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Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Asia in January 2025

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 in January 2025

Investor Community Asia investments
Yusuke Sato 6
Ishara Yusdian 6
Hirofumi Miki 6
Edward Ismawan Chamdani 6
Kotaro Chiba 3
Ayataro Nakagawa 3
Paul Kuo 3
Jun Nishikawa 3
Adam Malik 3
Ken Takayama 3
Kiyohiro Sugashita 3
Wei Guo 3
Kotaro Chiba 3
Kensuke Furukawa 3
Shuuichi Wada 3
Hideto Fujino 3
Michimasa Naka 2
Eddie Wu 2
Kazuma Ieiri 2
Mohammad Maaz 2
Hidetoshi Takano 2
Daisaku Harada 2
Hikaru Kashida 2
Sotaro Karasawa 2
Carman Chan 2
Boon Hwee Koh 2
Ryosuke Matsumoto 2
Meng Xiong Kuok 2
Masao Ito 2
Reid Hoffman 2
Yukihiro Yoshida 2
Shoji Okamoto 1
Steve Ting 1
Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa 1
Takuma Iwai 1
Jerry Yang 1
Koichi Noda 1
Kyung wook Han 1
John Wu 1
Seiya Koide 1
Sheng Fu 1
Yuichi Tanaka 1
Shuichi Takenaga 1
Nobuhiro Ariyasu 1
Gang Wang 1
Shinichiro Sugiyama 1
Peng T. Ong 1
Kikuchi Ryo 1
Kazuhiro Ishikura 1
Tetsuro Kouda 1
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Yusuke Sato Angel
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • 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.
Ishara Yusdian Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Investor | Storyologist | Builder
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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
Hirofumi Miki Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
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.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Marketing, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • aceRNA Technologies — 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.
Edward Ismawan Chamdani Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Managing and Founding Partner of Ideosource Venture Capital, an Indonesia focused venture capital firm dedicated on early-stage to later-stage investments.
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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
Kotaro Chiba Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Ayataro Nakagawa Angel
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.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
Paul Kuo Angel
Paul Kuo - Director - Board of Directors @ Tamecco
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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.
Jun Nishikawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Media and Entertainment, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
  • 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.
Adam Malik Angel
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
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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 — Find the best cosmetics for your unique skin type
  • ADAM MALIK 1989 LTD — ADAM MALIK is a California-based trademark business. Founded in 2020 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.
Ken Takayama Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Ken Takayama - External Audit & Supervisory @ Media Do
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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.
Kiyohiro Sugashita Angel
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.
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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.
Wei Guo Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
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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.
Kotaro Chiba Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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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.
Kensuke Furukawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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".
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Investment focus
  • Content, Media and Entertainment, Social Media
  • 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.
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • 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.
Shuuichi Wada Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan
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Investment focus
  • Reservations, Content, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Craftie — Craftie is an lesson reservation service.
  • HACK JPN — 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.
Hideto Fujino Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos
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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.
Michimasa Naka Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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.
Eddie Wu Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
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.
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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.
Kazuma Ieiri Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Fashion, Recruiting
  • 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.
Mohammad Maaz Angel
Mohammad Maaz
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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.
Hidetoshi Takano Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
  • Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
Daisaku Harada Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Daisaku Harada is the Director of Management Strategy at Mercari. Daisaku attended Chuo University.
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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.
Hikaru Kashida Angel
Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.
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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.
Sotaro Karasawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL
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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.
Carman Chan Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
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.
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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.
Boon Hwee Koh Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
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.
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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.
Ryosuke Matsumoto Angel · Minato, Chiba, Japan
Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.
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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.
Meng Xiong Kuok Angel
Meng Xiong Kuok - Founder & Managing Partner @ K3 Ventures
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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.
Masao Ito Angel
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Social Media, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
  • Aruya Umu — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
Reid Hoffman Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Reid Hoffman is the Partner of Greylock. He previously worked at Convoy Inc as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Perugia.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Social Media, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Vor Biopharma — Shield the healthy cells, expose the cancer - Vor Bio (also known as Vor Biopharma) aims to cure blood cancers through cell and genome engineering.
  • Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
  • Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible
Yukihiro Yoshida Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yukihiro Yoshida is managing director at POL.
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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.
Shoji Okamoto Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Shoji Okamoto is the President of Mirai Works.
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Investment focus
  • Lifestyle, Life Science, Service Industry
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Mono.un — Mono.un provides users with opportunities to meet authors and collaborate on tales and specializes in bringing exciting experiences full of stories of Japanese culture to the world.
  • Memory Lab — Memory Lab is a research laboratory that offers AI paper analysis and development solutions.
Steve Ting Angel
Steve Ting is a veteran in the information communication technology industry with more than 25 years of experience. He founded his first company, Frontline Technologies in 1994 which he was primarily responsible for its inorganic growth. Within a short span of 7 years, Frontline expanded its presence from Singapore to 9 other countries in AsiaPacific. During his years in Frontline, Steve sealed 19 M&A deals in Asia Pacific, including 11 in Singapore, cementing Frontline’s leadership position in the region. In 2001, Frontline Technologies was listed in the main board in Singapore Exchange. It was subsequently acquired by British Telecoms in 2008, changing it to the present BT Frontline. Being the Executive Chairman and Director of Frontline for more than 15 years, Steve played a pivotal role in transforming Frontline to it current state.Before Frontline, Steve has held several management positions in various multi-national corporations including Hewlett Packard and Mentor Graphics Inc, USA.Steve is, at present, the Managing Partner of Gryphus Capital and sits in a few boards, including education institutions, government agencies, and a few listed and private companies.To be effective in all his commitment, Steve runs his life like clockwork, which probably explains his indulgence in watches. He is especially fascinated by the beauty of how the complicated watch movement come together in tourbillion watches. Besides chalking up mergers and acquisitions, Steve is also an ardent sportsman who enjoys clocking his weekly mileage and marathons completed.
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Investment focus
  • Events, Content, Marketing
  • Seed
  • Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Wonder Paradise — Wonder Paradise is a media, event, and talent consultancy firm that focuses on media, entertainment, and production services.Wonder Strategic International is the holding group of Wonder Paradise.
Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa - President & CEO @ FAN Communications
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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.
Takuma Iwai Angel
Takuma Iwai Co-CEO of Advisor Time.
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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.
Jerry Yang Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Jerry Yang is an Investor and Advisory Board Member of Sarcura. Jerry Yang attended the National Taiwan University and HEC Paris.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Semafor — Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
  • Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
  • Somewear Labs — Somewear is a satellite communications solution designed for the increasingly digital world. Somewear is building a satellite-powered platform to keep people safe. Somewear gives any remote operative a reliable line to safety and keeps organizations compliant at a fraction of the traditional cost with a combination of compact satellite hotspots andsoftware designed for low-bandwidth applications.It was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Koichi Noda Angel
Koichi Noda - Chief Human Resources Officer @ Works Human Intelligence
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Kyung wook Han Angel
Kyung-wook Han is an Individual Investor.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
John Wu Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
John Wu
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Investment focus
  • Men's, EdTech, Fashion
  • Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • temi — temi robots - Service robots for Healthcare, Hospitality, Retail, Enterprise and Delivery. Cost effective, 24/7 autonomous staff members for everyday tasks with focus on engagement efficiency.
  • Chope — Book via Chope at Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing's top restaurants. With instant confirmation 24/7, it's the smarter way to dine!
  • Theta One, Inc. — We build the world's tools to solve "English speaking" in non-English speaking countries.
Seiya Koide Angel
After experiencing CG designer, freelance, image director etc, joined KLab Corporation as an art director in May 2012. Business promotion and management skills are appreciated, and he joined the creative department manager in 1 year of joining the company and as the youngest executive officer in April 2014. In March 2015 he served concurrently asmarketing director and organized management of several divisions, he was active in a wide range of scenes. We are also focusing on developing creative events for new graduates and planning creative events for regular graduates and giving lectures for students. FiNC led the overall branding and service design while operating the organization as CCO Creative Director.
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Investment focus
  • E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
Sheng Fu Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Sheng Fu
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Developer APIs, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Bijixia — Bijixia is a digital media that provides business knowledge management services.
  • Markable Creators(Markable AI) — BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers canclick and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come.Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020.
  • Nanigans — Nanigans provides an advertising automation software that powers the in-house performance marketing teams. Offered as Software-as-a-Service, Nanigans software features programmatic media buying, predictive revenue optimization, and real-time business intelligence across today’s most valuable channels. Nanigans is headquartered in Boston, withoffices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Sydney, and Singapore.
Yuichi Tanaka Angel · Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
Yuichi Tanaka - CDO @ Visional
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Investment focus
  • E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
Shuichi Takenaga Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.
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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.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Internet, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
  • PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
  • Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
Gang Wang Angel · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Gang Wang
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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.
Shinichiro Sugiyama Angel
After HR in charge of the Tokyo Stock partially listed manufacturer, joined Pacific Management Co., Ltd. in 2001. After experience IPO on JASDAQ, TSE 2, and TSE partially listed, HR and management planningHe is responsible for management planning, equity finance, and IR, supporting the IPO of two Group companies to the TSE J-REIT market. JoinedEscrit Co., Ltd. in 2008, and oversees the listing of Mothers IPO and Tokyo Stock Exchange as CFO. Joined Bengo4.com Co., Ltd. in 2013 and launched several IPO and new businesses in Mothers in a year and a half as a director CFO. Representative Director of Burritudo Co., Ltd., 5 IPO Experience Companies. In July 2017, he was appointed Director of REXIT Co., Ltd. In November 2017, he became the Auditor of REXIT Co., Ltd.
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Investment focus
  • Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor
  • Seed, Angel
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • REXIT — REXIT, Inc. is REal x IT. With a corporate philosophy of "new value in the Internet and real life", and toward the vision of "making the old business around the world a new business", the mission is to "restructure the bridal industry and create a world full of weddings." Is a company that is challenging. By adding theessence of the Internet and technology to wedding halls and weddings, we create new value that can contribute to society.
  • MonooQ — MonooQ is a shared storage service that connects people who are looking for storage space for luggage and those who want to make effective use of the extra space.
  • Carat Japan — Service development and operation to make people shine
Peng T. Ong Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Peng is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a leading early-stage tech venture capital firm in Southeast Asia. Peng is an industry veteran with over 25 years of industry as an entrepreneur, founder, and investor in Silicon Valley and in Asia. He is based in Indonesia and is a board member of Glints, ELSA, Intelligent VideoSolutions, STOQO and Escapex.Prior to Monk’s Hill Ventures, he was a Venture Partner at GSR Ventures in China. The firm is known for its successful investments in companies like Didi Chuxing and Qunar. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded a series of successful companies including Electric Classifieds (today known as Match.com), Interwoven and Eccentuate, which combined today generate over USD$1 billion in revenues annually.Peng is currently the Chairman of SolveEducation! and serves as a board member of the International Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin and SEA Founders.Peng earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Education, Accounting
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Singapore, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Osome — Osome helps foreign and Singaporean entrepreneurs to manage their businesses. Register and get your new company operational with our certified agents backed by modern technology
  • WeGoWhere — Discover things to do with your favorite people. Sync plans with your friends so you never miss out. Know where your friends are doing today, this week or next and join their plans IRL.
  • Pie — Making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time.
Kikuchi Ryo Angel
Kikuchi Ryo is the Director and Head of Planning and Sales at Anicom Parfait.
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Investment focus
  • Pet, Apps, Events
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Ranimaru — Ranimaru is pet service providing company that offers pet sitting, care of your pet dog in events, professional course about pet sitting.
Kazuhiro Ishikura Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Content, Fashion
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC Japan — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Tetsuro Kouda Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Tetsuro Kouda was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki prefecture in 1985.After graduating from Sasebo National College of Technology, Kouda was admitted to the University of Tsukuba for systems engineering.After graduation, Kouda was hired by Accenture to work in management consultation. Kouda worked with electrical manufacturing in major companies,high-tech business strategy, marketing, and IT consultation. Upon retirement, Kouda and Shiota co-founded Akatsuki.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Social, Sports
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • UGOKU — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
  • Whomor — Whomor is a Tokyo-based company that delivers illustrations for social games.
  • Clear — Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE".
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