# Top 50 ESports Startup Investors in Asia in October 2023

## Hustle Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Carlos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

## Tom Varkey
- Type: Angel
- Location: Westfield, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, E-Learning, Education

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.

## Shubhrendu Koche
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Sports, eSports

Shubhrendu Koche

## David Ng
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: eSports, Media and Entertainment

David Ng is the CEO & Founder of goGame.

## JMS Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sports, eSports, Internet

Early Stage Investor

## Innoangel Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Electronics

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

## Kevin Lin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games

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.

## FH Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Information Services, Internet

Fenghou Capital is early-stage equity investment firm.

## Loyal VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.

## BITKRAFT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming, esports, and interactive media.

## 1kx
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.

## Sea of Stars Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Huangpu, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Angel
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Internet, Animation

Chen Hai Capital, Sea Capital Corporation (S Capital) is a venture capital firm institution that focuses information technology and traditional industries to bring opportunities for industrial change. Founded in August 2015, it was co-founded by three well-known investors from Jinglin Assets, Huaying Capital and Innovation Works, Chen Chen, WangWeijun and Chen Yuetian.

## TheCodes
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Blockchain

Blockchain focused. Web3, DeFi. Gaming, DAO. Layer 2, anything.

## vEmpire
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Ethereum

vEmpire is a venture capital investment firm.

## zVentures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Health Care, Financial Services

We typically invest in Seed and Series A start-ups that add strategic value to the Razer ecosystem.

## iCandy Interactive Limited
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1

We are the largest game developer in ANZ and SEA, ASX-listed, and backed by the likes of Animoca Brands, Singtel, SK Telecom, and more.

## Battery Road Digital Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Payments, Financial Services

Frontier Markets venture capital

## Marcus John
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: eSports, Media and Entertainment

Marcus John

## Shishir Bharti
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Sports, eSports, Internet

With 18+ years’ experience of working for large multinational companies, Shishir brings his expertise in all areas of Human Resources and has a proven track record of working with Senior Management Level Executives to integrate the People Strategy in the overall Business Strategy. Prior to aCommerce, Shishir worked with global companies likeHewlett Packard, Coca-Cola, Volvo Buses, as well as global start-ups such as LinkedIn and Uber.

## Faisal Nasimuddin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: eSports

Faisal Nasimuddin

## Vulpes Innovative Technologies
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Legal, eSports, Software

Vulpes Innovative Technologies

## W ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Health Care

W ventures is a Japan-based venture capital firm investing in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds. They have been conducting investment to 25 companies in a total of about a year from the start of investment activities in April 2019. The company works not only with investment business but also with companies that provide services related to HR, PR,infrastructure, legal and accounting, etc., as incubation support after investment. It is also characteristic to provide support for the investor companies. In addition, in cooperation with other venture capital companies, Ar Rase TAGE startups regularly hold office hours that allow financing and business consultations to two companies at the same time and actively support startups are doing.

## Kingsway Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency

Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.

## Majuven
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Biotechnology

Majuven is an early and growth stage VC firm founded by experienced business leaders from Singapore. We are focused on disruptive and evolving trends in the high tech segments of healthcare, financial services and digital consumerism.

## PreAngel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Blockchain

PreAngel is a 30M RMB investment fund focused on early stage internet startups. Investment on each project range from 100K to 1M RMB. In addition to investment, PreAngel plays a key role as "co-founder", providing guidance in startup operation, business model refinement and industry resources.

## Hana Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Retail, Health Care

Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.

## Roland Navarro de Ros
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Audio, Coffee, Gaming

Roland Ros is the founder of KumuMedia Technologies, a livestream technology company for over 10+ million GenZ & Millennial Filipinos. Since its launch in 2018, Kumu has reached the #1 Grossing Social App in the Philippines. It has also cracked the Top 10 in Canada, Hong Kong, Kuwait, UK and Norway, as well as Top 20 in several other marketslike the United States, Saudi Arabia, Italy, and Australia. He also currently serves as an investor and advisor for several start-ups; and is passionate about helping others.Prior to KumuMedia Technologies, Roland was Vice President of Spark Revenue, an Inc. 500 listed performance marketing & growth acquisition platform. Prior to Spark Revenue, Roland was VP Business Development for MediaTrust, an online performance advertising exchange and technology company. Prior to MediaTrust, Roland was Partner & VP Business Development at Tracking202, up until the company was acquired by Bloosky Interactive. Roland started his career as a Business Development Associate with GE Money Bank, where he oversaw a $400 million dollar book of business.Roland serves as a Trustee for the Ros Foundation. He has a BA in Asian American Studies from UC Santa Barbara, and studied as an Executive Scholar at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

## Metavest Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Digital Entertainment

Metaverse & NFT gaming consultancy. Project incubation, capital & advisory #playtoearn

## REAPRA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Human Resources, Real Estate, Internet

Through Research and Practice, we contribute to the betterment of society,by creating industries. We are a venture builder and investment group based in Singapore with a strategic focus on developing sustainable businesses.

## Master Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Information Technology

Master Ventures is a blockchain focused venture studio. We combine visionary ideas, exceptional talent, and investment capital to invest and build the next generation of revolutionary blockchain businesses and products.

## Oracles Investment Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

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## Gandel Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, SaaS

Providing strategic capital and expertise to established and growth businesses around the globe.

## Tembusu Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, CRM

Established in 2006, Tembusu Partners is a boutique private equity firm in Singapore dedicated to supporting high growth ventures across Emerging Asia.Leveraging our strategic location at the heart of Asia, we specialise in venture and growth-stage investments in fast-growing markets of Greater China, India, and Southeast Asia. Our deepunderstanding of markets, investment cycles and complex cultural nuances grants us clarity and insight in making our investments. We manage capital from our investors and partners across Asia, Europe, and America. To date, we have completed more than S$300 million worth of private equity transactions.Tembusu invests in disruptive technology that we believe have strong potential to drive innovation in key focus sectors such as financial and business services, consumer services, education and healthcare. With an advisory board and investment committee comprising well-connected corporate leaders and industry veterans ranging from technology to business services, we are committed to supporting founders and companies in their global growth.

## Foresight Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Foresight Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on blockchain technology and the cryptocurrency industry. They invest early and make quick judgments, and their ecosystem, which includes the crypto-exchange Bitget and the crypto-wallet BitKeep, provides extensive assistance. They are committed to identifying disruptive innovation prospectsfor the future decades in the Web3.0 space, while maintaining transparency, multidisciplinary collaboration, internationalization, and long-termism, and offering a complete spectrum of assistance for initiatives from zero to one till success. Foresight Ventures was founded in 2021 and is based in Singapore.

## Zhongtou Guangsheng Jijin Guanli
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Qianhai, Shandong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Media and Entertainment

Zhongtou Guangsheng Jijin Guanli is an investment firm.

## Prox Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care

Proxima Ventures focuses in the healthcare industry, supporting outstanding enterprises with innovative technologies or service models that have tremendous potential.They manage multiple funds in RMB and US dollar, covering from seed to growth stages. Their team members with multidisciplinary backgrounds and resourceful networks, have many yearsof remarkable venture capital experience and achievements. They believe that active and effective collaboration with entrepreneurs will make substantial economic returns while bring meaningful improvements in public health.

## Kickstart Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Makati, Manila, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

We invest in early- to growth-stage start-ups who offer solutions to existing pain points and provide forward-looking innovations that will help shape the future we believe in.

## Endeavor Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology

Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.

## Tusholdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Series C
- Focus: Electronics, Manufacturing, Biotechnology

Tusholdings is a large integrated enterprise that takes full responsibility for developing, constructing, operating and managing TusPark.As the flagship product of Tus-Holdings, TusPark(Beijing) is currently the largest single university science park in the world, with building area of 770,000 square meters, and more than 1500 enterprises havingbeen settled in the park. TusPark has become a gathering place for multi-national corporation R&D headquarters, China technology enterprise headquarters as well as innovation enterprises. It has become an important platform of Tsinghua University to serve the society and promote regional innovation, as well as a famous brand in China and even in the global science park industry. With more than two decades of development, Tus-Holdings has accumulated a wealth of experience in the development and operation of university science parks and established a high-caliber management team, actively promoting the organic interaction between innovative resources and the regional economy and successfully building up a nationwide innovation system with more than 300 incubators, science parks and science cities as the carrier. The radial network of Tus-Holdings covers more than 50 cities and regions including Hong Kong, Macau, the USA, the UK, Italy, Russia, Australia, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden, South Korea, Pakistan, Thailand, Egypt, Brazil, etc., being a new force of China's innovation system. TusHoldings actively responds to the national strategy of innovation-driven development in implementation of Tsinghua University’s role of serving the society. Under the overall objective of “striving to become a Chinese leader and a global model of S&T service industry”, with science park as the carrier, with S&T industry as the support, with S&T finance as a link, with Internet, big data and other new generation information technology as the basis, TusHoldings forms an innovation network with shared knowledge, information, talent, capital and other resources, makes clustering service innovation and promotes innovation, forming a business structure featuring synergetic trinity of “Science Park, S&T industry, and S&T finance”. So far, it has become China's new force in the process of building scientific and technological power, also a technology service provider with rich experience and wisdom, as well as comprehensive business capabilities.

## Chiratae Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Chiratae Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management and a portfolio of over 220 companies built over the last 15 years. The Chiratae Ventures network is comprised of five independent partnerships managing funds in North America and Asia. Each partnership makes investments on behalf of itslimited partners, including International Data Group (IDG), the world's largest IT media company. By combining the IDG platform – an unparalleled combination of global publishing, market research (IDC), and conferences and exhibition resources – with years of hands-on experience in early-stage company building, each Chiratae Ventures fund helps companies understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competition.With partnerships in the USA, Korea and multiple locations throughout China, India and Vietnam, the IDG Ventures network offers the international perspective and the local market expertise to help companies grow from start-ups to global success stories.

## Eventpop
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
- Relevant deals: 1

Eventpop helps bring the best experiences for event goers and event creators through one end-to-end platform.–––––––––––For event goers:
Use the Eventpop app to discover, save and share your favorite event and activities. Get the latest updates from event creators around Asia. Registration and buying a ticket is simple and straightforward witha consistently updating app, to ensure the best experience.–––––––––––For promoters and organizers:
Eventpop provides an end-to-end platform for any kind of event or activity. With professional solutions developed specifically for concerts, festivals, performance, marathons, conferences and workshops. Learn more at https://services.eventpop.me–––––––––––While most platform focuses on being a ticketing platform, Eventpop offers solution for the whole journey. The company’s service operates like an ad-hoc support team for event creators, providing online and offline customer support to customers, on-site services to solve cumbersome processes involving registrations or admissions, and fulfillment.

## TNB AURA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Information Technology, Retail, E-Commerce

As a thesis-led, high-conviction venture capital firm, we use data-driven methodologies to identify and invest in select companies that are primed for the future and ready to change the very face of their categories.

## Fantom Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1

FANTOM is the world's first DAG based smart contract platform.

## Seedthrift Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Training, Education

Seedthrift Ventures incubate early phases of blockchain with capital, support, and promotion.

## DeltaHub Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Blockchain, Software

DeltaHub Capital is a blockchain investments and portfolio management.DeltaHub Capital focuses on Rich discussions, smart fundraisings, spot-on technical analysis, deep fundamental analysis, project reviews, and much more.

## Falcon Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1

Falcon Capital owns, operates and invests in leading technology services businesses. Since 2000, They have been involved in both acquisitions and startups in the technology services arena. Falcon Capital has acted as both advisors and investors of private equity. In addition to direct financial support, Falcon Capital also acts as advisors. Theydo this in a unique way by leveraging Their network of specialist companies and experts that bring with them deep domain expertise and operations. Combined with Their insights and experience gained over the past 10 years, They can make your ecommerce initiatives a success

## KK Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet

KK Fund is a venture capital fund to invest in seed stage internet and mobile startups across South East Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

## SEDANIA Innovator
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: eSports

Sedania Innovator offers Sustainable Energy Solutions, including Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, as well as Sustainable Healthcare products under its Offspring brand.

## RightBridge Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Östermalm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: eSports

The Esport & Gaming Roll-Up-Company of the Attention Economy.

## Michael Broda
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: eSports

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

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