Golden Gate Ventures
Singapore-based early-stage VC backing tech startups across Southeast Asia, wider Asia and the Middle East.
🇸🇬 Singapore · Founded 2011
Pre-seed to Series A·Leads or follows
Golden Gate Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Singapore. It was started by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Vinnie Lauria, Jeffrey Paine and Paul Bragiel. It invests at early stages in high-growth markets across Asia and the Middle East. It has offices in Singapore, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, Doha and New York. Its site reports over US$300M under management and more than 150 portfolio companies.
What they invest in
We believe in empowering founders who are risk-takers, who dare to challenge the norms, and who leverage technology to change the way the world works.
- Stage
- Pre-seed to Series A
- Role in a round
- Leads or follows
- Fund
- Fund III · $100M (2018) · MENA Fund I (2024) · Fund IV
- Fintech
- AI
- B2B SaaS
- Marketplaces
- Healthtech
- Southeast Asia
- Middle East & North Africa
- Asia
How to pitch
They read inbound pitches that match the criteria above.
Open to
- Pitches from founders
- Co-investment
The firm says a warm intro is always helpful. Founders can also email hello@goldengate.vc.
Portfolio
More than 150 portfolio companies since 2011, by the firm's own count. Most are early-stage rounds from pre-seed to Series A, with some later follow-ons. Main sectors are fintech, marketplaces, SaaS, AI and healthtech, across Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Japan.
Some of the companies they have backed
The portfolio at a glance · 30 companies · 2020–2026 · 2 exits · led 5
Sectors
- Fintech30%
- Marketplaces13%
- Healthtech10%
- AI infrastructure3%
- Other33%
Stage when they invested
- Pre-seed10%
- Seed23%
- Series A7%
- Series B3%
- Series C+10%
- Growth3%
Where the companies are
- 🇸🇬 Singapore27%
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia13%
- 🇯🇵 Japan7%
- 🇵🇭 Philippines7%
- Other13%
30 companies taken from the firm's portfolio page, press and public databases, as of Oct 2026. The firm's own site lists about 110 companies.
Co-investors and partners
Funds that invested in the same rounds.
