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Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Asia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Community startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Community companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Asia

Investor	Community Asia investments
Ishara Yusdian	6
Yusuke Sato	6
Edward Ismawan Chamdani	6
Hirofumi Miki	6
Adam Malik	3
Shuuichi Wada	3
Ayataro Nakagawa	3
Kotaro Chiba	3
Kotaro Chiba	3
Jun Nishikawa	3
Hideto Fujino	3
Wei Guo	3
Ken Takayama	3
Kensuke Furukawa	3
Kiyohiro Sugashita	3
Paul Kuo	3
Sotaro Karasawa	2
Yukihiro Yoshida	2
Meng Xiong Kuok	2
Mohammad Maaz	2
Carman Chan	2
Reid Hoffman	2
Ryosuke Matsumoto	2
Hidetoshi Takano	2
Eddie Wu	2
Michimasa Naka	2
Hikaru Kashida	2
Kazuma Ieiri	2
Boon Hwee Koh	2
Daisaku Harada	2
Yoshida Yukihiro	1
Takato Hiroshi	1
Takuma Iwai	1
Kenji Kasahara	1
Dan Neary	1
Artur Janibekyan	1
Kalyan Krishnamurthy	1
Wensheng Cai	1
Roger Ehrenberg	1
Min-Liang Tan	1
Yu Akasaka	1
Jeff Hohner	1
Peter Douglas	1
Florian Fenner	1
C.Bob Lott	1
Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa	1
Lu Fan	1
Mitsushige Ito	1
Gang Wang	1
Igor Rybakov	1

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Investor | Storyologist | Builder

Investment focus

Agriculture, Waste Management, Lifestyle
Seed, Convertible Note, Debt Financing
Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Foom — We are an Indonesian-based tech-enabled consumer product startup with mission to aid adult sm*krs move away from combustible sm*kng and encourage people to shift to safer way of consuming nic. No Hassle, No Worries! Switch Now!
PasarMIKRO — PasarMIKRO, aplikasi perdagangan komoditas pertanian dan hasil laut. Solusi inovatif untuk petani, nelayan dan pedagang mikro indonesia!
Gayo Capital — Investing Tomorrow's Winner

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.

Investment focus

Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
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.

Managing and Founding Partner of Ideosource Venture Capital, an Indonesia focused venture capital firm dedicated on early-stage to later-stage investments.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Lifestyle, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Foom — We are an Indonesian-based tech-enabled consumer product startup with mission to aid adult sm*krs move away from combustible sm*kng and encourage people to shift to safer way of consuming nic. No Hassle, No Worries! Switch Now!
PasarMIKRO — PasarMIKRO, aplikasi perdagangan komoditas pertanian dan hasil laut. Solusi inovatif untuk petani, nelayan dan pedagang mikro indonesia!
Gayo Capital — Investing Tomorrow's Winner

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

Investment focus

Content, Marketing, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AceRNA — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.

The future is, innovation and creativity from imagination. that can be realized and achieved in a measurable manner with the human and natural resources we have - adam.m

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Fashion
Post-IPO Secondary, Pre-Seed, Seed
Indonesia, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

99ninetynine.com — Ringkasan Perusahaan 99ninetynine membangun jaringan arsitektur rantai pasok industri finansial, perdagangan, dan fashion lifestyle. 99ninetynine menciptakan ekosistem terintegrasi dalam rantai pasok bidang fintech perbankan, e commerce perdagangan produk retail, dengan basis pelanggan tenaga kerja manufaktur sektor tekstil dan fashion.99ninetynine untuk mengembangkan ekosistemnya secara mandiri membangun dalam beberapa time line antara lain (a) Membangun e-commerce, (b) Membangun Digital Banking. dan seluruhnya dengan pangsa pasar Tenaga kerja manufaktur tekstil, Garment dan Life style.99ninetynine berupaya menghadirkan e commerce dengan UX (user experience) untuk mampu memberikan manajemen keuangan secara personal kepada usernya, sehingga mampu mengelola kesehatan finasial yang terintegrasi dalam sistem Digital Banking nya.99ninetynine.com, 99ninetynine Android App, Openbank99.com adalah portal website untuk aplikasi yang di bangun untuk menopang integrasi aplikasi ini. untuk aplikasi openbank99.com masih dalam tahap pengembangan yang ketat karena di butuhkan tingkat keamanan yang tinggi sehingga belum dapat di akses secara publik sampai dengan akhir tahun 2022. seluruh ekosistem 99ninetynine akan berfokus untuk memberikan kenyamanan user experience pada segmen market tenaga kerja industri tekstil garment, dan ASN di lingkungan pemerintah. untuk mendoong penguatan posisi 99ninetynine di customer kami membangun roadmap rencana jangka menengah dan jangka panjang untuk memenangkan persaingan di industri ini.99ninetynine memakai referensi dari “ Berkshire Hathaway” dengan merubah lini bisnis tekstil garment menjadi sektor ‘Konglomerasi Perdagangan dan Finansial, untuk masuk dalam tahapan evolusi bisnis rantai pasok digital.Adam Malik, CEOPT Ninetynine Digital Niaga Belanja online terencana, kunci kesuksesan dan kesehatan finansial anda di masa depan.Kode NDINSektor E-commerce - Perdagangan Elektronik TerintegrasiSubsektor Financial Fashion Lifestyle TradingBidang usaha Industri jasa keuangan dan perdagangan
99NINETYNINE — we proud to be the fair seller in the world. our path is always to give integrity to our customers. the better. 99Ninetynine.co.uk under licensed 99Ninetynine, Ltd
ADAM MALIK 1989 LTD — ADAM MALIK is a California-based trademark business. Founded in 2020 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.

Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan

Investment focus

Reservations, Content, Social Media
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Craftie — Craftie is an lesson reservation service.
hackjpn — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.

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

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.

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.

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.

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ eureka, Inc.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Content
Seed, Series A, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.

Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos

Investment focus

Reservations, Travel, Real Estate
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
Address Japan — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.
Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.

Ken Takayama - External Audit & Supervisory @ Media Do

Investment focus

Reservations, Travel, Apps
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.

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.

Mr. Sugashita joined Polaris as Advisor in May 2011. He is Director and CEO of Sugashita Partners, Ltd since 1998 and provides consulting services to financial institutions and ventures in and outside of Japan. Prior to that position, he was CEO of Lazard Japan Asset Management from 1991 to 1998. His business career also includes positions at DaiwaSecurities and Merrill Lynch Securities, Tokyo Branch. On the academic front, Mr. Sugashita received a BA in Economics from Ritsumeikan University and since 2009 is Special Advisor for the Dean of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.

Investment focus

Marketing, Travel, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

G NEXT — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.

Paul Kuo - Director - Board of Directors @ Tamecco

Investment focus

Reservations, Travel, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
Fun Group — Hello! We are Fun Group (formally Tabinaka) and we are Japan's first Travel and Leisure startup offering unique tours and experiences. We currently offer experiences in 7 different locations globally.

Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
Atmoph — A smart digital window that opens to beautiful scenery from around the world. By simply putting it on your desk or hanging it on the wall, Atmoph Window will open up a whole new world before you.
Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.

Yukihiro Yoshida is managing director at POL.

Investment focus

Travel, Reservations, SNS
Seed, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

A10 Lab — A10 Lab is a company that aims to makes people happy with technology that is independent of Sony's new business creation program. It provides Google Play an app that allows users to do things that they have never been able to do with the custom app 'Min Chale' selected for two consecutive years. It is a company that brings profits tocompanies by improving lifetime value (sales) through the habitation of users that companies have.
Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
Fun Group — Hello! We are Fun Group (formally Tabinaka) and we are Japan's first Travel and Leisure startup offering unique tours and experiences. We currently offer experiences in 7 different locations globally.

Meng Xiong Kuok - Founder & Managing Partner @ K3 Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cicil — Solusi pembiayaan untuk kegiatan rantai pasok bisnis Anda dari hulu ke hilir yang mudah dan cepat.
SimplyGood — SimplyGood supplies environmentally friendly cleaning and personal care products.
Lottery.com — Lottery.com is the internet's top source for official lottery results, numbers, games, jackpots, winners and news.

Mohammad Maaz

Investment focus

Payments, Information Technology, EdTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Bangladesh, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bonik — Bonik empowers small businesses with an easy-to-use app to create and run e-commerce stores independently. Download Bonik App and create your own online store for free today!
Travela — Travela is an accommodation-sharing platform.
Interactive Cares — Interactive Cares is a one stop virtual Edtech Platform for creating employability to 2.7 Million unemployed youth in Bangladesh & make them skilled through its integrated digital learning. Interactive Cares is working to create 1 M job placement by end of 2026.

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.

Reid Hoffman is a Partner at Greylock and a Co-founder and Board Member at Inflection.AI. He was a Chairman and CEO at Linkedin. Reid attended the University of Oxford and Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Rapport — The smart solution for building superhuman teams. Rapport distills decades of research on high performing teams down to a few smart, simple steps that integrate seamlessly into your workflow.
Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.

Ryosuke Matsumoto is the founder and CEO of Community Factory Inc.Ryosuke is born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1981. He joined launching of the publication venture company, and ran a cafe while he was attending Chuo University in Tokyo. Since he joined launching the social media venture company in 2004, he has been in social media business. In2006, Ryosuke founded Community Factory Inc. which specialized in planning and operating social media and blog services.Community Factory started to specialize in social application for mobile from 2009, and Community Factory draw investments of around 4.5 million US dollars from venture capitals and mixi inc. then the biggest social media in Japan. DECOPIC, Community Factory's one of the apps for smartphone, has been downloaded 6 million times in the 6 months since its release, and it is rapidly gaining users mainly in Asian countries.In Sep 2012, Ryosuke and other stock holders sold Community Factory to Yahoo Japan Corp., and he remains as CEO of Community Factory.

Investment focus

Art, Reservations, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .

Eddie Wu is the Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group. He previously worked at Yahoo as a Heading of Technology Development. Eddie Wu attended Zhejiang University of Technology.

Investment focus

Events, Rental, Social
Angel, Series A, Series B
China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Teenker — Teenker is a platform that connects gifted talents with customers who want unique and high-quality service.
Tao Huichang — Tao Huichang is a venue short-term rental service platform for organizing events.
Thin Red Line — Thin Red Line dedicates the software and hardware opportunities of the AR track.

Michimasa Naka is a member of the Board Of Directors of istyle.inc. He is an experienced Chairperson with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry.

Investment focus

Reservations, Travel, Employment
Seed, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.

Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.

Investment focus

Consulting, E-Learning, Communities
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.

Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.

Investment focus

Content, Fashion, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
ONE NOVA — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.

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.

Daisaku Harada is the Director of Management Strategy at Mercari. Daisaku attended Chuo University.

Investment focus

Finance, Tourism, Automotive
Seed, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.

Former executive director of Gulliver International (currently IDOM), one of the few hyper-growth companies in Japan that made public public public in four years and achieved 10 billion sales in 10 years. He held a role in charge of FC business, management strategy, marketing, human resources, education, IT and finance.

Investment focus

Hospitality, Reservations, Media and Entertainment
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.

Takato Hiroshi - CEO @ M0mentum

Investment focus

Health Care, Legal, Beauty
Funding Round, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

JAPAN HEALTHCARE — Japan Healthcare is a healthcare start-up that works on the prevention of musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-friendly preventive medicine . Japan Healthcare Build a preventive system for musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-improving preventive medicine.
Japan Healthcare Info — Japan Healthcase Info locates english-speaking doctors for you and makes appointments
Legal Technology Japan — Legal Technology is into development of cloud-based research tool called 'Legal Library' using legal books.

Takuma Iwai Co-CEO of Advisor Time.

Investment focus

Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Age well Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.

Born in 1975, Kenji Kasahara grew up in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo. Inspired by the case studies of IT business he studied in a university seminar on management strategy and by the rapid rise of Internet business in Silicon Valley in the USA, he started up “Find Job !”, an online jobinformation site, in 1997. In 1999 Kasahara established eMercury, Inc. (mixi, Inc.) and assumed the post of representative director.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Travel, Robotics
Pre-Seed, Series B, Seed
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Atmoph — A smart digital window that opens to beautiful scenery from around the world. By simply putting it on your desk or hanging it on the wall, Atmoph Window will open up a whole new world before you.
Age well Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.

Dan Neary is a Vice President of Asia Pacific at Meta. He attended DePaul University.

Investment focus

News, Events, Travel
Seed, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

e27 — e27 is Asia's largest Tech media platform. We cover the latest news on emerging and disruptive businesses across the region. e27 also organizes world-class events like Echelon.
Voyagin — Voyagin is the tours and activities marketplace in Asia with a mission to help travelers discover and book the best travel experiences across Asia. Its website features over 1,800 things to do including tickets to museums and shows, cultural activities, romantic dinners, adventure experiences, and private guides bookable in English, Japanese, andChinese in over 50 destinations in Asia, in advance or in destination via its mobile optimized website. The Voyagin team believes that "travel in Asia is broken." Guests end up sightseeing because unique experiences are hard to find and insecure to book; hosts end up spending time and money on websites which are hard to update and mostly out of date. They also believe that an "experience is more than just an activity; it's about meeting people, trying something new and seeing the world from a different perspective." In hopes to differentiate themselves, they traveled around Asia to find and curate the best experiences and hosts.Launched in 2012, Voyagin provides a trusted platform for tours and activities providers (hosts) in Asia to list their experiences; its team of community managers work with each host to curate their activities both online and during the experience, ensuring their quality. Backed by its 100% satisfaction guarantee, multilingual customer support, and verified reviews from actual guests, Voyagin is the best place for travelers visiting Asia to discover and book their next local experience.Voyagin was founded in 2011 as FindJPN, a marketplace for authentic activities in Japan. FindJPN changed its name to Voyagin in December 2012 when they expanded into Asia.

Artur Janibekyan is a serial entrepreneur, media manager & philanthropist. He is the Founder and General Producer of Comedy Club Production. He is also an author and sponsor of a number of cultural and public initiatives in Armenia, and the co-founder of Sevan Startup Summit, the first and largest international startup tent camp in the world.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Armenia

Portfolio highlights

Activeloop — Deep Lake. Vector Database for All AI Data. Deploy Anywhere. Fine-Tune Your Models with the #1 Data Loader for PyTorch. Trusted by Google, Intel, & Waymo
BallButton — Ballbutton (software & app) helps clubs & studios manage their business and grow the revenue by managing bookings, payments, programs, lessons, teams, and memberships. Ballbutton helped many clubs to restart their operations during the unprecedented difficult times the fitness industry had to go through because of the COVID-19: • Processbookings on the mobile app, • Process contactless payments online and on the mobile app, • COVID-19 waiver signing on the mobile app, • Online check-ins on the mobile app.Comes with a 1 month's Free Trial and 24/7 customer support! Go ahead and schedule your free zoom demo at www.ballbutton.com
Seaside Startup Summit — The platform attracts leading angels, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers willing to join their peers in an intimate setting to think, act, and transform their environment via entrepreneurship.

Mr. Kalyan Krishnamurthy is the CEO of Flipkart. Prior to joining Flipkart, Mr. Krishnamurthy served as the Director of Finance and Portfolio Companies at Tiger Global Management. Prior to Tiger Global, Mr. Krishnamurthy held various senior positions such as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at eBay Asia-Pacific and Country FinanceDirector (South-east Asia, Hong Kong) at eBay. He worked at Procter & Gamble. Mr. Krishnamurthy holds an MBA degree from Asian Institute of Management, the Philippines, and another MBA in Finance from UIUC College of Business, Illinois (US).

Investment focus

Internet, B2B, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Protonn — Protonn is an all-in-one solution to empower independent professionals
Turnip — Empowering online communities to run, discover and join interactive experiences.
The Whole Truth — Healthy Snacks with No Added Colors, Sugar, Preservative, Flavor, Gluten, Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Peanut butter, Protein Bars, Muesli, Energy Bars

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.

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

Investment focus

Advertising, FinTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
FL Newsletter — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
Gemini Sports Analytics — Gemini Sports Analytics teams improve operations from top-to-bottom by making each step of the data lifecycle simpler and powerful analytics more accessible. Leveraged expertise supports organizations in the business of improving athlete welfare and enhancing performance.

Min-Liang Tan is the co-founder and CEO of Razer, where he directs and oversees the design and development of all Razer products. Mr. Tan was born in Singapore and resides in San Francisco. He graduated from the National University of Singapore Law School and was a lawyer before turning his passion for gaming into a 500-person global company.Min-Liang Tan was recently elected to the board of the PC Gaming Alliance. In March 2012 he contributed $10,000 USD to the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter project, admitting it was to atone for pirating Wasteland when he was a child. (Wasteland designer and Interplay CEO Brian Fargo replied that Mr. Tan has more than made up for his piracy of the game.)Min-Liang Tan has been named one of "The 25 Most Creative People in Tech" by the Business Insider together with Jonathan Ive and Gabe Newell. He has also been ranked one of the top 40 most powerful people in gaming by Kotaku in their "The Kotaku Power 40" list.

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Portfolio highlights

NextBlock — NextBlock enables neighbors to share deals and promotions, news updates, or simply list items on sale in the neighborhood.

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.

Jeff Hohner President at Tecumseh Capital Ltd.

Investment focus

Consumer, Consumer Goods, Social Entrepreneurship
Seed
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

EQUO — Sugarcane Utensils & Plastic-Free Drinking Straws by EQUO. Plastic-free without soggy paper straws or cleaning brushes! Our single-use straws & utensils decompose in months, not centuries. 100% Compostable and made out of natural materials like grass, rice, coconut, sugarcane and coffee. Visit for more!

Peter Douglas - Non-Executive Chairman @ PJD Group

Investment focus

Fashion, Jewelry, Women's
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

THE FIFTH COLLECTION — page five Editorial by THE FIFTH COLLECTION | Voted Best Singapore Digital Startup 2016 | Lovingly Curated, Expertly Authenticated Vintage and Preloved Luxury Fashion

Florian Fenner

Investment focus

Fashion, Jewelry, Women's
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

THE FIFTH COLLECTION — page five Editorial by THE FIFTH COLLECTION | Voted Best Singapore Digital Startup 2016 | Lovingly Curated, Expertly Authenticated Vintage and Preloved Luxury Fashion

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.

Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa - President & CEO @ FAN Communications

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Content, Men's
Seed, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Penmark —
NoSchool — NoSchool is possible to ask a study teacher to a professional teacher who is working as a tutor or a private lecturer for free.
Posiwill — Posiwill is a operating a career consultation service with job seekers billing type.

Lu Fan is the founder of Xiaopet Technology.

Investment focus

Sales and Marketing, Information Technology, Community and Lifestyle
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Xiaochong — Xiaochong is a digital marketing company that uses big data via network to provide credit technology, risk investment, credit counseling, and non-performing assets. Products include:

Mitsushige Ito - Chief Financial Officer (CFO) @ Mirrativ

Investment focus

Content, Media and Entertainment, Pet
Funding Round, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Elvez — Elves Ups is a collaborative AI dialogue system development tool.
Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
SYRUP Japan — Syrup develops Pet Tech platforms. The company's services include OMUSUBI, an adoption service that matches dogs and cats with pet owners, and Petokoto, a media platform that provides reliable information from veterinarians

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.

Igor Rybakov - Co-Founder @ Larix

Investment focus

Family, Fitness, Women's
Seed, Series C
Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

World Chess — Stay informed with the latest news and analysis in the world of chess on our online platform. Worldchess offers comprehensive coverage of tournaments, player profiles, and more. Join our community of chess enthusiasts and never miss a move again.
amma pregnancy tracker — amma pregnancy tracker is an international mobile service and one of the world’s largest communities for pregnant women and their families. amma pregnancy tracker provides clear, evidence-based pregnancy information and personalized recommendations from professional obstetricians and gynecologists. amma pregnancy tracker allows mothers to track keychanges during pregnancy, receive medical advice from specialists and emotional support from thousands of pregnant women around the world. amma pregnancy tracker is downloaded by 7% of the pregnant women in the world. The active monthly audience of amma pregnancy tracker exceeds 1.5 million people. amma pregnancy tracker tops the ratings of popular applications in the "Health" segment in dozens of countries around the world.

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