Batara Eto is the co-founder and Managing Partner of East Ventures. See contact routes.
Batara Eto is the co-founder and Managing Partner of East Ventures, a venture capital firm he established in 2009 after previously co-founding and serving as CTO of the Japanese social network mixi, which he helped list publicly. East Ventures operates as a sector-agnostic, multi-stage investor focusing on early-stage (seed) through growth-stage tech companies across Japan and Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The firm is recognized as one of Asia’s most active early-stage investors, with its first investment made in 2010 and its eighth fund being a seed-stage vehicle for post-pandemic digital companies. While specific check sizes and lead/follow behavior for Eto personally are not publicly detailed, East Ventures typically acts as a seed investor for regional leaders. Notable portfolio companies include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari, all of which received early backing from East Ventures. Eto holds a computer science degree from Takushoku University and is known for advocating open-source LAMP stacks, though no distinctive public investment writings or unique point-of-view articles by him
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