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Monk’s Hill Ventures

Founders Kuo-Yi Lim Peng T. Ong Stefan Jung

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Total investments 74
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 45
Rounds per year 7.40
Lead investments 26
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Financial Services
  • Education
  • FinTech
  • Internet
Summary

In 2014 was created Monku2019s Hill Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Asia in Singapore. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Singapore.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Scalable Capital, Ninja Van, Horangi. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Education, Transportation. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Singapore. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 42 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Monku2019s Hill Ventures, startups are often financed by SOSV, East Ventures, AppWorks. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, SOSV, Wavemaker Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by MindWorks Ventures, TEV | Tengelmann Ventures, Kickstart Ventures.

The current fund was established by Kuo-Yi Lim, Peng T. Ong. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

1Long

FinTech
Hedge Funds
$500K26 Feb 2024 -

Radiant1 Pte Ltd

Machine Learning
06 Nov 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Elsa

Artificial Intelligence
E-Learning
Education
Language Learning
Mobile Apps
$23M12 Sep 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Saladin

Auto Insurance
Health Care
Health Insurance
Insurance
$2M08 Sep 2023 Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

DELOS

Agriculture
Management Consulting
$5M06 Sep 2023 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Jenfi

Business Development
Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
$6M16 May 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Ion Mobility

Electric Vehicle
$18M02 Feb 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

NOVI Health

Health Care
Personal Health
Wellness
$5M23 Nov 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Rainforest Life

E-Commerce
$45M19 Jun 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
News
Vietnam-based CoderSchool gets $2.6M pre-Series A to scale online course platform

– CoderSchool, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based online coding school startup, announced $2.6m in pre-Series A funding to scale up its online coding school platform.
– This round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, with participation from returning seed investors Iterative, XA Network and iSeed Ventures.
– The company, founded in 2015 by Charles Lee and Harley Trung, who previously worked as software engineers, pivoted from offline to online in early 2020 to bring high-quality technical training to everyone, everywhere.
– After switching to a fully online learning program, the company recorded 100% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) growth in fully online enrollment, it said in a statement.

E-commerce aggregator Rainforest raises $20M just months after its last funding

– Rainforest, an e-commerce aggregator, raised $20m in pre-Series A funding.
– The round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures and joined by Nordstar, Insignia Venture Partners, January Capital, Crossbeam Venture Partners, Amasia and Lo & Behold Group.
– The company plans to triple its brand portfolio by the end of this year.

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Total investments 74
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 7.40
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 26
Follow on index 0.39
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

1Long

FinTech
Hedge Funds
$500K26 Feb 2024 -

Radiant1 Pte Ltd

Machine Learning
06 Nov 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Elsa

Artificial Intelligence
E-Learning
Education
Language Learning
Mobile Apps
$23M12 Sep 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Saladin

Auto Insurance
Health Care
Health Insurance
Insurance
$2M08 Sep 2023 Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

DELOS

Agriculture
Management Consulting
$5M06 Sep 2023 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Jenfi

Business Development
Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
$6M16 May 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Ion Mobility

Electric Vehicle
$18M02 Feb 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

NOVI Health

Health Care
Personal Health
Wellness
$5M23 Nov 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Rainforest Life

E-Commerce
$45M19 Jun 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
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