Matter Venture Partners

As a Zone for Great Minds, from our Limited Partners, Management Team, our Partners, to the startup founders we invest, ThinkZone gathers Great Entrepreneurs who have Great Visions, to create Great Values for the society, and the capability to make their visions come true. Non-cash Investments We provide startups with non-cash investments via our ThinkZone Accelerator, the accelerator program with the largest scale of support value in Vietnam. 3-month mentoring & coaching Fundraising support Partnership connection with big corporates $300,000+ support packages value in terms of sales & marketing, cloud services Cash Investment ThinkZone Ventures focuses on Seed to Series A tech startups from diverse verticals, with investments size up to $3,000,000. We also invest in accelerator-stage startups via ThinkZone Accelerator, with investment size ranging from $50,000 to $100,000.

We partner early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale. Everything we do revolves around a single problem: What are the best ways to reconcile economic growth with human and planetary health? We invest in teams and solutions that address multi-decade problems that humanity has no choice but to solve. Our focusing questionsHow can we decouple improving living standards from resource depletion? How can we ensure food, energy and materials supply security when confronted by deglobalization, multipolarity and the distractions of the attention economy? How can we improve life on Earth and unlock future economic growth potential by leveraging next-generation computing and exploring outer space? How can the clean industrialization of biological processes reduce humanity’s impact on our planet? How we invest in unstoppable founders We look to problems and unmet needs first and then to which technologies and solutions have the potential to address those problems effectively. We don’t push any one type of technology or limit ourselves to one field. We look for founders and companies at the pre-seed and seed stages leveraging the three basic disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology) to engineer economically viable solutions. We look for teams that are uniquely suited to address the opportunity and its inherent challenges and for solutions that are radically better, technically viable, and defensible. Some of the areas we are keen to continue exploring include clean commodities, space technology, industrial decarbonization, electro- and green chemistry, next-generation computing, new materials & production methods. How we partner for the long-term Starlight is a Pre-Seed and Seed investor and ideally the first institutional check into your company. Having been in your shoes as founders and scientists ourselves, we will serve as an ally in the journey ahead. Here’s what you can expect from working with us: We will lead or co-lead your first institutional round. We reserve capital for follow-on investment in later rounds, and we have to ability to partner with our LPs to augment our participation in future opportunities. We will be personally invested in your success, as a large portion of our fund comes from our own team. We will put a particular focus on ensuring that your roadmap is focused on the key risks and milestones unique to addressing the most pressing problems. We will work with you to establish rock-solid governance and operational practices that hold up to the scrutiny of the world’s best institutional investors. We will help you line up and credibly engage the right future investors for your business and trajectory. Let’s partner and make change happen.

Standard Investments is a multi-billion dollar crossover fund spanning early stage venture investing, venture growth investments and public market equities. We are a fundamentally-driven investment platform focused on the intersection of industry and technology. Standard Investments deploys capital flexibly and creatively across the public and private markets, spanning the full life cycle of a company. We leverage our deep industrial knowledge and operational experience to create value. Example prior investments include Claroty, ASAPP, Desktop Metal, Rivian, Proterra, Fictiv, Poka and Saildrone. Standard Investments’ Ventures team specifically invests in early-to-growth stage companies focused on technology and business model innovation, which enable businesses to be more data-driven, customer-centric and environmentally sustainable. We look for companies that are building the next generation of transformational technologies and target the following verticals: Enterprise SaaS, Data Applications and Infrastructure, Industry 4.0, Advanced Manufacturing, AI/ML, Supply Chain & Logistics, Mobility, Built World Tech, Electrification and other Deep Tech fields. We work hand-in-hand with innovative entrepreneurs eager to redefine traditional sectors and introduce a more modern approach to infrastructure, goods and services.

The BlueChip Venture Fund was co-founded by Dato PY Lai and Tim Chen, both senior executives with decades of experience in the high-tech industries, spanning international and Chinese markets. Specializing in semiconductor investments, the fund will focus on IC design, advanced packaging, and equipment. The primary objective of the fund is to catalyze investment to elevate Malaysia’s semiconductor industry along the value chain. With a strong foundation built over 50 years, Malaysia boasts a complete ecosystem. Opportunities arise from the changing geopolitical landscape, particularly the decoupling of the global supply chain in the semiconductor industry. The BlueChip Venture Fund aims to attract foreign enterprises to Malaysia, leveraging their strategic advantages to develop enterprises in IC design, advanced packaging, and semiconductor equipment. We advocate for these enterprises to IPO in Malaysia, fostering a deeper commitment to the local market. This integration into Southeast Asia while retaining international competitiveness will advance Malaysia’s position in the global high-tech industry. BlueChip's Mission Malaysia stands at the confluence of East and West. We embrace the emergence of the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the explosive growth of AI infrastructure. With our 50-year foundation in the semiconductor industry, Malaysia is uniquely positioned to seize the extraordinary opportunities of this era. We are committed to advancing design capabilities and advanced semiconductor manufacturing through synergistic collaborations between local expertise and international partnerships, supported by venture capital. With Malaysia as our base and the global market as our stage, we endeavor to drive sustainable technological progress in this unique opportunity, to strengthen Malaysia’s irreplaceable position in the worldwide semiconductor industry chain.

Cybernetix Ventures is a venture capital firm leading the way for investment into early-stage robotics, automation, and AI startups. Headquartered in Boston, the world’s epicenter for robotics innovation, Cybernetix connects its portfolio to the national and global robotics ecosystems, bringing unparalleled expertise to companies poised to make major impacts in sectors including advanced manufacturing, logistics/warehousing, architecture, engineering and construction and healthcare/medical devices. The fund will also invest in key robotics-enabling software companies in AI/machine learning, cloud robotics, cybersecurity, autonomy, and sensors/edge computing.

We invest in founders disrupting the future of industry . Early-stage investing is our game and we’re here to support founders looking to upend the status quo with a global vision from day one. The Mission Our primary objective is to back diverse, passionate and never-say-die founders to become world-class entrepreneurs who can leverage technology to build global companies and disrupt industries right from the early stages, and support them fully on their journeys. Our fund operates on an effective, but simple four-point mandate: 1. Disruption & Innovation We look for companies who can find and build solutions to problems that address inefficiencies across industries with the potential to create inflection points in the market and pave a new way forward for society. 2. Technology Leverage We believe in the power of technology to make the world as we see fit. This is why we understand that technology enablers play a significant role in shaping the future of industries. Some of the enablers we're interested in include; blockchain, automation, 5G, AR/VR, machine learning, exabyte storage, robotics, IoT, accelerated computing and much more. We fully support founders who can find ingenious ways to use technology to create new markets and open the industry to innovation. 3. Global Vision Our goal is to help bring founders and their companies onto the world stage by collaborating with our key strategic and incredible network across Silicon Valley and beyond towards exponential growth. We’re starting off ANZ and the USA for now, but will soon expand out to South-East Asia 4. Early Stage Backing We're here to help support and nurture founders from the very beginning on their journey. We know it's incredibly tough creating a company, so we are backing those folks who need it the most. For us, it all starts off with just a seed.