Top 50 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in Asia in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Cryptocurrency startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cryptocurrency companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in Asia in May 2025
Investor | Cryptocurrency Asia investments |
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Balaji Srinivasan | 9 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 5 |
Dendi Suhubdy | 3 |
Ryan Selkis | 3 |
Shintaro Yamada | 3 |
Loi Luu | 3 |
Kain Warwick | 3 |
Anatoly Yakovenko | 2 |
Spencer Noon | 2 |
Komura Fujio | 2 |
Christy Choi | 2 |
Kotaro Chiba | 2 |
Jose L Sampedro Mazon | 2 |
Jaynti Kanani | 2 |
Do Kwon | 2 |
Ana Andrianova | 2 |
Jonathan Chu | 2 |
Paul Taylor | 2 |
Osamu Ogasawara | 2 |
Anatoly Yakovenko | 2 |
Kotaro Chiba | 2 |
Kevin Hu | 2 |
Thanh Le | 2 |
Yuzuru Honda | 2 |
Laurenz Apiarius | 2 |
Pims The Batllama | 1 |
Tobias Bauer | 1 |
Steve Kokinos | 1 |
Hirofumi Miki | 1 |
Amin Azumude | 1 |
Chun Yang-Hyun | 1 |
Jean Marc Poullet | 1 |
Dennis Jacobs | 1 |
Dyma Budorin | 1 |
Nelson Ryan | 1 |
Justin Mateen | 1 |
wavey .. | 1 |
Yaw Yeo | 1 |
Sean Neville | 1 |
John Terry | 1 |
Jocy Lin | 1 |
Jay Zaveri | 1 |
Michael Egorov | 1 |
Matthew Roszak | 1 |
David Carrico | 1 |
Jun Du | 1 |
Ajeet Khurana | 1 |
Jordi Alexander | 1 |
Nisa Amoils | 1 |
John Rost | 1 |
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.
- Kindly MD — Kindly MD is a healthcare services and technology company that offers solutions for sleep support, pain treatment, and medication management through advanced data analytics. The company integrates mental health services, traditional medication, and plant-based alternatives to provide comprehensive, whole-person treatment. Dedicated to promoting abrighter, healthier future, Kindly MD delivers personalized care that addresses the unique needs of each patient.
- Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
- Optimum — Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains.
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
Research Scientist, Founder
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Bitwyre — Discover the simplicity of high-frequency trading, unparalleled performance, and leading market share in the stablecoin and fiat markets.
Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Agora — Make great governance your competitive advantage. Trusted by Optimism, ENS, Uniswap and more.
- StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Finance, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
- Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Loi Luu is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON.Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technology. Much of his work revolves around this community. He developed Oyente,the first open-source security analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts. Loi also cofounded SmartPool, another open source project which embraces decentralization of mining pools in existing cryptocurrency. He continues to champion decentralisation and trustless properties of the Blockchain with KyberNetwork, taking inspiration and developing value for the community.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.
- Alliance Games — Decentralized gaming platform blending AI creation, multiplayer tech, and worker nodes.
- Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.
Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- CAP Labs — CAP Labs is a stablecoin developer platform that produces various denominations of redeemable stablecoins.
- EarthFast — EarthFast provides cryptocurrency front-end hosting solutions. It enables projects to build and deploy decentralized apps, providing a secure alternative to traditional cloud platforms.
- Fogo Digital — Defying physics to achieve real-time experiences at scale. | SVM Layer 1 | Pure Firedancer Client | Institutional-Grade Finance
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.
- MagicBlock — MagicBlock Labs is a gaming and technology firm that creates infrastructure for fully on-chain games.
- FrodoBots Lab — FrodoBots Lab is pioneering advancements in Embodied AI research at the intersection of crypto and gaming.
Spencer Noon is a General Partner/ Investor at Variant. He attended Amherst College.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
- Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.
Komura Fujio
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Investment focus
- Content, Ethereum, Marketing
- Seed, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Ginkan — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
Christy Choi is based out of Singapore and is the Co-Founder of AO Labs. Christy previously worked at Binance as a Director Board Of Directors.Christy Choi attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Software, Video Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Vietnam, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ondo Finance — Institutional Grade Finance. On-Chain. For Everyone.
- Coin98 — Coin98 is an open, decentralized crypto wallet offering tools and infrastructure for everyone to access and seize opportunities to build their future on the Open Internet.
- Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, 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.
Jose is a VC-backed founder, investor and advisor to both emerging tech start-ups and funds. As a Principal at Silicon Valley’s Mach49 Venture Investing practice, he specializes in advising Fortune 1000 organizations on how to design and manage world-class corporate venture capital funds, from developing the optimal investment thesis to unlockingaccess to top startup founders and investors globally, leveraging his network spanning from Silicon Valley to Asia.Notably, Jose is also an Advisor to pebblebed, a frontier tech venture fund started by founding engineers at Facebook AI Research and OpenAI; and a Seed Investor and Advisor at Web3 company poko.fund (YC W22), among several others. Prior to joining M49’s Venture Investing team, Jose also worked as a Venture Builder at Mach49, making him a trusted advisor to corporates seeking strategic advice across the ‘build, invest, partner, buy’ spectrum. Jose also has an extensive background advising Fortune 1000 companies in various other capacities, including as a New York qualified corporate finance lawyer at Linklaters, Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group, and Cloud Insight Director at Oracle. He has helped companies reach critical corporate milestones — from the design and execution of multimillion-dollar go-to-market strategies and digital transformations that tackled emerging markets across Southeast Asia — to helping banks restructure and navigate new regulatory requirements in order to withstand the European debt crisis of the 2010s. Jose holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree from King’s College London. He also obtained a diploma in venture capital fund formation from 500 Global, and holds certifications as a Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, Professional Scrum Master, and member of the New York State Bar.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Gaming, FinTech
- Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
- Poko Technologies — Building something new in web3
Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
- NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.
- Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.
Do Kwon is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Terraform Labs. Do Kwon is the Founder & CEO at Terraform Labs . Do Kwon attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
- Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
- Treehouse — Treehouse is the decentralized fixed income layer, building yield solutions and unifying on-chain interest rates through its products, tAssets and DOR.
Ana Andrianova
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A
- Kenya, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mara — Mara is a company operating in the sub-Saharan Africa region. Mara offers a suite of crypto products including a cryptocurrency exchange, token collateralized lending, and an NFT marketplace.
- Nansen — The Nansen analytics platform analyzes millions of data points on Ethereum wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.
Jonathan is co-founder and managing partner of Protofund. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Developer Platform
- Series A, Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Argentina, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Pintu — Aplikasi Jual Beli dan Investasi Bitcoin dan Aset Digital. Harga Final, Tanpa Komisi, Tarik Rupiah Murah.
- Buenbit — Buenbit is a Cryptocurrency Exchange and Cross-Border payment platform. Cryptocurrency exchange with presence in Argentina & Perú. Leveraging cryptocurrency trading to offer a low cost Cross-Border payment solution.
- NEAR — NEAR is the chain abstraction stack, empowering builders to create apps that scale to billions of users and across all blockchains.
Paul Taylor is a prolific angel investor and advisor in the web3 industry. He was the most active angel investor based in the US for crypto in 2024 (Crunchbase). He previously worked at Fancy Studios (Polygon gaming studio that reached $1b+ valuation) as a Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partnersteam. Paul attended Emory University where he received his BBA degree. He is also a 4-time national chess champion, international best-selling author, and mined Bitcoin back in 2011.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
- FortyTwo — Fortytwo is a decentralized AI network that employs swarm intelligence by linking consumer devices to execute small AI models. It provides a scalable and cost-efficient alternative to centralized AI systems, enabling users to contribute computing resources while ensuring data privacy. Fortytwo's goal is to create a reasoning engine thatoperates on a planetary scale and is driven by the community.
- Sats Terminal — Sats Terminal is a Bitcoin DeFi aggregation protocol that integrates fragmented DeFi opportunities.
Osamu Ogasahara is the founder, CEO, and president of FGN ABBA Lab.
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Investment focus
- SNS, Content, Fashion
- Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.
- MagicBlock — MagicBlock Labs is a gaming and technology firm that creates infrastructure for fully on-chain games.
- FrodoBots Lab — FrodoBots Lab is pioneering advancements in Embodied AI research at the intersection of crypto and gaming.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Content, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Kevin Hu is a General Partner - Head of Liquid Strategies at Dragonfly Capital. He was an Alternative Investments at BlackRock. He attended the University of Toronto.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- BounceBit — BounceBit is a chain solution that aims to provide a smart contract execution environment centered on the BTC Token.
- Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
- Manta Network — Manta Network is pioneering modular blockchain technology for ZK applications. Featuring Manta Pacific, the first EVM-equivalent ZK-application platform powered by Celestia DA and Polygon zkEVM.
Thanh Le is Founder at Coin98 Finance. He attended University of Sciences.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Aura Network — Aura Network is the dedicated RWA chain designed for the next generation of enterprise, entertainment, and government innovation, delivering enhanced efficiency, transparency, and accessibility
- Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.
- Ranger Finance — Ranger Finance is perpetual DEX aggregator that offers deep aggregated liquidity, smart order routing, and comprehensive data insight.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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Investment focus
- SNS, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
- Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
He is the Founder & CEO of Blockwall Capital (www.blockwall.capital) – the first German crypto investment fund focused on Distributed Ledger/Blockchain technologies serving UHNWIs, Family Offices and Institutionals to gain access to this asset class.He is also non-executive director in two family businesses, which are a high-performancepolymer producer and a manufacturer for rheological testing devices. Previous engagements in various PE and VC investments.Educated in Germany (EBS University), South Africa (University of Stellenbosch) and Scotland (University of St. Andrews). Member of EO.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Public Transportation
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- China, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- bloXmove — bloXmove, the operating system to decentralize power and mobility and accelerate transactions between the business parties.
- Bella Protocol — Bella Defi suite allows users to simply deposit and enjoy high yield from sophisticated arbitrage strategies, either on-chain or via custodian service.
Pims The Batllama
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Investment focus
- Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- YieldNest — Restake with YieldNest. A protocol delivering next-gen ETH Yield with isolated and tailored restaking strategies powered by EigenLayer. Simple, secure, and high-yielding LRTs.
Tobias Bauer 托比亚斯 is the Partner of Blockchain Founders Fund which invests in and venture builds top-tier startups. He is a Startup Mentor for APX, PlugAndPlay, NUMA New York, Alchemist Accelerator, and a Venture Partner of Republic.He worked in the investment team of Chinaccelerator, one of the global elite accelerator programs operated by theventure fund SOSV with $907M+ AUM in China.
Furthermore, he worked for the German Government in Thailand where he co-organized the NSTF, a career fair with 1.1M visitors, in order to enable students to build their professional career. In the past, he has lived in 9 different countries across 15 cities and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, English and German. Tobias holds a MSc. in Management + CEMS Master’s in International Management with Distinction from National University of Singapore and Tsinghua University (清华大学) and a Bachelor’s in Management and Law with Distinction from Management Center Innsbruck and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hivello — Hivello engages in DePIN (Decentralised Physical Infrastructure Networks) protocols for Web3 applications without any specialized technical knowledge.
- Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.
- Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.
Steve is responsible for the strategic direction and management of Thinking Phone Networks. Under his leadership, the company is transforming the way enterprises view communications as a key driver of business visibility, process improvement, and results.Previously, Steve was a founder of BladeLogic, Inc., a recognized leader in the data centerautomation market with a Fortune 500 client list that includes GE, Time Warner, Microsoft, Cable & Wireless, Walmart, and Sprint, among others.Prior to BladeLogic, Steven was founder, president, and CEO of WebYes, Inc., an early market leader in the Web hosting and application service provider arena. WebYes provided the electronic software distribution platform for all of Sun Microsystems’ software products, including Java, and was acquired by Breakaway Solutions in 1999. At Breakaway, Steve established and ran the company’s ASP business. He played a critical role in driving the business to $120M in revenue and taking the company public, and in just 18 months was responsible for Breakaway’s #2 worldwide ASP industry ranking.Steve holds a B.A. from McGill University
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Dequency — Dequency is a web3 synchronization licensing marketplace. Dequency builds a platform for music and visual creators to connect and collaborate on NFT art and metaverse content.
- YieldNest — Restake with YieldNest. A protocol delivering next-gen ETH Yield with isolated and tailored restaking strategies powered by EigenLayer. Simple, secure, and high-yielding LRTs.
- Sequoia Games — Sequoia Games is a team of all-stars working together to bring to life your favorite games. We combine professional sports with the latest technology and leadership with passion. What you get is greatness.
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 — 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.
Amin Azumude is the Representative Director and Founder of Cryptact.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Gaia Japan — Gaia is a Financial based Company
Chun Yang-Hyun
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Investment focus
- Finance, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Corporate Round
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Haru Invest — Haru is a trusted digital asset management platform. We provide up to 16% earn rates for deposits of BTC, ETH, and USDT. What we offer aims to shift a paradigm of investment — investing in crypto can be stable and comfortable, too. Crypto in, more crypto out. It’s that simple.
Jean-Marc Poullet is a Burgess Asia chairman
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Investment focus
- Payments, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- dtcpay — dtcpay is a licensed payment service provider that provides merchants with dependable solutions for increasing income through increased acceptance rates for fiat and cryptocurrencies.
Dennis Jacobs
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- TenX — Latest updates on the TenX Visa Card and Wallet, PAY & TENX Tokens, and other community announcements.
Dmytro Budorin is the Founder and CEO at Hacken
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Bitcoin, Analytics
- Seed
- France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Bubblemaps — Explore DeFi tokens and NFTs through bubbles in our crypto dApp. Cryptocurrency data for beginners, degens, and experts.
- Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.
Nelson Ryan is the Principal at Eden Block. Nelson Ryan attended QUT (Queensland University of Technology).
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Samudai — Samudai brings project management, collaboration & payments management all under one roof. Integrating important tools enabling teams to create impact seamlessly.
Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 techentrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
- Urbanic — Urbanic is a naturally charming, vibrant, and socially responsible fashion brand that celebrates your unique individuality.
- Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.
wavey ..
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Investment focus
- Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- YieldNest — Restake with YieldNest. A protocol delivering next-gen ETH Yield with isolated and tailored restaking strategies powered by EigenLayer. Simple, secure, and high-yielding LRTs.
Yaw Yeo is the Extended Leadership Team at XA Network. Yaw Yeo attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.
Sean Neville is the Co-founder and Board Member of Circle.
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- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Singapore
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- AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
John Terry is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre back. He is a former captain of the England national football team
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Series A
- Singapore
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- Caduceus Foundation — Caduceus a foundation building a blockchain protocol for the metaverse. Caduceus has developed a meta-array full-merge transaction engine that draws on the matric processing methods of GPUs and AI NPUs.
Jocy Lin is the founding partner of IOSG Ventures.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, China, Germany
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- Flashwire — Flashwire offers digital banking, crypto-backed lending, crypto debit cards, and a DEX. The company is a fintech service provider that aims to transform how customers interact with conventional financial services. Flashwire is a group of skilled compliance professionals, bankers, software engineers, financial advisors, lawyers, and traders ofdigital assets.
- Gelato — The new way to build blockchains with web2-like UX
- Moonshot Commons — Based in Singapore, Moonshot Commons is a global builder community for Gen-Z engineers. Out of our 6,000+ members, 30 became venture backed, with many more launching soon!
Jay Zaveri has been serving Natural Capital as a partner since Jan 2019. He also ran venture and incubations for Social Capital, was founder of CloudOn and Future Thought Productions.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Japan, Canada
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- Cleerly — Cleerly is a healthcare company whose mission is to create digital care pathways to prevent heart attacks. The company develops a new standard for coronary artery disease by integrating quality clinical science with the latest-generation AI, in order to offer actionable clinical insights to every stakeholder in the heart care pathway.Throughthese data-driven solutions, the company aims to provide a comprehensive solution for cardiovascular disease evaluation that offers value to the healthcare system and improves heart health for patients at risk of heart attacks.
- BitClout — BitClout is a platform owned by its users. Bitcoin is decentralizing money, BitClout is decentralizing social media.
- Kingdom Supercultures — Kingdom Supercultures create microbial cultures that help food manufacturers to create new foods with boosted benefits. It re-assembles nature's microbes into new combinations, creating plant-based foods that taste like dairy, low-alcohol beverages with full flavor, and natural preservatives that work as well as artificial ones.They workwith clients across diverse industries including food, beverage, personal care, beauty, and more. Their technology comprises an expansive biobank of GRAS microbial strains, high-resolution strain characterization, and new algorithms for predicting and assembling microbial communities.
Michael Egorov is the Founder of Curve DAO Token. He previously worked at NuCypher as a CTO. Michael Egorov attended Swinburne University of Technology.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
- Defi.money — Welcome to a new era of $MONEY
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Matthew Roszak is co-founder and chairman of Bloq, a blockchain enterprise software company. Mr. Roszak is also founding partner of Tally Capital, a private investment firm focused on blockchain-enabled technology with a portfolio of over 20 investments, including BitFury, Blockstream and Factom.He is a blockchain investor, entrepreneur andadvocate. He has spent over 20 years in private equity and venture capital with Advent International, Keystone Capital Partners, Platinum Venture Partners and SilkRoad Equity, and has invested over $1 billion of capital (from start-up to IPO) in a broad range of industries. He is a director and beneficial owner of Eboost, MissionMode, NeuEntity, Onramp, SolidSpace and TrueLook.He serves as chairman of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world’s largest trade association representing the blockchain industry. In addition, he serves on the board of BitGive, a non-profit foundation targeting public health and the environment. He is also the founder of the Chicago Bitcoin Center, and was a producer of the blockchain industry’s first ever documentary, The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin.He is a sought after thought leader on blockchain technology, and has testified before US Congress and spoken at The Brookings Institution. He has been featured on CNBC and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CoinDesk and Bitcoin Magazine. In addition, he has presented at FinTech conferences worldwide, including Money20/20, CES and American Banker.
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- Cryptocurrency, Computer, Ethereum
- Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- Singapore, United States
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- Qtum — Qtum is an open sourced public blockchain platform, leveraging the security of UTXO while enabling multiple virtual machines including EVM and the revolutionary x86 VM. Qtum is PoS based and boasts a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP) allowing specific blockchain settings to be modified by making use of smart contracts. For instance, the blocksize of Qtum can be increased without the need of a hard fork.Qtum is a global project that aims to be the bridge between the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities, the real world and blockchain world. Therefore it only makes sense that the Qtum team comes from both the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities as well traditional companies like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, NASDAQ and more. The Qtum project is proud to be backed by some of the most notable blockchain players, traditional Venture Capitalists, and executives from some of China’s largest technology companies.
- Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale
- Interact Public Safety — InterAct is a leading provider of public safety incident response and management software. We help first responders coordinate, communicate and react to unplanned events quickly, safely and accurately so these heroes can save lives. Founded in 1975, InterAct provides integrated multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional public safety, corporatesecurity, and homeland security systems technology. InterAct’s mission is to enable public safety professionals to perform critical functions at their highest level. Our solutions allow these personnel to make the right decisions, at the right time, and make it possible for the right people to affect the best outcomes and save lives. As the definition of public safety expands beyond 911, InterAct is leading the way through continuous product development, product improvement and innovation to provide a seamless transition to our customers. Public and private safety agencies today are under relentless pressure to improve response times amidst tight budgets and a rapidly evolving communication infrastructure. The growing ubiquity of mobile and voice over IP (VoIP) communications requires a commitment to continuous technological improvement. Increased security requirements at borders, ports, airports, corporate/industrial sites and even our schools, and has brought the need for interoperable communications between government agencies and the private sector to the forefront. Our efforts to enable Public safety agencies to meet these challenges and demands motivates our mission and our continued dedication to innovation. InterAct’s client base includes more than 1,450 clients in 44 states and across three continents. Its feature-rich, easy to use software is popular among city, county, state, and federal agencies as well as international agencies looking to improve the safety of officers and the public at large. Private institutions, such as universities, hospitals, and other organizations, also utilize InterAct products to improve security and emergency response to protect both lives and property. InterAct’s unprecedented client satisfaction and client retention rate testify to its success with carrying out its core mission of making Connections for Life™.
David Carrico
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- Software, Media and Entertainment, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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Jun Du is the Chief Executive Officer of New Huo Tech. He attended Qingdao University.
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- Cryptocurrency, Information Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Singapore, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 0xScope — Discover the comprehensive suite of trading and research products leveraging 0xScope's cutting-edge Web3 Data Layer architecture. Trade with confidence using Scopechat, access advanced analytical tools with Scopescan, and tap into the extensive capabilities of ScopeAPI for traceable entity insights.
- BiKi.com — BiKi.com is a global digital currency trading service provider that is committed to creating a safe, stable, and efficient digital currency trading platform for users around the world. Currently, BiKi.com has supported many languages such as Chinese and English, and serves nearly 100 countries and regions, with over 1 million users worldwide.Itwas founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
- MXC Foundation — MXC is building a global data network that allows the devices of tomorrow to connect, commit and communicate more efficiently than ever before. Cities, companies and individuals benefit by building the network, or using it to transmit and manage their data.
Ajeet Khurana is a leading name in the cryptocurrency industry. He is the former head of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Committee, which as part of IAMAI is India's foremost industry body for cryptocurrency.Presently, as an advisor to several crypto projects, he is seen as a specialist in:
* Tokenomics: pools, structure, architecture,flow, utility, value
* Market Mechanisms: market making, liquidity, listing, volume
In addition he helps with increasing adoption, communication, evangelizing, ambassador programs, and digital outreach. Some crypto founders regard Ajeet as their personal friend, philosopher, and guide.Earlier, in his role as CEO of Zebpay (India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange at that time), he took it from being a one-country exchange to a global exchange. As CEO of the business incubator at IIT Bombay (India’s premier engineering school), he helped commercialise several ideas from concept stage. As an advisor to Venture Capital firms in India, China, US, and Canada, he has an eye for promising founders.Still earlier, Ajeet has authored several books with McGrawHill Education, been an entrepreneur twice, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.Here is how he characterizes himself:WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED REPEATEDLY IN MY CAREER
Customer focus. Speed. Attracting and empowering the right people. Making hard decisions. Managing chaos and conflict. Smoothly navigating regulations & compliances. High governance standards. Cultivating relationships. Converting markets to communities. Negotiating deals. Continuous process and product improvement.WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR
A mandate that requires rapid growth and evolution. A role that requires backbone and heart. A non-bureaucratic system that expects a strong bias for action. An opportunity to learn, and create strong cultural underpinning.HOW I BUILD AND MANAGE TEAMS
Single minded focus on the customer. Choose people based on cultural fit and alignment of passion. Impart purpose. Select for potential, but advance for performance. Empower people to work. No busy work. No unending meetings. Don’t be hierarchy-minded. Encourage learning.
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- Blockchain, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Dapps — Join Dapps to discover and engage with digital communities that match your passions. Buy shares, and connect with like-minded individuals in a secure, decentralized platform that puts you in control. Start shaping your own community experience today!
- TaxNodes — TaxNodes is a platform for crypto tax computation and ITR filing with expert assistance.
- FastJobs.io — FastJobs.io envisions a world in which job hunting is completely stress-free and convenient.
Jordi alexander is the Founder at Selini capital.
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- Web3, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round
- France
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- Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
- Usual Labs — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
- Nuffle Labs — Nuffle Labs develops NEAR Data Availability (DA) and the NEAR Fast Finality Layer (NFFL).
Nisa Amoils
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore
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- Nansen — The Nansen analytics platform analyzes millions of data points on Ethereum wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.
- Securitize — Securitize is unlocking alternative assets with a fully digital, regulatory compliant platform for issuing and trading digital asset securities.
- Protego Trust Bank — Protego is a federally chartered, digital asset bank that secures institutional holdings. Learn about Protego Trust Bank's digital asset platform today.
John Rost - Advisor @ TenX
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- Seed
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