Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in Asia (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Kevin Lin
Angel
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4 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games | $150k–$20M |
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Tom Varkey
Angel
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3 | India, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Media and Entertainment, E-Learning, Education | $250k–$1.5M |
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Shubhrendu Koche
Angel
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3 | India, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Sports, eSports | $43k–$1.5M |
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David Ng
Angel
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3 | Singapore | Seed, Series A | eSports, Media and Entertainment | |
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Juha Paananen
Angel
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3 | United States, Finland, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, Wellness, Video Games | $429k–$3.4M |
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Daniel Shin
Angel
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2 | South Korea, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Internet, Information Technology | |
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
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2 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, Information Technology | $412k–$23M |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
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2 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Finance | $2.7M–$70M |
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel
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2 | Japan, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A | Apps, Content, FinTech | $2.3M–$45M |
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Media and Entertainment, Software | $961k–$41M |
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Dai Tamesue
Angel
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2 | Japan | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Sports, Health Care | |
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning | $1.4M–$14M |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment | $4.1M–$30M |
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Kevin Chou
Angel
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2 | United States, Japan, Israel | Seed, Series A, Angel | Gaming, Video Games, eSports | $1.3M–$66M |
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Yu Akasaka
Angel
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2 | Japan, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel | Food and Beverage, Content, Internet | $412k–$66M |
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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Debt Financing | Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness | $6.9M–$41M |
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Tomohito Ebine
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Home Services, Information Technology, Consulting | |
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Gabby Dizon
Angel
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2 | United States, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $1.5M–$16M |
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Makoto Takano
Angel
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2 | Japan, Philippines | Seed, Series A, Series B | Content, Sports, Apps | $2.3M–$220M |
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Yuto Nagatomo
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | SNS, Sports, Content | |
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Ishikawa Ryo
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Sports, Internet | |
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Naoki Yamada
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, Sports | |
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Roshan Rajappa
Angel
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1 | India, Singapore | Pre-Seed | Gaming, Software, Marketplace | |
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Akshit Goyal
Angel
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1 | India, Singapore | Seed | Shoes, Retail, Fashion | $400k–$877k |
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Rob Gilby
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Series A | eSports, Media and Entertainment | |
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Faisal Nasimuddin
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | eSports | |
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Dr. Rohitha De Silva
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Pre-Seed | Gaming, Mobile Apps, Casual Games | |
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Rahul Nambiar
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | Fitness, Wellness, Health Care | |
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Sudheer Nair
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | Fitness, Wellness, Health Care | |
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Reinaldo Tendean
Angel
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1 | Indonesia | Seed | Apps, Mobile, Sports | |
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Marcus John
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Series A | eSports, Media and Entertainment | |
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Yuki Sato
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Sports, Internet, Recruiting | |
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Gaku Nakamura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Pre-Seed | Sports, Education, Information Technology | |
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Michael Broda
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | eSports | |
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Naishadh Udeshi
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Pre-Seed | Gaming, Mobile Apps, Casual Games | |
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Michael Patent
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Series A | eSports, Media and Entertainment | |
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Leo Lee
Angel
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1 | Indonesia | Seed | Apps, Mobile, Sports | |
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C.Bob Lott
Angel
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1 | Hong Kong | Pre-Seed | Events, Sports, Cycling | |
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Gang Wang
Angel
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1 | China, United States | Series A, Angel, Seed | E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation | |
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Ron Sim
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Series A | Beauty, Fitness, Genetics | |
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Masayuki SHOBAYASHI
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps | |
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Sudi Navile
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | Fitness, Wellness, Health Care | |
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Stan Kuruvilla
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | Fitness, Wellness, Health Care | |
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Vijay Seshadri
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | Fitness, Wellness, Health Care | |
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Greysia Polii
Angel
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1 | Indonesia | Seed | Health Care, Information Services, Information Technology | |
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Kamata Tomihisa
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Fitness, Medical, Genetics | |
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Antanas Guoga
Angel
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1 | Hong Kong | Seed | Fitness, mHealth, Software | |
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Jianqing Wang
Angel
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1 | China | Series A | Video, Gaming, Sports | |
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Joseph Prabantara
Angel
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1 | Indonesia | Seed | Apps, Mobile, Sports | |
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Harri Manninen
Angel
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1 | Finland, United States, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, PC Games | $348k–$10M |
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Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.
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- Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $750k–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $150k–$1.8M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
- Blacktop Hoops — Blacktop Hoops is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game. Chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI opponents or players across the globe in epic streetball matches.
- Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
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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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, E-Learning, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $450k–$600k; Pre-Seed $43k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
David Ng is the CEO & Founder of goGame.
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- Industry: eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
Juha Paananen - CEO & Co-Founder @ Soba
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- Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Finland, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $429k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Talewind — Talewind is a professional UK games studio focused on creating incredible experiences for the metaverse.
- Revery — The team at Revery is on a mission to make access to wellness affordable and accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, through the medium of gaming.
- Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kek.tv — Kek eSports app. The free app, which is in public beta, is an eSports video aggregation platform that integrates multi-source livestreams and game video replays, as well as news, statistics and tournament feeds into one socially-curated experience for the growing audience of Asian eSports fans.
- Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
- Korea Credit Data — • Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management solution to small and medium-sized businesses in Korea. KCD established a dominant position (M/S 70%+) through ‘Cashnote' and ‘Bizbot’ services used by more than 1.1 million businesses. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life.To this end, KCD will expand its business areas to include B2B commerce to B2C payment area.
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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- Industry: Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$23M; Angel $412k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
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.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
- Seibii, Inc. — Transforming traditional car maintenance, repair, after-parts installation, road service industry of Japan by leveraging Technology.
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.
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- Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$41M; Series A $2.3M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
- abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
- RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
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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- Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $961k–$41M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Dai Tamesue is the Chief Marketing Officer of Miekuru.
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- Industry: Apps, Sports, Health Care
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Yasuyuki Kin
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $5.5M–$9.1M; Angel $4.1M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
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 .
Kevin Chou is Managing Partner of the SuperLayer web3 venture studio and co-founder of Rally, a crypto platform that allows creators and artists to launch their own digital currency and to build sustainable, independent economies with their fan communities. Kevin currently serves as the Chairman of Forte, a new blockchain whose mission is to builda more collaborative future in gaming by realigning the economic relationship between players and developers. He is also Chairman of Gen.G, a new esports enterprise bridging Asia and North America. Previously, Kevin was CEO and co-founder of Kabam, a top developer of mobile games. Kevin led the company from business plan founding to over $400M in annual revenue serving over 500 million players. Kabam developed leading partnerships with Marvel, Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Lord of the Rings, and Hunger Games. Kabam was profitable from 2012 until the sale of the company's studios to Netmarble, 21st Century Fox, and GAEA, which in total generated nearly $1 billion in value. He's been honored by Fortune in 40 under 40, CNN in Smartest People in Tech, and Business Insider's Silicon Valley Top 100. Kevin Chou graduated magna cum laude from the UC Berkeley undergraduate Haas School of Business program. He serves on the Board of Trustees at UC Berkeley.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$66M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- Syndicate — Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network.
- Community Gaming — CommunityGaming.io combines social gaming, match automation, and blockchain payment technology to make it easy to organize and compete in esports tournaments. Their solution uses automated software and blockchain payment tech to produce fair, transparent, automated results without the complexity normally associated with blockchain solutions. Ourevent platform is a network of thousands of gamers, dozens of venues, and brands who we've proudly brought together across over 200 live and online esports competitions.
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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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $4.7M–$66M; Angel $412k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
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.
Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $6.9M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Tomohito Ebine is non-executive Director at Owls Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Home Services, Information Technology, Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
- 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.
- CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M; Series A $5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
- Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
- SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.
Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.
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- Industry: Content, Sports, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$14M; Series A $2.3M–$25M; Series B $32M–$220M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
- PROGRIT — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Yuto Nagatomo - President, CEO, and Founder @ Cuore Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: SNS, Sports, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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- Industry: Sports, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
Naoki Yamada
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SPORNIA — SPORNIA is an editor of sports knowledge technology.We provide support for athletes using content and monetization using emerging media such as SNS and YouTube.
- Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
- THE APP BASE Inc — THE APP BASE Inc is a design firm that provides its clients with web and mobile services. Founded in 2012, the firm also operates co-working spaces.
Roshan Rajappa
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- Industry: Gaming, Software, Marketplace
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Leeg — Play your favorite games on Leeg and win daily. Choose from variety of games & play in Tournaments or 1-vs-1 Battle rooms of your choice! Win Rewards Daily!
- Cookr — India's largest home food marketplace.At Cookr, we believe that everyone deserves to enjoy delicious and healthy food, without compromising on taste or quality. We are an early-stage food tech startup on a mission to revolutionize the food industry in India by building an e-commerce marketplace that offers a wide range of healthyalternatives to restaurant-delivered food.
Akshit Goyal
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- Industry: Shoes, Retail, Fashion
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $400k–$877k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- hav. — hav. is a rewards-based health-tech platform.
- Flatheads — Flatheads are the most comfortable casual sneakers for your work and beyond. These stylish shoes designed thoughtfully with innovative materials like bamboo and banana fiber for all day wear | Made in India casual shoes for women & men
- Celcius Logistics Solutions — India's Largest 'ONLINE " cold chain network.Book reefer vehicles, Cold Storages or get booking for your vehicle and cold storages across India instantly with the best price
Rob Gilby
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- Industry: eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ampverse — Offering data driven, proprietary tech enabled and creative marketing solutions for businesses.
Faisal Nasimuddin
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- Industry: eSports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Esports Players League — Esports Players League is a global esports tournament and media network that is developing an integrated and open ecosystem for tournaments, media, brands, publishers, teams and players with a focus on community and digital interactivity.
Dr. Rohitha De Silva
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Casual Games
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Leeg — Play your favorite games on Leeg and win daily. Choose from variety of games & play in Tournaments or 1-vs-1 Battle rooms of your choice! Win Rewards Daily!
Rahul Nambiar was the CEO, Board Member, and Co-Founder of iProspect. He has a master's degree in Digital Marketing at IE Business School.
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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Sudheer Nair Chairman, Navio Group.
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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Reinaldo is the Co-Founder at Finku. He attended University of California, Berkeley.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AYO Indonesia — Sewa lapangan, cari lawan sparring dan kawan main bareng, hingga kompetisi dalam satu aplikasi
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- Industry: eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ampverse — Offering data-driven, proprietary tech-enabled, and creative e-sports influencer marketing solutions for Thailand and South East Asia companies.
Engineer since 10 years old. Electronics, Mechanical, Web, iOS Android
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- Industry: Sports, Internet, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
Gaku Nakamura - Co-Founder and CEO @ RareJob
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- Industry: Sports, Education, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SPORNIA — SPORNIA is an editor of sports knowledge technology.We provide support for athletes using content and monetization using emerging media such as SNS and YouTube.
Michael Broda is the Co-Founder and Board Member at Esports Players League.
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- Industry: eSports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Esports Players League — Esports Players League is a global esports tournament and media network that is developing an integrated and open ecosystem for tournaments, media, brands, publishers, teams and players with a focus on community and digital interactivity.
Naishadh Udeshi
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Casual Games
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Leeg — Play your favorite games on Leeg and win daily. Choose from variety of games & play in Tournaments or 1-vs-1 Battle rooms of your choice! Win Rewards Daily!
Michael Patent
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- Industry: eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ampverse — Offering data driven, proprietary tech enabled and creative marketing solutions for businesses.
Leo Lee is a CEO of Heonz Corp.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- AYO Indonesia — Sewa lapangan, cari lawan sparring dan kawan main bareng, hingga kompetisi dalam satu aplikasi
C.Bob Lott
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- Industry: Events, Sports, Cycling
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Miro AI — Since early 2017, Miro has helped amateur & professional runners find their running event photos instantly. Combining deep learning, computer vision, scalable cloud infrastructure & ElasticSearch, Miro's RunnerTag product is the fastest, most-accurate athlete identification technology available. Used by events in Asia, Europe &North America, RunnerTag has analyzed over 15MM bodies.Miro uses all this data to train granular models for bodies in motion. From brand preferences to form/injury analysis, Miro's visual-mined data provides brands one-of-a-kind actionable insights for brands & athletes.
Gang Wang
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation
- Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
- Geography: China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Wozaijia.com — Wozaijia is a social e-commerce platform for home furniture."I am at home" is a trustworthy home to share direct purchase platform. Here, people can discover, experience, buy, share their favorite home products, we change the home to share economic practice of buying methods. "I am at home" believes that the world will bee better if we can always get a better life with less cost.
- Qianyu Islands — Qianyu Islands is the flagship brand of Beijing Beike Youjia Technology Co., Ltd., which is positioned in the “Urban Shared Accommodation Space”. It is committed to providing users with different traditional hotels and B&Bs, younger, more free, more possibilities and higher value for money accommodation options.Since its inception in 2017,Qianyu Islands is based on a sense of quality, experience and freshness for a new generation of consumer groups. It is transforming the traditional accommodation industry with a more Internet-based way to fill the market for urban mid-end accommodation.
- Huidu Environmental — Huidu Environmental is a recyclable packing material developer.
Ron Sim
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- Industry: Beauty, Fitness, Genetics
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Imagene Labs — Imagene Labs Pte Ltd empowers consumers to optimise their health by providing customised wellness and lifestyle solutions tailored to their unique DNA profiles. Led by medical doctors and scientists, the company provides an entire ecosystem of genomics-based solutions ranging from wellness DNA tests, personalised lifestyle recommendations, bespokeskin serums and nutritional supplements, and mobile health apps that help people live, look and feel their best.
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- Industry: Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Nupp1 — Nupp1 is a mobile application to find a fitness center.
- Pan For You — Pan For You is a Food & Beverage Company. We deliver delicious bread from all over the world with our unique freezing technology and propose a lifestyle where you can enjoy freshly baked bread anytime.
Stan Kuruvilla ex-PayPal.
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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Vijay Seshadri ex-Board Member, Chargebee.
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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Greysia Polii is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Aigis — Aigis provide full stack comprehensive employee health benefits in one easy-to-manage platform.
- AYO Indonesia — Sewa lapangan, cari lawan sparring dan kawan main bareng, hingga kompetisi dalam satu aplikasi
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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- Industry: Fitness, Medical, Genetics
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Antanas Guoga was the Founder of iBus Media Network. He attended the University of Leicester.
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- Industry: Fitness, mHealth, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Olivex — OliveX is a digital lifestyle company with a focus on the health and fitness industry. It operates as a subscription-based business, providing applications, smart technology, and a user experience that is built on artificial intelligence, gamification, and premium content. With users in over 170 countries including Hong Kong, Australia, and China,OliveX enables brands, influencers, and fitness coaches to engage with their consumers when at home.
Wang Jianqing is one of the founding members of Legend Capital in 2001. Starting as a Senior Management Advisor, she is now the Managing Director and Chief Management Advisor of the firm, and also serves on the Management Committee and Human Resources Committee. Wang Jianqing is responsible for examining and evaluating CEO, the management team andbusiness operation of target companies during due diligence, and providing post-investment value added services.Wang Jianqing has in-depth understanding of corporate governance, human resources systems, corporate culture construction and team management. She had analyzed the major success and failure cases of Legend Group in history, and performed thorough studies on how to evaluate CEOs and management teams and how to provide value-added services to invested companies. After over 10 years working with entrepreneurs, she has gained resourceful experience in CEO coaching, core team building, corporate culture construction and governance structure improvement.Joining Legend Group in 1996, Wang Jianqing was Executive Vice President of Legend Management School and Deputy General Manager of Human Resources Department of Legend Group. She was also the Dean of the first “Legend Star CEO Training” class, in charge of building the course system, designing teaching plans, managing academic affairs, and serving as lecturer of one of the core courses.Wang Jianqing received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1982 and her EMBA’s degree from Peking University in 2006.
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- Industry: Video, Gaming, Sports
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Le Sports — Le Sports, the sports arm of China's leading online video provider.
Joseph has 8 years of experience in entrepreneurship, especially in the fields of multimedia, brand design, and event management, having also handled one of a national event in Indonesia, “Sepeda Nusantara 2018” which was held in major cities across Indonesia.He is the Founder of Socialive a company engaged in Event Activation & MediaProduction and is a leading provider of Social Media Photo Booths in Indonesia with over 100 successful events in 1 year. Joseph has built businesses that utilize unskilled labor and developing these talents into skilled professionals through on-the-job training. Some of these professionals has developed into micro and small business leaders.Joseph is also actively involved in sports associations and youth activities, whilst also being experienced in procuring ticketing solutions for regional sporting events, including Indonesian football matches. He holds a Business Administration/Management Diploma from Macquarie University and a degree in Graphic Design & Multimedia from Raffles College (KvB), both in Sydney, Australia.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AYO Indonesia — Sewa lapangan, cari lawan sparring dan kawan main bareng, hingga kompetisi dalam satu aplikasi
Harri Manninen - Founding Partner @ Play Ventures
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $348k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FitXR — Enjoy your workout, not just the results. Try FitXR for 7 days free.
- StarBerry Games — StarBerry Games GmbH is a mobile games company based in Berlin, Germany. The company develops free-to-play casual mobile games and is best known for its games Merge Mayor and Idle Coffee Corp.
- Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
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