Top 45 Beauty Angel Investors in Asia in April 2025

Investor	Beauty Asia investments
Kazuhiro Ishikura	2
Yu Akasaka	2
Hidetoshi Takano	2
Chryseis Tan	2
Keisuke Kogure	2
Kazuhiko Ishikura	2
Hiroaki Kitano	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Charles-Edouard Bouee	1
Naruhisa Nakagawa	1
Kok Long Chan	1
Kentaro Uryu	1
Ron Sim	1
Sakano Atsushi	1
Takato Hiroshi	1
Kazuma Ieiri	1
Hironari Umino	1
Tatsuo Sakamoto	1
Takuma Iwasa	1
Eric Chen	1
Hirofumi Miki	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Chikako Morimoto	1
Ryo Ishizuka	1
Robert Yap	1
Yasuyuki Kin	1
Kenneth Bishop	1
Yoshinori Fukushima	1
Yusuke Sato	1
Mamoru Taniya	1
Xiaoguang Wu	1
Toshi Yamamoto	1
Keith Yuki Isobe	1
Kensuke Furukawa	1
Eric Chen	1
Toshiro Wakimaru	1
Mikuru Asakura	1
Ivan Lee	1
Aaron Tan	1
Hayama Takashi	1
Eiko Matsumura	1
Wenyao Ge	1
Kai Asakura	1
Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa	1
Ryosuke Matsumoto	1

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.

Investment focus

Beauty, Content, Fashion
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

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.

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.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

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.

Ms. Chryseis Tan serves as Director at Cardiff Asset Limited.

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Fashion
Seed, Series A
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Goxip Inc — Goxip is ultimate destination for searching, discovering and purchasing any fashion and beauty products.By partnering with over 500 international online retailers, Goxip’s database covers more than 36,000 luxury brands and 5 million items. Being the biggest fashion and beauty ecommerce platform, can simply search with text, categories or evenimages to find ideal items.They are super connector between content and ecommerce sites. Whatever see and inspires , Goxip is here to help bring home that piece of fashion cannot live without.Discover trends, find inspiration and share own styles with the Goxip community of fashionistas.Snap. Shop. Wear.

Mr. Keisuke Kogure serves as general partner at Mint.

Investment focus

Beauty, iOS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Requpo — Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.
MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
Respo — Respo is a service that enables people to save money by buying things at a discount.

Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.

Investment focus

Beauty, Content, Fashion
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

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.

Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Charles-Edouard Bouée is the CEO of Roland Berger. He is a seasoned expert in reorganization, post-merger projects and integration programs, as well as performance improvement, and specializes in disruptive innovation, new technologies and digital transformation.Charles-Edouard Bouée joined Roland Berger in 2001 as Senior Partner in the Parisoffice, where he headed the Financial Services and Energy & Utility Competence Centers. He became the Managing Partner of Roland Berger’s China office in 2006 and Head of the Asia Leadership Team in 2009.He then assumed responsibility for France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Morocco. He has since fulfilled consulting mandates for leading international companies and organizations based in Europe, Asia and elsewhere. Charles-Edouard Bouée was appointed COO in July 2013 and elected CEO of Roland Berger in June 2014.Charles-Edouard Bouée has authored various books on modern management and China, as well as Artificial Intelligence.

Investment focus

AgTech, CleanTech, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, France, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

xRapid — xRapid is a mobile health diagnosis through disruptive solutions leveraging the use of artificial intelligence. xRapid is a Biotech startup based in Aix en Provence (France), London (Uk), and Las Vegas. xRapid saw its beginnings in a laboratory in Jakarta. Their CTO, Professor David Mendels, recognized that he was able to develop a mobilesolution for malaria diagnosis after attending a conference. Since then he has created xRapid, a powerful automated test that can be deployed anywhere in the field and has the potential to spot other diseases from tuberculosis to gonorrhea.
PaySika — PaySika is a financial technology startup developing mobile and web-based banking solutions for French-speaking African countries.
INTERSTELLAR LAB — autonomous modules for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting
Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zeigo — Zeigo by Schneider Electric provides sustainability software for efficient carbon reduction and supply chain decarbonization, aiming for a carbon-free future.
Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
Sniffer Robotics — Comprehensive methane emissions detection and quantification, advanced imagery and analytics; Sniffer Robotics provides advanced solutions that benefit the environment.

Mr. Chan Kok Long, aged 47, is one of the 3 key founders of iPay88 Sdn Bhd and currently is the Executive Director of iPay88 Sdn. Bhd and Mobile88.com Sdn Bhd. Both companies are the leading service provider in its own field in the South East Region (SEA). He is currently joint managing iPay88 Sdn Bhd which is the parent company for iPay88 SouthEast Asia. Currently iPay88 Sdn Bhd have offices in Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and soon in Thailand.He was a British Petroleum scholar who graduated from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (“UKM”) with a Bachelor of Science (2nd class upper honours) in 1990. He is a graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM, United Kingdom) and holds a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, United Kingdom.

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed
Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Gogobli — Distributor Online Kesehatan dan Kecantikan Terlengkap di Indonesia. Belanja Aman, Produk Terlengkap dan Brand Ternama. Cari Produk Sekarang!

Kentaro Uryu - Legal advisor @ Adot

Investment focus

Beauty, Sports, Internet
Seed, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Adot —
Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
SISI — SISI company provides beauty products made from natural ingredients. They also offer a skin analysis program led by a skin expert, allowing customers to take care of their body and skin after a thorough examination. They also sell beauty products online and provide delivery.

Ron Sim

Investment focus

Beauty, Fitness, Genetics
Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Imagene Labs — Imagene Labs Pte Ltd empowers consumers to optimise their health by providing customised wellness and lifestyle solutions tailored to their unique DNA profiles. Led by medical doctors and scientists, the company provides an entire ecosystem of genomics-based solutions ranging from wellness DNA tests, personalised lifestyle recommendations, bespokeskin serums and nutritional supplements, and mobile health apps that help people live, look and feel their best.

Sakano Atsushi

Investment focus

Medical, Nursing and Residential Care, SaaS
Seed, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.
Matsuri Technologies — matsuri technologies is a real estate tech company that provides solutions to support private property rentals. The company's products include m2m Systems, an Airbnb management platform that helps business operators to manage their accounts, communicate with guests, automate check-ins, offer customer service, and more.

Takato Hiroshi - CEO @ M0mentum

Investment focus

Health Care, Legal, Beauty
Funding Round, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

JAPAN HEALTHCARE — Japan Healthcare is a healthcare start-up that works on the prevention of musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-friendly preventive medicine . Japan Healthcare Build a preventive system for musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-improving preventive medicine.
Japan Healthcare Info — Japan Healthcase Info locates english-speaking doctors for you and makes appointments
Legal Technology Japan — Legal Technology is into development of cloud-based research tool called 'Legal Library' using legal books.

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.

Investment focus

Content, Fashion, Recruiting
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
ONE NOVA — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.

Hironari Umino - Chairman @ Increments

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Incubators
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

emol — emol is an application that records emotions and talks with AI robots.emol provide personalized mental and productivity training based on mental data to promote employee well-being and increase employee engagement.
BoostIO — MAISIN&CO makes meetings efficient. MAISIN&CO was founded in 2014.

Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Education, Recruiting
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.

Takuma Iwasa is a Founder & CEO at Cerevo.

Investment focus

Water, Beauty, IT Management
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
nanoFreaks — nanoFreaks builds a rescue system on the sea, creating an environment where everyone can live with peace of mind.

Eric Chen is a Co-Founder and Partner at OVO Fund. Eric previously worked at Uj Ventures as a Founder. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.Eric Chen is an experienced technology investor focusing on early stage Internet and enterprise IT opportunities in the US and China. Eric started Uj Ventures,an angel fund based in Palo Alto formed to incubate and fund seed stage opportunities. Uj Ventures has made 25 investments in technology startups including Palantir, RoboteX, Kiwi Crate, Context Logic and other promising startups. As a partner with venture capital firm WI Harper for five years, Eric led investments in technology companies that spanned both China and the US including ooma, Laszlo, PMC, and EditGrid. He is currently a Venture Partner with WI Harper and an advisor to Matrix Partners China.Eric has a wide-ranging background and is an entrepreneur in his own right. He co-founded an Internet startup, worked as an executive at a high growth technology company, incubated and launched a double bottom line investment fund in DC and pulled all-nighters on Wall Street as an investment banker.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
BrightCrowd — BrightCrowd digital books help schools, companies, and organizations keep their people connected
Cloudastructure — Cloudastructure is the first cloud-based video surveillance platform with AI and computer vision analytics. Learn more about Cloudastructure today!

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.

Investment focus

Content, Marketing, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
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.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu

Investment focus

Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.

Ryo Ishizuka is the co-founder and CEO of Mercari, a hassle-free peer-to-peer mobile marketplace app. After founding the company in Japan and following its successful launch, Ryo leads Mercari's international expansion as the company grows globally. Prior to founding Mercari, Ryo was the Chief Architect at RockYou, a Silicon Valley startupbacked by Sequoia. At RockYou, he was responsible for developing the core infrastructures to support its rapidly growing traffic, serving more than 20 billion PVs per month. He later served as COO at RockYou Asia to lead its Asian expansion. Born in Japan and raised in the US, Ryo has spent his life constantly moving and building bridges between the two countries.

Investment focus

SNS, Architecture, Internet of Things
Seed, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sagri — Sagri is developing agriculture software for experienced farmers.
DOTsfty — Teatis is a plant-based sugar-blocking superfood powder for diabetic consumers.
Flyp — Grow resale business with easy access to inventory and free automation tools. Join 10,000+ resellers today.

Robert Yap - Deputy Chairman & Executive Director @ Y3 Technologies

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Lifestyle
Series B, Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Numoni —
Vanitee — Vanitee is a mobile app to discover new beauty trends and book beauty artists.

Yasuyuki Kin

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.

Kenneth Bishop

Investment focus

Beauty, FinTech, Internet
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Fewcents — Fewcents enables small payments for the creator economy. We enable digital publishers to unbundle and micro-monetize text, audio, or video formats in 50+ currencies.
Alcheme Skincare — Alcheme Skincare was founded in January 2017 and is due to launch its line of personalized skincare in November 2017 in Singapore. Each customer has unique skin needs and their skin care should be as well. Alcheme selects, expertly combines plant based active ingredients that are highly effective and safe. Each product is made to address eachcustomer’s individual needs, idenfied during an innovative, artificial intelligence based consultation.

Yoshinori Fukushima - CEO @ LayerX

Investment focus

Internet, Marketing, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Content, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.

Xiaoguang Wu was named Senior Management Adviser in June 2015. He joined Tencent in 1999 and was a member of the founding team. Xiaoguang Wu led the development and product planning for the Group’s core product, QQ, and served as project manager for the QQ research and development team. He also served as General Manager of the IM product divisionand General Manager of the internet business division. He was later promoted to Senior Executive Vice President of the internet services division and Chief Executive Officer of Tencent E-Commerce Holdings Limited. Xiaoguang Wu has extensive experience in product research and development, product planning, product operations and marketing internet businesses. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Weather Dynamics from Nanjing University in 1996 and an EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in 2008.

Investment focus

Software, Service Industry, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

DayDayUp — DayDayUp is a business community that connects Chinese and global innovators.
Feipotong — Feipotong is a nationwide service company that focuses on airport parking.
Waterdrop — Waterdrop is an insurance platform that plans to solve the problem of high medical fees faced by most patients, especially those with a critical illness. Shuidihuzhu offers three products: mutual insurance, crowdfunding and commercial insurance. All their services are conducted through the platform’s official WeChat account, where users could postcrowdfunding campaigns, buy insurances, or claim indemnities according to their policies.

Toshi Yamamoto is an entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley as CEO of ChatWork Japan and US.In 2000, Toshi bootstrapped a business of web marketing and software sales, and made it profitable for the past 12 years.In 2012, Toshi decided to drive all the resources to focus on its own service, ChatWork, set up a US office and moved to SiliconValley. Toshi changed the company name from EC studio to ChatWork at that time.Toshi has also written three books that have been ranked as #1 of all books on Amazon.co.jp.

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Health Care
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

emol — emol is an application that records emotions and talks with AI robots.emol provide personalized mental and productivity training based on mental data to promote employee well-being and increase employee engagement.

Keith Yuki Isobe is an Investor, Managing Director and Member of the IC Board at DG VENTURES (AUM 600m USD).Most recently, he served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Geniee International Group, President and COO at Adstars and President Director at Geniee Technology Indonesia (TSE6562 A Member of SoftBank Group). Prior to that, he wasCo-Founder of Medically, Board Director and CFO of MEDCARE (exited, M3 group), a Next-Unicorn HealthcareTech and Co-Founder and Board Director of Waseda M&A Partners, a Startup Programmatic M&As. Contact Email Addresses: yuki-isobe@garage.co.jp (DG VENTURES)

Investment focus

Advertising, Cryptocurrency, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

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MEDCARE — Medcare is a medical service corporation.
WASEDA M&A PARTNERS — APAC Startup-focused M&A and Financial Consulting Firm (Founders are all graduates of Waseda Business School, Waseda University)

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".

Investment focus

Content, Media and Entertainment, Social Media
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.

Eric Chen is a Co-Founder and Partner at OVO Fund. Eric previously worked at Uj Ventures as a Founder. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.Eric Chen is an experienced technology investor focusing on early stage Internet and enterprise IT opportunities in the US and China. Eric started Uj Ventures,an angel fund based in Palo Alto formed to incubate and fund seed stage opportunities. Uj Ventures has made 25 investments in technology startups including Palantir, RoboteX, Kiwi Crate, Context Logic and other promising startups. As a partner with venture capital firm WI Harper for five years, Eric led investments in technology companies that spanned both China and the US including ooma, Laszlo, PMC, and EditGrid. He is currently a Venture Partner with WI Harper and an advisor to Matrix Partners China.Eric has a wide-ranging background and is an entrepreneur in his own right. He co-founded an Internet startup, worked as an executive at a high growth technology company, incubated and launched a double bottom line investment fund in DC and pulled all-nighters on Wall Street as an investment banker.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Enterprise Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Turkey, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
BrightCrowd — BrightCrowd digital books help schools, companies, and organizations keep their people connected
Cloudastructure — Cloudastructure is the first cloud-based video surveillance platform with AI and computer vision analytics. Learn more about Cloudastructure today!

Toshiro “Tosh” Wakimaru is the Chief Operating Officer of MedPeer, Inc. , Tokyo, Japan since May 2010. Medpeer is the “Medical Doctor Exclusive” SNS in Japan that has just successfully gone to the market in 2014.Prior to the current job, Tosh had been actively working for Price Waterhouse Consulting, Japan LLP (now IBM Japan, Ltd.) aftergraduating from the Boston University School of Management in 1996. While there he completed numerous projects in corporate strategy, operation improvement, and new business development focusing on the retail, service, and healthcare industries with a secondment to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Investment focus

Task Management, Food and Beverage, SNS
Seed, Funding Round
Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

Clear — Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE".
Cub McPaws — Buy comfortably fashionable kids clothes (4 - 12 years) online in India from Cub Mcpaws at best prices. Gorgeous dresses, jumpsuits, t-shirts, shirts & bottom wear for boys and girls | Free Shipping | COD
Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.

Mikuru Asakura

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

THE RICH — THE RICH is a hair care brand that contains silk regenerating and repairing ingredients.

Ivan Lee - Founder @ Raging Bull

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Lifestyle
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Grain — Grain is a food experience company that offers Meals On Demand and Catering for any occasion. Meals are crafted by chefs with wholesome ingredients and a whole lot of thoughtfulness.
Vanitee — Vanitee is a mobile app to discover new beauty trends and book beauty artists.
Golden Moments —

A Programmer by training and a Venture Capitalist by profession, Aaron founded his first startup at 13 and has already sold two companies before turning 21. He is currently the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Carro, an automotive marketplace that offers a full-stack service for all aspects of car ownership. Aaron leads the venture-backedcompany with years of experience in the startup scene and is committed to setting new standards for the used car industry, with professionalism at the heart of Carro’s ethos.Aaron was also most recently awarded the ITMA Future IT Leader Award. Aaron graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BSc from Singapore Management University’s School of Information Systems, and subsequently accepted a scholarship from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore to read Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University where he graduated with an MSc.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
Singapore, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Evo — Social Commerce Software
Evo — Evo provides health and wellness direct-to-consumer services.
uWave — uWave is your lifestyle & community platform to discover content from wide of topics, ranging across Food, Outings, Experiences, Travel, Beauty, Cosmetics, Photography, Tech Reviews and many more.

Hayama Takashi - Outside Director @ Eco Style

Investment focus

SNS, Beauty, Medical
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

MedPeer — MedPeer operates as a community site for doctors. MedPeer is a recruitment agency collective registration service.MedPeer operation of "MedPeer," a collective intelligence service/ community website for physicians.

Eiko Matsumura - President / CEO @ BASKET

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Health Care
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

emol — emol is an application that records emotions and talks with AI robots.emol provide personalized mental and productivity training based on mental data to promote employee well-being and increase employee engagement.

Wenyao Ge - General Manager @ Shanghai Jahwa United Co., Ltd

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics, E-Commerce
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

KanS — KanS is a cosmetics brand and online seller of natural skincare products.

Kai Asakura

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

THE RICH — THE RICH is a hair care brand that contains silk regenerating and repairing ingredients.

Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa - President & CEO @ FAN Communications

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Content, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Penmark — Penmark is a timetable management application that may also be used as a course management tool. The company's platform offers courses based on lesson data and lesson reviews that are unique to each university. Additionally, the in-class talk room generated for each class allows students to communicate with others who are taking the sameclass, allowing college students to take on challenges by thoroughly confronting each student and providing support that respects the individual's will.
NoSchool — NoSchool is possible to ask a study teacher to a professional teacher who is working as a tutor or a private lecturer for free.
Posiwill — Posiwill is a operating a career consultation service with job seekers billing type.

Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.

Investment focus

Art, Reservations, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.