Top 15 ESports Angel Investors in Singapore in October 2023

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.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, E-Learning, Education
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore

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!

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Shubhrendu Koche

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sports, eSports
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United Kingdom

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

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David Ng is the CEO & Founder of goGame.

Investment focus

eSports, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A
Singapore

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

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Kenji Narushima is a Chief Strategy Officer / Chief Of Staff at CARRO

Investment focus

Apps, Wellness, Health Care
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.
Anyone AI — We invest in talent from Latam.
Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform

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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.

Investment focus

Apps, Wearables, Rehabilitation
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Singapore, United States

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.

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A well recognised serial tech-entrepreneur in Southeast Asia, Mr Lau founded his first tech company when he was 23. Since then, Mr Lau has took 3 tech companies public .At the start of his career Mr Lau was the co-founder and Managing Director of Viztel Solutions Berhad (Viztel), a telecom and mobile internet software startup that grew into amajor regional player. Mr Lau was, at the time, one of the youngest ever managing directors of a publicly traded company in Malaysia.Mr Lau has also led a group of investors to a successful take-over of the Oriented Media Group Berhad (Omedia), a publicly traded digital media company, of which he was later appointed, Executive Chairman. In 2007, Mr Lau co-founded Cellsafe Biotech Group, a regional biotechnology business group that focuses on non-controversial technologies for harvesting and cryogenic preservation of stem cells. Cellsafe has since become a leading stem cell bank network in Southeast Asia, with operations across four different countries.Mr Lau frequently supports and plays active role in entrepreneurial campaigns in colleges and universities. He is a regular judge at major business plan competitions in Singapore.Mr Lau was a scholar of a Malaysian government-controlled corporation and graduated first class honours in engineering from the University of Manchester, UK. He was also a faculty research staff and PhD candidate at the Imperial College London, UK.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, eSports
Seed, Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Dressabelle — Dressabelle is an online e-tailer with a very clear edge in providing quality clothing that is suitable for work, seamlessly taking a lady from work to play, day to night, at affordable prices. In the span of a few years, it has developed from a fashion house to a lifestyle brand, with capabilities in product marketing, social media, onlinemarketing, content creation and brand endorsements.
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.

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Axel Wehr - Partner @ Firestartr

Investment focus

eSports, Media and Entertainment
Seed
Singapore

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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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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, India, Malaysia

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

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Manit Parikh

Investment focus

B2B, Sports, eSports
Angel
India, Singapore

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.

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Michael Patent

Investment focus

eSports, Media and Entertainment
Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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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Michael Broda is the Co-Founder and Board Member at Esports Players League.

Investment focus

eSports
Seed
Singapore

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.

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Rob Gilby

Investment focus

eSports, Media and Entertainment
Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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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Faisal Nasimuddin

Investment focus

eSports
Seed
Singapore

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.

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Jonathan Shipman is a VP, Strategy (Product & Marketing) at Lantronix.

Investment focus

eSports, Beauty, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, Singapore

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!

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