Top 20 eSports Angel Investors in Asia (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Shubhrendu Koche
Angel
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3 | India, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Sports, eSports | $43k–$1.5M |
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David Ng
Angel
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3 | Singapore | Seed, Series A | eSports, Media and Entertainment | |
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Tom Varkey
Angel
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3 | India, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Media and Entertainment, E-Learning, Education | $250k–$1.5M |
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Kevin Lin
Angel
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2 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games | $150k–$20M |
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Kenji Narushima
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Wellness, Health Care | |
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Poh Kam Wong
Angel
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1 | Singapore, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Apps, Wearables, Rehabilitation | |
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Michael Patent
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Series A | eSports, Media and Entertainment | |
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Faisal Nasimuddin
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | eSports | |
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Michael Broda
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | eSports | |
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Axel Wehr
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | eSports, Media and Entertainment | |
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Luis Sia
Angel
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1 | Philippines | Pre-Seed | Apps, SaaS, Beauty | |
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Roland Navarro de Ros
Angel
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1 | Philippines | Seed, Series A | Audio, Coffee, Gaming | |
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Holly Liu
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Taiwan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $1.4M–$9M |
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Gabby Dizon
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $1.5M–$16M |
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Mayank Parekh
Angel
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1 | Singapore, India, Malaysia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, Wellness, Apps | $1M–$2.7M |
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Francis Plaza
Angel
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1 | Philippines, United States | Pre-Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding | Education, Software, Gaming | |
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Marcus John
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Series A | eSports, Media and Entertainment | |
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Manit Parikh
Angel
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1 | India, Singapore | Angel | B2B, Sports, eSports | |
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Jonathan Shipman
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | eSports, Beauty, Software | |
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Patrick Lee
Angel
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1 | United States, Taiwan, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Media and Entertainment, Comics | $4.3M–$9M |
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Shubhrendu Koche
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $450k–$600k; Pre-Seed $43k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
- Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.
- BazaarNXT — B2B Marketplace for Packaging Materials, Manufacturing & Distribution
David Ng is the CEO & Founder of goGame.
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- Industry: eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ampverse — Offering data-driven, proprietary tech-enabled, and creative e-sports influencer marketing solutions for Thailand and South East Asia companies.
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Tom is a veteran in financial markets and is Principal at Stonehill Capital. Prior to this he has held positions with Lazard Asset Management & Fidelity Investments focusing on emerging markets and corporate debt. Tom is an MBA from Harvard Business School & has a MA in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, E-Learning, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
- Knocksense — A local news and recommendations platform.
- Clever Harvey — Clever Harvey JuniorMBA is an online programme led by IIM and Ivy league alumni to teach your child the essentials of entrepreneurship, strategy and technology!
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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- Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $750k–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $150k–$1.8M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
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.
Kenji Narushima is a Chief Strategy Officer / Chief Of Staff at CARRO
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- Industry: Apps, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Anyone AI — We invest in talent from Latam.
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Poh Kam WONG is a Professor at the Business School of National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. Through the centre, he oversees the university's entrepreneurship education programs, as well as the university's incubator, seed funding programs and mentoring scheme for nurturing spin-offcompanies by the university's professors and students. He has published extensively in leading academic journals on high tech entrepreneurship and innovation policy in Asia, and has consulted frequently for technology companies in Asia, as well as international organizations such as the World Bank. He is an active angel investor in technology start-ups in Singapore, Asia and Silicon Valley, and is the founding Chairman of Business Angel Network Southeast Asia (BANSEA) and chairman and partner of BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd, a business angel fund based in Singapore. He is the initiator of StartUp@Singapore, the annual national business plan competition in Singapore since 1999.
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- Industry: Apps, Wearables, Rehabilitation
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- FundedHere — FundedHere Crowdfunding Platform
- TechStorm — Asia's number one 24/7 Esports, gaming & tech-centric entertainment network available in 26 countries. TechStorm is a brand new 360 international network on Asian Esports and tech-centric entertainment. The network celebrates the region’s trail blazers, the biggest Asian Esports and tech names, bringing them to a truly global audienceand fan base.The 24/7 network’s meteoric rise across Asia now reaches 43 million viewers, 100 platforms across multiple countries and is slated to exceed 20 countries globally. Its original Storm Bytes content is readily distributed to 96 million mobile handset users in 26 countries. This exponential growth was all achieved in less than 22 months.TechStorm is an international Esports and tech entertainment network backed by blue-chip, high profile venture capital groups and founded by prominent industry business leaders in media and technology with more than 30 years of extensive domain expertise and business operations. Its dynamic leadership team is fuelled by a passion to drive change and be the voice for Asia’s Esports and tech entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Michael Patent
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- Industry: eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ampverse — Offering data-driven, proprietary tech-enabled, and creative e-sports influencer marketing solutions for Thailand and South East Asia companies.
Faisal Nasimuddin
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- Industry: eSports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Esports Players League — Esports Players League is a global esports tournament and media network that is developing an integrated and open ecosystem for tournaments, media, brands, publishers, teams and players with a focus on community and digital interactivity.
Michael Broda is the Co-Founder and Board Member at Esports Players League.
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- Industry: eSports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Esports Players League — Esports Players League is a global esports tournament and media network that is developing an integrated and open ecosystem for tournaments, media, brands, publishers, teams and players with a focus on community and digital interactivity.
Axel Wehr - Partner @ Firestartr
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- Industry: eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Eximpe — EximPe digitises workflows for exporters and importers to do cross border payments, compliances and access finance
- Ampverse — Offering data-driven, proprietary tech-enabled, and creative e-sports influencer marketing solutions for Thailand and South East Asia companies.
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, Beauty
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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!
- Peddlr — Tired of using pen and paper for sales, expense and inventory tracking? Worry no more! The #1 Retail FREE POS Mobile App is now here!
- BeautyBuddy — BeautyBuddy is a SaaS enabled, social-powered marketplace designed to streamline operations and drive discovery for beauty services in SEA.
Holly Liu is co-founder and Chief of Staff of Kabam, a world leader in AAA mobile free-to-play games. Holly also oversees Kabam’s corporate culture as head of People Operations (“People Ops”), which is responsible for driving Kabam’s vision, mission, and values for its more than 800 employees in offices around the world. Holly has helped build aworld-class human resources team that is responsible for recruiting and retaining top talent and has grown Kabam’s personnel base by 500% in three years.Prior to her role as Chief of Staff, Holly was VP of People Ops and Director of User Experience. She led the product design for Kabam’s award-winning Kingdom’s of Camelot, which has grown into a $250 million franchise in less than four years. Holly was also an initial designer for the mobile extension Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, which was the top grossing app on iOS in 2012.Before co-founding Kabam, Holly was Senior User Interface Designer for AOL, where she led design of community web products. She has also worked as a consultant for Arthur Andersen and Accenture.Holly received her Master’s in Information Management & Systems from UC Berkeley and her B.A. in Mass Communications from UCLA. She was named to Forbes’ “Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs to Watch” in 2013 and one of Fortune’s “10 Most Powerful Women in Gaming.”
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trend — Trend connects brands with content creators in order to scale user-generated content across a variety of platforms while increasing their marketing ROI.
- Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
- Chaos Genius — Chaos Genius is a DataOps Observability tool for reducing Snowflake costs & Snowflake query optimization. Get started on Snowflake Observability for free.
Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M; Series A $5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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!
- Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
- SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.
Prior to launching M Venture Partners (MVP), Mayank was the Founder of Grange Partners, the brand of a proprietary private investment family office that made investments in the mid-cap and small-cap sector across Southeast Asia, USA, and Sri Lanka. With a ~15-year investment track record (and over 40 angel, venture capital, and privateinvestments), his sector experience includes Financial Services, Healthcare, Education, Telecom, F&B / Retail, and Consumer IoT/Tech. Prior to establishing Grange Partners, he was Partner & Managing Director at Southern Capital Group, a pan-Asian mid-cap leveraged buyout fund. Formerly, Mayank spent close to a dozen years at McKinsey & Company, where he departed as Managing Partner of the Singapore office. He also helmed McKinsey’s Corporate Finance group in Southeast Asia. Out of close to 30 years professional experience, Mayank has spent about 24 years in the Asia-Pacific region. During this time, he has built a broad network of industry leaders, business owners, professional executives, advisors, family offices and financial sponsors. Mayank earned his MBA from the University of Chicago and his BA with Distinction from Hamilton College.
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- Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, India, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Liquide — Trade like you date, invest in fundamental stocks and forget portfolio worries. Get your friends and family to invest together, follow real portfolios and get curated advice
- NEXPLAY — Nexplay manages professional esports teams, top gaming personalities and builds large and engaged communities around them to attract commercial brand partners and sell our own merchandise and digital products to fans.
- KarirLab — Cari kerja dan magang, buat resume ATS-friendly, evaluasi resume oleh ahli, dan ikuti webinar persiapan kerja #MulaidariKarirLab
Francis Plaza currently works as an Advisor to the Boards for PayMongo. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Industry: Education, Software, Gaming
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Philippines, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Marcus John
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- Industry: eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ampverse — Offering data-driven, proprietary tech-enabled, and creative e-sports influencer marketing solutions for Thailand and South East Asia companies.
Manit Parikh
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- Industry: B2B, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
- GlocalBazaar — We connect thousands of MSME sellers and buyers and farmers, enabling & creating economic opportunity for all. Our range of Seller & Buyers Services and tools help Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises to start, manage and scale their businesses online.Our mission is to re-define Local and Global B2B and F2B commerce in ways that build amore fulfilling and lasting world. We are committed to empowering businesses while strengthening communities and engaging people.
Jonathan Shipman is a VP, Strategy (Product & Marketing) at Lantronix.
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- Industry: eSports, Beauty, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Juked — The Juked App is officially LIVE! Join a community of like-minded esports fans on the Juked app, your new home for discussing esports news, matches, tournaments, and more.
- NEWNESS — Newness is focused on building differentiated tools and features that work well for the beauty streamer market in particular.
- Riley — Grapevine AI is the first AI powered personal assistant that captures, organizes, and easily retrieves the details that build better relationships. Learn more!
Patrick Lee is an entrepreneur focused on the intersection of tech+entertainment best known for being a co-founder & the founding CEO of Rotten Tomatoes (rottentomatoes.com), a leading entertainment website focused on movie reviews and news. He is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner of PKO Investments, a syndicate of notable founders andinvestors investing in the next generation of tech founders. He is part of the Founding Team and a Board Member of the Gold House Collective and is an active advisor to a number of startups. He has also mentored and/or supported programs at 500 Startups, SOSV, Berkeley SkyDeck, Blue Startups, Founder Institute, and more. Patrick holds a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Media and Entertainment, Comics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Taiwan, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Voyceme — VoyceMe is the home of creativity! We host the highest quality English language Webcomics, novels, and mangas! If you are a creator sign up and start posting in minutes! We offer the best opportunities to generate revenue and also promote all creators!
- Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
- Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.
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