Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Asia (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
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6 | United States, India, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $125k–$18M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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5 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Internet, Content, Software | $343k–$73M |
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
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4 | United States, India, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $100k–$18M |
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Toivo Annus
Angel
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4 | Singapore, United States, Estonia | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, FinTech | $900k–$7M |
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Tiang Lim Foo
Angel
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3 | Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $500k–$3M |
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, Finance, Information Technology | |
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Yusuke Tanaka
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed | Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce | $16M–$18M |
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Chris McCann
Angel
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2 | United States, Singapore, Malta | Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services | |
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Do Kwon
Angel
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2 | Singapore, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $5.1M–$9M |
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
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2 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment | $480k–$11M |
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Owen Van Natta
Angel
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2 | United States, Singapore, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Mobile, Software, Internet | $550k–$40M |
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Jose L Sampedro Mazon
Angel
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2 | Singapore | Pre-Seed | Cryptocurrency, Gaming, FinTech | |
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Masaru Sunagawa
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music | $8.9M–$11M |
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Komura Fujio
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Ethereum, Marketing | |
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Yusuke Sato
Angel
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2 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Content, Food and Beverage | $2.1M–$41M |
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Lisa Gokongwei
Angel
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2 | Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Payments, Internet | $1M–$1.6M |
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Kain Warwick
Angel
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2 | United States, Australia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services | $1.3M–$12M |
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Fashion, Recruiting | $380k–$41M |
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Jonathan Chu
Angel
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2 | United States, Argentina, Indonesia | Series A, Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Developer Platform | |
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Ana Andrianova
Angel
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2 | Kenya, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | |
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Yu Akasaka
Angel
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2 | Japan, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel | Food and Beverage, Content, Internet | $412k–$66M |
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel
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2 | Japan, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Angel | SNS, Internet, Software | $2.7M–$5.5M |
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Mohandass Kalaichelvan
Angel
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2 | Singapore, India, Indonesia | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Payments, Health Care | |
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Christy Choi
Angel
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2 | Vietnam, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Cryptocurrency, Software, Video Games | |
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Dendi Suhubdy
Angel
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2 | Indonesia | Pre-Seed | Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $60k–$80k |
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Jaynti Kanani
Angel
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2 | India, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet | $1M–$11M |
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Kevin Hu
Angel
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2 | United States, Bermuda, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | |
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Jagdish Chanrai
Angel
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1 | Singapore | FinTech, Payments, Messaging | ||
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Jason Fang
Angel
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1 | United States, Taiwan, Singapore | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency | |
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Bas Godska
Angel
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1 | United States, The Netherlands, Kazakhstan | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning | $200k–$2M |
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Robert Lomnitz
Angel
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1 | Thailand | Seed | Retail, Payments, Shopping | |
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Hongyu Xing
Angel
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1 | China | Seed | Payments, E-Commerce, Financial Services | |
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John Tan
Angel
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1 | Singapore, United States, Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, Travel | $147k–$500k |
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Tao Zhang
Angel
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1 | China, United States, India | Series A, Seed | Internet, Education, Payments | |
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Adrian Vanzyl
Angel
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1 | Thailand | Seed | CRM, Big Data, Software | |
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Marketing, Internet | $3.7M–$32M |
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Takanori Katagiri
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | SNS, SaaS, Billing | |
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Andreas Antonopoulos
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | |
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Beauty, Content, Fashion | $6.9M–$6.9M |
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A | Apps, Content, FinTech | $2.3M–$45M |
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Brad Flora
Angel
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1 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $350k–$3.6M |
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Nisa Amoils
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | |
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Matthew Roszak
Angel
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1 | Singapore, United States | Seed, Debt Financing | Cryptocurrency, Computer, Ethereum | |
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Jeremy Gardner
Angel
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1 | Singapore, United States | Seed | SaaS, Grocery, Delivery | |
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Peter Thiel
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $600k–$105M |
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Daniel Curran
Angel
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1 | United States, Brazil, Canada | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Mobile | $600k–$23M |
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Aleksander Leonard Larsen
Angel
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1 | Norway, Singapore, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Video Games | $1.6M–$15M |
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Tony Fadell
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Singapore | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware | $2.9M–$25M |
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Hassan Ahmed
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | Finance, Payments, E-Commerce | |
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Edith Yeung
Angel
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1 | United States, Malaysia, Spain | Seed, Series A | Mobile, Software, Information Technology | $680k–$8M |
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Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 164
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $125k–$4.2M; Series A $1.7M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
- Parallax — Receive money as if you were abroad. Save big with best rates and lowest fees. Withdraw instantly.
- Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Internet, Content, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $343k–$41M; Series A $13M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% 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.
Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $900k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M; Series A $4.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
- Orb — A community-focused social app for people to connect, interact, and transact in their daily lives on web3 built with Lens Protocol.
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $900k–$7M; Series A $2.3M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
- GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.
Tiang Lim Foo is a Partner and co-founder of Forge Ventures. He currently serves as a Venture Partner at Next Billion Ventures. He was also a partner at SeedPlus, a leading seed fund in Southeast Asia backed by SGInnovate, Jungle Ventures, Cisco, and IFC. Previously, he launched and managed Evernote's operations in Asia. Tiang has invested incategory-leading startups in the region and currently serves as a board member of Qoala, a Sequoia-backed insurance tech company in Indonesia. Tiang graduated from Stanford with a degree in Management and Engineering and holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Honors from the National University of Singapore.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GajiGesa — GajiGesa is the preferred financial wellness partner for employers in Indonesia. GajiGesa's powerful fintech platform is built to help millions of hardworking Indonesians take control of their financial lives with dignity. The GajiGesa app provides member employees with earned wage access, financial education, and other financial managementtools to improve their long-term financial health responsibly. It also empowers employer partners with an enterprise-grade HR analytics platform to improve employee productivity, engagement, and retention by reducing financial stress for their teams. The company has seen 12x growth since January with more large enterprises keen to embrace this financial wellness solution. And we have doubled our overall enterprise customer base in the last quarter and now partner with 60+ companies, serving tens of thousands of employees. Based on GajiGesa’s most recent survey, for employers that partner with GajiGesa, over 75% of their employees have stopped using informal lenders for short term needs because our EWA solution gives them the financial security they need under the purview of the employer. GajiGesa is also increasingly popular for employees that have micro-businesses at home. They often use GajiGesa and use their salary as working capital rather than turning to informal lenders. Health related expenses is another common reason for GajiGesa usage. In early May, the company launched GajiTim, Southeast Asia’s first employee management app for MSMEs and SMEs to manage their workforce efficiently bringing transparency in income tracking and salary calculation. The app is aimed at businesses with between 5 to 100 workers and has gained more than 50,000 active users since it was launched in mid-March. This latest product innovation supercharges GajiGesa’s effort to expand financial resilience - establishing greater transparency in employee management as well as creating a holistic and meaningful integrated employee benefits solution for businesses of all sizes and their employees.The company was founded in 2020 by Martyna Malinowska (formerly Product Lead at Standard Chartered Bank, Product Director at LenddoEFL) and Vidit Agarwal (formerly Head of Business Development APAC at Stripe, COO at CARRO, and first employee at Uber in Asia). The company is Headquartered in Jakarta with a distributed team also based in India and Singapore. GajiGesa announced a US$2.5 million Seed round in February (led by Defy.vc and Quest Ventures) and an undisclosed growth round in early May from additional strategic investors including OCBC NISP Ventura, the Founders of Kopi Kenangan, and other Indonesian investors and family offices.
- Finantier — Developer-friendly Open Finance and Open Banking APIs for use cases like lending, payments, and personal finance.
- Arrow — Arrow is the best checkout experience for your online businesses that drastically increases your conversions rates. Arrow supports the all major payment gateways and is pre-built with the latest and greatest payment methods in Southeast Asia (SEA).
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.
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- Industry: Internet, Finance, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Autify — Autify - Revolutionizing Software Testing with the most advanced AI-powered Software Testing Tool
- Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
"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.
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- Industry: Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $16M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TakeMe Co., Ltd. — TakeMe aims to provide an “One-stop Inbound destination service” by enabling tourist to easily find, communicate with, and pay with smartphones via QR code at In-Travel destinations. TakeMe, is the country’s largest inbound service platform in Japan, which lets tourists find, communicate with, and pay with QR code at our affiliated shops,restaurants and tourist attractions. Since our launch in 2015 as JapanFoodie, we have expanded our merchant base to tens of thousands beyond food and restaurants, to include travel, lodging, shopping and events, providing every tourist with the best experience as your best local guide and friend.
Chris McCann is the Partner at Race Capital and a Seed Investor at Solana, Lightning Labs, Kado, Notifi, Zeet, Hedge Labs, Bundlr Network, and Opaque Systems. He is also the Co-Founder of StartupDigest. Prior to that, Chris was a Community Lead at Greylock Partners. Mr. McCann attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Malta
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Delta One — Delta One is a yield generation protocol on Solana that offers novel delta-neutral and impermanent loss-free farming markets. Its mission is to create novel, easy-to-use Defi primitives that democratize the best risk-adjusted yield opportunities to achieve mass adoption of crypto investing.
- Aleph.im — Aleph.im is a distributed cloud platform that provides serverless trusted computing services, file storage, and database hosting to its users.
- Headquarters — Headquarters (HQ.xyz) helps Web3 teams be automate their financial activities and reporting. Aggregated balance overview, Payments and Payouts, book-keeping tailored for Web3/Crypto.
Do Kwon is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Terraform Labs. Do Kwon is the Founder & CEO at Terraform Labs . Do Kwon attended Stanford University.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $5.1M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
- Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
- Treehouse — Hyperion is the most powerful and actionable portfolio management and market intelligence toolset for digital asset traders and investors.
Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $480k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
- 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.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4.5M; Series A $1M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jiko — Jiko Group, Inc., a bank holding company supervised by the U.S. Federal Reserve, is an innovative financial technology company headquartered in California. Jiko was formed in 2016, with a mission to deploy a platform that gives everyone the opportunity to control and benefit from their money.
- Bags — Grow your business with access to fair and flexible funding options designed to help you do your thing. Bags is the best place for business owners to get dollars for working capital, inventory, marketing, expansion, or anything else you need to grow.
- Wheels Up — Wheels Up is a membership-based private aviation company that focuses on reducing the upfront cost to fly privately, providing flexibility, service, and safety. Its mobile app enables members to book flights, manage their accounts, and participate in ride-share opportunities. Its members also have given access to the Wheels Down program.
Jose is a VC-backed founder, investor and advisor to both emerging tech start-ups and funds. As a Principal at Silicon Valley’s Mach49 Venture Investing practice, he specializes in advising Fortune 1000 organizations on how to design and manage world-class corporate venture capital funds, from developing the optimal investment thesis to unlockingaccess to top startup founders and investors globally, leveraging his network spanning from Silicon Valley to Asia.Notably, Jose is also an Advisor to pebblebed, a frontier tech venture fund started by founding engineers at Facebook AI Research and OpenAI; and a Seed Investor and Advisor at Web3 company poko.fund (YC W22), among several others. Prior to joining M49’s Venture Investing team, Jose also worked as a Venture Builder at Mach49, making him a trusted advisor to corporates seeking strategic advice across the ‘build, invest, partner, buy’ spectrum. Jose also has an extensive background advising Fortune 1000 companies in various other capacities, including as a New York qualified corporate finance lawyer at Linklaters, Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group, and Cloud Insight Director at Oracle. He has helped companies reach critical corporate milestones — from the design and execution of multimillion-dollar go-to-market strategies and digital transformations that tackled emerging markets across Southeast Asia — to helping banks restructure and navigate new regulatory requirements in order to withstand the European debt crisis of the 2010s. Jose holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree from King’s College London. He also obtained a diploma in venture capital fund formation from 500 Global, and holds certifications as a Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, Professional Scrum Master, and member of the New York State Bar.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Gaming, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
- Poko Technologies — Building something new in web3
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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- 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.
Komura Fujio
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- Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- GINKAN — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder at Pulit.
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- Industry: Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$41M; Angel $3.8M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- 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.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng is a President at Summit Media. Attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Edamama — Shop over 75,000 mama, baby, kid and home essentials. Enjoy best prices and deals on your favorite brands. Buy online now!
- Otis AI — Otis is the first AI-powered virtual assistant that helps run and optimize your digital marketing cross-platform, at scale and at a budget that works for your business.
- Armada Brands — Armada invests in and partners with e-commerce brands in the Philippines and in SEA.
Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $6.7M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
- Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
- Polynomial — Trade DeFi options with highly efficient liquidity.
Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.
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- Industry: Content, Fashion, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $989k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
- ONE NOVA — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
- vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
Jonathan is co-founder and managing partner of Protofund. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Developer Platform
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, Argentina, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pintu — Pintu adalah Aplikasi Jual Beli dan Investasi Bitcoin dan Aset Digital dengan Harga Final, Tanpa Komisi, Tarik Rupiah Murah. Aman Terdaftar di BAPPEBTI.
- Buenbit — Buenbit is a Cryptocurrency Exchange and Cross-Border payment platform. Cryptocurrency exchange with presence in Argentina & Perú. Leveraging cryptocurrency trading to offer a low cost Cross-Border payment solution.
- NEAR — Near develops an application platform designed to bring blockchain to a wide variety of mainstream applications.
Ana Andrianova
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- Industry: Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Mara — Secure and easy to use crypto wallet, where you can buy, sell, earn, send or withdraw your fiat and crypto assets - including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Mara Token
- Nansen — The Nansen analytics platform analyzes millions of data points on Ethereum wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $4.7M–$66M; Angel $412k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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- Industry: SNS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
- Rensource Energy — Rensource develops, finances, and manages critical energy infrastructure for African enterprises with the objective of powering Africa's economy
Mohandass Kalaichelvan is the CEO & Founder at Spenmo . Mohandass Kalaichelvan attended Dartmouth College.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore, India, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Evo — Social Commerce Software
- Evo — Evo provides health and wellness direct-to-consumer services.
- Headquarters — Headquarters (HQ.xyz) helps Web3 teams be automate their financial activities and reporting. Aggregated balance overview, Payments and Payouts, book-keeping tailored for Web3/Crypto.
Christy Choi
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Software, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Vietnam, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ondo Finance — Institutional Grade Finance. On-Chain. For Everyone.
- Coin98 — Coin98 is a Crypto-focused software company.
- Syndicate — Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network.
Research Scientist, Founder
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- Industry: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $60k–$80k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bitwyre — Climbing the engineering curve. Lowering the latency. The bleeding edge of financial technology.
Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nxyz — The most powerful blockchain data APIs for web3 developers. Fast and reliable, web3 indexing for querying networks like Ethereum, BSC, Polygon to get transactions, NFTs and more.
- Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
Kevin Hu is a General Partner - Head of Liquid Strategies at Dragonfly Capital. He was an Alternative Investments at BlackRock. He attended the University of Toronto.
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- Industry: Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Bermuda, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- P0x Labs — P0x labs is the team behind Manta Network is a privacy-preserving technology operating on the Polkadot blockchain.
- Nansen — The Nansen analytics platform analyzes millions of data points on Ethereum wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.
- Manta Network — Manta Network delivers plug-and-play privacy for the entire DeFi stack.
Jagdish Chanrai - Non-executive Director @ FTMSGlobal College
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Messaging
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Fastacash — fastacash™ provides a global social payments platform which allows users to transfer value (money, airtime, other tokens of value, etc.) along with digital content (photos, videos, audio, messages, etc.) through social networks and messaging platforms. The company has developed a patent pending link generation technology that enables the valuetransfer with a secure link.
Jason is the Managing Partner at Sora Ventures, Asia's first crypto-backed venture capital firm and CEO at Sora Foundation, a platform for bridging resources in the blockchain investment space. Prior to Sora, Jason was the Head of Global Business Development at Juzix (Formerly Juzhen Financials), a leading blockchain company led by WanxiangHoldings. Jason joined the blockchain industry in early 2016 as an Associate at Fenbushi Capital, Asia's first blockchain venture capital firm where he managed deal-flows and post management of companies in North America. In addition to his active role in blockchain investments, Jason is a Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator in Silicon Valley and Startupbootcamp in China.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, Taiwan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qtum — Qtum is an open sourced public blockchain platform, leveraging the security of UTXO while enabling multiple virtual machines including EVM and the revolutionary x86 VM. Qtum is PoS based and boasts a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP) allowing specific blockchain settings to be modified by making use of smart contracts. For instance, the blocksize of Qtum can be increased without the need of a hard fork.Qtum is a global project that aims to be the bridge between the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities, the real world and blockchain world. Therefore it only makes sense that the Qtum team comes from both the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities as well traditional companies like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, NASDAQ and more. The Qtum project is proud to be backed by some of the most notable blockchain players, traditional Venture Capitalists, and executives from some of China’s largest technology companies.
- Filecoin — Filecoin is making the web more secure and efficient with a decentralized data storage marketplace, protocol, and cryptocurrency.
- The Block — The Block is your reliable and newsworthy source for all things pertaining to blockchain and crypto.
General Partner & Founder Acrobator Ventures, Tech Investment Fund. Founder Acrobator.com, growth hack and marketing advisory firm. Digital Dutchman, entrepreneur-turned-investor. eCommerce expert, growth hacker and marketeer since 2000. Assisted 100+ companies worldwide as CMO, MD, board advisor, consultant. Personal angel investmentportfolio, overall company value nearing $3BN, follow-ons raised (>$150 MN) from Accel, Iconiq, Insight Ventures, EBRD, Techstars, Acrobator Ventures. Ranked #1 Foreign Angel Investor in Russia (EWDN); Top 10 Angel Investor (Firrma.ru/SLON), Crunchbase: #1 Dutch (2019) & Top 50 EU angel investor. Techcrunch / Crunchbase: "Bas Godska is one of the most prolific Western investors in Eastern Europe."Roles Europe/Russia/CIS (2003-2019): CMO lastminute.com ; Country Manager Sportingbet ; CMO Europe Ebookers.com / Orbitz.com ; MD Gogol Media. CMO / dep. CEO Ozon.ru ; VP Marketing Gloria Jeans ; CMO Lamoda.ru (Rocket Internet) ; CMO Digital KupiVIP.ru ; eCommerce Director a.i. Enter | Svyaznoi ; MD myThings.com ; Guest Lecturer Digital Marketing at Moscow School of Management MBA (3 years).Portfolio: miro.com; harver.com; travelata.ru (co-founder); Chocofamily Holding: chocotravel.kz, chocolife.me, aviata.kz, chocomart.kz (exit), lensmark.kz, rahmet.kz, chocofood.kz, iDoctor.kz, HRbot; Newzmate.com (partial exit to Piano.io); storyterrace.com, getobjectiv.com; Crossss (sold to Leadhit); clockster.com; linkpizza.com; zakaz.ua; urbandine.nl; 6nomads.com, instreamatic.ai., omdena.com, aura-aware.com, awesomic.com, memoryOS.com, VC investments: leapfunder.com; respeecher.com; letsenhance.io; studyfree.org.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, The Netherlands, Kazakhstan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
- SuperWorld — The Virtual World mapped on top of the real world to create, discover and monetize content.
- knopka — knopka - is an advanced automated nurse calling system that ensures help is provided on time. One-hour installation. Completely wireless. Compatible with cardiac monitors, fitness trackers, and smartwatches.
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Browse database — It's Free!Robert Lomnitz
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- Industry: Retail, Payments, Shopping
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Dealcha! — Dealcha.com is Thailand's first cashback website, offering their users an opportunity to earn free cash through their online shopping activity. The concept is simple, register free on their website, choose any of their partner online stores, shop till you drop, and when you make a purchase...a percentage of the price gets credited back to yourDealcha! cashback account. The cashback you receive is on top of any promotions, credit card discounts, coupon codes or payments methods you make. You can then redeem your cashback as actual cash, completely free of charge.
Hongyu Xing is the CTO at 58.com.
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- Industry: Payments, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Yunzhanghu — Yunzhanghu provides online income payment solutions and tax declaration services.
John Tan - Founder @ Controlled Commodity
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $147k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
- Voyagin — Voyagin is the tours and activities marketplace in Asia with a mission to help travelers discover and book the best travel experiences across Asia. Its website features over 1,800 things to do including tickets to museums and shows, cultural activities, romantic dinners, adventure experiences, and private guides bookable in English, Japanese, andChinese in over 50 destinations in Asia, in advance or in destination via its mobile optimized website. The Voyagin team believes that "travel in Asia is broken." Guests end up sightseeing because unique experiences are hard to find and insecure to book; hosts end up spending time and money on websites which are hard to update and mostly out of date. They also believe that an "experience is more than just an activity; it's about meeting people, trying something new and seeing the world from a different perspective." In hopes to differentiate themselves, they traveled around Asia to find and curate the best experiences and hosts.Launched in 2012, Voyagin provides a trusted platform for tours and activities providers (hosts) in Asia to list their experiences; its team of community managers work with each host to curate their activities both online and during the experience, ensuring their quality. Backed by its 100% satisfaction guarantee, multilingual customer support, and verified reviews from actual guests, Voyagin is the best place for travelers visiting Asia to discover and book their next local experience.Voyagin was founded in 2011 as FindJPN, a marketplace for authentic activities in Japan. FindJPN changed its name to Voyagin in December 2012 when they expanded into Asia.
- Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
Tao Zhang (张滔) is the Founder and CEO of Dianping.com, MBA from the Wharton School. Tao was consultant in an American IT company. After coming back to China in 2003, he founded Dianping.com, the world’s pioneer in offering consumer reviews for restaurant. After 5 years of development, dianping has over 460,000 registered companies in over 340cities across China. More than 10 million regular visitors and 160 million page views per month make it the most popular city life website in China. Dianping has established branches in 5 cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou and is still expanding. Currently its service involves various consumption areas in city life, such as restaurant, shopping, reaction and living service, etc. With a favorable business model, Dianping has more than once been considered one of the companies with the most investment value in China by Zero2IPO and China Venture. It also raised funding from global leading venture capital firms, for example, Sequoia Capital. Dianping recorded profit in November 2008 and become the first profitable Web 2.0 Company and a search website centered on city life.
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- Industry: Internet, Education, Payments
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: China, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Z-Trip — Z-Trip is a company that provides travel management services for large and medium-sized enterprises. On the basis of integration of upstream supply chain resources, Z-Trip provides a one-stop SaaS service platform covering scenarios such as travel reservations, conference organization, fee settlement, payment and reimbursement to enterprises,including front-end PC terminals, mobile terminals and back-end service systems.
- PalFish — PalFish provides an education platform for teachers to teach English in an open market. You can simply imagine PalFish as eBay, but the merchandise being sold are English Classes. They provide people who are fluent in English the opportunity to teach people who want to learn English in their free time, and thus, create a virtuous Englisheducation cycle.
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania — Welcome to The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Adrian is a director at Blumberg Capital. Based in San Francisco, he focuses on supporting the growth of our portfolio companies through business development, partnerships, board membership, strategic guidance and mentorship.Adrian previously worked with Blumberg Capital as the CTO. Before returning to Blumberg, he held positions at Google inThailand, Singapore and the United States. His roles at Google included Country Head for GCS Thailand, the Payments team inside Google’s Next Billion Users initiative, and most recently with the VCs and Startups Partnerships team. Prior to Google, he was based in Bangkok as CEO and cofounder of Ardent Capital, a venture capital firm which built or invested in 24 companies across seven countries. In his earlier career he was an executive, cofounder or board member of several companies that have listed on international exchanges, including Nasdaq (USA), ASX (Australia) and NZX (New Zealand).Adrian earned his MD with honors from Monash University Australia, and focused on medical informatics at the start of his career.
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- Industry: CRM, Big Data, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Playbasis — Playbasis provides a cloud-based technology platform which makes it easy for businesses to launch modern applications that are fun, engaging, and rewarding for millennial audiences. Playbasis generates revenue through a B2B, software-as-a-service subscription business model where customers only pay for the services that they use.
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.
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- Industry: Content, Marketing, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $3.7M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AceRNA — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
- Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
- Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
Takanori Katagiri is the CEO at Pixiv Technologies.
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- Industry: SNS, SaaS, Billing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alp — Alp is a customer management and recurring billing system for all of subscription business.
- alu Japan — alu is providing service to enjoy more manga.
Andreas Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur, who works on bitcoin. As an engaging public speaker, teacher, and writer, he makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. As an advisor, he helps startups recognize, evaluate, and navigate security and business risks.Andreas Antonopoulos started his first company, anearly BBS and proto-ISP, as a teenager in his home in Greece. After moving to the U.S., he co-founded and managed a technology research company, and in that role advised dozens of Fortune 500 company executives on networking, security, data centers, and cloud computing. More than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide. He holds 2 patents in networking and security.In 1990, Andreas Antonopoulos started teaching on various IT topics in private, professional, and academic environments. He is also a public speaker and teacher. In 2014, he was appointed as a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia, the first university in the world to offer a Masters Degree in Digital Currency. In this role, he helped to develop the curriculum and co-taught the Introduction to Digital Currencies course, offered as a MOOC, through the University.As a bitcoin entrepreneur, Andreas Antonopoulos has founded a number of bitcoin businesses and launched several community open-source projects. He serves as an advisor to several bitcoin and crypto-currency companies. He is an author of articles and blog posts on bitcoin, is a permanent host on the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Podcast, and a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide.Andreas Antonopoulos earned degrees in computer science, data communications, and distributed systems from University College London, recently ranked in the world’s top 10 universities. He currently resides in San Francisco.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Umbrel — Run your personal server on a Raspberry Pi with a Bitcoin and Lightning node in your home, self-host open source apps like Nextcloud, Matrix, and PhotoPrism to break away from big tech, and take full control of your data. For free.
- Liminal — Create Multisig wallets for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple using hardware wallets. We make it extremely easy and secure for individuals and businesses to manage their digital assets without giving up control and ownership.
Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.
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- Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $6.9M–$6.9M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC Japan — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.
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- Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$41M; Series A $2.3M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
- abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
- RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
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Browse database — It's Free!Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $350k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
- Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
- Wallets — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
Nisa Amoils
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nansen — The Nansen analytics platform analyzes millions of data points on Ethereum wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.
- Securitize — Securitize is unlocking alternative assets with a fully digital, regulatory compliant platform for issuing and trading digital asset securities.
- Protego Trust Bank — Protego is a federally chartered, digital asset bank that secures institutional holdings. Learn about Protego Trust Bank's digital asset platform today.
Matthew Roszak is co-founder and chairman of Bloq, a blockchain enterprise software company. Mr. Roszak is also founding partner of Tally Capital, a private investment firm focused on blockchain-enabled technology with a portfolio of over 20 investments, including BitFury, Blockstream and Factom.He is a blockchain investor, entrepreneur andadvocate. He has spent over 20 years in private equity and venture capital with Advent International, Keystone Capital Partners, Platinum Venture Partners and SilkRoad Equity, and has invested over $1 billion of capital (from start-up to IPO) in a broad range of industries. He is a director and beneficial owner of Eboost, MissionMode, NeuEntity, Onramp, SolidSpace and TrueLook.He serves as chairman of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world’s largest trade association representing the blockchain industry. In addition, he serves on the board of BitGive, a non-profit foundation targeting public health and the environment. He is also the founder of the Chicago Bitcoin Center, and was a producer of the blockchain industry’s first ever documentary, The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin.He is a sought after thought leader on blockchain technology, and has testified before US Congress and spoken at The Brookings Institution. He has been featured on CNBC and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CoinDesk and Bitcoin Magazine. In addition, he has presented at FinTech conferences worldwide, including Money20/20, CES and American Banker.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Computer, Ethereum
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qtum — Qtum is an open sourced public blockchain platform, leveraging the security of UTXO while enabling multiple virtual machines including EVM and the revolutionary x86 VM. Qtum is PoS based and boasts a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP) allowing specific blockchain settings to be modified by making use of smart contracts. For instance, the blocksize of Qtum can be increased without the need of a hard fork.Qtum is a global project that aims to be the bridge between the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities, the real world and blockchain world. Therefore it only makes sense that the Qtum team comes from both the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities as well traditional companies like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, NASDAQ and more. The Qtum project is proud to be backed by some of the most notable blockchain players, traditional Venture Capitalists, and executives from some of China’s largest technology companies.
- Syndicate — Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network.
- Interact Public Safety — InterAct is a leading provider of public safety incident response and management software. We help first responders coordinate, communicate and react to unplanned events quickly, safely and accurately so these heroes can save lives. Founded in 1975, InterAct provides integrated multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional public safety, corporatesecurity, and homeland security systems technology. InterAct’s mission is to enable public safety professionals to perform critical functions at their highest level. Our solutions allow these personnel to make the right decisions, at the right time, and make it possible for the right people to affect the best outcomes and save lives. As the definition of public safety expands beyond 911, InterAct is leading the way through continuous product development, product improvement and innovation to provide a seamless transition to our customers. Public and private safety agencies today are under relentless pressure to improve response times amidst tight budgets and a rapidly evolving communication infrastructure. The growing ubiquity of mobile and voice over IP (VoIP) communications requires a commitment to continuous technological improvement. Increased security requirements at borders, ports, airports, corporate/industrial sites and even our schools, and has brought the need for interoperable communications between government agencies and the private sector to the forefront. Our efforts to enable Public safety agencies to meet these challenges and demands motivates our mission and our continued dedication to innovation. InterAct’s client base includes more than 1,450 clients in 44 states and across three continents. Its feature-rich, easy to use software is popular among city, county, state, and federal agencies as well as international agencies looking to improve the safety of officers and the public at large. Private institutions, such as universities, hospitals, and other organizations, also utilize InterAct products to improve security and emergency response to protect both lives and property. InterAct’s unprecedented client satisfaction and client retention rate testify to its success with carrying out its core mission of making Connections for Life™.
Jeremy Gardner (born January 20, 1992), is an American serial entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist based in Beverly Hills, California. He is primarily known for his early investments in Bitcoin, Crypto Castles brand, and as a co-founder of Augur. His early investments in cryptocurrency made him a self-made millionaire. He is currently thefounder and CEO of MadeMan, a men's skincare cosmetic company featured in publications Maxim, The Daily Front Row, and Wealth Magazine.
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- Industry: SaaS, Grocery, Delivery
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qtum — Qtum is an open sourced public blockchain platform, leveraging the security of UTXO while enabling multiple virtual machines including EVM and the revolutionary x86 VM. Qtum is PoS based and boasts a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP) allowing specific blockchain settings to be modified by making use of smart contracts. For instance, the blocksize of Qtum can be increased without the need of a hard fork.Qtum is a global project that aims to be the bridge between the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities, the real world and blockchain world. Therefore it only makes sense that the Qtum team comes from both the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities as well traditional companies like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, NASDAQ and more. The Qtum project is proud to be backed by some of the most notable blockchain players, traditional Venture Capitalists, and executives from some of China’s largest technology companies.
- Indemand — The leading source brandable domain names. Competitive prices. Excellent service. Get your domain name today.
Peter Thiel Is The Member, Board of Directors At Facebook. Founder at Breakout Labs.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 177
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5.8M; Series A $1.6M–$18M; Series B $10M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.
- Alias Technologies — Here at Alias Technologies our goal is to help organizations tackle complex IT goals and initiatives in an ever-changing landscape. Leveraging our Partner relationships and extensive experience we are able to help position our customers for the future.
- Treasure Financial — An automated cash flow tool for businesses and startups. Get started today, all you need is 15 minutes to maximize your existing cash.
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.3M; Series A $3.8M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
- GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.
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- Industry: Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Norway, Singapore, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Presail — The platform behind Web 3.0's best investment groups. Manage everything in one place: fundraising, investor management, and token vesting.
- 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!
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
Tony Fadell led the team that created the first 18 generations of the iPod and the first three generations of the iPhone. Before Apple, Tony built the Mobile Computing Group at Philips Electronics. Tony has authored more than 100 patents. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelors in Computer Engineering.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $2.9M–$6.6M; Series A $5.5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Prenuvo — Prenuvo offers MRI scanning systems that help in early detection of cancer and other diseases.
- bolttech — bolttech is an international insurtech shaping the future of insurance. Our vision is to connect people with more ways to protect the things they value.
- Nothing — Nothing is a London-based company removing the barriers between people and technology to create a seamless digital future.
Hassan Ahmed is the Head of Southeast Asia at Coinbase. Hassan Ahmed attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Finance, Payments, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arrow — Arrow is the best checkout experience for your online businesses that drastically increases your conversions rates. Arrow supports the all major payment gateways and is pre-built with the latest and greatest payment methods in Southeast Asia (SEA).
Edith is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and creator of the China Internet Report, and Silicon News.Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund. A few sectors we are particularly interested in are infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech verticals. She has invested in over 50 startupsincluding Agora.io (Nasdaq: API), Lightyear/Stellar (valued at $1.2B), Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Chirp (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), Solana, Oasis Labs, Hooked, DayDayCook, AISense, and many more.Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies. Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk.She frequently speaks on China and Silicon Valley technology and the investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and a commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc.Edith attended Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Purdue University.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Malaysia, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $680k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Serum — Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permission less – we do not hold special power anymore. Itis up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will.
- Telepathic — Telepathic is redefining storytelling for the Snapchat generation. They believe there is a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing "lean" principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. Their first product is HOOKED, a “twitter for fiction” mobile app thatmakes reading addictive for teens. Their longterm vision is to release stories across multiple channels, including apps, video and virtual reality.The founders are Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, veterans from the mobile app world. They previously built music apps, like AutoRap, that have helped over 150MM people experience the joy of music creation. They've also produced several viral videos totaling over 300MM views. You can read more about the journey that led us to founding a storytelling startup in this piece they wrote for Vogue.
- AppOnboard — The fastest and most powerful No Code mobile development software suite in the world.
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