Top 10 Mobile Advertising VC Funds &amp; Investors in Asia (October 2023)

Gunosy is a news curation application that covers a wide range of news from entertainment news to political news. The application finds its news from multiple web sources and presents them according to how hot the topic is. Gunosy’s features include categorized tabs; the ability to customize the categories that users need to follow and create theirown personal magazine; instant access to a wide variety of news; and push notifications to remind users of news updates.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Japan.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Marketing, E-Commerce
Stage:Series A
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

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AnyMind Group — AnyMind Group is an end-to-end Brand Enablement Platform with proprietary software that enables individuals and businesses for brand building, manufacturing, e-commerce, marketing, logistics and global expansion.

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Shanghai Langdou Enterprise Management Center is engaged in corporate management consulting, business consulting, corporate image planning.

Investment focus

Industry: SEM, Big Data, Analytics
Stage:Series A
Geography: China

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Fengbao ASO — Fengbao ASO is a data analysis platform that provide mobile application developers with marketing services.

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NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES) is a leading internet technology company dedicated to providing premium online services centered around content, community, communication and commerce. NetEase develops and operates some of the most popular PC-client and mobile games. Also, we operate Yanxuan, an e-commerce platform that caters to the risingmiddle-class consumer market in China as well as offering advertising, e-mail and other innovative services including music and online education.

Investment focus

Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 43
Round size: Seed $1.6M–$40M; Series A $687k–$38M; Series B $2.7M–$80M
Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

Vark — ActEvolve develops Blitz Freak, a multi virtual reality game. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
Rebel Wolves — Rebel Wolves is a new studio, but our team has years of experience working on some of the most critically acclaimed video games of all time.
Wanmi Culture — Wanmi Culture is a full-case marketing service provider that focuses on brand new media full-case services.

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Eagles Fund is a diversified angel fund and family fund.

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Internet
Stage:Angel, Series A, Seed
Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 76
Round size: Seed $82k–$2.7M; Angel $412k–$1.4M; Series A $412k–$4.1M
Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

Cai Xiaomi — Cai Xiaobi provides Saas service for supply chain service in agri foods.
Star Speed Store — Star Speed Store is a delivery robot provider. Star Speed Store provides hotels with delivery robots for delivering food, packages, and room service within eight minutes – a typical last-mile journey on the premises.
Tianbing Technology — Tianbing Technology is an advanced aerospace propulsion system supplier and aerospace vehicle provider. Tianbing Technology independently develops the next-generation ambient temperature green HCP liquid propellant and minimalist aerospace propulsion system. As an upgraded product of traditional chemical propulsion system, it can meetcost-effective aerospace. Advance system supporting needs. The next-generation green HCP aerospace propulsion system, first tested by Tianbing Technology, can be used in the small-vehicle main power and launch vehicle upper-level propulsion system.

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Ferry Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on building companies in the new technology industry. The firm invests in early-stage companies in three broad areas, mainly in Information Technology & Artificial Intelligence (IT & AI), Enterprise Services & Technology, and Consumer & Entertainment.FerryVenture Capital was founded in 2010 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Internet
Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 38
Round size: Seed $412k–$412k; Angel $69k–$1.4M; Series A $1.3M–$4.7M
Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

Wudun — Wudun offers wireless communication technologies such as 4G and 5G. They focuses on the edge side security field of the internet of things, They solve the security problems of IoT edge computing environment.
Jishi yu — Jishi yu focuses on offering a multi-platform/multi-channel centralized and unified intelligent customer care SaaS platform for cross-border e-commerce sellers, with the goal of meeting the needs of foreign enterprise channel acquisition, customer operation, and brand management.
Zhihui Robot — Zhihui Robot is a research and development company that makes intelligent spraying robots. Zhihui Robot is a cutting-edge technological business specializing in the research, manufacture, sale, and use of special intelligent spraying robots.

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Investment conglomerate with investments across a variety of industries, including telecommunications infrastructure, mining, real estate and biofuels. Together with its partners, Provident has founded and built three multi-billion dollar businesses in Indonesia, namely, Tower Bersama, Merdeka Copper Gold, and JD.ID.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Infrastructure
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Singapore, Thailand

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Seed $850k–$38M
Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $200M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
HeveaConnect — Agridence Rubber brings you the future of natural rubber trading. We are at the forefront of digitalising the natural rubber supply chain across the globe to create a data-enriched, technology-powered ecosystem. This digital transformation enables deeper analysis of the supply chain to uncover environmental, social and financial risks allowing targeted interventions. At Agridence Rubber we use technology to enable data transparency and strengthen trust. We provide industry intelligence and insights to empower our customers to make smarter decisions. We strive to identify issues and deliver solutions that will redefine how commodities are produced and traded.
Bersama Digital Infrastructure — Bersama Digital Infrastructure is a digital infrastructure platform controlled by Provident Capital and Saratoga. Bersama Digital Infrastructure operates telecom towers, fibre and data centres in southeast asia.

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Since its establishment in 1990, JAFCO Asia has grown to become a leading brand in the venture capital industry in the Asia Pacific region. Currently, JAFCO Asia has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and Beijing.With more than US$1.2 billion funds under management in aggregate, JAFCO Asia's experienced investment team hasinvested in over 368 companies in 13 countries (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, India, Israel and Vietnam) and divested more than 260 companies of which at least 86 have been publicly listed.Since the new millennium, JAFCO Asia has shifted its focus entirely to technology related investments and is now one of the pre-eminent venture capital technology investors in the region. They believe that their existing portfolio in the Asia Pacific region and the worldwide business network offer their portfolio companies significant potential for synergistic partnerships.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
Geography: China, United States, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 139
Round size: Series A $1.5M–$16M; Series B $2.8M–$32M; Series C $8M–$43M
Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

MFast — MFast operates as a fintech platform. MFAST is a brand under Digital Payment Solution Joint Stock Company - DigiPay JSC.
VenWiz — Find and connect with vendors matched to your requirements and manufacturing plant based on their capabilities and experience
Savelots — Savelots is a membership-based discount chain brand that primarily operates in discount retail and department store related activities.

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Gene Capital is a venture capital fund founded by Cao Yundong, co-founder of TAL Education Group, in 2014. Their management team consists of successful entrepreneurs and highly experienced investors. They are committed to seeking excellent genes to assist the education industry and startups in the TMT sector to make great dreams come true. GeneCapital aims to help entrepreneurs who are passionate about entrepreneurship, have a deep understanding and acute awareness of the industry’s development trends, and utilize their investment concept to make their dreams come true.Their investment philosophy is to focus on entrepreneurial genes: Excellent entrepreneurial teams have excellent entrepreneurial genes, which are the core factors for long-term business development.

Investment focus

Industry: Education, Internet, E-Learning
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: China, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 20
Round size: Series A $1.4M–$30M; Series B $2.7M–$24M
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

Sunmnet — Sunmnet specializes in providing smart education technology and solutions. It utilizes big data, artificial intelligence, facial recognition, and IoT that enables clients to develop efficient education systems and infrastructure.
Fengbao ASO — Fengbao ASO is a data analysis platform that provide mobile application developers with marketing services.
Delta Service Location — Delta Service Location is a provider of pumping and temporary energy equipment.

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47 Ventures invest in high growth Pakistani businesses that leverage technology for scale.

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, iOS, Android
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Pakistan, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Seed $226k–$700k; Series A $1M–$3.3M
Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

1Bstories — Helping publishers and brands increase engagement and conversions using AI. Mobile, vertical, 60 second video formats made in an instant. Tell your story today!
Healthwire — Discover innovative digital healthcare services with Healthwire. From health management systems to online video consultation, find everything on Healthwire in a single click.
Jeeto Naye Andaz Say — Jeeto Naye Andaz Say is Pakistan’s first live mobile game show that enables you to win exciting prizes by answering 10 simple questions. Join the smartest Pakistani’s and win daily prizes by freely participating in the live show. Win game points, become part of lucky draws, get lifelines and other power ups to boost your chances of winning.

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