East Ventures
east.vcVCMatch tracks East Ventures as an investor focused on Climate/Cleantech, Energy, and Foodtech companies, Seed and Growth rounds, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Asean markets, and $70k to $250m check sizes. Upload your deck to compare your startup against the full private matching profile.
Check Size
$70k to $250m
Focus Areas
Geography
Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and ASEAN
Investment Thesis
East Ventures positions itself as a sector-agnostic, Southeast Asia–focused venture firm that invests across the startup lifecycle (seed through growth) while prioritizing long-term value creation, founder support, and sustainability. The firm emphasizes hands-on support and ecosystem building — helping founders with product-market fit, governance and ESG capacity — and couples that with a disciplined growth-stage focus on unit economics and runway management to drive durable, scalable businesses.
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Investment Focus
Who should take a closer look
East Ventures is most relevant for founders raising Seed and Growth rounds in Climate/Cleantech, Energy, Foodtech, and Agtech, especially across Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and ASEAN, with public check-size signals around $70k to $250m.
Focus statement
A sector-agnostic VC focused on Southeast Asia (with Indonesia as its home market), investing across seed and growth stages with a strong emphasis on ESG/impact and climate tech (energy, food & agriculture, mobility, waste & circular economy, carbon ecosystem).
Value Add
- Region-first + sector-agnostic: labelled on the site as a "Pioneer and leading sector-agnostic venture capital firm in Southeast Asia."
- Lifecycle support: invests from seed to growth and closed a dedicated Growth Plus fund (US$250m) to support portfolio later-stage needs — site notes they deployed US$56.6m in H1 2023 to seed and growth-stage startups and have "dry powder to support our portfolio companies."
- ESG & impact integration: "first venture capital in Indonesia to join the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) signatory," developed "our own sustainable investment framework," and applies sustainability across "screening, due diligence, company review, and investment decision."
- Climate-tech emphasis: explicit focus on climate tech and ran the Climate Impact Innovations Challenge (CIIC); site states a "strong focus on climate tech solutions, especially in the sub-sectors of energy, food & agriculture, urban & mobility, waste management & circular economy, and carbon ecosystem."
- Ecosystem & policy engagement: active in ASEAN-BAC (trade, investment facilitation and sustainable development) and runs ecosystem programs (CIIC, IDPB), positioning the firm as both investor and ecosystem builder.
- Founder-first reputation: testimonials and copy highlight long-term founder support and post-exit community (e.g. "once an East Ventures family always an East Ventures family").
- Operational discipline: growth-stage "guiding principle... focused on unit economics" and public statements of being "prudent and bullish" amid macro volatility.
Stage And Sector Fit
Portfolio Highlights
Moka
Fintech
Kudo
Marketplace
TipTip
Marketplace
Ruangguru
Edtech
Mercari
Marketplace
Sirclo
Ecommerce
Xendit
Fintech
Xurya
Energy
+ 11 more companies in their portfolio
Investment Team
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