Top 5 Payments Angel Investors in China in September 2023

Charlie Lee is the Founder at Litecoin Foundation. Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternative currency to Bitcoin. He is an engineer manager at Coinbase. Charlie earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, China

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Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
Monochrome — Monochrome Corporation is a leading provider of regulated crypto-asset investment solutions.
Flare Network — Flare is an EVM-based layer 1 that gives developers secure decentralized access to high-integrity data from other chains and the internet.

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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.

Investment focus

Internet, Consumer, Payments
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Z-Trip —
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.

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Having worked on e-cash protocols since 1995, Adam is an applied cryptographer and inventor of the hashcash proof-of-work and decentralized mining used in Bitcoin.In addition to implementing credlib, he was an e-cash consultant to Nokia and later to Credentica (acquired by Microsoft). Adam was an architect and cryptographer at Zero-KnowledgeSystems working on its Freedom network, a precursor to Tor. He has also consulted for leading security companies, including oneID, Vmware and QWcap. Most recently, Adam co-founded Picorp, which was acquired by EMC and where he was CSO of the company’s consumer division, Decho. Adam holds a Ph.D. in distributed systems and computer science from the University of Exeter.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Video Games, Cryptocurrency
Funding Round, Private Equity, Initial Coin Offering
China, Hong Kong, United States

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Portal — Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Pixelmatic — We connect people from around the world and spark their imaginations through games.
Infinite Fleet — Customize and take command of your fleet in this epic MMO space strategy game. Coming soon from Pixelmatic.

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Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT, an English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news; presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London’s Resonance FM; and writes for Keiser is the CEO and co-founder ofMax Keiser invented “Virtual Specialist Technology,” a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange.

Investment focus

Video Games, Gaming, Mobile
Private Equity, Initial Coin Offering
China, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Pixelmatic — We connect people from around the world and spark their imaginations through games.
Infinite Fleet — Customize and take command of your fleet in this epic MMO space strategy game. Coming soon from Pixelmatic.

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