# Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Hong Kong in October 2023

## Welight Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Education, Information Technology

Welight Capital is an investment firm that invests in enterprise services, B2B, e-commerce, finance, education, new retail companies.

## Particle Accelerator Limited (ParticleX)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software

Particle Accelerator Limited (ParticleX) was founded in late 2017 by Shine Works. ParticleX is a tech-based startup investor and accelerator based in Hong Kong. ParticleX combines network, capital and research resources, accelerating the pace of innovative technology and helping the early-stage startups to win cross-border opportunities acrossAsia.

## Carman Chan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Carman Chan is one of the top 5 Women to watch in Asia Tech (Nikkei Asian Review). She is a veteran in the technology industry with decades of experience as an entrepreneur with multiple exits, a tech columnist and a globally recognized venture capitalist.Carman is the founder of Click Ventures, a global early stage venture capital firm. ClickVentures has grown into a leading investment manager, and two of its funds are featured as Top 5 Seed Fund (Vintage 2003-2015) in the world and Top 4 Funds to Watch by Preqin respectively. Click Ventures' investments include Spotify (ipo), Docusign(ipo), Palantir, Memebox and Youappi.

## AK Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: eSports, Lifestyle, Media and Entertainment

AK Partners is an investment firm.

## Shakil Khan
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Shakil Khan is currently Head of Special Projects at Spotify, where he is also personal advisor to founder and CEO Daniel Ek. He has had a number of online businesses in the UK since 2000, was part of the founding team at buy.at, which was acquired by AOL, and he recently founded CoinDesk, a bitcoin news site.Shak has done extensive volunteerwork as an ambassador for charity: water, having helped raise millions of dollars for clean and safe drinking water. He is also a keen supporter and friend of Pencils of Promise, who build schools for those most in need.Having lived in China, Shak speaks Chinese (as well as English, Urdu, Punjabi, and Danish) and currently divides his time between London, San Francisco, New York and airport lounges.Shak is an investor in BitPay, Spotify, Top10, Duedil and YPlan. Shak was also an investor and mentor to Nick D'Aloisio who built and sold Summly, a news curation app that was sold to Yahoo in March 2013.

## John Wood
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, Children

John Wood is the founder of Room to Read. He started Room to Read after a fast-paced and distinguished career with Microsoft from 1991 to 1999. He was in charge of marketing and business development teams throughout Asia, including serving as director of business development for the Greater China region and as director of marketing for theAsia-Pacific region. John continues to bring Room to Read a vision for a scalable solution to developing global educational problems with an intense focus on results and an ability to attract a world-class group of employees, volunteers, and funders.Today, John focuses full-time on long-term strategy, capital acquisition, public speaking, and media opportunities for the organization. John also teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and New York University’s Stern School of Business and serves on the Advisory Board of the Clinton Global Initiative.John holds a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Colorado and a master’s degree from the Kellogg School of Northwestern University. Follow John on Twitter @JohnWoodRtR.

## Cadenza Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech

Global Investors in Transformative Technologies

## Fritz Demopoulos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Travel, Hospitality, Tourism

Fritz Demopoulos has been an entrepreneur and investor within the media and internet industries for over 10 years. He co-founded Qunar.com, China's largest travel internet company; and Shawei.com, China's largest sports internet company. Fritz also had senior positions at Netease and The News Corporation.

## MedAngels
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Events, Sports, Cycling

Australia's largest angel syndicate of clinicians, backing the most exciting innovations in healthcare..

## Igor Rybakov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: Family, Fitness, Women's

Igor Rybakov - Co-Founder @ Larix

## Ventech China
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Big Data

Ventech Capital was founded in 1998 in France. Ventech is one of the most famous VC funds in Europe and manages four funds. In China, Ventech China manages three funds. Globally, this represents more than USD 1B total asset under management. Ventech China is based in Shanghai. Ventech China 3 is a USD 220 million venture capital fund focused oncommunities, M-commerce, Big Data and Fintech. Its current portfolio companies include Keep, the No.1 fitness training and community app in China, WonderFull, the emerging Japanese product M-commerce platform, Juzi, the leading entertainment news platform, Datawin, the leading big data company in sales leads generation, and Blued, the No.1 gay community app in China. Ventech China is dedicated to growing together with innovative startups and help them to become global leaders in their fields.

## Hugo Barra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Technology executive & investor

## BlackPine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Information Technology

BlackPine is a private investment firm. Their firm provides financing solutions to companies and asset owners with presence in Greater China. They target opportunities where they can take an active role in the business and co-operate with management to help develop strategies both domestically and abroad. Their approach to investing enables them toleverage their long term relationships with strategic partners and portfolio companies to source and manage deals. These relationships, together with their strong intermediary network allow them to maintain a close pulse to business activities in the region.

## White Star Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

## Eudaimonia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Eudaimonia Capital Pte. Ltd. is a seed stage investments firm.

## 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.

## Arete Capital Asia Limited
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: eSports, Lifestyle, Media and Entertainment

Arete Capital Asia is a Multi Family Office and Boutique Financial Advisory Firm. We are licensed by the Hong Kong SFC for Asset Management, Dealing in Securities and Advising on Securities. Our Directors have a combined total of 85 years’ experience working with individual and corporate clients in the financial markets.

## Innoangel Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Electronics

Innoangel Fund is an investment firm that invests in early stage companies.

## Beyond Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Health Care

A US$60M startup fund aiming at revitalizing HK’s ecosystem of innovation by connecting local venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to invest in ideas and startups. It is co-founded by Hony Capital, eGarden Ventures & several successful HK entrepreneur

## Meitu
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Xiamen, Fujian, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Beauty, Internet

Meitu offers free image and video apps for iOS and Android platforms.

## iiiNNO Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Pet, Medical, Health Care

iiiNNO mentors, accelerates, co-creates and invests in early-stage startup companies that demonstrate strong desires to create and scale disruptive business model in Asia.

## Kejora Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology

We are the catalyst for Asia’s brightest founders to build successful, high-growth leading companies across the region. Founded in 2014, Kejora is the leading venture capital firm that operates in the largest tech ecosystem in Southeast Asia. Since operating, Kejora has invested in over 35 startups in Asia and created more than 91,000 jobsglobally. We are continuously focused on investing, building, and growing highly scalable businesses.

## HZL Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: eSports, Lifestyle, Media and Entertainment

HZL Capital is a privately held investment company focused on early-stage TMT investments and capital advisory.

## Justin Waldron
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

## NGC Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

NGC Ventures has been investing in blockchain since 2017, with an investment thesis driven by infrastructure. We are an early-stage VC fund, among others, we invested early into Ziliqa, Solana, Avalanche, Filecoin. We have a global team of crypto natives that offers support and insights into token design, go-to-market and more.

## FIH Mobile
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Langfang, Hebei, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Consumer Electronics, Augmented Reality

FIH Mobile is a handset manufacturing and Integrator services company.

## The Aria Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Supply Chain Management, Travel, Logistics

Founded in 2013, Aria is a family office focused on investments in the digital asset and blockchain space

## PRYTEK
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Prytek is a technological infrastructure as a service group driven by AI. Prytek builds vertically integrated ecosystems by combining top tier managed service companies and leading proprietary technologies under one roof via a decentralized organizational structure. We build infrastructure, outsource operations and provide managed services forFinancial institutions, Universities, and Enterprises.
The group is divided into two arms: the Corporate Arm which comprises of controlled service companies and the Technology Arm which comprises of minority stakes in start-up tech companies. The goal of the Corporate Arm is to build businesses, while the Technology Arm’s goal is to develop products for the Corporate Arm and generate equity value for Prytek.

## Click Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Secondary Market
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Mobile

Click Ventures is a Seed to Series A venture capital firm investing in highly scalable technology startups across promising sectors.

## Vectr
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services

Vectr is a venture firm based in Hong Kong. They combine investment, creation and growth to deliver game-changing impact to teams ready to tackle global issues, transform industries and improve the lives of millions.That combines capital, creation and partnership to deliver game-changing impact. We strive to be the ideal partner for founders thatare building transformation products and looking to expand their businesses into asia.

## Kleiner Perkins
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

## Index Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

## Foxmont Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Makati, Manila, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Foxmont Capital Partners invest in Filipino-focused or Filipino-founded early stage technology startups that have proven that they can scale effectively and lead the Philippine digital evolution. Foxmont Capital Partners believe that if a Filipino startup can succeed in the Philippines, it can succeed anywhere.

## Daniel Schryer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Dan Schryer was formerly CEO of DCI Data Centers, a Blackstone backed technology real estate company. Together with Guru Gowrappan, formerly CEO of Verizon Media, he co-founded Bali Venture Partners, LLC to invest in seed and growth stage debt and equity opportunities.

## Yieldly
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: eSports, Lifestyle, Media and Entertainment

Yieldly is a protocol building the first dynamic suite of non-custodial smart contracts on Algorand, with a lossless lottery as the initial use case.is a protocol building the first dynamic suite of non-custodial smart contracts on Algorand, with a lossless lottery as the initial use case.

## C.Bob Lott
- Type: Angel
- Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Events, Sports, Cycling

C.Bob Lott

## Wensheng Cai
- Type: Angel
- Location: Xiamen, Fujian, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Communities

Cai Wensheng is the CEO of 265 Science and Technology.
Wensheng is notorious for using cyber squatting tactics to register thousands of domain names. He has reportedly made several million dollars as a result.
In 2003 he established Huayu Network Science and Technology and the 265 Network.

## ArkStream Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Read writing from ArkStream Capital on Medium. Crypto-native web3 venture fund. Accelerate the decentralization on ARK. Every day, ArkStream Capital and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium.

## Artesian VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

## CP Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

CP Ventures is a VC fund that invests internationally in early stage, highly scalable, breakthrough technology companies driven by the 4IR

## Ron Cao
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Mr. Ron Cao is a respected venture capitalist and the Founder and Partner of Sky9 capital. During his investment career across Silicon Valley and China, Ron has focused on investing in innovative and disruptive opportunities in consumer internet, industrial internet, enterprise services, deep tech and digital healthcare. He has invested in a numberof technology companies that have grown to become market leaders in their respective industries. Some of these investments include: Meituan/Dianping, PinDuoDuo, TuSimple, Energy Monster, Full Truck Alliance, FinVolution, QingCloud, FangDD, Innolight, Lianluo Interactive, MediaV (acquired by Qihoo), MetroWave (acquired by IPG Photonics), Opulan (acquired by Qualcomm), ShareWave (acquired by Cirrus Logic), Ainemo (acquired by Baidu), 51WORLD, ByteDance, eBroke, Tujia, Doctor Trust, YiAuto, Biren Technology, Starfield, NeoX and Xbiome.
Ron has over 20 years of venture capital experience. He was the Managing Director of Lightspeed Venture Partners and started Lightspeed’s China operations from scratch. Prior to Lightspeed, Ron was Managing Director of KLM Capital, where he led the company’s early-stage cross-border investments in Silicon Valley and China. Before entering the investment field, Ron started his career in the US with Motorola, Goldman Sachs and Intel.
Ron was named by Forbes China as one of the “Top Venture Capitalists of China” over multiple years. In 2013, Ron was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of its “Young Global Leaders” and served on the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and IT. Ron is actively involved with various philanthropic pursuits, especially in the areas of children’s education and impact investing. Ron has been involved on the boards of BEAM Alliance and Maitian Education Foundation.
Ron holds bachelor’s and master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Hana Digital Transformation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: eSports, Lifestyle, Media and Entertainment

Hana Digital Transformation Fund is an investment fund.

## JOINT JOURNEY
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Active investment firm that calling founders with a great product vision across diverse industries

## 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.

## Innozate
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Events, Sports, Cycling

Innozate is all about leading innovations in the age of Gen Z, with a strategic focus within the Greater Bay Area. We aim to partner with Gen Z innovators and entrepreneurs by providing capital investment, to business strategy consultation, to marketing communications support.

## Wistron Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Falcon Partners VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Cycling, Leisure

Falcon Partners is a leading private equity and venture capital investment firm licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) headquartered in Hong Kong with offices in Shenzhen and Shanghai. Founded by former investors at institutions such as Warburg Pincus, Apax Partners, Capital Group, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, Falcon partners withexceptional management teams to build enduring, category-defining businesses over the long-term by providing value-added capital and strategic support at all stages of the company’s development – from pre-seed to pre-IPO. Returns from our investments have reflected the success of this approach, with portfolio companies backed by Falcon at the pre-seed stage raising over US$500 million in follow on investments at unicorn valuations, and later-stage companies achieving rapid growth across Asia and attaining valuations well north of US$1 billion. Falcon primarily focuses on high impact innovation areas such as AI/machine learning, consumer, e-commerce, education, and pharma life-sciences in the China Greater Bay Area. See less

## MSA Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Biotechnology

MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.

## Token Bay Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Token Bay Capital is an early-stage venture fund that invests in digital assets and blockchain-related companies with a focus on Asia.

## P.A.C. Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: eSports, Lifestyle, Media and Entertainment

PAC Capital is a privately-owned, independent investment manager offering high-performing funds and tailored portfolios.

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