We back you to make the world radically sustainable
Aerides Venture One Fund
We invest in technology companies in Southeast Asia that accelerate the UN Sustainable Development Goals at scale.
We focus on the following four SDGs:
FINTECH / DIGITAL ECONOMY / BIG DATA & AI
Technologies like Big Data/AI offer an opportunity to lower costs and barriers to entry for businesses and deliver innovative business models that leapfrog traditional technologies and reach the underserved. We want to back founders that are willing to take a long-term view to create products and platforms that will disrupt incumbent markets.
INCLUSIVE & SUSTAINABLE URBANISATION
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. To achieve SDG 11, efforts must focus on strengthening capacities for planning for urban development, improving access to public transportation and enhancing waste management.
SOUND MANAGEMENT & USE OF RESOURCES
Developing countries bear a large part of the climate, biodiversity and pollution impacts of resource-intensive production processes, without reaping their benefits. The implementation of sustainable consumption and production will maximize the socioeconomic benefits of resource use while minimizing the impacts.
COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE & ITS IMPACTS
The world is on the brink of a climate catastrophe. Without urgent, transformative action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions deeply and rapidly in all sectors, the 1.5°C target will be at risk and with it the lives of more than 3 billion people. Failure to act leads to intensifying heatwaves, droughts, flooding, wildfires, sea-level rise, and famines.
Portfolio Companies
PAYD
Payd is a financial wellbeing platform that allows a company’s employees to receive a portion of their salary as they earn it.
SDGs 8, 9, 10
M-DAQ
M-DAQ builds over-the-top (OTT) applications to facilitate cross-border business for various industries since 2010. M-DAQ achieves this through their proprietary data technology and support from ⅔ of the world’s foreign exchange providers
SDGs 8, 9, 10
CITADAO
CitaDAO is a revolutionary tokenized real estate platform. They use blockchain-based Decentralized Finance (DeFi) to enable frictionless, borderless, and more transparent access to real estate.
SDGs 8, 9, 10
PRIOR TRACK RECORD
INVESTMENTS
Vintages 1996 & 2000 – Europe
Vintage 2001 – China / US
Vintage 2007 – China
INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS
Europe / China / US
TRADE SALES
Europe / China / US
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