CoCoon Ignite Ventures

CoCoon Ignite Ventures is a Hong Kong-based early-stage venture capital firm established in 2016. The firm focuses on investing in entrepreneurs who possess a unique vision of the new economy and can create value through decentralized networks and innovative business models. CoCoon Ignite Ventures primarily targets B2B technology startups, particularly in sectors such as artificial intelligence, human resources, and retail technology.

The firm's investment philosophy centers on supporting companies that are building and scaling products and services for a future economy based on communities and asset-free markets. CoCoon Ignite Ventures is part of the CoCoon community, which has been active since 2012, organizing over 600 entrepreneurial events and raising more than HK$7.1 billion in early-stage funding for founders.

Notable portfolio companies include Café X Technologies and Talkpush. In July 2018, CoCoon Ignite Ventures raised an undisclosed amount of venture funding from NEK Group. The firm's managing partner, Ms. Erica Ma, co-founded CoCoon and The CoCoon Foundation, focusing on investing in pioneers of the future and building a global home for entrepreneurs. She spent her early career in Silicon Valley before returning to Hong Kong to build and operate CoCoon. Her work at CoCoon evolved to cover community, education, and investments within an ecosystem for founders, students, investors, engineers, designers, and corporate innovators.

CoCoon Ignite Ventures is a partner of the Google for Startups network and runs the 92 Express Program to empower women founders globally to build hardware companies in the Greater Bay Area. The CoCoon Foundation partners with the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and brings entrepreneurship education to over 10,000 local secondary school students.