Cerana Capital
An early-stage venture firm investing across Southeast Asia — patient capital and meaningful partnerships, pairing deep regional understanding with a global perspective.
Cerana Capital is an early-stage venture firm focused on Southeast Asia, founded in 2018. It invests selectively across stages and sectors, backing founders whose edge is a genuine regional insight — and it describes its own posture as “patient capital and meaningful partnerships,” combining deep regional understanding with a global perspective.
The portfolio runs from food and beverage to fintech and deep tech: among others Ebb & Flow Group — which appears elsewhere in this archive as Mission Group — Alta, MoneyMatch, Melati, BioFieldSolutions, and AskDr. The firm therefore sits upstream of some of the operating companies documented here: the capital and the thesis behind part of the building.
An investment firm is a system for allocating capital under uncertainty — a set of bets about where a region is going. This entry documents the fund, co-founded with Lim Kian Chun, Justin Anderson Tan, and Feline Gondokusumo, and the conviction that the best early-stage returns in Southeast Asia come from understanding it from the inside.