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Top 15 Music Angel Investors in Asia (October 2023)

The most active angel investors investing in Asia Music startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Asia Music startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Drones, Software $700k–$206M
Michael Hansen
Angel
2 Germany, Hong Kong Seed Software, Art, SaaS $500k–$600k
Yat Siu
Angel
2 United States, Hong Kong, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Software $1M–$32M
Adam Lindemann
Angel
1 Hong Kong, United States Seed, Post-IPO Debt, Post-IPO Equity Apps, Art, Music
Ken Soga
Angel
1 Japan Seed Music, Mobile, Content
Takashi Shibayama
Angel
1 Japan Seed Music, EBooks, Gaming
Masaru Sunagawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music $8.9M–$11M
Masanori Sugiyama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment $5.8M–$18M
Minhong Yu
Angel
1 China Seed, Angel, Series A Education, Social Media, Mobile
Max Loong
Angel
1 Singapore Pre-Seed Music, Media and Entertainment
Soga Takeshi
Angel
1 Japan Seed Music, Mobile, Content $5.8M–$9.6M
Hongyu Zhang
Angel
1 China Series A Art, Apps, Music
Johan Lidström
Angel
1 Hong Kong Pre-Seed Music, Big Data, Mobile Apps
Kazuomi Kaneto
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series B, Series C Artificial Intelligence, Music, Energy
Daiki Ichikawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed Music, EBooks, Gaming
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Music startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Drones, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$41M; Series A $13M–$206M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

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 · 2 investments in Asia Music startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Art, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Yat Siu
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Asia Music startups, 8 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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $4M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow

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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Adam Lindemann
Angel · Sai Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Art, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Debt, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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 · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Ken Soga is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Mobile, Content
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Takashi Shibayama

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, EBooks, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Masaru Sunagawa
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

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

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $8.9M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $5.8M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

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

  • Industry: Education, Social Media, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Max Loong

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Soga Takeshi
Angel · Nerima, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Soga Takeshi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Mobile, Content
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $5.8M–$9.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

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

  • Industry: Art, Apps, Music
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Artand — Artand is a community business platform and an online gallery for artists.
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Johan Lidström
Angel · Umeå, Vasterbottens Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Johan Lidström - Founding Partner @ Northern Light Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Big Data, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Kazuomi Kaneto
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

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

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Music, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Daiki Ichikawa
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Daiki Ichikawa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, EBooks, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • FOWD — FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.
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