Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023
Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023
| Investor | Social Media Asia investments |
|---|---|
| Kotaro Chiba | 5 |
| Kotaro Chiba | 5 |
| Kensuke Furukawa | 4 |
| Masao Ito | 4 |
| Tom Varkey | 3 |
| Shubhrendu Koche | 3 |
| Komura Fujio | 2 |
| Shuuichi Wada | 2 |
| Arthur Sabalionis | 2 |
| Shunsuke Sasaki | 2 |
| Daisuke Kajiwara | 2 |
| Kiyoshi Nishikawa | 2 |
| Hidetoshi Takano | 2 |
| Shogo Kawada | 2 |
| Koki Yabu | 2 |
| Khailee Ng | 2 |
| Yu Akasaka | 2 |
| Christine Herron | 2 |
| Joon Kim | 2 |
| Minhong Yu | 2 |
| Rajesh Kamat | 2 |
| Jun Nishikawa | 2 |
| Hayama Takashi | 1 |
| Hikaru Kashida | 1 |
| Masaru Tange | 1 |
| Meltem Demirors | 1 |
| Mark Vranesh | 1 |
| Dmitri Melnikov | 1 |
| Samarth Sharma | 1 |
| Cecilia Bratt | 1 |
| Siduri Poli | 1 |
| Takashi Shibayama | 1 |
| Sameer Manchanda | 1 |
| Suzuki Yuto | 1 |
| Richard Chen | 1 |
| Yoshihito Nishioka | 1 |
| David Ng | 1 |
| Kasit Rochanakorn | 1 |
| Nick Gundry | 1 |
| Nishiki Takashi | 1 |
| Ayataro Nakagawa | 1 |
| Toshiro Wakimaru | 1 |
| Samit Shetty | 1 |
| Hailong Xiang | 1 |
| Craig Hewett | 1 |
| Marat Kichikov | 1 |
| Kazuhiro Ishikura | 1 |
| Maneesh Arora | 1 |
| Kenji Narushima | 1 |
| Jeff Shouger | 1 |
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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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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.
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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- Content, Social Media, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- mikai — mikai is a virtual YouTuber management, VR / AR content development.
- Tokyo — Tokyo provides consistently-designed signage and projector installation, as well as maintenance company support. All customers need is “product selection” considering installation. This is a service that does not take time and effort!
- Graffity — Graffity to provide AR experiences globally and enrich life more conveniently and invent the AR entertainment experience and provide it globally.
Tom is a veteran in financial markets and is Principal at Stonehill Capital. Prior to this he has held positions with Lazard Asset Management & Fidelity Investments focusing on emerging markets and corporate debt. Tom is an MBA from Harvard Business School & has a MA in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University.
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- Media and Entertainment, E-Learning, Education
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
- Knocksense — A local news and recommendations platform.
- Clever Harvey — Clever Harvey JuniorMBA is an online programme led by IIM and Ivy league alumni to teach your child the essentials of entrepreneurship, strategy and technology!
Shubhrendu Koche
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- E-Commerce, Sports, eSports
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
- Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.
- BazaarNXT — B2B Marketplace for Packaging Materials, Manufacturing & Distribution
Komura Fujio
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- Content, Ethereum, Marketing
- Seed, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- GINKAN — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan
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- Reservations, Content, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Craftie — Craftie is an lesson reservation service.
- hackjpn — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
- rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
CEO at AJ Marketing | Influencer & Digital Marketing in AsiaAJ Marketing's mission is to help international companies to succeed in AsiaWHAT WE DO? - Marketing Strategy - Influencer Marketing - Digital Marketing - SEO - Press Release - Social Media Management - Asia Celebrity Licensing - Creative ProductionWHY US? - CreativeAgency - Top Influencers - Global Team - Local Resources - Flexibility - ExperienceTEAM LOCATIONS - Singapore - Japan - South Korea - Thailand - Indonesia - Malaysia - Vietnam - Taiwan
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- Marketing, Advertising, Social Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- AJ Marketing — Influencer and digital marketing in Asia. Covering Singapore, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan and Malaysia. Unlock the Power of Influence!
Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe
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- Social Media, Content, SNS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- bond Japan — Bond Co., Ltd. is a video learning platform specializing in Japanese language studies.
- Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries
Daisuke Kajiwara - Director, CTO and Director of CHECK Company @ Every Japan
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- Social Media, Content, CRM
- Seed, Series B
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- hackjpn — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
- Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
- rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
After working at KDD Corporation （Currently known as KDDI Corporation）, Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept†and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.
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- News, Social Media, Big Data
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
- Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
- TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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 .
Shogo Kawada is Co-founder and Adviser of DeNA, a global Internet company focused on a social games platform, social games, e-commerce and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs.
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- Software, SaaS, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
- sunblaze — sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time.
- Spider Labs — Spider Labs offers solutions to help fight ad fraud and ensure data security.
Koki Yabu is Founder, President & CEO at Mobcast inc.
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- Content, Finance, Data Mining
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Mobcast group — mobcast is a sports entertainment company that operates a mobile entertainment platform for smartphones and feature phones. It supports customers with social game and social media services. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of mobcast Inc.
- SmartApp Japan — Smart Apps is a developer of a blockchain services application designed for smartphones. The company's application uses cryptocurrency technology to offer token issuance, initial coin offering and dApps design support, providing a launchpad for start-up blockchain-related businesses.
Khailee Ng is Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder and CEO of SAYS. He graduated from the University of Technology Sydney, the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.
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- Software, Social Media, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- Talkpush — Talkpush is the leading conversational CRM for recruitment. Automate the repetitive stuff and focus on the right talent.
- YogaTrail — YogaTrail connects yoga providers with their yogis. Get everyone's classes in one simple place and always know what's up in your yoga world.
- Call Levels — Don't let the markets drive you crazy - we watch the markets so you don't have to.
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.
Christine Herron is an early-stage investor and diversity advocate, and co-leads the Intel Capital Diversity Fund while leading investments in early-stage companies. She is responsible for diversity investing across Intel Capital sectors, to support technology companies founded or run by women, underrepresented minorities, LGBTQ, or veterans. AtIntel, Christine's direct portfolio includes 500 Friends (ACQ: Merkle), betaworks, Brit Media, E la Carte, Funders Club, Goldbely, Jelli, Movable Ink, SmartZip, Storenvy (ACQ: OpenSky), Two Bit Circus, and Yummly (ACQ: WHR), and Intel Education Accelerator companies Comprendio, Immersed Games, Sutori, and Vidcode.Previously, Christine was an investor with seed stage venture fund First Round Capital, working with Better Finance, Double Verify, Get Satisfaction (ACQ: Sprinklr), Mint (ACQ: INTU), and Xobni (ACQ: YHOO). At Omidyar Network, she developed the Media and Web 2.0 practice strategy and led deals such as Common Sense Media and Socialtext.At Geocapital Partners, Christine focused on early Internet and network technology, leading Series A funding for AXON Networks (ACQ: 3COM), D-Vision (ACQ: ADSK), FocusVision (MBO), Netcom (IPO: NETC), and ViaGrafix (IPO: VIAX). Christine was also a founder or early employee at GiftWorks (ACQ: FrontStream), Mercury2, and NetObjects (IPO: NETC).Christine earned an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Columbia University. She is a founding advisor or mentor to 500 Startups, Bullpen Capital, and StartX, and serves on Alonzo King's LINES Ballet Board of Directors. She is active on @christine and a frequent speaker.
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- E-Commerce, Personalization, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Roominate — W77 merupakan situs slot online yang menyajikan link demo slot gartais provider pragmatic play tanpa deposit mudah dimenangkan
- Soldsie — Soldsie (formerly Centrally) is a payment system enabling merchants to monetize their Facebook page by allowing customers to purchase through comments.Customers register their payment information with Soldsie, and then comment on stores’ pages, channels and feeds to activate a charge to their account, and initiate the shipping process.Merchants use the Soldsie administrative dashboard track and manage inventory and shipping, and experience increased user comments, views and viral shares.
- Tokyo Otaku Mode — The ultimate online destination for fans of Japanese pop culture.
Joon Kim
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- Marketing, Advertising, Social Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- AJ Marketing — Influencer and digital marketing in Asia. Covering Singapore, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan and Malaysia. Unlock the Power of Influence!
Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was anEnglish instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.
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- Education, Social Media, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Bottomsup — Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content.
- Kuaipeilian — Kuaipeilian is an online piano training platform
- Pingo Space — Pingo Space is a mobile platform that connects locals to expats through in-person experiences.
Listed as India’s hottest 40 under 40 Business Leaders by Economic Times and Spencer Stuart, Rajesh was previously the COO of Peter Chernin’s Asia focused private equity fund CA Media. Kamat had formerly launched Viacom18’s popular Hindi GEC network COLORS. With a mix of disruptive and differentiated programming, accompanied by aggressive marketingand distribution strategies Kamat catapulted COLORS to a number 3 position in its very first week and the number 1 position 9 months after launch, breaking Star Plus’ stranglehold on the position after nine years of unchallenged dominance. Under Rajesh’s leadership COLORS continued its successful run and grew into a vibrant brand reaching 140mm Households. It is the only GEC to have reached an operating break-even in 15 months. He served as COO of Viacom 18 Group and CEO of COLORS. Prior to COLORS, he launched Endemol India and served as its Managing Director. He has also served as SVP of Commercial & Business Planning at STAR India and held various marketing positions at Coca-Cola and MTV India. Kamat has also been named Impact Media Person of Year in 2009 and ‘Outstanding Entrepreneurs of Asia Pacific for 2010. Rajesh is a Bachelor of Engineering and also holds a Master's in Business Administration.Rajesh is also an active board member in over 10 companies and enjoys contributing to the angel investor ecosystem
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- Mobile, Digital Entertainment, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Thrill — Online meetings can be professionally transcribed by Transcriberry experts with 99% accuracy. No matter whether it'll be Skype, Zoom, Google Meets or other service.
- Animeta — Animeta is the World's first Social Media Influencer collaboration platform for Digital Creators, TikTok stars, & everyone else - powered by AIJoin the revolution of influencers that make money with digital creator tech, empower the creator economy, and get famous faster.
- Infinite Analytics — Become a supercharged AI Enabled Enterprise - deeply understand your consumers to best reach them with the right products in the right places and grow
Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ eureka, Inc.
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- Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Content
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
- Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
- Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
Hayama Takashi - Outside Director @ Eco Style
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- SNS, Beauty, Medical
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- MedPeer — MedPeer operates as a community site for doctors. MedPeer is a recruitment agency collective registration service.MedPeer operation of "MedPeer," a collective intelligence service/ community website for physicians.
Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.
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- Consulting, E-Learning, Communities
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
- alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
- Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- Kalder — Kalder is a unified web3 brand loyalty platform for brands and creators to drive meaningful engagement, onboard new users, and reward superfan communities.
- Ethos — Your home base for web3 on Sui. Easy to integrate in-dapp Sui wallet. Best way to onboard new crypto-curious users.
Mark Vranesh was named Chief Financial Officer of financial and business experience in the software, entertainment and related technology industries. Mark also spent 8 years with Ernst & Young LLP’s high tech practice, most recently as an Audit Senior Manager and earned a degree in Business from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1990.
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- EdTech, Education, Social Media
- Funding Round
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!
Dmitri Melnikov is COO and Co-founder of Semrush.
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- EdTech, Education, Social Media
- Funding Round
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!
Samarth Sharma is the Head of Growth, EMEA App Dev at Google.
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- Social Media, Social Network, Content Delivery Network
- Pre-Seed
- Armenia
Portfolio highlights
- Melon — Save & organise content from any source. Follow experts and friends. Share your knowledge with others.
Cecilia Bratt
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- Social Media, Social Network, Content Delivery Network
- Pre-Seed
- Armenia
Portfolio highlights
- Melon — Save & organise content from any source. Follow experts and friends. Share your knowledge with others.
Siduri Poli is the Founder of CMNTY.XYZ.
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- Social Media, Social Network, Content Delivery Network
- Pre-Seed
- Armenia
Portfolio highlights
- Melon — Save & organise content from any source. Follow experts and friends. Share your knowledge with others.
Takashi Shibayama
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- Music, EBooks, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- FOWD — FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.
- AtHearth — AtHearth is a real estate agency offering specialized services for expats in Tokyo. Find Out More.
- 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.
Sameer Manchanda
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- Social Media, Service Industry, Digital Entertainment
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Animeta — Animeta is the World's first Social Media Influencer collaboration platform for Digital Creators, TikTok stars, & everyone else - powered by AIJoin the revolution of influencers that make money with digital creator tech, empower the creator economy, and get famous faster.
Suzuki Yuto - Representative Director and CEO @ JapanWork
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- SaaS, Content, Internet
- Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
- Bizibl Technologies — Bizibl Technologies provides SaaS services for recruitment events.
Richard Chen is a General Partner at 1confirmation and a Board Director at Hatena Co. Ltd. Before that, he was a Trustee at UC Berkeley Foundation. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business and the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Mobile, Software, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Farel — Say farewell to piecing together different vendors, integrations, and clunky software. Farel delivers one seamless, all-in-one, software platform engineered for growing airlines.
- Maslo — We make companions that care about people.
- Kinnek — Potential customers are looking for reasons to trust your company, and they want third-party sources to vouch for you. Kinnek helps suppliers like you build a world-class online reputation and easily share it. Because when you win more trust, more prospects become loyal customers.
DescriptionYoshihito Nishioka is a Japanese tennis player.
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- Sports, Content, Social Media
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- TENTIAL — With the power of AI, TENTIAL analyzes detailed purchasing behavior and attributes online and aim to deliver its customers' products based on their own information.
David Ng is the CEO & Founder of goGame.
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- eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ampverse — Offering data-driven, proprietary tech-enabled, and creative e-sports influencer marketing solutions for Thailand and South East Asia companies.
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Kasit Rochanakorn is the Legal Director at Atomico.
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- Social Media, Social Network, Content Delivery Network
- Pre-Seed
- Armenia
Portfolio highlights
- Melon — Save & organise content from any source. Follow experts and friends. Share your knowledge with others.
Nick Gundry is the Partner Development, Asia + Australia at Microsoft. He attended National University of Singapore.
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- Retail, Coupons, Internet
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Coupay — Coupay offers consumers the ability to be rewarded for their social equity. By using existing conversion methods, being coupons, cashback and comparison, if a user shares via a social network and a sale occurs, that user is rewarded financially for the share. Coupay has partnered with thousands of retailers, and has over 16 million productson site. Coupay, social shopping that pays in cash.
Nishiki Takashi - Outside Director @ aucfan Co.,Ltd.
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- Content, Education, Social Media
- Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Kepple Accounting Office — Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Samit Shetty is the CEO of Navi FinServ.
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- Banking, FinTech, Big Data
- Seed, Funding Round
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Navanc — Navanc provides complete information about the property or assets under consideration and is intended to provide real time information on the goodwill of the property.
- Radarr — Radarr is the best social listening and customer experience platform for Asia. Marketers and CX teams can get deep social analytics, track brand sentiment, monitor competitors, identify influencers, and engage with customers using Radarr.
- Navi Technologies — Get instant Cash Loan, Home Loan, invest in Mutual Funds & buy Health Insurance policy in a 100% paperless manner with minimal documentation. Download the Navi app now!
Hailong Xiang joined Baidu in February 2005. He serves as Vice President in charge of Baidu’s commercial operations.Xiang served as Vice President of Baidu’s direct sales for its search marketing business, from April 2007 to July 2011.Mr. Xiang graduated from East China Normal University in 2000 with a degree in computer science.In 2001, Mr.Xiang established Shanghai Qilang, an Internet services firm, and served as its general manager.He joined Baidu with the acquisition of Shanghai Qilang in February 2005. Since joining, Mr. Xiang has led his team in completing the transformation of Baidu’s direct sales organization, effectively improving its structure, business processes, incentive systems, and marketing methods.He now oversees commercial product development, service management, and the Baidu Union.
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- Apps, Parenting, Mobile Apps
- Angel
- China
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- Dooluu — Duolu is a social app that allows parents, relatives, and friends to record and share adolescent’s growth moments from thousands of miles away. It is also an interactive tool for homeschooling in the field of early childhood development. Family members can see the class dynamics posted by the teacher every day, and always understand the progress ofthe adolescent’s learning and growth.
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.
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- Retail, Coupons, Internet
- Seed
- Singapore
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- Coupay — Coupay offers consumers the ability to be rewarded for their social equity. By using existing conversion methods, being coupons, cashback and comparison, if a user shares via a social network and a sale occurs, that user is rewarded financially for the share. Coupay has partnered with thousands of retailers, and has over 16 million productson site. Coupay, social shopping that pays in cash.
Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor. He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund. He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group. In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders. Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law. In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing!
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- Software, Education, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Latvia
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- Intropia — Find Web3 jobs and other opportunities, capitalize your network, and hire the best talent.
- Starly.io — Launchpad and marketplace for your gamified NFT collections
- EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!
Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.
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- Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan
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- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC Japan — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Maneesh Arora is CEO & co-founder of MightyText. He is a product builder who previously worked at Google and Zynga.
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- Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Japan, Nigeria
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- HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
- CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!
- Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
Kenji Narushima is a Chief Strategy Officer / Chief Of Staff at CARRO
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- Apps, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore
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- MindFi — MindFi is an employee mental health and well-being app delivering personalized self-care recommendations, support, and behavioral coaches. MindFi enables people to achieve peak mental performance.
- Anyone AI — We invest in talent from Latam.
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Finance executive (Certified Public Accountant) with broad experience managing and developing high performing teams.Extensive experience scaling finance departments, financial planning and forecasting, treasury, driving operations and process development for private venture back as well as multinational public companies including: Zynga, GileadSciences, Intuit, Sandisk, Monogram Biosciences, Novacea, Avanex, Cell Genesys, Nektar Therapeutics and Proteolix.Deal experience covering a variety of transactions, including acquisitions, initial public offerings (IPO), debt offerings, corporate partnerships and follow-on offerings.Broad understanding of public company issues and structuring pre-IPO for transition to public company.
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- EdTech, Education, Social Media
- Funding Round
- Singapore
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- EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!
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Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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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 .
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ELESTYLE
— ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
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Luup
— Luup is an Internet Company.
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