Velocity Ventures

What is Velocity Ventures?

Velocity Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Singapore specializing in investments within the travel and hospitality sector.

Dedicated to advancing the industry, they focus on providing support for early-stage startups through the Seed to Series A stages, with an investment range between $250,000 and $1,000,000. With an investment thesis centered around disruption and innovation, Velocity Ventures targets startups that are high growth, tech-enabled, regionally scalable, and transformative. They are committed to driving rapid technology adoption in travel and hospitality.

By leveraging a combined experience of over 13 decades in travel, hospitality, and investment, their team has executed more than 50 deals across venture capital, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings, summing up to over $3.8 billion in transaction and investment portfolio experience and achieving a 24.4% Internal Rate of Return (IRR) on early-stage investments.

Velocity Ventures' key investment theme is to support visionary founders who contribute to the significant proportions of GDP and employment that the travel and hospitality sector represents in Southeast Asia.

They aim to build the ecosystem by working closely with government bodies, accelerator programs, and corporate partners in the region, to develop and protect the startup ecosystem. The firm's corporate partners contribute by investing alongside Velocity Ventures and providing mentoring and piloting opportunities to startups.

Velocity Ventures hosts industry events and provides insights into innovation within the travel and hospitality segments to keep stakeholders informed. Their active portfolio reflects their commitment to growing travel, tourism, and hospitality enterprises in Southeast Asia.

What they say:

We invest in Hospitality & Travel early stage startups