Top 25 Automotive Angel Investors in Asia (October 2023)

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• Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.

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• ROM — ROM provides fire safety, health security, management security, and personal safety services.
• Dianjia — Dianjia is an IT company specialized in developing retail service platform to provide O2O solutions.
• Pumpkin Coach — Pumpkin Coach is an O2O platform that helps users to make online appointments with hairstylists at Pumpkin Coach locations in Shanghai and Hangzhou. The company directly connects hairdressers to customers, facilitating communications, payment, and CRM while maximizing revenues for each hairdresser. Each Pumpkin Coach location features all necessarymachinery, equipment, and supplies.

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• UvU Shuttle — UvU is a ride-sharing platform which connects parents with licensed vetted care-drivers on 4-seaters providing first-class transportation service for their kids to travel to school or extraclasses.
• CTOgram — CTOgram is a Kazakhstan-Based Automotive Start-up.
• Kilde — Hands-off regular income with up to 11.5% returns per year. Invest in consumer and SME loans with the leading lending firms.

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• Chaboshi — Chaboshi offers vehicle conditions, vehicle inspection, car warranty and used car valuation services.
• Xiongmao Kuaishou — Xiongmao Kuaishou is a provider of delivery, logistics and supply chain management services.
• Cbeidou Supply Chain — Canbeidou is a food catering logistics service provider in China.

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• Otoklix — Otoklix is a focused Startup on the Automotive aftermarket domain. Otoklix's mission is to bridge the gap between vehicle owners and Indonesia’s fragmented general workshop industry. Transforming the vehicle maintenance experience for consumers and equipping workshops by increasing their visibility, providing business solutions throughsoftware, and reducing procurement costs.

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• BeliMobilGue — BeliMobilGue.co.id is an amazing platform that helps you sell your car immediately and without any hassle. Simply click on free valuation and inspection of your car, and sell your car easy, safe and quick while the money will be transferred to your bank account immediately.Enjoy 3 steps to sell your car with super easy, safe, and free ribet!

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• 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.
• Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
• Telework — Telework is a multi-location workspace that utilizes vacant seats and rooms.

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• imajin — Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem for Indonesia. Focus on B2B Manufacturing, partner of Ministry of Industry Indonesia as Manufacturing hub. Help to connect, Supplies raw material until project financing.

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• 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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• NIO — NIO Inc. is a pioneer in China’s premium smart electric vehicle market. NIO’s mission is to shape a joyful lifestyle by offering premium smart electric vehicles and being the best user enterprise. NIO designs, jointly manufactures, and sells smart and connected premium electric vehicles, driving innovations in next generation technologies inconnectivity, autonomous driving and artificial intelligence. Redefining the user experience, NIO provides users with comprehensive, convenient and innovative charging solutions and other user-centric services. NIO began deliveries of the ES8, a 7-seater high-performance premium electric SUV in China in June 2018, and its variant, the six-seater ES8, in March 2019. NIO officially launched the ES6, a 5-seater high-performance premium electric SUV, in December 2018 and began deliveries in June 2019. NIO officially launched the EC6, a 5-seater smart premium electric Coupe SUV, in December 2019 and plans to commence deliveries in 2020.
• Color — Color is a population health technology company that focuses on providing large-scale health care programs and clinical testing. It improves the key health infrastructure systems to make health accessible, convenient, and cost-effective, serving health systems, employers, research institutions, and individual consumers.Its Population GenomicsPlatform offers modular and end-to-end solutions that enable organizations to effectively build and scale population health programs. It provides technology, software, and clinical services to help population programs launch and scale quickly. By combining innovative technology, specialized laboratory infrastructure, and clinical health services, Color creates complete and effective programs that include: Program strategy, planning, and implementation; Participant outreach and engagement; participant education and consent about testing and results; sample (blood or saliva) collection and genetic sequencing; data management and clinical reporting; HIPAA compliance and data security; return of results; clinical services, like genetic counseling and clinical pharmacy; personalized care routine; and ongoing population health management. Color’s partners include NorthShore University Health System, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Ochsner Health System, Verily, Visa, Levi Strauss, and Salesforce.Elad Gil, Nish Bhat, Taylor Sittler, and Othman Laraki launched Color in 2015 and is based in Burlingame, California.

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• Caryu — Caryu is an intelligent service platform for the automotive industry through mobile Internet and cloud technology.
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• 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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• Gunosy — Gunosy is a news curation application that covers a wide range of news from entertainment news to political news. The application finds its news from multiple web sources and presents them according to how hot the topic is. Gunosy’s features include categorized tabs; the ability to customize the categories that users need to follow and create theirown personal magazine; instant access to a wide variety of news; and push notifications to remind users of news updates.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Japan.
• Telescope Japan — Telescope Japan Internet Company

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• Seibii, Inc. — Transforming traditional car maintenance, repair, after-parts installation, road service industry of Japan by leveraging Technology.

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• JDO Auto — JDO Auto is a full-service software and hardware company for internet of vehicles.

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• QIANLIMA — QIANLIMA engages in the field of domestic recruitment and selection.
• Eka Smart Car — Eka is a digital transportation platform, manufactures unmanned cars and aims to be the leading intelligent transportation service.

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• Seibii, Inc. — Transforming traditional car maintenance, repair, after-parts installation, road service industry of Japan by leveraging Technology.

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• Seibii, Inc. — Transforming traditional car maintenance, repair, after-parts installation, road service industry of Japan by leveraging Technology.
• Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.

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• Pyrenee — Pyrenee is a hardware startup that creates devices that protect people's lives.
• Antescofo — Antescofo is the mariage of world-class R&D and Business endeavours. Their technology is the result of 7+ years of R&D in the world’s largest laboratory dedicated to Music and Technology, IRCAM in Paris, and public experience with the most important musicians and orchestras around the world. The principle? Through Intelligent MachineListening, they recognize how humans perform music in real-time and use that information to synchronize content and provide an immersive experience! Antescofo was incorporated in July 2016 and based in Paris, France.
• Stake Technologies — Stake Technologies is a technology company that provides blockchain solutions to enterprises.

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• WeRide — WeRide, A Smart Mobility Company With Leading L4 AD Technologies.
• Xpeng Motors — Xiaopeng Motors is an electric vehicle and technology company that designs and manufactures smart cars.

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• Hengdache Shidai — Hengdache Shidai is an automotive fuel O2O platform service provider.

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• Caryu — Caryu is an intelligent service platform for the automotive industry through mobile Internet and cloud technology.

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• Caryu — Caryu is an intelligent service platform for the automotive industry through mobile Internet and cloud technology.

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• Otoklix — Otoklix is a focused Startup on the Automotive aftermarket domain. Otoklix's mission is to bridge the gap between vehicle owners and Indonesia’s fragmented general workshop industry. Transforming the vehicle maintenance experience for consumers and equipping workshops by increasing their visibility, providing business solutions throughsoftware, and reducing procurement costs.

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• PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
• Light — Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
• PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.