About Beacon VC
Beacon VC is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. It is primarily based out of Bangkok, Thailand. As of Dec 2025, Beacon VC is an active investor, having invested in 32 companies, with 2 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in Thailand based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and FinTech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Quantified Energy Overall, Beacon VC portfolio has seen 4 unicorns, 2 IPOs and 4 acquisitions including key companies like Grab, NIUM and Alchemy. A lot of funds co-invest with Beacon VC, with names like MDI Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Beacon VC has team of 16 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Sectors
Rounds of Entry
Series B, Seed & 2 more
Portfolio Unicorns
Deals in last 12 months
Beacon VC's List of Top Investments
Beacon VC has a portfolio of 32 companies, including 4 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Living Mobile and NIUM.Their portfolio spans across Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and 2 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, FinTech and 18 other sectors, across stages such as Series B, Seed and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by Beacon VC:1. Grab
Operator of a platform providing ride-hailing, food delivery, and payment services. The platform offers options for transportation, on-demand delivery, and various financial solutions. It facilitates connections between consumers, drivers, and merchants. The platform also provides tools and resources for business and enterprise clients.
Key facts about Grab
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Singapore (Singapore)
- Annual Revenue: 3.37B SGD as on Dec 31, 2025
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $10.4B
- Employee Count: 55,021 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Toyota, Glean Management and 104 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Jul 27, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Public
2. NIUM
Cross-border money transfer solutions for businesses. It provides tools to assist in sending, receiving, and making payments. It offers remittance-as-a-service technology to businesses in the fin-tech, travel, e-commerce, and banking sectors. It also offers APIs to support reporting, tracking, book-keeping, reconciliation, invoicing, and compliance solutions.
Key facts about NIUM
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Singapore (Singapore)
- Annual Revenue: 148M SGD as on Dec 31, 2023
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series E
- Total Funding till date: $312M
- Employee Count: 1,028 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: GIC, Temasek and 35 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Jun 05, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Alchemy
Provider of complete blockchain developer platform. It provides enterprise-grade Web3 infrastructure rollups-as-a-service, embedded, smart wallets, gasless transactions, stablecoin orchestration, DeFi primitives, real-time webhooks, portfolio/token APIs, and comprehensive devtools.
Key facts about Alchemy
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $564M
- Employee Count: 374 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Silver Lake, DFJ Growth and 33 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jan 28, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Aspire
Digital bank for businesses. Its services include current accounts, NFC-enabled prepaid cards, money transfers, cash withdrawals, and more. It provides a business line of credit. It also provides financial tools to SMEs in order to solve cash flow management and working capital needs. The application is available on the Android and iOS platforms.
Key facts about Aspire
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Singapore (Singapore)
- Annual Revenue: 5.27M SGD as on Dec 31, 2022
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $200M
- Employee Count: 1,095 as on Feb 28, 2026
- Investors: LGT Capital Partners, DST Global and 35 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Feb 14, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Online platform provides food ordering and delivery solution. Its solutions includes food delivery, grocery delivery, messenger, and taxi. It also provides POS, advertising, financial services, and more.
Key facts about LINE MAN Wongnai
Beacon VC's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Beacon VC has invested in 33 companies over the last 9 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2025, it made 2 investments. Its most recent first time investment was in Quantified Energy and most recent follow-on round was in Cryptomind.Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2024 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
2021 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2019 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Beacon VC's Investments by Stage
Beacon VC has made 8 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $16.7M, 7 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $4.44M, 7 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $11.7M and 3 investments in Series C stage with an average round size of $21M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series B | 8 |
Seed | 7 |
Series A | 7 |
Series C | 3 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Beacon VC's Investments by Sector
Beacon VC has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, FinTech, Consumer, Retail and Vertical SaaS. Notably, it has invested in 25 Tech companies, 16 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 15 Software companies and at least 12 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 11 |
FinTech | 9 |
Consumer | 4 |
Retail | 3 |
Vertical SaaS | 3 |
Others | 25 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Beacon VC's Investments by Geography
Beacon VC has made most investments in Thailand (15), followed by Singapore where it has made 6 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Thailand | 15 |
Singapore | 6 |
Indonesia | 3 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Beacon VC's recent investments
Beacon VC has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Beacon VC:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Dec 16, 2025 | Singapore | Series A | 2085 | [+1] | |
Nov 05, 2025 | Singapore | Series B | 5928 | ||
Sep 12, 2024 | United Kingdom | Seed | 2382 | [+4] | |
Apr 24, 2024 | Thailand | Series A | 4779 | ||
Mar 09, 2024 | Thailand | Series A | 9130 | [+1] |
Unicorns in Beacon VC's Portfolio
Beacon VC has 4 unicorns in its portfolio - LINE MAN Wongnai, Binance.US, Alchemy and others. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is LINE MAN Wongnai. It became a unicorn in 2022, 3 years before Beacon VC first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in Beacon VC's portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
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72 | Online platform provides food ordering and delivery solution | 2020 | Bangkok | Series B | xpoablo | ||
67 | App-based trading platform for cryptocurrency | 2019 | San Francisco | Seed | tbavzii | ||
78 | Provider of complete blockchain developer platform | 2013 | San Francisco | Series C | qidfxtp | ||
78 | Cross-border money transfer solutions for businesses | 2014 | Singapore | Series E | {ynldkh |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Beacon VC's Portfolio
2 of Beacon VC's portfolio companies have become public. Grab got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Dec 2021 at marketcap of $40B.Here are Beacon VC's portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
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Dec 01, 2021 | - | - | 6498 | |
- | Mar 07, 2018 | Series C | 3978 |
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Acquired companies in Beacon VC's Portfolio
4 companies from Beacon VC's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were EVENT POP in Apr 2024 by Zalekta for $1.45M.Here are Beacon VC's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
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Apr 10, 2024 | Sep 04, 2017 | Series A | 4886 | |
Jul 20, 2023 | May 27, 2021 | Series B | 3832 | |
Oct 11, 2022 | Nov 12, 2019 | Series A | 2080 | |
Jul 31, 2019 | - | - | 7101 |
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Team profile of Beacon VC
Beacon VC has a team of 16 members including 1 Partner and 3 Principals located in Thailand. Beacon VC's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of top team members in Beacon VC:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
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Partner | Bangkok | - | - | |
Principal | Bangkok | - | - | |
Principal | Bangkok | - | - | |
Principal | Bangkok | - |
Co-investors of Beacon VC
Over the past 9 years, 136 investors have co-invested in Beacon VC's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Beacon VC: Vertex Ventures, Insignia Ventures Partners and 61 others have invested in rounds before Beacon VC. There are 3 companies where Vertex Ventures has invested before Beacon VC and 2 companies where Insignia Ventures Partners has invested before Beacon VC.
- Top Co-investors of Beacon VC: 27 investors entered a company along with Beacon VC. These include investors like MDI Ventures (2 companies).
- Invested after Beacon VC: A total of 46 investors have invested in Beacon VC's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Peak XV Partners (2 companies), Atinum Investment (1 company) and Vertex Growth (1 company).
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