Satori Giants

Satori Giants

Riz Aslam, Max Thornton, and their team established Satori Giants in Singapore to serve as hands-on co-creators for early-stage startups. The firm operates in markets it describes as complex or less traversed, targeting regions where institutional infrastructure is thinner but entrepreneurial energy is high. Their team of in-house venture builders brings over 50 years of combined business development and sales experience across the UK, US, UAE, Singapore, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Satori Giants focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage investments, combining capital with operational muscle. The firm’s website lists six active portfolio companies: Jalat, a last-mile logistics and q-commerce operator in Phnom Penh; Better HR, a cloud-based HR and payroll SaaS platform for emerging APAC markets; AIVB, an AI venture studio spanning defense, medtech, fashion, and finance; Max Icon, a healthcare services group covering dental, blood testing, and cancer screening; Gamlytics, a varsity esports analytics and management platform; and Supafaya, a social-commerce enabler for Southeast Asian content creators. The geographic footprint spans Cambodia, Southeast Asia broadly, and APAC emerging markets. The firm also connects founders to its network of downstream investment partners to support follow-on financing. Satori Giants does not disclose its total deployment or team headcount. The firm operates from a single office in Singapore’s Robinson Road. It runs an adjacent consultancy, Satori Effect, which works with venture capital firms including 500 Global to cultivate the next generation of standout ventures. Two principals, Max Thornton and Dominic Kalousek, also co-founded Rising Giants, a startup podcast and community, extending the firm’s Southeast Asia founder network. No dated operational event from the past 24 months could be identified from available sources. Satori Giants structures itself as a venture builder rather than a passive LP-backed fund. The team steps into accounting, finance, legal, and government-relations functions, partnering with a leading accounting and finance firm to relieve founders of back-office burdens. This operational co-creation model differentiates the firm from most seed vehicles in its target geographies, where governance and compliance gaps frequently derail startups.