Surge, Sequoia's accelerator program for Southeast Asian and Indian startups, has just revealed the 15 startups part of its seventh cohort— which includes six SEA startups!
- You get up to $3M, with no minimum check size (expanded from $1M–$2M in seed) and join a 16-week hybrid program.
👋🏼 Let's meet them!
🇮🇩 Whiz. This Indonesian fintech allows teens to create their own accounts, make QR payments across Indonesia and learn how to budget and save!
- Parents can manage allowance and oversee transactions.
- Co-investors include AC Ventures, Alpha JWC Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Ondine Capital and Y Combinator.
🇸🇬 PixCap. They're an animation platform that allows anyone to create animations for 3D illustrations, games and designs. Think Canva for 3D design!
- They have over 20,000 users form over 60 countries.
- Co-investors include Cocoon Capital, Entrepreneur First and Michael Gryseels.
🇸🇬 Metaschool. They're a platform where developers can learn, collaborate, build and ship web3 projects.
- In six months, 74,000 developers from 50 countries have signed up.
- Co-investors include Luno, Global Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Wing Vasiksiri and XA Network.
🇮🇩 Semaai. They're an Indonesian agritech building end-to-end solutions for farmers and argicutural shop owners to more efficient and earn more.
- They allow farmers to easily access farming tools and affordable agricultural inputs.
- They raised a $1.3M pre-seed early this year from BEENEXT, Sequoia Surge and several angels.
🇹🇭 Beam. They're a one-click checkout solution for all platforms — from websites to social media and messaging platforms.
- They even manage payment processing for sellers.
- Partech Partners co-invested.
🇸🇬 Unravel Carbon. This Singaporean startup is here to help companies track and reduce their carbon emissions through AI.
- Their platform converts companies' accounting data to full supply chain carbon data and helps them find pathways to net zero.
- They announced a $7.4M seed from Sequoia Surge, Alpha JWC, GFC and more early this year.