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Top 50 Beauty Startup Investors in Asia in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Beauty startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Beauty companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Beauty Startup Investors in Asia in September 2025

Investor	Beauty Asia investments
East Ventures	7
STRIVE	6
Sinovation Ventures	5
Jungle Ventures	5
W ventures	4
Nissay Capital	4
AC Ventures	4
ANRI	3
Real Tech Japan	3
Skystar Capital	3
Venturra	3
Welight Capital	3
Edge Ventures	3
FutureCap	3
Monk’s Hill Ventures	3
Fenghou Capital	3
Antler	3
Qingsong Fund	3
Shunwei Capital	3
Plum Ventures	3
UntroD Capital	3
SMBC Venture Capital	3
Fundinno	3
TLM	3
ITOCHU Technology Ventures	2
Angel Bridge	2
ABC Capital	2
ZhenFund	2
We Capital	2
Nexyz.Group	2
Dark Horse Ventures	2
Genesia Ventures	2
Init 6	2
Pegasus Tech Ventures	2
Hongdao Capital	2
Astellas Venture Management	2
Huaige Capital	2
Captii Ventures	2
Cathay Capital Private Equity	2
Cathay Capital	2
Meitu	2
Lakson Venture Capital (LVC)	2
Series Ventures	2
Keisuke Kogure	2
SBI Group	2
Kazuhiko Ishikura	2
Angel Plus China	2
UTokyo Innovation Platform	2
Tiantu Capital	2
Keio Innovation Initiative	2

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East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SIRCLO — SIRCLO is a leading omnichannel commerce enabler in Indonesia, driven by the mission to unlock the digital potential of people and businesses.
CrestLab — CrestLab Inc. is a startup focused on developing and providing products for anime production, with a central offering called "ANICRA," which is an anime production support platform that leverages AI technology. This platform aims to aid in various aspects of anime production by integrating artificial intelligence to enhance efficiency andcreativity.
Pintarnya — Situs penyedia lowongan kerja online untuk berbagai posisi, pendidikan dan pekerjaan dari lulusan SD hingga S1 Tersedia di seluruh indonesia.

STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!

Sinovation Ventures is a full-service venture capital firm that actively invests in the Chinese technology market.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
Sand.ai — Sand AI is an AI company that focuses on producing videos.
Mootion — Mootion is an AI video generation platform. It enables detailed 3D motion control, character replacements, and background adjustments. This aims to streamline the production process for users.

Jungle Ventures is one of Southeast Asia's largest independent venture capital firms based in Singapore. We invest in early and growth-stage startups in Southeast Asia and India, focused on building category-defining businesses that stand the test of time.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Singapore, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

XWeave — Xweave enables real time & competitive cross-border payments with no pre-funding
CityMall — CityMall is a social e-commerce venture, backed by Elevation Capital, aiming to help the 200-300 million new to Internet users realize the power of Internet
Sanlayan — Sanlayan Technologies is a Bengaluru-based aerospace and defense electronics startup that specializes in designing and developing advanced electronic systems such as radar, electronic warfare, and mission-critical avionics, focusing on indigenous technology to enhance India's self-sufficiency in defense electronics.

W Ventures is a Berlin based Venture Design and Venture Capital company that offers a complete framework for the acceleration of digital business ideas.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Ness — Ness is a tech company that offers 3 service websites and analytic tools for NFT marketing tool, TikTok product and NFT holders.
Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

Japan AI — Japan AI specializes in R&D of artificial intelligence and consulting services.
Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.

Founded in 2014, AC Ventures is a Southeast Asian venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups focused on Indonesia and ASEAN, with over US$500 million in assets under management across five funds. The firm’s areas of investment focus on a variety of industries, including digital enablement, financial technologies, agriculturetechnologies, logistics, e-commerce, consumer technology, MSME solutions, waste management, renewable energy, and sustainability solutions.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Blostem — Blostem provides fintech solutions, focusing on seamless fixed deposit integration for financial services platforms. The company offers an embedded investment platform and white-label solutions, catering to fintechs, wealth tech platforms, investment advisors, and digital companies. Blostem aims to enhance customer experience through innovativefinancial growth and security solutions.
Shiok Burger — Shiok Burger is a food and beverages company that provides baked buns and an innovative burger menu.
Soul Parking — Soul Parking is a parking management service company, which has successfully developed motorcycle storage equipment as a solution for traffic and parking problems that are cluttered using 100% designs and raw materials. Soul Parking provides solutions by developing a modern, safe and comfortable vehicle parking system that takes into accountlimited land area.

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Chorakuchoju — Chorakuchoju is a healthcare organization that tries to avoid isolation by implementing AI technologies and medical services.
Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
Strand Therapeutics — Strand Therapeutics is developing the first platform for creating programmable mRNA drugs to deliver precise, multi-functional, potentially curative treatments.

Real Tech Japan is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in innovative R&D technology companies. Realtech Fund is a joint venture between the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry and NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, Singapore, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Ashirase — Ashirase is a developer of a walking navigation system for the visually challenged. The company assists visually impaired people in walking independently. This also allows the user to have more attention to spare for audible warnings in their environment. It includes voice input and guidance via a smartphone app. A vibration interface is attachedto their shoes.
Ken Robotec — Ken Robotec is a construction company that provides labor-saving solutions.
MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.

We are Skystar Capital, an early-stage VC firm committed to supporting tech entrepreneurs to create a lasting and profound positive difference in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Mimin — Mimin adalah aplikasi gratis yang membantu seller online yang berbasis chat dalam mengatur bisnis dengan mudah. Proses Order. Cek Ongkir. Tagih pembayaran.
bythen — bythen enables the production of autonomous 3D avatar bots powered by AI.
Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a Clean- & Climate-Tech Company that enables circular economy implementation in the waste supply chain by leveraging proprietary waste management operation systems to transform waste into recycled materials and renewable resources.

Empowering outstanding entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia in creating the next defining technology companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

FR8Labs — Optimize your freight business with our AI Freight Forwarding Software. Boost efficiency and stay ahead in logistics.
Saladin — Saladin is an online platform that provides life, health, automotive, and travel insurance services.
Klinik Pintar — Klinik Pintar membantu pasien mendapatkan layanan kesehatan primer terbaik di klinik, rumah, dan kantor.

Welight Capital is an investment firm that invests in enterprise services, B2B, e-commerce, finance, education, new retail companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Education
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
China, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

iEduGPT — iEduGPT is an AI-powered learning platform based in Singapore that offers personalized, adaptive learning solutions for professional and academic exam preparation. It leverages artificial intelligence to analyze individual learners' strengths and knowledge gaps and create optimized study paths. The platform aims to transform exam preparationby making learning smarter, more efficient, and tailored to each user’s unique needs, covering certifications in finance, academics, and languages.
ViTai Robotics — ViTai develops hand-eye coordination algorithms and general-purpose tactile sensing modules for robotic end-effectors.
Lingpao Microelectronics — Lingpao Microelectronics designs and develops solutions for automobile connection chips.

Edge Ventures is a young equity investment fund. They are highly aligned with the interest of their founders, because they have been entrepreneurs too. With rich experience and top-level background in entrepreneurship, their management team are skilled in scouting the entrepreneurship spirit of outstanding candidates. Regardless of short-termrewards, they fight alongside their portfolio companies and fully support them in a long-term basis.They are highly aligned with the interest of their limited partners, because they invest in their selves too. With commitment of more than 20% self-funded capital in each EdgeVentures’ investment fund, they will control the fund size with intention of promising rate of return.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Gaming, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Shuizhiko — Shuizhiko is a functional personal care company that specializes in Asian skin types.
AdvanSol Power — AdvanSol Power is dedicated to advancing the solar energy industry by focusing on the research and development of third-generation micro-string inverter technology.
Tongyou Intelligent Equipment — Tongyou Intelligent Equipment focuses on the integration of ultra-micro inductor materials, equipment, processes and product OEM.

Future Capital is an early-stage venture firm investing at the frontier of deep technology

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, United States, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Narwel — Revolutionize home cleaning with Narwal's robot vacuum cleaners and mops. Dive into cutting-edge robotic technology for effortless cleaning.
Nova Fusion — Nova Fusion is an innovative company that provides commercialization of small modular nuclear fusion reactors.
Microview — Microview is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research and development of high-precision complex process chip packaging equipment.

We believe in great founders who will change millions of lives through technology.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Vucar — Vucar.vn is a buyer-focused online used car consignment platform. All of our listings are pre-verified legally. We provide end-to-end services for both sellers and buyers to ensure a fast and hassle-free experience. Currently, the hassle-full process and car quality uncertainty make it painful for 65% of people to buy used cars in Vietnam.
Cinch Tech — Cinch Tech is a subscription service that offers technology products like computers, phones, tablets, and gaming equipment. Users can choose from different payment plans. The service includes damage cover for the devices. It is intended to help users access and maintain technology without paying full price upfront. The service provides analternative way to obtain and use tech devices.
Pallav Technologies — Pallav leverages AI to analyze customer applications, enhancing approval rates and improving loan repayments. Our cutting-edge machine learning models and deep technology integration provide real-time creditworthiness insights to banks.

Fenghou Capital is early-stage equity investment firm.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Automotive, Information Services
Angel, Series A, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Benewake — Benewake is the leading provider of solid-state LiDAR sensors and solutions. We won the Championship of Audi Innovation Lab.Completed the Series B2 funding in 2018, Benewake has built a strong connection with our global top-tier investors globally and locally, including IDG Capital, Shunwei Capital, Cathay Capital (Valeo LP), Delta Capital,Keywise Capital, and Ecovacs.Benewake LiDAR products, including basic flash LiDAR and 3D LiDAR, have achieved mass production level with corresponding certificates. Our LiDAR solutions are widely used in autonomous vehicles (collision avoidance), drones (logistics, agricultural plant protection), ITS, robots (smart home), AGV (logistics and warehouse management).Benewake LiDAR products, with the protection of intellectual property rights, have been widely launched to Europe, America, Asia-Pacific market, etc.
Kuaipan Tech — Kuaipan Tech is a cloud gaming and cloud application technology solution service company based on ARM cloud technology.
Fengmao Dongtou — Fengmao Enterprise is a bulk raw material logistics operator that transports bulk chemical products corrosive and non-corrosive by road.

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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

AIsphere — AIsphere focuses on visual multimodal large models and empowering content producers in many sectors and scenarios with AIGC technology.
Saltfish — Saltfish enables teams to develop tailored video experiences that guide users through your entire funnel, from first visit to feature adoption.
PlayMaker — PlayMaker is building the modern operating system for sponsorships—centralizing inventory, contracts, activations, and reporting in one place so commercial teams can move faster and prove ROI. Designed and built by industry insiders who sat in the seat of rights-holders and brands, PlayMaker combines intuitive workflows with AI to extract contractterms, surface under-utilized assets, streamline approvals, and generate executive-ready reporting.

Founded in June 2012 by Liu Xiaosong, Dong Zhanbin, and Su Wei, three Internet and investment circle veterans, Qingsong Fund is an early venture capital firm specializing in investment in education, social networking, consumerism, innovation, technology and applications. It manages four RMB funds with a total value of about RMB 2 billion. So far,it has invested in more than 140 companies, including 1 to 1 head, 1 DaDa English, squirrel AI, onion mathematics, wedding calendar, werewolf killing, flystep technology, HomeFacial. Pro and other star projects - 50% exit project returns more than 60 times, multiple project valuation multiples increased nearly 200 times, and educational projects have an average annual value increase of 500%. Among them, the Qingsong Smart Fund, which was newly established in 2018, focuses on the underlying technologies of the underlying AI and Smart Connect, as well as investment in such areas as smart healthcare, enterprise services and intelligent transportation applications. Liu Xiaosong, founding partner of Qingsong Fund, is a Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University. He invested in Tencent in 1999 and has a return on investment of tens of thousands of times. In 2000, he founded A8 New Media Group, which was successfully listed on the main board in Hong Kong in 2008. In 2015, he hatched in November 2018. Listed in Hong Kong stocks in the year. As a leading early investment institution in China, Qingsong Fund and its founding partners have repeatedly won Top 10 of Zero2IPO China's early investment institutions/investors, Top10 of China's education sector, Top100 of Chinese investors, and China's best early venture capital investment. Institution/Investor Top10; 36氪 China's new entertainment sector investment institutions Top10, online education sector investment institutions/investors Top10 and other mainstream awards.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Education, Internet
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Volant Aerotech — Volant Aerotech is a company specializing in the R&D, manufacturing, and service of passenger eVTOL, an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
Shufang New Energy — Shenzhen Sufang New Energy focuses on the research, development, and production of lithium-rich manganese-based cathode materials.
Tongwei New Energy — Tongwei New Energy is a company that manufactures zero-carbon solid oxide fuel cells. Its major product is distributed zero-carbon power plants.

Shunwei Capital is a venture capital fund that focuses on early to mid-stage investments in local internet industry. It specializes in incubation, startups, early to mid-stage, and growth capital investments. It seeks to invest in the technology, media, telecommunications, high technology, new media, games, internet finance, and rural area internetsectors. Their investors include sovereign wealth funds, fund of funds, university endowment funds, and family offices.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wala English — Wala English is a provider of comprehensive full-process AI contextual learning services, leveraging artificial intelligence to deliver personalized, immersive language learning experiences that adapt to each learner’s needs, context, and progress throughout their educational journey.
Xunlu Innovation — Xunlu Innovation is a cutting-edge bicycle manufacturer based in Shenzhen, China, specializing in intelligent electric cargo bikes designed to meet modern urban mobility needs.
Shouxing Technology — AheadForm is pioneering the development of realistic humanoid robots designed to revolutionize human-robot interaction. Our current focus is on creating sophisticated humanoid robot heads that can express emotions, perceive their environment, and interact seamlessly with humans. By combining cutting-edge AI and advanced robotics, we aim to bring life to machines and transform the way humans engage with technology.

Plum Ventures is a venture capital company that aims to encourage young people to become entrepreneurs. It specializes ins providing seed and early-stage investments in the technology, new media, and telecommunications industry. The firm was founded in May 2014 and is based in Changzhou, China.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Software
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Guokesaian — Guokesaian is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research and development of AI-powered intelligent robots.
Alphalong Technologies — Afalong Technology focuses on R&D of core AI and AR technologies and products, having developed advanced items like AI smart glasses, HemeltX all-in-one smart glasses, and specialized three-proof handheld terminals for smart glasses.
Aifei Intelligent Control — Aifei Intelligent Control is a private high-end flight control firm that specialises in flight control technology and offers flight control systems for medium and large unmanned aerial vehicles in the aviation and aerospace industries.

UntroD Capital is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, Singapore, Austria

Portfolio highlights

CyCraft — CyCraft secures national governments, Fortune 500 firms, and SMEs with our Japan Interop 2020 Best of Show and MITRE ATT&CK®-evaluated AI platform, CyCraft AIR, that delivers 1) endpoint detection & response, 2) network detection & response, 3) operational global threat intelligence and 4) enterprise cyber-health checks.
Innovacell — Innovacell is a biotechnology firm entirely focused on the area of tissue engineering and it operates one of Europe's largest and most modern production facilities for the proliferation of the body's own tissue cells. Its supervisory board is chaired by the experienced financial expert, Dr. Harald Pöttinger, a director of Alpine EquityManagement AG, based in Bregenz, Austria. Innovacell currently employs 20 staff as well as numerous outside experts.
Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.
Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.

Fundinno is an equity investment crowdfunding platform.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, Health Care
Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding, Funding Round
Japan, France

Portfolio highlights

EBRU — EBRU is a manufacturer and seller of earphones and ear monitor audio products that include custom artwork on the products.
Meiten Kan — Meiten Kan engages in the food delivery service industry.
Human Potential Lab — Human Potential Lab is a company that supports individual skills development and corporate organizational change. Focusing on mental health and well-being, the company's programs are based on brain science, bioscience, psychology, and technology.

TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, SNS
Seed, Angel, Series B
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
Nanameue — Nanameue creating a new future that makes people smile and has a fun experience. Create your own place by connecting people to people in “nanameue” way.
Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.

ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

SkyDrive — SkyDrive is a start-up for development,manufacturing,sales of the “Flying cars” established by CARTIVATOR members.
Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.
NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization

Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Consulting
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
Lisse — Lisse offers legal business innovation through the use of AI.
Bloomo Securities — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.

ABC Capital is one of the earliest asset management companies specialized in private equity and venture capital investment in China.

Investment focus

Sales, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
Angel, Series B, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

EurekaBio — EurekaBio is a leading upstream core vendor in the field of Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT), focusing on innovative research and development of cutting-edge technologies and key equipment essential for advancing CGT.
Bliss Mall — Shenzhen Happiness Mall Technology is an online cake booking and sales platform that integrates the development, production, and sales of baked goods. Customer's are able to order online and the company provides instant and quick production, instant cold chain efficient distribution, and delivers healthy, safe, green, fresh, and quality bakedgoods. The company has covered many cities across the country, such as Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao, and so on. The whole process of professional cold chain distribution, freshly made is happy cake.It was founded on 2008 and is based in Shenzhen, China.
Zhimei Keji — Zhimei Keji provides beauty products for trendy makeup, facial skincare, makeup tools, set products, body care, beauty equipment, perfume, and cleansing and removal.

ZhenFund is a seed fund founded by former entrepreneurs to invest in the most promising innovators. New Oriental co-founders Bob Xiaoping Xu and Victor Qiang Wang established ZhenFund in 2011 in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. ZhenFund now has a network of over 800 portfolio companies, including over 30 unicorns based in China. Webelieve that great businesses start with exceptional founding teams. We are dedicated to helping our entrepreneurs build successful companies by providing them with mentorship and the best resources available. Some of our services include biannual demo days to top Chinese VCs, ZhenHR services, marketing and PR consulting, as well as fundraising. Our strong and large CEO network also facilitates entrepreneurs helping each other, especially via our WeChat platform. ZhenFund has been ranked as the “#1 Early-Stage Investment Firm” for six years. Bob Xiaoping Xu, Founder of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2016 and ranked #11 in 2019. Anna Fang, Founding Partner and CEO of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2019 and made her 4th appearance as #12, and #1 on Midas Seed List in 2022.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Manus AI — Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.
Dyna Robotics — We're making Al-powered robotic automation accessible for businesses of all sizes by building affordable, easy-to-deploy Autonomous Al Robots.
Manifold Tech — Manifold Tech wants to provide generic embodied intelligence the necessary perceptual skills, giving it "eyes" and a "brain" to better support the advancement of human society.

We Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Medical, Digital Entertainment
Angel, Series A, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

NewMe — Online Shopping at Newme for the best electronic gadgets, sporting goods and home products and at unbeatable great prices.
Oatoat — Oatoat is a developer and producer of plant based drinks.
DKJY Beauty Clinic — DKJY Beauty Clinic is a medical beauty chain organization that provides consumers with problematic skin care, anti-aging, and aesthetic customization solutions. They provide an eggshell muscle beauty brand that focuses on problematic muscle solutions and extends its service items to non-invasive microsurgery and women's health.

Nexyz.Group provides facility installation service for LED lighting.

Investment focus

Beauty, SNS, Video
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
C Channel — C Channel is an online video-based media targeting women aged 20 to 34, focusing on offering lifestyle-related information ranging from hairstyling, food, to travel tips.
DiNA — DiNA offers consulting for your beauty and health from the inside and the outside using the DNA analysis and human stem cell culture method.

Dark Horse Venture is a venture capital firm that invests at early-stage startups in industrial internet and technology.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Education
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Tuyun Space — Tuyun Space focuses on developing a common twin platform. For the universal twin platform, Tuyun Space builds technical barriers through four basic capabilities: 1. Spatial modeling; 2. Data coupling; 3. Rendering and visualization; 4. Simulation analysis.
Thoth Medical — Thoth Medical develops medical wearables integrating biomedical sensor technology.
Maicong Software — Discover the top SQL editor and one service data platform to enhance database management and query efficiency. It supports poplular SQL databases like mysql, mariadb, postgresql, sql server, sqlite, hadoop and more.

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Amoibe — Amoibe is a company providing engineer training services for the AI era called “amoibe OJT".
Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Handpickd — Sorted operates as an omnichannel platform for fruits and vegetables. Sorted provides fruits and vegetables that come straight from the farms.

Init 6 is an early-stage startup fund that looks for technical founders with a passion to solve big problems. They understand their challenges and they are not afraid of helping them. The firm was founded in 2020 by co-founders Achmad Zaky and Nugroho Herucahyono (Xinuc) after leaving the company Bukalapak.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Indonesia, Pakistan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Gently — Gently adalah brand personal care bayi dan anak yang mengedepankan khasiat dan formula yang lembut
Qiscus — Qiscus provides an Omnichannel Marketing, Sales and Support Platform for Customer Engagement. A complete solution for Omnichannel, CRM, ChatBot and other software. We are Official Partner for WhatsApp Business API.
Setoko — Setoko provides Online Ordering Platform for Local Businesses & Brands

Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, offering intellectual and financial capital to exceptional emerging technology companies around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Indonesia, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Biolinq — Introducing a revolutionary platform for metabolic health.
Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
Epicore Biosystems — Epicore Biosystems, Inc. has developed a proprietary wearable microfluidic platform that is ‘skin-like’ and capable of analyzing small droplets of sweat for proteomics, inflammatory markers, hydration, and health biomarkers to enable personalized management of health, performance and nutrition. Epicore's wearable sensing technology is basedon over two decades of microfluidics and soft materials research by Prof. John Rogers and Prof. Roozbeh Ghaffari at Northwestern University's Querrey-Simpson Institute for Biolectronics.

Hongdao Capital invests in companies developing breakthrough technologies in artificial intelligence and life science.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Life No. 1 — Life No. 1 promotes small and medium-sized stores to connect to the mobile Internet. Xiaoping Tan founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in China.
Xingkeduo — Xingkeduo is a modern hair salon brand that utilizes the technology to optimize the haircut journey. It operates nearly 100 stores and has more than 320 hairdressers with Internet tools and big data systems. With the help of data management and standardization of store operations, Xingkeduo provides pure services for more users and let thecraftsmen live a better life.The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Beijing, China.
Zhuangxiaomi — Zhuangxiaomi is a Real Estate company.

Astellas Venture Management is a California-based financial organization that targets investments in the biotechnology sector.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Portfolio highlights

NeoPhore — NeoPhore targets the dynamics of cancer neoantigen evolution and makes effective medicines that will become a key part of the next-generation of cancer immunotherapies.
PhoreMost — PhoreMost is a new-model drug discovery company based in Cambridge, UK: Using its core expertise to open up new ‘druggable’ target space and working with a global network of co-invested academic and industrial collaboration partners, we aim to bring a wide array of novel ‘targeted’ therapies more efficiently to market and pass these cost savingsonto patients.
SyntaxBio — SyntaxBio develops CRISPR/Cas9-based, genetic programming platform that converts cells into biological computers using DNA-based instructions that read like lines of code. SyntaxBio's platform can program cells without the need for consistent external intervention.

Huaige Capital is a venture capital focusing on healthcare sector.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Angel, Funding Round
China

Portfolio highlights

Affinity — Affinity Biomedical Technology is a clinical biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development of global innovative anticancer drugs.
Xianyan Biopharma — Xianyan Biopharma is a company that focuses on core technology innovation and new medication development for oligonucleotides, and it has a top-tier R&D staff.
Xinhengrui Medical — Xinhengrui Medical provides heart-assisted medical devices and offers complete, safe, and effective intelligent mechanical-assisted therapy solutions for heart failure patients.

Captii Ventures is a multi-stage investor in Southeast Asian start-ups. It invests in marketplace that facilitates better matching of supply and demand, new media publishers that disrupt traditional channels of communications, and start-ups that use technology to solve age-old enterprise problems.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Momos — Only restaurant management growth platform, purposely built to help brands grow through our combination of customer engagement, digital marketing and analytics tools.
Curlec — Accept online payments with Razorpay Curlec. Enable FPX, cards, and e-wallets with seamless integration, recurring billing, and instant settlement in Malaysia.
Sendhelper — Verified and licensed service providers | Attractive rates | Secure online payment | Guaranteed customer support

Cathay Capital is a leading, cross-border private-equity firm dedicated to supporting the international development of small and middle-market companies across North America, China and Europe. Created by Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs, Cathay Capital prides itself on its multicultural and highly-experienced investment team, which is committed tobuilding companies and long-term value across three continents though its unique value-creation strategy.

Investment focus

Automotive, Mobile Apps, Health Care
Series B, Private Equity, Series A
China, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chatail — Chatail is positioned in the field of real-time audio and video live broadcast sales and services.
Shiro Games — Shiro Games is a video game development studio based in Bordeaux, France. Their team is made of talented and passionate developers who strive for excellence and are brave enough to make bold decisions on a daily basis. They are always looking for more great people with good hearts, a will to take on any challenge and the ability to bring a newperspective that will make Shiro Games an even better studio.
Parkview Dental Partners — Dental Service Organization helping our partner dentists grow and thrive by providing practice management, marketing, HR, billing, collections...

Cathay Capital is a global private equity and venture capital investment firm supporting companies at every stage of their lifecycle.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Funding Round, Private Equity
China, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bio-Link — Bio-Link is a drug development company that offers solutions for the life science industry. Bio-Link was founded in 2001 and was headquartered in Shanghai, China.
Vita Dynamics — Vita Dynamics involves learning through real-world interactions by developing robots that can physically engage with their environment, they can adapt more naturally and efficiently.
Moose Knuckles — Shop the widest-exclusive selection of Moose Knuckles - Official Site. Canadian engineered outerwear, down jackets, coats, parkas. Free shipping & return.

Meitu offers free image and video apps for iOS and Android platforms.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Beauty
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Pixocial — Pixocial is a software company that provides beauty and creative solutions for consumers, small businesses, and enterprise clients. They provide creative and retouching editing experiences for social media and creators.
Seele — Seele is developing an advanced 3D AI platform that utilizes AI technology to aid 3D creators in generating alternative 3D animations, models, color settings, animations, and scenery animations.
Cross Star Studio — Cross Star Studio is an ACG content developer platform that provides comic, animation, and gaming content to provide players with the perfect combination of story and gameplay.

Lakson Investments Venture Capital (LIVC) invests in Pakistan based opportunities. The firm concentrates on investments where technology can be leveraged to enable, enhance and disrupt existing business models or create new ones.LIVC's investment focus is at the stage in the start-up lifecycle where the company is less than 36-48 months awayfrom a successful Series A round or potential exit. The firm also invests in select Seed rounds through its Incubation and Accelerator ecosystem relationships as well as overseas partners in Silicon Valley and Europe where it seeks to bring proven foreign technology to Pakistan.The firm's team comprises of a diverse set of investors, domain experts, operators, and entrepreneurs with a successful track record of bringing big ideas to fruition.LIVC invests alongside entrepreneurs and local businesses to build new enterprises and through investing seed capital, take ideas to the next stage. It works with Lakson Investments’ (“LI”) team of over 50 experienced professionals while at the same time, leverage the operational experience of the Lakson Group. Over 14,000 people are employed by Lakson in Pakistan in businesses across sectors such as: Technology (CyberNet & Sybrid), Broadcast and Print Media (Express Media Group), FMCG (Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan), Insurance, and QSR (McDonald’s Pakistan).LI is one of the largest private sector asset managers in Pakistan with over US$300mn under management with a rating of AM2+.

Investment focus

Grocery, Travel, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Pakistan, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bagallery — Bagallery has 100% authentic and lowest price in Pakistan of top beauty, cosmetics, skincare, fashion and lifestyle brands.
Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
Udhaar Book — Trusted by 5.1 million merchants, Udhaar Book is Pakistan's best credit book service that helps you manage cash flows. Install now

Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Joabro — Joabro is a startup that provides life care solutions based on a fitness center platform. It is the operator of the fitness center-based community platform 'Joa Jim Series'.
Elexlab — Elexlab is a pioneering biotech startup focused on developing an AI-powered drug discovery platform that accelerates and enhances the process of new drug development by leveraging machine learning, biological data analysis, and predictive modeling to identify promising therapeutic candidates more efficiently and cost-effectively.
Pet Station — Pet Station is an innovative startup that aims to develop a unique and immersive cultural hub where pet-related content, services, and experiences are seamlessly integrated into offline spaces.

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.

SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kigen — Kigen provides technologies for enabling mobile communications for your devices. From SIM to eSIM and RSP, discover our products.
Digift — Security Token DEX: Bridging traditional finance and DeFi.
Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.

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.

Angel Plus is a China-based venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Internet
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flexiv — Flexiv is a deep-tech company that is committed to developing and manufacturing general-purpose adaptive robots that redefine intelligent automation. Combining advanced robotics and artificial intelligence with human-centered design, Flexiv's robots empower businesses to flexibly automate complex tasks with intuitive and easy-to-use interfaces.
DexForce — DexForce offers an AI-enabled robot with integrated 3D vision cameras, and software and hardware solutions for manufacturing robots.
TARS — Zhihang Zhong is a prominent researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly known for his work on integrating spatial perception and reasoning into AI systems.

The University of Tokyo IPC is a company responsible for expanding the innovation ecosystem of the University of Tokyo. Accelerate global innovation from the University of Tokyo through three activities: start-up support, investment business, and corporate innovation support.It was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University ofTokyo in 2016 with the enforcement of the revised law of the Industrial Competitiveness Enhancement Law, which is the basis law. The investment targets of the Todai IPC are venture companies that utilize the research results and human resources of the University of Tokyo, but they also make FOF (fund of funds) investments in funds managed by some private venture capital companies. In 2019, it started a consortium-type incubation program (University of Tokyo IPC 1stRound) to support the establishment and financing of Tokyo University-related ventures.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.

Tiantu Capital is a venture capital association.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Recorna Bio — Recorna Bio specializes in biotechnology, focusing on RNA editing and genome modifications through advanced research and development. They aim to innovate in genetic engineering, contributing to advancements in biomedicine and agriculture with cutting-edge technologies and scientific expertise.
Leman Biotech — Leman Biotech is a biotech company that is engaged in development of cancer immunotherapies.
Xellar Biosystems — Xellar Biosystems is a wet artificial intelligence biotechnology company that provides analysis of drug testing and treatment.

Keio Innovation Initiative (KII) is a venture capital established by Keio University. In order to make more effective use of the research results of Keio University, we aim to contribute to the development of society by creating investment for venture companies that utilize research results and creating new industries.The key to thinking aboutJapan's future growth strategy is to utilize advanced research results of the university. In addition to GDP, in addition to GDP, Japan is the world's third largest R & D exporter in R & D expenses, but as the low growth rate shows, it has a problem in investment efficiency in research and development. There are also reports on the entrepreneurial spirit that is indispensable for creating new industries, with the lowest entrepreneurial activity rate among developed countries.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Japan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Waku — Waku is a manufacturing company that specializes in the research and development of organic fertilizers for the agriculture industry.
Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.

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