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Top 20 Music Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023

A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Music startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Music companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Music Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023

Investor Music Asia investments
Kotaro Chiba 2
Yat Siu 2
Kotaro Chiba 2
Michael Hansen 2
Adam Lindemann 1
Ken Soga 1
Takashi Shibayama 1
Kazuomi Kaneto 1
Masaru Sunagawa 1
Masanori Sugiyama 1
Minhong Yu 1
Max Loong 1
Tom James 1
Soga Takeshi 1
Hongyu Zhang 1
Daiki Ichikawa 1
Johan Lidström 1
Atsushi Fukuda 1
Masashige Obara 1
Shuhei Yamashita 1

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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Content, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Yat Siu
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 8 investments in the past 12 months

Yat Siu is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Outblaze a messaging communications company that services over 40 million users today based out of Hong Kong.Yat has previously worked for Atari Germany, served as Director and Head of East Coast Operations for Lexicor, established Hong Kong Cybercity (the first free web page and e-mail providerin Asia, later renamed Freenation), as well as AT&T Solutions System Integration practice.He has been named a Global Leader of Tomorrow and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.It has been reported that Yat Siu sold Outblaze messaging to IBM to become Lotus iNotes.Yat is also responsible FON's operations in China.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Gaming, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
  • Gusto Collective — First brandtech group using the latest technology to help brands create content and experiences across the physical and virtual worlds.
  • OneFootball — OneFootball covers over 100 international soccer leagues and competitions live and in incomparable detail.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Drones, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Michael Hansen
Angel

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Art, SaaS
  • Seed
  • Germany, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • ChartMogul — SaaS & subscription reporting, analytics & metrics for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and PayPal. In one click get your MRR, LTV, churn rate, cohort analysis and more.
  • Soundbrenner — Innovative music tools that remove the hassle from your practice. Master your craft with the Core, Pulse or our app The Metronome.
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Adam Lindemann
Angel · Sai Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong

Adam Lindemann is an entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the founder and Chairman of imindi.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Art, Music
  • Seed, Post-IPO Debt, Post-IPO Equity
  • Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Get Jamn — WHO THEY AREJamn PLAYER is from Johnny Quattro and a Hong Kong-based team. It began after Johnny sold his successful snowboard design consultancy and launched a music business to make music easier and more fun. The first app, Jamn Multi-Tool, featured Johnny’s patent-pending Jamn Wheel and presents complex music theory in a way anyone canunderstand. Under his leadership the app scored over a million downloads and multiple awards. Together since 2012, the core team’s responsibilities span design and coding.WHY THEY'RE DOING THISAs musicians they understand the challenges people encounter when playing music. They want to make discovering and playing music easier for everyone, so they developed a series of Jamn products to break down those barriers. Their latest app, Jamn PLAYER, launched mid-January 2015, garnered over half a million downloads within the first few weeks. It has also attracted enquiries from leading investment firms from across the world, musicians and labels for partnership opportunities.MOST IMPRESSIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTThey bootstrapped and developed a product and business model that generates revenue and can be rapidly scaled. They've also proven themselves as a strong team with more than one successful product. Now they're ready for the next step to make PLAYER bigger and smarter than before!Jamn Multi-Tool - Find chords to any key fast - over a million downloads - features a patent-pending Jamn wheel - Apple iTunes Best of 2013 apps - Hong Kong ICT Awards 2014 Find out more at http://getjamn.com/more-apps
  • Imindi — IMINDI is the world's first Thought Engine that helps people to collect their thoughts and share them with like minded people on the web.Imindi is as simple to use as a blog but but brings together sophisticated semantic annotation and thought mapping and recommendation technology under the hood to help people to discover new thoughts andeven create new knowledge by connecting with other liked-minded people.IMINDI is the latest research development in the sixty year old field of augmenting human intelligence via computer science that was pioneered by the likes of Vannever Bush and Douglas Englebart. IMINDI has taken the state of the art a step forward by adding some insights from the field of neuroscience and cognitive psychology to form a new patent-pending technology.The vision of the semantic web and artificial intelligence is ultimately to teach computers to think. IMINDI takes the opposite approach by claiming that we should be using computers to help individual humans think.By capturing a database of thoughts and their associations IMINDI is building a global mind index which is an entirely new resource for building collective intelligence and leveraging human creativity and subjectivity on the web.
  • TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
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Ken Soga
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ken Soga is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Music, Mobile, Content
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • UNIVRS — UNIVRS is a popular market and entertainment platform.
  • SAKELOGY — SAKELOGY is a platform enables restaurants and retailers to easily create cloud-based sake menus.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
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Takashi Shibayama
Angel

Takashi Shibayama

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Investment focus

  • Music, EBooks, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • FOWD — FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.
  • AtHearth — AtHearth is a real estate agency offering specialized services for expats in Tokyo. Find Out More.
  • Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
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Kazuomi Kaneto
Angel

Kazuomi Kaneto is the Founder & CEO of Dream Project Incubators. He previously worked at Pacifico Energy as a Founder, President & CEO. Kazuomi Kaneto attended Tsinghua University.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Music, Energy
  • Seed, Series B, Series C
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Sustainable Lab — SusLab is a data bank that uses AI technology to support SDG and ESG development goals and investments.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Persistent Energy Partners — Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.
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Masaru Sunagawa
Angel

After joining Mitsubishi Corporation, he studied at Harvard Business School. After graduating, he joined Globespan Capital Partners, an independent United States VC, and worked as a director of investment. He started LocationValue after the company's representative in Japan. Joined Google after selling the company to NTT DOCOMO. He served asDirector of Product Development for Google Maps and General Manager for Android. He left Google in February 2018 and started Smartround Co., Ltd. in May.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
  • Sustainable Lab — SusLab is a data bank that uses AI technology to support SDG and ESG development goals and investments.
  • yup — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
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Masanori Sugiyama
Angel

He graduated from Kansai University in 1988. He was enrolled in Ljoma while he was in college. 2002 Vice President of Practice (now index lights). In 2004, he became president of zappallas. Listed on the TSE Mothers in the second year of his appointment, and in 2010 he was listed in part of the TSE. In 2011 he became the CEO of enish. Listed on apart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thereafter, he served as outside directors such as Nikkatsu and JibannetHD.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • STUDIO — Studio is a web design & development platform that enables users to build websites from scratch without coding.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
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Minhong Yu
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China

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.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Social Media, Mobile
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • China

Portfolio highlights

  • Bottomsup — Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content.
  • Kuaipeilian — Kuaipeilian is an online piano training platform
  • Pingo Space — Pingo Space is a mobile platform that connects locals to expats through in-person experiences.
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Max Loong
Angel

Max Loong

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Investment focus

  • Music, Media and Entertainment
  • Pre-Seed
  • Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • ACE — Get Personalized Video Greeting Messages from Celebrities for Birthdays, anniversaries. ACE is the #1 platform to get video greetings from celebrities.
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Tom James
Angel · Abbotsbury, Dorset, United Kingdom

Tom James - Advisor @ OneLogin

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
  • seedata.io — Using deception technology, our platform enables customers to deploy decoys quickly, automatically rotate them, and detect potential attackers early, reducing the chances of a security incident going unnoticed.
  • MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.
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Soga Takeshi
Angel · Nerima, Tokyo, Japan

Soga Takeshi

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Investment focus

  • Music, Mobile, Content
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • UNIVRS — UNIVRS is a popular market and entertainment platform.
  • SAKELOGY — SAKELOGY is a platform enables restaurants and retailers to easily create cloud-based sake menus.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
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Hongyu Zhang
Angel

The founder of PPS, the leading peer-to-peer streaming video network software in China. After PPS was purchased by Baidu for USD 370m, Mr. Zhang served as the co-CEO of Iqiyi, one of the largest online video platform. Hongyu has extensive knowledge in the fields of internet and content streaming in China.

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Investment focus

  • Art, Apps, Music
  • Series A
  • China

Portfolio highlights

  • Artand — Artand is a community business platform and an online gallery for artists.
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Daiki Ichikawa
Angel

Daiki Ichikawa

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Investment focus

  • Music, EBooks, Gaming
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • FOWD — FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.
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Johan Lidström
Angel · Umeå, Vasterbottens Lan, Sweden

Johan Lidström - Founding Partner @ Northern Light Capital

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Investment focus

  • Music, Big Data, Mobile Apps
  • Pre-Seed
  • Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • NUSIC — NUSIC is a social music platform for making mashups and remixes, powered by an AI DJ. It enables everyone to unleash their musical creativity and make their own mashups and remixes. Through a wide and comprehensive selection of creator submitted songs, NUSIC creates new mixing possibilities for the user and new revenue streams for music creators.
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Atsushi Fukuda
Angel

Atsushi Fukuda is the president of Speedy.

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Investment focus

  • Music, Content Creators, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
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Masashige Obara
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Masashige Obara

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Investment focus

  • E-Learning, Education, SNS
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Lang-8 — Lang-8 is the best place for learning and practicing foreign languages. Post an entry in the language you are learning, then a native speaker will correct your entries. Currently there are more than 80 languages available on Lang-8.
  • LanCul — LanCul is an education based start up.
  • TIGALA — TIGALA is deployed M & A services
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Shuhei Yamashita
Angel

Shuhei Yamashita - Representative Director @ CRE

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Investment focus

  • Music, Content Creators, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
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