Cento Ventures

Cento Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies in Southeast Asia. It looks for startups that have already found a fit between product and market and need capital to expand across the region or refine their business model. Its own name is a literary term for a work assembled from other writers' lines, and it calls its founders the authors of innovation.

Products and services

• Early-stage investment: funding for startups anywhere in Southeast Asia that are ready to scale.
• Digital financial services focus: particular interest in credit, settlements and insurance.
• Founder support: a team of operators and deal makers who stay involved through the growth of each company.
• Research: published reports on regional tech investment and comparisons with Latin America.

Clients

Portfolio companies include Baskit, a distribution platform for consumer brands, Doxa, which handles procurement and trade financing for small businesses, FastCo, a staffing platform for non-executive workers, Jirnexu, which serves banks and insurers, and 2C2P, a payment processor.

Key facts

• Region: Southeast Asia
• Stage: early-stage, after initial product-market fit