Supply Chain Angels

Supply Chain Angels

Supply Chain Angels operates as the dedicated venture arm of YCH Group, launched alongside Singapore's National Research Foundation under the Early Stage Venture Funding Scheme III. The firm's mandate is narrow and operationally tethered: it backs pre-Series A and Series A companies that are less than five years old, incorporated in Singapore, and generating under S$5 million in annual revenue. YCH's chairman Robert Yap and executive director Catherine Yap sit on the investment committee, linking the fund's governance directly to the parent company's leadership. SCAngels deploys between S$500,000 and S$2 million per initial investment, with a S$2 million lifetime cap per company. The firm hunts across supply-chain-adjacent deep tech: the "Uberisation" of logistics, IoT for asset visibility, 3D printing, big data for automated decision-making, warehouse robotics including drones, supply-chain fintech, and AI-driven autonomous vehicles. SCAngels co-invested alongside SGInnovate to target Singapore-based startups with defensible IP and global ambitions in the Services and Digital Economy domain. The firm encourages portfolio companies to locate inside Supply Chain City, a logistics complex in Singapore's Jurong Innovation District that houses multinational clients and provides a testbed for new supply chain technologies. Team size and total deployment numbers are not publicly disclosed. The firm's mentor roster reveals its operating philosophy: each startup receives at least one industry mentor from YCH's executive ranks, one venture mentor drawn from Singapore's early-stage investor pool — including Jeffrey Paine of Golden Gate Ventures and John Tan of AngelCentral — and one management mentor from firms such as ResMed and Dentsu Aegis. The firm has not publicized a formal fund size or closed-end fund structure. SCAngels's structural differentiator is geographic and physical rather than financial. While most corporate venture arms offer commercial agreements, SCAngels embeds its companies in a 2-million-square-foot operational logistics hub, giving founders direct exposure to YCH's multinational clientele and supply chain workflows. This proximity model narrows the firm's investment universe to startups that can physically locate core R&D and management in Singapore, but it creates a hands-on validation environment that few pure-financial venture investors can replicate.