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Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in Asia

Last updated: Apr 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

Investor	Big Data Asia investments
Suresh V Shankar	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
Takaya Shinozuka	2
Carman Chan	2
Khailee Ng	2
Charles Xue	2
Nina Alag Suri	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
Ayataro Nakagawa	1
Benjamin Ball	1
Pierre Feligioni	1
Yusaku Maezawa	1
Akshay Kothari	1
Dongqing Cai	1
Kensuke Furukawa	1
Jie Zheng	1
Yong Wang	1
Shuichi Takenaga	1
Wensheng Cai	1
Kento Hayashi	1
Vijay Sivaram	1
Timothy Teo	1
Johan Lidström	1
Jo Hirao	1
Boon Hwee Koh	1
Yasumasa Manabe	1
Rondy Yunanda Yong	1
Philippe Paul Auguste Schaus	1
Jake Stein	1
Zhikang Dai	1
Samit Shetty	1
Wahyu Gunawan	1
C.Bob Lott	1
Donald Tang	1
Bob Muglia	1
Pankaj Jain	1
Keisuke Tomimatsu	1
Takeshi Hirano	1
Royston Tay	1
Hiroshi Sawa	1
Yu Akasaka	1
Koichiro Yoshida	1
Bob Moore	1
Gang Wang	1
Reynazran Royono	1
Steve Melhuish	1
Uenoyama Katsuya	1
Yang Bin Kwok	1
Nobuhiro Ariyasu	1
Ravi Mantha	1

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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 — Singapore-based AI and Big Data company helping enterprises with revenue acceleration, personalization, and marketplaces through their maya.ai platform.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Travel, 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.

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

Software, Big Data, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand

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.

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 —

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

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.

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, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.

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)

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 — Finquest is the premier deal origination provider delivering personalized connections to its clients who seek M&A and direct investment opportunities in Europe, North America, and APAC.With a unique database, machine learning and a team of experts, Finquest provides targeted, curated and actionable connections, whilst maintaining completeconfidentiality throughout the process. With Finquest, clients can broaden their market access, creating a more efficient deal-making environment.Finquest is headquartered in Singapore and has offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Bangalore, and Hong Kong.

Yusaku Maezawa is a Founder at Zozotown.

Investment focus

Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series C
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.

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

Portfolio highlights

Bezi — Bezi is a collaborative 3D design tool.
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 — Serverless Postgres build with multi-tenacy at it's core. Fault tolerant, globally distrubted, with user and tenant management built in.

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

Portfolio highlights

Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
Neighbor — The creative universe of Fortnite is infinite. To give an example , building fantasy and science fiction worlds, creating simple games and full-scale battle games can all be completed with Fortnite. Is the world of Fortnite, played by 350 million users worldwide, is it real or unreal? We will try to combining the vast world of Fortnite with the real world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kento Hayashi - President & CEO @ Datasection

Investment focus

Social, Big Data, Analytics
Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Fabeee — "Fabeee" meant to support customers with the challenge of new manufacturing and with all efforts. The line between offline and online is no longer there, and manufacturing is about to change. We will fundamentally change the definition of manufacturing and support customers from various angles.
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.

Vijay Sivaram

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Big Data
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
India, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

BRB — Order coolest and newest chip on the block BRB Popped Potato Chips Not-Baked, Not-Fried, but POPPED. Keep munching while texting and posting.
eBikeGo — eBikeGo allows users to move quickly, and in style. We aim to make world class electric mobility solutions that transform how people move. We are driven towards creating a suite of customer-centric electric mobility solutions empowering people to seize not just the moment, but the future.
ConsCent — Leading media platforms trust ConsCent to engage, retain and transact with millions of users and build long-term relationships

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.

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.

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.

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

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.
XTREME-D Inc. — XTREME-D, formerly known as XTREME-Design Inc., is well-known in Japan for architecting technical computing in the cloud. The award-winning company develops and sells XTREME-DNA, a cloud-based, virtual, supercomputing-on-demand service. XTREME-DNA was launched to cut costs and make it easy to build HPC clusters in just in 10 minutes.XTREMEDEISIGN Inc. was founded in February 2015 by Naoki Shibata. And it is based in Tokyo.

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.

Philippe Paul Auguste Schaus

Investment focus

FinTech, Big Data, Machine Learning
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Finquest — Finquest is the premier deal origination provider delivering personalized connections to its clients who seek M&A and direct investment opportunities in Europe, North America, and APAC.With a unique database, machine learning and a team of experts, Finquest provides targeted, curated and actionable connections, whilst maintaining completeconfidentiality throughout the process. With Finquest, clients can broaden their market access, creating a more efficient deal-making environment.Finquest is headquartered in Singapore and has offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Bangalore, and Hong Kong.

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.

Zhikang Dai

Investment focus

Big Data, Analytics, Marketing
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

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

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 — Get instant Cash Loan, Home Loan, invest in Mutual Funds & buy Health Insurance policy in a 100% paperless manner with minimal documentation. Download the Navi app now!

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.

C.Bob Lott

Investment focus

Events, Sports, Cycling
Pre-Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Miro AI — Since early 2017, Miro has helped amateur & professional runners find their running event photos instantly. Combining deep learning, computer vision, scalable cloud infrastructure & ElasticSearch, Miro's RunnerTag product is the fastest, most-accurate athlete identification technology available. Used by events in Asia, Europe &North America, RunnerTag has analyzed over 15MM bodies.Miro uses all this data to train granular models for bodies in motion. From brand preferences to form/injury analysis, Miro's visual-mined data provides brands one-of-a-kind actionable insights for brands & athletes.

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.

Bob Muglia has more than 25 years of management and leadership experience in enterprise technology companies. At Microsoft Bob was president of the $16 billion Server and Tools Business, responsible for products such as Windows Server, SQL Server, System Center and Windows Azure. Prior to that he led several business groups at Microsoftincluding Developer Tools, Servers, Office, and Online Services. Following Microsoft, Bob was EVP of Software and Solutions at Juniper Networks. Bob holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer & Communication Science from the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Founder and CEO at CrowdWorks.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Virtual Reality
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Attelu — Attelu is a people analytics service that identifies, hires and retains active talent.
Recipio — Recipio is an receipt management platform specialized in providing digital receipt solution. Their innovative digital receipt solution and breakthrough receipt-scanning technology.
Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.

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.

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.

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.

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

Software, Real Estate, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, India, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
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.

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(Lips) — 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.

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.

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
Seibii, Inc. — Transforming traditional car maintenance, repair, after-parts installation, road service industry of Japan by leveraging Technology.

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 —

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