Cross-border payments
Money that moves across ten currencies as easily as it moves within one.
Learn moreSingapore · Pre-seed to Series A
Ten markets. One company.
Sejna Capital backs AI-native founders who remove cross-border friction across Southeast Asia, in payments, commerce and supply chains, and who build to expand from one market into several.
10
ASEAN markets in scope
680M+
people across the region
$3M
first cheques up to US$3M
3wk
target time to decision
The problem
Southeast Asia is one region and ten separate markets.
Each market has its own languages, currencies and regulations. That fragmentation makes software hard to scale here, and it is the gap we invest in.
1,000+
Languages and dialects
Customers switch between Bahasa, Thai, Tagalog, Vietnamese and English mid-sentence. English-first software misses them.
10
Currencies and payment rails
Moving money from Jakarta to Manila still means correspondent banks, wide FX spreads and manual reconciliation.
10
Regulatory regimes
Licensing, data residency, customs and tax rules differ at every border, which slows every expansion.
Where we invest
AI that removes friction at the border.
We focus on three areas where AI now replaces work that once needed separate teams in every market.
Multilingual customer agents
AI agents that speak Bahasa, Thai, Tagalog and Vietnamese like a local.
Learn moreSupply chain intelligence
Visibility and prediction for goods crossing ports, borders and islands.
Learn moreWhy Singapore
Our base for regional expansion.
Singapore offers trusted legal structures, deep capital markets, a progressive regulator and direct links to every ASEAN capital. We use it as a launchpad, and so do our founders.
We favour teams that win their first market and then expand. Our playbooks, partners and network are built to help that second, third and tenth market happen faster.
About SejnaRegional by design
We look for products whose architecture handles multiple currencies, languages and regulators from day one.
Operators first
Our partners have scaled products across ASEAN markets, not just invested in them.
AI-native
AI is the core of the business model, not a feature added to an existing one.
Long-term
We reserve capital to follow on and stay with founders from first cheque to growth.
Portfolio
View all companies Founders building across borders.
L
SeedLintas
Cross-border payments
B2B payables platform that settles supplier invoices across six ASEAN currencies in under a day.
S
Pre-seedSuara
Multilingual agents
Voice agents for collections and support that handle Bahasa, Javanese and code-switched speech.
R
Series ARantai
Supply chain intelligence
Customs and trade-document automation that cuts clearance time at regional ports by half.
P
SeedPasar OS
AI commerce
Operating system for social sellers, with AI-written listings, chat checkout and inventory sync.
The companies that win Southeast Asia will not be the ones that pick the biggest market. They will be the ones that make the borders between markets stop mattering.
Arjun Mehta · Founding Partner
Building across borders?
If you are building AI-native infrastructure for Southeast Asia, we would like to hear from you.