Partnering with innovative entrepreneurs to build leading technology companies in high-growth markets

Prosus Ventures is the venture investing arm of Prosus. Ventures explores new sectors and emerging technologies that could help fuel the next wave of growth for the group.

We invest across India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and across key technology in sectors such as e-commerce, mobility and logistics, fintech and blockchain, agritech and sustainability, and recently added SaaS and B2B to our focus areas.

Both our Food and Edtech segments were born out of Ventures and now comprise of leading companies across the globe. Our ability to offer a global perspective whilst being local is a competitive advantage.

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.

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Airmeet

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

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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.

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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.


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Azos

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

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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.

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Bibit

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

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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.

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Borneo

Borneo is a privacy information and data management platform offering security and privacy solutions for hyper-growth technology companies through real-time privacy data observability and insights.

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BUX

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

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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ElasticRun

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

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Klar

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

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Kovi

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

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Meesho

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

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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.

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merXu

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

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Neara

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Prime Roots

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Spendflo

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

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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.

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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.

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Thndr

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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Key statistics

Performance highlights

40+

We have 40+ companies in our Prosus Ventures portfolio

$1.4bn

US$1.4bn+ invested through our Prosus Ventures portfolio globally

What we look for

We back businesses with large total addressable markets (TAMs) that meet big societal needs in high-growth regions, and where we can really make an impact as an investor.

We invest in world-class entrepreneurs who want to build leading technology companies.

We focus on sectors of the economy where technology can lead to meaningful change in consumer or business behaviour and economics.

Investing in the next generation of disruptors

Investing in the next generation of disruptors

At Prosus Ventures, we believe there are many opportunities for entrepreneurs with bright ideas and disruptive technologies to improve everyday life for people worldwide. These new ideas are reimagining and remaking markets.

Our commitment to long-term success drives our engagement with partners. Because we invest off our balance sheet, we are not constrained by a short-term fund that requires returns or exits within a fixed timeframe. We work with our partners to help them build long-term, sustainable businesses, empowering the people and impacting the communities in which they operate.

Prosus Ventures perspectives

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

Prosus Ventures blog

Meet the team

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

Dhruv Gupta

India Investments

Tania Hoeding

Europe Investments

Saurav Jain

India Investments

Gaurav Kothari

India Investments

Jayme Kwek

SE Asia & ANZ Investments

Ashutosh Sharma

Head of India Investments

Poonam Thakur

India & SEA Communications

Martin Tschopp

CEO, Prosus Ventures

Alex Umfrid

General Counsel, Ventures

Javier Valverde

EUROPE INVESTMENTS

Robin Voogd

Head of Middle East Investments