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Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in Asia in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 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 December 2024

Investor	Big Data Asia investments
Charles Xue	2
Suresh V Shankar	2
Nina Alag Suri	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
Carman Chan	2
Khailee Ng	2
Takaya Shinozuka	2
Lijie Wang	2
Wensheng Cai	1
Jo Hirao	1
Zhang Lei	1
Jake Stein	1
Hiroki Nakamura	1
Boon Hwee Koh	1
Yasumasa Manabe	1
Bob Muglia	1
Hiroshi Sawa	1
Yang Bin Kwok	1
Li Zexiang	1
Keisuke Tomimatsu	1
Samit Shetty	1
Ayataro Nakagawa	1
Gang Wang	1
Philippe Paul Auguste Schaus	1
Zhikang Dai	1
Hiroshi Tomishima	1
Zhang Lei	1
Uenoyama Katsuya	1
Pankaj Jain	1
Kris Gopalakrishnan	1
Wahyu Gunawan	1
Ratan Tata	1
Nobuhiro Ariyasu	1
Yong Wang	1
Yusaku Maezawa	1
Yu Akasaka	1
Pierre Feligioni	1
Bob Moore	1
Timothy Teo	1
Rondy Yunanda Yong	1
Jie Zheng	1
Royston Tay	1
Akshay Kothari	1
C.Bob Lott	1
Reynazran Royono	1
Shuichi Takenaga	1
Johan Lidström	1
Benjamin Ball	1
Dongqing Cai	1

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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.
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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 — Based in Singapore, Crayon Data is a big data startup, with an ambitious vision to ‘simplify the world's choices’. Crayon’s flagship product Maya is the world’s only choice engine, delivering digital personal experiences centered around taste.Powered by Crayon’s patented TasteGraph, ChoiceAI and Lifestyle Marketplace, Maya makes itpossible for any enterprise to compete in the ‘lifestyle economy’, by getting you 5 mins of each customer’s time.Crayon has been recommended in several Gartner reports including, the Gartner Digital Commerce Vendor Guide and Hype Cycle 2016. Crayon Data has been consistently awarded on various global platforms, including: 1. Top 5 in IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge 2014 2. Winner at TiE Silicon Valley’s TiE50 Awards in the software vertical 3. Finalist at Code_n 2014 @ CEBIT, Hannover: the only big data company from Asia 4. Part of interesting startups selected from the START track at Web Summit, Dublin 5. Selected as one of the top 50 emerging tech companies in India at InTech50 2015 6. Finalist at OrangeFab 2015

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 — Looking to improve hiring efficiency? X0PA AI uses patented algorithms to find the best candidates bias-free, while reducing cost and time.

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

Investment focus

Travel, Internet, 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.

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.

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.

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

FinTech, 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.

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.

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 — 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.

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.

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 — Exchange ideas with the best doctors in the region. Receive educational resources designed by well known and respected leaders. Attend virtual discussions
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.

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 the Co-Founder & CEO at Common Paper. Jake attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Rupert. — With a 2-click integration to your BI tools, Rupert lets your analytics team actionize their reports and metrics and automate the distribution of actionable insights from verified reports, delivering hyper-personal insights to the right business stakeholders at the right time directly where they are.

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.

Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.

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.

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.
Codified — At Codified, we believe that data governance solutions in the market are broken and haven't kept up with the changing landscape. We are solving this problem. Today's solutions require you to use human capital to build policies and then implement them. This disconnect between writing policies and implementing creates a larger operationalcost & impacts productivity. Additionally today's solutions give you perpetual access to data creating an environment ripe for Cyberattacks. With Codified, a cloud SaaS service - you connect all of your data to us and then it's as simple as writing - "Support Engineers only have access to Customer Data when a support ticket is assigned to them for a duration of 8 hour" & we take care of the rest. We solve the problem around writing and implementing by bridging this gap reducing operational costs, because you can easily change policies - you increase productivity of the company. We manage the lifecycle of the access ensuring that you have the best possible security posture for data access.
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.
Akronym — Specialty coffee has become part of our daily routines in the most positive way. We now have access to what they want the most -- choices.In recent years, roasters have explored new ways to share coffees, making them more accessible and delicious without all the fuss. Enter specialty coffee-filled Nespresso® compatible capsules that open thepalate to discovering new tastes and experiences.
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

Big Data, Robotics, 3D Printing
Series A, Seed, Series C
China

Portfolio highlights

BOTINKIT — Taking the most advanced robotics technology and data-based algorithms, we are enabling possible an easier, smarter and healthier cooking.
INTAMSYS — INTAMSYS offers a range of Fused Filament Fabrication technology 3D printers. Discover tomorrow' all-in-one 3D printing solutions.
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.

Keisuke Tomimatsu is the Co-Founder at ABEJA. Keisuke Tomimatsu attended Keio University.

Investment focus

CRM, Big Data, Analytics
Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

ABEJA — ABEJA develops AI business solutions utilizing deep learning.

Samit Shetty is the CEO of Navi FinServ.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Navanc — Navanc provides complete information about the property or assets under consideration and is intended to provide real time information on the goodwill of the property.
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.

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

For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.

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.

Philippe Paul Auguste Schaus

Investment focus

FinTech, Big Data, Machine Learning
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.

Zhikang Dai

Investment focus

Big Data, Analytics, Marketing
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

H2DATA — H2DATA offers public relations, marketing and big data solutions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wahyu Gunawan

Investment focus

Travel, Big Data, Communities
Pre-Seed
Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Pejalan — Pejalan is a communities-based tourism directory of Indonesia.Pejalan is a digital interaction platform/application that allows users to share information (Photos, Videos, Articles), post & sell their travel packages, provide recommendations as well as reservation on tourism locations; tourism destination, places to eat & drink, andplaces to stay specifically in Indonesia travel destination. We help our community uplift people and economies through travel entrepreneurship.Pejalan is specifically focused on developing Indonesian tourist destinations. Our vision is to create Big Data for Indonesia tourism.

Heading the Tata Group since 1991, Ratan Tata is the Chairman of Tata Sons, holding company of the Tata Group and major Group companies including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power and more. He is also Chairman of two of the largest private sector promoted philanthropic trusts in India. During his tenure, the Group hasfurther expanded its global reach, with its revenues growing over eleven-fold to around USD$70 billion, after the most recent acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover. Tata joined the Tata Group in December 1962. After serving in various companies, he was appointed the Director-in-Charge of the National Radio & Electronics Company Limited (Nelco) in 1971. In 1981, he was named Chairman of Tata Industries, the Group's other holding company, which he was responsible for transforming into the Group's strategy think-tank and a promoter of new ventures in high-technology businesses. He is associated with many organizations in India and abroad in varying capacities, some of which are the government of India’s Investment Commission, the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry, South Africa’s International Investment Council, several prestigious universities and several philanthropies. Tata received a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1962, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.The government of India honored Tata with one of its highest civilian awards, the Padma Vibhushan, this year.

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 redefining the energy distribution system by making all fuels available at your doorstep with just a click on the Repos app! Contact us now!
Goodfellows — Goodfellows aims to offer companionship to lonely senior citizens.

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

Investment focus

Finance, Internet, Content
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.

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.

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.
WEB3DEV — The biggest web3 developers community in Latin America is based on 3 pillars: Community, Education and Building. Community: We created mechanisms with incentives to engage a community of software developers to create exclusive and high quality content about web3 technologies. The community members help each other to enter the web3 space. Our community is organized in pods, each pod for a different theme or blockchain. Each pod has a leader, which helps that pod to evolve, promoting growth to the ecosystem and the whole web3dev community. We already have leaders for Ethereum, Cardano, Algorand and Solana. We incentivize those pods, creating bounties and paying individual contributors when they create new content and deliver value. Education: The education platform, created by the community, is the place where everybody effectively learns about blockchain technologies. The courses are didactic self-paced project based learning. We give NFT reward as certificates for students who finish the projects. Building: We find companies that need developers and match our talent community members with maker demands. We build developers team for web3 companies and help these teams to succeed.
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.

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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 — Zolo is an app automating short term, small amount digital loan origination through AI/ML in developing countries. Learn more.
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.

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

Varos — Join hundreds of DTC brands anonymously crowdsourcing CACs and other marketing KPIs to see how you compare in real time. It takes 2 minutes to sign up.
Rupert. — With a 2-click integration to your BI tools, Rupert lets your analytics team actionize their reports and metrics and automate the distribution of actionable insights from verified reports, delivering hyper-personal insights to the right business stakeholders at the right time directly where they are.
Superframe — Simplifying Salesforce chaos. Streamline permissions, predict issues, and get quick answers with our chatbot to improve your company's RevOps.

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.

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.

Jie Zheng is the CEO & President at Shulan Health.

Investment focus

Big Data, Analytics
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

MyGene — MyGene is a human genome big data analytics platform.

Royston Tay is Co-Founder & CEO at Zopim. He is GM of Chat at Zendesk.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Germany, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Upmesh — Upmesh provides e-commerce functionality for live commerce merchants on social media.
Motorist — Motorist is a Singapore-based automotive platform that simplifies vehicle ownership through smart solutions. We help drivers and car owners to manage their vehicle by providing them with a range of auto services. Stay informed with our network of motorists and motor services.
eaze — At eaze, we are on the mission to democratise good sleep! With 1/3 of people suffering from sleep problems and prescription sleep medication as the current go-to solution, we set out to change this by offering the first digital sleep training. Based on cognitive behavioural therapy, your personal sleep psychologist guides you through anindividualised sleep training that helps you to sleep better for good.

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

Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
Nile — Postgres re-engineered for multi-tenant apps. Build secure, scalable and AI-native multi-tenant applications with world-class developer experience.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Animate characters for your video, game, movie, ad, Social or VR project simply by typing.

C.Bob Lott

Investment focus

Events, Sports, Cycling
Pre-Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Miro AI — The most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) in sports identifies players, teams, sponsors and scenes in seconds

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.

Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Management Consulting, Marketing
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
Tagpic — Tagpic offers influencer marketing targeting services such as influencer casting, SNS branding, and talent production.
H&H Group Japan — H&H Holdingsis a Professional Services company.

Johan Lidström - Founding Partner @ Northern Light Capital

Investment focus

Music, Big Data, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

NUSIC — NUSIC is a social music platform for making mashups and remixes, powered by an AI DJ. It enables everyone to unleash their musical creativity and make their own mashups and remixes. Through a wide and comprehensive selection of creator submitted songs, NUSIC creates new mixing possibilities for the user and new revenue streams for music creators.

Benjamin Ball is a Founding Partner of Francisco Partners Management, LLC, which is a leading private equity firm focused exclusively on investing in the information technology market. Benjamin focuses primarily on investments in the communications and hardware systems sectors. Benjamin was appointed to our board of directors on October 23,2007. He also serves on the board of directors of Data Connection, Electrical Components International, WatchGuard and WebTrends.Prior to founding Francisco Partners, Benjamin was a Vice President with TA Associates where he led private equity investments in the software, semiconductor and communications segments. Earlier in his career, Benjamin worked for AEA Investors, a New York-based private equity firm, and also for the consulting firm of Bain & Company.Benjamin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Bevy — Bevy is a community event engine fueling virtual, hybrid, and in-person events. Our platform powers your events, allowing you to focus on converting your audience into a community. Bevy is the only platform that can scale your events through enterprise integrations and insightful analytics.
TribeHired — TribeHired is an online social recruitment platform that connects job seekers and employers. Hiring managers use its system to schedule interviews and make offers to shortlisted candidates, with interviews and offers being made within 2 weeks of talent getting featured. The future versions of TribeHired will allow talent to select engagements thattake up to 3 hours, 3 months or 3 years tenure, with the ability to prioritize work for a higher salary, social impact or up-skilling opportunities.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur.
OurHealthMate — Enterprise Healthcare Management platform which focuses on increasing engagement and providing ease in healthcare reimbursements and benefits to the corporates in India. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has offices in Singapore and Bangalore (India)

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.

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