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Top 50 Angel Investors in Asia (October 2023)

The most active angel investors investing in Asia startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Asia startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Yusuke Sato
Angel
38 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Content, Food and Beverage $2.1M–$41M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
37 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Content, Software $343k–$73M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
33 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Food and Beverage, Content, Internet $412k–$66M
Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
32 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Software, Information Technology $412k–$23M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
29 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment $4.1M–$30M
Boon Hwee Koh
Angel
28 Singapore, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $383k–$20M
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
28 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Finance $2.7M–$70M
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
26 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Media and Entertainment, Software $961k–$41M
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
25 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Marketing, Internet $3.7M–$32M
Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu
Angel
23 Thailand, Malaysia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence
Mamoru Taniya
Angel
20 Japan, Singapore, Spain Seed, Series A Apps, Content, FinTech $2.3M–$45M
Masao Ito
Angel
16 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Content, Social Media, Information Technology $640k–$16M
Toivo Annus
Angel
15 Singapore, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, FinTech $900k–$7M
Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
14 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning $1.4M–$14M
Gang Wang
Angel
13 China, United States Series A, Angel, Seed E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation
Jun Nishikawa
Angel
13 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Content $961k–$70M
Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
13 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $100k–$18M
Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel
12 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Art, Reservations, Software $2.7M–$27M
Toru Shimada
Angel
12 Japan Seed, Angel Task Management, Manufacturing, Content $549k–$66M
Soichiro Kawai
Angel
12 Japan Seed, Angel Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet $961k–$30M
Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
12 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment $480k–$11M
Shogo Kawada
Angel
11 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Media and Entertainment $360k–$14M
Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
11 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Fashion, Recruiting $380k–$41M
Noguchi Keito
Angel
11 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Financial Services $7.1M–$11M
JJ Chai
Angel
11 Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Information Technology, Real Estate, Rental Property
Amrish Rau
Angel
10 India, Singapore, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $384k–$22M
Royston Tay
Angel
10 Singapore, Indonesia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence $737k–$3.3M
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
10 Japan Seed, Angel Education, Task Management, Recruiting $1.4M–$16M
Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
10 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $125k–$18M
Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
10 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Marketing, Media and Entertainment $2.5M–$66M
Masanori Sugiyama
Angel
9 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment $5.8M–$18M
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
9 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Finance, Information Technology
Mohammad Maaz
Angel
9 Bangladesh, Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Payments, Information Technology, EdTech
Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel
9 Japan Seed, Series A Internet, E-Commerce, Content $6.9M–$73M
Quek Siu Rui
Angel
9 Singapore, Indonesia Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Education, Information Technology $737k–$2.8M
Yuzuru Honda
Angel
9 Japan, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Angel SNS, Internet, Software $2.7M–$5.5M
Shuichi Takenaga
Angel
8 Japan Seed, Angel Information Technology, Management Consulting, Marketing $1.2M–$62M
Charles Xue
Angel
8 China Series A, Angel, Seed Internet, Information Technology, Retail
Gokul Rajaram
Angel
8 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Financial Services, FinTech $2.1M–$70M
Makoto Takano
Angel
8 Japan, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Content, Sports, Apps $2.3M–$220M
Yang Bin Kwok
Angel
8 Singapore, Indonesia Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Apps $200k–$3.3M
Kiyohiro Sugashita
Angel
8 Japan Seed, Series A Marketing, Travel, Media and Entertainment $8.2M–$44M
Darius Cheung
Angel
8 Singapore, United States Seed, Series A Apps, Mobile, FinTech $475k–$6M
Steve Melhuish
Angel
8 Singapore, India, Malaysia Seed, Series A Software, Real Estate, Information Services
Serguei Netessine
Angel
7 Singapore, United States, Malaysia Seed, Series A, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Fashion $400k–$800k
Lisa Gokongwei
Angel
7 Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Payments, Internet $1M–$1.6M
Narita Shuzo
Angel
7 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Task Management, Media and Entertainment, Content $2.4M–$18M
Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel
7 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Content, Media and Entertainment, Virtual Reality
Chikako Morimoto
Angel
7 Japan Seed Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology $9.3M–$18M
Eduardo Saverin
Angel
7 Singapore, United States, India Seed, Series C, Series A Internet, Financial Services, Mobile $1.3M–$90M
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 38 investments in Asia startups

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder at Pulit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$41M; Angel $3.8M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
  • yup — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 37 investments in Asia startups

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Content, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $343k–$41M; Series A $13M–$73M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 33 investments in Asia startups

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $4.7M–$66M; Angel $412k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel · 32 investments in Asia startups

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$23M; Angel $412k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
  • Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 29 investments in Asia startups

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $5.5M–$9.1M; Angel $4.1M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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Boon Hwee Koh
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 28 investments in Asia startups

Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $383k–$3M; Series A $704k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
  • Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
  • Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 28 investments in Asia startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
  • Seibii, Inc. — Transforming traditional car maintenance, repair, after-parts installation, road service industry of Japan by leveraging Technology.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 26 investments in Asia startups

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $961k–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • FiNANCiE — FiNANCiE is a social networking service.
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 25 investments in Asia startups

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Marketing, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $3.7M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AceRNA — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
  • Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
  • Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
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Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu
Angel · 23 investments in Asia startups

Pawoot is like an icon of Thailand online business. Many people call him "the godfather of E-Commerce"

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Thailand, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DayWork — People and Part-time marketplace
  • PEAK — PEAK (peakaccount.com) is one of the leading online accounting software provider in Thailand. We manage accounting record of almost 100,000 transactions valued over 2 billion bath per month. PEAK is a supported startup from True Incube and is invested by True, GSB, and SET. We won several awards and recognitions including winner prize for Ease ofDoing Business Solution, Design Innovation, True Incube Batch 2. We are not only providing online accounting software but we are building business infrastructure for future data-driven economy. We help SMEs in Thailand have a better accounting system and have a better chance of getting loan or money they need to expand their business.
  • Protoss Technology — Technology outsourcing company
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 20 investments in Asia startups

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$41M; Series A $2.3M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
  • abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
  • RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
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Masao Ito
Angel · 16 investments in Asia startups

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $640k–$16M; Series A $12M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mikai — mikai is a virtual YouTuber management, VR / AR content development.
  • Tokyo — Tokyo provides consistently-designed signage and projector installation, as well as maintenance company support. All customers need is “product selection” considering installation. This is a service that does not take time and effort!
  • Graffity — Graffity to provide AR experiences globally and enrich life more conveniently and invent the AR entertainment experience and provide it globally.
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Toivo Annus
Angel · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 15 investments in Asia startups

Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$7M; Series A $2.3M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
  • Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
  • GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 14 investments in Asia startups

Yasuyuki Kin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
  • Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
  • LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
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Gang Wang
Angel · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · 13 investments in Asia startups

Gang Wang

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation
  • Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
  • Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Wozaijia.com — Wozaijia is a social e-commerce platform for home furniture."I am at home" is a trustworthy home to share direct purchase platform. Here, people can discover, experience, buy, share their favorite home products, we change the home to share economic practice of buying methods. "I am at home" believes that the world will bee better if we can always get a better life with less cost.
  • Qianyu Islands — Qianyu Islands is the flagship brand of Beijing Beike Youjia Technology Co., Ltd., which is positioned in the “Urban Shared Accommodation Space”. It is committed to providing users with different traditional hotels and B&Bs, younger, more free, more possibilities and higher value for money accommodation options.Since its inception in 2017,Qianyu Islands is based on a sense of quality, experience and freshness for a new generation of consumer groups. It is transforming the traditional accommodation industry with a more Internet-based way to fill the market for urban mid-end accommodation.
  • Huidu Environmental — Huidu Environmental is a recyclable packing material developer.
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 investments in Asia startups

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ eureka, Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $961k–$70M; Series A $15M–$69M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 13 investments in Asia startups, 24 in the past 12 months

Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M; Series A $4.1M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
  • Orb — A community-focused social app for people to connect, interact, and transact in their daily lives on web3 built with Lens Protocol.
  • Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
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Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel · 12 investments in Asia startups

Ryosuke Matsumoto is the founder and CEO of Community Factory Inc.Ryosuke is born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1981. He joined launching of the publication venture company, and ran a cafe while he was attending Chuo University in Tokyo. Since he joined launching the social media venture company in 2004, he has been in social media business. In2006, Ryosuke founded Community Factory Inc. which specialized in planning and operating social media and blog services.Community Factory started to specialize in social application for mobile from 2009, and Community Factory draw investments of around 4.5 million US dollars from venture capitals and mixi inc. then the biggest social media in Japan. DECOPIC, Community Factory's one of the apps for smartphone, has been downloaded 6 million times in the 6 months since its release, and it is rapidly gaining users mainly in Asian countries.In Sep 2012, Ryosuke and other stock holders sold Community Factory to Yahoo Japan Corp., and he remains as CEO of Community Factory.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Reservations, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$14M; Series A $15M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
  • TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
  • vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Toru Shimada
Angel · 12 investments in Asia startups

Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Manufacturing, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$66M; Angel $549k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
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Soichiro Kawai
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 investments in Asia startups

Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $961k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Villio — Villio provides talent experience SaaS which helps companies with human resource development and recruitment of talented engineers.
  • HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
  • SPeak Corporation — SPeak Corporation operates JPort Match that is involved in direct recruiting service. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 investments in Asia startups

Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • yup — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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Shogo Kawada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in Asia startups

Shogo Kawada is Co-founder and Adviser of DeNA, a global Internet company focused on a social games platform, social games, e-commerce and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $360k–$14M; Angel $687k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
  • sunblaze — sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time.
  • Spider Labs — Spider Labs offers solutions to help fight ad fraud and ensure data security.
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in Asia startups

Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Fashion, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $989k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
  • ONE NOVA — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
  • vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Noguchi Keito
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in Asia startups

Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $9.3M–$11M; Angel $7.1M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
  • Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
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JJ Chai
Angel · 11 investments in Asia startups

JJ Chai is the CEO & co-founder at Rainforest. He attended National University of Singapore.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Real Estate, Rental Property
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
  • Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
  • Needle — The world's first personal AI marketer for rising brands. It acts like a smart assistant to help you defy the odds. Sign up for early access!
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Amrish Rau
Angel · 10 investments in Asia startups

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Singapore, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $384k–$8.5M; Series A $4M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
  • OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
  • CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
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Royston Tay
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 10 investments in Asia startups

Royston Tay is Co-Founder & CEO at Zopim. He is GM of Chat at Zendesk.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $737k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Upmesh — Automate your live selling and increase your FB and IG live sales. Capture comments as carts with the Upmesh live selling system.
  • Motorist — Motorist is a Singapore-based automotive platform that simplifies vehicle ownership through smart solutions. We help drivers and car owners to manage their vehicle by providing them with a range of auto services. Stay informed with our network of motorists and motor services.
  • RaRa Delivery — RaRa Delivery is a e-commerce logistics company located in Selatan.
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel · 10 investments in Asia startups

Tatsuo Sakamoto

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Task Management, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 10 investments in Asia startups, 43 in the past 12 months

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $125k–$4.2M; Series A $1.7M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
  • Parallax — Receive money as if you were abroad. Save big with best rates and lowest fees. Withdraw instantly.
  • Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Asia startups

Completed the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He developed the service of “Gunosy” while he was in graduate school. Established Gnosy in 2012 and appointed CEO. In 2013, he was appointed President and CEO. 2012 IPA Unexplored Super Creator. He also served as President of LayerX.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Marketing, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $3.4M–$66M; Series A $2.5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Masanori Sugiyama
Angel · 9 investments in Asia startups

He graduated from Kansai University in 1988. He was enrolled in Ljoma while he was in college. 2002 Vice President of Practice (now index lights). In 2004, he became president of zappallas. Listed on the TSE Mothers in the second year of his appointment, and in 2010 he was listed in part of the TSE. In 2011 he became the CEO of enish. Listed on apart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thereafter, he served as outside directors such as Nikkatsu and JibannetHD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $5.8M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • STUDIO — Studio is a web design & development platform that enables users to build websites from scratch without coding.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Asia startups

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Finance, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autify — Autify - Revolutionizing Software Testing with the most advanced AI-powered Software Testing Tool
  • Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
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Mohammad Maaz
Angel · 9 investments in Asia startups

Mohammad Maaz

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Information Technology, EdTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Bangladesh, Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bonik — Bonik empowers small businesses with an easy-to-use app to create and run e-commerce stores independently. Download Bonik App and create your own online store for free today!
  • Travela — Travela is an accommodation-sharing platform.
  • Interactive Cares — Interactive Cares is a one stop virtual Edtech Platform for creating employability to 2.7 Million unemployed youth in Bangladesh & make them skilled through its integrated digital learning. Interactive Cares is working to create 1 M job placement by end of 2026.
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Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Asia startups

Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $6.9M–$16M; Series A $62M–$73M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Osiro — Osiro is a community management firm.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
  • FABRIC TOKYO — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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Quek Siu Rui
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 9 investments in Asia startups

Siu Rui is a co-founder of Carousell and oversees Product and Marketing. Since the launch of Carousell in May 2012 together with co-founders Marcus Tan and Lucas Ngoo, Siu Rui has been deeply involved in product strategy, international expansion and capital strategy. He is passionate about technology and has been buying and selling online since hewas 13. This has been a driving force behind Siu Rui’s commitment to building a product-focused company, focused on solving meaningful problems for people globally.Prior to Carousell, Siu Rui spent some time in marketing and product management at VSee, Ogilvy & Mather and DBS Vickers. Siu Rui read Business Administration and Entrepreneurship at National University of Singapore and Stanford University (Under the NUS Overseas College Program in Silicon Valley, California), and dropped out of his Honours year to start Carousell.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Education, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $737k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jackett — Jackett is your assessment automation platform for eliminating the hassle of writing & marking (quizzes, tests, worksheets, homework) - and so much more.
  • NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
  • Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel · 9 investments in Asia startups

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
  • AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
  • Rensource Energy — Rensource develops, finances, and manages critical energy infrastructure for African enterprises with the objective of powering Africa's economy
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Shuichi Takenaga
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Asia startups

Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Management Consulting, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$62M; Angel $14M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • Tagpic — Tagpic offers influencer marketing targeting services such as influencer casting, SNS branding, and talent production.
  • H&H Group Japan — H&H Holdingsis a Professional Services company.
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Charles Xue
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 8 investments in Asia startups

Charles Xue, also known as Xue Manzi, is a Chinese-American angel investor and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of UT Starcom and has invested in Chinese internet startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Retail
  • Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DeLink (DELC)
  • Huaqin Zhilian — Huaqin Zhilian is a manufacturer of smart robot convenience devices in the field of smart retail.
  • YEUNGS SAGE E-COMMERCE
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Gokul Rajaram
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in Asia startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$9M; Series A $8M–$25M; Series B $4M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
  • Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.
  • Kinetic Automation — Effortless modern vehicle maintenance. Service electric and autonomous vehicles at scale with effortless speed and precision using our all-in-one, in-the-box digital vehicle maintenance solution.
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Makoto Takano
Angel · 8 investments in Asia startups

Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Sports, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$14M; Series A $2.3M–$25M; Series B $32M–$220M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • PROGRIT — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Yang Bin Kwok
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 8 investments in Asia startups

Yang Bin Kwok

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $737k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$730k
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Upmesh — Automate your live selling and increase your FB and IG live sales. Capture comments as carts with the Upmesh live selling system.
  • Akronym — Specialty coffee has become part of our daily routines in the most positive way. We now have access to what they want the most -- choices.In recent years, roasters have explored new ways to share coffees, making them more accessible and delicious without all the fuss. Enter specialty coffee-filled Nespresso® compatible capsules that open thepalate to discovering new tastes and experiences.
  • RaRa Delivery — RaRa Delivery is a e-commerce logistics company located in Selatan.
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Kiyohiro Sugashita
Angel · 8 investments in Asia startups

Mr. Sugashita joined Polaris as Advisor in May 2011. He is Director and CEO of Sugashita Partners, Ltd since 1998 and provides consulting services to financial institutions and ventures in and outside of Japan. Prior to that position, he was CEO of Lazard Japan Asset Management from 1991 to 1998. His business career also includes positions at DaiwaSecurities and Merrill Lynch Securities, Tokyo Branch. On the academic front, Mr. Sugashita received a BA in Economics from Ritsumeikan University and since 2009 is Special Advisor for the Dean of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Travel, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $8.2M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • G NEXT — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
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Darius Cheung
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 8 investments in Asia startups

Darius Cheung is co-founder of BillPin and CEO/co-founder of McAfee-acquired tenCube.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $475k–$800k; Series A $2M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
  • Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
  • Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
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Steve Melhuish
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 8 investments in Asia startups

Steve Melhuish is the Founder of Rumah, Co-Founder and Board Director at PropertyGuru Group, Founder and CEO at Planet Rise, Founding Partner at Wavemaker Impact, and an Advisor and Investor at Eco-Business and Ampd Energy. He attended the University of Plymouth and the University of Reading.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Real Estate, Information Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, India, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
  • VFlow Tech — VFlowTech is a Singapore based company that aims to produce the world's best Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries to the power the sustainable future with pure renewable energy.
  • TablePointer — TablePointer is the A.I. and intelligent energy solution for small & medium commercial facilities to optimise energy efficiency, manage assets, upgrade profitability, and unlock sustainability gains right away.
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Serguei Netessine
Angel · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · 7 investments in Asia startups

Serguei Netessine is Vice-Dean for Global Initiatives and Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He lived and worked in Russia, USA, France and Singapore., author and speaker on innovation.Prof. Netessine receivedBS/MS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology and, after working for Motorola and Lucent Technologies, he also received MS/Ph.D. degrees in Operations Management from the University of Rochester. His current research focuses on business model innovation and operational excellence and he worked on these topics with numerous organizations including Federal Aviation Administration (USA), Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s, Rolls Royce, Comcast, Expedia, ABB and US Air Force. He serves on advisory boards of multiple startup companies and regularly speaks on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.Professor Netessine has been the recipient of several teaching awards for delivering classes to MBA and Executive MBA students at the Wharton School and INSEAD, and he frequently teaches in Executive Education Programs. Prolific academic writer, professor Netessine holds senior editorial positions at several leading academic journals and he co-authored dozens of publications in prominent management journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review and other. His work has received extensive media coverage in CIO Magazine, the Economist, Forbes, Multichannel Merchant, New York Times, US News and Strategy & Business and other press. He regularly blogs about innovation on http://www.renaissanceinnovator.com and HBR Network. His latest book on Business Model Innovation is forthcoming with Harvard Business Press in 2014.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$800k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TabSquare — Look to the future of the F&B industry - Tabsquare's POS integrated online restaurant system increases hospitality profitability through AI Technology.
  • Comedywire — Comedywire offers an online platform that enables its users to find, share, and create posts of comedic content. Comedywire enables its users to connect with each other and share ideas. Comedywire was founded by Preston Gitlin in December 2014.
  • Alltius Inc. — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
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Lisa Gokongwei
Angel · Mandaluyong, Cavite, Philippines · 7 investments in Asia startups

Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng is a President at Summit Media. Attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edamama — Shop online for mama and baby essentials. Enjoy free shipping with minimum spend of P1,500. Buy online now!
  • Otis AI — Otis is the first AI-powered virtual assistant that helps run and optimize your digital marketing cross-platform, at scale and at a budget that works for your business.
  • Armada Brands — Armada invests in and partners with e-commerce brands in the Philippines and in SEA.
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Narita Shuzo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Asia startups

Narita Shuzo is a Executive Vice President/COO, CrowdWorks Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Media and Entertainment, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • MiL Inc — Emerging products for healthcare food brands Producing food retailing and wholesale recipe development Restaurant management Catering media operation.
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Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Asia startups

Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, Virtual Reality
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
  • Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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Chikako Morimoto
Angel · 7 investments in Asia startups

Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $9.3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Eduardo Saverin
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 7 investments in Asia startups

Eduardo Saverin is a Co-founder at Meta. Eduardo attended Harvard University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$14M; Series C $27M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Perx Technologies — Redefining Loyalty with Gamification and Behavioral Intelligence
  • Antler — Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
  • Hopscotch — Hopscotch is an online store offering insider access to baby and kids brands from around the world, at unbeatable prices. F
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