1823 Ventures

1823 Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm founded in 2015, focused on mentoring and incubating early-stage startups across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and China. The team combines entrepreneurial, finance, operating, and investment backgrounds, with a mission to identify and develop high-potential companies with innovative products that can fill meaningful market gaps. The firm invests at pre-seed and seed stages with checks up to $500,000, targeting software, big data, IoT, and proptech sectors. The firm's geographic reach spans Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Hong Kong, China, and Korea. Portfolio companies include Prello, a real estate services company; Calacarte; and Clinch, reflecting a focus on software and property technology. The firm's most recent tracked investment was in Prello in February 2022. 1823 Ventures emphasizes a mentorship-first approach alongside capital deployment, providing founders with hands-on operational guidance and investment experience. The firm believes innovation and technology can improve lives across the diverse and fast-growing markets of Southeast Asia, and it seeks founders whose products address genuine gaps in their local ecosystems. Its lean team and focused mandate allow for close engagement with each portfolio company through the critical early stages of growth.