# Top 45 Real Estate Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023

## Marc Stilke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Rental Property, Energy Management

Marc Stilke

## Simon Baker
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Real Estate, Property Management, Internet

Simon Baker - Executive Chairman @ Property Portal Watch

## Kotaro Chiba
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Drones, Software

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

## Yusuke Sato
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Content, Food and Beverage

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder at Pulit.

## Zenos Schmickrath
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, Rental Property, Property Management

Zenos Schmickrath

## Kiren Tanna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Real Estate, Rental Property

Kiren Tanna is the Co-founder and CEO at Una Brands. Kiren Tanna attended University of Mumbai.

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

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.

## Jakob Angele
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Rental Property, Real Estate, Property Management

Jakob oversees is the CEO at Foodpanda - Romania and Bulgaria.

## Aminur Rashid
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Shopping, Cosmetics, E-Commerce

Aminur Rashid is a co-founder of Pickaboo.com.

## Tim Marbach
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Rental Property, Real Estate

Tim is a global entrepreneur and venture investor. He started his first company bonial.com in 2008 and sold it to German media conglomerate Axel Springer SE in 2011. In 2013, Tim relocated to South East Asia and has since co-founded and invested in many successful consumer internet companies through his private internet holding company Asia VentureGroup. Those companies have successfully raised several hundred million USD in follow-on venture capital and employ several thousand employees across the global. Those companies include HappyFresh, iPrice Group, iMoney (sold to iSelect), FlowerChimp, audibene (sold to Sivantos/EQT), Scalable Capital (sold to BlackRock), Jewelcandle (sold to Equistone), Vicampo (sold to Burda), CARS24, Movinga, Homebell, Fave, Stoyo and many more.

## Boon Hwee Koh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.

## Steve Melhuish
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Information Services

Steve Melhuish is the Founder of Rumah, Co-Founder and Board Director at PropertyGuru Group, Founder and CEO at Planet Rise, Founding Partner at Wavemaker Impact, and an Advisor and Investor at Eco-Business and Ampd Energy. He attended the University of Plymouth and the University of Reading.

## Ross Veitch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, Internet, E-Commerce

Ross is CEO & Co-Founder at Wego, an online travel marketplace (aka travel metasearch) operating across APAC and MENA backed by top-tier investors including Tiger Global, Crescent Group, Square Peg Capital, MNC Group and MEVP.
Ross is a veteran of the Asian internet industry having established Yahoo!s Southeast Asian operations in Singaporeback in 1998 and leading product development efforts across the region for 6+ years. He is also Singapore Co-Chair of H2, the premier global leadership network for the digital industry.
Ross has been an active angel investor in the technology sector for a decade and enjoys working with other passionate entrepreneurs. He has worked in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Kuala Lumpur and is now splits his time between Singapore and Dubai. He travels frequently for business but not nearly enough for leisure.

## JJ Chai
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Real Estate, Rental Property

JJ Chai is the CEO & co-founder at Rainforest. He attended National University of Singapore.

## Yang Bin Kwok
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Apps

Yang Bin Kwok

## Kazuma Ieiri
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Fashion, Recruiting

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.

## Toivo Annus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.

## Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence

Pawoot is like an icon of Thailand online business. Many people call him "the godfather of E-Commerce"

## Eduardo Saverin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, Mobile

Eduardo Saverin is a Co-founder at Meta. Eduardo attended Harvard University.

## Brian Ma
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Property Management, Real Estate, FinTech

Brian Ma is the Founder and Managing Partner at Iterative Capital.
Co-Founder at Decide.com, recently acquired by Ebay. He is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor at various startups.

## Takaya Shinozuka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Local, Advertising

Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.

## Arun Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Shopping, Cosmetics, E-Commerce

Arun Gupta, the Founder and CEO of MoMAGIC is a technology veteran turned first generation serial entrepreneur, with 25+ years of experience and multiple patents to his credit, while donning the hat of Director MediaTek, for close to a decade. Arun Gupta is credited with being the architect of the 1st version of MediaTek handset MMI.

## Huang Shao Ning
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Marketplace

Co-founder of JobsCentral Singapore, Shao-Ning stayed on as the Singapore MD after the company was acquired. During this period, she oversaw operation integrations with the global business and started the company’s transition to become a SaaS player in its Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia operations. Since 2009, Shao-Ning has been mentoring startups in creative, digital and retail industries.

## Sunghwan Choi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Sunghwan Choi

## Shintaro Tabata
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Sharing Economy, Audio, Content

Shintaro Tabata - Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales @ Line

## Takashi Shibayama
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Music, EBooks, Gaming

Takashi Shibayama

## Sandeep Tandon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet

Sandeep Tandon Co-founded Accelyst Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2010 and has been its Chief Business Officer since September 1, 2015. Sandeep Tandon serves as Managing Director at Tandon Technology Ventures (Tandon Group).He serves as Managing Director and Chairman of the Board at Infinx Services Private Limited. Sandeep Tandon serves as the Chairman andManaging Director at Infinx Healthcare. He oversees the strategy and operations of all group companies. He has been involved in the technology industry for over 20 years. During this time he has contributed significantly to the growth of Information Technology exports from India. He was co-founder and a former director of IQBackOffice - a leading Accounts Payable Processing company. He was also a co-founder and Director at Freecharge.com - among India’s fastest growing internet commerce ventures. He is active in the Angel Investor community and serves as a mentor to various technology start-ups. He served as Chairman of the Electronics Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) and is a member of Young President Organization (Mumbai Chapter). Sandeep Tandon completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

## Yu Akasaka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Content, Internet

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.

## Chen Zhu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Real Estate

Chen Zhu is the Product - Head of Matching at Poshmark. Attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Gang Wang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation

Gang Wang

## Ayataro Nakagawa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, Information Technology

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd.,
which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli
Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA
2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas
2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

## Bin Ge
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: CleanTech, Architecture, Environmental Engineering

Bin Ge

## Fumiaki Koizumi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Content

Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari

## Dirk van Quaquebeke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

Dirk van Quaquebeke is a founding Managing Partner at BEENEXT Capital Pte. Ltd. Prior Dirk was a founding partner at Alps Ventures an early stage investor and company builder with a focus on South East Asia. He has personally built several companies from inception to profitability and/or exit which included KochaAbo (leading onlinesupermarket – exit 2014), Clusterhaus (leading co-working group in Europe – profitable) or Duriana (leading c2c marketplace – exit 2016). He started his career in 2006 in London’s private equity and banking industry for 5 years.

## William Hockey
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

William Hockey is the Co-CEO of Column. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University.

## Anurag Srivastava
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile

Anurag became an entrepreneur in 2005 after working in various leadership positions in Singapore, London and India with firms like HCL-Hewlett Packard, Endecca, PTC and Interwoven. He co-founded Space Matrix Group in Singapore with his architect wife and has since led the firm into a $100M entity across 7 countries in Asia. His angel investmentsprior to this include the likes of Eloqua (NASDAQ Listed), Encentuate (acquired by IBM) and HolidayIQ (Acquired by Wego)Anurag is an active member of EO Singapore and also sits on the investment committee for Accel India Fund-1. Anurag is an IIT-Kanpur Alumni where he completed his Electrical Engineering

## Turner Novak
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Apps

Turner Novak is a Investor at Banana Capital. He attended Grand Valley State University from 2014.

## Takashi Nagao
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SNS, Video, Brewing

Takashi Nagao

## Matthew O'Neill
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wholesale, E-Commerce, Real Estate

Matthew O'Neill - Managing Director @ Goldman Sachs

## Teddy Himler
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: News, Social Media, Facility Management

Teddy is a Vice President at SoftBank Group International, where he works on direct investing, M&A, and funds based out of New York City.
He previously worked at SoftBank Capital in Silicon Valley and Jakarta, Indonesia where he co-founded and oversaw a set of SoftBank venture funds dedicated to early-stage Internet leaders throughoutSoutheast Asia.
Teddy previously worked at Comcast Ventures in New York City, where he led investments in eCommerce and Media.He also worked as an analyst for Goldman Sachs’ Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking group in San Francisco advising on M&A and financing transactions across the technology landscape. He graduated with a B.A. in government and economics from Harvard.SoftBank Investments include:
Tokopedia: Indonesian eCommerce leader
Dialpad: Unified communications suite
Qerja: Indonesian jobs portal
Cybereason: Endpoint Security, board observer
Berkshire Grey: warehouse automation leader
Housing.com, board member
Airspan, board member
CaliBurger, board observerComcast Investments include:
Zola: online wedding registry and services
Cheddar: Post-cable network, sold to Altice USA
PetCoach: Omni-channel vet service, sold to Petco
Retina.ai: Data science-as-a-service, board observer
Earny: Price protection service
Madison Reed: Subscription D2C hair-color service
YouNow: Decentralized live-streaming
Nextdoor: Local social network
Basis: Stable CryptocurrencyPersonal investments include:
Bureau: B2B Furniture
ABL Space: Space launch vehicles
KindBody: Women's health

## Patrick Cheung
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech

Patrick is currently the Founding and Managing Partner of ZWC Partners, which has a strategy to invest in innovative companies with high growth potential in TMT (technology, media & internet) and consumer sectors. His successful continuous entrepreneurial experience has enabled him to establish extensive network resources and diversity industryexperience in many industries.The investment track records of Patrick include Focus Media Group, Tantan, VIPKid, 58 Finance, 4Paradigm, Mobike, Souche, Yunhu Technology, RootCloud, Zebra Prime，Wattpad, Leyan Technologies, etc. Patrick is the alumni of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) Global CEO Program (class 2010) and the alumni of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) China CEO Program (class 2009). Also conducts academic researches as a visiting scholar at Stanford University (2017 – Current).

## Michael Gryseels
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Energy, Mobile

Dr. Michael Gryseels is the President of True Digital Group, the innovation unit set up by True Corporation, part of the Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group. True Digital was set up to capture new growth opportunities from digital, analytics, IoT, robotics, and related technologies. True Digital is headquartered in Thailand but has subsidiaries inIndonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, and investments in China, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Michael is also the Group Chief Digital Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of True's parent shareholder Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, Thailand's largest private corporation and one of the largest conglomerates globally, operating across 13 industries and 20+ countries, employing over 300,000 people.

## Hari Krishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1

Hari Krishnan is the Chief Executive Office and Managing Director of PropertyGuru Group, bringing nearly two decades of industry leadership in Technology and Consumer internet organizations, across the Asia Pacific and the US.

## Barney Schauble
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, FinTech, Finance

Barney Schauble joined Nephila in 2004 as a Principal. Mr. Schauble's primary responsibilities include investor relations, risk sourcing, and other business development projects, as well as portfolio management. Mr. Schauble began his career in New York in 1994 as a broker for Marsh, and later moved to Guy Carpenter (Marsh's reinsurancebroking subsidiary). Mr. Schauble left Guy Carpenter in 1996 to join Goldman, Sachs & Co as part of their new Risk Markets effort, which was focused on securitizing insurance risks and other areas of intersection between insurance and capital markets. He was transferred to London in 1999, where he co-headed the European effort, before returning to New York in 2002. His responsibilities as a Vice President in Risk Markets included client coverage, product development, syndication and distribution for a variety of structured products such as risk-linked securities, weather derivatives, and credit derivatives. Mr. Schauble joined XL Capital's Weather & Energy subsidiary in 2003, and was appointed head of marketing for the weather business. At XLWE he was responsible for managing a global team, originating weather risk management business and hedging XLWE's excess weather risk with insurance and capital markets counterparties. Mr. Schauble attended Harvard College and received his B.A. in Economics in 1994; he wrote his senior thesis to explore the concept of investing in bonds linked to property catastrophe reinsurance risk.

## Carsten Rahlfs
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Rental, Real Estate, Residential

Carsten Rahlfs is Managing Partner at Waterland Private Equity and leading the office in Hamburg. Since 2009, he has been involved in the following transactions and portfolio companies: ATOS, GolfRange, MEDIAN, Ranger Marketing, RHM, SenioCare, VivaNeo, Zentrum Gesundheit, Schönes Leben and Coeo Inkasso.Before joining Waterland, Dr. Rahlfs hasbeen Managing Director of the French consumer goods manufacturer Staub Group, being responsible for Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain Management. As Head of Corporate Development at Zwilling J.A. Henckels AG he was responsible for the acquisitions of Staub Group and Demeyere N.V. (Belgium). Before that he worked for Tchibo GmbH in Hamburg. Dr. Rahlfs started his career as Top-Management-Consultant with McKinsey & Company in Hamburg where he worked mainly in the consumer goods sector.He obtained a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and received a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.) in Finance Theory and Strategic Management, both at the University of Lüneburg, Germany.

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