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Beacon Venture Capital

About

Beacon VC is a wholly-owned corporate venture capital fund of Kasikornbank PLC (SET: KBANK), a leading commercial bank in Thailand with the highest mobile penetration and largest SME base. With an initial fund of $30 million, Beacon VC focuses on strategic investments in early to growth-stage technology startups covering not only financial technology (fintech), but also consumer internet and enterprise technology. In 2022, Beacon VC expanded its fund size to $255 million.

What We Invest

  • Synergistic: Aiming for deep collaborative engagement between KBank and startups through long-term partnership

  • Opportunistic: Laying foundation for tech breakthrough and new S-curve of banking business

  • Impact: Solving humanity's most imminent threats and elevating business practices for the banking industry

Sector

Future of Finance: Redefine how consumers and businesses earn, save, spend, and grow money

Future of Commerce: Rethink the experience of commerce from enabling better consumer experience to more efficient business operations

Future of Living: Reimagine the way consumers live, work, and play

Future of Impact: Redirect the trajectory of humanity by tackling the hottest ESG agenda

Geography

Agnostic: Global investments with a goal of supporting technology and innovation in Thailand and Southeast Asia

Stage

Early (post-revenue) to growth stage: Post-revenue companies with strong customer acceptance which are preparing to scale into mass markets

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