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Kairous Capital

Founders Joseph Lee See Toh Kean Yaw

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 1.67
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Mobile Payments
  • Financial Services
  • Payments
Summary

Kairous Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Kuala Lumpur. The company was established in Asia in Malaysia.

The current fund was established by Joseph Lee, See Toh Kean Yaw. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Kairous Capital, startups are often financed by Axiata Digital Innovation Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Axiata Digital Innovation Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vision Plus Capital, Tencent Holdings, Legend Capital.

The real fund results show that this VC is 80 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Internet. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CareLinker, Dashubao For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ora

Fitness
Personal Health
Wellness
$10M03 May 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

FastJobs

Mobile Apps
Recruiting
Software
Staffing Agency
$3M18 Oct 2022 Midview City, Central Region, Singapore

KEYTA

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Software
01 Nov 2021 Dki Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Mercular

Retail
Shopping
$1M13 Sep 2021 Bang Rak, Krung Thep, Thailand

Mercular

Retail
Shopping
$3M23 Apr 2021 Bang Rak, Krung Thep, Thailand

TechNode Global

News
Publishing
$1M08 Feb 2021 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Intrepid Group Asia

Business Development
Business Intelligence
Developer APIs
11 Dec 2019 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Artificial Intelligence
Beauty
Hardware
Machine Learning
Retail Technology
17 Oct 2019 Shanghai, China

PrimeKeeper Malaysia

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
28 Dec 2018 Malaysia, Petaling Jaya

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Total investments 15
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.67
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.13
Group Appearance index 0.60

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ora

Fitness
Personal Health
Wellness
$10M03 May 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

FastJobs

Mobile Apps
Recruiting
Software
Staffing Agency
$3M18 Oct 2022 Midview City, Central Region, Singapore

KEYTA

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Software
01 Nov 2021 Dki Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Mercular

Retail
Shopping
$1M13 Sep 2021 Bang Rak, Krung Thep, Thailand

Mercular

Retail
Shopping
$3M23 Apr 2021 Bang Rak, Krung Thep, Thailand

TechNode Global

News
Publishing
$1M08 Feb 2021 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Intrepid Group Asia

Business Development
Business Intelligence
Developer APIs
11 Dec 2019 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Artificial Intelligence
Beauty
Hardware
Machine Learning
Retail Technology
17 Oct 2019 Shanghai, China

PrimeKeeper Malaysia

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
28 Dec 2018 Malaysia, Petaling Jaya
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