Meet Ventures

Meet Ventures is a Singapore-headquartered early-stage startup investor and innovation consultancy operating across 10 chapters in Asia: Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Brunei, and the Philippines. Partners John Lim and Farhan Firdaus serve as General Partners of Meet Fund 1 VCC. John Lim brings more than 10 years of venture capital experience, having previously served as Head of Department at LongHash Ventures (a $100 million fund), Program Manager at SGInnovate (a $200 million fund), and Senior Consultant at KPMG Innovate, backing more than 200 startups across his career. Farhan Firdaus was previously COO of the largest dental services group by geography in Southeast Asia. The venture partner network includes former directors from TE Capital Partners ($2 billion fund) and Tokyo Trust Capital ($900 million fund). The firm combines early-stage venture investment — typically $100,000 or less at pre-seed and seed stages — with corporate accelerator programs, incubator programs, entrepreneurship education, and government market access programs. Sectors covered include software, SaaS, AI, clean technology, and e-commerce. Notable portfolio investments include REDEX.eco (a carbon exchange that grew to a $10 million Series A led by Aramco Ventures), EdCafe.ai, and Sourcy.ai. Meet Ventures operates vertical incubators in retail technology and property technology. The firm is an official partner of JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization), supporting Japanese startups expanding into ASEAN markets and ASEAN startups entering Japan through collaboration with HAKKI. By embedding itself within both government and corporate innovation ecosystems across 10 Asian markets, Meet Ventures provides portfolio companies with regional distribution access that a single-country fund cannot match.