SEGNEL Ventures
Support Entrepreneurs for Growth to the NExt Level
What We Do
SEGNEL builds businesses and provides seed funding to brilliant entrepreneurs and companies
across the South Asian and Southeast Asian Region
Our Mission is to back these entrepreneurs
with unparalleled support in funding, management, overseas business development and exposure to our network
Venture Building
SEGNEL CREATIVE
Founder(s): Hideki Fujita
Head Quarters: Malaysia
Website: http://www.segnelcreative.com/
Business: Graphic Design Studio for entertaiment indstry
Adventoro
Founder(s): Ken Lau
Head Quarters: Malaysia
Website: https://www.adventoro.com/
Business: B2C Platform for Adventure-Based Tours and Activities
25Holdings Japan
Founder(s): Hideki Fujita, Yoshiaki Shinji
Head Quarters: Japan
Website: https://www.25holdings.jp/
Business: Premium Petfood Brand
Investment
every.tv
Founder(s): Taisei Yoshida
Head Quarters: Japan
Website: https://corp.every.tv/
Business: Distributed-Media
Parentune
Founder(s): Nitin Pandey, Pottu Venugopal
Head Quarters: India
Website: https://www.parentune.com/
Business: Community of Parents
UMAI
Founder(s): Alexander Small, Jonas Chelbat
Head Quarters: Malaysia
Website: https://www.umai.io/
Business: SaaS for Restaurant Business
TapWay
Founder(s): Lim Chee How, Justin Loh Shye Kang
Head Quarters: Malaysia
Website: http://www.tapway.com.my
Business: WiFi-based Site Analytics
SALTYCUSTOMS
Founder(s): Quah Nian King, Shannon Toh
Head Quarters: Malaysia
Website: https://www.saltycustoms.com/
Business: Design and make custom-Tshirts
Helpr / Giftr
Founder(s): Ang Kok Seong, Eujean Lee
Head Quarters: Malaysia
Website: http://www.helprnow.com/
Business: On Demand Chat Based Personal Assistant
Fave (acquired by Pine Labs Private Limited)
Founder(s): Joel Neoh, Yeoh Chen Chow
Head Quarters: Malaysia
Website: https://myfave.com/
Business: O2O Platform for Local Services
POKKT (acquired by AnyMind Pte. Ltd.)
Founder(s): Rohit Sharma, Vaibhav Odhekar, Manish Tewari
Head Quarters: India
Website: http://www.pokkt.com/
Business: Rewarded video advertising and app monetization platform
Favful (exit)
Founder(s): Sasha Tan
Head Quarters: Malaysia
Website: http://stayfavful.com
Business: Comparison service for beauty products
CodersTrust (exit)
Founder(s): Ferdinand Kjaerulff, Jan Cayo Fiebig,
Asser Smidt
Head Quarters: Denmark
Website: http://www.coderstrust.com/
Business: Micro-finance, Online education, Crowd sourcing for IT talents
perromart (exit)
Founder(s): Roy Lim
Head Quarters: Singapore
Website: https://perromart.com.sg/
Business: E-commerce for pet parents and Pet care brand
Who We are
Hideki Fujita
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hidekifujita/
Angellist: https://angel.co/hideki-fujita
Founder and CEO of SEGNEL
Prior to founding SEGNEL, Hideki was the co-founder of COENT Venture Partners. COENT provided seed and venture-stage funding to entrepreneurs and companies across various sectors in Asia, Most notably: GoGoVan, the first unicorn startup in Hong Kong, Prenetics in Hong Kong, Astro Scale in Singapore.
Hideki was director of Business Strategy at GREE, inc., one of the largest mobile social gaming companies. At the company he assumed a corporate management position and was involved in strategic investments within the mobile gaming field with a focus on the Japanese and Chinese markets.
Hideki had previously worked at JAFCO Co., Ltd. the largest venture capital firm in Japan. He was involved in providing support to promising entrepreneurs, growing them into successful investments, Most notably: Full Speed Inc. (TSE:2159), SMS Co Ltd (TSE:2175) and Rentracks Co Ltd (TSE:6045).
Hisako Yamakawa
Administrator at SEGNEL
Prior to joining SEGNEL, Hisako was in a consultancy practice in Japan. She controlled back office works such as accounting, legal affairs, personnel affairs, general affairs and assisted venture capital firms with administration.
She had previously worked at JAFCO Co., Ltd. the largest venture capital firm in Japan, and was involved in legal due diligence.
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