Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023
Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023
| Investor | Recruiting Asia investments |
|---|---|
| Tatsuo Sakamoto | 3 |
| Sato Takahiro | 2 |
| Yasuyuki Kin | 2 |
| Stein Jakob Oeie | 2 |
| Binny Bansal | 2 |
| Shinichiro Sugiyama | 2 |
| Yu Akasaka | 2 |
| Fabio Cannavale | 2 |
| Ayataro Nakagawa | 2 |
| Hidetoshi Takano | 2 |
| Darius Cheung | 2 |
| Kensuke Furukawa | 2 |
| Kazuma Ieiri | 2 |
| JJ Chai | 2 |
| Noguchi Keito | 2 |
| Yuzuru Honda | 2 |
| Ichiro Fukushima | 1 |
| Quek Siu Rui | 1 |
| Nobuhiro Ariyasu | 1 |
| Yasuo Takahata | 1 |
| ThuHuong Duong | 1 |
| Ming Feng Yeap | 1 |
| Taira Sakuma | 1 |
| Chikako Morimoto | 1 |
| Khor Chieh Suang | 1 |
| Henry Chan | 1 |
| Poh Kam Wong | 1 |
| Kanzaki Takahiro | 1 |
| Sławomir Czajkowski | 1 |
| Hiura Toshihiko | 1 |
| Johan Nyvene | 1 |
| Yusuke Sato | 1 |
| John Tan | 1 |
| Thomas Hornbeck | 1 |
| Oshima Ayanobu | 1 |
| Shota Iwasaki | 1 |
| Toru Shimada | 1 |
| Yuki Sato | 1 |
| Umagami Emi | 1 |
| Andrew Riddick | 1 |
| Kate Choyce | 1 |
| Arai Motoki | 1 |
| Masaru Tange | 1 |
| John Lindfors | 1 |
| Ronny Waage | 1 |
| Sofia Liang | 1 |
| Hirofumi Miki | 1 |
| Toshiro Wakimaru | 1 |
| Hu Hua | 1 |
| Kotaro Chiba | 1 |
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
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- Education, Task Management, Recruiting
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
- Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
Sato Takahiro - CEO @ Sekaisha
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- Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- RIZAP GROUP —
Yasuyuki Kin
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- Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
- Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
- LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
Stein Jakob Oeie is the Founder & Managing Director, Indonesia at Rocket Internet GmbH. Before joining Rocket Internet as Managing Director Indonesia, Stein worked for J.P. Morgan as Associate. Stein holds a Master's degree from the HEC School of Management / HEC Paris.
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- Fashion, Internet, Shopping
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Talkpush — Talkpush is the leading conversational CRM for recruitment. Automate the repetitive stuff and focus on the right talent.
- Propseller — Sell, buy and rent property smarter with Propseller. Get premium service and full transparency for a fair commission. Sell for only 1%.
- Lazada Group — Lazada is the number one online shopping and selling destination in Southeast Asia – present in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Lazada helps more than 100,000 local and international sellers, as well as 2,500 brands, serve the 560 million consumers in the region through its marketplace platform, supportedby a wide range of tailored marketing, data, and service solutions. Lazada offers an excellent customer experience through a wide network of logistics partners and it's own first- and last-mile
Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
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- Software, Internet, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Virgio — Women's & Men's Clothing and Accessories | Shop Trendy Fashion Online
- Leela Life — Timeless Indian wellbeing secrets for peaceful and joyful living
- Alltius Inc. — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
After HR in charge of the Tokyo Stock partially listed manufacturer, joined Pacific Management Co., Ltd. in 2001. After experience IPO on JASDAQ, TSE 2, and TSE partially listed, HR and management planningHe is responsible for management planning, equity finance, and IR, supporting the IPO of two Group companies to the TSE J-REIT market. JoinedEscrit Co., Ltd. in 2008, and oversees the listing of Mothers IPO and Tokyo Stock Exchange as CFO. Joined Bengo4.com Co., Ltd. in 2013 and launched several IPO and new businesses in Mothers in a year and a half as a director CFO. Representative Director of Burritudo Co., Ltd., 5 IPO Experience Companies. In July 2017, he was appointed Director of REXIT Co., Ltd. In November 2017, he became the Auditor of REXIT Co., Ltd.
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- Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor
- Seed, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- REXIT — REXIT, Inc. is REal x IT. With a corporate philosophy of "new value in the Internet and real life", and toward the vision of "making the old business around the world a new business", the mission is to "restructure the bridal industry and create a world full of weddings." Is a company that is challenging. By adding theessence of the Internet and technology to wedding halls and weddings, we create new value that can contribute to society.
- MonooQ — MonooQ is a shared storage service that connects people who are looking for storage space for luggage and those who want to make effective use of the extra space.
- Carat Japan — Service development and operation to make people shine
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.
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- Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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.
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- Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
- Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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- Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
- Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
- ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
Darius Cheung is co-founder of BillPin and CEO/co-founder of McAfee-acquired tenCube.
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- Apps, Mobile, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
- Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
- Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".
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- Content, Media and Entertainment, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- FiNANCiE — FiNANCiE is a social networking service.
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.
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- Content, Fashion, Recruiting
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
- ONE NOVA — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
- vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
JJ Chai is the CEO & co-founder at Rainforest. He attended National University of Singapore.
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- Information Technology, Real Estate, Rental Property
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
- Needle — The world's first personal AI marketer for rising brands. It acts like a smart assistant to help you defy the odds. Sign up for early access!
Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes
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- Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
- Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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- SNS, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
- Rensource Energy — Rensource develops, finances, and manages critical energy infrastructure for African enterprises with the objective of powering Africa's economy
Ichiro Fukushima
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- Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
Siu Rui is a co-founder of Carousell and oversees Product and Marketing. Since the launch of Carousell in May 2012 together with co-founders Marcus Tan and Lucas Ngoo, Siu Rui has been deeply involved in product strategy, international expansion and capital strategy. He is passionate about technology and has been buying and selling online since hewas 13. This has been a driving force behind Siu Rui’s commitment to building a product-focused company, focused on solving meaningful problems for people globally.Prior to Carousell, Siu Rui spent some time in marketing and product management at VSee, Ogilvy & Mather and DBS Vickers. Siu Rui read Business Administration and Entrepreneurship at National University of Singapore and Stanford University (Under the NUS Overseas College Program in Silicon Valley, California), and dropped out of his Honours year to start Carousell.
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- Health Care, Education, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Jackett — Jackett is your assessment automation platform for eliminating the hassle of writing & marking (quizzes, tests, worksheets, homework) - and so much more.
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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- Content, Internet, Finance
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
- Seibii, Inc. — Transforming traditional car maintenance, repair, after-parts installation, road service industry of Japan by leveraging Technology.
Yasuo Takahata - President @ DesignOne Japan, Inc.
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- Task Management, SNS, Recruiting
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
- M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
- Asia Educasion Labo —
ThuHuong Duong
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- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- JOBHOPin — JobHop is a SaaS company that connects reputable companies and most suitable talents in SEA, starting with Vietnam. Powered by latest AI/ML technology ,JobHop automates the sourcing process and help make work happen faster, easier and cheaper. JobHop ATS (Applicant Tracking System) helps companies streamline their recruitment process,enhance predictive analytics, smart reporting to ultimately save time and focus in what matter: The candidates.
Ming Feng Yeap - Head of Seedly @ Seedly
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- Internet, Software, Recruiting
- Series A
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
Taira Sakuma is the founder of FORCAS.
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- Human Resources, Software, Consulting
- Seed, Funding Round
- Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
- Boulder — Eliminates dissatisfaction, anxiety, misfortune, etc. “Misfortune”, and aims to realize in the world where all people can work while imagining the future positively, Japan's first employ SuccessThe platform “Well” is provided. The service is a service that analyzes data of communication tools such as Slack normally used by AI, and allows youto objectively see employee condition and organizational issues.
- OVERFLOW — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu
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- Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Chieh Suang focuses on sourcing companies with good potential and helping them to refine their business model and strategy.Prior to joining DMP, Chieh Suang worked at Nusantara Ventures, a family-owned venture fund focusing on Indonesia. There, she helped to incubate 2 startups in Indonesia and worked on a joint venture investment.In2007-2010, she was an Investment Manager with Infocomm Investments, with primary responsibilities in deal sourcing and the conduct of due diligence on potential co-investment deals. She also helped to formulate exit strategies for portfolio companies.Chieh Suang started her career at the Economic Development Board of Singapore, working to develop Singapore into a hub for technology startups. She designed and formulated startup friendly policies, early stage co-investment programmes and marketed Singapore to entrepreneurs, business angels, venture capital firms and technology transfers offices.Chieh Suang has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore. She is fluent in English, Bahasa Melayu, and Mandarin.
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- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Angel
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Pulsifi — Pulsifi's People Data Platform helps organizations improve talent acquisition and management by leveraging predictive analytics and AI.
Henry Chan - CEO, Co-Founder @ ShopBack
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- Personal Health, Health Care, Medical
- Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
- Intellect — Intellect is a modern-day mental health company with a mission to make mental healthcare & wellbeing support accessible for everyone. Today, Intellect is the largest and fastest growing mental health tech company in Asia, and serves over 2 million members and leading organisations globally through our mental health platform. Intellect wasalso selected as one of Google’s Best Apps of 2020. Intellect is backed by leading investors including Insignia Ventures Partners, Y Combinator, and an extensive list of family offices, big tech executives & renowned angel investors.
- Unravel Carbon — Unravel Carbon is a enterprise software for companies to track and reduce their carbon emissions, specialising in Asia's businesses and supply chains.
Poh Kam WONG is a Professor at the Business School of National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. Through the centre, he oversees the university's entrepreneurship education programs, as well as the university's incubator, seed funding programs and mentoring scheme for nurturing spin-offcompanies by the university's professors and students. He has published extensively in leading academic journals on high tech entrepreneurship and innovation policy in Asia, and has consulted frequently for technology companies in Asia, as well as international organizations such as the World Bank. He is an active angel investor in technology start-ups in Singapore, Asia and Silicon Valley, and is the founding Chairman of Business Angel Network Southeast Asia (BANSEA) and chairman and partner of BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd, a business angel fund based in Singapore. He is the initiator of StartUp@Singapore, the annual national business plan competition in Singapore since 1999.
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- Apps, Wearables, Rehabilitation
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- FundedHere — FundedHere Crowdfunding Platform
- TechStorm — Asia's number one 24/7 Esports, gaming & tech-centric entertainment network available in 26 countries. TechStorm is a brand new 360 international network on Asian Esports and tech-centric entertainment. The network celebrates the region’s trail blazers, the biggest Asian Esports and tech names, bringing them to a truly global audienceand fan base.The 24/7 network’s meteoric rise across Asia now reaches 43 million viewers, 100 platforms across multiple countries and is slated to exceed 20 countries globally. Its original Storm Bytes content is readily distributed to 96 million mobile handset users in 26 countries. This exponential growth was all achieved in less than 22 months.TechStorm is an international Esports and tech entertainment network backed by blue-chip, high profile venture capital groups and founded by prominent industry business leaders in media and technology with more than 30 years of extensive domain expertise and business operations. Its dynamic leadership team is fuelled by a passion to drive change and be the voice for Asia’s Esports and tech entrepreneurship ecosystem.
After independence, in addition to financial support for start-ups, we have provided total support for start-up management operations in the seed period, which has no management staff, such as formulating capital policies and business plans. He also has more than tens of debt financing a year. Familiar with the finances of listed companies fromstartups. In order to produce startups that flourish from Japan to the world, we will always incorporate them into growth support from the perspective of startups.
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- Freelance, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
- Sollective — Sollective is an invite-only freelancer network where companies can directly hire talent inside and outside of Japan. Sollective connects freelancers and companies that are ready to work together to maximize each's potential and lead the business to success.
Sławomir Czajkowski
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- SaaS, Recruiting
- Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Careera — HIRING AND GETTING HIRED SHOULDN'T BE A PAIN. Finding the right job or the right candidate can be hard, even using digital platforms. The matching experience just isn't good enough. Plus, there's always a level of bias in the process. In the end, many hiring companies go back to using a recruiter to reduce the workload. Still,there's never a guarantee that you find the right person.Careera gets rid of the job application altogether. Instead, we match great people with inspiring jobs – through an engaging and unbiased platform.
Graduated from the University of Tokyo, graduated from the Department of Liberal Arts, Harvard University Graduate School of Management (MBA). In April 1983, he joined the Nippon Kogyo Bank Co., Ltd. (currently Mizuho Bank Co., Ltd.). After retirement, he joined Bain & Company in February 1986. For more than 30 years, he has been involved inconsulting activities for companies in Japan, US and Europe in various fields. He was appointed as a representative partner of the Tokyo Office in January 2008 and Chairman in April 2014. He also serves as an advisory partner in Bain & Company Tokyo and outside director of Aluhi Co., Ltd.
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- Content, Recruiting, Task Management
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- stmn — stmn is an Operation of Engagement Management Consulting.
Founding CEO of HSC, Vietnam 2nd largest investment bank
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- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- JOBHOPin — JobHop is a SaaS company that connects reputable companies and most suitable talents in SEA, starting with Vietnam. Powered by latest AI/ML technology ,JobHop automates the sourcing process and help make work happen faster, easier and cheaper. JobHop ATS (Applicant Tracking System) helps companies streamline their recruitment process,enhance predictive analytics, smart reporting to ultimately save time and focus in what matter: The candidates.
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder at Pulit.
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- Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- yup — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
John Tan - Founder @ Controlled Commodity
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- Software, Internet, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
- Voyagin — Voyagin is the tours and activities marketplace in Asia with a mission to help travelers discover and book the best travel experiences across Asia. Its website features over 1,800 things to do including tickets to museums and shows, cultural activities, romantic dinners, adventure experiences, and private guides bookable in English, Japanese, andChinese in over 50 destinations in Asia, in advance or in destination via its mobile optimized website. The Voyagin team believes that "travel in Asia is broken." Guests end up sightseeing because unique experiences are hard to find and insecure to book; hosts end up spending time and money on websites which are hard to update and mostly out of date. They also believe that an "experience is more than just an activity; it's about meeting people, trying something new and seeing the world from a different perspective." In hopes to differentiate themselves, they traveled around Asia to find and curate the best experiences and hosts.Launched in 2012, Voyagin provides a trusted platform for tours and activities providers (hosts) in Asia to list their experiences; its team of community managers work with each host to curate their activities both online and during the experience, ensuring their quality. Backed by its 100% satisfaction guarantee, multilingual customer support, and verified reviews from actual guests, Voyagin is the best place for travelers visiting Asia to discover and book their next local experience.Voyagin was founded in 2011 as FindJPN, a marketplace for authentic activities in Japan. FindJPN changed its name to Voyagin in December 2012 when they expanded into Asia.
- Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
Entrepreneur, technologist, educator, and angel investor working with the most innovative companies to change the world
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- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- JOBHOPin — JobHop is a SaaS company that connects reputable companies and most suitable talents in SEA, starting with Vietnam. Powered by latest AI/ML technology ,JobHop automates the sourcing process and help make work happen faster, easier and cheaper. JobHop ATS (Applicant Tracking System) helps companies streamline their recruitment process,enhance predictive analytics, smart reporting to ultimately save time and focus in what matter: The candidates.
Oshima Ayanobu - Chairman and CEO @ Infratop
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- Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
- TranSe — TranSe is a company that creates the future with videos through YusukeOkawa, TranSe Salon, OneSe Personal, & your school.
Shota Iwasaki
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- Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
- TranSe — TranSe is a company that creates the future with videos through YusukeOkawa, TranSe Salon, OneSe Personal, & your school.
Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.
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- Task Management, Manufacturing, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
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- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
Engineer since 10 years old. Electronics, Mechanical, Web, iOS Android
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- Sports, Internet, Recruiting
- Seed
- Japan
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- Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
Umagami Emi
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- stmn — stmn is an Operation of Engagement Management Consulting.
Andrew Riddick - Head of Research @ CLSA
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- Education, E-Learning, Recruiting
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- Pathship — Pathship is an education platform that leverages AI and ML. An alternative to today’s higher education, connecting people with jobs they’re passionate about.
Kate is a driven and focused leader with a solid understanding of how to create successful businesses from nothing in uncharted territory. Her passion to redefine the traditional recruitment space is reinforced by her grassroots design, build, and in-house experimentation experience.
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- Recruiting, Human Resources, Predictive Analytics
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- HR Tech International — Revolutionise your recruitment process with automation saving up to 60% of your time usually spent on interviews, screening and induction.
Arai is the CEO of Happy Elements KK (Japan Company). Arai-Sam manages the mobile business for the Japan market and the business development, product marketing, fans care in Japan.As a student, Motoki Arai worked as a programmer for tech startups such as Gaiax and KLab. He later was involved in the founding of Drecom, and became an executiveofficer just 4 months after joining the company.After being listed in the Mothers Index of the TSE, he started his own company, Cyworks, in Kyot
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- Wedding, Recruiting, Media and Entertainment
- Seed
- Japan
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- REXIT — REXIT, Inc. is REal x IT. With a corporate philosophy of "new value in the Internet and real life", and toward the vision of "making the old business around the world a new business", the mission is to "restructure the bridal industry and create a world full of weddings." Is a company that is challenging. By adding theessence of the Internet and technology to wedding halls and weddings, we create new value that can contribute to society.
Masaru Tange graduated from Kyoto University and joined Incs Inc. in 2000 where he started their IT business and strategy consulting group with only 2 members and developed it into the company's main business with a team of 140 consultants with annual revenue of $50M in 5 years. He then founded SHIFT Inc in 2005 in his studio apartment. He wasthe only employee. The business world wasn't very kind to him - he made no revenue for a while but he kept experimenting with the business model listening to the needs of customers. In 2009, he finally found traction in the "software testing industry." In 2014, Masaru successfully IPO'ed the company. Shift now has 500 employees.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States
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- Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
- Smart Shopping — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
- Launchable — Engineering teams ship 5x faster by using machine learning from Launchable
John Lindfors is a Co-Founder of DST Global. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs as the head of tech and media investment banking in the EMEA region before transitioning to Digital Sky Technologies in 2010.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series D
- Finland, South Korea, Sweden
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- Varjo — Varjo makes the most advanced augmented, virtual and mixed reality headsets for professionals. Welcome to the immersive workplace.
- Sana — Sana is an AI-powered learning platform that empowers organizations to find, share, and harness the knowledge they need to achieve their missions. Learn more about who we are and what we do.
- Pixieray — Pixieray modernizes traditional eyeglass optics by introducing a pioneering adaptive solution giving anyone perfect vision.
Ronny Waage
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- SaaS, Recruiting
- Pre-Seed
- Singapore
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- Careera — HIRING AND GETTING HIRED SHOULDN'T BE A PAIN. Finding the right job or the right candidate can be hard, even using digital platforms. The matching experience just isn't good enough. Plus, there's always a level of bias in the process. In the end, many hiring companies go back to using a recruiter to reduce the workload. Still,there's never a guarantee that you find the right person.Careera gets rid of the job application altogether. Instead, we match great people with inspiring jobs – through an engaging and unbiased platform.
Sofia is the Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions Group at ICBC International. Sofia has 17 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining ICBC International, she was Managing Director and Head of Greater China Equity Capital Market at Macquarie Capital. She has an bachelor's degree in International Economics fromPeking University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Software, InsurTech, Blockchain
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- JobsLab.io — JobsLab is a Hong Kong-based digital recruitment exchange. We help companies and talent connect through our unique end-to-end recruitment platform quickly and discretely. Our community has exclusive access to rewards and benefits that goes beyond traditional recruitment agencies. We use advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to matchprofessionals with exceptional employers. Find your dream job today. Visit: www.jobslab.io
After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.
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- Content, Marketing, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
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- AceRNA — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
- Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
- Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
Toshiro “Tosh” Wakimaru is the Chief Operating Officer of MedPeer, Inc. , Tokyo, Japan since May 2010. Medpeer is the “Medical Doctor Exclusive” SNS in Japan that has just successfully gone to the market in 2014.Prior to the current job, Tosh had been actively working for Price Waterhouse Consulting, Japan LLP (now IBM Japan, Ltd.) aftergraduating from the Boston University School of Management in 1996. While there he completed numerous projects in corporate strategy, operation improvement, and new business development focusing on the retail, service, and healthcare industries with a secondment to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
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- Task Management, Food and Beverage, SNS
- Seed, Funding Round
- Japan, India
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- Clear — Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE".
- Cub McPaws — Buy comfortably fashionable kids clothes (4 - 12 years) online in India from Cub Mcpaws at best prices. Gorgeous dresses, jumpsuits, t-shirts, shirts & bottom wear for boys and girls | Free Shipping | COD
- Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
Hu Hua
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- Content, Aerospace, Consulting
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
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- MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
- SPACE WALKER — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
- OVERFLOW — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Internet, Content, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
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- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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