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Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in Asia in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Big data startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Big data companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in Asia in January 2026

Investor	Big Data Asia investments
Carman Chan	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
Takaya Shinozuka	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
Charles Xue	2
Lijie Wang	2
Khailee Ng	2
Ratan Tata	2
Nina Alag Suri	2
Suresh V Shankar	2
Gan Jie	1
Bob Moore	1
Hiroshi Tomishima	1
Kris Gopalakrishnan	1
Reynazran Royono	1
Ravi Mantha	1
Pierre Feligioni	1
Takeshi Hirano	1
Donald Tang	1
Srikant Sastri	1
Ayataro Nakagawa	1
Keisuke Tomimatsu	1
Fu Xin	1
Zhang Lei	1
Jake Stein	1
Hiroki Nakamura	1
Bob Muglia	1
Hiroshi Sawa	1
Yang Bin Kwok	1
Li Zexiang	1
Jo Hirao	1
Pankaj Jain	1
Yusaku Maezawa	1
Steve Melhuish	1
Wensheng Cai	1
Zhang Lei	1
Yong Wang	1
Akshay Kothari	1
Timothy Teo	1
Yasumasa Manabe	1
Uenoyama Katsuya	1
Nobuhiro Ariyasu	1
Gang Wang	1
Dongqing Cai	1
Kensuke Furukawa	1
Rondy Yunanda Yong	1
Koichiro Yoshida	1
Samit Shetty	1
Jie Zheng	1
C.Bob Lott	1

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Carman Chan is one of the top 5 Women to watch in Asia Tech (Nikkei Asian Review). She is a veteran in the technology industry with decades of experience as an entrepreneur with multiple exits, a tech columnist and a globally recognized venture capitalist.Carman is the founder of Click Ventures, a global early stage venture capital firm. ClickVentures has grown into a leading investment manager, and two of its funds are featured as Top 5 Seed Fund (Vintage 2003-2015) in the world and Top 4 Funds to Watch by Preqin respectively. Click Ventures' investments include Spotify (ipo), Docusign(ipo), Palantir, Memebox and Youappi.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Hong Kong, China

Portfolio highlights

Oddup — Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method.
EventX — The EventX Virtual Event Platform is a comprehensive platform for hosting virtual events, meetings, conferences, and webinars that help you attract leads and audiences.
FutureLeague — FutureLeague is an ed-tech company that teaches kids ages 6-12 engineering and programming with a focus on teamwork, creativity, and design thinking. It specializes in the fields of ed-tech, internet, and education. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

Investment focus

Internet, Drones, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.

Investment focus

Internet, Local, Advertising
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Charles Xue, also known as Xue Manzi, is a Chinese-American angel investor and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of UT Starcom and has invested in Chinese internet startups.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Retail
Series A, Angel, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

DeLink (DELC) —
Huaqin Zhilian — Huaqin Zhilian is a manufacturer of smart robot convenience devices in the field of smart retail.
YEUNGS SAGE E-COMMERCE —

Leo Wang is recognized as an active angel investor and leading proponent of Mobile Internet, Blockchain, and Angel Investment in China. Boasting over twenty years in mobile internet and tech, he has invested in 300 startups, spanning healthcare to fintech and blockchain, including 2 NASDAQ-listed companies and 5 unicorns.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Aerospace, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Huma Finance — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Huojianpai — Huojianpai is a commercial aerospace company providing earth-moon space economy and future-oriented deep space exploration.
Reserve — Reserve is a universal currency company. Reserve provides people with hyperinflation protected savings accounts to protect and use their money globally. They offer rtokens, collateral baskets, and over collateralization.

Khailee Ng is Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder and CEO of SAYS. He graduated from the University of Technology Sydney, the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Talkpush — Talkpush is the leading conversational CRM for recruitment. Automate the repetitive stuff and focus on the right talent.
YogaTrail — YogaTrail connects yoga providers with their yogis. Get everyone's classes in one simple place and always know what's up in your yoga world.
Call Levels — Don't let the markets drive you crazy - we watch the markets so you don't have to.

Ratan Tata is the Founder and Managing Director of RNT Associates.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GOQii — GOQii is headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. It is dedicated to enabling a permanent shift to a healthier lifestyle with the combination of advanced wearable technology, the world's leading experts, coaches and karma. GOQii focuses on sustained engagement & goal reinforcement and offers a complete ecosystem asa single integrated solution, which is a powerful combination of technology and human connection. GOQii is a collaboration of some of the world's leading experts and an amazing management team who are driven by a passion for healthy sustainable living, and who believe that all of us contain boundless potential. GOQii's goal is to enable millions of people across the world to "be the force" by helping them unleash their untapped potential.
Repos energy — Repos energy is a e-commerce of Fuel to move towards a carbon neutral future.
Goodfellows — Goodfellows aims to offer companionship to lonely senior citizens.

Nina Alag Suri is a Founder and CEO at X0PA AI. He attended Pune University.

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Analytics
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

X0PA AI — Advanced AI hiring platform that goes beyond CVs to assess candidates holistically. Trusted by 100+ organizations including Singapore government agencies and global enterprises.

Suresh V Shankar is the Founder and CEO at Crayon Data.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

boxx.ai — Boxx.ai democratizes analytics: Boxx uses Artificial Intelligence to build products that enable enterprises solve their most critical analytics problems quickly and at affordable costs.
Crayon Data — Leading global provider in B2B AI solutions for customer engagement and data management. Helping enterprises accelerate revenue and cost savings since 2012

Gan Jie, is the vice dean of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, professor of finance, and director of the Center for Finance and Economic Development.

Investment focus

Retail, Electronics
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Z·Pilot — ZPilot is a stylish electronic new retail brand that combines contemporary toys and digital art to present viewers with a deeper visual.
BOTINKIT — Taking the most advanced robotics technology and data-based algorithms, we are enabling possible an easier, smarter and healthier cooking.
Ai Sensing Technology — Ai Sensing Technology is a national high-tech enterprise that focus on the research, development and production of bionic olfactory chips.

Bob Moore is Co-Founder and CEO of Crossbeam, a collaborative data platform that helps companies build more valuable partnerships by discovering which customers and leads they have in common. Moore previously co-founded RJMetrics (acquired by Magento) and Stitch (acquired by Talend).Bob's writing about technology, startups, and data hasappeared in The New York Times, Forbes, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and numerous other publications. Outside of his day job, he serves as Board President of Philly Startup Leaders, is an improv comedy performer at Philly Improv Theater, and is a Trustee of the Glassboro Education Foundation.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Information Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Cyprus, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Avrio — Capture and share data analysis, user research, and learnings directly in context, with your team.
Atlan — Atlan is an active metadata platform for modern data teams, that helps them discover, understand, trust, and collaborate on data assets.
Passthrough — Save time and frustration with a seamless online experience that makes it easy to invest in private funds.

Hiroshi Tomishima is the President and Founder of Zkyuun Entertainment and an Executive Director at Mercari.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Big Data
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hireroo — HireRoo is an online coding test service that checks the skills of engineers through programming tests. It provides problems that correspond to a wide range of levels, from new graduates to mid-career tech leads, engineering managers, and various occupations. They also provide coding test planning and execution services.
Anyplace — Find furnished accommodations to rent for a month or longer. Choose apartments catered for remote work with an equipped home office and high-speed internet.
space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.

Gopalakrishnan (Kris to his colleagues) is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited. As Chief Executive Officer, he plays a key role in defining the company strategy and using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership in the industry.On June 22, 2007, Kris took over from Nandan M. Nilekani as the CEO andManaging Director of Infosys Technologies Limited. Kris previously served as Chief Operating Officer (since April 2002), and as the President and Joint Managing Director (since August 2006). His responsibilities included customer services, technology, investments and acquisitions.Kris' initial responsibilities at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the U.S. Between 1987 and 1994, he headed the technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, U.S.) as Vice President (Technical). In 1994, Kris returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the company.Kris is currently the Chairman of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and Vice Chairman of the Board for Information Technology Education Standards (BITES) set up by the Government of Karnataka. Kris is the Vice Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industries(CII) Southern Regional Council. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.Kris holds a master's degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vahdam Teas — Vahdam Teas is among the world’s first vertically integrated online-first tea brands that sources premium garden fresh teas. Established in 2015, Vahdam Teas have been already shipped to 76 countries with USA, Russia, and Europe being its top markets. The team shares a passionate vision to create India’s first home-grown global tea brand byleveraging technology.Vahdam Teas is a New Delhi-based company.
JetSynthesys — Our aim is to build world class digital products, platforms and services in India, with a goal of impacting the daily digital lives of 1.3 Billion Indians. A billion+ reaching for their mobiles, we reach them through our products.
Planys Technologies — Planys Technologies is an IIT Madras incubated company that provides submersible robotic inspection and survey solutions using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Planys has its head office in Chennai where it indigenously designs and manufactures compact ROVsPlanys brings world class technology and cutting-edge innovations in underwaterrobotics and diagnostics in the shallow-mid depth segment. Planys’ technology spans the domains of marine robotics, advanced Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE), and post-inspection analysis. Planys provides a holistic service offering to customers through a design level fusion of ROV manufacture, operations and structural diagnostics. Planys is the first and currently the only OEM of ROVs in the Indian Sub-continent.Planys was founded by IIT Madras alumni and faculty who have been working together on various projects since 2012.

Reynazran Royono (Rey) is the Founder and CEO of Snapcart, a startup specializing in developing Mobile-based Real Time Shopper Engagement Tool, partnering with multinational and local consumer goods companies. 14 years’ experience of Consumer Goods, Retail, Strategic Consulting, and Technology industries. Prior to Snapcart, he worked for 9 yearsat Procter & Gamble handling various regional leadership assignment; he was the Modern Retail Director before moving to Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Having worked in BCG for 3 years, as a Project Leader, Rey supported and lead strategic projects in Retail & Consumers Goods, Technology – Media – Telecommunication, and Public Sector practice areas. In 2014, as the Country Lead of Berniaga.com (a 701Search joint-venture company of Singapore Press Holding, Schibsted, and Telenor) Rey led the site to be the no. 1 commerce site in Indonesia within just 6 months. He also led the merger of Berniaga.com and OLX Indonesia, a strategic move to ensure undisputed Classifieds leadership position in the country.Experienced in Consumer Goods, Consulting and Technology. Held leadership roles at Procter & Gamble, The Boston Consulting Group, and was the CEO of Berniaga.com leading the site to be the no. 1 commerce site in Indonesia. He enjoys traveling, eating out, and a skilled online gamer.He enjoys traveling, eating out, and a skilled online gamer whenever he is not working on building Snapcart. Globally he ranked 8th in the massive mobile online game Battle Camp PvP ranking.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Big Data
Seed
Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Snapcart — Snapcart provides real-time offline shopper engagement and data services for brands. Through its receipt-scanning cashback mobile application, Snapcart collects billions of data points at an individual shopper level, an unprecedented level of data granularity.

Ravi Mantha is the Chief Financial Officer at BOLLANT. He is also a co-Founder and Director at Surge Impact. Ravi worked as a portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments in Boston and London for about 10 years where he co-managed $35 billion select global equity portfolios. Ravi was also lead portfolio manager of $1 billion select emerging marketsequity strategy.He is currently an angel investor, an adviser to social impact enterprises, and an author too. He pursued BA in liberal arts from the University of Puget Sound in Washington State in the year 1993.He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and also an active charter member of TiE, the global network of entrepreneurs and is the Chairman, for its Singapore chapter. He not only serves on the global board of Trustees of TiE but he is also on the advisory board of the Action for India Forum.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Personalization
Seed, Angel
Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Legalese — Legalese is an opensource company pioneering computational law. Legalese's L4 programming language makes it possible to draft legal documents the way programmers develop software. Legalese is also developing a suite of SaaS applications aimed at tech-savvy DIY end-users: its flagship app helps entrepreneurs configure and produce all thepaperwork for an angel or seed round. The beta has processed over $1 million in deal volume in the last year. The company was spun out of JFDI.Asia, Southeast Asia's first startup accelerator. Its mascot is the pangolin.
FitCircle — At FitCircle, our goal is to simplify healthy living. We are driving a paradigm shift in healthcare from curative to preventive. We use technology and innovation to bring healthy behavioral changes in human life. Our nutrition brand OZiva - offers a range of Clean Personalized nutrition products backed by modern science and the rich culturalheritage of Ayurveda.We are seamlessly working to develop the community & products that would help you lead an active life. So, all we want you to do - Just stay on the bus, let us drive it and enjoy the ride!
Mench Technologies Private Limited —

Pierre Feligioni is the CEO and co-founder of QuantHouse. Pierre co-founded QuantHouse in 2005, building an industry leading provider of ultra-low latency market data technologies. In 2012, QuantHouse was acquired by S&P Global generating a eight-time return for the investors.He received in 2012 a Financial News 40 under 40 Rising stars inTrading and Technology award and he was named Head of Real-Time Product Strategy for the last 3 years.Pierre has now gone back to his entrepreneurial roots when he bought back QuantHouse in January 2017.

Investment focus

FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Zolo — Nanofinance mobile app
Finquest — Tap into the largest private company database in the world to change the way you find and connect with M&A targets using Data, AI, & People.

Takeshi Hirano - Auditor (External) @ Morpho

Investment focus

Big Data, Aerospace, Machine Learning
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.

Donald Tang

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Terminal 1 — Terminal 1 is a recruiting firm that combines high quality recruitment consultants with automated tools to improve placement quality and speed.
Chain of Demand — Uncovering Insights Through Behavioral Analytics - Chain of Demand is the first analytics platform that unveils the connections between events, behavioral patterns that lead to market action.
Catalyte — Catalyte uses AI to discover high-potential talent, develop them and deploy them directly into client organizations.

Srikant Sastri is a Co-founder of Crayon Data Pte Ltd. Mr. Sastri serves as the Managing Director of India at Publicis Chemistry. Mr. Sastri co-founded Solutions-Digitas Pvt. Ltd. in 1995 and has been its Managing Director since April 2008. He founded Team4U. He serves as the Chairman of India at VivaKi, Inc. Mr. Sastri leads VivaKi in one of theworld’s most important emerging economies. He previously worked for Unilever and McCann-Erickson.

Investment focus

Apps, Marketplace, Predictive Analytics
Seed, Angel
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Skoolshop — Get your very own domain easily. Fast and professional customer service.
Crayon Data — Singapore-based AI and Big Data company helping enterprises with revenue acceleration, personalization, and marketplaces through their maya.ai platform.
Venuelook — Venuelook.com is a marketplace for venue owners and venue seekers. The idea is to disrupt the Venue search and booking space.Its a local commerce problem and an exciting space as 10K+ venues within just the metros in India host 10Lakh+ events over the year. In all of these these events, venue search, booking and logistics is completelydysfunctional !

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Content
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.

Keisuke Tomimatsu - Member of the board @ Musashi Seimitsu Industry

Investment focus

CRM, Big Data, Analytics
Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

ABEJA — ABEJA develops AI business solutions utilizing deep learning.

Fu Xin works as a Partner of Sequoia Capital China.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Big Data, Energy
Series B, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Gongye Technology — Gongye Technology makes use of AI and big data to manufacture intelligent equipment for solid waste sorting and recycling.
Zechuang Tiancheng — Zechuang Tiancheng is a SaaS-level clinical research digital platform to provide solutions for clinical research.
Lianyuan Intelligence — Shanghai Lianyuan Intelligent is an innovative energy Internet comprehensive value-added service provider jointly invested by the world's leading new energy companies and executives of the world's top 500 power industry and consulting companies.

Zhang Lei is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Hillhouse Capital Group. Zhang Lei attended the Renmin University of China.

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Nutrition
Private Equity, Pre-Seed
United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Yimian Data — Yimian Data provides artificial intelligence, data analysis, and business consulting services. They have developed the methodology and successful experience of solving typical problems into several sets of service packages that can be implemented quickly. Yimian was acquired by Ascential plc in 2020, and now is part of Flywheel, an Omnicom company.
Ancient Nutrition — With health products that include Certified USDA Organic, raw, sprouted, or fermented options, Ancient Nutrition by Dr. Axe is a leading source of nutritional supplements.
Vets First Choice — Vets First Choice provides veterinary practices with an online pharmacy and home delivery services. It partners with veterinarians to create insight into gaps in patient care and offer professionalized pro-active prescription management to drive client engagement and improve compliance. The company was founded by Ben Shaw in 2010 and is based inPortland, Maine.

Jake Stein is absed out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is the CEO and Co-founder of Common Paper. Jake previously worked at Insight Venture Partners as an Analyst. Jake Stein attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Data Integration
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ROAR — ROAR AlwaysOn is the most reliable workplace panic button system to assure staff are safe no matter where they are. Contact us today to learn more!
Atlan — Atlan is an active metadata platform for modern data teams, that helps them discover, understand, trust, and collaborate on data assets.
Moxie — Train live from anywhere with inspiring coaches for every body, style, and fitness goal.

After joining DENTSU, I initially produced only banner advertising, but it is expected to be active, and I will be able to work on a number of digital campaigns. In 2011, he became independent and founded PARTY with four members. Cannes Lions Young Competition, Japan's Cyber Division, 2nd place in the world. He has received more than 250advertising awards in Japan and abroad. Recent masterpieces include Lady Gaga's life-size hearing aids “GAGADOLL”, “UNIQLO / UT Picks”, “Suntory / Intensive Regain”, “TOYOTA / TOWN”, such as “Shizukita-” all digital campaigns. TOKYO FM Radio “Sawamoto Gonpachi will end soon.” Guest Personality.

Investment focus

Web Design, Software, Content
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Edoga — Edoga is a VR production and education company. Edoga offer services such as "VR training" and "off-site VR".
Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.

Bob Muglia is a Board Member of Pinecone. He previously worked at Snowflake as a CEO. Bob Muglia attended the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Codified — Codified provides React Native apps, Xamarin mobile application development, and digital consultancy services.
Genesis Computing — Genesis Computing delivers secure, autonomous AI workers to enterprises in the Snowflake Data Cloud through their Genbots Platform.
Coalesce Automation — Coalesce is the only data transformation tool built for scale. Evolve your transformations and empower your entire data team.

Joined Fujitsu Limited in 1991, after working at Osaka City University's Faculty of Science. He has a wide range of business experience, from programming to new business development, such as developing Internet services. After that, engaged in IT-related new business development at Sojitz Corporation, and at a major business investmentcompany, engaged in business investment in venture companies, creation of business plans for companies, launching new services, and M & A. In 2008, he became an outside director of eLicense Corporation. In 2009, he was appointed Representative Director of Data Section Co., Ltd. after developing a trend analysis service utilizing big data. Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers on December 24, 2014. Outside director of Japan Data Exchange, Inc. Currently, he is an outside director of Solid Intelligence Co., Ltd. In June 2018, he became chairman.

Investment focus

Social, Big Data, Analytics
Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Datasection — Datasection is a social big data company that provides various big data analysis tools for its clients. It specializes in marketing research, data provision and processing, image analysis, overseas SNS, and data utilization and optimization. Datasection was founded in 2000.

Yang Bin Kwok

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Upmesh — Upmesh provides e-commerce functionality for live commerce merchants on social media.
ByteGenie — ByteGenie helps hospitality teams increase sales and cut procurement costs with an AI-powered Bloomberg-like data platform that leverages real-time data scraping and standardisation to support lead generation, events intelligence, price benchmarking and supplier intelligence.
RaRa Delivery — RaRa Delivery is a e-commerce logistics company located in Selatan.

Li was born in Hunan, China and received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Economics (with honors) from Carnegie-Mellon University, his MA degree in Mathematics and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Li worked as a research scientist in the Artificial IntelligenceLaboratory of MIT and as an assistant professor in the Robotics and Manufacturing Laboratory of New York University. He received the National Natural Science Award (3rd class) from China, the University Scholar Award from Carnegie-Mellon University, the E.I. Jury Award from UC Berkeley, the Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation, the ALCOA Fellowship from the ALCOA Foundation and the E. Anthony Fellowship from UC Berkeley.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Robotics
Seed, Series A, Series C
China

Portfolio highlights

Sengine — Sengine is an AIGC company that provides automatic design systems for human living spaces, home improvement, and industrial supply chains.
BOTINKIT — Taking the most advanced robotics technology and data-based algorithms, we are enabling possible an easier, smarter and healthier cooking.
Homerun Smart — Shenzhen Qianhai Homa Technology Co., Ltd. is an independent research and development enterprise dedicated to artificial intelligence technology products. Headquartered in Guangzhou, the company has gathered high-tech talents from German technology R&D team and domestic well-known technology R&D team to provide independent research anddevelopment for the company. A solid technical guarantee. The development and production of smart pet feeders, smart pet companion robots and a variety of pet smart hardware are on the strategic agenda, and soon our smart hardware products will truly enter the family life and redefine the smart family lifestyle.

Jo Hirao

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, College Recruiting
Series B, Seed, Series C
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ralali — Ralali.com, Pusat toko grosir online pertama di Indonesia, sebagai b2b wholesale marketplace platform yang menghubungkan supplier, distributor dengan retail.
Docquity — If you're in healthcare, using Docquity is the best and easiest way to strengthen your industry knowledge and interactions, making sure you aren't left behind
space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.

Pankaj Jain is the Managing Partner at Saka Ventures. Previously, he was a Partner at 500 Startups, a California based seed fund and accelerator program. Pankaj focuses on investing in early stage startups across New York City, India, South Asia and has led investments in over fifty companies at 500 Startups across 6 countries.Pankaj spent over12 years in the Financial industry at firms such as JP Morgan, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) and GlobeOp Financial Services in various operational roles including enterprise mortgage risk management, application development, market data infrastructure, trade management, pricing infrastructure and customer service areas.In 2007, Pankaj’s adventures in India began, where he started a company building an on-demand, employment marketplace for the under-served. In 2008, Pankaj became a co-founder of the HeadStart Network Foundation and the led the efforts in Delhi. In late 2010, he began setting up Startup Weekend in India.

Investment focus

Analytics, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

WhizAI — One of the augumented analytics platform used for consumers purpose. Attend a trained session on life sciences data and other patient analytics as a sole! Hurry up to take a weekly demo on the life science by the best expertise on this field.
Cypherock — Welcome to Cypherock, where we are dedicated to building the world's safest cold wallet to protect your crypto. Discover Cypherock X1 with cutting-edge technology and robust security features.
Paperstreet — Write beautiful company updates to engage your investors, advisors, and users.

Yusaku Maezawa is a Founder of Zozotown.

Investment focus

Gaming, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series C
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

JOYCLE — JOYCLE is a waste management company that specializes in trash recycling, disposal, and environmental consulting services.
space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.
Space Aviation — Space Aviation is an aerospace company that offers air taxi services, flight training, aircraft sales, and heliport development solutions.

Steve Melhuish is the Founder of Rumah, Co-Founder and Board Director at PropertyGuru Group, Founder and CEO at Planet Rise, Founding Partner at Wavemaker Impact, and an Advisor and Investor at Eco-Business and Ampd Energy. He attended the University of Plymouth and the University of Reading.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Internet, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, India, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

TablePointer — TablePointer is the A.I. and intelligent energy solution for small & medium commercial facilities to optimise energy efficiency, manage assets, upgrade profitability, and unlock sustainability gains right away.
Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
Lhoopa — Making homeownership achievable for every Filipino family.

Cai Wensheng is the CEO of 265 Science and Technology. Wensheng is notorious for using cyber squatting tactics to register thousands of domain names. He has reportedly made several million dollars as a result. In 2003 he established Huayu Network Science and Technology and the 265 Network.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Communities
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
China, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Snapask — Snap a photo of your homework for instant help. Snapask connects you all available real-time tutor to help with your homework.
MXC Exchange — MXC is a blockchain trading platform that provides users with safer, more convenient and intelligent blockchain asset circulation services.MXC users are located around the world in over 70 countries and regions. Users are active in MXC communities covering Twitter, WeChat, Microblog, Facebook, and Telegram, the places for hundreds of thousands ofexperienced users to exchange experience and collaboratively explore the new industry trends.
Fast Business — Fast Business is an artificial intelligence customer service.

Zhang Lei is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Hillhouse Capital Group. Zhang Lei attended the Renmin University of China.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, Consumer Goods
Private Equity, Pre-Seed, Series B
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yimian Data — Yimian Data provides artificial intelligence, data analysis, and business consulting services. They have developed the methodology and successful experience of solving typical problems into several sets of service packages that can be implemented quickly. Yimian was acquired by Ascential plc in 2020, and now is part of Flywheel, an Omnicom company.
Ancient Nutrition — With health products that include Certified USDA Organic, raw, sprouted, or fermented options, Ancient Nutrition by Dr. Axe is a leading source of nutritional supplements.
Vets First Choice — Vets First Choice provides veterinary practices with an online pharmacy and home delivery services. It partners with veterinarians to create insight into gaps in patient care and offer professionalized pro-active prescription management to drive client engagement and improve compliance. The company was founded by Ben Shaw in 2010 and is based inPortland, Maine.

Yong Wang is the Chairman of CrestValue.

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Analytics
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Shanshan — Shanshan is a provider of big data and management solutions to children's education organizations.

Akshay Kothari is the co-founder of Pulse, a mobile application that allows you to read all your favorite content in one place. Pulse began as a class project in the Launchpad class at Stanford University, and has grown to over 30 million users today. It won the coveted Apple Design Award in 2011 and was inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame.Pulse was recently acquired by Linkedin for $90 million.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.
Wabi — The first personal software platform is arriving soon. Join the waitlist.
Gimlet Labs — Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on building high performance AI systems.

Timothy Teo - Member Council of Advisors @ St. Luke's Hospital

Investment focus

Mobile, FinTech, Finance
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Call Levels — Don't let the markets drive you crazy - we watch the markets so you don't have to.

Yasumasa Manabe

Investment focus

Information Technology, Drones, Big Data
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
Miraikikai — Miraikikai is a start-up originating from Kagawa University with a mission to create intelligent mobile robots for professional-use.Their robots products, designed based on field reseach to provide the high quality and the best cost effective solution, are achieved with mechanical design and control technology backed by the latest researchachievements and years of experience.
Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.

Uenoyama Katsuya - CEO @ PKSHA Technology

Investment focus

Fashion, Software, Advertising
Seed, Angel, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Babel — Babel is creating meaningful media for users and expanding globally.
AppBrew — AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, hair care, and other related products of different brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Neural Pocket — Neural Pocket provides Smart City related services for commercial buildings and urban spaces utilizing AI enabled image recognition technology. The company focuses on business development and co-creation serve its clients. Other applications include solutions for digitalization of factories, warehouses, parking lots and retail stores.

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

Investment focus

Finance, Content, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.

Gang Wang

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wozaijia.com — Wozaijia is a social e-commerce platform for home furniture."I am at home" is a trustworthy home to share direct purchase platform. Here, people can discover, experience, buy, share their favorite home products, we change the home to share economic practice of buying methods. "I am at home" believes that the world will bee better if we can always get a better life with less cost.
Qianyu Islands — Qianyu Islands is the flagship brand of Beijing Beike Youjia Technology Co., Ltd., which is positioned in the “Urban Shared Accommodation Space”. It is committed to providing users with different traditional hotels and B&Bs, younger, more free, more possibilities and higher value for money accommodation options.Since its inception in 2017,Qianyu Islands is based on a sense of quality, experience and freshness for a new generation of consumer groups. It is transforming the traditional accommodation industry with a more Internet-based way to fill the market for urban mid-end accommodation.
Huidu Environmental — Huidu Environmental is a recyclable packing material developer.

Dongqing Cai

Investment focus

Finance, Big Data, Automotive
Angel, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

LEADRIVE — LEADRIVE is a technology company that focuses on the research and development, production, and sales of new energy vehicle drive solutions and high-performance domestic power semiconductor modules. The company is developing a variety of high-performance motor controllers and self-developed power modules for new energy vehicles, which have wondomestic and foreign first-line passenger cars more than 10 models of OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers have been mass-produced and designated, and OEM certification progress for silicon carbide modules and electronic controls is in progress.LEADRIVE is also constantly investing and innovating in the field of new energy equipment such as wind energy, solar energy, and energy storage, and has taken the lead in realizing the localization of power semiconductor modules. LEADRIVE and Japan Rohm Semiconductor have established a joint laboratory to complete the iterative development of a variety of silicon carbide modules and realized simulation, testing, and efficiency from the device, and electronic control, to vehicle-level, promote.
Chance — Chance is a natural language processing technology startup company.

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

Portfolio highlights

iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
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.

Rondy Yunanda Yong

Investment focus

Finance, Big Data, Internet
Seed
Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MHub —
Stockbit — Aplikasi saham untuk berdiskusi, analisa dan berinvestasi dengan harga real time, berita terkini, riset, data fundamental, charting, dan analytical tools yang lengkap
SmartClean Technologies — SmartClean Technologies is an internet of things and AI company that offers data-driven cleaning operations designed for facilities. It utilizes a cleanliness monitoring system that provides real-time monitoring of Facilities via sensors. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Singapore.

Founder and CEO at CrowdWorks.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Human Resources
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
Recipio — Recipio is an receipt management platform specialized in providing digital receipt solution. Their innovative digital receipt solution and breakthrough receipt-scanning technology.
Mairu tech — Mairu tech that enables traveling by private ambulance and welfare taxi more convenient.

Samit Shetty is the CEO of Navi FinServ.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Big Data
Seed, Funding Round
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Navanc — creating lifetime value.
Radarr — Radarr is the best social listening and customer experience / online reputation platform for Asia. Marketers and CX teams can get deep social analytics, track brand sentiment, monitor competitors, identify influencers, and engage with customers using Radarr.
Navi Technologies — Lightning fast UPI payments, instant Cash Loans & Home Loans, smart investments in Mutual Funds & Digital Gold, comprehensive Health Insurance - all in one app.