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Top 40 Fitness Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023

A list of 40 angel investors that invest in Fitness startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fitness companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Fitness Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023

Investor Fitness Asia investments
Yasuyuki Kin 2
Hidetoshi Takano 2
Hiroaki Kitano 2
Juha Paananen 2
Alexander Rusli 1
Lim Der Shing 1
Igor Rybakov 1
Khailee Ng 1
Mamoru Taniya 1
Eiko Hashiba 1
Huang Shao Ning 1
C.Bob Lott 1
Gabby Dizon 1
Joel Neoh 1
Rahul Nambiar 1
Sudi Navile 1
Shihab Muhammed 1
Alexander Sie To 1
Makoto Takano 1
Shoji Kodama 1
Navin Jain 1
Otomi Tomohiro 1
Bob Xiaoping Xu 1
Iwan Kurniawan 1
Stan Kuruvilla 1
Antanas Guoga 1
Takashi Sato 1
Tomohito Ebine 1
Antonio Mazza 1
Ron Sim 1
Daniel Shin 1
Senu Sam 1
Kamata Tomihisa 1
Vijay Seshadri 1
Sudheer Nair 1
Madhu Bhaskaran 1
George Godula 1
Emili Nirmala 1
Minoru Moriya 1
Kenji Endo 1

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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuyuki Kin

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Investment focus

  • Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
  • Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
  • LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel

Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
  • Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
  • Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
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Juha Paananen
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Juha Paananen - CEO & Co-Founder @ Soba

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Wellness, Video Games
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Finland, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Talewind — Talewind is a professional UK games studio focused on creating incredible experiences for the metaverse.
  • Revery — The team at Revery is on a mission to make access to wellness affordable and accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, through the medium of gaming.
  • Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
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Alexander Rusli
Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Alexander Rusli, 45, assumed the role of President Director and CEO of Indosat in November 2012 after serving as an Independent Commissioner since January 2010. Before November 2012, Mr. Rusli was a Managing Director in Northstar Pacific, a private equity fund which focuses on Indonesian and Southeast Asian opportunities. Prior to his role inNorthstar Pacific, Mr. Rusli served the Government of Indonesia for nine years. In his first six years in government, he was an Expert Advisor to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, where he was involved in the formulation of policy and regulation in the Telecommunication, Media and Postal industries. In his last three years in government services, he was an Expert Staff to the Minister of State-Owned Enterprises, overseeing approximately 140 state-owned enterprises with more than 500 subsidiaries. During that period, he also held various positions at certain state-owned companies including serving as commissioner of PT Krakatau Steel (Persero), a steel producer, PT Geodipa Energi, a geothermal company and PT Kertas Kraft Aceh, a paper manufacturer. Prior to his posts in the Government, Mr. Rusli was Principal Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting in Indonesia.Mr. Rusli completed all his formal tertiary education in Curtin University, Western Australia. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Information Systems.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Fitness, Wellness
  • Seed
  • Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • DOOgether — DOOgether is Indonesia’s number one leading healthy lifestyle application that gives easier access and solution to your healthy lifestyle, in booking workout classes (offline and virtual) and in purchasing healthy caterings.
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Lim Der Shing
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Der Shing is founder and CEO of the JobsCentral Group. His work scope includes strategic planning and responsibility for the group's P&L. His achievements include creating career media platforms that reach 10 million people in South East Asia. In 2011, he negotiated the acquisition of the group by CareerBuilder. Der Shing has a Bachelor ofEngineering (Summa cum laude) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a father of 3 and is an avid share investor and traveller. He is also involved in community work as a Council Member of the South West CDC and is a member of the Entrepreneurs Organisation in Singapore.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • Homage — Homage is a trusted senior home care marketplace and technology platform seamlessly connecting seniors to the best quality of care on demand.The Homage platform uses a proprietary matching engine that pairs seniors with the best care professionals for their needs in real-time. Family members can schedule, manage, and monitor care visits throughHomage family app from anywhere, stay in communication with the care professional and get real-time information on the care their senior is receiving. Homage app will let family members know who visited their loved ones, how long they spent in the home, and what activities they did. Homage's technology allows it to send a Homage care professional to senior's house within 2 hours. Homage's app for care professionals lets them efficiently run their business, gives them better client information: a care plan individualized to each senior, helpful tips, ability to run on their own schedule, easy communication with the family members through their app.
  • Motorist — Motorist is a Singapore-based automotive platform that simplifies vehicle ownership through smart solutions. We help drivers and car owners to manage their vehicle by providing them with a range of auto services. Stay informed with our network of motorists and motor services.
  • Alodokter — App Kesehatan No.1 Di Indonesia. Dapatkan Info Kesehatan Terkini & Terlengkap, Fasilitas Online Booking Rumah Sakit & Dokter, Chat Bersama Dokter, Gratis!
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Igor Rybakov
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

Igor Rybakov - Co-Founder @ Larix

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Investment focus

  • Family, Fitness, Women's
  • Seed, Series C
  • Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • World Chess — Stay informed with the latest news and analysis in the world of chess on our online platform. Worldchess offers comprehensive coverage of tournaments, player profiles, and more. Join our community of chess enthusiasts and never miss a move again.
  • amma pregnancy tracker — amma pregnancy tracker is an international mobile service and one of the world’s largest communities for pregnant women and their families. amma pregnancy tracker provides clear, evidence-based pregnancy information and personalized recommendations from professional obstetricians and gynecologists. amma pregnancy tracker allows mothers to track keychanges during pregnancy, receive medical advice from specialists and emotional support from thousands of pregnant women around the world. amma pregnancy tracker is downloaded by 7% of the pregnant women in the world. The active monthly audience of amma pregnancy tracker exceeds 1.5 million people. amma pregnancy tracker tops the ratings of popular applications in the "Health" segment in dozens of countries around the world.
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Khailee Ng
Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Khailee Ng is Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder and CEO of SAYS. He graduated from the University of Technology Sydney, the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Social Media, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

  • Talkpush — Talkpush is the leading conversational CRM for recruitment. Automate the repetitive stuff and focus on the right talent.
  • YogaTrail — YogaTrail connects yoga providers with their yogis. Get everyone's classes in one simple place and always know what's up in your yoga world.
  • Call Levels — Don't let the markets drive you crazy - we watch the markets so you don't have to.
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Content, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
  • abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
  • RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
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Eiko Hashiba
Angel

Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. Joined Goldman Sachs in 2001. 2003 Experience planning and management of budgets at Lore Alu Japan. In 2007, he was engaged in PE investment at Unison Capital. Get an MBA at MIT. The Company will launch VISASQ in 2012.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
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Huang Shao Ning
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Co-founder of JobsCentral Singapore, Shao-Ning stayed on as the Singapore MD after the company was acquired. During this period, she oversaw operation integrations with the global business and started the company’s transition to become a SaaS player in its Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia operations. Since 2009, Shao-Ning has been mentoring startups in creative, digital and retail industries.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A
  • Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Homage — Homage is a trusted senior home care marketplace and technology platform seamlessly connecting seniors to the best quality of care on demand.The Homage platform uses a proprietary matching engine that pairs seniors with the best care professionals for their needs in real-time. Family members can schedule, manage, and monitor care visits throughHomage family app from anywhere, stay in communication with the care professional and get real-time information on the care their senior is receiving. Homage app will let family members know who visited their loved ones, how long they spent in the home, and what activities they did. Homage's technology allows it to send a Homage care professional to senior's house within 2 hours. Homage's app for care professionals lets them efficiently run their business, gives them better client information: a care plan individualized to each senior, helpful tips, ability to run on their own schedule, easy communication with the family members through their app.
  • Motorist — Motorist is a Singapore-based automotive platform that simplifies vehicle ownership through smart solutions. We help drivers and car owners to manage their vehicle by providing them with a range of auto services. Stay informed with our network of motorists and motor services.
  • EngageRocket — We help organizations make better people decisions using real-time analytics. Our customers use EngageRocket platform to measure and improve employee experience.
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C.Bob Lott
Angel · Detroit, Michigan, United States

C.Bob Lott

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Investment focus

  • Events, Sports, Cycling
  • Pre-Seed
  • Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • Miro AI — Since early 2017, Miro has helped amateur & professional runners find their running event photos instantly. Combining deep learning, computer vision, scalable cloud infrastructure & ElasticSearch, Miro's RunnerTag product is the fastest, most-accurate athlete identification technology available. Used by events in Asia, Europe &North America, RunnerTag has analyzed over 15MM bodies.Miro uses all this data to train granular models for bodies in motion. From brand preferences to form/injury analysis, Miro's visual-mined data provides brands one-of-a-kind actionable insights for brands & athletes.
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Gabby Dizon
Angel · Pasig, Rizal, Philippines · 4 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, Hong Kong

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.
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Joel Neoh
Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Joel Neoh is the Founder and CEO of Fave. He attended Monash University.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Mobile, Wellness
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Malaysia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • KFit — KFit gets you into the best fitness studios, classes and gyms in your city. Get access to unlimited group fitness classes and activities with just one monthly membership. Transform your workouts.Never get bored. Discover new ways to move. Take as many classes per month as you’d like. Try a different studio everyday. It’s time to work out the wayyou want to.
  • Ejen2u — Platform Sistem Pengurusan Ejen paling Komprehensif
  • ULive — Live Commerce Enabler for Social Media Live Sellers.
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Rahul Nambiar
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Rahul Nambiar was the CEO, Board Member, and Co-Founder of iProspect. He has a master's degree in Digital Marketing at IE Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • hav. — hav. is a rewards-based health-tech platform.
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Sudi Navile
Angel

Sudi Navile ex-Divisional CIO, Oracle.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • hav. — hav. is a rewards-based health-tech platform.
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Shihab Muhammed
Angel · Cochin, Kerala, India

SaaS Entrepreneur , Growth Leader, Built and scaled multi million dollar SaaS products . Passionate about building user friendly SaaS Products .

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Software, Wellness
  • Seed
  • India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • hav. — hav. is a rewards-based health-tech platform.
  • ZappyHire — Zappyhire - the rated #1 recruitment automation software & applicant tracking system that enables digital hiring for startups, SMEs, and enterprises to recruit and onboard the right talent faster, using AI technology. Try Zappyhire's free trial today!
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Alexander Sie To
Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Angel Investor focusing on Technology company. Experienced Senior Business System Analyst, System Architect, Technology Integrator, IT Security Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the professional industry related to Operational Instances as well as Security Instances. Skilled in In-depth System Analyst, Security System, CiscoNetworking OS, SCADA, Databases, and Web and Mobile Application Development. Strong business development professional with a Master of Science (MS) focused in Cyber Security - Computer Science from University of Southern California.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
  • Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • Maxi — Maxi is an anonymous work-life community platform that improves employee mental wellness and productivity.
  • Flokq — Get Room for Rent in Jakarta from Flokq. Looking to Share apartment or monthly rental Coliving Space in Jakarta? Connect with us today!
  • KEYTA — Keyta is a one-stop shop application in the form of an embedded keyboard enabling social commerce seller to access scattered information and carry out one sales transaction without having to jump in between multiple platforms on their device. With Keyta, fundamental features to support online selling operation are all available and accessiblewithin one application.
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Makoto Takano
Angel

Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Sports, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • PROGRIT — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Shoji Kodama
Angel

Shoji Kodama - President @ Laxus Technologies

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Investment focus

  • Real Estate, Internet, Construction
  • Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
  • Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
  • FABRIC TOKYO — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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Navin Jain
Angel

Navin Jain Country Head - Indonesia, Mastercard.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • hav. — hav. is a rewards-based health-tech platform.
  • Centricity — We at Centricity offer a simple yet cost-effective & transparent wealth management platform that helps investment professionals better manage their client portfolios.
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Otomi Tomohiro
Angel

Otomi Tomohiro - CEO @ Tyrus

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Travel, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • CUICIN — Quickin is changing the travel experience with the digital transformation.
  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
  • Magic Shields — Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products.
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Bob Xiaoping Xu
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China

Bob Xiaoping Xu is the founder of ZhenFund and one of China's most celebrated angel investors. Established in 2011 as a joint fund with Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund is China’s foremost angel fund. Managing USD 600 million, ZhenFund has 500 portfolio companies and offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Palo Alto. It has played a leading role inChina’s rise as a “startup nation”, and is widely considered a beacon of light in China’s vibrant startup environment. Prior to founding ZhenFund, Mr. Xu co-founded China's largest private English training and test preparation group, New Oriental Education, along with Michael Yu and Victor Wang. New Oriental became listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006 and currently has a market cap of USD 11 billion. The founders’ endeavors, which helped drive Chinese education toward a new global era, was featured in the box office hit “American Dreams in China”. The movie ranked as the #3 Chinese domestic box office hit in 2013. Mr. Xu’s success as an educator and an entrepreneur led him to angel investing, where he has pioneered a unique investment philosophy of investing in exceptional people. He became one of the most prolific patrons of entrepreneurship, as well as a leading mentor to young business leaders. Forbes Magazine has honored him on the Midas List as one of the World’s Top 100 Venture Capital Investors for two consecutive years (2016 and 2017). Mr. Xu currently serves as the Chairman of China Angel Investment Association. Mr. Xu has more than 11 million followers on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. He is also a prolific author who has published seven books on career growth and education. His writings, speeches and interviews on entrepreneurship, investment and education have had an immense impact on China’s emerging business leaders, and particularly on those who have studied abroad. He is the president of Committee 2005, an institution that gathers the most influential Chinese overseas returnees, including the likes of Robin Li, Neil Shen and Lee Kai-fu. Mr. Xu is deeply committed to philanthropy. He is a founding donor and the Committee Acting President of the Future Science Award, an annual award of USD 1 million for scientists who have made significant contributions to life sciences and physical sciences in Greater China. Mr. Xu graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, the Chinese equivalent of Julliard School of Music, with a bachelor’s degree in music. He received his master’s degree in music from the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to that he was a counsellor at Peking University for five years.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Series A, Angel, Series B
  • China, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • YOTA — YOTA provides a healthy and diet food delivery service.
  • Lagou — Lagou.com offers staffing services. The company’s clientele includes Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Group, SINA, JD.com, Beijing Xiaomi Tech, and Zhaopin.com.
  • Omni Prime — Omni Prime provides Lending as a Service solution to retailers.
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Iwan Kurniawan
Angel

Iwan Kurniawan is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Modalku.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile Apps, FinTech, Fitness
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • Maxi — Maxi is an anonymous work-life community platform that improves employee mental wellness and productivity.
  • Paper.id — Atur tempo pembayaran bisnis serta kirim & terima pembayaran dengan kartu kredit, invoice juga langsung sah dengan e-Meterai. Coba Sekarang!
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Stan Kuruvilla
Angel

Stan Kuruvilla ex-PayPal.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • hav. — hav. is a rewards-based health-tech platform.
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Antanas Guoga
Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Antanas Guoga was the Founder of iBus Media Network. He attended the University of Leicester.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, mHealth, Software
  • Seed
  • Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • Olivex — OliveX is a digital lifestyle company with a focus on the health and fitness industry. It operates as a subscription-based business, providing applications, smart technology, and a user experience that is built on artificial intelligence, gamification, and premium content. With users in over 170 countries including Hong Kong, Australia, and China,OliveX enables brands, influencers, and fitness coaches to engage with their consumers when at home.
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Takashi Sato
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States

Takashi Sato is a Managing Partner at MS&AD Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Computer, Software
  • Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • RIZAP — RIZAP is a chain of a private gym that offers fitness training and consulting services.
  • Jupiter Intelligence — The Trusted Leader in Climate Risk Analytics. Learn about our best-in-science solutions.
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Tomohito Ebine
Angel · Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

Tomohito Ebine is non-executive Director at Owls Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Home Services, Information Technology, Consulting
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
  • Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
  • CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
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Antonio Mazza
Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Antonio Mazza is the Co-Founder of WeNetwork.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Fitness, Internet
  • Pre-Seed
  • Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • Aman — Aman provides modern technology for growing companies to set up and manage their employee benefits, simplifying complexity of benefit administation and delivering a world-class experience. Our platform enables companies to competitively recruit, engage and retain top talents.
  • Maxi — Maxi is an anonymous work-life community platform that improves employee mental wellness and productivity.
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Ron Sim
Angel

Ron Sim

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, Fitness, Genetics
  • Series A
  • Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Imagene Labs — Imagene Labs Pte Ltd empowers consumers to optimise their health by providing customised wellness and lifestyle solutions tailored to their unique DNA profiles. Led by medical doctors and scientists, the company provides an entire ecosystem of genomics-based solutions ranging from wellness DNA tests, personalised lifestyle recommendations, bespokeskin serums and nutritional supplements, and mobile health apps that help people live, look and feel their best.
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Daniel Shin
Angel

Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • South Korea, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

  • Kek.tv — Kek eSports app. The free app, which is in public beta, is an eSports video aggregation platform that integrates multi­-source livestreams and game video replays, as well as news, statistics and tournament feeds into one socially-curated experience for the growing audience of Asian eSports fans.
  • Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
  • Korea Credit Data — • Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management solution to small and medium-sized businesses in Korea. KCD established a dominant position (M/S 70%+) through ‘Cashnote' and ‘Bizbot’ services used by more than 1.1 million businesses. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life.To this end, KCD will expand its business areas to include B2B commerce to B2C payment area.
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Senu Sam
Angel

Senu Sam Building Mykare Health

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • hav. — hav. is a rewards-based health-tech platform.
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Kamata Tomihisa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Kamada earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo. In 1984, he pursued his journey to establish his own business that focused on information appliances and mobile software, namely ACCESS Co., Ltd.. With great success, the company entered the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Market in 2001. He left ACCESS Co., Ltd. in 2011, and founded TomyK Ltd.in 2012 where he supports startups possessing revolutionary business ideas that revitalize the Japanese economy.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Medical, Genetics
  • Seed, Angel
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
  • Genomelink — Genomelink is a platform where people discover more with their DNA data and help businesses build, market and do research with it. The best founders in consumer genomics with real experience in the industry for many years, including M3, Inc. ($13B valued Meditech in Japan), a founding member of the Japanese version of 23andMe, and leadbioinformatician and software engineer at a joint-venture between Illumina and Sony. Raised $4M for Seed Round from Berkeley SkyDeck, SONY, and top-tier Japanese VCs. Supported by Illumina Accelerator, Carlos Bustamante Lab at Stanford University among others.
  • MinD in a Device — MinD in a Device Co., Ltd. is a university-launched venture that aims to port human consciousness to devices (machines and computers) in the medium to long term based on long-term research results on consciousness. As the first step toward realization, we will evolve and deepen the "generation model" considered to be the source ofconsciousness, and promote the development of next-generation AI and social implementation.
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Vijay Seshadri
Angel

Vijay Seshadri ex-Board Member, Chargebee.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • hav. — hav. is a rewards-based health-tech platform.
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Sudheer Nair
Angel

Sudheer Nair Chairman, Navio Group.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • hav. — hav. is a rewards-based health-tech platform.
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Madhu Bhaskaran
Angel · Ernakulam, Kerala, India

Madhu Bhaskaran Managing Director at Samagra Progressive Learning Solutions P Ltd

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • hav. — hav. is a rewards-based health-tech platform.
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George Godula
Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments. Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, China, Algeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Mila Cares — Air breathers, rejoice. Meet Mila, the first air purifier designed with real, air-breathing humans in mind.
  • Yassir — La superapp Yassir propose des services de transport, de livraison et de paiement pour vous simplifier la vie
  • Truck It In — is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential
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Emili Nirmala
Angel

Emili Nirmala is the manager at LingoAce.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Wellness, Mobile Apps
  • Pre-Seed
  • Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • Maxi — Maxi is an anonymous work-life community platform that improves employee mental wellness and productivity.
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Minoru Moriya
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Minoru Moriya is a director at AuB.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • M-Box — M-Box provides IT solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and operates web services.
  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
  • Willbox — Willbox is an international logistics company providing an international logistics digital platform for shippers and logistics companies. The company's platform "Giho" connects shippers and logistics companies (transportation, packaging, warehousing, customs clearance, etc.) with a direct contract. It visualizes the three elements of[lead time, money, and safety], which have been regarded as a black box, and supports comparative examination and decision making. Willbox digitizes the packing technique of wooden boxes and steel, mandatory for international logistics, and incorporated them into their system. Their mission is to solve the logistics issues focusing on the large cargo of industrial products.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa.
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Kenji Endo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kenji Endo - Director @ Japan Business Systems

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Fitness, Internet
  • Seed, Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Pixta — Pixta company’s goal is to assist graphic professionals in the transfer, tracking and collaboration of digital media over the Internet. We build Internet “Cloud”-based applications that provide a great customer experience, easy-to-use, secure and reliable.To assist our customers in transferring large-files simply and securely across the Internet,we built PixtaSynapse. Using PixtaSynapse, the sender needs only a web-browser to send files. To make the service super-reliable, we built the servers and core-technology for our custom file processing pipeline. We then located those key-servers one-hop off the Internet backbone to reduce latency. Our core file pipeline is physically located in a secure Class A co-location facility. We have setup secure, automated, off-site backups to safeguard our customers data in case of a catastrophic emergency.
  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
  • Address Japan — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.
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