# Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023

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

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

## 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.

## 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

## Bingqiang Gao
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Hardware, Coffee, Gaming

Bingqiang Gao is the Independent Non-Executive Director of Q Tech.

## Yusuke Sato
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Content, Food and Beverage

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

## Hironao Kunimitsu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Media and Entertainment, Virtual Reality

Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.

## Boon Hwee Koh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Aminur Rashid
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Shopping, Cosmetics, E-Commerce

Aminur Rashid is a co-founder of Pickaboo.com.

## Masao Ito
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Content, Social Media, Information Technology

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

## Hirofumi Miki
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Content, Marketing, Internet

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

## Ayataro Nakagawa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Wei Guo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

## Kiyoshi Nishikawa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: News, Social Media, Big Data

After working at KDD Corporation （Currently known as KDDI Corporation）, Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept” and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.

## Lei Ming
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Hardware

Lei Ming

## Arun Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Shopping, Cosmetics, E-Commerce

Arun Gupta, the Founder and CEO of MoMAGIC is a technology veteran turned first generation serial entrepreneur, with 25+ years of experience and multiple patents to his credit, while donning the hat of Director MediaTek, for close to a decade. Arun Gupta is credited with being the architect of the 1st version of MediaTek handset MMI.

## Yasumasa Manabe
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Drones, Big Data

Yasumasa Manabe

## Shigeru Urushibara
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media

Shigeru Urushibara - President & CEO @ UL Systems

## Roger Allen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Roger Allen, director and co-founder of A&B, has practical credentials directly relevant to the Fund based upon over thirty years as a chief executive of a major Australian IT services company with worldwide operations, then 13 years as an active investor in private companies in the ICT industries.Roger grew shareholder value in ComputerPower from $250k in 1978 to $170m in 1995 (at the time of his retirement) and also grew the annual revenue to over $300m and staff to more than 3,000. Roger obtained private equity from News Corporation, through the direct involvement of Rupert Murdoch, prior to taking Computer Power public on the ASX in 1987. He has direct personal experience in selling Australian information technology products and services in the USA, Europe, Asia, as well as Australia.He served for six years until 1997 as deputy chairman of Austrade and is very well known throughout the information technology industry in Australia and internationally. He was the first chief executive from an Australian company to be elected chairman of the Australian Information Industries Association, has represented Australia at the World Computer Services Forum and was vice-president of the Asia-Pacific industry organisation. He has also served on two advisory councils to the Prime Minister and has chaired state advisory boards in both NSW and Victoria. He has been an adjunct professor in the School of Entrepreneur-ship of Swinburne University and regularly lectures at INSEAD in the School of Entrepreneurship. Roger was recently awarded the 2007 Pearcey Medal for Lifetime Achievement in recognition for his outstanding contribution to the ICT industry.

## Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence

Pawoot is like an icon of Thailand online business. Many people call him "the godfather of E-Commerce"

## Jefriyanto Guang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Developer APIs, Computer Vision

Jefriyanto Guang - Co-Founder & Chief of Product @ PAYFAZZ

## Ricky Winata
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Developer APIs, Computer Vision

Ricky Winata is the Co-Founder at PAYFAZZ.

## Cheng Tao
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Telecommunications, Content, Internet

Tao Cheng currently works as Chief Executive Officer and Founder of popIn.

## Rohit Mulani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Narita Shuzo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Task Management, Media and Entertainment, Content

Narita Shuzo is a Executive Vice President/COO, CrowdWorks Inc.

## Mamoru Taniya
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Content, FinTech

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.

## Edith Yeung
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Information Technology

Edith is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and creator of the China Internet Report, and Silicon News.Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund. A few sectors we are particularly interested in are infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech verticals. She has invested in over 50 startupsincluding Agora.io (Nasdaq: API), Lightyear/Stellar (valued at $1.2B), Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Chirp (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), Solana, Oasis Labs, Hooked, DayDayCook, AISense, and many more.Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies. Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk.She frequently speaks on China and Silicon Valley technology and the investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and a commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc.Edith attended Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Purdue University.

## Kenji Niwa
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Subscription Service, Software

Founder CEO at Firstcard. Entrepreneur and Investor.

## Michael Hansen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Art, SaaS

Michael’s responsible for strategic growth in the Asia Pacific region of Zendesk. An IT sales veteran, Michael has more than 20 years experience in a variety of sales and marketing roles spanning the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia.Prior to becoming Zendesk’s first employee, Michael was selling help desk projects in Australia. Michael is anarmy officer who has studied at the Danish Technical University.

## Pramodh Rai
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Rental, Internet, Software

Pramodh Rai is the Co-Founder at Cyber Sierra. He attended Nanyang Technological University Singapore.

## Thanapol Kongboonma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Text Analytics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Thanapol Kongboonma

## Chinmay Chauhan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Matsuo Koichiro
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Robotics, Software, Information Technology

Matsuo Koichiro - Director @ Kokopelli

## Budi Handoko
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Budi Handoko - Co-Founder & COO @ Shipper

## 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.

## Taizo Son
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital

Taizo Son - Co-Founder @ VIVITA

## Shota Horii
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Art

Shota Horii

## Ken Soga
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Music, Mobile, Content

Ken Soga is an individual investor.

## Tony Zhao
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Computer, Software, E-Commerce

Tony Zhao - Founder & CEO @ Agora.io

## Kobkrit Viriyayudhakorn
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Text Analytics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Kobkrit Viriyayudhakorn

## Harveen Narulla
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Harveen is an entrepreneur. After an early career as a lawyer with top-tier firms in Singapore, he spent a decade in various lead roles in technology ventures. This included co-founding and heading Hatcher, a leading technology venture builder in Singapore, whose portfolio includes Dropsuite (ASX:DSE), Telr (Middle East’s fastest growingonline payment processor), SocialCops (India’s leading comprehensive big data play) and Hatcher+ (big data transforming venture capital investing). Harveen also co-founded Pan African Logistics (PAL), which has grown into a leading third-party logistics player in East Africa. Harveen’s key competences include assembling and aligning strong teams, marshaling resources to start and grow businesses, deal negotiation and acquisitions, spotting arbitrage opportunities, and interventionist and supporting board roles.

## Akshay Garg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Software

Akshay is the cofounder of Komli Media, Asia's largest independent digital advertising technology company. He is a Kauffman Fellow, Class 18. In hi last role with Komli, Akshay was VP, Corporate Strategy, executing investments, divestments and corporate restructuring activities. Prior to that role Akshay was VP, International BusinessDevelopment and MD, Southeast Asia, where he led and executed an aggressive M&A strategy to expand Komli's footprint across Asia, UK and USA. Within a period of 2 years, Komli acquired PostClick in Australia, Indoor Media in the UK, Aktiv Digital and Admax Network in Southeast Asia. The acquisition of Admax was a landmark deal for Komli, in terms of its complexity and size. At its peak, Komli was present was in 10 countries excluding its India homebase. Akshay was also responsible for securing and maintaining strategic alliances with several key partners such as Google, Facebook and Twitter. For the first four years, Akshay was based in Mumbai, India as MD, India, before shifting base to Sydney and then Singapore. Prior to Komli, Akshay was pursuing entrepreneurial projects in Kunming, China: an Indian restaurant and a lifestyle magazine modeled on Time Out. He was previously a research economist with the United Nations in Switzerland and a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting in the US.

## Soga Takeshi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nerima, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Music, Mobile, Content

Soga Takeshi

## Masahiko Homma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Leisure, Software

After graduating from Keio University, in the overseas investment arm of JAFCO, to carry out investments in Internet companies in Israel and Silicon Valley, JV establishment, the Japanese market business. From 2001, he worked in venture capital and corporate development department of Accenture. Works in the capital of Mitsubishi Corporationsubsidiary, to experience an IPO from venture capital MonotaRO, of Benchari public than in 2003. funds in 2007, specializing in seed stage investment of the net business, core People Partners establishment. He was appointed representative partner. is performed establishment phase of Pokerabo and gumi, the development of business investment in the establishment phase, significantly grow. 2010, incubate bait Fund No. 1 Limited Partnership establishment. Representative appointed partner.

## Igor Rybakov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: Family, Fitness, Women's

Igor Rybakov - Co-Founder @ Larix

## Padmasree Warrior
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Genetics, Automotive

Padmasree Warrior is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Fable. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of NextEV, U.S. She also serves as the Chief
Development Officer of NextEV, as well as a member of its Board of Directors. In these capacities, she is responsible for the brains of NextEV's autonomous, electric vehiclesand the overall user experience. She is based in San Jose, CA where NextEV US is headquartered.Previously, Warrior served as the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer (CTSO) for Cisco until
September 2015. In this capacity she was charged with aligning the company's technology and
business strategy to business results. She was in charge of corporate strategy, mergers,
acquisitions, venture investments, and strategic partnerships. Previous to that she was the GM for
Cisco Enterprise segment and co-led Cisco's worldwide engineering organization. Prior to joining
Cisco, she was executive vice president and CTO at Motorola. Under her leadership, Motorola was
awarded the 2004 U.S. National Medal of Technology.Padmasree Warrior has been widely recognized for her creative, visionary leadership. Forbes has
named her one of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" for three years running. In 2013, The
International Alliance for Women gave her the World of Difference Award. In 2012, Business Insider called her one of the "25 Most Influential Women in Wireless". The Aspen Institute gave her the first Leadership in Science and Technology Award. India's National Association of Software & Service Companies (NASSCOM) named her the Global CTO Award winner. The Wall Street Journal has called her one of "50 Women to Watch." Fast Company included her among the "100 Most Creative People in Business." The Economic Times listed her as "the 11th Most Influential Global Indian."Warrior holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology in New Delhi and a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell
University. In addition to NextEV's board, Warrior serves on the board of Microsoft. She previously served on the board of Gap and Box.

## Shuuichi Wada
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Reservations, Content, Social Media

Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan

## Yo Shibata
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, Content

Yo Shibata is a Co-Founder of Funds Inc.

## Yasuo Takahata
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Task Management, SNS, Recruiting

Yasuo Takahata - President @ DesignOne Japan, Inc.

## Miyajima Yuji
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Corporate Round
- Focus: Content, Blockchain, Consulting

Miyajima Yuji is a Founder & CEO at Mobile Factory.

## Keisuke Honda
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chuo, Hokkaido, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Blockchain, E-Learning

Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.

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