# Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Asia in October 2023

## Trustbridge Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Education, Medical

Trustbridge Partners is a mission-driven growth equity firm founded in 2006 with approximately $8 billion under management.

## Ceyuan Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

Ceyuan Ventures is a Beijing-based early stage venture capital firm focused on IT and emerging growth companies. They emphasize backing great teams, technology and business innovation. Their mission is to assist entrepreneurs in creating and building world-class businesses.

## Drone Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Drones, Robotics, Aerospace

Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.

## Infinity Ventures Crypto
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Who we are We are investors and entrepreneurs helping define the next generation of Blockchain startups. Our Focus Passionate founders. Disruptive models. Borderless markets. Exponential effects. Our Geography Starting from...

## Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS

MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.

## Guojin Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Education

Guojin Capital Group is a venture capital firm specializing in early to middle stage investments. The firm also makes late stage investments minorly. It seeks to invest mainly in the internet, pan-entertainment and education sectors. The firm also prefers to invest minorly in consumer upgrade and industry upgrade. It also invests in interneteducation, industry services, artificial intelligence and health care sectors.

## Frees Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Health Care

By adopting revolutionary mechanisms, FREES FUND is devoted to change the long-established rules in the venture capital. By leveraging the cutting-edge technologies and resources, FREES FUND aims at investing in great startups and helping them grow into great enterprises that are valuable to our society. We mainly invest in early-stagestartups, and hope to become their first-round institutional investor. Our primary interested areas are broad-sense TMT (Technology, Media, Telecom), B2B and deep technology.

## ChineseAll Digital Publishing
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Learning, Education, Mobile

Chinese Online (中文在线) is a company focused on digital publishing. It provides digital reading products to mobile phones, hand-held terminals, and the internet as well as other media. Chinese Online takes copyright organizations and authors as the genuine digital content source, and collaborates with them to manage the content.It also offersvalue-added services of digital content such as copyright derivatives and more.As a leading enterprise of digital publishing domestically, Chinese Online has established a complete media publishing model of unique content, variety in media and synchronized publishing.

## Geekhouse Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Publishing, Gaming, Sports

Geekhouse Capital is an investment firm.

## North Base Media
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing

NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

## East Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

## Julian Farrior
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Film, Comics

Julian Farrior

## IT-Farm
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

## ChemChina
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Internet, Publishing

China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) is a large State-owned enterprise under the administration of SASAC and established in May 2004 with the approval of the State Council.ChemChina is in the list of Fortune 500 and China's largest chemical company and ranks 19th among the world's top 100 chemical corporations.Since itsestablishment in 2004, ChemChina has adhered to its development orientation – "traditional chemicals, advanced materials" and achieved an "extraordinary leaps and bounds". In 2013, its annual total assets reached 272.5 billion yuan, and its sales revenue reached 244billion yuan.The main business of ChemChina is made up of six sectors: new chemical materials; basic chemical materials; oil processing; agrochemicals; rubber products; chemical equipment.ChemChina has opened production and R&D bases in 140 countries and regions around the world with a sound marketing system. It controls 9 A-share listed companies and has a total of 118 enterprises, 6 overseas divisions, 4 subordinate units and 24 research and design institutes. It is a national innovative enterprise.ChemChina is implementing the 12th Five-year Plan and accelerating industrial restructuring. In the future, it will form a business layout of "3+1", namely: materials science, environmental science and life science plus basic chemical, and strive to become a world-class chemical company with international competitiveness.

## Huayi Brothers Media Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series D
- Focus: Video, Film, Gaming

Huayi Bros. Media Group is a Chinese comprehensive entertainment group.The company entered the film industry by investing in Feng Xiaogang and Jiang Wen's films, and gained a reputation by investing in the New Year blockbuster directed by Feng Xiaogang. After that it entirely focused on the media industry, investing and operating in moviesand TV drama programs, artist management, records releasing, entertainment marketing, etc.Huayi Bros. Media Group achieved good results in its focused fields and founded Huayi Brothers Media Corporation in 2005. On October 30, 2009, it was formally listed in the GEM of Shenzhen.Huayi Bros. Media Group was founded by Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei in 1994.

## SDIC Fund Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing

SDIC Fund Management is a private equity that manages funds and raises nearly 60 billion yuan at present. The management funds cover financial institutions, social security funds, state-owned and private capital, and it is one of the largest professional private equity management institutions in China.

## Walden International
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Semiconductor

Walden International is unique among US venture firms through its focus on cross-border investments that leverage global markets and talent to grow industry-leading companies. For more than 30 years, their integrated team has brought extensive added value to help companies through capital, relationships and expertise.They look to partner with thebest of the best – entrepreneurs with a strong appreciation for the benefits of leveraging talent and markets independent of geography to gain unfair advantage.Their team brings both extensive venture expertise together with in-depth operating experience to help you grow your company.They invest in early and expansion stage companies across sectors such as Semiconductors, Clean Tech, Internet & Digital Media and Software.

## DWF Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

DWF Labs Global digital asset market maker and multi-stage web3 investment firm

## IRENA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Publishing, Console Games

Founded in 2001, IRENA window of sport is China's leading sports industry platform company and after 10 years of operation, it aims to tap into the whole industry chain of ecological system, the venues and copyright event resources integration, mobile Internet, making innovation model sports operating platform; From the venue, fieldoperations, up to entertainment assets operation now based on sports resource of copyright; window of Sports is using mobile Internet to change the window of the sports industry and realize value restructuring of all sports, the entertainment and the whole industry ecosystem .iRENA is the long-term partner of top sports events in China, including China's national football team | Beijing Guo’an | Shanghai Greenland and Shenhua | Evergrande Taobao Guangzhou | CBA Shougang | NBA Chinese international series @ China | women's volleyball team | I love football, and its service includes event sponsorship, ticket agent, game holding, VIP, box and fan club, etc.
Based on the profound understanding of facility operation, outstanding creative and strong resource strength in operating practice, Window of the sports made a systematic summary of solution suitable for China - IRENA, and they solved the worldwide problem of the sports venues in the long-term.
[China's top sports marketing platform] [China’s Almighty city venues operating platform] [Chinese vanguard of the body entertainment fans aggregation platform] [Chinese forefront of the industry chain operating platform]

## Renren Games
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Baoshan, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Comics, Publishing, Digital Entertainment

Renren Games offers gaming and entertainment services.

## Angel Plus China
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Health Care

Angel Plus is a China-based venture capital firm.

## Link VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Online Games

LinkVC committed to serving outstanding companies and developers in the field of blockchain with global commercial resources and professional financial services.

## Huarong Securities
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Post-IPO Equity, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Education, Virtual Reality, News

Huarong Securities provides securities brokerage and trading services.

## STRIVE
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.

## Circle Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Software

Circle Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York, New York. The company prefers to invest in the field of technology.

## The Arena Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: Sports, Food and Beverage, Tea

The Arena Capital has been jointly established by Guiren Bird (603555), Tigers Sports and Jinglin Capital Management Co., Ltd., focusing on sports industry investment. The mobile domain believes that the sports industry is becoming the core driving force for China's economic growth. It is believed that the people's consumption power isimproving, and Internet technology and reform dividends constitute an opportunity for the outbreak of the sports industry. The dynamic team relies on deepening the accumulation of resources in the sports industry for more than 10 years, and is committed to working with entrepreneurs to promote the brilliant future of Chinese sports.

## Vickers Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Mobile

Funding a Better World: We invest in deep tech sectors globally to help solve real world problems.

## Creation Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chaoyang, Liaoning, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Hardware, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence

Creation Venture Partners is a venture capital firm.

## iDreamsky Technology
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Series C
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Mobile

iDreamsky is a Shenzhen, China based company founded in 2009. Even since it has established to be one of the leading smartphone application developers in China. With major clients such as Lenovo, China Telecom, Chung Hwa Telecom, HTC and many more. At 2011, iDreamsky have successfully secure a 2 million USD seed investment from Hwa XiuInvestment Group to create a new business operation: Skynet a one stop solution for game developer to expand and establish their business in China.

## Everbright Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Post-IPO Equity, Angel
- Focus: Marketing, Manufacturing, Media and Entertainment

Everbright Capital is a direct investment company that engages in equity investment. Its business scope includes investment management, asset management, equity investment, and investment consulting. Everbright Capital focuses on TMT, sports, education, environmental protection, logistics, intelligent manufacturing, medical care, culture, andentertainment.The company was founded in November 2008 and was approved by the Securities Regulatory Commission.

## Gansu Guotou
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: News, Internet, Publishing

Gansu Guotou engaged in investment management and investment consulting.

## Longtu Game
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Haidian, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Computer, Publishing

Longtu Game is a mobile game development company.

## Yufu Assets
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chongqing Shi, Chongqing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Publishing, Information Services

Yufu Assets engaged in asset management and financial consultant.

## Neil Cunha-Gomes
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Blockchain, Finance, Cryptocurrency

Neil Cunha-Gomes is SoftBank Investment Advisor.

## Saison Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

They invest in Seed to Series A companies across South East Asia and India. Although they have a sector agnostic fund mandate, they particularly like to work with founders that are building ecosystems with the potential to distribute financial services to the unbanked.

## Alan Rutledge
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Alan Rutledge

## JISCO
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Internet, Publishing

JISCO is a manufacturer and distributor of steel products, marketing its products both domestic and international.
The company was founded in 1958 and is based in Jiayuguan.

## Gepic Energy Development
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lanzhou, Gansu, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Internet, Publishing

GEPIC Energy Development engaged in the electricity production and sales business.

## Prasetia Dwidharma
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jakarta Pusat, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

PT Prasetia Dwidharma was founded in 2008 as a telecommunication infrastructure contractor. The company has started to invest in technology startups since 2013.

## Huobi Eco
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance

Huobi Eco is an investment firm.

## Tiger Global Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally.Tiger Global seeks to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors over the long term. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer, and industrial sectors. The private equity strategyhas a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes.

## APGTIME
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hefei, Anhui, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: News, Internet, Publishing

APGTIME engaged in books, periodicals, print reproduction, media technology research and development, equity investment and other services.

## Ucap Cloud
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dongguang, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Publishing, Information Services, Information Technology

Ucap Cloud is an IT company that has developed platforms such as digital intelligence government affairs, digital intelligence content, digital intelligence security, and digital intelligence justice.

## Genertec Investment Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Internet, Publishing

Genertec Investment Management is specialized in securities investment, private equity investment, asset management, and equity management.

## Arthur Hayes
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Information Technology

After graduating with a degree in economics from the Wharton School of Business, Arthur lived in Hong Kong as an equity derivatives trader. He was the market-maker for Deutsche Bank and Citibank’s Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) businesses. He also has extensive experience trading equity index futures, forwards, and swaps as well as non-deliverable FXforwards. Arthur brings a deep understanding of how to structure and trade financial derivatives.

## The Spartan Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.

## Initiate capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Publishing, Digital Media

Fire Phoenix Capital focuses on youth subculture content, community economy and consumption, and next-generation social networks.

## Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Internet, Publishing

Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press is the leading comprehensive cultural and educational publishing organization in China.

## Shinsei Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Finance, Task Management, Internet

We provide online services and English-speaking support, allowing you to make transactions anytime, anywhere.

## Showa Leasing
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Printing, Publishing, Photography

Showa Leasing engages in the leasing of machine tools, construction machinery, medical equipment, and commercial equipment. The company was founded on April 2, 1969 and its headquarters are located in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.

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