Investing to change the world

Our Ventures team partners with entrepreneurs to build prominent technology companies, fueling the next wave of growth for Prosus.

In FY25 we committed and invested over US$400m across more than 40 closed transactions, including US$88m in AI-related investments. 

As investors, we bring the perfect mix of capital, market knowledge and know-how to help our businesses succeed. With access to global opportunities and successful partnerships with prominent lifestyle e-commerce companies in our key markets, we stand apart.

Through Prosus Ventures we back world-class founders and transformational technologies across high-growth markets. Our global perspective, grounded in local insights, remains a valuable differentiator and a powerful, long-term asset to the companies that we invest in.

Supporting the Prosus ecosystems strategy

Supporting the Prosus ecosystems strategy

Prosus has sharpened its strategic focus towards building leading lifestyle ecommerce ecosystems in Latin America, Europe and India.

Our goal is to fuel the ecommerce flywheel by investing in adjacent sectors such as food delivery, fintech, consumer services, and digital ecommerce. This strategy unlocks shared infrastructure, user-acquisition synergies,and customer engagement.

We also back early-stage AI start-ups anywhere in the world that reshape the ecommerce value chain. This includes shopping and advertising tech, to customer support, AI agents, and operations, all driving measurable impact and performance gains.

99minutos

99minutos is transforming the ecommerce landscape in Latin America by offering the fastest and most reliable logistics services for ecommerce vendors across Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru.

Visit the 99minutos website

Advolve.AI

Advolve.AI automates AI-powered ad creation and optimization, helping e-commerce brands and marketplaces scale performance marketing efficiently. By reducing costs and improving targeting, it ensures the right products reach the right customers, maximizing conversions.

Visit the Advolve website

Airmeet

A remote-first company headquartered in the USA, Airmeet offers clients meaningful touchpoints through rich, engaging and immersive event experiences.

Visit the Airmeet website

Arivihan

Arivihan is India’s first fully AI-driven learning platform offering personalized, affordable, and scalable coaching to students through a mobile-first solution. The company's mission is to democratize quality education by eliminating financial, geographic, and language barriers.

Visit the Arivihan website

Aruna

Aruna is a leading fisheries and marine platform in Indonesia, with a vision to revolutionise the fishery & marine supply chain through technology, while driving financial inclusion and promoting sustainable industry practices.

Visit the Aruna website

Avant Arte

Avant Arte, a B2C online art marketplace, is one of the largest online art communities globally. Collaborating with iconic contemporary artists like Jenny Holzer, Cai Guo-Qiang and the Chapman brothers, the company is on a mission to make art radically more accessible for a new generation.


Visit the Avant Arte website

Azos

Azos has a simple and flexible insurance model leveraging technology to modernise life insurance and financial planning in Brazil.

Visit the Azos website

Bandlab

BandLab is the next-generation social music creation platform ranked ‘the most innovative music company in music in 2023’ by Fast Company. Free-to-use, the mobile-first cross-platform DAW and social network unites the entire creator journey into one place.

Visit the BandLab website

Bibit

Bibit is a pioneer of the mutual fund robo-advisory segment in Indonesia and is democratising investing in the country’s capital markets.

Visit the Bibit website

Bilt Rewards

Bilt Rewards, launched by Kairos, is the first-ever loyalty programme that allows renters to earn points on rent with no transaction fees and builds a path towards home ownership.

Visit the Bilt Rewards website

Biome Makers

Biome Makers connects soil biology to agricultural decision-making to optimise farming practices and reverse the degradation of arable soils.

Visit the Biome Makers website

Brainfish

Brainfish is redefining the future of AI customer experience with next-generation Ambient AI agents that leverage computer vision and contextual intelligence to provide seamless, automated assistance for software products.

Visit the Brainfish website

BUX

BUX is an intuitive investment app, making investing easier and more affordable for everyone.

Visit the BUX website

Bykea

Bykea is Pakistan’s leading on-demand ride-hailing and logistics service, using bikes to help move people, parcels and payments efficiently in a safe, reliable and inexpensive way.

Visit the Bykea website

Captain Fresh

Captain Fresh is a tech-enabled B2B animal protein marketplace, procuring directly from the agents/farmers, and supplying across B2B, B2R and B2B2C channels.

Visit the Captain Fresh website

CodeKarma

CodeKarma is a software productivity platform designed to empower developers and engineering teams by clearly showing how their code performs in real-world production environments. 

Visit the CodeKarma website

Constantinople

Constantinople offers an end-to-end infrastructure solution for retail and SMB banks through a fully managed SaaS platform that covers all software, IT, and operational aspects of banking.

Visit the Constantinople website

Corti

Corti is a co-pilot for healthcare workers, enabling doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals to do what they do best - providing the care their patients need.

Visit the Corti website

CuspAI

CuspAI is a frontier AI company pioneering the discovery of breakthrough materials to power human progress.

Visit the CuspAI website

DappRadar

DappRadar is a leading destination for tracking, analysing and discovering decentralised applications, including Ethereum, EOS, TRON and WAX, and has recently added BSC, Polygon (formerly Matic) and Flow.

Visit the DappRadar website

DeHaat

DeHaat is a technology-based platform offering full-stack agricultural services to farmers in India, including distribution of high-quality agricultural inputs, customised farm advisory services, access to financial services, and market linkages for selling their produce.

Visit the DeHaat website

Detect Technologies

Detect Technologies is an AI-based SaaS enterprise that provides intelligence to Industries to help improve workplace safety, monitor work processes effectively, increase the visibility of external risks on infrastructure and improve productivity.

Visit the Detect Technologies website

Dott

Dott is a European micromobility operator, with the mission to free up our cities with clean rides for everyone. Dott currently operates its e-scooters in top cities in Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland and Spain.

Visit the dott website

ElasticRun

ElasticRun is India’s leading rural b2b ecommerce platform offering brand discovery and logistics networks for consumer products delivery across rural India.

Visit the ElasticRun website

Ema

Ema, abbreviation for Enterprise Machine Assistant, makes Generative AI work at an enterprise level. Through its Universal AI Employee, Ema is defining how machines and humans work together to build the future of work.

Visit the Ema website

Endowus

Endowus is Asia’s leading fee-only wealth platform, providing personalised digital wealth experiences including financial advice and institutional access to financial solutions. It is the first digital advisor in Singapore to span both private wealth and public pension savings (CPF & SRS).

Visit the Endowus website

Equal

Equal is a leading identity verification aggregator in India enabling consent-driven financial data sharing across 50+ ID databases.

EVERY Company

The EVERY Co., headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a food tech company that is the market leader in engineering, manufacturing and formulating animal-free proteins for the global food and beverage industry.

Visit the EVERY Company website

Fashinza

Fashinza is an AI-driven B2B marketplace, enabling international brands to access a fast design to delivery cycle, through a transparent production process that can be monitored 24/7. It serves brands across the United States, Canada, UAE and India.

Visit the Fashinza website

FiberSense

FiberSense offers fibre-optic sensing technology as a service, turning existing fibre networks into high-sensitivity monitoring platforms, delivering real-time, actionable intelligence making urban and ocean environments safer, efficient and resilient.

Visit the FiberSense website

Fundamental Research Labs

Fundamental Research Labs is building autonomous, collaborative AI agents designed to solve real-world problems. By combining cutting-edge research with practical applications, the company is pioneering agent-first products that augment human capability. With Prosus’ backing, it’s advancing the next wave of AI innovation.

Visit the Fundamental Research Labs

The Good Glamm Group

South Asia’s largest Content to Commerce conglomerate, The Good Glamm Group, provides unprecedented scale to DTC brands through proprietary digital assets (communities, networks and influencer platforms) and offline points of sale.

Visit the Good Glamm Group website

Honor

Honor Technology, Inc. and Home Instead, Inc. are changing the way we care for ageing adults and their families. Founded in 2014, Honor is the first company ever to bring technology solutions, operational support and a large pool of carers to home care agencies across the U.S.

Visit the Honor website

IndiGG

IndiGG is a blockchain-based gaming community (DAO) which is building distribution rails in emerging markets for global Web3 games. Its mission is to make South Asia the digital goods factory for the world. Prosus Ventures participated in seed funding in 2023.

Visit the IndiGG website

Intella

Intella is the leading Arabic-first AI company specializing in speech intelligence across 25+ dialects. With proprietary ASR models achieving world-record accuracy and products like Ziila, its Arabic conversational AI agent, Intella enables enterprises to analyze customer conversations, power next-gen engagement, and unlock data-driven insights at scale.

Visit the Intella website

Kismet

Kismet is a digital community platform with a vision to democratize healthcare globally by connecting caregivers, health insurance and healthcare providers from around the world.

Visit the Kismet website

Klar

Klar is democratising financial services in Mexico by offering a 100% digital, transparent, free and secure alternative to traditional credit and debit services.

Visit the Klar website

Kovi

Based in Brazil, Kovi is a disruptive startup whose mission is to revolutionise access to cars by simplifying car ownership for underserved clients.

Visit the Kovi website

Luzia

Luzia is an AI-powered personal assistant helping Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking users complete everyday tasks via WhatsApp and mobile. With over 65 million users across 40+ countries, it’s the largest independent AI assistant in Latin America — enabling fast, intuitive access to information, translation, audio transcription, and more.

Visit the Luzia website

Meesho

Meesho is India’s third-largest online marketplace by GMV. Since 2021, it has been the most downloaded shopping app globally.

Visit the Meesho website

Mensa Brands

Mensa is building global digital-first brands from India. It partners and invests in emerging businesses to scale them exponentially using a combination of initiatives across product development, pricing, performance marketing and distribution.

Visit the Mensa Brands website

Mevo

Mevo is the infrastructure for e-prescriptions in Brazil, addressing a critical need where over 150 million Brazilians are still holding handwritten medical prescriptions.

Visit the Mevo website

merXu

merXu is a pan-European B2B marketplace serving small- and medium-sized enterprises looking to buy wholesale goods online.

Visit the merXu website

Neara

Neara offers a comprehensive 3D simulation and analytics platform for electricity network infrastructure.

Visit the Neara website

Nexad

Nexad is an AI-native monetization platform helping developers of LLM chatbots and conversational agents monetize with real-time, in-context ads. Its API enables safe, intent-driven advertising natively within conversations — creating a new monetization surface for marketplaces, commerce, and more.

 

Visit the Nexad website

Onsi

Onsi provides an easy way for businesses to reward their workers. The platform helps businesses build programmes that drive loyalty and engagement, delivering a wide range of benefits to workers via their Onsi Card.

Visit the Onsi website

Orbii

Orbii is an embedded credit infrastructure platform powering SME lending across MENA. With AI-driven models that integrate seamlessly into banks, fintechs, and B2B platforms, Orbii enables real-time lending decisions, smarter approvals, and reduced defaults—driving financial access and growth for underserved businesses.

Visit the Orbii website

Oxford Ionics

Oxford Ionics is a high-performance quantum computing company delivering world-leading innovations to create the most powerful, accurate and reliable quantum computers to solve the world's most important problems.

Visit the Oxford Ionics website

PharmEasy

PharmEasy is India’s leading consumer digital healthcare platform, providing patients with access to genuine products at affordable prices in the convenience of their homes.

Visit the PharmEasy website

Plerion

Plerion offers an end-to-end cloud security platform that enables organizations to prevent, detect and remediate vulnerabilities across all key aspects of cloud infrastructure.

Visit the Plerion website

Prime Roots

Prime Roots produces plant-based food products for meat and seafood alternatives using koji mycelium – a versatile type of fungi.

Visit the Prime Roots website

Qeen.AI

Qeen.AI enhances personalized customer engagement with AI-driven content, localization, and automation. By optimizing growth marketing and interactions, it helps e-commerce and marketplaces increase conversions, drive loyalty, and improve shopping experiences.

Visit the Qeen.AI website

Quick Ride

Quick Ride aims to provide a fast, simple, secure and cashless way to travel in India.

The team at Quick Ride is working to solve traffic congestion problems, increase transit times and reduce air pollution in the country via true carpooling.

Visit the Quick Ride website

Republic

Republic is a financial technology firm that allows everyone to invest in private markets. It operates a retail investment platform, a private capital division, and a blockchain incubator and fund.

Visit the Republic website

Shipper

Shipper is a tech-enabled logistics platform that offers a one-stop logistics solution, from a multi-courier shipping platform to distributed warehousing & fulfilment networks.

Visit the Shipper website

ShopUp

ShopUp is Bangladesh’s leading full-stack B2B commerce platform that focuses on removing inherent blockers within the traditional supply chain, logistics and financing.

Visit the ShopUp website

Spendflo

Spendflo is an all-in-one SaaS buying and management solution founded in 2021.

Visit the Spendflo website

Spotdraft

SpotDraft offers an AI-driven end-to-end contract management and automation solution that acts as a digital record system for in-house legal teams. The company works with high-growth businesses across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions.

Visit the SpotDraft website

Superside

Superside makes design hassle-free for marketing and creative teams, by combining the top 1% of creative talent from around the world with purpose-built technology and the rigour of design ops.

Visit the Superside website

Taktile

Taktile provides an AI-powered decision automation platform that helps businesses optimize risk assessment, underwriting, and fraud detection. By enabling no-code model deployment and real-time decisioning, Taktile empowers financial institutions and fintech companies to improve credit approvals, lending, and risk management with greater transparency and efficiency.

Visit the Taktile website

Thndr

Thndr is an Egyptian digital investment platform simplifying and democratising investment in the MENA region.

Visit the Thndr website

Tierra Biosciences

Tierra Biosciences is a leading global company that provides unique access to cutting-edge engineered proteins. They use advanced technologies to design and create these proteins, using data and artificial intelligence to push the limits of what's possible, surpassing nature.

Visit the Tierra Biosciences website

Tonik

Tonik is the first digital-only neobank in the Philippines, providing loan, deposit, payment and card products to consumers. It operates out of hubs in Singapore (HQ), Manila, Chennai and Kyiv.

Visit the Tonik website

Ula

Ula is a wholesale ecommerce marketplace that combines the technology, tools and skills of modern retail to partner with store owners in Indonesia.

Visit the Ula website

Urban Company

Urban Company is a leading tech-enabled home services marketplace, with service partners across India, the UAE, Singapore, Australia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The marketplace offers a variety of home services to consumers, including beauty treatments, haircuts, deep cleaning, plumbing, carpentry and appliance repairs.

Visit the Urban Company website

Ursula

Founded by an Emmy-winning team with experience at Pixar, Unity, Blizzard, and Google, Ursula is a Brazil-based AI startup building AI-native characters. It combines LLMs, symbolic AI, and long-term memory to power emotionally aware digital beings that evolve and connect with users across games, apps, and digital worlds.

Visit the Ursula website

Vegrow

Vegrow is a leading marketplace for the $60bn fruit business in India. It focuses on matchmaking across demand and supply, and value chain innovation, through its deep tech stack.

Visit the Vegrow website

Virgio

Virgio is a fashion tech startup and D2C fast fashion brand using technology throughout the design, manufacturing and purchasing process, to streamline the entire fashion lifecycle and enable a real-time fashion offering.

Visit the Virgio website

VOA Health

VOA Health is a Brazilian healthtech startup using generative AI to streamline clinical workflows. Its platform supports doctors by automatically transcribing and organizing consultations, reducing admin time and improving patient care.

Visit the VOA Health website

watchTowr

watchTowr leverages data analysis and interrogation within an agile technology framework to empower organisations with a continuous, real-time view of their external attack surface to help them identify vulnerabilities.

Visit the watchTowr website

Zapia

Zapia is an all-in-one AI assistant built for Latin America that helps users save time, save money, and live better. Accessible via WhatsApp, Zapia provides personalized support for tasks like setting reminders, summarizing content, and discovering products and services—all in a chat-based interface.

Visit the Zapia website

Zest Equity

Zest Equity is a fintech platform focused on democratizing access to private market investments. It leverages advanced technology to streamline investment processes, reduce barriers to entry, and provide transparent, data-driven insights for both individual and institutional investors.

Visit the Zest Equity website

Zypl

Zypl provides AI-driven credit scoring and fraud detection, enabling embedded financing and smarter lending for e-commerce and marketplaces. By expanding access to credit, it helps businesses grow while minimizing risk.

Visit the Zypl website

Our investment thesis

Regional focus and AI driven innovation

Our goal is clear: strengthen digital infrastructure, enhance platform synergies, and accelerate innovation.

Fuel the e-commerce flywheel

We invest to fuel the ecommerce flywheel. We focus on India, Latin America, and Europe - regions where we have a strong track record, have built deep roots and made meaningful progress.

Back early-stage AI innovators

We champion AI start-upsthat are reshaping the e-commerce value chain. From shopping and advertising tech, operations, AI agents, and customer support, we look for companies that are delivering measurable impact and performance gains.

AI: From infrastructure to real-world impact

While foundational models remain critical, we believe the next wave of value will emerge at the application layer, where AI embeds into workflows for tangible and transformative outcomes.

Our AI portfolio

Investment in AI-native tools like Qeen.ai, Nexad, and AdVolve to support our ecosystem strategy by automating support, optimising ad targeting, and personalising the shopping experience.

Other investments, like Ema, Spotdraft, and Corti enhance productivity and decision-making across healthcare, legal, and operational sectors.

Frontier technologies

Beyond e-commerce and AI, we actively explore frontier technologies with the potential to unlock the next era of industry disruption.

These include quantum computing, robotics, and drones—each opening transformative opportunities across logistics, agriculture, and industrial automation.

Meesho is helping to create entrepreneurs across India

Prosus Ventures perspectives

Visit the Prosus Ventures perspectives blog for portfolio stories, company updates and investor insights.

Prosus Ventures blog

Meet the team

Shilpa Agarwal

India Investments

Sandeep Bakshi

Head of Europe Investments

Sachin Bhanot

Head of SE Asia & ANZ Investments

Soumya Chauhan

India Investments

Priyanka Chopra

CFO, Ventures

Clayton Chu

SE Asia & ANZ Investments

Saurav Jain

India Investments

Gaurav Kothari

India Investments

Jayme Kwek

SE Asia & ANZ Investments

Ashutosh Sharma

Head of India Investments

Martin Tschopp

CEO, Prosus Ventures

Alex Umfrid

General Counsel, Ventures

Robin Voogd

Head of Middle East Investments