# Top 50 Mobile Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023

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

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

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

Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.

## Ayataro Nakagawa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

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

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

## Kotaro Chiba
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Content, Software

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

## Jun Nishikawa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Content

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ eureka, Inc.

## Yu Akasaka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Content, Internet

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

## Yusuke Sato
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Content, Food and Beverage

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

## 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.

## Hidetoshi Takano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment

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.

## Owen Van Natta
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Internet

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

## Takashi Shibayama
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Music, EBooks, Gaming

Takashi Shibayama

## Carman Chan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Carman Chan is one of the top 5 Women to watch in Asia Tech (Nikkei Asian Review). She is a veteran in the technology industry with decades of experience as an entrepreneur with multiple exits, a tech columnist and a globally recognized venture capitalist.Carman is the founder of Click Ventures, a global early stage venture capital firm. ClickVentures has grown into a leading investment manager, and two of its funds are featured as Top 5 Seed Fund (Vintage 2003-2015) in the world and Top 4 Funds to Watch by Preqin respectively. Click Ventures' investments include Spotify (ipo), Docusign(ipo), Palantir, Memebox and Youappi.

## Masao Ito
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Content, Social Media, Information Technology

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

## Yasuyuki Kin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning

Yasuyuki Kin

## Masahiko Inada
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: SNS, Content, Finance

Masahiko Inada is the Venture Advisor at DNX Ventures. He was Founder and Chairman at Kabuku Inc. He attended The University of Tokyo.

## Julian Farrior
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Film, Comics

Julian Farrior

## Teruhide Sato
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

Teruhide Sato is President and Group CEO of netprice.com, Ltd., a global internet and e-commerce business incubator group (Tokyo Stock Exchange 3328). Lead the group to deliver the latest experience in online shopping across Japan, US, Europe and Asia. Strongly believe in the power of entrepreneurship.

## Joel Neoh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Wellness

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

## Justin Kan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal. He attended Yale University.

## Shintaro Yamada
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Finance, Information Technology

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

## Sunghwan Choi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Sunghwan Choi

## Darius Cheung
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, FinTech

Darius Cheung is co-founder of BillPin and CEO/co-founder of McAfee-acquired tenCube.

## Shogo Kawada
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Media and Entertainment

Shogo Kawada is Co-founder and Adviser of DeNA, a global Internet company focused on a social games platform, social games, e-commerce and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs.

## Soichiro Kawai
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet

Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost

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

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

## Komura Fujio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Ethereum, Marketing

Komura Fujio

## Anand Chandrasekaran
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Anand Chandrasekaran is a Partner at General Catalyst. He previously worked at Facebook and attended Stanford University.

## Kensuke Furukawa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Media and Entertainment, Software

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

## Nobuhiro Ariyasu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Internet, Finance

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

## Sriram Krishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Sriram Krishnan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests in early stage consumer startups. Today, Sriram serves on the board of Hopin. Prior to joining a16z, Sriram held numerous senior product roles. Most recently, he led core consumer teams at Twitter where he was responsible for products including the home timeline, newuser experience, search, discovery, and audience growth. Before this, Sriram created and oversaw various mobile ad products for both Snap and Facebook, including Snap’s Direct Response ads business and the Facebook Audience Network, one of the largest networks in display advertising. Sriram started his career at Microsoft where he touched numerous projects related to Windows Azure. He is the author of "Programming Windows Azure" published by O'Reilly.Sriram writes actively at @sriramk on Twitter and at sriramk.com. Along with his wife Aarthi Ramamurthy, he also co-hosts The Good Time Show on Clubhouse, a nightly show through which they interview innovators around tech and culture.

## Julian Shapiro
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Julian Shapiro is a Partner at Hyper and a Startup Investor at Julian.capital. He previously worked as the Founder of Demand Curve, a Columnist — Growth Marketing at TechCrunch, and VP of Marketing at Webflow. Julian attended Y Combinator.

## Hirofumi Miki
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## 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.

## JJ Chai
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Real Estate, Rental Property

JJ Chai is the CEO & co-founder at Rainforest. He attended National University of Singapore.

## Aldi Haryopratomo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Banking, Mobile Apps, Construction

Aldi Haryopratomo joined Gojek with a vision to accelerate the adoption of financial services for the un- and underbanked. He is the co-founder of MAPAN, an Indonesian group-saving network acquired by Gojek Group in 2017. Aldi built MAPAN because he believes that harnessing the power of communities can boost equality. He grew the company frominception to the organisation it is today, with nearly 1,000 employees serving over 2,5 million families in 115 cities across Indonesia.Aldi has dedicated his entire career to supporting lower income communities to improve their lives. He was an early employee at Kiva, a San Francisco based non-profit organization, for which he toured around Indonesia, Cambodia, and Vietnam on a motorbike in search of micro-finance banks. He then worked at The Boston Consulting Group focusing on clients targeting bottom-of-the-pyramid consumers. His work included the development of a business model for agent banking in Pakistan.

## Sagi Shorrer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Digital Entertainment, Gaming, Mobile

Sagi Shorrer is an Entrepreneur, advisor and angel investor in the digital media and technology space, with 15 years of strategic and operational experience across large companies and startups (including: Google, BBDO, i-Touch, Brainbow).
Strong focus on mobile apps, monetization and Internationalization.

## Abhinay Peddisetty
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Information Technology, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Abhinay Peddisetty is the Co-Founder of BukuWarung. He was an Angel Investor at Go Swift and the Head of Enterprise Business of APAC at Carousell before that.

## Jin Hui Wong
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Tourism, E-Commerce

Jin Hui Wong

## Phil Opamuratawongse
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps

Phil Opamuratawongse - Co-Founder @ Shipper

## Minhong Yu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Education, Social Media, Mobile

Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was anEnglish instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.

## YC Ng
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps

YC Ng - Co-Founder @ Potential VC

## Daniel Schryer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Dan Schryer was formerly CEO of DCI Data Centers, a Blackstone backed technology real estate company. Together with Guru Gowrappan, formerly CEO of Verizon Media, he co-founded Bali Venture Partners, LLC to invest in seed and growth stage debt and equity opportunities.

## Shaw Wang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Digital Media, Fashion, Consumer

Before the founding of Jiuhe Ventures, Wang Xiao was a member of the founding team of Baidu Seven Musketeers. In Baidu's first ten years, Wang Xiao built the underlying system of the first generation of search engines, served as the head of several Baidu star projects, and formed the wireless business unit in the last two years of leavingBaidu. In 2011, Wang Xiao founded Jiuhe Venture Capital and led the investment of 36 companies, the kitchen, Qingyun Qingcloud, Zepp, Fast Drug Delivery, Butter Camera, Eclipse, New Studio, and Good Residence. In the past five years, Wang Xiao has been pursuing the concept of “walking between technology and humanity” to find the top domestic startup companies, and at the same time making full use of the accumulated high-quality Internet resources of the past ten years to provide PR, market, HR and other aspects to the invested enterprises. Services; observe and promote the integration and innovation of the mobile Internet with e-commerce, healthcare, finance, education and the sharing economy.Wang Xiao holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and an MBA from China Europe International Business School. He is the Director of Oneflow.

## Masayuki SHOBAYASHI
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps

Masayuki SHOBAYASHI

## Yoshinori Fukushima
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Marketing, Media and Entertainment

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

## Neeraj Bhargava
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Film, Consumer Goods

Neeraj Bhargava is the Founder, Chairman, and Group CEO of Rainshine Global Inc. He previously worked at Allygrow as a Director. Neeraj Bhargava attended NYU Stern School of Business.

## 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

## Edward Suh
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Mobile Apps, FinTech

Edward Suh

## Huey Lin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Huey Lin is a Venture Partner with GGV Capital where she supports and advises the fund's portfolio companies. She also leads special projects at Terraformation whose mission is to catalyze global forest restoration to solve climate change. Prior to this, she was the President of Asia at Flexport, a modern freight forwarder and one of thefastest-growing companies in global trade. She led all activities for Flexport across Asia, the company’s most strategic market. She was responsible for the region’s overall strategy and P&L.Before her time at Flexport, Huey was the founding Chief Operating Officer at Affirm (NYSE: AFRM). Huey began her career at PayPal, where she spent 12 years in a variety of key leadership roles with increasing responsibilities in multiple geographies.

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