About us
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't
be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it
so it goes on flying anyway.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't
be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it
so it goes on flying anyway.
- Mary Kay Ash
Enspire Capital is a venture capital and private equity investment company founded by Singapore technology entrepreneur K.S. Chay. We make both fund and direct investment in Asia and Silicon Valley. Enspire has presence in the Bay Area, Shanghai, Taipei, Singapore and Hong Kong.
With a technology and entrepreneurship background, we are inspired to invest in creative ideas and talented early stage teams. We focus our direct investment in early stage technology companies in the area of Telecommunication, Media and Technology (TMT), Mobile, Cloud, SaaS and IoT. Through fund investment, we seek to invest in expansion stage companies from the fund portfolio. We bring deep sector expertise, operational excellence, Asia insight and network to our portfolio companies and funds, enabling them to become leaders of tomorrow.
DIRECT INVESTMENT
直接投資
直接投资
Focus on early stage technology companies in TMT, Internet and Mobile
Track records of IPOs and M&A in Asia and Silicon Valley
Value add through our industry connections and entrepreneurial experience
A10 Network
USA
- A10 Networks Inc. provides computer networking products and security solutions. The Company offers controller, firewall, hardware appliances, protection systems, and other networking products. A10 Networks serves customers worldwide.
Adroll
USA
- AdRoll is the world’s largest retargeting platform with over 10,000 active advertisers worldwide. The company’s innovative and easy-to-use marketing platform enable brands of all sizes to create personalized ad campaigns based on their own website data, ensuring maximum return on online advertising spend.
- With a 97% customer rate, AdRoll provides unmatched transparency and reach across the largest display inventory sources, including Google AdX and Facebook Exchange.
Bouqs
USA
- The Bouqs Company (TheBouqs.com) is a cut-to-order online flower delivery company. TheBouqs.com offers a simple shopping and superior customer service experience, and delivers high-quality, farm-direct, eco-friendly stems with honest and direct pricing.
Centec
China
- Centec Networks is pioneering to provide switching silicon and whitebox solution for SDN. Centec commit to enable SDN into networks of carrier, enterprise and data center. Leveraging the high performance open SDN architecture, Centec enables customer networks seamlessly migrate from traditional L2, L3 and MPLS/MPLS-TP architecture to the new SDN track.
- Together with the customer, Centec is redefining the switching network with optimized investment and more opening capability to create value for future and today.
DynaScan
Taiwan
- DynaScan Technology Corp is a world-leading manufacturer of innovative and patented LED-based digital signage solutions to support clients in commerce, safety, communication, and entertainment applications.
FiscalNote
USA
- FiscalNote is a privately held company that uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact.
- Its flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaign finance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions.
FocalTech
USA
- FocalTech went IPO on Taiwan Stock Exchange on Nov., 2013, it reverse merged with Orise in Jan. 2015 and changed stock symbol to 3545.
- FocalTech Systems was founded in the U.S. in 2005. It has established its presence in Hi-Tech industrial park in Nan Shan district, Shenzhen, China and in Hsinchu Taiwan in 2006. The company focuses on the design, production, and sales of LCD driver ICs and Mutual-capacitive Touchpanel controller ICs.
GenieNRM
Taiwan
- Genie Network Resource Management Inc. develops a portfolio of network management solutions for Telecom operators and ISPs in the Greater China and Japan market.
Jike
China
- JIKE App aggregate and push curated content based on individual interests, using AI and machine learning. It is also a social platform for like-minded to interact with each other and have fun.
Petnet
USA
- Petnet is a connected pet device company that offers a pet analytics platform to find solutions for fundamental problems of petcare.
PRODIGY
USA
- Prodigy is an online checkout platform that integrates with existing dealership infrastructure and financial institutes to serve car buyers with minimum hassle.
ReplyBuy
USA
- ReplyBuy enables businesses to engage with mobile customers and complete safe and secure purchases with a simple text message. Deploy campaigns, manage customers, track revenue, measure conversion and effectiveness all from a single dashboard.
Sensel
USA
- Sensel is in stealth mode.
Spry Health
USA
- Spry Health is a dynamic group of innovators developing transformative digital health solutions that enable patients to get the right care at the right time. We are experts in advanced health informatics, biological signals acquisition and analysis, machine learning, and medical research.
SUNSEAP
Singapore
- Sunseap has developed, designed and engineered, constructed, funded and operated the vast super majority of all grid-connected PV power plants in Singapore and rapidly expanding regionally.
SYMPHONY
USA
- Designed for the exchange of high-value content, Symphony is an open source, secure communication and workflow platform that improves workplace productivity and connects users to their community.
TangDou
China
- TangDou is a social entertainment platform for the middle age. Both Professional and User Generated Content provide enjoyment and interaction for the users, lighten up their life to promote active ageing.
ViSenze
Singapore
- ViSenze is an artificial intelligence startup that develops advanced visual search and image recognition solutions to help businesses in eCommerce, mCommerce and online advertising.
Voltafield
Taiwan
- Voltafield Technology, founded in January of 2009 in Taiwan, is a semiconductor company enabling new generations of Magneto-resistive (MR) sensor technology for industrial, consumer and automobile segment.
WOMPLY
USA
- Womply provides a value added web service dashboard for small merchants that shows business information, and better marketing support.
YunYingGu
China
- YunYingGu is a display module manufacturer for mobile devices. Its core technology is through innovative display subpixel arrangement and rendering processing to improve the PPI (pixels per inch) of display modules.
- YunYingGu can effectively reduce the production costs of HD (720P) and Full HD (1080P) display module based on amorphous silicon production lines.
FUND INVESTMENT
基金投資
基金投资
Focus on early stage technology companies in TMT, Internet and Mobile
Track records of IPOs and M&A in Asia and Silicon Valley
Value add through our industry connections and entrepreneurial experience
01VC
China
- 01VC invest in Pre-A and A round in several core themes: 2B+ (enterprise market place, vertical SaaS and supply chain), Copy from China (stablished / proven business models in China thats replicated overseas).
AlphaJWC
Indonesia
- Alpha JWC Ventures is Indonesia-focused value-adding venture capital firm with deep expertise in FinTech and Sustainable Consumer sector. We back innovative technology entrepreneurs from seed to series B investment rounds, in addition to providing follow-on funding as the business grows.
BlueRun Ventures
- BlueRun Ventures (BRV®) is an early stage venture firm focused on mobile opportunities in key global markets. Since inception, BlueRun has focused on working with mobile startups to shape the ever-evolving ecosystem.
- They choose key geographic markets where mobile is a driving force in the way consumers and businesses interact with each other. Today, they have offices in Menlo Park, Beijing, Shanghai, and Seoul.
China Renaissance
- China Renaissance is the well-recognized premium “go-to brand” for private company transactions among the Chinese entrepreneurs. Over the years, CR has also built close relationships with the leading venture capital and private equity investors.
CITIC Capital Venture Partners
- CITIC Capital Venture Partners, L.P. is managed by CITIC Capital’s Venture Group. The Fund has its investment focus on high growth SMEs within the following industries: clean technology, consumer and TMT.
- It employs a mixed strategy: 70% of its capital deployed to growth stage companies with sector leadership and proven team. 30% of its capital deployed to venture stage companies with innovative product combined with sound business model and strong management
Crescent Group
- The Crescent Group is a leading emerging markets investment management firm primarily focused on the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions. Crescent believes that wealth in the next ten to twenty years will be created in Asia, both in East Asia and through the Indian Ocean, and so Crescent has located offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Chengdu and Jeddah to give the Company a physical footprint to support its activities across this area.
eGarden Ventures
- Founded in 2000, eGarden seeks to invest in startup companies within the Greater China region. Investments are focused on high growth emerging sectors, especially towards the growing consumer industries in Mainland China. To date, eGarden and its associates have funded companies that have eventually become leading enterprises in their respective sectors.
- eGarden specialized in the field of telecommunications, wireless, medical, materials, Internet, media and general consumer staple sectors.
Empower Investment
- 合力投资（Empower Investment） is an early stage fund focusing on TMT investments in China.
Genesis Capital
- Genesis Fund is operated by ex-Tencent Investment Director, Richard Peng. He was the chairman of Tencent investment committee. Inherit its strength and knowhow in Internet, the fund will very focus on Internet-related deals.
Hony Capital
- Hony Capital, founded in 2003 and sponsored by Legend Holdings Corporation, specializes in private equity investment. As a “China expert” and company builder, it focuses on the Chinese market with “value creation by providing value-added services” as its investment philosophy.
IPV Capital
- IPV Capital is a China based venture capital firm dedicated to delivering exceptional investment performance by backing high growth technology firms that can successfully compete in the Chinese and global markets.
- IPV Capital is dedicated to working with early growth firms as they are confident that tomorrow’s technology leaders will emerge from China.
Jiuding Capital
- Kunwu Jiuding Capital (Jiuding Capital) is a top-tier equity investment company. Headquartered in Beijing, Jiuding Capital has developed a network of more than 30 branches and agencies all over China.
- As one of the pioneers in domestic PE investment, Jiuding Capital endeavors to become the most professional and respectable investment institution focusing on the Chinese market. Jiuding Capital was ranked as Top 10 PE for its outstanding performance.
K2 Partners
- Founded in 2010, K2 Partners is a seed/early stage venture fund focusing on Internet, Media and Wireless Technology investment in China
Lightspeed China Partners
- Lightspeed China Partners (LCP), is a China-focused early-stage venture capital firm with investment professionals located in Shanghai and Beijing, focusing on Internet, mobile, services and enterprise solutions companies.
- With strong backgrounds in company operations and entrepreneurship, the partners of LCP are committed to helping a new generation of Chinese entrepreneurs become industry leaders, build world-class companies and create social impact.
Merus Capital
- Merus Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs build successful software and Internet companies. Merus focus areas include Commerce, Cloud and Mobile.
- Merus Capital is founded by by Salman Ullah, former Vice President of Corporate Development at Google, Sean Dempsey, former Principal of Corporate Development at Google, and Peter Hsing, former Managing Director of Corporate Strategy at Microsoft.
Northgate
- Established in 2000 with offices in United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and India, Northgate’s investment focus includes investments in private equity and venture capital partnerships across the developed and emerging markets, as well as direct investments alongside their top-tier VC partners.
Quest Ventures
- Quest Venture Partners believes in entrepreneurialism and the magnificent achievements the right team of individuals can accomplish.
- Quest invest in early stage companies with great ideas, and even greater people behind them.
SKY9
China
- Sky9 Capital focused on driving innovation in Internet, enterprise, and deep technology in China. With investment focus in Seed, Series A or Series B, $1-10M for early-stage companies, and $10M+ for expansion-stage companies.
TRIREC
- Singapore-based investment company with key focus in venture capital and high yield investments in renewable energy and clean technology.
Vertex China
- Vertex China invests in technology, media and consumer sectors in China. It is part of the Vertex Group which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings.
- Vertex only invest in high quality companies with long term growth potential. Combining global perspectives and resources with local experience, Vertex China has established itself with one of the best track record in the industry.
Vertex Ventures US
- Vertex US has a young investment tean with Enterprise & next generation infrastructure thesis
Walden ESVF Singapore
- Walden International is an active venture investor in SE Asia with over 25 years of experience helping grow companies through our globally integrated team and the added value it provides through capital, relationships and expertise.
- In partnership with the Singapore National Research Foundation, Walden International has a dedicated focus on seed stage companies that seek to leverage cross-border market opportunities.
WI Harper Group
- WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and early expansion investments in Mainland China, Taiwan and Silicon Valley.
- It was founded in 1993 and claimed, as of 2008, 15 IPOs from over 90 investments. The firm’s focus is technology, clean technology and healthcare. Its track record includes DivX, Focus Media, Vizio, SiRF and Commerce One.
TEAM
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团队成员
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Executive Director
YEO Lee Meng
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Financial Controller
SIM Siew Kiang
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CHAY Kwong Soon
Philip M. LAU
YEO Lee Meng
SIM Siew Kiang
Ann CHEN
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