Orbit Ventures
Venture fund and accelerator, anchored by SOSV and independent since January 2024, that invests in early-stage startups in emerging and frontier markets across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.
Industry: Venture capital | Founded: 2022
About Orbit Ventures
Orbit Ventures, also branded Orbit Startups, is a venture investor that backs early-stage companies and helps them expand into emerging and frontier markets. Its website names Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas as its focus, and it combines investment with accelerator programmes, mentors and corporate partners.
According to SOSV, Orbit originated at SOSV in 2022 as the successor to Chinaccelerator, which started in 2010 as Asia's first startup accelerator, and it incorporated MOX, an accelerator launched in Taipei in 2015. Orbit became an independent fund on 1 January 2024 with SOSV as anchor limited partner. William Bao Bean and Oscar Ramos, both Managing General Partners, are its founding general partners. The site footer reads Orbit Ventures Pte, and its pages do not state a headquarters.
SOSV says Orbit runs four cohorts a year of about ten early-stage companies each, up to Series A, and that participants receive 150,000 US dollars in capital. Other programmes on its site include Orbit Connect networking events, growth summits and business-development trips to India and Southeast Asia, and a Global Startup Academy run with the Korea Institute of Startup and Entrepreneurship Development. Its team page lists 33 team members, among them a Director for Saudi Arabia and a Director for India and MENA.
In the Gulf, Orbit runs Sanabil Accelerator by Orbit with Sanabil Investments, giving each company 100,000 dollars of initial funding in a four-month programme. On 1 September 2026 it announced 13 companies for the fourth batch, with a demo day in Riyadh on 9 September. Its featured portfolio includes Dastgyr, ELSA, PriceOye, Tappytoon, Voila and VideoVerse.
In February 2026 Orbit led a 1.5 million dollar seed round in QuicKart, a Dubai fresh-commerce company founded in 2022 by Pravin Rai, alongside angel investors, as reported by Wamda. In August 2026 it took part in the 2.8 million dollar seed round of Egypt's Fincart, co-led by Launch Africa and Antler MENAP, after joining its earlier pre-seed. Orbit's site says its portfolio companies have raised 728 million dollars since its investment. Fund size is not disclosed.
Leadership
- William Bao Bean, Managing General Partner
- Oscar Ramos, Managing General Partner
- Ching-Ping Lin, Partner and Chief Operating Officer
- Sang Tran, Chief Financial Officer
- Minjia Wu, Partner
- TR Harrington, Partner and Director of Growth
- Jenne Wong, Partner and Business Development Director
- Amani Alshaikhmubarak, Director, Saudi Arabia