Akshay Bajaj

VC @ SIG

📍 Singapore🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2023
VC🌍 Singapore
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Investor / Board Member
May 2023
We are hiring! Send your application to career@satudental.com
Investor / Board Observer
Sep 2022
Established in 2016, Ayoconnect is Southeast Asias leading Open Finance API platform on a mission to revolutionize the financial services landscape in the region. We offer full-stack payment API solutions catering to businesses of all sizes and industries, empowering them to provide top-notch financial services and unlock new growth opportunities. Our main offerings include Direct Debit, Virtual Cards, Instant Transfer, and Digital Products (PPOB). Headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, weve earned the trust of over 200 companies, ranging from major banks and government agencies to rising technology firms across Southeast Asia. Notable clients include Bank BRI, Bank Mandiri, DANA, Traveloka, PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI), BPJamsostek, and many others. Presently, our APIs process over 500 million hits annually and connect more than 1,000 institutions to our extensive API network. As an officially licensed Payment Initiation and/or Acquiring Services (PIAS) provider and Payment Service Provider (Penyedia Jasa Pembayaran or PJP) category 1 by Bank Indonesia, were committed to the highest standards of security and compliance. Our certifications include ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS, while also being recorded in KOMINFO and OJK. Additionally, we proudly associate with esteemed organizations like ASPI (Asosiasi Sistem Pembayaran Indonesia), AFTECH (Asosiasi Fintech Indonesia), and more. Join us as we drive forward with Open Finance APIs, shaping the future of financial services across Southeast Asia.
Investor / Board Observer
Apr 2022
No more digital divide. That is our rather Utopian vision; and proverbial “pie in the sky.” But we are genuinely grounded in reality, immersed in a representative emerging market -- The Philippines -- launchpad for innovations profoundly impacting lives and equalizing opportunities in these parts. Creating platforms and fusing them for every key digital activity -- from Internet Access to eCommerce, Digital Marketing to Fintech -- Voyager has established industry leadership in inclusive innovations, allowing millions more to participate and be productive in the new digital society. Are you looking for that rare opportunity to make a difference, while pursuing a high flying career in product development, engineering, marketing, or communications? Do hit us up! Our platforms include: Freenet, the No.1 mobile community site in the Philippines providing sponsored (free!) mobile data access to the most relevant and popular sites for news, travel, banking, shopping, sports, and social networking. PayMaya, payment app of choice for Millennials and No.1 on the Google Playstore (Financial Apps, Philippines). PayMaya Business, enabling establishments and enterprises to accept the new wave of cashless payments. FINTQ, enabler of various award winning fintech products that are providing underserved markets access to loans, savings, insurance and other financial products via the most pervasive mobile devices. Smart Padala, the countrys largest domestic remittance network with over 15,000 touchpoints nationwide. Comet, OTT and over-the-air communications solutions uniting web and mobile communities. Voyager Innovations is the digital unit of PLDT-Smart Communications.
Investor / Board Observer
Dec 2021
SariSuki was founded in 2021 as a response to the COVID pandemic and part of the founders’ mission of empowering communities around the country. We strive to offer supermarket-quality products at wet market prices while helping others make a decent living. We provide local communities fresh groceries and everyday needs through our Ka-Sari community leaders. All over the country, community sellers started providing the needs of their neighborhood. Inspired by this amazing collective behavior, the team at SariSuki found that this was an actual business model in countries like China and Indonesia - Community Group Buying.
Investor / Board Observer
Sep 2021
Launched in 2020, Segari is one of the fastest growing commerce grocery start-ups in Indonesia, delivering fresh produce to consumers around Jakarta, Tangerang, and Bekasi areas. Founded by Yosua Setiawan, Farandy Ramadhana, and Farand Anugerah, Segari was initiated to help solving Indonesia’s age-old agriculture supply chain issue and a mission to make e-grocery and the end-to-end supply chain in Indonesia to be more efficient and reliable within 15 hours delivery from farm to table. A seamless grocery shopping experience is consistently being committed by Segari to provide a full range of high-quality groceries across fruit, vegetables, meat and staples categories at the best price. Within less than 12 months of operation, Segari has achieved over 20 times growth in users, number of platform transactions, and revenues (AC Insights, 2021) while empowering local farmer communities and providing the best quality of fresh produce to support Indonesian moms in providing healthy and nutritious food for their families. Follow us to know more about job openings and exciting updates on Life at Segari (Instagram: @lifeatsegari)
early stageRetail Groceries
Investor / Board Member
2021
Kumu is a livestreaming app built for GenZ & Millennial Filipinos. Our Social TV, virtual gifts economy, and live commerce platform empowers thousands of Filipino content creators around the world. We have been downloaded in over 55 countries and have over 6 million registered users since launching in August 2018.
Investor / Board Observer
2021
Aruna is the largest integrated fisheries commerce in Indonesia that connects small-scale fishermen to the global market through digital platforms that create fair trade through transparent pricing.
Investor
2020
Together with a very talented team of speech recognition scientists and linguistic experts, we created ELSA (English Language Speech Assistant), one of the smartest A.I. assistant for pronunciation training and accent reduction. Our vision is to enable the 1.5 billion language learners around the globe to speak foreign languages with full confidence and unlock their opportunities in life. Our flagship product, ELSA Speak, is a personal virtual pronunciation coach. ELSA can listen to you speak English, pick out the exact errors as you speak at an individual sound level or intonation, rhythm, and pitch. ELSA will then give you instant feedback and recommendations on how to fix those errors. All these feedback are fully automated using our proprietary speech recognition technology based on deep-learning algorithm. Our recent accomplishments: - “The Best Digital Learning App” at Reimagine Education 2016 - The 2016 winner of the world’s largest startup competition SXSWEdu Launch - Honorable Mention: Fast Companys World Changing Ideas Awards, 2020 - GSV Edtech 150, CBInsights AI 100, 2020 & 2021 - Recognized as Top 5 Best Artificial Intelligence Apps (by Research Sniper); and Top 4 Companies Using AI To Transform The World (by Forbes) - 50+ million users across 200+ countries - Invested by Gradient Ventures - Google’s A.I. fund For career opportunities, please visit https://elsaspeak.com/careers
Investor / Board Member
2020
Cialfo is on a mission to transform the higher education landscape through AI-driven solutions that simplify the college application and career guidance process. Students, counselors, parents and university representatives use Cialfo to dream, plan and achieve their goals. Join us on our journey of bringing together the best in people, software and data to make higher education accessible to 100 million students around the world! We are backed by prominent investors including Square Peg, SIG, Tiger Global, SEEK, Vulcan Capital, DLF Venture, B Capital, Bisk Ventures, January Capital and more. Currently, our team is spread across our four global offices in Washington DC, Singapore, New Delhi and Shanghai. • Top 50 edtech companies 2020 and 2021 by HolonIQ • Winner of Education Investor 2018 Award - edtech company of the year • Winner of EdTechX Asia 2016 • Top 5 startups to watch in 2017 by Straits Times • Featured on Forbes, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Straits Times, e27, VulcanPost, TechinAsia, Sohu, 36Kr, Times of India, NDTV and over 100 publications globally
Investor
2020
Turtlemint makes it easy to understand and buy insurance. Our intent is to “demystify” insurance by explaining the jargon in a simple way and providing smart tools to help a user make the right choice. From search to purchase, the entire process can be completed online in just a few clicks! We also have a team of friendly insurance advisors available on chat, phone and in-person to help users with purchase and claim services. We currently offer Car insurance, bike insurance, health insurance & term life insurance. The content is meant for internal consumption only.
Investor / Board Observer
2020
Food Market Hub is an end-to-end procurement management platform which automates all back-end operations for F&B businesses. Food Market Hub allows restaurants to manage existing suppliers and connect with new suppliers, all while providing a seamless payments option, and minimising food cost and wastage using AI. Likewise, suppliers use Food Market Hub to manage and consolidate orders and collections. Food Market Hub is building towards the future of F&B by enabling this massively underserved segment with a complete ecosystem covering sourcing, SaaS and financing. We are constantly looking for amazing talents who are passionate and hungry about disruptive innovation. It doesn’t matter which part of the world you’re in, if you think you’ve got what it takes, check out our current openings in our profile today!
Investor / Board Member
2020
Novade Solutions is a leading provider of field management software enhancing quality, safety, and productivity. Its flagship product, Novade Enterprise, is trusted by the worlds largest companies in the building and infrastructure industry and is deployed at over 10,000 sites globally. With Novade Enterprise, site processes such as quality control, safety inspections or progress monitoring are digitalised and automated using mobile devices. The captured data provides insights to streamline operations and drive results. In 2022, Novade Solutions launched Novade Lite, an application optimised for managing operations for small to medium-sized projects. Novade Lite is available to download online and is free for up to 5 users. It is adopted by a wide range of clients, including specialty contractors, builders, renovators, auditors, manufacturers, facility managers, utility operators, field service providers, and more. Novade Solutions is headquartered in Singapore and operates globally.
Investor / Board Observer
2019
Mobile Premier League (MPL), the largest skill-gaming platform in India, allows users to participate in free as well as paid competitions across 60+ games in multiple categories, including fantasy sports, sports games, puzzle, casual and board games. Founded in 2018, MPL hosts hundreds of millions of tournaments a month and is trusted by over 120 million registered users in India, United States and Nigeria. To learn more about MPL, please visit www.mpl.live.
Investor / Board Observer
2017
Kaodim is the leading home services platform in Southeast Asia, with operations in Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia
Investor
May 2016
Susquehanna Venture Capital has the most flexible source of capital you will find anywhere. Our capital comes from Susquehanna International Group, a bootstrapped financial services firm with its origins in derivative trading and market making. We love working with passionate entrepreneurs, founders, and operators. We are a firm that has no fixed time horizons and is not subject to the vagaries of the venture capital fundraising cycle; a firm that can be flexible in the types of deals it does, the securities it holds, and the risks it takes.
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2023
Investor / Board Member
May 2023
We are hiring! Send your application to career@satudental.com
2022
Investor / Board Observer
Sep 2022
Established in 2016, Ayoconnect is Southeast Asias leading Open Finance API platform on a mission to revolutionize the financial services landscape in the region. We offer full-stack payment API solutions catering to businesses of all sizes and industries, empowering them to provide top-notch financial services and unlock new growth opportunities. Our main offerings include Direct Debit, Virtual Cards, Instant Transfer, and Digital Products (PPOB). Headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, weve earned the trust of over 200 companies, ranging from major banks and government agencies to rising technology firms across Southeast Asia. Notable clients include Bank BRI, Bank Mandiri, DANA, Traveloka, PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI), BPJamsostek, and many others. Presently, our APIs process over 500 million hits annually and connect more than 1,000 institutions to our extensive API network. As an officially licensed Payment Initiation and/or Acquiring Services (PIAS) provider and Payment Service Provider (Penyedia Jasa Pembayaran or PJP) category 1 by Bank Indonesia, were committed to the highest standards of security and compliance. Our certifications include ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS, while also being recorded in KOMINFO and OJK. Additionally, we proudly associate with esteemed organizations like ASPI (Asosiasi Sistem Pembayaran Indonesia), AFTECH (Asosiasi Fintech Indonesia), and more. Join us as we drive forward with Open Finance APIs, shaping the future of financial services across Southeast Asia.
Investor / Board Observer
Apr 2022
No more digital divide. That is our rather Utopian vision; and proverbial “pie in the sky.” But we are genuinely grounded in reality, immersed in a representative emerging market -- The Philippines -- launchpad for innovations profoundly impacting lives and equalizing opportunities in these parts. Creating platforms and fusing them for every key digital activity -- from Internet Access to eCommerce, Digital Marketing to Fintech -- Voyager has established industry leadership in inclusive innovations, allowing millions more to participate and be productive in the new digital society. Are you looking for that rare opportunity to make a difference, while pursuing a high flying career in product development, engineering, marketing, or communications? Do hit us up! Our platforms include: Freenet, the No.1 mobile community site in the Philippines providing sponsored (free!) mobile data access to the most relevant and popular sites for news, travel, banking, shopping, sports, and social networking. PayMaya, payment app of choice for Millennials and No.1 on the Google Playstore (Financial Apps, Philippines). PayMaya Business, enabling establishments and enterprises to accept the new wave of cashless payments. FINTQ, enabler of various award winning fintech products that are providing underserved markets access to loans, savings, insurance and other financial products via the most pervasive mobile devices. Smart Padala, the countrys largest domestic remittance network with over 15,000 touchpoints nationwide. Comet, OTT and over-the-air communications solutions uniting web and mobile communities. Voyager Innovations is the digital unit of PLDT-Smart Communications.
2021
Investor / Board Observer
Dec 2021
SariSuki was founded in 2021 as a response to the COVID pandemic and part of the founders’ mission of empowering communities around the country. We strive to offer supermarket-quality products at wet market prices while helping others make a decent living. We provide local communities fresh groceries and everyday needs through our Ka-Sari community leaders. All over the country, community sellers started providing the needs of their neighborhood. Inspired by this amazing collective behavior, the team at SariSuki found that this was an actual business model in countries like China and Indonesia - Community Group Buying.
Investor / Board Observer
Sep 2021
Launched in 2020, Segari is one of the fastest growing commerce grocery start-ups in Indonesia, delivering fresh produce to consumers around Jakarta, Tangerang, and Bekasi areas. Founded by Yosua Setiawan, Farandy Ramadhana, and Farand Anugerah, Segari was initiated to help solving Indonesia’s age-old agriculture supply chain issue and a mission to make e-grocery and the end-to-end supply chain in Indonesia to be more efficient and reliable within 15 hours delivery from farm to table. A seamless grocery shopping experience is consistently being committed by Segari to provide a full range of high-quality groceries across fruit, vegetables, meat and staples categories at the best price. Within less than 12 months of operation, Segari has achieved over 20 times growth in users, number of platform transactions, and revenues (AC Insights, 2021) while empowering local farmer communities and providing the best quality of fresh produce to support Indonesian moms in providing healthy and nutritious food for their families. Follow us to know more about job openings and exciting updates on Life at Segari (Instagram: @lifeatsegari)
early stageRetail Groceries
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