Top 15 Impact Startup Investors in Hong Kong in October 2023
Top 15 Impact Startup Investors in Hong Kong in October 2023
| Investor | Impact Hong Kong investments |
|---|---|
| Sunghwan Choi | 2 |
| ConsenSys | 2 |
| 2150 | 1 |
| HK Tech 300 | 1 |
| Bain Capital Private Equity | 1 |
| Kerogen Capital | 1 |
| Artesian VC | 1 |
| Choco Up | 1 |
| Nomura | 1 |
| G2H2 Capital | 1 |
| Mandra Capital | 1 |
| FJ Labs | 1 |
| Animoca Brands | 1 |
| WI Harper Group | 1 |
| John Wood | 1 |
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Sunghwan Choi
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Jerry — Jerry is an AI, ML, and bot-powered car ownership app that saves customers time and money on car expenses. With its first product, Jerry redesigned and disrupted the century-old car insurance process, turning stacks of pages and hours of calls into a handful of clicks. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
- CHAI — CHAI is a mobile payments dApp that allows consumers to pay for items online by simply adding their bank account.
- Sequin — Step into your financial power today! Unlock access to high interest checking and expert guidance.
Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pimlico — Leverage Pimlico to get more users by unlocking the full potential of gas sponsorships.
- HyperPlay — HyperPlay is a web3-native game launcher that enables players to carry their wallet, NFTs, tokens, and achievements into every game.
- Intuition — Intuition provides decentralized infrastructure, developer tools, and applications enabling the creation of an open, flexible knowledge graph enhancing the quality and availability of social knowledge.
2150 backs technology companies who aim to shape the sustainable cities of the future. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.
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- Information Technology, Construction, Software
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Hometree — Keep yourself warm with Hometree, and try our no price hike promise. Compare our different boiler & home cover plans to see how you can save.
- Ampd Energy — Ampd Energy is driven by its vision for an emission-free future for construction. Ampd Energy pioneered the use of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in urban construction with its flagship product, the "Enertainer". The Enertainer electrifies construction sites and provides clean, quiet and fully automated energy delivery, allowingconstruction to transition away from fossil fuels.Compared to fossil fuel generators, the Enertainer: reduces carbon footprint by up to 85%; is 32x quieter; emits zero diesel fumes; eliminates diesel handling and usage risks; has zero maintenance and refuelling downtime; and is economically justified for operational cost savings. As an IoT enabled device, the Enertainer can be remotely monitored anytime and anywhere, providing a deep level of data-transparency for data-driven decision making.Website: www.ampd.energy LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ampd_energy
- Kelvin — The Radiator Labs system provides room level temperature control and eliminates overheating in all radiator-heated buildings
HK Tech 300 is a large-scale flagship innovation and entrepreneurship programme organised by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) for aspiring entrepreneurs among CityU students, alumni, research staff and others* to launch start-ups and ignite their entrepreneurship journey. The programme aims to create 300 start-ups in three years, providingeducational and growth opportunities for CityU students, and translating CityU research results and intellectual properties into practical applications.
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- Waste Management, Environmental Consulting
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- i2Cool — i2Cool is a technology start-up that provides new and long-term solutions for a green, low-carbon society.
Building and growing great companies around the world
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- Health Care, Medical Device, Big Data
- Private Equity, Series A, Post-IPO Debt
- United States, China, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- EcoCeres — EcoCeres is an innovative biomass utilization company with strong R&D capability and excellent ESG performance. EcoCeres focuses on the utilization of bio-grease and agricultural waste. EcoCeres creates decarbonization solutions to help the world achieve carbon neutrality.
- CitiusTech — CitiusTech enables healthcare organizations (payers, providers, medical tech & life sciences companies) to reinvent themselves by accelerating digital innovation, leveraging next-gen technologies and driving convergence.
- Virgin Voyages — Ahoy Sailor! Welcome to Virgin Voyages: our adult only cruise ships redefine luxury cruise vacations to the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Europe, and beyond.
Kerogen Capital is an independent private equity fund manager specialising in the international oil and gas sector.
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- Energy, Oil and Gas, Energy Efficiency
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Enervee — Enervee marketplace empowers utilities to exceed energy efficiency targets, promote electrification, and increase customer satisfaction, without the need for rebates.
- EcoCeres — EcoCeres is an innovative biomass utilization company with strong R&D capability and excellent ESG performance. EcoCeres focuses on the utilization of bio-grease and agricultural waste. EcoCeres creates decarbonization solutions to help the world achieve carbon neutrality.
- Geothermal Engineering — Geothermal Engineering Limited is a world-leading company working on the development of deep geothermal heat and power projects.
Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, Hong Kong
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- ZoomAgri — ZOOMAGRI provides an assessment of agricultural commodities to all participants of Agri supply chain via AI, computer vision and IoT.
- Supplynote — End-to-end supply chain management tool to track inventory, orders, payments and suppliers online
- Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.
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- Supply Chain Management, Music, Software
- Debt Financing, Seed, Corporate Round
- Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Popsical — Step into the world of music and enhance your singing skills with a Popsical today!
- ReverseAds — ReverseAds digital advertising platform powered by AI algorithm. B2B and B2C cookieless advertising campaigns, alternative to Google Ads and Facebook Ads.
- Soundbrenner — Innovative music tools that remove the hassle from your practice. Master your craft with the Core, Pulse or our app The Metronome.
Nomura is an investment banking and securities firm that serve the needs of individuals, institutions, corporate and governments.Nomura is a financial services group and global investment bank. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs about 26,000 staff worldwide. It operates through fivebusiness divisions: retail (in Japan), global markets, investment banking, merchant banking, and asset management.Nomura with a nationwide network of branch offices, call centers and Internet services, the company continues to provide world-class products and services centered on consulting-based sales, and implement a series of strategic initiatives to ensure we remain a trusted partner to its clients.Asset Management achieves stable and sustainable growth as an asset management company that is trusted by investors around the world and will contribute to an increase in earnings by expanding the client franchise of the Nomura Group.
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- Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- United States, India, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Updater Services — Updater Services (P) Limited is India's largest facility management services company, with more than 35,000 people spread across the country with a strong branch network. UDS offers a comprehensive and integrated facility management services for Commercial, IT Parks, Township, Manufacturing, Hospitality, Healthcare, Residential, Retail, BFSIand other industries.
- ideaForge — ideaForge develops and produces Unmanned Aerial Systems that offer unmatched usability due to its user-centric innovations and design. With a focus on sustainable use in operation, it ensures the highest quality and performance of its products. It is in constant pursuit of creating products that inspire a new vision.Founded in 2007 by IIT Mumbaialumni Ankit Mehta, Rahul Singh, Vipul Joshi, and Ashish Bhat, IdeaForge is headquartered in Mumbai, India.
- LINE Securities — LINE Securities is a provider of remote securities brokerage and securities investment consultation services.
Investing in expertly sourced initial coin offerings that undergo deep-dive technical validation and generate rapid returns.
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- Blockchain, Ethereum, Internet
- Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Pre-Seed
- China, Gibraltar, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- IOTW — Low-cost and one-stop IoT platform to optimize any IoT and Apps business with real-time connectivity, cloud hosting, data collection, learn more...
- Dbrain — Dbrain provides a full-stack solution for document data extraction by merging AI with human-in-the-loop.Classic optical character recognition (OCR) without AI fails to serve document data extraction needs. New AI-based algorithms help, but full automation with artificial intelligence will not be possible for a very long time. We providefull-stack automation with super-human accuracy by utilizing a humans-in-the-loop component on top of our AI algorithms.Clients no longer need to manage an in-house team to supervise the process. From 40 to 100% of the client's team time is unleashed to serve customer loyalty and decision-making, with the benefits of increased conversion, reduced error and fraud, tighter compliance, etc.
- Loopring — Loopring is a zkRollup Layer2 for Trading and Payment.
Mandra Capital is an investment holding company focused on early stage and growth opportunities in internet, materials, pharmaceuticals and technologies. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mandra-capital-2#sthash.OUzqU6qX.dpuf
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- China, United States, Japan
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- Order Handler — Order Handler is a E-commerce Start Up based in Shanghai.
- Keo Technology Group — Keo Technology Group is an ed-tech startup that aims to create innovative solutions for the education industry. Through its many products, Keo Plus and Dash, we are on a mission to transform career discovery and upskilling through providing an inclusive ecosystem built and sustained by the students, teachers, and supporters. Backed by AminoCapital(early-investors of Chime Bank, Zoom, Webflow) and Mandra Capital, we are a team of curious, ambitious, and bold individuals with a common vision: Learn and Redefine. We promote a culture of life-long learning and positive transformation, hoping to empower everyone to achieve their daring dreams. Dash is our skill-sharing marketplace. We believe that everybody has skills that can empower others. Dash seeks to make education more fun through a unique incentive scheme built on common prosperity. Start earning as a teacher, student, investor, or supporter; learn and earn without boundaries!
- Dreamshare Network Technology — It is embedded in the mobile phone system in the form of SDK (software development kit), which becomes a system-level function. The whole product covers mobile phone users and open platforms. The mobile phone user terminal presents the "scene card" in the negative screen of the mobile phone, the notification bar and the like, and providesthe corresponding entry service to the user in a timely manner. The open platform is aimed at the scene merchants, providing management services such as management platforms and data platforms for the merchants. Relying on scene recognition and accurate information service to introduce innovative technologies, and constructing a new connection method of “people and scenes”, users can use it in any scene without paying attention to the public number or downloading the APP.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
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- Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
- Cardino — Cardino - Verkaufen Sie Ihr E-Auto digital zum besten Preis. Entdecken Sie die einfache und bequeme Art, Ihr Elektroauto online zu verkaufen.
- Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom
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- Clozer — Sell experiences & run gamified giveaways to grow your music streams
- move.ai — Move.ai provides motion capture platforms and tools to enable augmented and extended reality productions using AI and computer vision.
- SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.
WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and early expansion investments in Mainland China, Taiwan and Silicon Valley.It was founded in 1993. Made 300+ investments with 80+ exits. Manages 9 funds and over $1B in capital through 19 dedicated investment professionals located in Beijing, Taipei and San Francisco.Thefirm's focus is technology, clean technology and healthcare. Its track record includes
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Taiwan, China
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- Bitmark — Bitmark restores trust in data. Our end-to-end Internet protocol secures the provenance of data. This makes it possible to have verifiable information, digital property rights, and safe sharing of personal data—without the need for trusted third parties. UC Berkeley, Pfizer, and KKBOX use Bitmark in healthcare, music, art, and more. #digitalrights
- Blackpanda — Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.
- FlexCompute — Our aerodynamics & electromagnetic simulation solutions reduce solve times, time to market, overall cost, and ensure a more robust product.
John Wood is the founder of Room to Read. He started Room to Read after a fast-paced and distinguished career with Microsoft from 1991 to 1999. He was in charge of marketing and business development teams throughout Asia, including serving as director of business development for the Greater China region and as director of marketing for theAsia-Pacific region. John continues to bring Room to Read a vision for a scalable solution to developing global educational problems with an intense focus on results and an ability to attract a world-class group of employees, volunteers, and funders.Today, John focuses full-time on long-term strategy, capital acquisition, public speaking, and media opportunities for the organization. John also teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and New York University’s Stern School of Business and serves on the Advisory Board of the Clinton Global Initiative.John holds a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Colorado and a master’s degree from the Kellogg School of Northwestern University. Follow John on Twitter @JohnWoodRtR.
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- Retail, Fashion, Children
- Seed, Series A
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Retykle — Buy & sell new and second hand designer children's clothing at up to 90% off. Shop today for great discounts on clothes, shoes and accessories from over 2000+ of the best baby and kids brands
- Green Monday Holdings — Green Monday Holdings is a manufacturer of plant-based pork substitute products and frozen meals and an operator of a chain of vegetarian-focused retail outlets and cafes.
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