16-May-2018:

The National ICT Association of Malaysia (PIKOM) unveiled its inaugural Sea Dragon Venture Platform recently, aimed at connecting scale up companies in Malaysia and across the South East Asia region with global venture capitalists, corporate investors and high net-worth individuals.

Venture Capitalists and Investors attending the PIKOM SEA Dragon Venture Platform event in Kuala Lumpur last week

PIKOM’s SEA Dragon Venture Platform is broken into two categories of funding based on the pitch and potential of these startups and scale ups.

• Series A: USD 1-3million
• Series B/C: USD 3-25million or more

 The Sea Dragon Venture Platform has proven to be a fruitful initiative, attracting more than 170 companies from Malaysia and SEA region ready to wow the investors to get the much-needed funding to take them to the next level.

It was no easy task as the stakes were high and after a grueling first round phase, about 40-45 companies were shortlisted from the initial 170 plus applicants by the advisory committee comprising partners of this platform.

In the second round, these companies were further screened via phone interviews before moving on to the next round based on three broad areas of growth, technology and the funding amount to be raised.

After several mentoring sessions, two companies were dropped to reveal the final 32 companies who will be given the opportunity to directly pitch to more than 40 venture capitalists, investors and high net worth individuals (see partial list in Table 1) from China, Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, Malaysia and across the region.

The Sea Dragon Venture Platform is organised by PIKOM with Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) as strategic partner.

PIKOM Venture Investment Chapter Committee Chair C.S. Chin said the PIKOM SEA Dragon Venture Platform is Southeast Asian premier venture pitching platform for hot scale-up companies looking for VC funding, business mentoring and global market expansion.

“PIKOM SEA Dragon Venture Platform is the first in a series of events that will take place this year. We will also be announcing an event exclusively for startups to be held at the end of the year,” said Chin.

“This is the first of more such opportunities under the PIKOM SEA Dragon Venture Platform that will be available for scale ups across the region. We hope to get more applications from potential companies looking for investors. At the same time, we hope that more investors will come forward to join our SEA Dragon Venture Platform which is not only playing a matchmaker role to great ideas and the right funding but also building the Southeast Asia funding eco-system,” added PIKOM Chairman Ganesh Kumar Bangah.

List of Venture Capitalists and Corporate Investors
No	Company	Name	No	Company	Name
1	Active Angel Investor	Steve Hsia	17	Vickers	Wei Luo
2	Active Angel Investor	Thomas Varghese	18	KK Fund	Koichi Saito
3	Inventec Ventures	Arnold Jang	19	Monk's Hill	Reez Nordin
4	China Trust Bank	Winston Hsia	20	500 Startups	Khailee Ng
5	China Trust Bank	Tanna Yong	21	Intres Capital	Chok Kwee Bee
6	China Trust Bank	Hsu Bao Shan	22	Greenpro Capital	CK Lee
7	SOSV/Chinaccelerator	William Bao Bean	23	RHL Ventures	Raja Hamzah
8	Sumitomo Equity Corp	Francis Wong	24	Khazanah	Effizal Faiz
9	500 Startups (China)	Edith Pu San Yeung	25	Sun Sea Capital	Evan Cheah
10	AppWorks	Joseph Chan	26	Sunway	ST Chua
11	Leonie Hill	Thoo Wee Meng	27	MDV	Nizam Nadzri
12	BaasInfra	James Huang	28	MAVCAP	Jamaluddin Bujang
13	Monk's Hill	Chow Yee Hoong	29	Cyberview	Najib Ibrahim
14	Mountain Kejora Ventures	Andreas Surya	30	Commerce.asia Capital	Ganesh Kumar
15	B Capital	Dave Ng	31	Magic	Ashran Ghazi
16	Golden Gate	Michael Lints	32	Cradle	Nazrin Hassan
			33	PitchIn	Sam Shafie