Top 50 Social Network Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023
Top 50 Social Network Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023
| Investor | Social Network Asia investments |
|---|---|
| Shubhrendu Koche | 3 |
| Kensuke Furukawa | 3 |
| Tom Varkey | 3 |
| Hironao Kunimitsu | 2 |
| Xin Yan | 1 |
| Wu Dekan | 1 |
| David Ng | 1 |
| Kasit Rochanakorn | 1 |
| Cecilia Bratt | 1 |
| Fiona Pathiraja | 1 |
| Liang Xinjun | 1 |
| Hiroaki Kitano | 1 |
| Magda Lukaszewicz | 1 |
| Kenji Narushima | 1 |
| Masao Ito | 1 |
| Ayataro Nakagawa | 1 |
| Madeleine Magnerius | 1 |
| Huang Shao Ning | 1 |
| Mark Pincus | 1 |
| Josh Hannah | 1 |
| Balaji Srinivasan | 1 |
| Sebastian Knutsson | 1 |
| Fredrik Hjelm | 1 |
| Yasuyuki Kin | 1 |
| Wing Vasiksiri | 1 |
| Jussi Salovaara | 1 |
| Ron Zuckerman | 1 |
| Kazuhiro Ishikura | 1 |
| Roger Ehrenberg | 1 |
| Craig Hewett | 1 |
| Tang Hongbo | 1 |
| Yusuke Sato | 1 |
| Brian Ma | 1 |
| O.D. Kobo | 1 |
| Peng T. Ong | 1 |
| Kamata Tomihisa | 1 |
| Otomi Tomohiro | 1 |
| Ryo Ishizuka | 1 |
| Alexander Pack | 1 |
| Reid Hoffman | 1 |
| Manit Parikh | 1 |
| Ross Veitch | 1 |
| Sofia Dolfe | 1 |
| Kazuma Ieiri | 1 |
| Nick Gundry | 1 |
| Yuto Nagatomo | 1 |
| Kentaro Ruichi | 1 |
| Yuma Umeda | 1 |
| Siduri Poli | 1 |
| Samarth Sharma | 1 |
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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.
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!
Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.
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- Content, Media and Entertainment, Virtual Reality
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
- Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
Xin Yan is the Founder of EthSign.
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- Blockchain, Software, Electronics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Instap — Tap to connect with new friends and earn crypto back at the same time! Buy now to receive up to 55% OFF!
- KNN3 Network — KNN3 Network provides graph solutions for web3 multiverse relational aggregation to empower Social d/App and AI analytics. KNN3 aims to become a community-driven data curation protocol to enable on-chain data collaboration.
Wu Dekan is the CEO of Ningbo Mizhi Game Co., Ltd.
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- Lifestyle, Communities, Social Network
- Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Tianju — Tianju is a script-killing grass community, focusing on the offline socialization of the script-killing industry for the C-end.
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.
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.
Fiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, an early stage healthtech VC fund based in London and Copenhagen.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Wellness
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, Armenia
Portfolio highlights
- Melon — Save & organise content from any source. Follow experts and friends. Share your knowledge with others.
- Bloom Money — Bloom Money is a savings club app designed to help growing communities in migrant communities and use technology to promote community, safety, and convenience.
- Storia — Capture your thoughts and unleash your inner voice
Liang Xinjun is the Founder of the Fosun fashion group. He previously worked at Shanghai Guangxin Technology Development Co as a VP; Deputy GM. Liang Xinjun attended Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.
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- Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- NFTGo — NFTGo is a NFT data aggregator where users can find information about NFT, including NFT Drops, ranking, whale tracking, NFT search engine, market data, transaction data, and many more.
- OxScope — 0xScope is a Web3 Knowledge Graph Protocol that connect individuals with different projects and helps in collection of various data from Web2 & Web3 data sources entities.
- TokenScript — A new standard for bridging web2 and web3
Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.
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- Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
- Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
Magda joined Balderton in 2018. Prior to Balderton, Magda spent three years at Goldman Sachs, where she first worked in the financing group covering Nordics and later moved to the Consumer, Retail & Healthcare M&A team, where she was an associate and worked on a number of Nordic transactions. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Magda was involvedin politics and worked in startups. Magda has an MSc in Business & Economics from Lund University, where she was admitted to the Venture Lab for a one-year entrepreneurship programme. She also studied Business at Copenhagen Business School.
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- Dating, Dental, Health Care
- Seed
- Vietnam, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 32Co — 32Co is a medical technology platform that helps general dentists deliver clear aligner orthodontics to their patients.
- Fika — Fika is a dating and social networking platform empowered by Artificial Intelligence, focusing on female users in Asia. Fika focuses on the most fundamental values: growth, authenticity, and equal benefits for all users, to optimize the dating experience and social connections to the highest quality!
Kenji Narushima is a Chief Strategy Officer / Chief Of Staff at CARRO
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- Apps, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- 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
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.
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.
Madeleine Magnerius is a Vice President at EQT Partners.
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- B2B, Dating, Recycling
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Germany, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Vara — Vara develops a breast cancer screening platform powered by AI for radiologists, allowing them to focus on finding cancer early. While we provide. Vara also provides remote mammography reading services to those that lack the radiologists. Vara's mission is to make affordable diagnostics available all over the world by designing machinelearning-powered workflows that users love to work with.
- Circulate — Find the best packaging for you and the planet in our marketplace
- Fika — Fika is a dating and social networking platform empowered by Artificial Intelligence, focusing on female users in Asia. Fika focuses on the most fundamental values: growth, authenticity, and equal benefits for all users, to optimize the dating experience and social connections to the highest quality!
Co-founder of JobsCentral Singapore, Shao-Ning stayed on as the Singapore MD after the company was acquired. During this period, she oversaw operation integrations with the global business and started the company’s transition to become a SaaS player in its Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia operations. Since 2009, Shao-Ning has been mentoring startups in creative, digital and retail industries.
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- Software, SaaS, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Homage — Homage is a trusted senior home care marketplace and technology platform seamlessly connecting seniors to the best quality of care on demand.The Homage platform uses a proprietary matching engine that pairs seniors with the best care professionals for their needs in real-time. Family members can schedule, manage, and monitor care visits throughHomage family app from anywhere, stay in communication with the care professional and get real-time information on the care their senior is receiving. Homage app will let family members know who visited their loved ones, how long they spent in the home, and what activities they did. Homage's technology allows it to send a Homage care professional to senior's house within 2 hours. Homage's app for care professionals lets them efficiently run their business, gives them better client information: a care plan individualized to each senior, helpful tips, ability to run on their own schedule, easy communication with the family members through their app.
- Motorist — Motorist is a Singapore-based automotive platform that simplifies vehicle ownership through smart solutions. We help drivers and car owners to manage their vehicle by providing them with a range of auto services. Stay informed with our network of motorists and motor services.
- EngageRocket — We help organizations make better people decisions using real-time analytics. Our customers use EngageRocket platform to measure and improve employee experience.
Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.
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- Internet, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
- Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
- Bravado — An exclusive Sales Community for the Best Sales Professionals
Josh Hannah is a general partner with Matrix Partners. His entrepreneurial career began in 1999 when he cofounded Flutter.com in London and later led a merger with his biggest competitor, Betfair.com. The combined entity revolutionized the gaming industry by building the world’s first online marketplace for sports betting. Josh returned to theStates in 2004. Soon after, he and a partner purchased eHow, an ailing, Web 1.0, how-to directory. Josh and his partner outsourced content creation to the community and employed then-new advertising and search engine optimization techniques. They increased revenue and traffic 30-fold before selling the company to Demand Media in 2006 for a 400-X return. As a partner at Matrix, Josh has invested in Huddle, Inflection and Taulia. Prior to joining Matrix, Josh invested in successful startups such as Aardvark (acquired by Google), Blingo (acquired by Publishers Clearing House), Designer Apparel (acquired by Sugar Media), Friendster (acquired by MOL Global), Minted, uShip and Wetpaint.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
- Ondo Finance — Institutional Grade Finance. On-Chain. For Everyone.
- Meson Network — meson network provides fast,stable,cheap content delivery globally
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
- Lore — The Natural Language Block Explorer & Analytics Tool.
- Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.
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- Apps, Music, Public Transportation
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Ark Kapital — ArK is a precision financing company that empowers technology businesses to grow faster, enables owners to maintain control, and reduces risk for investors. ArK is founded by a world-class AI technology developer, a six-time-founder, and the veteran banker you always wanted.
- Anotherblock — access music ownership in the world's biggest tracks.
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
Fredrik Hjelm co-founded Voi Technology in 2018 with a vision of improving the way people move around congested urban centres by offering fleets of electric scooters as a cleaner, affordable and exhilarating alternative to cars. Prior to Voi, Fredrik founded Guestit, the Nordics’ most successful Airbnb management company, and worked in businessdevelopment for Avito.ru, Russia’s leading - and the world’s third largest – classified advertising site. Fredrik’s entrepreneurial career began at 12 years of age when he ran a number of commercial projects including forestry work (he grew up in rural Sweden), events and website sales.After graduating from high school, he attended the Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, within the intelligence branch of Sweden’s special forces, where he studied Russian and linguistics. He served a total of four years in Moscow in the Defence Attache Office, where he worked as an interpreter and analyst, covering Russia as well as Kazakhstan and Belarus. He went on to study business and economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.
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- Information Technology, Software, Pet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Sweden, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
- CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
- Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
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.
Wing Vasiksiri
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- Gaming, Social, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- CHOYS — CHOYS is a holistic wellness subscription platform for organizations and employees that strives to offer every employee with access to benefits and impact that are tailored to their individual requirements, with the goal of making work more humanized and meaningful. CHOYS is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region and was founded in 2022.
- WeGoWhere — Discover things to do with your favorite people. Sync plans with your friends so you never miss out. Know where your friends are doing today, this week or next and join their plans IRL.
- Beep Technologies — Beep is creating a universal, modular platform bridging the physical and digital divide, powering smart, contextual & interoperable connectivity across physical touchpoints whilst ensuring true customer privacy by leveraging on decentralised technology.
Jussi Salovaara - Co-founder and Managing Partner Asia @ Antler
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- Apps, Retail, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Siftee — Siftee (formerly Ocean) is a data and research marketplace where you can search, validate and download specific insights from over 50,000 free and paid data sources, down to the metadata level.Founded by ex-McKinsey and Salesforce executives, their vision is to help consultants and analysts become more productive and improve the quality of theirinsights.Siftee is still in an incubation stage and focusing on developing and refining the product and go-to-market proposition
- Fika — Fika is a dating and social networking platform empowered by Artificial Intelligence, focusing on female users in Asia. Fika focuses on the most fundamental values: growth, authenticity, and equal benefits for all users, to optimize the dating experience and social connections to the highest quality!
- Peddlr — Effortlessly track and manage your business sales, expenses, and inventory with our leading POS mobile app. Use it anywhere, anytime, and even offline!
Ron Zuckerman is the Co-Founder and Director of TV Time.
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- Internet, Video, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Israel, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Cymbio — Connect to hundreds of digital sales channels via Cymbio's automated multi channel e-commerce platform to increase sales & elevate revenue.
- Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
- Safeguard Applied Innovation — Safeguard Applied Innovation provides a mobile performance management platform for construction enterprises. It designs its solution to enable decision-making for successful project planning and execution, delivering effective control regardless of project complexity or national regulations.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.
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- Advertising, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
- Noba — Give your team the benefit of inflation-protected savings in digital dollars, backed 1:1 to USD.
- FL Newsletter — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
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
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.
Tang Hongbo is the Co-Founder & CEO of DeBank.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Privacy
- Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mask Network — Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.
- Pendle Finance — Earn at your convenience
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.
Brian Ma is the Founder and Managing Partner at Iterative Capital. Co-Founder at Decide.com, recently acquired by Ebay. He is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor at various startups.
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- Property Management, Real Estate, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Castia — acasa is a Latam based Proptech. acasa enables homeowners in Latam to move to a new home in a fast and simple manner, leveraging their current home equity. Then we sell the old home or else we buy it after 6 months.
- Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
- Brick — Brick is a financial data application programming interface (API) that allows developers to offer in-app financial services.
O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.
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- Internet, Broadcasting, Video
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- China, Israel, Nigeria
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- Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
- GiveHope —
- Totally Bored —
Peng is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a leading early-stage tech venture capital firm in Southeast Asia. Peng is an industry veteran with over 25 years of industry as an entrepreneur, founder, and investor in Silicon Valley and in Asia. He is based in Indonesia and is a board member of Glints, ELSA, Intelligent VideoSolutions, STOQO and Escapex.Prior to Monk’s Hill Ventures, he was a Venture Partner at GSR Ventures in China. The firm is known for its successful investments in companies like Didi Chuxing and Qunar. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded a series of successful companies including Electric Classifieds (today known as Match.com), Interwoven and Eccentuate, which combined today generate over USD$1 billion in revenues annually.Peng is currently the Chairman of SolveEducation! and serves as a board member of the International Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin and SEA Founders.Peng earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.
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- Software, Health Care, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Singapore, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Osome — Osome helps foreign and Singaporean entrepreneurs to manage their businesses. Register and get your new company operational with our certified agents backed by modern technology
- WeGoWhere — Discover things to do with your favorite people. Sync plans with your friends so you never miss out. Know where your friends are doing today, this week or next and join their plans IRL.
- Pie — Making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time.
Dr. Kamada earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo. In 1984, he pursued his journey to establish his own business that focused on information appliances and mobile software, namely ACCESS Co., Ltd.. With great success, the company entered the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Market in 2001. He left ACCESS Co., Ltd. in 2011, and founded TomyK Ltd.in 2012 where he supports startups possessing revolutionary business ideas that revitalize the Japanese economy.
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- Fitness, Medical, Genetics
- Seed, Angel
- Japan, United States
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- Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
- Genomelink — Genomelink is a platform where people discover more with their DNA data and help businesses build, market and do research with it. The best founders in consumer genomics with real experience in the industry for many years, including M3, Inc. ($13B valued Meditech in Japan), a founding member of the Japanese version of 23andMe, and leadbioinformatician and software engineer at a joint-venture between Illumina and Sony. Raised $4M for Seed Round from Berkeley SkyDeck, SONY, and top-tier Japanese VCs. Supported by Illumina Accelerator, Carlos Bustamante Lab at Stanford University among others.
- MinD in a Device — MinD in a Device Co., Ltd. is a university-launched venture that aims to port human consciousness to devices (machines and computers) in the medium to long term based on long-term research results on consciousness. As the first step toward realization, we will evolve and deepen the "generation model" considered to be the source ofconsciousness, and promote the development of next-generation AI and social implementation.
Otomi Tomohiro - CEO @ Tyrus
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- Health Care, Travel, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
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- CUICIN — Quickin is changing the travel experience with the digital transformation.
- HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
- Magic Shields — Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products.
Ryo Ishizuka is the co-founder and CEO of Mercari, a hassle-free peer-to-peer mobile marketplace app. After founding the company in Japan and following its successful launch, Ryo leads Mercari's international expansion as the company grows globally. Prior to founding Mercari, Ryo was the Chief Architect at RockYou, a Silicon Valley startupbacked by Sequoia. At RockYou, he was responsible for developing the core infrastructures to support its rapidly growing traffic, serving more than 20 billion PVs per month. He later served as COO at RockYou Asia to lead its Asian expansion. Born in Japan and raised in the US, Ryo has spent his life constantly moving and building bridges between the two countries.
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- SNS, Beauty, Content
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Japan
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- .sfty — Teatis is a plant-based sugar-blocking superfood powder for diabetic consumers.
- Flyp — Grow resale business with easy access to inventory and free automation tools. Join 10,000+ resellers today.
- HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
Alex Pack is a Founding Partner on the deal team at AngelList, the largest platform for early-stage tech investing in the world. Previously he was an investor with Arbor Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in Hong Kong, where he focused on opportunities in cross-border FinTech, EdTech, and blockchain technology.
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- Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Blockchain
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- Zerion — Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception.
- Affine — Alpine Empower Banking offers an exceptional financial solution designed to maximize your financial growth. With secure deposits and high yields, you can rest assured that your funds are protected while earning attractive returns. Additionally, Alpine Empower Banking provides convenient card benefits, ensuring easy access to your funds and a seamless banking experience.
- Non-fungible Technologies — We build financial platforms & infrastructure for the non-fungible asset class.
Reid Hoffman is a Partner at Greylock and a Co-founder and Board Member at Inflection.AI. He was a Chairman and CEO at Linkedin. Reid attended the University of Oxford and Stanford University.
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- Software, Social Media, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- JusticeText — JusticeText is a software platform that makes it easier for public defenders to process and incorporate crucial audio and video evidence in defense of their clients.
- Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
- Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
Manit Parikh
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- B2B, Sports, eSports
- Angel
- India, Singapore
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- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
- GlocalBazaar — We connect thousands of MSME sellers and buyers and farmers, enabling & creating economic opportunity for all. Our range of Seller & Buyers Services and tools help Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises to start, manage and scale their businesses online.Our mission is to re-define Local and Global B2B and F2B commerce in ways that build amore fulfilling and lasting world. We are committed to empowering businesses while strengthening communities and engaging people.
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.
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- Real Estate, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Singapore, Thailand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
- Light — Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
Sofia joined Index in April 2018. She spends time in the Nordics and The Netherlands, and focuses on investments in consumer internet and marketplace businesses across all stages. Prior to joining Index, Sofia was an investor at EQT Ventures in Stockholm. Sofia is a graduate of the London School of Economics (M.Sc. Management) and of the Universityof Edinburgh (M.A.), where she graduated at the top of her class.
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- Gaming, Dating, Mobile
- Seed
- Sweden, Turkey, Finland
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- BIT ODD — Gaming company building games filled with wonder, weirdness and delight
- Fika — Fika is a dating and social networking platform empowered by Artificial Intelligence, focusing on female users in Asia. Fika focuses on the most fundamental values: growth, authenticity, and equal benefits for all users, to optimize the dating experience and social connections to the highest quality!
- Cradle — Using robust prediction algorithms and AI design recommendations, Cradle assists biologists in rapidly designing better proteins. Cradle gives you complete ownership of the intellectual property while maintaining the privacy and security of your sequences and data.
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
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- 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.
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.
Yuto Nagatomo - President, CEO, and Founder @ Cuore Co., Ltd.
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- SNS, Sports, Content
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Japan
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- MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- SAURUS JAPAN —
Ruichi Kentaro is an Angel Investor.
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- Graffity — Graffity to provide AR experiences globally and enrich life more conveniently and invent the AR entertainment experience and provide it globally.
Yuma Umeda
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- Gift, Internet, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan
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- XMart — Xmart is a Costs can be reduced by simply sending invoices for one month.
- AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
- Another works — Another works is a internet platform & the industry's first service that allows you to directly approach the talent you are interested in from a database of a variety of ready-to-work and multi-tasking personnel. You can also use the performance fee for free.
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.
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
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- Melon — Save & organise content from any source. Follow experts and friends. Share your knowledge with others.
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