Tin Men Capital is on Whatsapp! We all don't need more group chats in our lives, but we've been hearing from you, our followers, that there's a NEED to stay updated with us. Here's what you get by joining us on our Whatsapp Community: 🔊 Announcements: We share events and resources that we think will be of interest to any B2B enthusiasts. You will get early dips on registration links for Tin Men events, so you don't end up on the waitlist. We will also share events from our partners in the startup ecosystem. 🗣 Talk to us: Have a question or resource to share with the B2B community in SEA? Here's your platform. You can request to join this group chat of curated folks to discuss anything B2B! Our very own Jeremy Tan & John T. and the rest of the Tin Men team will be there to engage as well. 🤖 Tin Men Portfolio: A closed group chat for our portfolio founders to build together. Here's what you will NOT get: 📵 Your mobile number will not be displayed to other folks if you subscribe, only our admin will have access to that, or in cases where you join a group chat to chat with others. ⛔ We will curate the group chats to ensure that irrelevant folks will not be let in/kept around. Be the first few to join our Whatsapp Community Chat: https://lnkd.in/g4Fg2v_A
Tin Men Capital
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Tin Men Capital primarily invests in B2B industrial technologies and automation opportunities in Southeast Asia.
About us
Headquartered in Singapore, Tin Men Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in South-East Asian Series A B2B tech & marketplace startups that address opportunities in large, traditional industries.
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http://www.tinmen.asia
External link for Tin Men Capital
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Rochor
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2018
- Specialties
- Private Equity, Venture Capital, B2B, Technology, Internet of Things, Investment, Fundraising, and Enterprise Technology
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193 Jalan Besar
02-01
Rochor, 208883, SG
Employees at Tin Men Capital
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Jeremy Tan
Jeremy Tan is an Influencer Backing brilliant B2B founders 🦓 in Southeast Asia | Co-founder at Tin Men Capital | Linkedin Top Voice
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Alexa Foo
Investor at Tin Men Capital | Investing in Series A B2B enterprise startups in SEA
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Sean Liu
Identity GTM Lead @ The Trade Desk APAC
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John T.
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Working with Tin Men Capital was a rewarding experience. It’s inspiring to see a VC firm embrace creativity and explore a different approach to presenting themselves. At The Lab, we aim to support companies in expressing their unique identity through thoughtful, creative solutions and well-executed projects. Tin Men’s openness to new ideas made this collaboration both meaningful and memorable.
Here's how I approached Tin Men Capital's corporate shoot. With our team growing, it was time for us to get a group shot which we could use on our corporate site. It was also a good opportunity to get everyone updated individual photos to capture the rockstars that they are. This is how a corporate shoot is normally done: 1️⃣ Engage Photo Studio 2️⃣ Schedule whole team 3️⃣ Shoot We don't do normal here. I wanted 2 key elements to be differentiated: 1. LOCATION I didn't want a normal indoor studio shoot. My longstanding idea was to shoot in a metal scrapyard/workshop (our name is Tin Men). I even found workshop willing to let us shoot in Singapore. But scheduling the entire team in Singapore caused many delays. Leading up to our annual company trip to Saigon, I thought since the whole company was stuck together, it was an opportune time to do the shoot there. With the shoot overseas, it would not look like any shoots done in Singapore. 2. CREATIVES I knew that Vietnam had talented creatives who could pull off something different. I ditched google searches for "Photo studios in Ho Chi Minh" and went to Instagram to source for Design/Branding studios instead. Established branding agencies would have the resources and talent to pull off a photoshoot, with a mind on how the photos would fit into your branding. For them, it's more than producing a photo, it's about creating a look. This is where I found the fantastic folks at The Lab. They'd done extensive projects that were sleek, took creative risks and reimagined physical spaces (very tough to execute). This is the amount of work that went behind the scenes with The Lab folks driving it: - Pre-trip virtual calls to assemble our mood board and confirm deliverables - Sent ahead each individual's head and full body photo for stylists to get a sense of each person's body type - Booked out an entire cafe for shoot location - Day 1 arrival, each member of the team dropped by The Lab to meet the stylists and try on the attires prepped for us. - Day 2 Actual Shoot, the Tin Men team arrived based on a call sheet for make up and hair. - We spent the entire day there from 7am-9pm. It was a long day, but I'm glad we did it when our team size still allows (ps. we're hiring and growing!) To keep our energy up, The Lab set up a speaker and gave everyone a turn at being DJ to pick their favourite songs to blast on set. I realised that Tin Men's music taste varies from J-rock to Aerosmith. Thankfully our team loves laughing at/with each other & kept the energy going. Very grateful to The Lab team for dedicating the resources and working overtime to get the perfect shots. Also love my Tin Men team for always being a good sport, showing up and staying on with me whenever I put out a call to push creative boundaries as a financial firm. 🩶 🤖
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The B2B tech ecosystem in Singapore is fragmented - and doesn't usually get the recognition it deserves. But thanks to a few good men like Murli Ravi and Jeremy Tan - the community comes together and we get to discuss topics that really matter like entrepreneurial hardships, scaling sales in the region, and a little bit of 'controversy' in a closed door setting. Thank you for the honesty and the laughs Vincent Phang from Singapore Post, Wei Zhuang (Lenard) Tan from Ailytics and Woon Tai Ho from (ex)CNA - and the whole team at Tin Men Capital for an amazing morning and a full house.
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Presenting the Tin Men Capital team! Venture Capital is a people's business and these are the individuals driving our growth as a leading B2B VC firm in South East Asia. Want to work alongside us? There will be openings in full time positions and internships available in 2025. You may submit your resume to our job database. Our hiring managers will look through this database as a first stop when we kickstart our hiring. Link in comments. 📸 : Our recent company photoshoot done by the very excellent folks at The Lab
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A peek into the founders journey of Justin Chou & Glife Technologies Pte Ltd team, a Tin Men portfolio. Amazing!
Heading a group of companies that aims to nourish the world and feed Asia sustainably by enabling innovation in plant protein and efficient farm-to-fork distribution of fresh produce
Most of you would probably know me from Greendot aka the hawker veggie boy. But the journey of feeding a 100million people with greens and healthier food actually inspired my next entrepreneurship journey in 2018: What if I could fix the fragmented agri-supply chain and do something good for the planet? As I was trying to trace where my vegetables and fruits were coming from, I had no answers from my suppliers and I knew I had to dig deeper. Then I discovered that many farmers around SEA had always been in a system with unfair rules and gains against them. They had not much say in pricing, there was almost no cold chain in place to ensure produce freshness and quality thus resulting in wastages and bad prices when vegetables reach the wholesale markets. And forget any form of technology adoption; that was practically nonexistent, almost every step in the process was done manually and laboriously. That’s how Glife my second venture, came to be. But let’s be real, it wasn’t easy. If running restaurants was tough, trying to be a supplier to restaurants and have 24/7 operations with fresh produce with short shelf life was simply a nightmare I never expected 😂 Starting GLife felt a bit like jumping out of a plane and building the parachute on the way down. There were fire fighting operations everyday, sleepless nights, and moments where I wasn’t sure if we’d make it when cash and funding was tight. Nevertheless, we always reminded ourselves our mission-to feed Southeast Asia sustainably by empowering farmers and small business with technology. Then Covid came and gave us a tighter slap in our faces. All our customers in the b2b HORECA foodservice space were ordered to stop operations in a matter of days. We thought to ourselves, either we pivot or we prepare to call it a day and close down. We regrouped our team and built our B2C delivery commerce app within 3-4 days, and frankly, it saved Glife! Orders were exploding from end consumers as everyone panicked due to the never ending queues in the supermarkets. We did our best to try and serve every home delivery order, and we survived one of our biggest crisis. Then came the game-changer: raising our series A funding from Temasek Heliconia Capital Management Tin Men Capital RHL Ventures. I saw it as a pat on the shoulder to our resilience, but above all, it was proof to me that Glife was onto something big, and I truly believe that Glife is now on its path to be the leading horticulture tech-enabled b2b player in South East Asia! Wayne Goh Caleb Wu Boon Keat Chua What I’ve learnt through all this is that big change doesn’t happen overnight, and it sure doesn’t happen without passion or grit. Glife isn’t just about business; it’s about rewriting the rules for a better, fairer food system. So here’s to shaking things up and making it happen — one farmer, one meal, and one consumer at a time. 🌱💪🏻 Glife Technologies Pte Ltd #AgriTech #Farmtotable #B2B #SustainableInnovation #AgriRevolution
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Backing brilliant B2B founders 🦓 in Southeast Asia | Co-founder at Tin Men Capital | Linkedin Top Voice
Southeast Asia’s B2B landscape is full of potential—but not every market is ready. Unlike one-size-fits-all tech solutions, adoption here depends on local dynamics. Spending power, cultural factors, and fragmented markets all influence how quickly technology takes root. For B2B startups, success often comes down to *where* you choose to expand first. Some of the most promising industries in general we’ve observed include: 🔷 Construction: Digitalisation and safety standards are gaining momentum. 🔷 Healthcare: Systems are modernising to meet growing demand. 🔷 Manufacturing: Efficiency upgrades are key for competitiveness. 🔷 Supply Chain: Visibility and optimisation are urgent needs. 🔷 IoT and Operations Management: Industries are looking to streamline complex workflows. Many of which we’ve put Tin Men Capital's own investments behind. What do these Breakthrough B2B sectors have in common? They are ubiquitous, steadily growing, and largely manual—making them ripe for transformation. But even in these industries, adoption hinges on several factors: → What are the alternatives? Manual processes? Legacy systems? Knowing your competition is critical. → Are costs prohibitive? Adoption will stall if solutions don’t deliver ROI quickly. → What role do governments play? Policies and incentives can accelerate or block progress. → How intense are the pain points? The stronger the need, the faster adoption happens. → Is there buy-in from customers’ management to drive adoption?: Digitalisation goes beyond simply buying a software In Southeast Asia, it’s not just about building great tech—it’s about: Building for the RIGHT market, at the RIGHT time. Not always an easy endeavour. Picking the right market that’s already booming while lacking efficiency gives startups an unfair advantage, because the acceptance will be much smoother too. Agree?
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Backing brilliant B2B founders 🦓 in Southeast Asia | Co-founder at Tin Men Capital | Linkedin Top Voice
Magic happens when you marry will (passion) and ability (brightest minds) together. Once a year, Tin Men Capital brings together our investors, founders, and ecosystem leaders shaping the future of B2B startups in Southeast Asia. In challenging times, great minds don’t retreat—they converge. In that spirit, we believe bringing them together will spark great outcomes. Here’s what happened at Tin Men Exchange (TMX) 2024: This year’s event was different with two key elements. 🔸1/ A daytime forum 🔸2/ An evening dinner. In the morning, we hosted a panel of B2B leaders: Vincent Phang , Prerna Pant , and Wei Zhuang (Lenard) Tan —who shared their perspectives on digitization in both enterprises and startups. We also had an exclusive fireside chat with Woon Tai Ho , Who shared his journey of starting CNA to an avid crowd. This was the first time Tai Ho told his story in front of a live audience. I was personally quite inspired, it resonated deeply with what we're building: The vision to create something uniquely Southeast Asian that can stand toe-to-toe with the global stage. (so much wisdom to dig into - I plan to write a longer piece about this) 2024 is a challenging year for venture, but we’ve made great strides as a firm. It’s all thanks to the incredible people we’ve met along the way. So grateful to have gathered so many of them from all over the world and seen them connect with each other at TMX. (especially over great dinner and drinks) I intend to gather the brightest minds together again in 2025, Of which I expect that we will see a much more exuberant environment in the region. The more we collaborate, the faster our ecosystem will mature and thrive.
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🌟 Unlocking the Secrets to Scaling B2B Startups in SEA On November 5, 2024, we brought together industry experts for an insightful panel discussion that dived into curating the right tech stack and expansion roadmap of startups into Southeast Asia. We heard from moderator Thomas Jeng, General manager of Aspire, as well as panellists Murli Ravi, Co-Founder of Tin Men Capital, Yong Jie Wong, Chief Software Architect at Glints, and Patrick Lim, CEO of ACE.SG. The discussion emphasised the importance of understanding market nuances, customer needs, and local partnerships when expanding internationally. They also highlighted the need for founders to connect with local communities, carefully select target markets, manage relationships, avoid common pitfalls, and approach expansion with a tailored strategy and commitment. Jia Le Low | Yin Zhang | Alwin Fong | Lynn Oh #ACEsg #startups #tech #B2B
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Phew, that was fast. We are already FULL HOUSE! Here's our full line-up of startups, founders, judges, and mentors who will be at Airwallex's Startup Spotlight! Presenting Startup Founders: Jaime Ng, Airbyrd James Miles, TalentHero Rhythm Jolly, FlocCare Weiwen Chen, Eyeviser Mahesh Swamy, Communa Sara Soong, Restoration Essence LLP Junus E. Eu, Glorious Nalini Veeraghanta, naturethings Rohin Selvam Ramachandra, LivingLegacy Judges: Reuben Lim, CEO, Singapore FinTech Association (SFA) Cher Hao Low, Head of SME & Growth Singapore, Airwallex Murli Ravi, Co-Founder, Tin Men Capital Joyce Ng, General Partner, iGlobe Partners Mentors: Eugene Teo, Antler Badai Tanmizi, Qualgro Partners Yanisa S., MSW Ventures Daniel Rouquette, Villa Finder Could they be the next wave of unicorns? 👀 While we're sold out this time, you can still get notified of our upcoming events in 2025! Join our waitlist here: https://buff.ly/4fqWs4x
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Insightful morning at Tin Men Exchange Forum 2024 earlier this week. Couple of take aways for me: Startups vs Large Corporates 1. Being consistent in getting feedback from customers is equally as important as you scale 2. Allow your customers to experience your product so that they truly understand the value of it 3. Large corporates are overly focus on regulatory and compliance. CEOs should create opportunities /environment as well as set the example to take risks when it comes to innovation. How do Founders standout in Singapore? 1. Don't be copy cats! It does not mean what work one region will work in another 2. Focus- Find your value proposition, how you want to position yourself in the market 3. Execute, learn fast and gather experience. Lean into your strength 4. Identify and grab opportunities 5. Credibility must be earned, not given 6. Localisation 7. Day 1 - Regional Thank you Jeremy Tan Murli Ravi John T. for the invite! I look forward to attending the next one!
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