# Top 25 Art Startup Investors in Hong Kong in May 2026

## Michael Hansen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Art, SaaS

Michael’s responsible for strategic growth in the Asia Pacific region of Zendesk. An IT sales veteran, Michael has more than 20 years experience in a variety of sales and marketing roles spanning the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia.Prior to becoming Zendesk’s first employee, Michael was selling help desk projects in Australia. Michael is anarmy officer who has studied at the Danish Technical University.

## Wistron Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

Wistron Corporation, an original design manufacturer, provides a range of design, manufacturing, and after-sales service support functions for information and communication technology products worldwide. The company's product portfolio covers various technology products, including notebook personal computers (PCs), mobile communicationproducts, servers and storage systems, networking products, desktop PCs, LCD TVs, information appliances, game consoles, and other consumer electronics. Its after-sales services include product replacement, repair and support, and product support solutions, both for products it manufactures and for products produced by other manufacturers. The company sells its products to various vendors who distribute these products under their own brands. Wistron Corporation was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

## Loic Gouzer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Art, Auctions, Online Auctions

Loic Gouzer

## Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Art

Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile

## Olivia Wang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Art, Medical, Auctions

Olivia Wang

## Adam Lindemann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sai Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Debt, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Apps, Art, Music

Adam Lindemann is an entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the founder and Chairman of imindi.

## StableNode
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Art

StableNode operates Blockchain Node Validations and uses the accruing rewards for Investments in early-stage Crypto and Blockchain ventures as well as for liquidity provision in DeFi Applications.
 
We provide a broad range of hands-on growth and governance advisory, supporting and guiding our portfolio companies, founders and their teams from early-stage to growth-at-scale. Our core lies in accelerating growth in new markets and scaling business strategies along the way.

## Tom James
- Type: Angel
- Location: Abbotsbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Tom James - Advisor @ OneLogin

## Digital Renaissance
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Information Technology

Digital Renaissance

## WhaleShark
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Art, Apps, Gaming

WhaleShark is an advisory firm. It operates pre-investors due diligence and diagnose companies for their investment readiness prior to matching with advisors or investors. If any loopholes are identified, WhaleSharkers customise an improvement diagnostics...

## Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Art, Auctions, Online Auctions

Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya

## INCE Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

INCE Capital is a new fund that will invest in early-stage consumer-related technology companies in China.

## CoCoon Ignite Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Education, Art

CoCoon Ignite Ventures is a theme-based early stage fund that invests in entrepreneurs who have a unique vision of the new economy and can create value from decentralized networks and new business models.

## Metapurse
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Marketplace, Augmented Reality

Metapurse is a crypto-exclusive fund that specializes in identifying early-stage projects.

## Pace Gallery
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Art, Auctions, Online Auctions

Pace is a leading contemporary art gallery representing the most significant artists and estate of the 20th and 21st centuries.

## Gabby Dizon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pasig, Rizal, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.

## Willoughby Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series D, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services

Willoughby Capital is an investment firm that combines institutional scale with a permanent capital base. Willoughby is focused on partnering with best-in-class growth companies across private and public markets.
It was founded in 2009 by Daniel Och and is headquartered in New York, United States.

## Sabrina Hahn
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Sabrina Hahn is a prolific venture investor across sectors.

## BAI Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chaoyang, Liaoning, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Hardware, Semiconductor, Art

BAI Capital is an investment arm of German media mogul Bertelsmann. Its notable investments include electric vehicle upstart Nio, Southeast Asia’s popular live streaming app Bigo, and China’s shared bike pioneer Mobike, which was acquired by Meituan.
BAI Capital was founded in 2008 by German businessman Carl Bertelsmann.

## Plutus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Art, Auctions, Enterprise

Plutus Capital Partners is a boutique advisory firm that provides investment banking services globally. Plutus partners with business owners and management teams to provide capital and advisory services throughout all stages of a firm's life. We focus on growth sectors and provide in-depth analyses to healthcare, technology, business processoutsourcing and financial services companies. Plutus has offices in the United States and India.

## Animoca Brands
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

## Kenetic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies. They have developed technology to facilitate their quantitative trading strategies and offer various digital asset related structured products to counterparts.

## Yat Siu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Software

Yat Siu is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Outblaze a messaging communications company that services over 40 million users today based out of Hong Kong.Yat has previously worked for Atari Germany, served as Director and Head of East Coast Operations for Lexicor, established Hong Kong Cybercity (the first free web page and e-mail providerin Asia, later renamed Freenation), as well as AT&T Solutions System Integration practice.He has been named a Global Leader of Tomorrow and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.It has been reported that Yat Siu sold Outblaze messaging to IBM to become Lotus iNotes.Yat is also responsible FON's operations in China.

## Marc Bhargava
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Interested in early stage opportunities to back transformational teams/companies.

## Andrew Steinwold
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Art

Andrew Steinwold Managing Partner @ Sfermion

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