Government Fund
Active
EDBI is the dedicated corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), the Singapore government agency responsible for planning and executing strategies to strengthen the country's position as a global business hub. EDBI was established in 1991 and is headquartered in Singapore, operating as a global investor in high-growth technology companies with an explicit mandate tied to advancing Singapore's own strategic economic and industrial interests, rather than as a purely financial-return-driven independent fund. Leadership names and a specific fund-size/AUM figure were not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this profile.
EDBI's stated investment focus spans Information & Communication Technology (ICT), Emerging Technology, and Healthcare, and its disclosed recent deal activity — including participation in large growth-stage rounds for the AI company Lumilens, US semiconductor firm HyperLight, Singapore-based chipmaker Silicon Box, AI company Amity, a majority-stake acquisition in Advanced Micro Foundry, and a follow-on investment in wastewater-treatment firm Hydroleap — shows a firm operating comfortably at global scale, well beyond a Singapore-only investment footprint, while still anchored to sectors of strategic national interest for Singapore.
💰 Check size: Over $5M
Series b
Growth
Series c plus
Government Fund
Active
A sourcing caveat up front: Pavilion Capital's own website (pavcap.com) is a fully client-side-rendered single-page application that returned no extractable server-side content across its homepage, about, and portfolio pages this session — every fact in this profile comes from its LinkedIn presence and a third-party investor database rather than the firm's own site directly. Pavilion Capital is confirmed via LinkedIn (handle: pavcap, Singapore-registered) to be an investment firm affiliated with Temasek Holdings, Singapore's state investment company, with a reported headcount in the 51-200 employee range. An exact founding year could not be independently confirmed this session.
Third-party sourcing (CompassList) describes Pavilion Capital as investing in both U.S. and Asian companies and names M17 Entertainment (Asian social-media/livestreaming holding company), Warung Pintar (Indonesian smart-retail-kiosk network), and Fore Coffee (Indonesian coffee delivery chain) among its portfolio — though this could not be cross-verified against a second independent source this session. No Philippine investment or Philippine-market activity was found in any source checked.
Growth
