Top 5 Beauty Startup Investors in Hong Kong (October 2026)

Meitu Inc. is an AI-driven technology company with "beauty" as its core ideal. Dedicated to developing world-class imaging products, we make image, video, and design creation straightforward and efficient.

Investment focus

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Beauty
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: China, Singapore, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 22
Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Series A $2.3M–$22M; Series B $10M–$17M
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

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.
Whatif — Whatif Technology PTE. LTD. is an innovative robotics company designing emotionally intelligent social robots for companionship, interaction, and lifestyle enhancement. Our interdisciplinary team includes experts from Harvard, MIT, and Umeå University, bringing together expertise in AI, robotics, and design. Headquartered in Singapore, we haveR&D centers in both Shanghai and Boston. Backed by cutting-edge AI, robotics, and design, we aim to redefine human-robot relationships by creating lifelike, intuitive, and engaging experiences.
Superpose Labs — Superpose Labs develops AI-powered photography technology that helps users capture higher-quality photos through real-time guidance.

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

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Beauty, Fashion
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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.

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Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand

Investor stats

Total investments: 45
Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$400k; Series A $100k–$15M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

Laborhack — LaborHack offers a select network of tested and certified carpenters, plumbers, electricians, masons, welders, and other tradespeople. It provides cleaning, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC services.
Trade Lenda — Trade Lenda: Access to Loans, Investments, Utility Payments, Credit Access, Insurance, and More! Unlock Opportunities to Earn, Invest, and Grow. Secure Personal or Business Loans Toda
Feather Africa — Feather Africa provides money transaction services, such as enabling users to send and receive money from anyone using the application. It offers withdrawals of cash without ATM cards by sending money to the nearest cash vendors.

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HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, serves millions of customers through its three Global Businesses.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: United Kingdom, United States, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 375
Round size: Post-IPO Debt $70M–$3B; Debt Financing $3.2M–$1.5B; Venture - Series Unknown $57k–$50M
Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1B in 2024

Portfolio highlights

Leap — Leap is an ed-tech company that provides services such as guidance for university selection, IELTS preparation, financial planning, visa assistance, and SOP reviews for Indian students pursuing higher education abroad. The company provides expert counseling services and test preparation for exams like SAT and IELTS, helping students prepare fortheir educational journey.
Glasswall — Glasswall specializes in cybersecurity, focusing on protecting organizations from malicious files through its unique Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) technology. This process rebuilds files into a safe, clean standard. The company's software remediates file structures back into line with their published specification, removes riskyActive Content, and regenerates files in milliseconds in their original file format with visual content completely untouched, thereby, enabling companies to eliminate cyber threats and deliver safe, usable documents in their native format.
Arya Collateral — Arya Collateral Warehousing Services provides post-harvest services including warehousing, warehouse receipt financing, rural storage discovery, collateral management and market linkages.

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