Prizm Ventures

Prizm lists John Hard and Paul Norman as CEO/Founders and seven additional Managing Partners — Kate Johnson, Steven Hill, Manny Johnes, Ann Johnes, Joan Hopkins, Jane Doe, and Zahra Sharif. The firm has not publicly detailed its investment committee structure, but the concentration of managing-partner titles suggests a collaborative decision model rather than a single CIO.

Prizm’s sourcing model leans on its operating-company roots. The firm operates a digital-agency business that serves major consumer brands across Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, which gives the investment team direct line-of-sight into emerging marketing technology, digital payments, and customer-intelligence startups that service the same enterprise clients.

Prizm functions as a hybrid: it makes early-stage equity investments while simultaneously providing in-house marketing and technology services through the Prizm Group agency. This means portfolio companies receive not just capital but also dedicated Martech strategy, campaign execution, and integration support — an operating-partner model built directly into the firm’s structure.

The firm states it invests from seed to venture stage, focusing on digital-first companies. Its portfolio confirms a preference for startups that have moved past the idea phase and are ready to scale customer acquisition — where the marketing agency’s capabilities can directly support revenue growth.

Prizm highlights three verticals on its website — Social Creativity, Data MarTech, and Digital Payments — which map to its agency capabilities. Confirmed portfolio investments span F&B technology (Aigens), property technology (Negawatt), and customer-acquisition software (KlikNRoll). The firm also expresses interest in AI-driven automation and phygital experiences.

Prizm Group is the marketing services agency from which Prizm Ventures was spun out. The founders scaled the agency from a two-person team into a global digital marketing firm before launching the venture arm. Today the agency and the venture firm share leadership and operate as interconnected entities, with agency talent providing operational support to portfolio companies.

No. Prizm Ventures does not publicly publish AUM or total capital deployment figures. The firm’s regulatory structure in Hong Kong and the absence of any SEC or equivalent filings make an independent estimate unsupportable with the available primary sources.