the entire way. In May 2019, they launched an operation in Busan.
Careershe
Based in China and Singapore, Careershe is a startup focused on helping students between age 15-25 to learn about the world of work and guide them in major life decisions, such as choosing university degree specialisation. Bringing in from the latest international research in career development methodologies, it hopes to help Chinese students find their desired careers.
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Careershe co-founder Steve Xie said that for initial funding, it was funded by a family fund with key investor Eddie Chng.
“For the current round, we have not confirmed investor interest yet, but we are looking to increase talent hire within the team, business development and marketing costs, and possibly fund a joint research project between the University of Oxford and a China university for development of IP and go to market,” added Xie.
Financial Butler
Singapore-based Financial Butler aims to simplify personal finance and makes it accessible to everyone. It works by aggregating users’ financial data and using a goal-based analysis and analytics engine to help give users their real financial picture and offer personalised products to users’ needs, suitability, and affordability.
Its analytical tools provide insights to show users’ spending on essential and non-essential items. With an AI-driven engine, it matches financial products according to users’ monthly affordability.
Gordon Frois, co-founder of Financial Butler, the company hasn’t got any pre-seed funding. But it has started to raise and plan to utilise the funding to build partnerships and marketing, as well as focus on R&D and incorporate further machine learning capabilities.
Onzla
Onzla is a Singapore-based online event planner. The company was built on the foundation of helping event planners deliver memorable events every time.
It provides access to thousands of relevant suppliers of products and services. Using AI, it alerts customers of hot deals and promos; it also ensures that every guest gets notified and shows up for the event.
Currently, Blockchain FF is the investor involved in the company’s seed funding round, as confirmed by Jamie Tan, Onzla’s Director.
Tan said that they plan to use the funding to enhance platform feature, develop new version and R&D, enable monetisation features and payment gateways, use part of the funding for GTM, marketing, awareness, and adoption, as well as to hire resources to support sales, expansion, retention, and ops.
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