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Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Edtech startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023

Investor EdTech Asia investments
Edward Ismawan Chamdani 5
Ishara Yusdian 5
Boon Hwee Koh 4
Kotaro Chiba 3
Quek Siu Rui 3
Robert Huang 3
Minhong Yu 3
Mohammad Maaz 3
Kotaro Chiba 3
Yinan Li 2
Tatsuo Sakamoto 2
Amrish Rau 2
Nikhil Kamath 2
Kevin Lin 2
Eric Feldman 2
Kiyoshi Ayabe 2
Tiger Fang 2
Francis Plaza 2
Darius Cheung 2
Keisuke Honda 2
Nobuhiro Ariyasu 2
Jitendra Gupta 2
Hidetoshi Takano 2
Rohit Bansal 2
Bob Xiaoping Xu 2
Shintaro Yamada 2
Allen Penn 2
Shiyan Koh 2
Martin Li 2
Marcus Tan Yi Wei 2
Mamoru Taniya 2
Michael Hansen 2
Kunal Bahl 2
Narita Shuzo 2
Jack Conte 2
John Danner 2
Stanley Tang 2
Jefferson Chen 2
Hendra Kwik 2
Tim Lee 2
Gang Wang 1
Hideto Fujino 1
Neal Cross 1
Khurram Lalani 1
Yoshitsune Ido 1
Hikaru Kashida 1
Qiangdong Liu 1
Julian Shapiro 1
Yamamoto Kento 1
Gang Wang 1

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Edward Ismawan Chamdani
Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Ishara Yusdian
Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Investor | Storyologist | Builder

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Boon Hwee Koh
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Quek Siu Rui
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Education, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

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

Mr. Huang founded SYNNEX in 1980 and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Prior to this, Mr. Huang was the International Sales Manager at Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Huang holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kyushyu University, Japan, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.S. inManagement Science from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

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Investment focus

  • Education, E-Learning, Language Learning
  • Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Polyglots — POLYGLOTS designs and develops English news-reader mobile applications. It helps its application users learn English while reading news updates.POLYGLOTS is a development and operation of the English learning application "POLYGLOTS", the Japanese learning application "MONDO", and the finance / accounting specializedlearning application "Bigo", and the development and provision of an adaptive learning platform.
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Minhong Yu
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China

Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was anEnglish instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Social Media, Mobile
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • China

Portfolio highlights

  • Bottomsup — Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content.
  • Kuaipeilian — Kuaipeilian is an online piano training platform
  • Pingo Space — Pingo Space is a mobile platform that connects locals to expats through in-person experiences.
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Mohammad Maaz
Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Mohammad Maaz

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Investment focus

  • Payments, Information Technology, EdTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Bangladesh, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Yinan Li
Angel

Yinan Li is a partner at Plum Ventures and is known for being the founder of luxury electric bike maker Niu Technologies Group.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Tutoring, Education
  • Seed, Angel
  • China

Portfolio highlights

  • EHello Online Education — EHello Online Education company is located in Nanjing, China. We are dedicated to connecting foreign people from all over the world with Chinese people through SKYPE and QQ.
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel

Tatsuo Sakamoto

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Investment focus

  • Education, Task Management, Recruiting
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
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Amrish Rau
Angel · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
  • OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
  • CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
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Nikhil Kamath
Angel · Bangalore, Karnataka, India · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Nikhil Kamath is the Co-Founder of Zerodha & True Beacon. He previously worked at Kamath Associates as a Partner.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Internet, Marketing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series F
  • India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Nas Company (Formerly Nas Academy) — 10x Your Social Media Reach in 5 Months with Nas Academy Creator Accelerator Program
  • Nourish You — Get homegrown organic tasty snacks, breakfast, nut mixes and meal mixes at Nourish You. Buy super foods online with 15% off on your first order above Rs.199.
  • Mainstreet — Browse through our vast collection of premium streetwear like sneakers, apparel & accessories. Mainstreet is India's premiere hype outlet for all sneaker-heads out there!
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Kevin Lin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months

Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
  • Blacktop Hoops — Blacktop Hoops is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game. Chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI opponents or players across the globe in epic streetball matches.
  • Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
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Eric Feldman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Eric Feldman is the Co-Founder of Eco.

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Investment focus

  • E-Learning, Security, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • SphereOne — The SphereOne platform eliminates the complexity of Web3, making onboarding a breeze for players with no prior experience.
  • Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
  • Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
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Kiyoshi Ayabe
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kiyoshi Ayabe is the President and Founder of KIYO Learning.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Education, E-Learning
  • Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • KIYO Learning — KIYO Learning offers a commuting course, an online course to acquire qualifications for business people.
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Tiger Fang
Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Tiger Fang is Co-Founder and CEO at Kargo Technologies. Before Cargo, Tiger had successfully led various technology companies. He is general manager at Uber Indonesia and China, and managing director at Lazada Thailand.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Logistics, Accounting
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Singapore, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

  • Trukkr — Trukkr is Pakistan's First and Largest Online Logistics Platform. They make the process of booking commercial cargo fast by linking a shipper with transporters over a secure, intuitive and powerful platform. We ensure that shippers have complete transparency in price discovery, visibility, flexibility, and choice while at the same time givetransporters easy access to more jobs, whenever they want them. Founded in 2019, Trukkr is committed to reinventing the old school trucking industry in Pakistan by making it easier for millions of truckers to book a load and move at capacity, while ensuring shippers have access to the right truck, at the right time.
  • Bunker — Bunker is a financial analytics platform that provides modern executives deep visibility of their numbers. Bunker provides intuitive financial dashboards and monthly reports.
  • Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
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Francis Plaza
Angel · Makati, Manila, Philippines

Francis Plaza currently works as an Advisor to the Boards for PayMongo. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Software, Gaming
  • Pre-Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Philippines, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • AcadArena — AcadArena is the home of campus gaming in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Join tournaments, earn esports scholarships and meet new friends all for free!
  • Gretel.co — The feed that generates automated insights from your marketing apps. Connect your apps with 1 click and receive alerts for changes in your campaigns, customer behavior, and performance.
  • NextPay — Receive, manage, and spend your company's finances on a single platform. Save time and costs with a digital financial suite built to empower growing businesses.
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Darius Cheung
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

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

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Mobile, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
  • Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
  • Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
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Keisuke Honda
Angel · Chuo, Hokkaido, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Blockchain, E-Learning
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
  • Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Internet, Finance
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
  • Seibii, Inc. — Transforming traditional car maintenance, repair, after-parts installation, road service industry of Japan by leveraging Technology.
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Jitendra Gupta
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

  • 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 .
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Rohit Bansal
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal

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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • BlueLearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
  • Powerplay — Powerplay is India's 1st collaboration app built for construction companies that helps teams work together on infrastructure projects easily.
  • Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
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Bob Xiaoping Xu
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China

Bob Xiaoping Xu is the founder of ZhenFund and one of China's most celebrated angel investors. Established in 2011 as a joint fund with Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund is China’s foremost angel fund. Managing USD 600 million, ZhenFund has 500 portfolio companies and offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Palo Alto. It has played a leading role inChina’s rise as a “startup nation”, and is widely considered a beacon of light in China’s vibrant startup environment. Prior to founding ZhenFund, Mr. Xu co-founded China's largest private English training and test preparation group, New Oriental Education, along with Michael Yu and Victor Wang. New Oriental became listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006 and currently has a market cap of USD 11 billion. The founders’ endeavors, which helped drive Chinese education toward a new global era, was featured in the box office hit “American Dreams in China”. The movie ranked as the #3 Chinese domestic box office hit in 2013. Mr. Xu’s success as an educator and an entrepreneur led him to angel investing, where he has pioneered a unique investment philosophy of investing in exceptional people. He became one of the most prolific patrons of entrepreneurship, as well as a leading mentor to young business leaders. Forbes Magazine has honored him on the Midas List as one of the World’s Top 100 Venture Capital Investors for two consecutive years (2016 and 2017). Mr. Xu currently serves as the Chairman of China Angel Investment Association. Mr. Xu has more than 11 million followers on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. He is also a prolific author who has published seven books on career growth and education. His writings, speeches and interviews on entrepreneurship, investment and education have had an immense impact on China’s emerging business leaders, and particularly on those who have studied abroad. He is the president of Committee 2005, an institution that gathers the most influential Chinese overseas returnees, including the likes of Robin Li, Neil Shen and Lee Kai-fu. Mr. Xu is deeply committed to philanthropy. He is a founding donor and the Committee Acting President of the Future Science Award, an annual award of USD 1 million for scientists who have made significant contributions to life sciences and physical sciences in Greater China. Mr. Xu graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, the Chinese equivalent of Julliard School of Music, with a bachelor’s degree in music. He received his master’s degree in music from the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to that he was a counsellor at Peking University for five years.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Series A, Angel, Series B
  • China, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • YOTA — YOTA provides a healthy and diet food delivery service.
  • Lagou — Lagou.com offers staffing services. The company’s clientele includes Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Group, SINA, JD.com, Beijing Xiaomi Tech, and Zhaopin.com.
  • Omni Prime — Omni Prime provides Lending as a Service solution to retailers.
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Allen Penn
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong

Allen Penn is an Advisor at GV .He attended Miami University.

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Education, E-Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Kyt — Kyt is an early-stage EdTech startup building a world-class online-first academy for extra-curricular courses, designed by the best instructors from around the world and offering individual and small group live classes for ages 5 to 15 years.They believe that interests and hobbies aren’t just extra – they are essential to all-round development.Nurturing interests outside the world of academia equips children with essential life skills. Plus, access to reputable institutions and respected teachers paves the way for a life-long love for learning.They want the children who sign up for classes to find something that interests them and wish to pursue whole-heartedly.Kyt is backed by Asia's marquee venture capital and industry veterans, that have just embarked on this journey and are excited to change how a child learns.
  • OnLoop Pte. Ltd — The mobile-first feedback and goal sharing platform purpose built for the modern team. Leave clunky, hated enterprise tools in the pre-hybrid past and choose Collaborative Team Development instead.
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Shiyan Koh
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Shiyan leads NerdWallet's Personal Financial Management products. Before NerdWallet, she was an investment professional at Bridgewater Associates.Shiyan was also a Senior Investment Associate at Institutional Venture Partners, and began her career as an Investment Banking Analyst at JPMorgan, serving technology and healthcare clients.She is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Kenya, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

  • AcadArena — AcadArena is the home of campus gaming in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Join tournaments, earn esports scholarships and meet new friends all for free!
  • Tripitaca — Tripitaca provides digitizing travel businesses services. They also provide financial support, hospitality, digital storefronts, BNPL services, travel package, and fintech technology services.
  • Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
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Martin Li
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong

Entrepreneur and Investor based in Hong Kong. Attended Questrom School of Business, Boston University.

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Investment focus

  • Transportation, Logistics, Freight Service
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

  • Kyt — Kyt is an early-stage EdTech startup building a world-class online-first academy for extra-curricular courses, designed by the best instructors from around the world and offering individual and small group live classes for ages 5 to 15 years.They believe that interests and hobbies aren’t just extra – they are essential to all-round development.Nurturing interests outside the world of academia equips children with essential life skills. Plus, access to reputable institutions and respected teachers paves the way for a life-long love for learning.They want the children who sign up for classes to find something that interests them and wish to pursue whole-heartedly.Kyt is backed by Asia's marquee venture capital and industry veterans, that have just embarked on this journey and are excited to change how a child learns.
  • Sinoiov — SINOIOV is a data technology company that takes data as its core and uses artificial intelligence technology to help the road freight industry reduce costs and increase efficiency and provide comprehensive services for the road freight industry. Up to now, the company has accumulated rich experience in commercial vehicle networking operationmanagement and service, and has established national vehicle networking industrial bases in Beijing and Chongqing, with more than 40 provincial branches covering the whole country
  • Kargo Technologies — Kargo adalah layanan logistik online yang menyediakan solusi pengiriman barang yang mudah, cepat, dan terpercaya. Temukan layanan yang dapat diandalkan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pengiriman Anda.
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Marcus Tan Yi Wei
Angel

Marcus Tan Yi Wei - Co-founder @ Carousell

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Software, Wellness
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • MindFi — MindFi is an employee mental health and well-being app delivering personalized self-care recommendations, support, and behavioral coaches. MindFi enables people to achieve peak mental performance.
  • Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong

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

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Content, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kunal Bahl
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Kunal is the co-founder and CEO of Snapdeal Private Limited, India's largest no-frills, value focused marketplace. Previously, he has also worked at companies such as Deloitte Consulting and Microsoft in the US. Kunal is an engineer from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a business degree from The Wharton School. He loves backpackingthrough remote parts of the world, savoring unique cuisines and studying development politics in India.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • TyrePlex — Buy car and bike tyres. Best tyre price, features, reviews. Find right tyre size and tyre dealer details
  • BlueLearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
  • Powerplay — Powerplay is India's 1st collaboration app built for construction companies that helps teams work together on infrastructure projects easily.
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Narita Shuzo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Task Management, Media and Entertainment, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • MiL Inc — Emerging products for healthcare food brands Producing food retailing and wholesale recipe development Restaurant management Catering media operation.
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Jack Conte
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Jack Conte is the Co-Founder and CEO of Patreon. He attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, E-Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Creator Now — film school, reimagined for creators
  • Nas Company (Formerly Nas Academy) — 10x Your Social Media Reach in 5 Months with Nas Academy Creator Accelerator Program
  • Twelve Labs — Twelve Labs helps developers make programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do by giving them the most powerful video search API
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John Danner
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

John Danner is an Angel Investor at Danner Capital. Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute from 2021 - to 2022.

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Investment focus

  • Education, EdTech, E-Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Geniebook — Focused and Effective - Learning is more effective as Geniebook is powered by A.I. to focus your time & attention on mastering the areas you find challenging.Champion Progress - Geniebook encourages better academic performance by giving you greater visibility into learning progress & rewarding it.Empowered & Confident - WithGeniebook, everyone can confidently master any area of learning, anytime, anywhere.
  • Stoa — StoaMBA helps young professionals get into business roles at India's high-growth startups. Learn from top founders and 10x your career in just 6-months. Our program...
  • Odyssey — Odyssey connects families with states to get access to funding from states to use with approved vendors to customize education for children who need it most.
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Stanley Tang
Angel · Stanford, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Stanley Tang is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at DoorDash. He attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Finance, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Honey Homes — Hassle-free Home Upkeep
  • Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.
  • The Coterie — https://blog.thecoterie.co/introducing-the-coterie-34e739cb85dcThe Coterie builds financial software for people who may make more from assets than salary. We offer founders access to venture capital investments, estate planning strategies and, coming soon, lending products. Our founders—Ethan Agarwal, Jeson Patel, and ChrisBoies—have all founded and sold companies before. We built The Coterie, alongside our incredible team, because we saw the need for these products first hand, and we created the world we want to live in. We’ve raised $50M in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Garry Tan (Midas List), Gokul Rajaram (IFKYK), Mar Hershenson (Midas List), Stanley Tang (Doordash co-founder), and more. Loans are made by Coterie Finance LLCLoans are made by Coterie Finance LLC. Investment advisory services provided through The Coterie Management Co LLC. Not investing advice, no guarantee of future results.
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Jefferson Chen
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China

Jefferson Lanjie Chen is the Co-Founder, Group Chairman & CEO at Advance Intelligence Group.

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Investment focus

  • Shoes, Fashion, FinTech
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • Novelship — Novelship is Asia's fastest growing marketplace for limited edition sneakers, apparel and collectibles from the world's most exclusive brands including Jordan, Yeezy, Supreme and more!
  • SkorLife — Download Skorlife App now and check your credit score online for free! Take control, own, and see how Banks see your data only in a matter of seconds.
  • Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
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Hendra Kwik
Angel · Bandung, Jawa Barat, Indonesia

Hendra Kwik is the Co-Founder of PAYFAZZ.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
  • Indonesia, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

  • UpBanx — Upbanx helps to manage money, get financing, grow commercial partnerships, launch digital assets and raise investments.
  • Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
  • DELOS — Leading the Indonesia Blue Revolution. We are at the forefront of aquaculture shrimp farming & sustainable lobster fishing industry.
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Tim Lee
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Timothy Lee, Former Sequoia Partner.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Wellness, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • Sirka — Aplikasi Diet Online. Sehat Bersama Ahli Gizi Bersertifikasi
  • Arta Finance — Arta Finance is a network of innovators, researchers, finance specialists, and business executives who help people get the most of their finances. Arta offers access to financial opportunities that help people to plan and enjoy their financial future but with less complexity and lower fees. It was founded by Caesar Sengupta.
  • Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
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Gang Wang
Angel · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Gang Wang

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation
  • Series A, Angel, Seed
  • China, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos

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Investment focus

  • Reservations, Travel, Real Estate
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
  • Address Japan — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
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Neal Cross
Angel · Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Neal Cross is a globally recognized corporate, social and start-up entrepreneur with a long track record across blue-chip technology, finance and data companies. He is currently co-founder and chairman of PictureWealth, one of the world’s fastest growing wealth fintech companies and serves on the advisory board of Razer Fintech. Prior to this,Cross was the Chief Innovation Officer at DBS Bank, where in his tenure he drove their transformation into a global innovation powerhouse culminating in achieving the world’s best Digital Bank 2016 and 2018 and worlds best bank 3 times across 2018 and 2019. He has personally been awarded the world’s most disruptive CIO/CTO globally from judges Sir Richard Branson and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and is a regular winner of best innovation lab and innovation leader awards. His early life as a game developer has left him with a passion for gaming and the realisation that software should be engaging and rewarding. To this end Cross is passionate about solving problems in an elegant manner and deploys world class programs to engage the entire work force in the business of innovation. Cross has advised hundreds of the major brands in Asia and is a trusted adviser to several leading CEO’s, government agencies and start-ups. In his spare time, he has built social enterprises to help save the endangered orangutans and coral reefs in Sumatra. and due to this was recently listed in The Meaningful Business 100 which focuses on the individual, cutting through the corporate messaging to uncover which leaders are driving truly impactful, purpose-led business to align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Finance, Education
  • Seed
  • Philippines

Portfolio highlights

  • Future Penny — Future Penny is a robo-advice platform that advises users how to plan their financial lives. It provides information across a broad range of areas including budgeting, superannuation, insurance, estate planning, and investments.Future Penny is expected to create a big opportunity for banks to consider how they can provide online advice to notonly their customers but also directly to their employees.
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Khurram Lalani
Angel

Khurram Lalani - Consultant @ Asian Development Bank

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Investment focus

  • Training, Marketplace, Professional Services
  • Seed
  • Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

  • Consuldents — Consuldents aims to create a marketplace community for leading students and organizations to list, discover, and execute short term consultancy assignments in wide array of technical fields ranging from engineering to business and public policy.Whether working on a next drone program for a startup, textile designing assignment for a smallenterprise or an R&D effort for a large multinational organization, Consuldents provide fast and secure way to collaborate on cutting edge assignments. With a commitment to world-class customer service and an ease of collaboration at a secure platform, Consuldents is the easiest way for students to gain valuable experience while working with the real pros of industry.Consuldents was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Islamabad, Punjab.
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Yoshitsune Ido
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Yoshitsune Ido

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Investment focus

  • Robotics, Software, Education
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • BionicM — BionicM develops high-performance robot prostheses that enhance mobility for people with disabilities.BionicM has been conducting research on innovative technologies since 2015 at the University of Tokyo's Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (JSK) under the guidance of Professor Inaba and utilizing the world's most advancedrobotics research. In 2016, we were adopted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency as part of "Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology" (START), and in 2018, the company was established as a joint-stock company.
  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
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Hikaru Kashida
Angel

Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Consulting, E-Learning, Communities
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
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Qiangdong Liu
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China

Richard Qiangdong Liu is the founder of JD.com (NASDAQ: JD) and has been their chairman and chief executive officer since the company’s inception. Born in a small rural village and raised in relative poverty, Liu’s commitment to operating his business with honesty and integrity has seen it grow from a tiny stall in a shopping bazaar to the thirdlargest retail company globally by revenue. The company reported an annual revenue of $82.9 billion for 2019, and while Liu’s net worth himself is estimated to be upwards of $12.7 billion he remains humble -- when Fortune magazine identified him as one of their “World’s Greatest Leaders” they singled him out as having “few of the trappings of a celebrity CEO.” With heavy investments in technology such as AI, big data, and drones, Liu’s vision for the future of his company is one that continues to break the mold of traditional retail and ecommerce businesses while staying true to its roots in customer loyalty and trust.Liu was born and raised in a village called Chang’an in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu, China. A part of the Suqian prefecture-level city system in the northern area of the province, Liu’s family had been forcibly resettled there after the rise of communism in the late 1940’s. In fact, prior to the revolution his family had been wealthy shipowners who transported goods along the Yangtze river and the ancient imperial canal from Beijing in the north to Hangzhou in the south. However, by the time Liu was born his parents were poor farmers, struggling to make ends meet and support both him and his grandparents who lived with them. Although Liu was born in the 1970’s, his village still lacked the modern day conveniences that were readily available in other parts of the country such as running water, electricity, and even paved roads. Nutritious food was also scarce, and from June to September they had access to corn which they would stretch to make meals such as cornmeal porridge, corn pancakes, and dry cornbread, all of which were so tough that Liu has said they could make your throat bleed. The rest of the year the family would eat sweet potato, either boiled, formed into pancakes, or dried. In his final year of secondary school, Liu applied to universities located in Shanghai and Beijing, believing only large cities would give him the platform he needed to do more and see more. He excelled in the rigorous college entrance exams he took, and was accepted to Renmin University -- then known as the People’s University of China -- in Beijing. However, the trip to Beijing was going to cost him around $75, an exorbitant sum to rural farmers at the time. His family was unable to afford the train ticket on their own, but thankfully his friends and neighbors had full faith in his ability to achieve and contributed whatever they could spare towards his education.At Renmin University, Liu studied sociology with the thought that he may enter politics, but he soon found that even with his classes and homework he had a considerable amount of free time in Beijing. He got a job at a small business who couldn’t afford a photocopier hand-copying letters, and also began to teach himself computer programming. The latter endeavor turned out to not only be a fun way to pass the time for Liu, but also one of his very first entrepreneurial ventures. The recent policy shift in China toward market reforms and embracing some aspects of capitalism created an influx of businesses that needed computer programmers. With Liu’s calm demeanor and trustworthy nature, he quickly became a popular choice and had soon made more money than he had ever dreamed of in the lucrative business. With the funds, he purchased a personal computer and cell phone -- two very expensive items at the time -- and was even able to have a new house built for his parents in the village. On June 18th, 1998, Liu took his 12,000 yuan (about $1,760) he had saved during his two years at Japan Life and used it to purchase inventory and rent a 4-square-meter booth in one of the many technological bazaars in Zhongguancun. Calling the company Jingdong, this was the start of what would eventually become JD.com, and the date on which he opened up shop has become known as “618” day and accompanies a promotional blitz that has become a nationwide phenomenon rivaling the United States’ Black Friday. Before all that though, he was simply a one-man booth selling magneto-optical drives, a type of optical disc drive similar in appearance to a floppy disk capable of having data written and rewritten upon it. In 2003, Liu’s business hit a snag when the SARS epidemic caused widespread fear and panic, with most consumers electing to stay home in order to avoid catching or spreading the virus. This had a devastating effect on China’s economy, and many retail stores including Liu’s were forced to temporarily shutter. In an effort to continue generating revenue and keep himself in business, Liu began posting his products to online bulletin boards, and after one of his customers happened to find him and vouch for his decency and honorableness he was able to keep his business alive by selling his electronic goods online. After Liu was able to re-open his stores, he also designated one employee to work full-time posting his products on the internet. By the time the year was over, it was clear to Liu that the burgeoning e-commerce industry was the perfect match for his business aspirations, and began plans to move his company entirely online. At the time, the internet was still a place people were wary of purchasing items from, but Liu’s work building a trustworthy brand enabled him to get a head start in gaining the trust of the consumers. Nonetheless, he worked extremely hard to build JD.com into a premiere e-commerce service, launching JD.com in early 2004. He elected to live in his office in order to save money on rent, and wrote the initial code for the website himself. He wanted to get to know his customers and their needs as closely as possible, and so he alone answered all of the customer inquiries that came through. In order to make sure no questions went very long unanswered, Liu would set an alarm clock for himself to go off every two hours during the night so that he could wake up and answer any questions that had been asked. He even handled much of the deliveries himself. For Liu, having control over the quality of his service was one of the key differentiators between his business and his competitors. Liu extended this idea in 2007, when he made the decision to take his entire logistics network for the e-commerce site completely in-house. For Liu it was an imperative step towards not only being able to curate his e-commerce service to tailor-fit his customers, but also open up previously untapped markets such as third and fourth-tier cities whose consumers previously had to travel miles in order to purchase the goods they needed. This strategy has proven to be a key to the company’s atmospheric rise, with 90% of its deliveries now arriving either the same or next day. Liu has frequently been recognized for his work on JD.com and the Chinese online ecommerce industry as a whole. China’s largest television network CCTV awarded him the “2011 China Economic Person of the Year” and he has also been named the “2011 Chinese Business Leader” and was noted as one of Fortune China’s “2012 Chinese Businessmen.” According to Forbes, Liu is currently #165 on the list of 2020 billionaires, #40 on China’s Rich List of 2020, and #25 on the Richest in Tech 2017 list, and was also ranked #48 on Fortune’s “World’s Greatest Leaders” list. In reference to Liu’s ranking, Fortune remarked that Liu had “few of the trappings of a celebrity CEO” and little corporate ego. Liu is often invited to speak at some of the largest forums in the world such as the World Economic Forum in Davos on topics such as the ecommerce industry, technological advancements, and to share his business development story as a means to inspire others, but even with this and working 16 hour days, he still spends one day a year working as a delivery person for JD.com.

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Investment focus

  • Tea, Apps, EdTech
  • Series A
  • China

Portfolio highlights

  • InWE — InWE is a tea brand that provides the healthiest beverage, rich in vitamins and minerals.
  • Knowbox — Established in 2014, Knowbox targets the K12 education field with two mobile apps currently helping students get the most from doing homework by providing personalized exercises.Teachers can use the mobile apps to better manage student homework by avoiding repetitive labor and securing more time to help each student's unique challenges.The company claims the two mobile apps currently have nearly one million daily active users, and plans to use the proceeds on building its own homework database.
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Julian Shapiro
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Julian Shapiro is a Partner at Hyper and a Startup Investor at Julian.capital. He previously worked as the Founder of Demand Curve, a Columnist — Growth Marketing at TechCrunch, and VP of Marketing at Webflow. Julian attended Y Combinator.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

  • DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
  • Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
  • Agroshift — Agroshift helps farmers sell their produce to businesses and consumers by providing a tech-enabled supply chain.
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Yamamoto Kento
Angel

Yamamoto Kento - Directors CDO @ COUNTERWORKS

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Investment focus

  • E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
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Gang Wang
Angel

Gang Wangis the Founder, President & CEO of Anterra Energy.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Content, Training
  • Angel, Seed, Series A
  • China, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Lishe
  • Bottomsup — Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content.
  • Paixue Che — Pai Xueche is an Internet driving training platform. The school adopts a consultant tracking system throughout the process. The company will equip each student with an exclusive learning car consultant, from registration to the student's driver's license, the whole process of tracking.
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