The list of investors included Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, family offices of Alibaba Group's co-founder Eddie Wu, Chief Executive Officer of Meituan-Dianping Wang Xing as well as Dianping founder Zhang Tao, according to the venture capital fund.

East Ventures also received financial backing from Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek Holdings [TEM.UL] and Indonesian conglomerates Sinarmas and Emtek.

"The way we picked our LPs (limited partners) is strategic and based on geopolitcal arbitrage," East Ventures co-founder Willson Cuaca told Reuters, noting that investors would take an involved role in advising the fund.

The decade-old firm was an early backer of several Indonesian "unicorns", or tech startups valued at more than $1 billion, including online retailer Tokopedia and travel booking site Traveloka.

Funding by venture capital firms in Southeast Asia touched a record high last year, with Indonesia's booming digital economy being a prime destination.

(Reporting by Fanny Potkin, Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)