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We Founder Circle is betting talent has no postcode
An angel network built by founders is turning local relationships into startup capital. Its revealing wager: the next investable company need not live near the people with the chequebooks.
Quest Ventures bets on the space between markets
From a shared workspace in Singapore to $50,000 startup cheques in Kazakhstan, Quest Ventures has made a business of connecting founders to their next market. Its wager is that introductions, local knowledge and patient capital belong in the same package.
888vc wants to put the right people on your cap table
The Bengaluru investor pairs early-stage capital with a cross-border network. Its wager: a useful introduction can change what a young company is able to build.
KK Fund bets on the people who know the way in
A Singapore venture firm connects early-stage Asian startups with capital, industry knowledge and a Japanese investor network. Its most useful lesson: a promising market is easier to enter when somebody already knows the door.
The Company That Knows Which Door Opens Next
Bondi Partners sells something more useful than access: a map of who matters, what changes next, and how an ambitious company turns policy into a contract.
Angel Ventures built a network. Then it followed the money across borders.
The Mexican investor behind early bets on Clip and Kueski grew from an angel club into a regional fund manager. Its next test is turning cross-border knowledge into businesses that can earn their keep.
BEENEXT bets on founders. Even after the bad news.
A wrecked office, a broken database and a pitch that almost never happened: inside the Singapore venture firm that backs entrepreneurs across borders - and now wants to reinvent itself.
Meixin (MX) Global
Meixin (MX) Global is a New York-based cross-border financial technology and wealth-management platform founded in 2015. It connects Asian wealth managers, independent advisors, private funds and family offices with a curated menu of global alternative investments - real estate debt and preferred equity, hedge funds, private equity, private debt and more - backed by tech-enabled infrastructure for asset analysis, due diligence, custody and reporting. Positioned as a turnkey asset-management platform for the Greater China wealth ecosystem, the company has reported over $2 billion in assets under administration and 1,600+ investable products.
Build Block
Build Block is a Korea-founded real estate company that gives Korean investors and companies a single, end-to-end path into the U.S. property market. What began as a cross-border investment platform lowering the barrier for individual Asian investors has grown into a full-stack operator: brokerage, architectural design and permitting, construction management as a general contractor, and post-investment asset and facility management. Today it also builds the physical backbone of the AI economy - data centers and EPC plants for semiconductor, battery, and advanced manufacturing - for Korean firms reshoring to the United States.