# Top 35 ESports Startup Investors in Singapore in May 2026 ## Shubhrendu Koche - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Sports, eSports Shubhrendu Koche ## 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. ## David Ng - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: eSports, Media and Entertainment David Ng is the CEO & Founder of goGame. ## Hustle Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Carlos, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## JMS Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Sports, eSports, Internet Early Stage Investor ## Marcus John - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: eSports, Media and Entertainment Marcus John ## 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 ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Mayank Parekh - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Apps 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. ## Vulpes Investment Management Pte Ltd - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Health Care, Internet, Biotechnology At Vulpes, we think differently. We create long-term sustainable capital appreciation by welcoming co-investment and aligning incentives. We choose to be patient and invest in ways that are profitable, yet with benefits that are not solely financial. ## Manit Parikh - Type: Angel - Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: B2B, Sports, eSports Manit Parikh ## 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. ## Orbit Startups - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cork, Cork, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth. ## Poh Kam Wong - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Wearables, Rehabilitation 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. ## 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. ## Gamerforce Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Gaming, Sports, eSports Gamerforce Ventures is one of the first venture capital firms that is set up specifically to create high value companies in the eSports and Gaming scene. Our partners are successful entrepreneurs and high flying executives coming from diverse backgrounds to help our portfolio companies succeed. We typically invest between seed and Series A, but maycome in at later stages should the opportunity arises.We believe that entrepreneurs will be the ones who will revolutionize the scene completely. Because of that, we have brought together the best minds in entrepreneurship to assist entrepreneurs go to the next level, by leveraging on our network of the partners that we have built over the years.We believe in assisting entrepreneurs in every way we can. As such, if you think you need a round of funding, do hit us up at pitch@gamerforce.ventures. ## Insignia Ventures Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology Insignia Ventures Partners is a venture capital firm that specializes in startup investment. Insignia Ventures Partners is an investment firm managed by a former Sequoia Asia partner, Yinglan Tan. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Kin-Wai Lau - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Fashion, eSports 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. ## Puncak Geliga Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: eSports Puncak Geliga Capital is an angel investment company seeking investment as well as mentorship opportunities in technology-based startups. ## Warner Music Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Music, Media and Entertainment, Digital Entertainment Warner Music Group is a major music company with interests in recorded music, music publishing and artist services ## 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. ## Michael Patent - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: eSports, Media and Entertainment Michael Patent ## Kenji Narushima - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Wellness, Health Care Kenji Narushima is a Chief Strategy Officer / Chief Of Staff at CARRO ## Rob Gilby - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: eSports, Media and Entertainment Rob Gilby ## Axel Wehr - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: eSports, Media and Entertainment Axel Wehr - Partner @ Firestartr ## 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. ## Vulpes Innovative Technologies - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Legal, eSports, Software Vulpes Innovative Technologies ## Jonathan Shipman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: eSports, Beauty, Software Jonathan Shipman is a VP, Strategy (Product & Marketing) at Lantronix. ## Genting Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: AgTech, FinTech, eSports Genting Ventures is a venture capital arm of Getting Group. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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