Coffee Ventures

Coffee Ventures is a Singapore-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Eddy Lee and Kevin Darmawan. Lee previously co-founded Top Idea, acquired by Yellow Pages, and has served as head of the Israeli High Tech Industry Association and President of the Israeli Venture Capital Association — a background that brings an international technology network to the firm's Southeast Asian focus. Coffee Ventures invests in technological startups across health and wellness, education, finance, enterprise software, artificial intelligence, and marketplaces throughout the region. The firm has built a portfolio of 22 companies, with checks typically between $100,000 and $1 million at pre-seed through Series A stages. Notable investments include Carro, the used car marketplace that achieved unicorn status, and Sensely, an AI health assistant platform. Recent additions to the portfolio include Kulina. The 22-company portfolio reflects a deliberately broad sector lens, prioritizing founding team quality and product discipline over vertical concentration. Coffee Ventures focuses on putting foundations first — specifically fostering rigor in product management and a culture of entrepreneurship within portfolio companies. Lee and Darmawan work closely with founders to instill frameworks for sustainable growth, drawing on their combined experience as operators and investors across Southeast Asia and international markets. The firm's network across the Israeli and Southeast Asian venture communities gives portfolio companies an unusual degree of cross-border access.