Aftab Mathur

Managing Director & Head, Innovation (Venture & Growth Investments) at Temasek

📍 Singapore, Singapore🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
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Board Member
2020
Soul Machines is a leader in the humanization of AI, creating autonomously animated Digital People that empower organizations to reimagine customer experiences in today’s digital worlds and the metaverse. Soul Machines is the only company with a patented Digital Brain and Autonomous Animation technology delivering the full capabilities and goodness of human and machine collaboration in a responsive, relatable and unprecedented way.
Board Member
2018
Eigen is a document intelligence platform that uses natural language processing and object detection to enable clients and partners to quickly and precisely extract the data they need from their contracts and paperwork so they can: - Assess and better manage risk  - Meet regulatory requirements - Scale-up their operations  - Better serve their customers - Automate costly manual processes Our team of scientists, engineers, strategists, and sector experts are based in New York, London and Lisbon. Eigen is trusted and backed by leading banks, investment managers, law firms and global businesses. To date we’ve raised over $80m in funding.
Board Member
2016
pureLiFi is the global leader in LiFi technology. We are bringing to market the world’s first commercial light antennas—the optoelectronic components which make LiFi possible—for all kinds of devices, from industrial to consumer, and from smart cars to smartphones. pureLiFi also offers LiFi systems for customers who need to augment, enhance, or transform their wireless networks with the latest in wireless communications technology. pureLiFi was founded by the “Father of LiFi” Prof Harald Haas and Dr Mostafa Afgani in 2012. Based in Edinburgh, we have customers and partners worldwide. LiFi, meaning Light Fidelity, is a term coined by pureLiFi co-founder and CSO, Professor Harald Haas, when he demonstrated LiFi for the first time at a TED talk in 2011. LiFi is high-speed, bidirectional, networked and mobile wireless communication using the light spectrum, to provide a user experience similar to traditional wireless systems. However, LiFi offers thousands of more highways for data to travel, which means it has the capacity to offer unprecedented data and bandwidth. The answer to our digital future.
Board Member
2016
We’re rethinking everything. Starting with food. Using safe, proven fermentation methods we make animal-free whey protein from microflora – not cows – to make dairy that’s identical to traditional milk. The production of our whey protein emits up to 97% less greenhouse gas emissions, uses up to 99% less blue water, and uses up to 60% less nonrenewable energy, compared to the production of protein found in traditional milk. Our protein comes in a variety of applications including cream cheese, barista milk, ice cream, protein powder, egg replacer, bakery mix, confectionery, and gelato. Some of our partners in-market include Mars, Nestlé, Natreve, Brave Robot, Myprotein, Strive Nutrition, Nicks, Tomorrow Farms, Villa Dolce, Betterland, and more. It’s dairy that’s better for everything.
Board Member
2015
Started in 2008, Innoven Capital is Indias first venture debt and specialty lending business. We have backed over 200 leading high growth venture capital-backed companies, including 35+ unicorns across sectors and business models. Our mission is to partner with entrepreneurs who are thinking BIG and disrupting large addressable markets. Innoven Capitals anchor investors include Temasek (through its fully owned subsidiary, Seviora) and United Overseas Bank.
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2022
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2022
Vertex Holdings is a Singapore-based venture capital investment holding company. It provides anchor funding and operational support to a proprietary global network of venture capital funds, namely: Vertex Ventures China, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures SEA & India, Vertex Ventures US, Vertex Ventures HC and Vertex Growth. The Vertex network of funds invests in early stage technology opportunities through Vertex Ventures, early stage healthcare opportunities through Vertex Ventures HC, and growth stage opportunities through Vertex Growth. Each Vertex fund operates independently, with separate local teams that raise and manage their respective funds.
2020
Board Member
2020
Soul Machines is a leader in the humanization of AI, creating autonomously animated Digital People that empower organizations to reimagine customer experiences in today’s digital worlds and the metaverse. Soul Machines is the only company with a patented Digital Brain and Autonomous Animation technology delivering the full capabilities and goodness of human and machine collaboration in a responsive, relatable and unprecedented way.
2018
Board Member
2018
Eigen is a document intelligence platform that uses natural language processing and object detection to enable clients and partners to quickly and precisely extract the data they need from their contracts and paperwork so they can: - Assess and better manage risk  - Meet regulatory requirements - Scale-up their operations  - Better serve their customers - Automate costly manual processes Our team of scientists, engineers, strategists, and sector experts are based in New York, London and Lisbon. Eigen is trusted and backed by leading banks, investment managers, law firms and global businesses. To date we’ve raised over $80m in funding.
2016
Board Member
2016
pureLiFi is the global leader in LiFi technology. We are bringing to market the world’s first commercial light antennas—the optoelectronic components which make LiFi possible—for all kinds of devices, from industrial to consumer, and from smart cars to smartphones. pureLiFi also offers LiFi systems for customers who need to augment, enhance, or transform their wireless networks with the latest in wireless communications technology. pureLiFi was founded by the “Father of LiFi” Prof Harald Haas and Dr Mostafa Afgani in 2012. Based in Edinburgh, we have customers and partners worldwide. LiFi, meaning Light Fidelity, is a term coined by pureLiFi co-founder and CSO, Professor Harald Haas, when he demonstrated LiFi for the first time at a TED talk in 2011. LiFi is high-speed, bidirectional, networked and mobile wireless communication using the light spectrum, to provide a user experience similar to traditional wireless systems. However, LiFi offers thousands of more highways for data to travel, which means it has the capacity to offer unprecedented data and bandwidth. The answer to our digital future.
Board Member
2016
We’re rethinking everything. Starting with food. Using safe, proven fermentation methods we make animal-free whey protein from microflora – not cows – to make dairy that’s identical to traditional milk. The production of our whey protein emits up to 97% less greenhouse gas emissions, uses up to 99% less blue water, and uses up to 60% less nonrenewable energy, compared to the production of protein found in traditional milk. Our protein comes in a variety of applications including cream cheese, barista milk, ice cream, protein powder, egg replacer, bakery mix, confectionery, and gelato. Some of our partners in-market include Mars, Nestlé, Natreve, Brave Robot, Myprotein, Strive Nutrition, Nicks, Tomorrow Farms, Villa Dolce, Betterland, and more. It’s dairy that’s better for everything.
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