Top 5 Platforms Angel Investors in Hong Kong (October 2023)

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.

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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Jude O'Kelly is Founder and a General Partner at Mount Parker Ventures.

Investment focus

Industry: iOS, Apps, Mobile
Stage:Seed
Geography: Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

GoGoX — GOGOX (formerly GOGOVan) is the first app-based logistics platform in Asia committed to providing extensive logistics services through innovative technology. You can hire a van by using GOGOX mobile app or website anywhere anytime.

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Tytus Michalski is a Managing Partner of Fresco Capital. Previously, he was Chief Investment Officer of Equities at PMA Investment Advisors, an institutional Asia Pacific hedge fund, managing the equity funds and the equity team. He was a co-founder of PMA, which was started in 2002 and acquired in 2006 while in the process of scaling up to US$3Bin assets under management. Before that, he was focused on equity investment with HSBC Asset Management in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and London.Tytus graduated from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia (Finance with Honours) and is a Leslie Wong Fellow alumnus of the UBC Portfolio Management Foundation. He is also a founding Board Director of the UBC Sauder Alumni Club of Hong Kong and holds the CFA designation. In his spare time, Tytus enjoys training and teaching traditional Okinawan karate as a third degree black belt.

Investment focus

Industry: iOS, CRM, Software
Stage:Seed
Geography: United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.4M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Swivl — *See the full specs for Swivl Robot here. From our community
Pipedrive — Founded in 2010, Pipedrive is the global sales-first CRM and intelligent revenue platform for small businesses. Today, Pipedrive is helping more than 100,000 sales teams worldwide to get more qualified leads, close deals faster, and grow their revenue.
Riskpulse — Everstream sets the world's supply chain standard, using predictive analytics, human insights, and eyes everywhere to make supply chains smarter.

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A member of Asia Fintech 100, Mikaal is the co founder and CEO of 8 Securities, the leading mobile only investing service for Millennials in Hong Kong and Japan. His journey has taken him through Silicon Valley, New York, London,Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Prior to starting 8 Securities, Mikaal was a Senior Vice President and theHead of Asia at E*TRADE. Mikaal began his career as a Senior Consultant at Deloitte in the United States. Mikaal has extensive international experience having launched and managed businesses and online consumer products across Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, India and the North America. Mikaal holds a MBA from both Columbia University and the London Business School. Mikaal is currently a mentor at Chinaccelerator and a guest writer for Tech in Asia.

Investment focus

Industry: DIY, iOS, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Snaptee — Design your personalized t-shirts with Snaptee. Get it from AppStore and Google Play. Create your t-shirt collection with Instagram photos or your favorite snapshot pictures. Snaptee realize your creativity!
8 Securities — 8 Securities offered mobile-only investing, a robo-advisory service, a social trading platform, and zero-commission brokerage. Through the platform, members will be able to follow the investment portfolios of top-performing members of the community and learn what they are buying, selling, and holding. They will also see where their own performanceranks.

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