# Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

## Nobuhiro Ariyasu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Internet, Finance

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

## Kotaro Chiba
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Content, Software

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

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.

## Toivo Annus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.

## Amrish Rau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

## Boon Hwee Koh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

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.

## Edward Ismawan Chamdani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Debt Financing
- Focus: Agriculture, Waste Management, Lifestyle

Managing and Founding Partner of Ideosource Venture Capital, an Indonesia focused venture capital firm dedicated on early-stage to later-stage investments.

## Yusuke Sato
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Content, Food and Beverage

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder at Pulit.

## Ishara Yusdian
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Debt Financing
- Focus: Agriculture, Waste Management, Lifestyle

Investor | Storyologist | Builder

## Wing Vasiksiri
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Social, Payments

Wing Vasiksiri

## William Hockey
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

William Hockey is the Co-CEO of Column. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University.

## Tiang Lim Foo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Tiang Lim Foo is a Partner and co-founder of Forge Ventures. He currently serves as a Venture Partner at Next Billion Ventures. He was also a partner at SeedPlus, a leading seed fund in Southeast Asia backed by SGInnovate, Jungle Ventures, Cisco, and IFC. Previously, he launched and managed Evernote's operations in Asia. Tiang has invested incategory-leading startups in the region and currently serves as a board member of Qoala, a Sequoia-backed insurance tech company in Indonesia. Tiang graduated from Stanford with a degree in Management and Engineering and holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Honors from the National University of Singapore.

## Shintaro Yamada
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Finance, Information Technology

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.

## Sanjay Uppal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Banking

Sanjay Uppal is the Founder & CEO of Singapore-based AI-envisioned fintech, Finbots.AI (www.finbots.ai). Founded in 2017, the firm was recognised among ‘Top 10 FinTechs in Singapore’ at the MAS Fintech Awards 2020. Finbots.AI’s Vision is to “Develop transformational products that accelerate Innovation in Financial Institutions”. The firm’sfounders bring together their extensive global experience in financial services & leading technologies such as AI, ML & advanced analytics to develop innovative solutions that overcome complex challenges facing FIs globally.Sanjay brings over 25 years' experience in financial services with global and regional banks in leadership and board roles & in advising bank boards & management in achieving strategic transformations.In November 2019, Sanjay was recognised by the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SICCI) for “Entrepreneurial Excellence & Outstanding Leadership”.Banking Career – key roles : Group Chief Financial Officer – EmiratesNBD (UAE), Group CFO – Hong Leong Bank (Malaysia), CFO roles in Taiwan, Philippines & UAE at Standard Chartered Bank, and Global Head of Strategy – Wealth Management, Standard Chartered.Education : MBA, MS Physics (IIM Bangalore, India), BE Electrical & Electronics Engineering (BITS Pilani, India), Strategic Financial Leadership Programme (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

## Yu Akasaka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Content, Internet

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

## Jaynti Kanani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet

Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon

## Gokul Rajaram
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.

## Ayataro Nakagawa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, Information Technology

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd.,
which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli
Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA
2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas
2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

## Kensuke Furukawa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Media and Entertainment, Software

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi （formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

## Tianwei Liu
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Founder & CEO @ Xfers

## Eduardo Saverin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, Mobile

Eduardo Saverin is a Co-founder at Meta. Eduardo attended Harvard University.

## Rohit Mulani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

I'm passionate about solving problems and driving impact at scale.
Rohit Mulani is the Founder & CEO at Gotrade.

## Yoshinori Fukushima
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Marketing, Media and Entertainment

Completed the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He developed the service of “Gunosy” while he was in graduate school. Established Gnosy in 2012 and appointed CEO. In 2013, he was appointed President and CEO. 2012 IPA Unexplored Super Creator. He also served as President of LayerX.

## Tascha Punyaneramitdee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services

Tascha Punyaneramitdee is the Co-founder of Alpha Finance. Attended University of California Berkeley.

## Do Kwon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Do Kwon is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Terraform Labs. Do Kwon is the Founder & CEO at Terraform Labs . Do Kwon attended Stanford University.

## Kain Warwick
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

## Mohandass Kalaichelvan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Health Care

Mohandass Kalaichelvan is the CEO & Founder at Spenmo . Mohandass Kalaichelvan attended Dartmouth College.

## Lisa Gokongwei
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mandaluyong, Cavite, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Internet

Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng is a President at Summit Media. Attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.

## Owen Van Natta
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Internet

Owen Van Natta is currently Founder and Managing Partner of Prefix Capital, an early stage investment fund founded in 2019. Owen is also a Founder and Managing Partner at 415 Investments. Previously, Owen was the Executive Vice President of Business at Zynga. He was responsible for the company's revenue strategy, corporate development,international expansion, and brand. Owen was also a member of Zynga's Board of Directors.Before Zynga, Owen served as Chief Executive Officer of MySpace, where he was responsible for all aspects of the company's strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. Owen joined the MySpace team after serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Project Playlist, a music sharing website allowing users to search for music, create custom playlists, and share the content with friends.Prior to Project Playlist, Van Natta was the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, where he focused on revenue operations, business development, and strategic partnerships.Earlier in his career, Owen was Vice President of Worldwide Business and Corporate Development at Amazon.com, where he managed global marketing programs and strategic partnerships. He was part of the founding team of A9.com, the Amazon.com search company, and was responsible for site operations and sponsored-link advertising.Owen holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

## Budi Handoko
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Budi Handoko - Co-Founder & COO @ Shipper

## Pierre Lorinet
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Hotel, Legal, Software

Pierre Lorinet is a Non-Executive Director at Trafigura Group. He attended INSEAD.

## Adam Malik
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Post-IPO Secondary, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Fashion

The future is, innovation and creativity from imagination. that can be realized and achieved in a measurable manner with the human and natural resources we have - adam.m

## Eric Kwan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce

Eric Kwan - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Locus Ventures

## Immad Akhund
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.

## Shunsuke Oyu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment

Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc.
Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016.
Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.

## Kazuma Ieiri
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Fashion, Recruiting

Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.

## Masaru Sunagawa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music

After joining Mitsubishi Corporation, he studied at Harvard Business School. After graduating, he joined Globespan Capital Partners, an independent United States VC, and worked as a director of investment. He started LocationValue after the company's representative in Japan. Joined Google after selling the company to NTT DOCOMO. He served asDirector of Product Development for Google Maps and General Manager for Android. He left Google in February 2018 and started Smartround Co., Ltd. in May.

## Oliver Jung
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet

Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight.

## Chinmay Chauhan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Sales, Banking

Chinmay Chauhan is a Co-Founder of BukuWarung. He was the Director of Product at Carousell, an Investor at hoolah, and the Product Lead at Grab.

## Alan Howard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Alan Howard is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management.

## Shunsuke Sasaki
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social Media, Content, SNS

Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe

## Yusuke Tanaka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce

"Shin"ichiro joined Yahoo Japan in April 2013. From July 2013, he joined YJ Capital. He has served as COO of YJ Capital since January 2015. Prior to Yahoo! Japan, Shin was General Director of Dream Incubator Vietnam from 2007 to 2012, managing US$50 million private equity funds in Vietnam. He was formerly a Project Manager at DreamIncubator Japan. He started his career at Future Architect as a system engineer.Shin received his bachelor's degree in Policy Management from Keio University.

## Wes Schwalje
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

## Ana Andrianova
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Ana Andrianova

## Peter Hoang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, FinTech, Software

Peter Hoang is the Founder & CEO of Finblox - the easiest place to earn yield on the crypto assets and grow your wealth.He previously Co-Founded Gotrade - a commission-free stock trading platform enabling anyone in the world to invest in fractional US stocks. He is also a former Founder | Product Designer & App Developer at Space JumpStudios and Co-Founder of VietLinked Global Group.

## Rahul Garg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Apps, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics

Rahul brings in 10+ years of experience in technology industry in Product Management, Strategy and Sales Operations. He is currently working as Head of Search Solutions, APAC at Google where he has been responsible for bringing the latest search advertising solutions to the market. Before this, he led setting up the Sales Strategy and Operationsfor the $XBillion Display business at Google making it the fastest growing Display region in Google. Prior to Google he worked with Conexant, Motorola (Freescale) and Ittiam Systems - where he led the Product management and strategy for Wireless and Voice systems. He holds 16 US patents in the area of algorithm and systems design. Rahul completed his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and MBA from ISB - where he received the highest award of Scholar of Excellence for being the topper in the batch.Read more: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/rahul-garg-2#ixzz2RMHGEoszFollow us: @crunchbase on Twitter | crunchbase on Facebook

## Kingsley Advani
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology

Kingsley Advani is a British investor. He started investing in 2013, funding 50 companies, 4 funds and donating to non-profits including: SENS Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Stanford University, National University of Singapore. He is particularly interested in regenerative medicine for age-related disease. Investments: Oisin, Turn Bio,Oncosenx, Monzo, Robinhood, Abra, Coinbase, Momentus, Demonpores, 64-x, Nectome. Investment areas: biotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity, space, fintech.

## Kevin Hu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Kevin Hu is a General Partner - Head of Liquid Strategies at Dragonfly Capital. He was an Alternative Investments at BlackRock. He attended the University of Toronto.

## Timur Daudpota
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Apps

Timur Daudpota is the Lifecycle & Retention Marketing Manager at Uplandme. He attended University of Houston.

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