Novum Ventures Partners

Novum Ventures Partners is a Kuala Lumpur-based venture capital management firm founded in 2018 and registered with the Securities Commission Malaysia as a Private Equity Management Company. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in healthcare, manufacturing, semiconductor, and technology-related sectors across Malaysia and the surrounding ASEAN region. Its investment thesis is grounded in disciplined research, analysis, and due diligence, with capital paired with intellectual support drawn from the partners' operating networks. The firm is led by Partners Ng Mun Hon and Ngu Chie Kieng, who together bring more than 50 years of combined business operating and private equity experience and a track record of historical exits at internal rates of return above 20 percent. Ng Mun Hon has 19-plus years of investment experience including 12 years in direct private-market investing at the venture and growth stages. Prior to Novum, he served as Vice President of Strategic Investments at Malaysia's National Innovation Agency, and from 2008 to 2012 was at Malaysia Venture Capital Management Berhad (MAVCAP) — the country's largest VC firm with RM 1.2 billion in assets under management — where he drove growth and pre-IPO investments and led MAVCAP's first Greentech investments, returning more than 20 percent IRR. Across their careers the partners have managed a global portfolio valued at more than RM 600 million. Novum writes seed and Series A cheques in the $100,000 to $500,000 range and maintains a deliberately discreet profile; specific portfolio company names are not publicly disclosed, reflecting a relationship-driven approach to the Malaysian and ASEAN private investment market rather than a high-volume dealflow strategy.