Expara IDM Ventures

Expara IDM Ventures, known as Expara, is a venture capital and venture services firm headquartered in Singapore, with offices in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, China, the United Arab Emirates, the Philippines and Poland. Founded in 2003, it has launched five venture capital funds in Southeast Asia since 2007 and invested in 92 companies. Alongside investing, Expara provides acceleration, incubation, entrepreneurship training and mentorship, running an online learning platform used for university courses, workshops and bootcamps, with more than 700 programmes delivered over the past two decades. Its portfolio of accelerator and incubator initiatives has supported more than 900 companies across 15 countries and regions, and its in-house Innovation Engine platform runs innovation challenges and hackathons for businesses.