Top 50 Consumer Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023
Top 50 Consumer Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023
| Investor | Consumer Asia investments |
|---|---|
| Yusuke Sato | 6 |
| Edward Ismawan Chamdani | 6 |
| Ishara Yusdian | 6 |
| Yu Akasaka | 6 |
| Toivo Annus | 5 |
| Kotaro Chiba | 5 |
| Hirofumi Miki | 5 |
| Kotaro Chiba | 5 |
| Asif Keshodia | 4 |
| Ayataro Nakagawa | 4 |
| Hidetoshi Takano | 3 |
| Boon Hwee Koh | 3 |
| Kazuma Ieiri | 3 |
| Kazuhiro Ishikura | 3 |
| Aminur Rashid | 3 |
| Yat Siu | 2 |
| Tao Zhang | 2 |
| Youssef Salem | 2 |
| Hsien Yang Lee | 2 |
| Jun Lei | 2 |
| Sajid Rahman | 2 |
| Michael Cassau | 2 |
| Saad Saeed | 2 |
| Umar Saleem | 2 |
| Yuzuru Honda | 2 |
| Naoki Aoyagi | 2 |
| Shintaro Yamada | 2 |
| Rajan Anandan | 2 |
| Rajan Anandan | 2 |
| Michael Hansen | 2 |
| Darius Cheung | 2 |
| Xiaoguang Wu | 2 |
| Chryseis Tan | 2 |
| Keisuke Kogure | 2 |
| Mamoru Taniya | 2 |
| Takaya Shinozuka | 2 |
| Wen Wee Teng | 2 |
| Kenji Niwa | 2 |
| Toru Shimada | 2 |
| Shailesh Rao | 2 |
| Maximilian Bittner | 2 |
| Julian Farrior | 2 |
| Bingqiang Gao | 2 |
| Arun Gupta | 2 |
| Sung Ho Choi | 2 |
| Jonathan Price | 2 |
| Jacob Feng | 1 |
| Joel Neoh | 1 |
| Toshiro Wakimaru | 1 |
| Nate Matherson | 1 |
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Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder at Pulit.
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- Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, Indonesia, United States
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.
Managing and Founding Partner of Ideosource Venture Capital, an Indonesia focused venture capital firm dedicated on early-stage to later-stage investments.
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- Agriculture, Waste Management, Lifestyle
- Seed, Convertible Note, Debt Financing
- Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Foom — We are an Indonesian-based tech-enabled consumer product startup with mission to aid adult sm*krs move away from combustible sm*kng and encourage people to shift to safer way of consuming nic. No Hassle, No Worries! Switch Now!
- PasarMIKRO — PasarMIKRO, aplikasi perdagangan komoditas pertanian dan hasil laut. Solusi inovatif untuk petani, nelayan dan pedagang mikro indonesia!
- Gayo Capital — Investing Tomorrow's Winner
Investor | Storyologist | Builder
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- Agriculture, Waste Management, Lifestyle
- Seed, Convertible Note, Debt Financing
- Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Foom — We are an Indonesian-based tech-enabled consumer product startup with mission to aid adult sm*krs move away from combustible sm*kng and encourage people to shift to safer way of consuming nic. No Hassle, No Worries! Switch Now!
- PasarMIKRO — PasarMIKRO, aplikasi perdagangan komoditas pertanian dan hasil laut. Solusi inovatif untuk petani, nelayan dan pedagang mikro indonesia!
- Gayo Capital — Investing Tomorrow's Winner
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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- Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
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.
Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.
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- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Singapore, United States, Estonia
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.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Internet, Drones, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
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.
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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- Content, Marketing, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
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.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Internet, Content, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
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.
Asif Keshodia is an Angel Investor based in Dubai, UAE and the co-founder of Storfox.com. He is most notable for his work as the Group CFO of Souq.com, which was acquired by Amazon in a milestone deal for the Middle East tech sector. He joined Souq in 2011 as an early stage investor and raised over $400m to help it become the leading onlineretailer in the region. After its acquisition by Amazon in 2017, he took the role of MENA Regional Finance Director at Amazon. Asif has over 20 years of experience with some of the world’s biggest names, such as PwC, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, and Amazon, in countries around the world, including the UK, South Africa, Russia, and Pakistan. He is now using his decades of multinational corporate experience to help usher small startups to big success. He is dedicated to aiding young entrepreneurs launch their projects, with sights currently set on bolstering the e-commerce ecosystem in the MENA region and South Asia’s burgeoning market.In the recent past Asif has served on the Boards of Souq, Payfort.com, and Instashop.com, recently acquired by the Delivery Hero. He has also invested in a number of fledgling startups including Shipox, Clicky.pk, EzHire and Cartlow.comAsif is a graduate of the University of Karachi with a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce & Economics and a Chartered Accountant (FCA). In 2016, he was named Best Retail CFO of the MENA Region by renowned Middle Eastern publication, The CFO.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Kamel Pay — Looking for best payment method and safe corporate payment solutions in Dubai? Kamelpay provide leading business payment services in UAE
- CLICKY.PK — Clicky.pk offers the largest collection of trendy and affordable fashion and lifestyle products online. Clicky has the best online brand stores in Pakistan. Huge Collection of Jewellery, Handbags, Clutches, Sunglasses, Clothing, Nightwear & More!
- PriceOye — Priceoye is Pakistan's No.1 marketplace for buying original mobile phones and electronics. Priceoye is Pakistan's most trusted online store and offers the lowest prices every day.
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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- Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Hong Kong, United States
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.
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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- Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
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 .
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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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, China
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.
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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- Content, Fashion, Recruiting
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
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.
Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.
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- Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC Japan — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Aminur Rashid is a co-founder of Pickaboo.com.
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- Shopping, Cosmetics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- Pickaboo.com — Explore a wide range of authentic and quality products, including electronics, smartphones, cameras, kitchen appliances, mobile accessories and more. Get Official warranty, EMI facility and home delivery across Bangladesh.
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.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
- Gusto Collective — First brandtech group using the latest technology to help brands create content and experiences across the physical and virtual worlds.
- OneFootball — OneFootball covers over 100 international soccer leagues and competitions live and in incomparable detail.
Tao Zhang (张滔) is the Founder and CEO of Dianping.com, MBA from the Wharton School. Tao was consultant in an American IT company. After coming back to China in 2003, he founded Dianping.com, the world’s pioneer in offering consumer reviews for restaurant. After 5 years of development, dianping has over 460,000 registered companies in over 340cities across China. More than 10 million regular visitors and 160 million page views per month make it the most popular city life website in China. Dianping has established branches in 5 cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou and is still expanding. Currently its service involves various consumption areas in city life, such as restaurant, shopping, reaction and living service, etc. With a favorable business model, Dianping has more than once been considered one of the companies with the most investment value in China by Zero2IPO and China Venture. It also raised funding from global leading venture capital firms, for example, Sequoia Capital. Dianping recorded profit in November 2008 and become the first profitable Web 2.0 Company and a search website centered on city life.
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- Internet, Education, Payments
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- China, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Z-Trip — Z-Trip is a company that provides travel management services for large and medium-sized enterprises. On the basis of integration of upstream supply chain resources, Z-Trip provides a one-stop SaaS service platform covering scenarios such as travel reservations, conference organization, fee settlement, payment and reimbursement to enterprises,including front-end PC terminals, mobile terminals and back-end service systems.
- PalFish — PalFish provides an education platform for teachers to teach English in an open market. You can simply imagine PalFish as eBay, but the merchandise being sold are English Classes. They provide people who are fluent in English the opportunity to teach people who want to learn English in their free time, and thus, create a virtuous Englisheducation cycle.
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania — Welcome to The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Youssef Salem CFO at Swvl.
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- Grocery, Delivery, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
- PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.
- Hotdesk — Instant access to workspaces anywhere at your fingertips. Unlock your productivity and #GetThingsDone.
Hsien Yang Lee provides strategic counsel to GA and its portfolio companies in SE Asia.Mr. Lee served as Chairman and non-executive Director of Fraser and Neave, Limited, an Asia Pacific consumer group with core expertise and leading marketing positions in the food & beverage, properties, and publishing & printing industries fromOctober 2007 until February 2013. Prior to joining Fraser and Neave, Limited, Mr. Lee was the Group Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) from May 1995 until March 2007. Mr. Lee is currently Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, and Chairman of the Islamic Bank of Asia Private Limited (a DBS Bank subsidiary). Mr. Lee is also a director of the Singapore Exchange Limited, the Australian & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (ANZ) and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He serves on the International Advisory Boards of The Capital Group and Rolls Royce PLC, and is also President of the INSEAD South East Asia Council.Mr. Lee graduated with a double first in Engineering Science from Cambridge University, UK and has a Master of Science (Management) from Stanford University, USA.
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- Consumer Goods, Food Processing, Service Industry
- Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- NOD inc — NOD is a healthy beverage solutions company based in Shanghai. It is a brand born in China with global ambitions, driven by a team with a proven blend of in-depth China and international expertise in the beverage sector.
Jun Lei is the Co-Founder, Founding Partner, and Chairman at Shunwei.
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- E-Commerce, Mobile, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MarketX — MarketX is a one-stop shop for over 300 family offices, funds, and high net worth individuals to access high growth investment opportunities. Investment Management Platform Access to investment opportunities in high-growth companies all over the world from your smartphone.
- WITHWHEAT — WITHWHEAT is a bread baking brand in China that provides healthy and tasty bread.
- Dongpin Zaixian — Dongpin Zaixian is a B2B e-commerce platform focusing on the frozen food supply chain. By adopting mobile internet technology and innovative business model, the company relies on the feedback of user terminal's demand, establishes a data model, and re-creates the effective flow of information flow, capital flow and logistics generated in thetraditional circulation process of frozen products, improves circulation efficiency, and creates “ The Internet innovation platform of light platform, short process and fast mode, the company innovatively established the Frozen Fruit Research Institute, integrates the supply chain resources of brand manufacturers according to big data and research results, and provides platform Saas services for traditional wholesalers in more cities. Supply chain services, financial services.
Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
- EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
Michael Cassau founded his company Grover with a simple goal in mind: give people more freedom and help them derive more value by offering a flexible and affordable way of accessing technology. Built on a circular economy business model, Grover makes the most out of the lifecycle of tech products, reduces waste, and brings the philosophy of accessover ownership to the huge consumer electronics market. Michael has a background as an Investment Professional at Goldman Sachs and is fascinated by the intersection of retail and finance. He is motivated by a personal conviction that there must be a flexible and efficient way to access consumer goods.
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- E-Commerce, Real Estate, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Series A
- Germany, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Urbyo — Urbyo is a make possible for more people to buy real estate. And to do so quickly, transparently, and conveniently.
- Reebelo — Reebelo is APAC’s leading marketplace for pre-loved tech devices. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for refurbished electronics. While doing so, we enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands and flexibly rent devices instead of buying them. Reebelo is based in Singapore with additional offices inAustralia, New Zeland & Malaysia. Get in touch if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
Saad Saeed is a Founder at Stealth Mode.
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- Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods
- Pre-Seed
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
Umar Saleem, SWVL.
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- Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods
- Pre-Seed
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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- SNS, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
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
Naoki Aoyagi is a Senior Vice President at GREE, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of GREE International, Inc. He joined GREE, Inc. in March 2006 from Deutsche Bank, where he had specialized in tech and media sector IPOs and M&A advisory work. At GREE, Aoyagi oversaw the Company's partnership with KDDI and its IPO before leading thedevelopment of GREE’s global operations, a role he continues today. Aoyagi earned a bachelor's degree in policy management from Keio University in 2002.
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- Internet, Fashion, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
- Parallel — Parallel Inc. develops a parallel SNS which can be used while playing games on smartphones.
- Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.
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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- Internet, Finance, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan, United States, Kenya
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
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
- Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
- PlusPin Healthcare — Let us provide you with high-quality care!
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
- Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
- PlusPin Healthcare — Let us provide you with high-quality care!
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.
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- Software, Art, SaaS
- Seed
- Germany, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- ChartMogul — SaaS & subscription reporting, analytics & metrics for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and PayPal. In one click get your MRR, LTV, churn rate, cohort analysis and more.
- Soundbrenner — Innovative music tools that remove the hassle from your practice. Master your craft with the Core, Pulse or our app The Metronome.
Darius Cheung is co-founder of BillPin and CEO/co-founder of McAfee-acquired tenCube.
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- Apps, Mobile, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States
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- 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.
Xiaoguang Wu was named Senior Management Adviser in June 2015. He joined Tencent in 1999 and was a member of the founding team. Xiaoguang Wu led the development and product planning for the Group’s core product, QQ, and served as project manager for the QQ research and development team. He also served as General Manager of the IM product divisionand General Manager of the internet business division. He was later promoted to Senior Executive Vice President of the internet services division and Chief Executive Officer of Tencent E-Commerce Holdings Limited. Xiaoguang Wu has extensive experience in product research and development, product planning, product operations and marketing internet businesses. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Weather Dynamics from Nanjing University in 1996 and an EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in 2008.
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- Software, Service Industry, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- China
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- DayDayUp — DayDayUp is a business community that connects Chinese and global innovators.
- Feipotong — Feipotong is a nationwide service company that focuses on airport parking.
- Waterdrop — Waterdrop is an insurance platform that plans to solve the problem of high medical fees faced by most patients, especially those with a critical illness. Shuidihuzhu offers three products: mutual insurance, crowdfunding and commercial insurance. All their services are conducted through the platform’s official WeChat account, where users could postcrowdfunding campaigns, buy insurances, or claim indemnities according to their policies.
Ms. Chryseis Tan serves as Director at Cardiff Asset Limited.
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- Apps, Beauty, Fashion
- Seed, Series A
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Goxip Inc — Goxip is ultimate destination for searching, discovering and purchasing any fashion and beauty products.By partnering with over 500 international online retailers, Goxip’s database covers more than 36,000 luxury brands and 5 million items. Being the biggest fashion and beauty ecommerce platform, can simply search with text, categories or evenimages to find ideal items.They are super connector between content and ecommerce sites. Whatever see and inspires , Goxip is here to help bring home that piece of fashion cannot live without.Discover trends, find inspiration and share own styles with the Goxip community of fashionistas.Snap. Shop. Wear.
Keisuke Kogure - General Partner @ TLM
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- Beauty, Women's, Wellness
- Seed, Angel
- Japan
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- Mederi — Mederi is a FemTech company that operates Ubu, a women's wellness brand.
- Requpo — Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.
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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- Apps, Content, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore, Spain
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- 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.
Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.
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- Internet, Local, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan
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- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Wen Wee Teng is the Founder and Managing Partner at The Lo & Behold Group. Wen Wee Teng attended the University of Pennsylvania.
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- E-Commerce, Web Development, Internet of Things
- Seed, Series A
- Singapore
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- 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.
- For the Love of Laundry — The only dry cleaning and laundry company in Singapore to clean purely with GreenEarth and toxin-free technology.
Founder CEO at Firstcard. Entrepreneur and Investor.
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- Information Technology, Subscription Service, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Cloosiv — Cloosiv is an ordering platform that allows users to order in advance from their favorite coffee shop, skip the queue, and get rewards from the platform to save time and money.
- StaffAny — Workforce management software connecting Operations and HR for seamless scheduling and time tracking.
- Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
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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- Task Management, Manufacturing, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
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- 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.
Shailesh Rao
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, United States
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- Khabri — Khabri is a digital audio platform for content in vernacular. Ita app allows content creators to create channels and programmes that reach vernacular listeners. Aankit Roy, Pulkit Sharma, and Sandeep Singh launched the company in Haryana, Haryana in 2016.
- Neosec — Neosec API software is the intelligent way to protect your APIs from business abuse and data theft. Try our API Security platform now.
- AttainU — Secure Your Career With AttainU's Online Courses with Placement Guarantee | No Prior Background/Experience Required | Live-Online Interactive Classes for Placement Guarantee Courses by Domain Experts | Click to Learn More.
Max is part of the executive team of Lazada.com, a leading regional online department store founded by Rocket Internet in Southeast Asia. As CEO, Max is responsible for the performance of all 5 operating countries as well as overseeing regional buying.Max started his career at Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking division in London. Followinghis MBA, he joined McKinsey & Company in Germany. Over these 4 years at the firm, Max worked largely with Media and Retail clients as a consultant. During his time at McKinsey, he also joined the private equity firm 3i plc for 6 months on a secondment.Max initially joined Rocket Internet in Germany as a regional partner before taking on the role of CEO at Lazada.Max holds a bachelor degree of economics and history from University College London and a MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management in Chicago
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- E-Commerce, Logistics, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- Singapore, France, Germany
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- Lummo — BukuKas merupakan aplikasi keuangan usaha GRATIS yang telah digunakan oleh lebih dari 5 juta UMKM yang tersebar di 750 kota di Indonesia.
- Reebelo — Reebelo is APAC’s leading marketplace for pre-loved tech devices. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for refurbished electronics. While doing so, we enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands and flexibly rent devices instead of buying them. Reebelo is based in Singapore with additional offices inAustralia, New Zeland & Malaysia. Get in touch if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
- Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.
Julian Farrior
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- Mobile, Film, Comics
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
- Instawork — Instawork connects local businesses with proven hourly workers for temp, temp-to-hire shift work.
- Graphic India — Graphic India Pte. Ltd. is a character entertainment company focused on creating leading characters, comics and stories through mobile and digital platforms. Founded by media entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman, Graphic India is owned by U.S. comic book Company, Liquid Comics and CA Media LP, the Asian investmentarm of The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG). The company’s partners and investors bring together decades of experience in building businesses in character entertainment, media and India. Graphic believes that India is home to some of the most creative talent in the world, with more than 500 million people under the age of 25 and more than 850 million mobile phone users in the country. The Company’s mission is to create enduring stories and heroes that foster the imaginations and fuel the inspirations of a new globalized generation of youth in both India and around the world. Graphic’s stories include, Ramayan 3392A.D., The Leaves and The Sadhu, in development as Hollywood films; 18 Days, a reimagining of the great eastern epic, the Mahabharata, by acclaimed graphic novel creator, Grant Morrison which was launched as an animated digital series in partnership with YouTube India; Devi, a female superhero from acclaimed filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur; Chakra The Invincible, the first superhero for India from legendary creator Stan Lee; and numerous other heroes and stories.
Bingqiang Gao is the Independent Non-Executive Director of Q Tech.
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- Hardware, Coffee, Gaming
- Seed, Angel
- China, United States
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- Z·Pilot — ZPilot is a stylish electronic new retail brand that combines contemporary toys and digital art to present viewers with a deeper visual.
- Insep Technology — Insep Technology is an insect protein technology and product developer.
- Changyao Innovation — Changyao Innovation is a cutting-edge technological company. It provides intelligent robots to families. The current first-generation devices emphasize automating the entire grass management process. The main focus is on robotic lawnmowers with a vision-based full process.
Arun Gupta, the Founder and CEO of MoMAGIC is a technology veteran turned first generation serial entrepreneur, with 25+ years of experience and multiple patents to his credit, while donning the hat of Director MediaTek, for close to a decade. Arun Gupta is credited with being the architect of the 1st version of MediaTek handset MMI.
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- Shopping, Cosmetics, E-Commerce
- Seed
- India, Bangladesh
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- Deciwood — Experience high quality sound, extended bass and your design with Deciwood Portable Bluetooth Speakers.We craft affordable, customisable speakers on etched wood
- Pickaboo.com — Explore a wide range of authentic and quality products, including electronics, smartphones, cameras, kitchen appliances, mobile accessories and more. Get Official warranty, EMI facility and home delivery across Bangladesh.
Sung Ho C. is the Managing Director at Fubo Gaming. He attended University of Chicago.
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- Apps, Music, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Pakistan
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- Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
- Hang — Launch NFT memberships that unlock perks, benefits, and status for your community. Hang gives brands the power of web3 through its NFT-based membership platform.
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
Jonathan Price is Cofounder, Chief Commercial Officer at Virtual Incentives.
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- Fashion, E-Commerce, Women's
- Series A
- Thailand, Singapore
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- Pomelo Fashion — Shop the latest fashion at POMELO fashion. Designed and manufactured in house for quality and style. Dresses, tops, knits, jackets, denim, accessories and more!
- Pixibo — Fashion's most accurate size recommendation solution
Jacob Feng - CEO and Founder @ ArtPlay
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- Consumer, Internet, Education
- Angel
- China
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- AiBook Digital Technology — AiBook Digital Technology is a book lending Internet O2O platform.
Joel Neoh is the Founder and CEO of Fave. He attended Monash University.
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- Apps, Mobile, Wellness
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Malaysia, Hong Kong
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- KFit — KFit gets you into the best fitness studios, classes and gyms in your city. Get access to unlimited group fitness classes and activities with just one monthly membership. Transform your workouts.Never get bored. Discover new ways to move. Take as many classes per month as you’d like. Try a different studio everyday. It’s time to work out the wayyou want to.
- Ejen2u — Platform Sistem Pengurusan Ejen paling Komprehensif
- ULive — Live Commerce Enabler for Social Media Live Sellers.
Toshiro “Tosh” Wakimaru is the Chief Operating Officer of MedPeer, Inc. , Tokyo, Japan since May 2010. Medpeer is the “Medical Doctor Exclusive” SNS in Japan that has just successfully gone to the market in 2014.Prior to the current job, Tosh had been actively working for Price Waterhouse Consulting, Japan LLP (now IBM Japan, Ltd.) aftergraduating from the Boston University School of Management in 1996. While there he completed numerous projects in corporate strategy, operation improvement, and new business development focusing on the retail, service, and healthcare industries with a secondment to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
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- Task Management, Food and Beverage, SNS
- Seed, Funding Round
- Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
- Clear — Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE".
- Cub McPaws — Buy comfortably fashionable kids clothes (4 - 12 years) online in India from Cub Mcpaws at best prices. Gorgeous dresses, jumpsuits, t-shirts, shirts & bottom wear for boys and girls | Free Shipping | COD
- Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
Nate Matherson is the Co-founder/CEO of ContainIQ. ContainIQ is a software platform to monitor, optimize, and maintain kubernetes clusters.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Dropezy — A daily needs platform that uses a network of dark stores to guarantee deliveries in under 20 minutes.
- Flat.mx — Flat.mx is a property tech startup that that simplifies the process of buying or selling a home, with a deep layer of technology and data.With Flat.mx, sellers can sell their homes for a fair price in a matter of days, and move-in to a new apartment effortlessly. For buyers, Flat.mx assures the conditions of the property, a fair purchase price,and a seamless buying experience.Bernardo Cordero and Victor Noguera founded it in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
- R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
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