We invest between US$50-250K up to three times in our portfolio companies. We actively seek out enterprises where EME, along with our partners, can help overcome pain points and help startups reach scale and later stage investment. Below is a short introduction to each of our pipeline companies. Check this page regularly to see our new investments, or register below for our newsletter to stay updated.
Joosk is a digital animation and illustration company with two main business lines: Providing bespoke digital animations and illustrations for businesses and non-governmental organizations; and proprietary animations and comic series targeting individual customers in the mass market. Joosk has created a number of innovative digital features in Myanmar, including a sticker pack for Facebook which has had over 2.7 million downloads and been used 13 million times. Its proprietary animation series called Gwen University is the very first, and only, animated live series in Myanmar.
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CarsDB is the leading online new and used car platform in Myanmar. The core of the business is the used car classifieds, where sellers (individuals or dealers) can post listings, and buyers can browse them. Alongside the classifieds are a range of peripheral services, such as new car sales, a membership club and product listings for accessories. CarsDB also runs offline auto shows in Yangon and Mandalay, which attract all the major new and used car dealers.
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Mote Poh is a Yangon-based employee-benefits-as-a-service startup for Myanmar companies. Mote Poh's mission is to help companies ‘surprise and delight’ their employees through an exclusive rewards book that can stretch employees’ paychecks by hundreds of dollars a month. Companies experience high employee churn rates across many industries in Myanmar, and Mote Poh is tackling the problem head-on. Mote Poh went from idea to gaining many of Myanmar's leading companies as clients in just six months, prior EME's investment.
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MPG Myanmar offers a range of outsourcing services, including inbound and outbound customer service, sales, data entry and ground marketing. Additionally, it offers market research, customer surveys, ground marketing, and social media management. MPG Myanmar is part-owned by Masterpiece Group, one of the top BPO companies in Japan and is bringing Japanese quality to the Myanmar market. MPG works with large multinational and local companies, to improve their customer service and help them better serve their customers.
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Yangon Broom provides residences and businesses with high quality, timely and thorough services, including cleaning, ironing and more. The co-founders combine experience from professional maintenance services and recruitment to ensure that the right people are doing the right jobs for their clients at all times. Yangon Broom continues to build a strong workplace culture and in doing so provides safe jobs for low-income women where they can work towards a long-term career in the service industry.
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Natural Farm Fresh leverages their own solar-driers to improve the quality and flavour of dried foodstuffs in Myanmar, including chillies, turmeric, garlic and more. They also provide these solar driers to other producers in Myanmar to help improve the standard of all dried products in the market - preventing the occurrence of harmful aflatoxins. Natural Farm Fresh works closely with farmers across Myanmar to help them produce a higher quality product and in turn receive greater income. Integrating itself into the supply chain this way, Natural Farm Fresh is able to produce safe and delicious dried goods for prices that the mass market can afford.
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Ezay connects rural 'mom and pop' shops with wholesalers across its app-based platform to enable them to order online and have goods delivered in short time. Founder, Kyaw Min Swe, has first-hand experience of the challenges facing rural retailers and is using this to provide a simple-to-use and highly effective channel to improve the livelihoods of small shop owners across Myanmar while bringing additional value to wholesalers through enhanced order fulfilment.
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Kyarlay is Myanmar's leading baby products eCommerce company. With its unique omnichannel approach, Kyarlay uses physical stores as fulfilment centres and has a leading online and mobile presence - including independent content created by Myanmar's top physicians. Kyarlay has pioneered 4 hour delivery service in Yangon, a city known for its traffic and ban on motorcycles. They've also created and continue to build their own brand products, helping Myanmar parents to access affordable, high quality items for them and their children.
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AdsZay redefines rural marketing and product activation, helping brands expand their reach and enhance their brand salience like never before. Leveraging Ezay's growing network of rural mom and pop stores, AdsZay provides top-tier out of home ads and collects impression and conversion data at store level. For the first time ever, brands can get live marketing and sales insights from rural areas with offline ads and shopkeepers are also trained to help activate new products.
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