# Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in Asia in October 2023

## Gang Wang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation

Gang Wang

## Edward Ismawan Chamdani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Debt Financing
- Focus: Agriculture, Waste Management, Lifestyle

Managing and Founding Partner of Ideosource Venture Capital, an Indonesia focused venture capital firm dedicated on early-stage to later-stage investments.

## Ishara Yusdian
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Debt Financing
- Focus: Agriculture, Waste Management, Lifestyle

Investor | Storyologist | Builder

## Ingo Drexler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.

## Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence

Pawoot is like an icon of Thailand online business. Many people call him "the godfather of E-Commerce"

## Ivan Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Beauty, Wellness, Lifestyle

Ivan Lee - Founder @ Raging Bull

## Nobuhiro Ariyasu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Internet, Finance

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

## Jinbo Yao
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Marketing, Logistics, Automotive

Jinbo Yao is the President, Founder and CEO at 58.com.

## Yu Akasaka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Content, Internet

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.

## Adil Nurgozhin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: EdTech, FinTech, Lending

Adil joined I2BF in 2012 as an Investment Director and the Head of the Kazakh office for the Russia-Kazakhstan Nanotechnology Fund. His previous experience is diverse across fields such as law, business development and financial investments. He is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor with a deep knowledge of the Central Asian market. Priorto joining I2BF, he spent 5 years in various executive positions executing investments for the National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna and the Regional Financial Center of Almaty. Adil holds a degree in International Law, he has an MBA and MPA.

## Kazuma Ieiri
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Fashion, Recruiting

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.

## Mamoru Taniya
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Content, FinTech

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.

## Elias Montanari
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Space Travel, Aerospace, GPS

Elias is an accredited investor and angel investor with holdings in private equity funds. Much Space experience as Head of Management, Control, and Quality in all walks of Space at the European Space Agency with a real passion for SpaceBrainx, an angel investment boutique aiming to use Space superpower to further humanity.
Faithful to his erraticsuite of interests, he develops AI applications, holds a master's in Business Administration at the Henley Business School (UK), a master's degree in Chemical engineering from the University of Bologna (IT), and -most recently - studied Development Economics at MITx (US).

## George Godula
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile

Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments.
Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)

## Xiaopeng He
- Type: Angel
- Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Autonomous Vehicles, Computer, Software

He Xiaopeng is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of UCWeb Inc. and is in charge of the overall product design and R&D of the company. He has extensive working experience in foreign owned enterprises and as an entrepreneur. He and Liang Jie jointly founded UCWeb in 2004. Under their leadership, UCWeb’s product and technology hasgained significant market share in China. In 2011, He and his team developed proprietary U3 engine, being the first proprietary technology developed in the mobile browser industry in China.Before joining UCWeb, He worked as Technology Manager, Testing Manager, and Project Manager at AsiaInfo Technologies (China) Co., Ltd.He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from South China University of Technology in 1999.

## Siqi Chen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming

Siqi Chen is the Co-Founder of Runway and a Member Board Of Directors at Sandbox VR. Siqi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego.

## Matt Brezina
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Transportation

Matt Brezina investor and advisor Ford Street Ventures. University of Maryland.

## Frank Li
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: B2B, Retail, Internet

Frank Li is a former at Ameba Capital. CEO of WaCai. Prior to founding Ameba Capital, Mr. Li worked for Alibaba Group, where he focused on website planning and construction. He developed Alibaba’s biggest paying client base and second biggest income product, 1688 CXT. Mr. Li founded Koubei.com in 2004 and acted as CEO. Alibaba Group acquiredKoubei.com for over 50 million US dollars in 2008. Koubei.com merged with Yahoo China before finally merging with Taobao.

## Yusuke Sato
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Content, Food and Beverage

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder at Pulit.

## Martin Li
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Transportation, Logistics, Freight Service

Entrepreneur and Investor based in Hong Kong. Attended Questrom School of Business, Boston University.

## Sahil Bloom
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Travel, FinTech

Sahil Bloom

## Wes Schwalje
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services

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

## Peter Findley
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Logistics, Recycling, Residential

Peter Findley

## Daisaku Harada
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Tourism, Automotive

Daisaku Harada is the Director of Management Strategy at Mercari. Daisaku attended Chuo University.

## Edward Tirtanata
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Supply Chain Management, AgTech, Seafood

Edward Tirtanata is the CEO and Co-Founder at Kopi Kenangan. He is also the Founder of Lewis & Carroll Tea.
Mr. Tirtanata si a former Managing Partner at iHuntington Consulting.
Edward received a bachelor of science in Finance and Accounting at Northeastern University.

## Kensuke Furukawa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Media and Entertainment, Software

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".

## Tiger Fang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Accounting

Tiger Fang is Co-Founder and CEO at Kargo Technologies. Before Cargo, Tiger had successfully led various technology companies. He is general manager at Uber Indonesia and China, and managing director at Lazada Thailand.

## Walid Aradi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services

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

## Yasuyuki Kin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning

Yasuyuki Kin

## Hiroaki Watatani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Content, Software, Logistics

Hiroaki Watatani is the president of ASAKASHINKAN GROUP.

## Nagatsuka Masayoshi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, Automotive

Nagatsuka Masayoshi

## Windy Natriavi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Seafood, Aquaculture, Human Resources

Windy Natriavi is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at AwanTunai.

## Qinghua Feng
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Parking, Service Industry, Air Transportation

Qinghua Feng

## Ryosuke Matsumoto
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Art, Reservations, Software

Ryosuke Matsumoto is the founder and CEO of Community Factory Inc.Ryosuke is born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1981. He joined launching of the publication venture company, and ran a cafe while he was attending Chuo University in Tokyo. Since he joined launching the social media venture company in 2004, he has been in social media business. In2006, Ryosuke founded Community Factory Inc. which specialized in planning and operating social media and blog services.Community Factory started to specialize in social application for mobile from 2009, and Community Factory draw investments of around 4.5 million US dollars from venture capitals and mixi inc. then the biggest social media in Japan. DECOPIC, Community Factory's one of the apps for smartphone, has been downloaded 6 million times in the 6 months since its release, and it is rapidly gaining users mainly in Asian countries.In Sep 2012, Ryosuke and other stock holders sold Community Factory to Yahoo Japan Corp., and he remains as CEO of Community Factory.

## Yi Mo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Electric Vehicle, Information Technology

Yi Mo

## Wei Tao
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Hardware, Software, Automotive

Wei Tao - Founder @ Z Ventures Group

## Alan Rutledge
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Alan Rutledge

## Koji Yamada
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Food Delivery

Participated in the management of a student venture company while attending Keio University's Faculty of Policy Management. After graduation, he worked at Accenture Co., Ltd. for consulting services for companies in different industries such as media, apparel, finance and entertainment. In 2012, founded boundary spanner Co., Ltd. He alsoserved as a project manager for JAPAN CON-TECH FUND and a director of the Japan Home Party Association.

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

## Lance Gokongwei
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Banking, Payments, Logistics

Lance Y. Gokongwei, is the President and Chief Operating Officer of JGSHI. He had been Executive Vice President of JGSHI and was elected President and Chief Operating Officer effective January 1, 2002. He is also President and Chief Operating Officer of Universal Robina Corporation and JG Summit Petrochemical Corporation. He is the Vice Chairmanand Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Robinsons Land Corporation. In addition, he is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cebu Air, Inc., Chairman of Robinsons Bank, Vice Chairman of JG Summit Capital Markets Corporation, and a director of Oriental Petroleum and Minerals Corporation, United Industrial Corporation Limited, and Singapore Land Limited. He is a trustee, secretary and treasurer of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, Inc. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

## Michaelangelo Moran
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive, E-Commerce, Trading Platform

Michaelangelo Moran - Co-Founder, Brand Director @ Gojek

## Tang Lei
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Artificial Intelligence

Tang Lei

## Hong Mu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Consulting, Management Consulting, Supply Chain Management

He is a shareholder in Newplan (深圳嘉兰图设计有限公司)

## Timur Turlov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Logistics, Transportation, Information Technology

Timur Turlov is the chief executive officer and director at Freedom Holding.

## Suzuki Tamon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, Automotive

Suzuki Tamon

## Toru Yoshikawa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Software, Education

Toru Yoshikawa - CEO @ mybest Japan

## Vidit Agrawal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Agriculture, Financial Services

Vidit Agrawal is a Co-Founder and CEO of GajiGesa. He was formerly Head of Business Development APAC at Stripe, COO at CARRO, and the first employee at Uber in Asia.

## Tobias Fischer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Agriculture, Information Services

Tobias Fischer is a Co-Founder & CEO at wagely.

## James Prananto
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Information Services

Co-Founder & COO at Kopi Kenangan.

## Padmasree Warrior
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Genetics, Automotive

Padmasree Warrior is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Fable. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of NextEV, U.S. She also serves as the Chief
Development Officer of NextEV, as well as a member of its Board of Directors. In these capacities, she is responsible for the brains of NextEV's autonomous, electric vehiclesand the overall user experience. She is based in San Jose, CA where NextEV US is headquartered.Previously, Warrior served as the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer (CTSO) for Cisco until
September 2015. In this capacity she was charged with aligning the company's technology and
business strategy to business results. She was in charge of corporate strategy, mergers,
acquisitions, venture investments, and strategic partnerships. Previous to that she was the GM for
Cisco Enterprise segment and co-led Cisco's worldwide engineering organization. Prior to joining
Cisco, she was executive vice president and CTO at Motorola. Under her leadership, Motorola was
awarded the 2004 U.S. National Medal of Technology.Padmasree Warrior has been widely recognized for her creative, visionary leadership. Forbes has
named her one of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" for three years running. In 2013, The
International Alliance for Women gave her the World of Difference Award. In 2012, Business Insider called her one of the "25 Most Influential Women in Wireless". The Aspen Institute gave her the first Leadership in Science and Technology Award. India's National Association of Software & Service Companies (NASSCOM) named her the Global CTO Award winner. The Wall Street Journal has called her one of "50 Women to Watch." Fast Company included her among the "100 Most Creative People in Business." The Economic Times listed her as "the 11th Most Influential Global Indian."Warrior holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology in New Delhi and a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell
University. In addition to NextEV's board, Warrior serves on the board of Microsoft. She previously served on the board of Gap and Box.

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