BEAM Raises SEED Round from TinkBig Ventures to drive startsups throughout SEA | Techsauce

BEAM Raises SEED Round from TinkBig Ventures to drive startsups throughout SEA

Business Connectivity platform BEAM secures SEED round today, led by TinkBig Ventures. The aim of the round is focused on scaling BEAM’s business operations throughout South East Asia (primarily Malaysia and Singapore), with focuses on enabling more ways for startups to grow, with speed.

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“We believe that there are many incredible individuals building phenomenal products & services which are both value adding and innovative today. Without losing focus on their own vision, BEAM aims to drive as much value as we can to bring their businesses to the next level, at scale.” - Ken Ho, Founder of BEAM.

BEAM, which initially began as a community running monthly business networking events since December 2015 launched their Business Connectivity, News, and Events platform on 14th June 2016. The company has since scaled to running Entrepreneurial events in 3 countries: Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan, with plans to start in both Vietnam and Philippines.

beam-team From Left: Ajay Madhukar, Yienyee Soh of AVANA.Asia, Saikit Ng of Captii Ventures, Alvin Lai from TinkBig Ventures, and Sam Shaffie from PitchIn

BEAM’s platform today also allows users to easily get connected with other Entrepreneurs, Investors, Journalists, and more. Users can also easily discover Business News and Events happening within their locality from the app.

“We believe that by being an intermediary platform between Startups, Investors, and Services Providers/Ecosystem Enablers, we are able to drive tremendous amounts of value to both startups and investors in ways that have never been accomplished before.“ - Wallace Ho, Co-Founder of BEAM.

beam-web-screenshot Some of BEAM’s upcoming plans will be focused towards creating more opportunities for startups to raise capital, drive growth/traction, and achieve greater market access and awareness throughout the South East Asian (SEA) region.

“With collaborative learning and cohesive engagements we are on track to propelling value-adding innovations. BEAM is an arena where entrepreneurs have the freewill to innovate to their strengths. We bridge these gaps in between so that founders do what they are passionate about, driving the vision for their business forward instead of dwelling on time compromising factors.” - Jamie Kang, Co-Founder of BEAM

Investor: TinkBig Venture

TinkBig Venture is an innovative tech venture capital firm focused on equity investments in Technopreneurs. With an allocated fund size of USD10 million, TinkBig Venture partners with both young companies finding their strides and established ones looking to accelerate their growth. Their slogan, ”We empower Technopreneurs with Smart Capital” is the cornerstone of their mission. TinkBig Venture’s investment portfolio tends to cluster around internet and mobile startups across various sectors, including e-commerce, payments, marketplaces, mobile applications and SaaS platforms.

”BEAM is going to bridge the gap between startups and unlock the myths pertaining to investors and venture capital. With this round of funding, we believe BEAM is going to drive massive value to entrepreneurs by creating a platform for them to learn about equity financing options and market accessibility, by being the marketplace for deal flow” - Andrew Tan TinkBig Venture

Additional Information:

BEAM Official Website: http://beam.biz

Facebook: http://facebook.com/beamconnect

Instagram: http://instagram.com/beamconnect

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