# Top 45 Mobile Apps Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023

## 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.

## 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.

## Boon Hwee Koh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Kotaro Chiba
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Content, Software

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

## 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

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

Takashi Shibayama

## Toivo Annus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

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

## Yusuke Sato
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Content, Food and Beverage

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

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

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

Sunghwan Choi

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

Komura Fujio

## 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.

## 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 Shapiro
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Sumit Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Internet, Information Technology

Sumit Jain is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur, He started online real-estate portal commonfloor.com for property seekers in 2007. Prior to that, he used to work with Oracle. As the co-founder and CEO, Sumit is responsible for driving the strategic direction for Commonfloor.com as well as delivering on company goals Hisresult-oriented approach ensures a constant and relentless focus on end-user satisfaction. Sumit Jain finds solace in a game of billiards. The game not only relaxes him, it also helps him catch up with friends or at times, make new acquaintances.

## Alexander Sie To
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps

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.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Henry Chan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Personal Health, Health Care, Medical

Henry Chan - CEO, Co-Founder @ ShopBack

## Hailong Xiang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Parenting, Mobile Apps

Hailong Xiang joined Baidu in February 2005. He serves as Vice President in charge of Baidu’s commercial operations.Xiang served as Vice President of Baidu’s direct sales for its search marketing business, from April 2007 to July 2011.Mr. Xiang graduated from East China Normal University in 2000 with a degree in computer science.In 2001, Mr.Xiang established Shanghai Qilang, an Internet services firm, and served as its general manager.He joined Baidu with the acquisition of Shanghai Qilang in February 2005. Since joining, Mr. Xiang has led his team in completing the transformation of Baidu’s direct sales organization, effectively improving its structure, business processes, incentive systems, and marketing methods.He now oversees commercial product development, service management, and the Baidu Union.

## Guillaume Luccisano
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps

Guillaume Luccisano was the Co-Founder of TripleByte and Socialcam. He attended EPITECH for his degree in computer science.

## Murat Abdrakhmanov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Advertising

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

## Iwan Kurniawan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile Apps, FinTech, Fitness

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

## Joseph Prabantara
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Sports

Joseph has 8 years of experience in entrepreneurship, especially in the fields of multimedia, brand design, and event management, having also handled one of a national event in Indonesia, “Sepeda Nusantara 2018” which was held in major cities across Indonesia.He is the Founder of Socialive a company engaged in Event Activation & MediaProduction and is a leading provider of Social Media Photo Booths in Indonesia with over 100 successful events in 1 year.
Joseph has built businesses that utilize unskilled labor and developing these talents into skilled professionals through on-the-job training. Some of these professionals has developed into micro and small business leaders.Joseph is also actively involved in sports associations and youth activities, whilst also being experienced in procuring ticketing solutions for regional sporting events, including Indonesian football matches. He holds a Business Administration/Management Diploma from Macquarie University and a degree in Graphic Design & Multimedia from Raffles College (KvB), both in Sydney, Australia.

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

## Peng T. Ong
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Enterprise Software

Peng is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a leading early-stage tech venture capital firm in Southeast Asia. Peng is an industry veteran with over 25 years of industry as an entrepreneur, founder, and investor in Silicon Valley and in Asia. He is based in Indonesia and is a board member of Glints, ELSA, Intelligent VideoSolutions, STOQO and Escapex.Prior to Monk’s Hill Ventures, he was a Venture Partner at GSR Ventures in China. The firm is known for its successful investments in companies like Didi Chuxing and Qunar. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded a series of successful companies including Electric Classifieds (today known as Match.com), Interwoven and Eccentuate, which combined today generate over USD$1 billion in revenues annually.Peng is currently the Chairman of SolveEducation! and serves as a board member of the International Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin and SEA Founders.Peng earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.

## Wing Vasiksiri
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Social, Payments

Wing Vasiksiri

## Antonio Mazza
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Fitness, Internet

Antonio Mazza is the Co-Founder of WeNetwork.

## 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

## Vidit Aatrey
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, Internet, E-Commerce

Vidit Aatrey is Founder and CEO at Meesho. He previously worked at InMobi as a Strategy. Vidit Aatrey attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

## Greysia Polii
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Information Services, Information Technology

Greysia Polii is an individual investor.

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

Jin Hui Wong

## Shintaro Yamada
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Alan Rutledge
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Alan Rutledge

## Naishadh Udeshi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Casual Games

Naishadh Udeshi

## Emili Nirmala
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Mobile Apps

Emili Nirmala is the manager at LingoAce.

## kaniz Almas khan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Legal, FinTech, Legal Tech

Ceo

## Roshan Rajappa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Marketplace

Roshan Rajappa

## Nobuyuki Nakagawa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps

Nobuyuki Nakagawa - President and CEO @ Mynavi

## Leo Lee
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Sports

Leo Lee is a CEO of Heonz Corp.

## Reinaldo Tendean
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Sports

Reinaldo is the Co-Founder at Finku. He attended University of California, Berkeley.

## Dr. Rohitha De Silva
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Casual Games

Dr. Rohitha De Silva

## Meng Xiong Kuok
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Transportation

Meng Xiong Kuok - Founder & Managing Partner @ K3 Ventures

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co