# Top 50 Retail Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023

## Youcef Oudjidane
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Organic Food

Youcef Oudjidane is the founder of Byld Ventures and co-founder of Bloom (YC W22)

## Kenji Niwa
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Subscription Service, Software

Founder CEO at Firstcard. Entrepreneur and Investor.

## Li Kanglin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Restaurants, Food and Beverage

Li Kanglin

## Charles Xue
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Retail

Charles Xue, also known as Xue Manzi, is a Chinese-American angel investor and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of UT Starcom and has invested in Chinese internet startups.

## Jenny Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Learning

Jenny Lee joined GGV Capital back in 2005 as a managing partner and was instrumental in setting up the GGV presence in China.

## Royston Tay
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Royston Tay is Co-Founder & CEO at Zopim. He is GM of Chat at Zendesk.

## Cen Wang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Retail, Catering, Health Care

Cen Wang - Partner @ Sequoia Capital China

## Edvard Engesæth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, B2B, E-Commerce

Founder at Nurx

## 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

## Dele Alli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Retail, Organic Food

Dele Alli

## Kyane Kassiri
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Retail, Finance, Software

Emerging market investor. Partner @ RaliCap.

## Julian Shapiro
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Julian Shapiro is a Partner at Hyper and a Startup Investor at Julian.capital. He previously worked as the Founder of Demand Curve, a Columnist — Growth Marketing at TechCrunch, and VP of Marketing at Webflow. Julian attended Y Combinator.

## Kok Long Chan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, E-Commerce

Mr. Chan Kok Long, aged 47, is one of the 3 key founders of iPay88 Sdn Bhd and currently is the Executive Director of iPay88 Sdn. Bhd and Mobile88.com Sdn Bhd. Both companies are the leading service provider in its own field in the South East Region (SEA). He is currently joint managing iPay88 Sdn Bhd which is the parent company for iPay88 SouthEast Asia. Currently iPay88 Sdn Bhd have offices in Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and soon in Thailand.He was a British Petroleum scholar who graduated from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (“UKM”) with a Bachelor of Science (2nd class upper honours) in 1990. He is a graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM, United Kingdom) and holds a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, United Kingdom.

## Nick Gundry
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Coupons, Internet

Nick Gundry is the Partner Development, Asia + Australia at Microsoft. He attended National University of Singapore.

## Robert Lomnitz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Payments, Shopping

Robert Lomnitz

## Gan Jie
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Commerce and Shopping

Gan Jie, is the vice dean of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, professor of finance, and director of the Center for Finance and Economic Development.

## Henry Hendrawan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2C, EdTech, Retail

Henry Hendrawan,Executive Board Member - Traveloka.

## Alex Jiang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Retail, Internet

Alex Jiang joined Antler to lead its China related investment as Founding Partner for Antler China. Antler is a global multi-stage VC with 25 global offices across 6 continents, covering every major market and innovation hub. As leading Partner for China, I'm backing global-minded Chinese founders who are building globalproducts/services, with
1) Capital from Day Zero to growth
2) Unmatched global founders community (5000+ Antler alumni founders)
3) Unfair advantage in accessing global markets through Antler's global partners, founders and advisors12-year experience in VC with recognized track record. Lead early investor in 3 unicorns and 2 IPOs: Zhihu知乎 (NYSE ZH), 每日互动(China IPO), Mininglamp Technology明略科技(AI unicorn), Advance Intelligence Group 领创集团(Fintech unicorn in SEA), Source 所思科技(leading VR/metaverse company), etc. Alex was voted two times FORBES CHINA TOP100 INVESTORS by Forbes and 2019 CHINA TOP50 VC INVESTORS.Prior to Antler, Alex co-founded Alpha Startup Fund in 2015 and oversees fund raising, investment and portfolio management. Alex was Co-Managing Partner at Sinnovation Ventures (leading early stage VC with a AUM of $3B across 10 funds) and Partner at WI Harper Group (San Francisco, Beijing and Taipei based cross-boarder fund). | Co-President, Harvard Business School Association of Beijing
| Founding Chair, Harvard Beijing Angles
| Rock climbing and mountaineering

## Walid Aradi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services

Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling

## Boquan He
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Series D
- Focus: Tea, Bakery, Retail

Boquan He

## Zhiyi Zhang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, Internet

Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese actress and model. Her first major role was in The Road Home. She later gained international recognition for her role in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.

## Ross Veitch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Yoshikazu Azuma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Retail, Security, Marketing

Yoshikazu Azuma - Representative Director and CEO @ TWO

## Lim Qing Ru
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Retail, Computer

Lim Qing Ru - VP Marketing - RainMaker @ Zopim

## Dimiter Tschawow
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet

Dimiter Tschawow

## Craig Hewett
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Coupons, Internet

Craig is the Co-Founder of Wego.com. He has more than 15 years experience in the online travel distribution industry, starting out with Holiday Inn Worldwide (now known as InterContinental Hotels Group) back in 1995 when the company launched the world's first online booking engine. He left Holiday Inn Worldwide in 1999 to join the start upteam for Priceline.com in Asia. He then joined the start up team for Zuji in Singapore where his tenure was cut short by the events of September 11th 2001.
Craig then rejoined InterContinental Hotels Group at the time when the company was ramping up its online technology investments across key Asia Pacific Markets. He developed the company's online strategy across the region with key local investments in China and Japan, successfully introducing local language capabilities into the group's global reservation system and marketing websites.

## Alexandre Lazarow
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: InsurTech, Financial Services, Insurance

Alexandre Lazarow is the Partner of Cathay Innovation.

## Zhengyao Lu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Coffee, Retail, Food and Beverage

Zhengyao Lu is the president and CEO of China Auto Rental Holdings Limited, a Chinese car rental business that offers sedans, sports utility vehicles, and multi-purpose vehicles for short- and long- term rentals, and leasing. Zhengyao founded the company in 2007, before which he founded a joint LuZhengyao Automobile Club in 2005. Lu holds abachelor’s degree in engineering from University of Science and Technology, Beijing, and an EMBA from Peking University.

## Niklas Eklund
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Apps, Internet

Over the past 25 years, Niklas has an entrepreneur built and internationalized a range of companies in the area of reservation systems, revenue management, online marketing, and web publishing; amongst others he was the CEO and co-founder Bookatable, Livebookings, Infogate, and Epani.Over the past 8 years, Niklas has a direct investor and advisorto investment companies and venture capital companies; amongst others he was a co-founder and general partner at D-Ax (Axel Johnson Group CVC), a venture partner for Wellington Partners Venture Capital. Niklas is currently a general partner for PES Holdings. Investment focus is the Digital Media Sector and Digital Growth Companies, primarily in the Nordic countries and across Europe. Niklas describes himself as a ‘computer software geek and wizard turned businessman’ as he started his career at the age of 15.
His achievements in building internationally successful companies have been recognized by various industry awards.

## Andy Zain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Retail, Music, Events

Andy Zain is one of the pioneers in the mobile industry in Indonesia. He helped launch some of the first and most successful mobile start-ups in the country. He also established digital services and go-to market strategies for global brands such as Disney, Yahoo!, Cartoon Networks and advised several successful startups in social media, mobilevideo platform and social gaming.Andy is a founder of MobileMonday Indonesia, a networking forum for mobile industry professionals in Indonesia and a Director of the Jakarta Founder Institute, a mentorship and incubation program for startups.Andy oversees the growth and marketing strategy for 8vilages and manages relationship with carriers and key distribution partners.

## Hirofumi Miki
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Content, Marketing, Internet

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.

## Lisa Gokongwei
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mandaluyong, Cavite, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Internet

Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng is a President at Summit Media. Attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.

## Andy Preikschat
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Andy Preikschat is CEO of Don's RV, a top-20 RV dealer in California. He is CIO of Edgebrook Partners, which has 9 B2B software investments, and is an Angel Investor. He has degrees from Stanford University and Claremont McKenna College.

## Matt Caspari
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Software, Information Technology

Managing Partner at Strawberry Creek Ventures, an Alumni Ventures fund. AngelList syndicate lead. 2x venture-backed founder/CEO. Former Innovation @ Nike

## Jerry Yang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Jerry Yang is an Investor and Advisory Board Member of Sarcura. Jerry Yang attended the National Taiwan University and HEC Paris.

## Dylan Field
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

## Makoto Takano
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Content, Sports, Apps

Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.

## Austen Allred
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

Austen Allred co-founded Lambda School and serves as its CEO.

## Kevin Ryan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Real Estate, Health Care, E-Commerce

Kevin Ryan is the Founder and CEO of AlleyCorp,

## Yang Bin Kwok
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Apps

Yang Bin Kwok

## Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includes two IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

## Maximilian Bittner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Logistics, Marketplace

Max is part of the executive team of Lazada.com, a leading regional online department store founded by Rocket Internet in Southeast Asia. As CEO, Max is responsible for the performance of all 5 operating countries as well as overseeing regional buying.Max started his career at Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking division in London. Followinghis MBA, he joined McKinsey & Company in Germany. Over these 4 years at the firm, Max worked largely with Media and Retail clients as a consultant. During his time at McKinsey, he also joined the private equity firm 3i plc for 6 months on a secondment.Max initially joined Rocket Internet in Germany as a regional partner before taking on the role of CEO at Lazada.Max holds a bachelor degree of economics and history from University College London and a MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management in Chicago

## Christopher Rust
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology

Christopher Rust is the Co-Founder and Partner at Clear Ventures.

## Ryan Petersen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

## Olga Lyudovyk
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: CRM, Retail, Consumer

Olga Lyudovyk is the Founder at ShopHop.

## Nadeem Hussain
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, Internet

Nadeem Hussain

## Chris Yeh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Advertising

Chris Yeh was on the founding team of pioneering Internet companies such as United Online Services (Nasdaq: UNTD) and Merrill Lynch’s Intelligent Technologies Group. He has founded, advised, or invested in dozens of startups, including Ustream and PBworks.Chris is a much-quoted thought leader in the field of marketing and entrepreneurship;his research and publications have been incorporated into the Harvard Business School curriculum, while his projects have received press coverage in Fortune, the Financial Times, and the New York Times. He writes a popular blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital, Adventures in Capitalism and contributes to blogs such as TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Chris holds two degrees from Stanford University, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar (High Distinction).You can reach Chris by e-mail at chris@wasabiventures.com and follow him on Twitter or AngelList.

## Axel Peyriere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Delivery, E-Commerce, Retail

Startups - Mentoring - Advising - Emerging Markets.
I am a enthusiastic entrepreneur and angel investor working with startups all around the world.
Have worked / mentored / coached / partnered / invested in more than 200 startups around the world.
Specially keen on online marketplaces and emerging and frontier markets.

## Wes Schwalje
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

## Nate Matherson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Nate Matherson is the Co-founder/CEO of ContainIQ. ContainIQ is a software platform to monitor, optimize, and maintain kubernetes clusters.

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