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Cento Ventures

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Cento Ventures is a venture capital firm specialised in emerging digital markets, primarily in Southeast Asia. We invest in the development of the consumer internet and its infrastructure.

We strongly believe that the emerging digital markets of Southeast Asia are much underappreciated and is often misunderstood by global investment community, but contain multiple exciting opportunities to both realise investment return and deliver a positive impact on ASEAN societies and economies.

Cento Ventures specialises in Series A and early B financing for consumer internet and related businesses, and focuses on supporting the entrepreneurs on course for Southeast Asia regional expansion. Cento Ventures team has a strong bias for contrarian thinking and deep value investing. We are fascinated with the future that the combination of digital economy and early-stage emerging markets holds.

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