PHNOM PENH · SINCE 2011
A grassroots startup builder.
Visionary founders.
Underdog innovators.
Unreasonable dreamers.
We partner with them to turn conviction into companies.
smallworld develops founders through apprenticeship and builds companies with them.
Our core team is more than ten people. They joined smallworld as students, learned through hands-on work, and took on more responsibility over time. Today they build and run KOOMPI, Selendra, Baray, Riverbase and StadiumX, and projects like SalaDigital.
Each year, we welcome five to ten apprentices. A few join our core team. We hire slowly.
Everyone deserves a chance to run their own company when they are ready. Some start on their own. Others build with smallworld, turning a project they lead or an idea they develop into a company.
Founders who build with us start on our existing products, services, and user base, with resources and support from the other teams. That gives a new company a better chance to survive and grow.
We also work with enterprises that share our vision for a product and the way we work. They bring business needs and experience. They can become a product's first business users and invest alongside founders who grew through our apprenticeship.
Each company starts from a thesis: a problem we know first-hand, and technology built to solve it.
Our mission
Build thesis-driven companies that redefine what startups can achieve.