East Ventures is a sector-agnostic venture capital firm that backs technology companies across Southeast Asia from Seed through Growth stages. East Ventures's Twitter Score is 5.0 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #178,270 among 531,432 tracked accounts.
East Ventures was co-founded by Willson Cuaca, Taiga Matsuyama, and Batara Eto, each serving as Managing Partner. Founded in 2009, the firm has built a portfolio of more than 300 technology companies spanning sectors including commerce, SaaS, fintech, healthcare, climate technology, and blockchain. Its investment platform includes six Seed funds, two Growth funds, and a dedicated East Ventures South Korea fund formed with SV Investment, the latter capitalized at US$100 million.
East Ventures launched EV Growth alongside SMDV and Yahoo! Japan Capital in 2018 to target Series B and later-stage investments across Southeast Asia. The firm also maintains a co-investment partnership with SEEDS Capital. On the Web3 front, East Ventures treats decentralized finance, gaming, collectibles, NFTs, tokenized assets, and smart-contract-based financial services as a multi-year investment theme, with a thesis it describes as independent of short-term public-market conditions.
East Ventures's account has accumulated 3,322 followers as of July 2026 and has published 2,312 posts. The account has been mentioned by 28 accounts, totaling 56 mentions.
East Ventures's portfolio includes Stake Technologies, Astar Network, BRD, Indodax, Pixelmatic, JAN3, Notifi and Huddle01.
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