Nikaia Ventures

Nikaia Ventures is a Singapore-based technology growth strategy and M&A consulting firm founded in 2015, billing itself as Southeast Asia's first founders-run tech growth consulting firm. The firm specialises in mid-to-late stage technology companies across the SEA region — from Series B through pre-IPO — advising both top-tier entrepreneurs and growth and private equity investors seeking to make better-informed deals in the technology sector. Core service lines cover strategy consulting, market research, lead origination, growth-equity fundraising support, exit and secondary strategy, commercial due diligence, and post-investment growth advisory. Nikaia's team is composed of tech entrepreneurs, investors, and strategy consultants each with more than ten years of experience working inside Southeast Asian startups and venture-backed companies. The firm layers selective direct investments and acquisitions on top of its advisory practice; across its history it has been involved with approximately 17 deals. Publicly disclosed portfolio and advisory engagements include Traveloka, the Indonesia-founded Southeast Asian travel super-app that has raised $1.02 billion across seven rounds and announced a partnership with Amadeus in February 2025; and Sleek, a Singapore-headquartered legal and corporate-services technology platform for SMEs that has raised $65 million in total funding. Nikaia writes checks at Series B and beyond, typically in the range of $500,000 to $10 million. Nikaia's founders-run identity is a genuine differentiator: the firm's advisory relationships provide deal flow and due-diligence intelligence that pure financial investors rarely access, and its practitioner background gives portfolio company founders a collaborator who has navigated similar scaling challenges firsthand.