Southeast Asia

MX Global (Malaysia)

Building crypto exchange and investment infrastructure in Malaysia through MX Global, focused on regulated digital asset trading and investment in Southeast Asia.

AppWorks

Check: Not publicly disclosed for Beacon Funds commitments. AppWorks' direct-company strategy publishes US$200K to US$15M per deal from Seed through Series C; that range should not be applied to Jun's venture-fund investments.

Jun uses fund investments as ecosystem infrastructure: back locally connected or specialist managers, exchange market intelligence and diligence, create co-investment and follow-on capital paths, and help portfolio companies enter new Asian markets. In direct opportunities, his writing favors repeat founders with learned resilience, large problems native to Southeast Asia, sound unit economics, profitability and margin discipline, and teams able to adapt when the original model fails.

AppWorks

Check: Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Sophie's personal allocation range.

Sophie backs Asian founders applying AI to transformative products and organizational models. Her current work spans personalized AI, gaming, agentic systems, and AI-enabled work; her broader investment record also favors founders digitizing large Southeast Asian industries. Her public-market background informs a disciplined lens on balanced growth: product-market fit first, steadily improving margins, an explicit path to profitability, and evidence strong enough to resist FOMO.

AppWorks

Check: Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Michelle's personal allocation range.

Michelle backs technology that modernizes large, operationally fragmented Southeast Asian industries. Her investment cases combine a clear structural tailwind with deep founder-market fit, resilience through adversity, measurable operating improvement, and a path from a focused workflow to a broader platform. Her M&A and accounting background adds attention to cost structure, cash flow, asset intensity, and scalable unit economics.

AppWorks

Check: Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Nathan's personal allocation range.

Nathan favors AI and software that hide technical complexity and remove customer friction. His product lens treats simplicity as a defensible outcome of customer obsession, opinionated design, disciplined feature choices, deep engineering, transparent pricing, and seamless integrations—not as superficial minimalism. His Southeast Asia investment and corporate-venture experience adds attention to local distribution, strategic partnerships, and scalable commercial execution.

Alpha JWC

Check: Alpha JWC does not publish a person-specific check size for Terry Tse. Any check-size guidance should be treated as firm-level only.

Terry Tse contributes to Alpha JWC's published strategy to invest from early through growth stage in ambitious Southeast Asian technology companies, with Indonesia as a core market. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the current roster page.

Alpha JWC

Check: Alpha JWC does not publish a person-specific check size for Will Ongkowidjaja. Any check-size guidance should be treated as firm-level only.

Will Ongkowidjaja contributes to Alpha JWC's published strategy to invest from early through growth stage in ambitious Southeast Asian technology companies, with Indonesia as a core market. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the current roster page.

Alpha JWC

Check: Alpha JWC does not publish a person-specific check size for Eko Kurniadi. Any check-size guidance should be treated as firm-level only.

Eko Kurniadi contributes to Alpha JWC's published strategy to invest from early through growth stage in ambitious Southeast Asian technology companies, with Indonesia as a core market. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the current roster page.

Verda Ventures

Check: Verda's live FAQ says the MiniPay Fund typically invests $100K–$250K initially at earlier stages and $500K–$2M later, seeks roughly 5–10% early ownership and 2–6% later, and can be first check or co-invest. These are current vehicle ranges, not Amit's personal angel checks.

Amit backs fintech companies using stablecoin rails to deliver useful financial products in emerging markets. Verda's MiniPay strategy combines capital with Opera distribution and Celo infrastructure, targeting payments, remittances, identity, banking and consumer applications that can serve underbanked users. The broader thesis is that stablecoins become valuable when embedded invisibly in faster, cheaper and more accessible financial services, not when sold as speculation.

Alpha JWC

Check: Alpha JWC does not publish a person-specific check size for Chandra Tjan. Any check-size guidance should be treated as firm-level only.

Chandra Tjan contributes to Alpha JWC's published strategy to invest from early through growth stage in ambitious Southeast Asian technology companies, with Indonesia as a core market. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the current roster page.

Alpha JWC

Check: Alpha JWC does not publish a person-specific check size for Jefrey Joe. Any check-size guidance should be treated as firm-level only.

Jefrey Joe contributes to Alpha JWC's published strategy to invest from early through growth stage in ambitious Southeast Asian technology companies, with Indonesia as a core market. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the current roster page.

Alpha JWC

Check: Alpha JWC does not publish a person-specific check size for Erika Dianasari Go. Any check-size guidance should be treated as firm-level only.

Erika Dianasari Go contributes to Alpha JWC's published strategy to invest from early through growth stage in ambitious Southeast Asian technology companies, with Indonesia as a core market. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the current roster page.

AppWorks

Check: $200K-$15M at the firm level, from Seed through Series C; AppWorks can lead or follow and reserves capital for follow-ons.

Andy focuses on growth-stage technology companies and evaluates them through business-model clarity, competitive strategy, product-market fit, and long-term value creation. His published perspective tracks the shift from hardware to software, centralized to decentralized systems, and physical to virtual experiences, within AppWorks' broader AI, blockchain, and Greater Southeast Asia mandate.

AppWorks

Check: $200K-$15M at the firm level, from Seed through Series C; AppWorks can lead or follow and reserves capital for follow-ons.

Nice focuses on growth-stage startups and seasoned founders, bringing a founder-operator lens shaped by building an internet company to profitability and later running strategy and operations after its acquisition. Within AppWorks, that lens is applied to technology companies in AI, blockchain, and Greater Southeast Asia, with particular attention to scalable operations, trusted customer relationships, and durable growth.

Alpha JWC

Jakarta, Indonesia