Recognition underscores SAV’s cross-border AI thesis and the firm’s portfolio momentum across infrastructure and AI-native applications

Scale Asia Ventures (SAV), a Silicon Valley-based early-stage fund focused on AI-native enterprise software, proudly announces that Founding Managing Partner Wally Wang has been named to Business Insider’s Seed 100 list of the world’s top early-stage investors.

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Business Insider’s Top 100 Venture Capitalists: Wally Wang, Founding Managing Partner of Scale Asia Ventures, recognized for notable AI and enterprise software investments including Weaviate, CAST AI, Fiddler AI, and more.

Business Insider ranked Wang at No. 95 on the 2025 Seed 100, citing his conviction-driven investments in Weaviate, Argilla, Array, CAST AI, Fiddler AI, and AppZen. The recognition reflects SAV’s differentiated thesis—backing the critical layer where advanced AI infrastructure meets vertical applications—and its role in linking Silicon-Valley innovation with Asia’s largest enterprises.

“Seed is where product intuition, market timing, and founder grit intersect. At SAV, we partner early with builders reshaping enterprise software with AI—and we help them land their first strategic customers across the U.S. and Asia.”

— Wally Wang, Founding Managing Partner, Scale Asia Ventures

SAV has introduced leading AI infrastructure and application companies to enterprise customers across the region and has built partnerships with major corporates and LPs in Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. The firm supports founders with go-to-market introductions, hiring, and later-stage capital access.

Recent SAV investments in vertical AI applications include Solve Intelligence (Legal Agentic AI), HiggsField AI (Generative Video AI), Arva AI (AI for AML/KYC), Throxy (Sales Agentic AI) and Cresta (Contact Center AI), each leading the transformation in their respective industries. On the infrastructure side, SAV has backed companies that provide the foundational technology for AI agents, such as Mastra (Agent Framework), Tiny Fish (Enterprise Web Agent), Weaviate (Vector Database), Superlinked (Personalization & Search), CAST AI (Cloud Cost Optimization), and Fiddler AI (AI Observability), reflecting a deep commitment to the broader AI ecosystem. This dual focus on both the application and infrastructure layers of AI is central to SAV's thesis: we are backing founders who are not simply incorporating AI, but are fundamentally rethinking how the entire enterprise software landscape will evolve with AI at its core.

What Founders Are Saying

“SAV's introductions to key talent and their insights on the open-core model have been crucial to our journey.” — Bob van Luijt, CEO and Co-founder of Weaviate

“SAV's strategic introductions have accelerated our growth in the APAC and global markets.” — Laurent Gil, Co-founder and President of CAST AI

“SAV’s early conviction in our vision and their ability to connect us with the right AI infrastructure partners have accelerated our product roadmap.” — Sudheesh Nair, CEO and Co-founder of TinyFish

“SAV's team has a rare combination of deep technical AI knowledge and a forward-looking vision for the future of professional services. Their conviction in our AI agent technology validated our approach and has been a crucial endorsement as we engage with leading IP firms.” — Chris Parsonson, CEO and Co-founder of Solve Intelligence

“SAV understood from day one that Higgsfield’s technology could empower not just individual creators, but entire industries. Their guidance has been key as we expand into enterprise.” — Alex Mashrabov, CEO and Co-founder of HiggsField AI

About Wally Wang

Wally Wang is Founding Managing Partner of Scale Asia Ventures, a Silicon Valley early stage fund for AI-driven enterprise software. He was named to Business Insider’s Seed 100 list of top early-stage investors and previously led U.S. tech investments for Fosun International and a multibillion-dollar family office. Earlier, he built products at Microsoft Bing; Pebble (Y Combinator) and Misfit—both folded into Google Wear OS; Lattice Engines (acq. by NYSE: DNB) and DataVisor. Wally earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, pursued Ph.D. studies at NYU Stern, and was a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science.

About Scale Asia Ventures

Scale Asia Ventures is a Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm backing AI-native infrastructure and applications, then scales them globally through a network of institutional investors and corporate LPs across the U.S., Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. The firm supports portfolio companies in gaining cross-border market access, strategic hiring support, and a clear path to later-stage capital.

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Seed is where product intuition, market timing, and founder grit intersect. At SAV, we partner early with builders reshaping enterprise software with AI—and we help them land their first strategic customers across the U.S. and Asia.