Top 10 Platforms Startup Investors in Hong Kong (October 2023)

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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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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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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N5Capital is a Beijing-based leading venture capital firm focusing on early stage investment in mobile internet. N5Capital is the only early stage USD venture fund in China specializing in mobile internet, big data and cloud’s disruptive convergence with consumer sectors. N5 believes these technologies are emerging to be the infrastructure ofproductivity growth and consumer behavior transformation. Founded in 2013 by Mr. Will Jiang and Mr. Weiguo Zhao, N5Capital is currently managing two RMB funds and one USD fund, with the total capital managed at $350 million USD. In 2016, N5Captial was awarded the Top 20 Early Stage Venture Capital Firm in China. The power of mobile disruption in the internet savvy Chinese population guarantees a strong investment potential. With more than 60 companies in its portfolio, N5Capital has represented some of the most leading-edge tech companies, including Talking Data, 360 Finance, Car 300, Hot & Hot, Viva Video, LGD, Ofashion and inMotion/SoloWheel. N5Capital has a unique GP team combination with a collective successful track record spanning from angel, early stage, and growth stage to corporate M&A with approximately 30 years combined investment experience. N5Capital analyzes in consumer sectors such as finance, retail, housing, automobile, travel among others and invests in start-ups that thrives on either build or leverage the underlying technology to disrupt or recreate the industry value chain . Through an expansive network, in-depth industry analysis and rigorous user behavior research, N5Capital is shifting the investment landscape for both start-ups and investors. For more information, visit www.n5capital.com.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Gaming
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: China, United States, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 87
Round size: Seed $137k–$2.1M; Series A $879k–$15M; Series B $412k–$30M
Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

Feiyu — Feiyu is an online purchasing platform for luxury trading bags.
Harmay — HARMAY is based on contemporary fashion and aesthetics, conveys the concept of beauty and beautiful life. Covering first well-known international cosmetics and skin care brands products, global unique boutiques, and HARMAY’s own products,
Zhongying Cross-border — Zhongying Cross-border is a cross-border e-commerce comprehensive service platform.

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Investing at the intersection of people and technology.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Education, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Hong Kong, China

Investor stats

Total investments: 96
Round size: Seed $400k–$3.1M; Series A $2M–$15M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

Reap — Reap helps you pay expenses using a credit card, collect payments from around the world, and improve your expense and cash flow management. All in one platform.
Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
CoverGo — CoverGo is the ultimate no-code insurance platform helping insurance companies build and launch products at record speed and configured for every product line.

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Shanda Capital is the private equity and venture capital arm of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. specializing in start ups, early and mid-stage investments. The firm does not invest in online game developers and operators. It seeks to invest in the mobile internet, TMT (technology, media, and telecommunication), and culture sector. and alsofocuses on new media as well as applications based on the Android operating system of Google Inc. Shanda Capital was founded on February 17, 2011 and is based in China

Investment focus

Industry: Mobile, Software, Medical
Stage:Angel, Series A, Seed
Geography: China, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 27
Round size: Angel $275k–$13M; Series A $1.4M–$6.9M
Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

NeuroXess — NeuroXess is an invasive brain-computer interface with high-density flexible brain electrodes aimed at brain research and disease diagnosis.
Synchron — The endovascular brain computer interface.
Rejuvenation Technologies — Rejuvenation Technologies is a biotechnology company that developed nucleoside-modified TERT mRNA to safely and rapidly extend telomeres. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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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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Mount Parker Ventures is a Venture Capital Firm backing early-stage startups in Asia. We invest mainly in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and India, backing brave teams with big ideas.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Logistics, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Hong Kong, India, Bangladesh

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Round size: Seed $1M–$1.6M
Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

Peeba — Peeba is a curated online wholesale marketplace that transform the way local retailers in Asia shop for their stores.
Fasal — Fasal, an agri-tech platform, developed by Wolkus Technology Solutions, is an AI-powered platform for the Agriculture ecosystem that records a variety of growing conditions on the farm. It then uses artificial intelligence and data science to make on-farm predictions, before delivering the insights anywhere on any device including (iOS, Android,Tablet, and web).Its data-driven precision agriculture solution recommends real-time agronomic solutions to growers using on-farm and micro-climate data collected through agnostic sensors that helps farmers with cost savings in terms of water, energy, fertilizers, and pesticides.
Global Futures and Options — GFO-X is the UK's first regulated and centrally cleared trading venue dedicated to digital asset derivatives

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Joel Neoh is the Founder and CEO of Fave. He attended Monash University.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Mobile, Wellness
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Malaysia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

KFit — KFit gets you into the best fitness studios, classes and gyms in your city. Get access to unlimited group fitness classes and activities with just one monthly membership. Transform your workouts.Never get bored. Discover new ways to move. Take as many classes per month as you’d like. Try a different studio everyday. It’s time to work out the wayyou want to.
Ejen2u — Platform Sistem Pengurusan Ejen paling Komprehensif
ULive — Live Commerce Enabler for Social Media Live Sellers.

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