Surge a “rapid scale up program” for Southeast Asia, has announced its 7th cohort including 15 startups.
Surge is operated by Sequoia Capital India and Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia. The accelerator actively partners with founders from a wide range of companies, across categories, including BYJUs, CRED, Druva, Five Star Finance, Freshworks, GoTo, Groww, Kopi Kenangan, Mamaearth, Pine Labs, Polygon, Razorpay, Truecaller, Zomato and more.
Surge states that it has grown dramatically over the past three years and the community now includes 281 founders from 127 startups across 16 sectors.
In aggregate, Surge startups have raised over USD $1.7 billion in follow-on funding, with over 60% of companies from the first five cohorts raising their series A and beyond.
Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Sequoia India & Southeast Asia, and Surge, stated:
“We continue to be deeply impressed by the ambition and diversity of ideas, as well as the calibre of founders with each cohort. Surge 07 is no exception. We have partnered with all of our companies at their earliest stage of company building, with nearly half of them still in pre-launch at the start of our partnerships. Our founders bring with them a wealth of experience and creativity, and we believe that these dreamers, innovators and category creators have the potential to change the future of our region and the world.”
Surge 07 is currently in progress and founders are going through a rigorous 16-week hybrid program. Past speakers and mentors in the program include Siu Rui Quek (Carousell), William Tanuwijaya (Tokopedia/GoTo), Chatri Sityodtong (ONE Championship) and Doug Leone (Sequoia Capital).
Surge says its startups are increasingly focusing on global markets from day one and about half already have a presence in the US and Europe.
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No. |
Company |
Founders |
Description |
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1 |
Attentive |
Rishabjit Singh, Sarthak Vijay and Shiva Dhawan |
Attentive is a vertical SaaS company that’s building a sales automation platform for America’s outdoor services contractors. |
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2 |
Beam |
Mike Chinakrit Piamchon, Nattapat Chaimanowong and Win Vareekasem |
Beam is building a one-click checkout solution that enables a frictionless payment experience for sellers and shoppers in Southeast Asia. |
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3 |
Boxs |
Satheesh Ramdass and Vikram Venkatesan |
Boxs is a design-to-build automation platform for architects, interior designers and construction companies. |
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4 |
BuyerAssist |
Amit Dugar, Shankar Ganapathy and Shyam HN |
BuyerAssist helps B2B revenue teams win enterprise deals and grow customer accounts using Mutual Success Plans (MSPs) to align and collaborate effectively with their buyers throughout the journey. |
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5 |
ClearFeed |
Ankit Jain, Joydeep Sen Sarma, Lalit Indoria |
ClearFeed is a collaboration platform that uses AI models to enable natural language ticketing on Slack and Microsoft Teams, and provides seamless connectivity to backend ticketing tools like Zendesk, Salesforce and Freshdesk. |
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6 |
Gan |
Suvrat Bhooshan |
Gan is on a mission to democratise personalised video creation. The company leverages AI to create customised videos at scale, empowering brands to build personal connections with their customers. |
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7 |
Hatica |
Haritabh Singh and Naomi Chopra |
In a world of distributed teams and SaaS sprawl, Hatica is on a mission to provide engineering managers and leaders with the visibility and insights to help them build productive and healthy engineering teams. |
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8 |
Metaschool |
Fatima Rizwan |
Metaschool makes it easy for developers to learn, build and ship dApps to prepare them for opportunities in the emerging Web3 ecosystem. |
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9 |
PixCap |
CJ Looi and Cyril Nie |
PixCap is an animation platform that allows users with no design experience to create animations for 3D illustrations, games, and designs. |
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10 |
Pratech Brands |
Anvi Shah, Neehar Modi and Sachin Parikh |
Pratech Brands helps new age Indian consumers upgrade their quality of life through better home and health products. |
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11 |
Semaai |
Abhishek Gupta, Gaurav Batra and Muhammad Yoga Anindito |
Semaai, which is building a full-stack tech solution for Indonesia’s agriculture sector, is on a mission to enhance the livelihood of millions of farmers and agri-retailers across the country. |
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12 |
TrueFoundry |
Abhishek Choudhary, Anuraag Gutgutia and Nikunj Bajaj |
TrueFoundry is a developer platform that enables startups to deploy and monitor machine learning (ML) models at the speed of big tech companies – in minutes or days instead of weeks or months. |
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13 |
Unravel Carbon |
Grace Sai and Marc Allen |
Unravel Carbon is an enterprise software company that helps companies track and reduce their carbon emissions. The company is on a mission to accelerate the participation of all companies, big and small, in the global fight against climate change. |
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14 |
Whiz |
Agnes Wirya Lie, Dominic Sumarli and Frederick Widjaja |
Whiz, Indonesia’s first fintech company for teenagers, is on a mission to empower a new generation of financial whiz kids. |
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Stealth |
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15 |
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A company in the travel space |
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