Saurabh Bajpai

Partner and Managing Director | Growth-focused Private Equity and Venture Capital Investments in Southeast Asia, South Asia and Middle East

📍 Singapore🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 Singapore
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Investor
2025
Haldirams is a renowned name in producing tasty and crunchy snacks, namkeens, sweets, sherbat and pickles.
Investor
2024
VETRESKA is a people pet brand founded 
in 2017, aiming to push the boundaries of imagination on pet products. Inspired by people’s life, VETRESKA strives to present pet lovers with fun yet functional design, and to empower them to share the delights in life with pets.
late stageRetail
Investor
2024
Busy lives require beauty solutions that can adapt to whatever you’re doing and wherever you’re going. Our collection of clean, vegan, cruelty-free products deliver highly efficacious results with a focus on simplicity for that Summer Fridays feeling every day.
Investor
2023
Urbanic is a global fashion company headquartered in London, committed to balancing creativity and sustainability through the use of advanced technology. Since our inception, we have been committed to empowering consumers with top-notch fashion that blends innovation and social responsibility. We are recognized as one of the most rapidly expanding fashion retailers in key emerging markets. We invite you to be part of our journey to reshape the fashion landscape by fostering creativity, embracing technology, and promoting sustainability. Urbanic - We are because you are.
Investor
2021
Zenyum is on a mission to help Asia smile more. Were a consumer-focused healthcare brand that removes medical jargon, cancelled appointments, price variations and puts convenience at the centre of your smile journey. The result? Affordable dental treatment that actually works. Founded in 2018 in Singapore, Zenyum provides Smile Cosmetics, produced under the highest quality standards. Led by a team of experienced tech entrepreneurs and doctors, we bring the highest level of care to our customers by partnering with experienced local dentists across Asia. Zenyum operates in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia.
mid stageRetail
Investor
2021
Founded in 2015, the business of PT Social Bella Indonesia evolved from the leading beauty and personal care e-commerce in Indonesia to a large-scale and sustainable online and offline beauty and personal care ecosystem. The company now has multiple ever-expanding business pillars (1) Sociolla, the no.1 e-commerce in Indonesia for beauty and personal care, now equipped with more than 60 omnichannel stores across almost 40 cities in Indonesia and 12 omnichannel stores across 4 cities in Vietnam, (2) SOCO, a beauty super app that can help users enjoy a holistic beauty experience and be able to shop the way they like (3) Beauty Journal, the leading online media for beauty and lifestyle with O2O marketing services from upstream to downstream, (4) Lilla, the leading e-commerce created by moms for moms, with its first omnichannel store opened in 2022 and (5) SDI, a business unit that offers end-to-end distribution services for beauty and skincare brands, trusted by leading international brands. Social Bella was also awarded the Most Responsible Brand 2022 (E-Commerce Category) by Award4Change for its great initiative and commitment in implementing circular economy principles and responsible waste management in Indonesia. Social Bella is in first place on the LinkedIn Top Startup List in Indonesia in 2021 and sixth in 2022. The company was also listed on the Disruptor Award for the A-List: Forbes Indonesias Most Promising Growth-Stage Startups 2019 together with new up-and-coming startups. The award was announced at the Forbes Indonesia Digital Awards held by Forbes Indonesia as an event to gather up-and-coming entrepreneurs and tech startups.
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2015
CÉ LA VI is our interpretation of the popular French saying “This is Life”. Our mission is simple: the pursuit of pleasure, passion and play in an inspiring and spectacular setting because “This is the Life”. We deliver luxury lifestyle, dining and entertainment brand through exceptional guest services, iconic locations with stunning vistas and a journey of the five senses.
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2026
Advisor
2026
Istana Partners is a control buyout private equity firm focused on Southeast Asia’s small to mid-market businesses. We lead with business owners in adopting and implementing AI to drive resilient growth, operational efficiency and deliver superior returns. Our approach engineers full-stack AI implementation, from workflow redesign and data unification to agent deployment, aggregation, and continuous model integrity and performance optimization. We back and forge defining market leaders of the AI generation.
2025
Investor
2025
We are a collective of bold thinkers. Our open-minded approach allows us to explore ideas with a restless enthusiasm and take our clients somewhere new. Our travels, the people we meet, the cultures and landscapes we immerse in, serve as rich inspiration. We explore ideas with a restless desire to take us beyond the expected, unearth the unique and inspire those around us to think bolder. Every journey we take is different, influenced by experiences shared with each client. They all arrive at meaningful, respectful and memorable spaces that touch both people and place. As the luxury hospitality market changes and adapts, looking for new inspiration and experiences, we continually reconsider and develop. Currently, we are collaborating with a new era of hospitality entrepreneurs. By sharing their energy and imagination, we are challenging ideas and making spaces that reward each client and reach every guest.
Investor
2025
Haldirams is a renowned name in producing tasty and crunchy snacks, namkeens, sweets, sherbat and pickles.
2024
Investor
2024
NEON is a global leader in creating and producing immersive experiences. NEON enjoys worldwide partnerships with The Walt Disney Company and Marvel Entertainment for Marvel Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. and Marvel Avengers Station: Evolution, 20th Century Studios for AVATAR: The Exhibition, Hasbro for Transformers: The Experience, NBCUniversal for Jurassic World: The Exhibition, and Lionsgate for The Hunger Games: The Exhibition. It also has a partnership with Warner Bros. Themed Entertainment to produce two brand-new, unique global touring-themed art experiences inspired by DC and the Wizarding World, slated to launch in 2023. The Company also partners with the governments of Peru and Egypt for their original artifact IP experiences, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru and Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs, respectively, plus authentic artifact tours Pompeii: The Exhibition, Mummies of the World: The Exhibition, Victoria the T. Rex and Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. These partnerships have enabled the Group to bring compelling experiences that leave lasting memories to millions of visitors in more than 60 cities to date globally. For more information, please visit www.neonglobal.com.
Investor
2024
VETRESKA is a people pet brand founded 
in 2017, aiming to push the boundaries of imagination on pet products. Inspired by people’s life, VETRESKA strives to present pet lovers with fun yet functional design, and to empower them to share the delights in life with pets.
late stageRetail
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