Travel and hospitality-focused fund bets on the rise of travel with three new investments into the travel and F&B tech space

by Team Velocity Ventures | Dec 13, 2021 | News, Press Release

SINGAPORE, 12 DEC 2021 – Velocity Ventures, Southeast Asia’s leading venture capital firm focused on technology innovations in travel and hospitality, announced three new investments in travel and food and beverage (F&B) tech early-stage startups: Hong-kong...

Southeast Asia-focused travel and hospitality VC supports growth of travel tech through launch of new market intelligence resource

by Team Velocity Ventures | Dec 7, 2021 | News, Press Release

Tri-weekly newsflash provides insights on the impacts and opportunities of current events for the travel and hospitality industry SINGAPORE, 30 Nov 2021 – Velocity Ventures, Southeast Asia’s leading travel and hospitality venture capital, has partnered with Pear...

Velocity Ventures announce first close of USD20 million Travel and Hospitality Fund

by Team Velocity Ventures | Jun 30, 2021 | News, Press Release

Accelerating digitalisation of Hospitality & Travel businesses across Southeast Asia Singapore, 30 June 2021 – Velocity Ventures, a travel & hospitality-focused venture capital firm based in Singapore, announces the initial closing of the first-ever venture...

Fixing food waste problem means less hungry people and a great economy

by Team Velocity Ventures | Jun 3, 2021 | News, Tech & Venture

by Sainul Abudheen K, e27.co In 2019, Singapore generated 744M kg of food waste, which is equivalent to 2 bowls of rice per person/day, or around 51K double-decker buses! Food waste is a colossal problem. It damages global economic and environmental resources....

Two local green companies among 25 in the world to win UN start-up competition

by Team Velocity Ventures | Apr 1, 2021 | News, Tech & Venture

by Shabana Begum, The Straits Times SINGAPORE – Two local sustainability companies have beaten around 10,000 other green firms to join an elite group of 25 winners in a global start-up competition organised by a United Nations body. The top 25 will now get...

Velocity Ventures launches sector-specific fund to help startups through COVID-19

by Team Velocity Ventures | Mar 8, 2021 | News, Press Release

Helping Travel & Hospitality businesses in Singapore and Southeast Asia digitalise and return to growth through the COVID-19 pandemic with USD20million fund. SINGAPORE, 4 DECEMBER, 2020 – Velocity Ventures, a Travel & Hospitality-focused Venture Capital (VC)...