Top 50 Artificial Intelligence Angel Investors in Asia (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Jia Chai
Angel
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6 | Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, SaaS | $260k–$2.6M |
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Sanjay Uppal
Angel
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6 | Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, SaaS, Credit | $77k–$1.3M |
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel
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5 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $252k–$2M |
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Binny Bansal
Angel
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5 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $639k–$52M |
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Wei Guo
Angel
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5 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $150k–$19M |
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Siu Rui Quek
Angel
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4 | Singapore, Indonesia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, Education, Information Technology | $260k–$7.6M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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4 | Japan, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Apps, Internet, Information Technology | $195k–$14M |
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Masao Ito
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Content, Social Media, Information Technology | $147k–$9.2M |
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Yutaka Matsuo
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Robotics | |
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel
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4 | Japan, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Content, FinTech | $134k–$10M |
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Jaggie (Chen) Zhu
Angel
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4 | China, United States | Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $5M–$8M |
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Kunal Shah
Angel
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4 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $350k–$17M |
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Bhavik Bajaj
Angel
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4 | United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $15k–$5M |
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Robert Huang
Angel
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3 | Japan | Series A | Education, E-Learning, Language Learning | $79k–$585k |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $255k–$30M |
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Royston Tay
Angel
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3 | Singapore, Germany, Indonesia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $200k–$3.3M |
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Solomon Hykes
Angel
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3 | United States, France, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2.7M–$65M |
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Sujeet Kumar
Angel
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3 | India, Singapore, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $500k–$27M |
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Jan Hammer
Angel
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3 | China, United Kingdom, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Health Care, FinTech, Medical | $2.5M–$231M |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
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3 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Finance, Content, Internet | $177k–$40M |
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Serguei Netessine
Angel
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3 | United States, Singapore, Malaysia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $50k–$2.4M |
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Wanqiang Li
Angel
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3 | China | Angel, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Art | $2.8M–$50M |
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Thanapol Kongboonma
Angel
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3 | Thailand | Seed | Text Analytics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning | $166k–$360k |
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Projjal Ghatak
Angel
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3 | Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, EdTech | $1M–$2.6M |
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Mark Cuban
Angel
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain | $200k–$23M |
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
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3 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Software, Content | $29k–$36M |
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Tomohito Ebine
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Consulting, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $493k–$24M |
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Wang Huiwen
Angel
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3 | China | Series A, Seed, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | |
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Shota Iwasaki
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Media and Entertainment | $320k–$942k |
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Tom Preston-Werner
Angel
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2 | United States, Germany, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $337k–$30M |
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Tony Fadell
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Series C | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $5.5M–$150M |
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Ratan Tata
Angel
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2 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care | $416k–$14M |
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Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | News, Social Media, Big Data | $680k–$2.8M |
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Suresh V Shankar
Angel
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2 | India, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Convertible Note | Software, Analytics, Machine Learning | |
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Stein Jakob Oeie
Angel
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2 | Singapore, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel, Series A | Fashion, Internet, Shopping | $700k–$1.3M |
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Ritesh Agarwal
Angel
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2 | India, Singapore, United States | Seed, Angel | Food and Beverage, Education, E-Commerce | $3k–$11M |
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Qi Lu
Angel
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2 | United States, China, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Robotics | $300k–$12M |
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Beauty, Content, Fashion | $2.8M–$28M |
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Yao Song
Angel
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2 | China | Seed, Angel | Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Bingqiang Gao
Angel
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2 | China, United States | Seed, Angel | Hardware, Robotics, Electronics | |
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Trent McConaghy
Angel
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2 | Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency | |
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Lei Ming
Angel
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2 | China | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Hardware | |
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Liang Xinjun
Angel
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2 | Singapore, United States, Australia | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Software, Information Technology | |
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Koki Yabu
Angel
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2 | Japan | Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Finance, Data Mining | |
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Matsuo Koichiro
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed | Robotics, Software, Information Technology | |
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Nina Alag Suri
Angel
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2 | Singapore | Seed | SaaS, Big Data, Analytics | |
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Su Hua
Angel
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2 | China | Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Dimiter Tschawow
Angel
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2 | Germany, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Retail, Internet | $4.2M–$50M |
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Shuichi Takenaga
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting | $706k–$15M |
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Steve Blank
Angel
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2 | United States, Finland | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Enterprise Software | $800k–$9.7M |
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Jia Jih Chai is the CEO & co-founder at Rainforest. He attended National University of Singapore.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $260k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Akro AI — Operational Intelligence for Regulated Industries
- HeyMax — Heymax.ai gives you a free trip every year by rewarding you with Max Miles. Heymax.ai doubles your favorite miles! heymax helps you find the best credit card to use anywhere you shop, and double dip to earn your preferred loyalty points and miles at 20+ airlines and hotels by shopping with our partners like Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Apple,Trip.com, Singapore Airlines and so many more.For businesses, heymax.ai is a simple and efficient way to convert high-spending customers who like rewards on their terms.
- The Wild Ventures — A house of sustainable brands, designed for disruption, differentiated by creativity, and supercharged by AI.
As AI scales, the constraint is no longer model accuracy. It is Decision Control.Most enterprises can build models. Few can run them safely, continuously, and accountably in production. Fragmented Governance • Slow Refresh cycles • Post-hoc Auditability. This is where AI breaks.At FinbotsAI, we have built the Decision Control Layer -application-layer infrastructure for predictive AI in regulated environments.Not another modeling tool. Not MLOps. A system that governs how models are built, approved, deployed, monitored, refreshed, and defended - with embedded policy constraints, traceable evidence, and accountable decision flows.In regulated systems, models are not the atomic unit. Decisions are.Decision quality is a system property, not a model property.I’ve spent 25+ years working with Tier-1 institutions across Asia, the Middle East, and global markets - including leading transformation inside regulated banks. I’ve seen where AI fails in production. Control determines whether it scales.FinbotsAI operates as infrastructure, enabling enterprises to move AI from pilots to governed production systems - with speed, confidence, and auditability.
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, Credit
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $667k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $77k–$84k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FinbotsAI — A singapore based AI envisioned fintech certified by Singapore Fintech Association Finbots.AI builds innovative AI-powered products & solutions to help financial institutions become AI-first.
After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.
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- Industry: Content, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $252k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
- Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
- Compass — Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology
Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 115
- Round size: Seed $676k–$7M; Series A $3.6M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $639k–$52M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Posha — With our smart kitchen robot, Julia, we are making home cooking great again! Find out more about our story, technology, and Julia herself.
- HireQuotient — With the vision to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally, HireQuotient’s virtual interviewers help companies test business skills at scale in an engaging and realistic manner, saving clients millions of dollars and man-hours. It has been used by more than 30,000 candidates in over 42 countries, and generated significant timesavings for hiring organisations while improving candidate quality in interviews.
- RISA Labs — AI-powered operating system for oncology. Automate workflows, reduce treatment delays, and accelerate care delivery. Book a demo with RISA Labs.
Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 182
- Round size: Seed $150k–$4.3M; Angel $375k–$10M; Series A $7M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
- Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Siu Rui Quek is the Co-founder and CEO of Carousell. Siu Rui previously worked at VSee as a Collaboration Evangelist. Siu Rui Quek attended the National University of Singapore. Siu Rui Quek has received the Asia's Most Influential Award, Outstanding Young Alumni Award, and Eminent Business Alumni Award.
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- Industry: Health Care, Education, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $743k–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $260k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yolk.fm — Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
- Evo — Social Commerce Software
- Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Apps, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $195k–$4.9M; Series A $841k–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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- Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $147k–$9.2M; Series A $755k–$841k
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
- Alyaum — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
- FinT — FinT operates SNS marketing businesses and young women's media.
1997 Graduated from Tokyo University, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering. In 2002, he completed the doctoral program at the same graduate school. Ph.D. (Engineering) He was a researcher at the Institute of Industrial Science and Technology since the same year. After working as a visiting researcher at Stanford University in August2005, Associate Professor of Technology Management Strategy, Institute of Research, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 2007. Co-Representative, Associate Professor, Global Consumption Intelligence Donation Course, Department of Technology Management Strategy, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University. Professor from 2019, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Engineering, Department of Technology Management Strategy. He specializes in artificial intelligence, web mining, big data analytics. The Society of Artificial Intelligence received the Paper Award (2002), the 20th Anniversary Project Award (2006), the Field Innovation Award (2011), and the Merit Award (2013). At the Society of Artificial Intelligence, he has been a student editorial committee and an editorial committee, and vice chair/director since 2010. Chairman of Ethics from 2014 to 2018. Chairman of Japan Deep Learning Association since 2017.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Robotics
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jizai — Jizai is a provider of artificial intelligence technology, offering AI solutions, software-as-a-service products powered by AI, and robots that utilize AI capabilities for businesses across various industries. The company focuses on generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics, offering customizable AI platforms and automation tools.It also engages in AI consulting and research collaborations.
- MemoriaPet — Memoria Pet operated by Next Paradigm 2 Co., Ltd. Creates full-color 3D-printed pet figurines from a single uploaded photo. Uses AI to generate 3D models, followed by full-color 3D printing.
- Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
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, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $134k–$3M; Angel $137k–$1.3M; Series A $1.8M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
- Amateras Space — Amateras Space is a startup driven by the mission to “expand the realm of human activity,” aiming to establish a next-generation spacesuit business by developing advanced, practical technologies that enable humans to work, explore, and thrive in space and other extreme environments.
- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series A $5M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Synyi — The Senyi team is composed of elites from well-known universities and well-known companies at home and abroad. It integrates experts in areas such as artificial intelligence, medicine, medical informatics, and medical informationization. The core team's technical achievements have been applied to a number of national and municipal projects. Hehas published more than 20 papers in international top journals and has spoken at top international medical conferences.
- Run The World — Run The World helps you host virtual conferences, talks and happy hours. Create engaging online events to teach, network and build community. Get started for free!
- Hui'an Jinke (Ahi Fintech) — Hui'an Jinke designs and develops software for enterprises using artificial intelligence technology.
Kunal Shah
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 333
- Round size: Seed $800k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2M; Series A $4.7M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Iztri — Dry cleaning, steam ironing and shoe care in Bengaluru with free doorstep pickup and delivery.
- Sol — Sol a company focused on building tools to power team collaboration and collective productivity.
- Firi — Firi is a quick-commerce mobile app by Madrat 24 Labs for curated beauty and personal care.
Bhavik Bajaj
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Angel $15k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $46k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
- ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
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Mr. Huang founded SYNNEX in 1980 and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Prior to this, Mr. Huang was the International Sales Manager at Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Huang holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kyushyu University, Japan, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.S. inManagement Science from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, Language Learning
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $79k–$585k
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Polyglots — POLYGLOTS designs and develops English news-reader mobile applications. It helps its application users learn English while reading news updates.POLYGLOTS is a development and operation of the English learning application "POLYGLOTS", the Japanese learning application "MONDO", and the finance / accounting specializedlearning application "Bigo", and the development and provision of an adaptive learning platform.
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, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $255k–$5.7M; Angel $493k–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $461k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
Royston Tay is Co-Founder & CEO at Zopim. He is GM of Chat at Zendesk.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Germany, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $747k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ottodot — Master every Science & Math concept through Ottodot Online Tuition. Designed based on the Singapore MOE syllabus with experienced MOE teachers. For kids 5-12 year olds.
- ByteGenie — ByteGenie is a Symbolic AI platform that discovers explainable business logic from operational data and executes deterministic business workflows.
- eaze — We're helping people sleep better by offering a long-term, cheaper and healthier (digital) alternative to sleep supplements like Melatonin and sleeping pills. Our approach is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and in our app, users are in close contact with their own, personal sleep coach, who will help them establish routines andbuild long-term, healthy sleep habits.
Solomon Hykes is the Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Docker and the creator of the Docker open source initiative. In his role at Docker, Solomon is focused on building a platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship, run and orchestrate distributed applications. A Forbes 30 under 30 and YCombinatoralumni, Solomon led dotCloud as Chief Executive Officer through five years of fundraising, business operations and product launches before focusing entirely on Docker. Prior to dotCloud, Solomon held engineering, IT infrastructure management and software development roles at CEIS and SmartJog.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$6.6M; Series A $11M–$30M; Series B $28M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZML — ZML is a production inference stack, purpose-built to decouple AI workloads from proprietary hardware.
- Ollama — Ollama is a software firm that develops local inference platform designed to run large language models.
- Kernel — Kernel is a developer platform that provides Crazy Fast Browser Infrastructure for AI agents to use the internet.
Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Singapore, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$1.8M; Series A $2.6M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AITS — Who We Are
- Furnishka — Furnishka is a furniture industries that provides wide range of products for home decor items, sofa, coffee tables and dining tables.
- HireQuotient — With the vision to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally, HireQuotient’s virtual interviewers help companies test business skills at scale in an engaging and realistic manner, saving clients millions of dollars and man-hours. It has been used by more than 30,000 candidates in over 42 countries, and generated significant timesavings for hiring organisations while improving candidate quality in interviews.
Jan Hammer is the partner at Index and the Board observer of Harmonic. Jan attended Oxford University.
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- Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: China, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 155
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$23M; Series A $4M–$35M; Series B $15M–$231M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MacroLux — MacroLux Medical Technology Co., Ltd.
- Yuetong Eye Clinic — Yuetong Eye Clinic is a medical institution that provides myopia surgery for adults and myopia prevention and control for adolescents. It is a medical institution focusing on adult myopia surgery and adolescent myopia prevention and control.
- Xiwei Biotechnology — Xiwei Biotechnology is an ophthalmology implanted medical device developer that specializes in the unique product development of new bio-modified materials for ocular implantable medical devices and regenerative medicine.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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- Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $330k–$8.2M; Angel $177k–$626k; Series A $1.4M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grafto — Grafto operates “Mylo Magazine,” a platform dedicated to sharing and promoting trend culture, where readers can explore the latest developments in lifestyle, fashion, art, and emerging cultural movements through engaging and curated content.
- FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
- OPERA TECH — OPERA Lead is a sales-focused AI web chatbot service from Opera Technology that turns websites into 24/7 "exhibit booths" for lead generation.It deploys AI sales assistants on existing sites (via simple tag embedding, no redesign needed) to engage the 99% of visitors who don't convert via inbound methods alone. Key capabilitiesinclude direct booking of meetings, guiding users to whitepapers/webinars, and targeted lead qualification for efficient deal progression.
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Browse database — It's Free!Serguei Netessine is Vice-Dean for Global Initiatives and Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He lived and worked in Russia, USA, France and Singapore., author and speaker on innovation.Prof. Netessine receivedBS/MS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology and, after working for Motorola and Lucent Technologies, he also received MS/Ph.D. degrees in Operations Management from the University of Rochester. His current research focuses on business model innovation and operational excellence and he worked on these topics with numerous organizations including Federal Aviation Administration (USA), Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s, Rolls Royce, Comcast, Expedia, ABB and US Air Force. He serves on advisory boards of multiple startup companies and regularly speaks on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.Professor Netessine has been the recipient of several teaching awards for delivering classes to MBA and Executive MBA students at the Wharton School and INSEAD, and he frequently teaches in Executive Education Programs. Prolific academic writer, professor Netessine holds senior editorial positions at several leading academic journals and he co-authored dozens of publications in prominent management journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review and other. His work has received extensive media coverage in CIO Magazine, the Economist, Forbes, Multichannel Merchant, New York Times, US News and Strategy & Business and other press. He regularly blogs about innovation on http://www.renaissanceinnovator.com and HBR Network. His latest book on Business Model Innovation is forthcoming with Harvard Business Press in 2014.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alltius — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
- LifeGuides, PBC — We match employees having a #LifeChallenge, #LifelongLearning, or #PersonalGrowth need with a Guide who has had the same #LifeExperience. Offering 400+ topics.
- Raxel — With Raxel companies can focus on scale. We provide self-service APIs and telematics SDK that powers telematics inside 3rd party mobile applications.
Wanqiang Li is responsible for the marketing of Xiaomi. He was the General Manager of Kingsoft Dictionary and notable for being one of the earliest UI practitioners in China. Graduated from Xi'an Science & Engineering Institute with a degree in Industrial Design in 2000, he joined Kingsoft’s UI Department and played a key role indeveloping many famous software projects including Kingsoft Antivirus, Kingsoft Dictionary and WPS Office. Wanqiang Li served at Kingsoft in various positions as Chief Designer of UI department, Director of Design Center and Director of Internet Content. Wanqiang Li is also a Co-founder of Xiaomi.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Art
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Angel $2.8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KEYi Tech — ClicBot let you build robot like toy blocks, super easy to use, much fun to play.
- Xiaoyu Zhizao — Xiaoyu Zhizao is an industrial robot manufacturer, focusing on industrial robot manufacturing, intelligent robot research and development.
- Keyi Technology — We bring AI robots closer to humans.
Thanapol Kongboonma
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- Industry: Text Analytics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $166k–$360k
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iApp Technology Co., Ltd. — Artificial Intelligence Developers (AI) Focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP). Web Development, Software Development, Mobile Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Thai language, Name Entity Recognition (NER), Thai Machine Comprehension (QA), Information Processing, DatabaseSystem, Elastic Search, Deep Learning, Face Detection, Machine Translation, Sentimental Analysis, Big Data, Data mining, Speech Recognition, Wakeword Detection, Speech Synthesis,
Projjal Ghatak
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jackett — Jackett is your assessment automation platform for eliminating the hassle of writing & marking (quizzes, tests, worksheets, homework) - and so much more.
- HeyMax — Heymax.ai gives you a free trip every year by rewarding you with Max Miles. Heymax.ai doubles your favorite miles! heymax helps you find the best credit card to use anywhere you shop, and double dip to earn your preferred loyalty points and miles at 20+ airlines and hotels by shopping with our partners like Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Apple,Trip.com, Singapore Airlines and so many more.For businesses, heymax.ai is a simple and efficient way to convert high-spending customers who like rewards on their terms.
Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 261
- Round size: Seed $600k–$7.5M; Angel $200k–$900k; Series A $3.2M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scripto — Whether you're taping a show in a studio, collaborating on screenplays, or making a video game, Scripto helps you do your best work and save time while you do it.
- Kind Designs — Kind Designs is a trusted 3D Printed seawall contractor in Miami offering custom seawall construction, shoreline protection, erosion control solutions.
- The Athletics — The Athletics franchise is a professional spectator sports organization that operates a Major League Baseball club. The company manages athletic team rosters, player scouting, talent development, and medical staff for its baseball operations. It coordinates live event production, stadium technology, corporate sponsorships, and ticket saleslogistics for professional games. Additionally, the business oversees regional television, radio, and streaming broadcast infrastructure to distribute sports media content.
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, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $151k–$1.8M; Angel $29k–$4.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$36M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
- For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN is a fantasy sports developer that introduces a new type of game where the players can earn prize money by predicting the players who will play an active role in soccer and baseball.
Tomohito Ebine is non-executive Director at Owls Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Consulting, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $493k–$4.9M; Series A $1.7M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
- 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.
Wang Huiwen is the VP of Product and Marketing at Meituan.com. He attended the China Academy of Science.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manus AI — Manus is the action engine that goes beyond answers to execute tasks, automate workflows, and extend your human reach.
- Trooly.AI — Trooly.AI is an AI-native user research platform providing qualitative user interview services based on multimodal voice agents for B2B clients with deep user insight needs.
- Moonshot AI — Dark Side of the Moon is an AI large-scale model company.
Shota Iwasaki
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $320k–$942k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FinT — FinT operates SNS marketing businesses and young women's media.
- Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
- OPERA TECH — OPERA Lead is a sales-focused AI web chatbot service from Opera Technology that turns websites into 24/7 "exhibit booths" for lead generation.It deploys AI sales assistants on existing sites (via simple tag embedding, no redesign needed) to engage the 99% of visitors who don't convert via inbound methods alone. Key capabilitiesinclude direct booking of meetings, guiding users to whitepapers/webinars, and targeted lead qualification for efficient deal progression.
Steve Jang is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $337k–$3.1M; Series A $10M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Milestone — Milestone ensures your GenAI tools are fully integrated, optimized, and aligned with your business goals, driving measurable ROI and sustained innovation.
- Strix — AI Hackers to secure your apps.
- Sourcetable — Sourcetable connect, sync, and query all the data in a spreadsheet, without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2019, Sourcetable is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Browse database — It's Free!Tony Fadell is based out of Paris, Île-de-France, and is the Principal of Build Collective and Board Member of Ledger. Tony previously worked at Nest Labs as Founder and CEO. Tony Fadell attended the University of Michigan.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Series A $5.5M–$70M; Series B $17M–$45M; Series C $15M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Apron — Apron brings payments, expenses, and accounting together in one platform. Built for business owners, accountants, and finance teams.
- Prenuvo — Changing the medical paradigm from sick care to proactive healthcare
- Gravity Sketch — Gravity Sketch is an intuitive 3D design platform for cross-disciplinary teams to create, collaborate, and review in an entirely new way.
Ratan Tata is the Founder and Managing Director of RNT Associates.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $416k–$6.7M; Series A $2.5M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GOQii — GOQii is headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. It is dedicated to enabling a permanent shift to a healthier lifestyle with the combination of advanced wearable technology, the world's leading experts, coaches and karma. GOQii focuses on sustained engagement & goal reinforcement and offers a complete ecosystem asa single integrated solution, which is a powerful combination of technology and human connection. GOQii is a collaboration of some of the world's leading experts and an amazing management team who are driven by a passion for healthy sustainable living, and who believe that all of us contain boundless potential. GOQii's goal is to enable millions of people across the world to "be the force" by helping them unleash their untapped potential.
- Repos energy — Repos energy is a e-commerce of Fuel to move towards a carbon neutral future.
- Goodfellows — Goodfellows aims to offer companionship to lonely senior citizens.
After working at KDD Corporation (Currently known as KDDI Corporation), Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept†and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.
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- Industry: News, Social Media, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $680k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
- Astroscale — Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
- TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Suresh V Shankar is the Founder and CEO at Crayon Data.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Geography: India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- boxx.ai — Boxx.ai democratizes analytics: Boxx uses Artificial Intelligence to build products that enable enterprises solve their most critical analytics problems quickly and at affordable costs.
- Crayon Data — Based in Singapore, Crayon Data is a big data startup, with an ambitious vision to ‘simplify the world's choices’. Crayon’s flagship product Maya is the world’s only choice engine, delivering digital personal experiences centered around taste.Powered by Crayon’s patented TasteGraph, ChoiceAI and Lifestyle Marketplace, Maya makes itpossible for any enterprise to compete in the ‘lifestyle economy’, by getting you 5 mins of each customer’s time.Crayon has been recommended in several Gartner reports including, the Gartner Digital Commerce Vendor Guide and Hype Cycle 2016. Crayon Data has been consistently awarded on various global platforms, including: 1. Top 5 in IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge 2014 2. Winner at TiE Silicon Valley’s TiE50 Awards in the software vertical 3. Finalist at Code_n 2014 @ CEBIT, Hannover: the only big data company from Asia 4. Part of interesting startups selected from the START track at Web Summit, Dublin 5. Selected as one of the top 50 emerging tech companies in India at InTech50 2015 6. Finalist at OrangeFab 2015
Stein Jakob Oeie is the Founder & Managing Director, Indonesia at Rocket Internet GmbH. Before joining Rocket Internet as Managing Director Indonesia, Stein worked for J.P. Morgan as Associate. Stein holds a Master's degree from the HEC School of Management / HEC Paris.
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- Industry: Fashion, Internet, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $700k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Talkpush — Talkpush is the leading conversational CRM for recruitment. Automate the repetitive stuff and focus on the right talent.
- Propseller — Sell, buy and rent property smarter with Propseller. Get premium service and full transparency for a fair commission. Sell for only 1%.
- Lazada Group — Lazada is the number one online shopping and selling destination in Southeast Asia – present in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Lazada helps more than 100,000 local and international sellers, as well as 2,500 brands, serve the 560 million consumers in the region through its marketplace platform, supportedby a wide range of tailored marketing, data, and service solutions. Lazada offers an excellent customer experience through a wide network of logistics partners and it's own first- and last-mile
Ritesh Agarwal is the Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of OYO and Anchor Board Member of the Texas Hotel & Lodging Association.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Education, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: India, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $90k–$11M; Angel $3k–$361k
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kreo — Discover Kreo, the Ultimate one-stop shop for passionate content creators, gamers, and adventurers. Find premium, high quality and affordable gear, including lighting, audio, gaming, and streaming equipment designed to fuel your dreams and unleash your creativity and passion.
- Nima Goos Goos — Nima Goos Goos is a startup that sells Tisanes, a type of herbal tea that comes in a variety of flavours. It encourages the use of natural herbs and crops grown in the Himalayan region.
- Venture Catalysts — Join Venture Catalysts++ to access capital, mentorship, and market networks that help your startup grow faster.
Dr. Qi Lu works for Microsoft as president of the Online Services Group. Dr. Lu leads Microsoft’s efforts in search and online advertising and all the company’s online information and communications services. Dr. Lu reports directly to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.Dr. Qi Lu has also served as executive vice president ofengineering for Search and Advertising Technology Group at Yahoo where he leads development efforts around Yahoo's Web search and monetization platforms. Prior to joining Yahoo in 1998, Dr. Lu was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. Before that, Dr. Lu worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a Research Associate, and at Fudan University in China as a faculty member. He holds 20 U.S. patents, and received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Fudan University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Robotics
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Pre-Seed $300k–$1.1M; Series A $5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AiMall — AiMall develops artificial intelligence technology designed to transform the traditional mall experience.
- HydroX AI — HydroX AI empowers secure, scalable, and responsible AI adoption with cutting-edge safety, compliance, and red-teaming solutions. Discover how to protect your models, data, and users in an evolving AI landscape.
- Jacobi Robot — Jacobi Robot creates generic artificial intelligence and cross-embodiment control methods for robots. It applies AI/AGI to the physical environment, allowing intelligent robots to assist a variety of sectors and households.
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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- Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $7.1M–$7.1M; Angel $2.8M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC — 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.
Yao Song
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- VirtAI Tech — VirtAI Tech’s Orion AI computing platform helps customers build datacenter class AI accelerator resource pools so that user applications can transparently share and use AI accelerators on any server in the data center without modification, which can not only help customers improve resource utilization and can greatly facilitate the deployment ofuser applications. A bunch of artificial intelligence, Internet and public cloud companies have begun to use the Orion AI computing platform.
Bingqiang Gao is the Independent Non-Executive Director of Q Tech.
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- Industry: Hardware, Robotics, Electronics
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Aiator — Aiator is an artificial intelligence product and technology solutions company focusing on industrial fields and biotechnology. Founded in 2010 by Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Scientist in Shenzhen Qianhai DreamWorks, the core members of the team are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Hong Kong. Currently, there arefour peacock talents and nearly 30 independent intellectual property rights. Weiai Intelligent is committed to carrying out AI empowerment services for enterprises, reducing costs and increasing efficiency.
- Shanmu SHANMU — Shanmu SHANMU is a micro medical robot specialist who uses self-developed digital microfluidic chipsets and artificial intelligence algorithms. The robot can continuously check the metabolic components in urine, establishing a link between the user's health status and disease and intelligently establishing multiple disease management cycles.
- LuMing Robotics — LuMing Robotics is a developer of intelligent robots. LuMing Robotics focuses on the field of embodied intelligent robots, and its business covers intelligent robot R&D and sales, artificial intelligence algorithm development, etc.
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Browse database — It's Free!Trent McConaghy is the founder of Ocean Protocol, which is unbounding AI via blockchain technology. Past: - co-founded Analog Design Automation in 1999. AI for generative analog circuit design. It was acquired by Synopsys in 2004. - co-founded Solido Design Automation in 2004. AI for custom circuit verification. It was acquired by Siemens in2017. - co-founded ascribe GmbH in 2014. NFTs. It pivoted to BigchainDB in 2016. Decentralized database. - from BigchainDB, co-founded Ocean Protocol in 2017. Its token $OCEAN went public in 2018.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Anytype — An operating system for the new Internet
- Makina — Makina is a finance firm that provides a non-custodial option for users to gain exposure to advanced on-chain strategies.
- Yiedl — Rocket is a Financial Institution regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The vision is to create the world's first decentralized and distributed hedge fund (RocketDAO) driven by a Collective Artificial Intelligence generated through a Blockchain-based (on Polygon) machine learning competition to solve the financial market.
Lei Ming
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Hardware
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Seengene — Seengene Inc. is an AI company that focuses on Mix Reality technology. The mission of Seengene is to digitize their 3D world and implement interaction between virtual content and the real world by its spatial intelligent engine and high definition visual map for both indoor and outdoor environment.The product system of Seengene consists ofsoftware, hardware and cloud service. In software product line, they customize AR solutions for clients, they also have SDK for user terminals, such as mobile phones, tablets and smart glasses. The hardware product line is consisting of untethered smart glasses with free form curve optics, industrial monocular eyewear and environment 3D visual information scanning device. By scanning device, one can scan both interior and exterior large space very efficiently, such as shopping malls, airports, factories, hospitals and other various buildings. The scanned and processed 3D information can be used for reconstruction and localization. The cloud service hosts all the 3D data and AR interaction content data and provides computing services for SDK on user devices.Seengene has founded a co-research laboratory with renowned Peking University to tackle the hardest computer vision problems relied by most intuitive mixed reality user interactions. The vision of Seengene is to help many clients from various industries such as cultural tourism, marketing, security and industry with its AI technology to improve their efficiency and experience.Since established, Seengene has served many clients from various industries and received plenty of praise from them.
- Changmugu Medical — Changmugu Medicalis an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered healthcare start-up providing AI-powered surgical robot solutions.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- 0xScope — Discover the comprehensive suite of trading and research products leveraging 0xScope's cutting-edge Web3 Data Layer architecture. Trade with confidence using Scopechat, access advanced analytical tools with Scopescan, and tap into the extensive capabilities of ScopeAPI for traceable entity insights.
- TokenScript — A new standard for bridging web2 and web3
Koki Yabu is Founder, President & CEO at Mobcast inc.
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- Industry: Content, Finance, Data Mining
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Mobcast group — mobcast is a sports entertainment company that operates a mobile entertainment platform for smartphones and feature phones. It supports customers with social game and social media services. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of mobcast Inc.
- SmartApp Japan — Smart Apps is a developer of a blockchain services application designed for smartphones. The company's application uses cryptocurrency technology to offer token issuance, initial coin offering and dApps design support, providing a launchpad for start-up blockchain-related businesses.
Matsuo Koichiro - Director @ Kokopelli
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- Industry: Robotics, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Kokopelli — Kokopelli is a Fintech start-up company that develops the management support platform "SHARES" for small and medium-sized businesses and the AI loan screening engine "FAI" (* 2) that enhances credit for financial institutions.
Nina Alag Suri is a Founder and CEO at X0PA AI. He attended Pune University.
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- Industry: SaaS, Big Data, Analytics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- X0PA AI — Advanced AI hiring platform that goes beyond CVs to assess candidates holistically. Trusted by 100+ organizations including Singapore government agencies and global enterprises.
Su Hua
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Wen Xiaobai — Wen Xiaobai is an artificial intelligence tool for providing query-answering services.
- Light Years Beyond — Light Years Beyond operates as an AI start-up company. Light Years Beyond provides generative AI technologies to companies that enable domestic users to get access to AI technology and products.
Dimiter Tschawow
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $4.2M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UpScalio — We will partner with you to invest, grow and scale your e-commerce business to new heights. For and by Indian entrepreneurs and innovators.
- eaze — We're helping people sleep better by offering a long-term, cheaper and healthier (digital) alternative to sleep supplements like Melatonin and sleeping pills. Our approach is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and in our app, users are in close contact with their own, personal sleep coach, who will help them establish routines andbuild long-term, healthy sleep habits.
- Una Brands — Ready to sell your e-commerce business? We'll make the process fair, fast, and fuss-free. Continue to profit as we grow your brand.
Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $706k–$14M; Angel $14M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- Tagpic — Tagpic offers influencer marketing targeting services such as influencer casting, SNS branding, and talent production.
- H&H Group Japan — H&H Holdingsis a Professional Services company.
Steve Blank is the Founding Faculty - Gordian Knot Center For National Security Innovation of Stanford University. He previously worked at California League of Conservation Voters as a Board Member.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $800k–$9.7M; Series A $960k–$6.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Usul — Rosetta: Query government policy and spending data as it relates to your workflow.
- Traysar — Building autonomous underground systems for strike and defense in the new subterra battlefield
- SalesPatriot — We deploy AI into supply chains that the West depends on.
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