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Top 50 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in Asia in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 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 December 2024

Investor	Cryptocurrency Asia investments
Balaji Srinivasan	8
Sandeep Nailwal	5
Ryan Selkis	3
Kain Warwick	3
Loi Luu	3
Dendi Suhubdy	3
Shintaro Yamada	3
Yuzuru Honda	2
Jose L Sampedro Mazon	2
Osamu Ogasawara	2
Ana Andrianova	2
Do Kwon	2
Jonathan Chu	2
Christy Choi	2
Spencer Noon	2
Komura Fujio	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
Kevin Hu	2
Jaynti Kanani	2
Paul Taylor	2
Nisa Amoils	1
Jason Fang	1
Winthorpe ..	1
Thuc Tuan Hoang	1
Andreas Antonopoulos	1
Kensuke Furukawa	1
Calvin Liu	1
Lijie Wang	1
Sofia Liang	1
Sai Choy Tham	1
Anatoly Yakovenko	1
Matthew Roszak	1
Tekin Salimi	1
Gaku Saito	1
Koki Yabu	1
Sumit Gupta	1
David Carrico	1
Jun Du	1
Gavin Wood	1
Darren Camas	1
Ray Alimurung	1
Ajeet Khurana	1
John Rost	1
Nina Teng	1
David Tung	1
Taavet Hinrikus	1
Dan McArdle	1
Amin Azumude	1
Jordan Momtazi	1

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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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
Talus Network — Talus Network is an L1 blockchain purpose-built for Smart Agents. Built with the MoveVM, Talus allows for seamless development, ownership, and monetization of composable Smart Agents.

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.

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 — Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform.
StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia, 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).
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.
Firewall — Firewall is building a security layer for Web3, including the Safe Sequencer and its modular components that mitigate smart contract hacks before they impact users. Backed by NIV, Breyer Capital and Hack VC.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

BlonkFi — BlonkFi enables users to borrow stablecoins with volatile mid-market money, such as Meme tokens, as collateral.
ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.
Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized

Research Scientist, Founder

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Bitwyre — Buy and sell Bitcoin, ETH, and 100+ other altcoins safely and quickly.

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.

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 — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

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.

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.

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

Osamu Ogasahara is the founder, CEO, and president of FGN ABBA Lab.

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.

Ana Andrianova

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.

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.

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 — Explore Treehouse Protocol, a decentralized application introducing tAssets and Decentralized Offered Rates (DOR). Deposit ETH or LST to receive tETH and unify fragmented on-chain ETH rates.

Jonathan is co-founder and managing partner of Protofund. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Developer Platform
Series A, Seed, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Argentina, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Pintu — Pintu adalah Aplikasi Jual Beli dan Investasi Bitcoin dan Aset Digital dengan Harga Final, Tanpa Komisi, Tarik Rupiah Murah. Aman Terdaftar di BAPPEBTI.
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.

Christy Choi

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 a Crypto-focused software company.
Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale

Spencer Noon is a General Partner/ Investor at Variant. He attended Amherst College.

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).
NEBRA Labs — NEBRA Labs is a blockchain services company.
aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.

Komura Fujio

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.

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

Investment focus

Travel, Internet, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Drones, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

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.

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 delivers plug-and-play privacy for the entire DeFi stack.

Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
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.

Paul Taylor is an angel investor and an advisor in multiple web3 companies. He previously worked at Fancy Studios as a Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partners team. Paul attended Emory University where he received his BBA degree.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Fragmetric — Fragmetric is a native liquid restaking mechanism for Solana that improve the Solana ecosystem's security and economic potential.
Praxis — We are Praxis: a global community of creatives and technologists working to build the city of the future.
Hermetica — Hermetica is a crypto-native team with extensive financial technology experience, having worked with big organizations such as Kraken and State Street. Hermetica is dedicated to developing innovative financial products that capitalize on Bitcoin's security and transparency.

Nisa Amoils

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.

Jason is the Managing Partner at Sora Ventures, Asia's first crypto-backed venture capital firm and CEO at Sora Foundation, a platform for bridging resources in the blockchain investment space. Prior to Sora, Jason was the Head of Global Business Development at Juzix (Formerly Juzhen Financials), a leading blockchain company led by WanxiangHoldings. Jason joined the blockchain industry in early 2016 as an Associate at Fenbushi Capital, Asia's first blockchain venture capital firm where he managed deal-flows and post management of companies in North America. In addition to his active role in blockchain investments, Jason is a Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator in Silicon Valley and Startupbootcamp in China.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Pre-Seed
United States, Taiwan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.
Filecoin — Filecoin is making the web more secure and efficient with a decentralized data storage marketplace, protocol, and cryptocurrency.
Saturn — Saturn is a decentralized Bitcoin exchange that enhances peer-to-peer non-custodial orderbooks and provides a secure trading experience.

Winthorpe ..

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.

Thuc Tuan Hoang is the Founder, CEO, and CTO at MiraiEx.

Investment focus

Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed
Norway, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Presail — The platform behind Web 3.0's best investment groups. Manage everything in one place: fundraising, investor management, and token vesting.
Nansen — The Nansen analytics platform analyzes millions of data points on Ethereum wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.

Andreas Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur, who works on bitcoin. As an engaging public speaker, teacher, and writer, he makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. As an advisor, he helps startups recognize, evaluate, and navigate security and business risks.Andreas Antonopoulos started his first company, anearly BBS and proto-ISP, as a teenager in his home in Greece. After moving to the U.S., he co-founded and managed a technology research company, and in that role advised dozens of Fortune 500 company executives on networking, security, data centers, and cloud computing. More than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide. He holds 2 patents in networking and security.In 1990, Andreas Antonopoulos started teaching on various IT topics in private, professional, and academic environments. He is also a public speaker and teacher. In 2014, he was appointed as a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia, the first university in the world to offer a Masters Degree in Digital Currency. In this role, he helped to develop the curriculum and co-taught the Introduction to Digital Currencies course, offered as a MOOC, through the University.As a bitcoin entrepreneur, Andreas Antonopoulos has founded a number of bitcoin businesses and launched several community open-source projects. He serves as an advisor to several bitcoin and crypto-currency companies. He is an author of articles and blog posts on bitcoin, is a permanent host on the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Podcast, and a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide.Andreas Antonopoulos earned degrees in computer science, data communications, and distributed systems from University College London, recently ranked in the world’s top 10 universities. He currently resides in San Francisco.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Umbrel — Run your personal server on a Raspberry Pi with a Bitcoin and Lightning node in your home, self-host open source apps like Nextcloud, Matrix, and PhotoPrism to break away from big tech, and take full control of your data. For free.
Liminal — Create Multisig wallets for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple using hardware wallets. We make it extremely easy and secure for individuals and businesses to manage their digital assets without giving up control and ownership.

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi （formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

Investment focus

Content, Media and Entertainment, 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.

Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer. He attended Cornell University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

BounceBit — BounceBit is a chain solution that aims to provide a smart contract execution environment centered on the BTC Token.
Dora Factory — Dora Factory is the digital infrastructure builder of the Global Hacker Movement. It creates protocols, toolings, and public good infrastructures that help open source communities and frontier tech builders to thrive.
Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications

Leo Wang is recognized as an active angel investor and leading proponent of Mobile Internet, Blockchain, and Angel Investment in China. Boasting over twenty years in mobile internet and tech, he has invested in 300 startups, spanning healthcare to fintech and blockchain, including 2 NASDAQ-listed companies and 5 unicorns.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Aerospace, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Huojianpai — Huojianpai is a commercial aerospace company providing earth-moon space economy and future-oriented deep space exploration.
Reserve — Reserve is a universal currency company. Reserve provides people with hyperinflation protected savings accounts to protect and use their money globally. They offer rtokens, collateral baskets, and over collateralization.

Sofia is the Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions Group at ICBC International. Sofia has 17 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining ICBC International, she was Managing Director and Head of Greater China Equity Capital Market at Macquarie Capital. She has an bachelor's degree in International Economics fromPeking University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, InsurTech, Blockchain
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

JobsLab.io — JobsLab is a Hong Kong-based digital recruitment exchange. We help companies and talent connect through our unique end-to-end recruitment platform quickly and discretely. Our community has exclusive access to rewards and benefits that goes beyond traditional recruitment agencies. We use advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to matchprofessionals with exceptional employers. Find your dream job today. Visit: www.jobslab.io

Mr. Tham Sai Choy was appointed to the Board of Directors of DBS Group Holdings Ltd and DBS Bank Ltd. on 3 September 2018. He is Chairman of each of the Audit Committee and Nominating Committee as well as a member of the Board Risk Management Committee. In addition, he is a director of DBS Bank (China) Limited and also chairs its Audit Committeeand Board Compensation Committee. He is also a director of DBS Foundation Ltd, a not-for-profit company established to strengthen DBS’ corporate social responsibility efforts across Asia.Until his retirement in 2017 as the chairman of KPMG in Asia Pacific, Mr. Tham was a member of KPMG’s global board. At various times, he was leading or participating in its committees charged with board nominations, executive compensation and risk management. As a member of the executive committee responsible for KPMG’s global strategies and planning, he played a key role in the firm’s investment in and development of its capabilities in cybersecurity, data analytics and digital transformation. In his 36 years of practice, he worked with many of Singapore’s listed companies in their audits and on a wide range of their other needs. This has included assisting them with the raising of capital in Singapore and the US, acquisitions of a variety of businesses, investigations into major corporate failures and restructuring of complex business operations.He currently serves on the boards of Keppel Corporation Limited, Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd, Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Mount Alvernia Hospital, LCM Pte. Ltd., LHC Pte. Ltd., MKC Holdings (Pte.) Ltd. and VIVA Foundation for Children with Cancer. He is also the Chairman of E M Services Private Limited and SGX Listings Advisory Committee.Mr. Tham holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Economics, University of Leeds, UK. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and the Singapore Institute of Directors.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

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.
Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
SOON — SOON is building the highest throughput stack that allows for any SVM L2 to be deployed on any L1.

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.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Computer, Ethereum
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

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™.

Tekin Salimi is an entrepreneur and founder of dao5, a $125 million experimental cryptocurrency venture fund that will convert into a decentralized autonomous organization. Prior to founding dao5, Tekin was a general partner at Polychain Capital where he focused on research and early-stage venture investments in emergent cryptocurrency protocolsand companies. Tekin also previously co-founded and advised the Blockchain Association, the preeminent lobbyist group advocating the policy interests of the blockchain industry within the U.S. Prior to entering the crypto word, Tekin was a lawyer at Torys LLP with a focus in public and private M&A, securities and debt financing. He holds a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
Root Protocol — Root is building an operating system with the composition of an intent-centric aggregator of digital identity, virtual accounts, social graphs, and more to enable unified access to Web3.
Nectar AI — Nectar AI is a virtual AI companion platform that offers users the ability to create and interact with the digital customized personalities and companions.

Graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Engineering , Graduate School of Engineering 2007 Graduated from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering April 2007 Joined Goldman Sachs Securities. He is engaged in a variety of investments, from non-performing loan investment, private equity investment, real estate investment toship investment, in the strategic investment department, which is a proprietary investment team. May 2010 Moved to Goldman Sachs Investment Partners to become an investor at his own discretion. Participate in a global hedge fund with total assets of over 800 billion yen, and as a hedge fund manager, invest and manage up to 80 billion portfolios in stocks, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates, CDS, derivatives, loans, etc. February 2019 Appointed Cryptact Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Gaia Japan — Gaia is a Financial based Company

Koki Yabu is Founder, President & CEO at Mobcast inc.

Investment focus

Content, Finance, Data Mining
Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Mobcast group — mobcast is a sports entertainment company that operates a mobile entertainment platform for smartphones and feature phones. It supports customers with social game and social media services. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of mobcast Inc.
SmartApp Japan — Smart Apps is a developer of a blockchain services application designed for smartphones. The company's application uses cryptocurrency technology to offer token issuance, initial coin offering and dApps design support, providing a launchpad for start-up blockchain-related businesses.

Sumit Gupta is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at CoinDCX.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Apps, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Kandle — Kandle offers ways to make money in Crypto & Stocks through fantasy trading games. Trusted globally by 180,000+ users and growing.
Investorey — Start investing with as low as INR 50k with Annual Returns upto 22% across categories
Slick App — Go Slick, and declare your true feelings like nobody's watching!

David Carrico

Investment focus

Software, Media and Entertainment, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kona — Bring team empathy back into Slack. The team check-in that builds and measures culture. One tool for employee engagement, employee wellbeing, and team building.
Campus — Live courses with top professors.
Capsule — Capsule is a startup that makes tools for editing short-form videos.

Jun Du is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Feichang Danao.

Investment focus

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.

Gavin Wood was the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of the Ethereum Project. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, author of its formal specification, and is the creator and author of the first functional Ethereum implementation. Gavin Wood designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, anddesigned and implemented the Whisper protocol. He has pushed “state-of-the-art” in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups.Gavin Wood has presented to numerous audiences around the world, from keynotes at regional technology conferences, to musings on the future of legal systems at Harvard. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York. His new initiative is the Polkadot protocol, which will connect public and private blockchains so that they can inter-operate. This ambitious project could make it frictionless for corporations that wish to work in private blockchains to connect with public blockchains.Gavin is founder and current director of Parity Technologies Ltd. He has pushed the state-of-the-art in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups, including Grid Singularity and Ethereum. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol and author of its formal specification, he created and wrote the first functional Ethereum implementation, designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Blockchain, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
Redpill AI — Redpill's objective is to make the best AI resources accessible to everyone. The platform functions as a permissionless LLM router network, providing seamless integration across several AI models.
Minimize Influence — Social Marketing

Darren Camas has been involved with crypto & blockchain since 2011 advising, building, and investing in multiple projects. Currently he is CEO of IPOR Labs. He is also Co-founder of FoolFarm, the first AI venture builder in Europe. Previously he served as an advisor for the Cardano (ADA) blockchain, headed bizdev for one of the first globalcrypto exchanges, and has been recognized for his FinTech startups by institutions such as SWIFT and BBVA. On the institutional investor side he served as advisor to Emurgo, the venture arm of Cardano, and is an angel investor in blockchain startups. Originally from the US, he spends most of his time in emerging markets in Asia and Latin America.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Consulting, Hedge Funds
Seed
Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Smilee Finance — Smilee Finance is a capital-efficient DeFi option and structured product platform that assist customers in realizing large-scale volatility trades.
Rocket Capital Investment — Rocket is a Financial Institution regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The vision is to create the world's first decentralized and distributed hedge fund (RocketDAO) driven by a Collective Artificial Intelligence generated through a Blockchain-based (on Polygon) machine learning competition to solve the financial market.

Ray Alimurung is a CEO (Philippines) at Lazada Group.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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.

John Rost - Advisor @ TenX

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.
Cake DeFi —

Nina Teng is a helping startups grow. Investor & doctoral researcher.

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.

David Tung is a former managing director and partner of The Carlyle Group.

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.

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

Dan McArdle is the Co-Founder at Messari.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.

Amin Azumude is the Representative Director and Founder of Cryptact.

Investment focus

Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Gaia Japan — Gaia is a Financial based Company

Jordan Momtazi is the Co-Founder at Block Earner.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
Encode Club — Learn crypto with our web3 education community. Get learning. Get building. Get hired. Get funding.
Firewall — Firewall is building a security layer for Web3, including the Safe Sequencer and its modular components that mitigate smart contract hacks before they impact users. Backed by NIV, Breyer Capital and Hack VC.

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