Saison Capital
Corporate VCSingapore · Pre-Seed–Series B · 10 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Saison Capital invests in ambitious, commercially-minded founders at the pre-seed and seed stages across all verticals, with particular focus on fintech, e-commerce and web3. Operating as the venture arm of Credit Saison, a roughly US$30B AUM financial services conglomerate, the firm emphasizes an operator-first approach informed by hands-on startup building experience. It has an independent, global investment mandate with a focus on emerging markets, while leveraging Credit Saison's resources and presence across Japan, India, Southeast Asia and Latin America. As an investment holding company, it provides patient equity financing without the constraints of a traditional fund.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 10 people
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Founder mafia
The Saison Capital mafia →7 people who came through Saison Capital went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 56 of 77 portfolio companiesFintech ×39Crypto & Web3 ×14SaaS ×12AI & Machine Learning ×9Data & Infrastructure ×7Consumer ×6E-commerce ×6Enterprise Software ×6
HQs:Singapore×8Indonesia×5United States×5Brazil×3Philippines×3Pakistan×3
Who they back
founder profiles across 22 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×102 founders×73 founders×44+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 26 founders with education data
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ×2Nanyang Technological University Singapore ×2The University of Manchester ×2University of Mumbai ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 26 founders with field-of-study data
Engineering ×7Finance & Accounting ×7Business & Management ×6Economics ×4Computer Science ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 29 founders with career history
Unilever ×3Daraz ×2McKinsey & Company ×2PayPal ×2Tala ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
6 hold an MBA (of 28 with degree data)
Investments · 77 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 32023 · 72022 · 62021 · 219 dated
iPiD offers software that lets banks, PSPs, payment networks, and other financial institutions connect to and operate within payee and account validation schemes such as UK Confirmation of Payee, EU Verification of Payee, and France's FNC-RF.
CybersecurityFintechSaaSSingapore, SG
Damien Dugauquier(Co-founder & CEO)inEdward Haddad(Founder)inGeertjan van Bochove(Co-founder, CFO & COO)inAlain Raes(Founding Partner & CCO)in
Co-investors1982 VenturesJungle VenturesQED InvestorsQuona CapitalMonk's Hill VenturesRapyd Ventures
XProtocol is a consumer-focused blockchain Superchain offering high-throughput, near-zero gas transactions with interoperability for decentralized apps (dApps).
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureHardware
Co-investorsCaballeros CapitalCogitent VenturesCoinFundDragonflyMSA CapitalRazer
Agora builds a governance platform for crypto protocols, enabling onchain community coordination around protocol upgrades and ecosystem funding.
Crypto & Web3GovTech
Yitong Zhang(Founder)Jarrah Kandeh(Founder)inNick van Eck(CEO)in
Co-investorsAlephAlphaLab CapitalCaladanDragonflyHack VCHaun Ventures+6 more
Avium is a web3 venture studio that invests in, builds, and co-creates web3 gaming and media experiences, positioning itself as a "Steam and Netflix for Web3." It connects gamers, media consumers, and entrepreneurs with businesses through NFTs, experiences, and its $AVM token.
Crypto & Web3GamingMedia & Entertainment
AlphaKongz(Co-founder)Niteheart(Co-founder)
Co-investorsEast VenturesMirana VenturesQuest Ventures
Bamboo is an investment platform that enables users in Africa to invest in U.S. stocks, ETFs, real estate investment trusts, and other asset classes with minimum investments starting at $10.
FintechLagos, NG
Richmond Bassey(Founder)inYanmo Omorogbe(Founder)in
Co-investors2080 VenturesAjim CapitalExpansion Venture CapitalGreycroftHoaQIngressive Capital+8 more
Bazaar is an online grocery service in Pakistan offering fresh produce, pantry staples, and local and international brands through its website and mobile apps.
ConsumerE-commerceFoodTech
Hamza Jawaid(Founder)in
Co-investorsAcrew CapitalAlter GlobalIndus Valley CapitalDefy PartnersTiger Global Management
Beams develops intraoperative cancer detection technology that gives surgeons real-time tumor margin detection, combining nuclear medicine and photonics for sub-millimetric precision in the operating room.
Deep TechHealthtechMedical Devices
Virginie Simon(Co-founder & President)in
Co-investorsWA4STEAM
Binocs provides AI and software tools for investment banks and financial firms to automate deal sourcing, screening, valuation analysis, and CIM creation.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechJersey City, US
Tonmoy Shingal (Building Binocs)(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelArkam VenturesBetter CapitalCapria VenturesBEENEXTBlume Ventures+1 more
Block Scholes provides crypto and real-world asset market data, analytics, and volatility metrics through REST, WebSocket, and MCP APIs, plus pull/push oracles.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Eamonn Gashier(Founder)in
BSX DeFi Seed is a company associated with the domain bsx.exchange; no sourced details are available.
Co-investorsBlockchain CapitalCoinbase VenturesCVP NoLimitNo Limit Holdings (NLH)WWVentures
BukuKas builds a bookkeeping and cash management app for micro and small businesses.
Media & Entertainment
Krishnan MenoninLorenzo Peracchione
Co-investors500 GlobalKube VCEndeavor CatalystJanuary Capital
BVNK provides payments infrastructure and cross-border payment technology for fintechs and businesses.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Chris Harmse(Founder)in
Co-investorsAvenir Growth CapitalCoinbase VenturesHaun VenturesNordstarScribble VenturesStart Capital+1 more
Capim is a dental practice management platform for dentistry clinics in Brazil, combining clinical management (scheduling, patient records, WhatsApp automations) with financial tools such as patient treatment financing, credit issuance, and payment processing.
FintechHealthtechSaaSSao Paulo, Sp, BR
Marcelo Marinho Lutz Pereira da Silva(Executive Officer, Director)Roberto Biselli(Founder)in
BoardMike Packer(Director)inCarlos Costa(Director)in
Co-investorsNXTPOnevc Venture Partners LlcQED InvestorsValor Capital GroupActyusCanary
Caveo is a Swiss fintech platform that integrates certified financial planners, a proprietary app, and algorithm-driven action plans to provide holistic financial planning covering savings, insurance, and wealth building.
FintechSwitzerland, CH
Philippe Muntwyler(Founder)in
Co-investorsEagle VentureOnevc Venture Partners LlcZenda
Concordia is an adaptive risk layer for DeFi that uses an AI engine to manage collateral, liquidation, and market risk across protocols.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsAlphaLab CapitalCaladanOptic Capital
Copra is an on-chain debt protocol that lets crypto-native entities such as protocols, fund managers, and AVS issue debt to raise liquidity, while depositors earn principal-protected fixed returns.
Crypto & Web3FintechNew York, US
Benjamin Minges(Executive Officer, Director)Chayakorn Phonsuwan(Executive Officer, Director)Timothy Minges(Director)Anthony Xu(Director)
CoverSelf offers a healthcare payment integrity platform that helps payers detect and prevent claims inaccuracies and payment leakage while reducing administrative costs.
FintechHealthtechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Rajasekhar Maddireddy(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Raghavendra Pawar(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
Co-investorsZ21 Ventures3one4 CapitalBEENEXT
Safary is an analytics and audience intelligence platform for crypto teams that syncs Twitter followers with on-chain and web2 data to identify real users, measure marketing funnel performance, and manage business development opportunities.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureMarketing TechSocial
Co-investorsArca FundsDiaspora VenturesLemniscapBlocktower Capital
Cryptoworth, founded in 2017, provides crypto accounting and financial reporting software that connects wallets, exchanges, DeFi protocols, and NFTs to help businesses reconcile data, manage financial close workflows, and run calculations.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaS
Richard Pasquin(Founder)in
Co-investorsKyber VenturesPolygon Ventures
Singapore-based Cyber Sierra builds agentic AI governance, risk and compliance software for regulated enterprises.
Singapore, SG
Subhajit Mandal(Founder)Pramodh Rai(Founder)inSubhajit Mandal, CFA(Founder)in
Co-investorsAppWorks VenturesLeo Capital Ventures
D3 Labs develops blockchain-based programmable asset infrastructure and solutions for businesses in Southeast Asia, starting with Indonesia.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintech
Chung Ying Lai(Co-CEO)Tigran Adiwirya(Co-CEO)
Co-investorsSpiral Ventures
DronaPay builds a high-throughput, low-latency platform for real-time fraud analytics, helping banks and fintechs use big data to detect anomalies and prevent fraud.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureFintech
Satish Kashyap(CEO & Co-Founder)inPallavi Narvekar(CTO & Co-Founder)inSukhdev Sinh Zala(CDO & Co-Founder)Pravin Pillai(Chief Operating Officer)inArpan Majumder(Chief Business Officer)in
Co-investorsVaranium NexGenCredit SaisonVaranium Capital Advisors
Echelon is a non-custodial DeFi lending protocol where users can supply or borrow liquidity through modular, isolated markets, with support for leverage and fixed-yield trading.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsSerafundAmber GroupLaser DigitalSelini Capital
Evertas is a specialist insurance underwriter covering cryptoassets, crypto mining hardware and AI infrastructure.
J. Gdanski(Founder)in
Co-investorsBloccelerate VCRyze LabsTRGCMorgan Creek Capital
Facio provides early wage access services to employees in Brazil, allowing workers to receive portions of their earned salary before the standard payment schedule.
FintechSão Paulo, BR
Márcio Dos Santos(Founder)inSaulo Tristao(Founder)inTiciano Vieira(Founder)inMárcio Vinicius dos Santos(Founder)inTiciano V(Founder)Stefan Jeschonnek(Director)in
Co-investorsFEBE VenturesMONASHEESNext Billion Capital PartnersTekton VenturesY CombinatorOnevc Venture Partners Llc
Finantier provides financial data and infrastructure services to businesses building financial applications in Southeast Asia.
FintechSaaSSingapore, SG
Diego Rojas(Founder)inKeng Low(Founder)in
Co-investorsCapria VenturesY CombinatorAC VenturesACV Capital Pte. Ltd.East VenturesGenesia Ventures+5 more
AI for next-gen digital content
Co-investorsAdapt VenturesEast VenturesGMO VenturePartnersInit 6
FLIK provides Indonesian online and physical merchants with tools including a fast website checkout, QRIS-based in-store payments, courier shipping, and order forms/landing pages for online sales.
E-commerceFintechRetail Tech
Co-investorsZ Venture CapitalEast VenturesGMO VenturePartnersInit 6
FLIK provides Indonesian online and physical merchants with tools including a fast website checkout, QRIS-based in-store payments, shipping, and order forms/landing pages for selling.
E-commerceFintechRetail Tech
Co-investorsInit 6East VenturesGMO VenturePartners
Global Founders Capital is a venture capital platform affiliated with Rocket Internet that invests early-stage in technology companies across sectors.
Sector Agnostic
Oliver Samwer(Founder)in
Co-investorsAfterWork VenturesAntlerBEENEXTGenesia VenturesGlobal Founders CapitalMassMutual Ventures+3 more
Growsari operates an app that lets sari-sari (neighborhood) store owners order over 800 products from brands like Unilever, P&G, Alaska, and Nestlé at distributor prices, with delivery to their stores.
B2B MarketplacesE-commerceFintechRetail Tech
Andrzej Ogonowski(Founder)inShiv Choudhury(Founder)inER Rollan(Founder)in
Co-investorsEndeavor CatalystICCP Venture PartnersWavemaker Partners
Habitto is a Japanese financial platform offering savings, investment, insurance, and free personalized money advice.
ConsumerFintechInsurTech
Co-investorsAnthemis VentureDG Daiwa VenturesGMO VenturePartnersQED InvestorsScrum Ventures
Periskope offers an AI agent that responds to customers across WhatsApp groups and chats, trained on a company's knowledge base.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Helicap Investments manages diversified income-generating investment products focused on private credit in Asia, targeting financial inclusion for unbanked and underbanked populations.
Data & InfrastructureFintechImpact & Social GoodSingapore, SG
Quentin
Co-investorsCredit Saison
Developer Tools
Satrughan SinghSharon Paul
Co-investors500 GlobalCrypto com CapitalForge Ventures
Infina operates a fintech platform offering yield-generating accounts and integrated investment tools for retail users in Vietnam.
FintechHo Chi Minh City, VN
James Vuong(Founder/CEO)in
Co-investors1982 VenturesAppWorks VenturesDG Daiwa VenturesMyAsiaVCPeak XV PartnersVenturra+5 more
Inkle offers a service to dissolve US business entities, handling final state and federal tax returns, EIN closure with the IRS, board resolutions, and state withdrawals.
AI & Machine LearningFintechLegalTechSaaSLewes, US
Ranvir Singh(Co-founder & CTO)inAnand Krishna(Co-founder)inLearning Fintech SaaS Ranvir Singh(Founder)
Co-investorsPICUS CAPITALForce Ventures
Jia provides financing and capital access to small businesses in emerging markets, helping local enterprises grow and strengthen their communities economically.
Fintech
Zach(Co-founder)inCheng(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsA100X VenturesCoinbase VenturesFlori VenturesHashed EmergentTTV Capital
KPK (karpatkey) is an onchain asset manager providing DeFi treasury mandates, vaults and tokenised funds.
Co-investorsAppWorks VenturesBorderless VentureThanefield CapitalWintermute
Krave Mart operates an online retail marketplace in Pakistan that delivers everyday consumer goods to customers with rapid delivery.
B2B MarketplacesConsumerE-commerceFoodTechLogistics & Supply ChainKarachi, PK
Kassim Shroff(Founder)inCh Haziq Ahmed(Founder)inHammad Bawany(Founder)inMohammad Ahsan Kidwai(Founder)in
Co-investorsAmaana CapitalCats.vcKube VCMSA NovoY CombinatorFirst Check Ventures+4 more
Lista is a personal finance management app that helps users track spending, automate expense monitoring, and reach savings goals.
ConsumerFintechManila, PH
Co-investors1982 VenturesOpenspace VenturesEast Ventures
LISTA manufactures storage and workspace systems such as drawer cabinets, workshop and warehouse equipment for industrial, defense, healthcare and laboratory environments.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareLogistics & Supply Chain
Co-investorsCapvis AG1982 VenturesEast VenturesOpenspace Ventures
The page describes "Fict One Occultical," presented as the first universe built on a "Collaborative Entertainment" formula intended to scale and evolve.
GamingMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsArcane GroupHyperithm
NayaPay is a mobile e-wallet and payments app offering account onboarding, a linked Visa virtual and physical card, money transfers, bill payments to 1100+ billers, QR payments, and international remittances.
ConsumerFintech
Co-investorsAmaana CapitalGraph VenturesMSA Novo
NextPay provides payment infrastructure for businesses and platforms in the Philippines, enabling payouts, invoicing, bill collection, and embedded payment workflows across local payment rails and banking networks.
FintechMakati, PH
Don Pansacola(Founder)inAldrich Tan(Founder)in
Co-investors1982 VenturesFoxmont Capital PartnersGolden Gate VenturesKickstart VenturesY Combinator
OneBanc offers a digital banking app that lets users open a digital account to spend, save, and track money, with AI-powered insights and recommendations for a holistic view of their finances.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerFintech
Vibhore Goyal(Founder)in
Co-investorsFirst ChequeLeo Capital Ventures
OnePipe provides an API gateway that aggregates banking and fintech services into a single standardized integration point for fintechs and banks seeking to expand partnerships and reduce integration overhead.
FintechSaaSLagos, NG
Ope Adeoye(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsAtlantica VenturesCapria VenturesFuture Perfect VenturesIngressive CapitalLoftyInc CapitalTechstars+7 more
Open Fabric connects wallets, BNPL providers, and digital banks to card-rail networks like Visa and Mastercard, turning any account balance into a payment instrument merchants can already accept.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSingapore, SG
Soma Ramasamy(Founder)in
Alan Wong(Founder)in
Co-investorsB Capital GroupB4 CapitalCapria Ventures
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Pagaleve offers a "buy now, pay later" payment method in Brazil that lets consumers split purchases into Pix installments without a credit card, usable across thousands of partner stores.
E-commerceFintech
Henrique Weaver(Founder)in
Co-investorsEntrée CapitalFounder CollectiveMSW CapitalOIF VenturesOur Innovation FundSalesforce Ventures+1 more
Podium School publishes parenting and child-development content covering emotional intelligence, reading, learning differences, and creative skills, and offers structured learning programmes and classes for children including acting/drama, public speaking, and creative courses.
EdTechMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzConstruct Capital
Farand Anugerah(Founder)inFarandy Ramadhana(Founder)in
Co-investorsAC VenturesCapria Ventures
Showroom B2B operates a B2B apparel sourcing marketplace that connects retailers with manufacturers through an AI-powered supply chain platform offering demand forecasting, supplier matching, and fulfillment tracking.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesRetail TechNoida, IN
Shubham Gupta(Founder)inAbhishek Dua(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsAccionCactus Venture PartnersGemba Capital Venture PartnersJungle VenturesAccion Venture LabAlteria Capital+3 more
Skorlife is a financial service platform that helps users monitor and understand their credit score (skor kredit) in Indonesia, calculated based on credit history and loan quality to help banks and lenders assess lending eligibility.
Fintech
Co-investorsAC VenturesHummingbird VenturesInit 6Digital Currency GroupQED Investors
Skor is an AI-powered rental screening platform that evaluates tenant creditworthiness and risk for property owners.
AI & Machine LearningFintechPropTech
Co-investorsSeedRocketACV Capital Pte. Ltd.Argor CapitalDigital Currency GroupHummingbird VenturesQED Investors
StepChange builds ESG and climate risk tools and advisory services for enterprises and financial institutions, supporting sustainability strategy and Net Zero execution.
Climate TechEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Ankit Jain(Co-Founder)inSidhant Pai(Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer)in
Co-investorsSupermorpheusAntlerBEENEXTFlourish VenturesGenesia VenturesGlobal Founders Capital+3 more
Empowering global trade with seamless, secure payments
Singapore, SG
Rahul Shinghal(Founder)inSaroj Mishra(Founder)
Co-investorsFoundamentalGMO VenturePartnersPeak XV PartnersRTP GlobalArc180Circle Ventures+5 more
Techfino Capital Private Limited is an NBFC that provides secured and unsecured loans through a paperless fintech platform, serving clients in the education, healthcare, and MSME sectors.
FintechBengaluru, IN
Rajesh Panda(Founder)in
Co-investorsStellaris Venture Advisors 2 Llp
Thala is a decentralized finance protocol built on the Aptos blockchain that brings together trading and yield products.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsParaFi Capital
TourHero is a platform that lets creators and community leaders design and host customized group trips, connecting them with local tour operators who handle accommodations, transportation, payments and on-ground logistics.
Creator EconomyMarketplacesTravel & Hospitality
Jann WongTushar Khandelwal(Founder)inViren Shettyin
Co-investors500 GlobalChamaeleonPeak XV PartnersProgression
Vigo provides distribution technology and services for brands and MSMEs, including warehousing, procurement, demand generation, inventory management, order fulfillment, last-mile delivery, and reporting.
B2B MarketplacesLogistics & Supply ChainRetail Tech
Fin (Wind) provides cross-border payment infrastructure that lets businesses move money across borders using stablecoins and local rails, offering modular APIs for pay-ins, payouts, multi-currency virtual accounts, and embedded wallets.
Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
BlackwingBuystarsCxCHellonimblyKippaKoinworksKrayondigitalLiquidxgroupLummoOtocitySariSuki
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesFlik · finsmes.com · Sep 3, 2026
Beams · dealstreetasia.com · Sep 3, 2026
BSX · chartmill.com · Aug 27, 2026
Podium · tipranks.com · Aug 13, 2026
Evertas · coruzant.com · Aug 11, 2026
Copra · stocktitan.net · Aug 6, 2026
Infina · investing.com · Jul 18, 2026
Facio · startupintros.com · Jul 13, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Saison Capital made?
- Saison Capital has 77 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 4 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Saison Capital invest at?
- Saison Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B stages.
- What is Saison Capital's typical check size?
- Saison Capital typically writes checks of $1.5M – $33M.
- What sectors does Saison Capital focus on?
- Saison Capital focuses on Crypto & Web3, E-commerce, Fintech, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Saison Capital located?
- Saison Capital is headquartered in Singapore, SG.
- Does Saison Capital lead rounds?
- Yes, Saison Capital leads investment rounds.
- Who does Saison Capital co-invest with?
- Saison Capital most often shares deals with Y Combinator, AppWorks Ventures, Capria Ventures, among 97 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamQin En Looi, partner at Saison Capital, speaks about how blockchain will transform payments sector
Global Corporate Venturing · Qin En Looi
What does a typical day as a VC look like for Qin En Looi in Saison Capital?
Analyse Asia · Qin En Looi
Hear Qin En Looi introduces Saison Capital as a corporate venture capital firm for #fintech
Analyse Podcast · Qin En Looi
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