Top 30 Digital Media Angel Investors in Asia in November 2024
A list of 30 angel investors that invest in Digital media startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 30 Digital Media Angel Investors in Asia in November 2024
Investor | Digital Media Asia investments |
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Toivo Annus | 3 |
Richard Lo | 1 |
Jonathan Shipman | 1 |
Jun Lin | 1 |
Shiv Choudhury | 1 |
Prantik Mazumdar | 1 |
Ryan Holmes | 1 |
Nobuhiro Ariyasu | 1 |
Shinichi Misawa | 1 |
Francesco Alberti | 1 |
Takeshi Natsuno | 1 |
Hugo Barra | 1 |
Kenneth Bishop | 1 |
Arjun Anand | 1 |
Kiyohiro Sugashita | 1 |
Shakil Khan | 1 |
Shaw Wang | 1 |
Kiyoshi Nishikawa | 1 |
Goshi Yamaguchi | 1 |
Xiaoguang Wu | 1 |
Sheng Fu | 1 |
Poh Kam Wong | 1 |
Nigel Wray | 1 |
Jeremy Butteriss | 1 |
Nitesh Kripalani | 1 |
Lisa Gokongwei | 1 |
Steve Kirsch | 1 |
Boon Hwee Koh | 1 |
Toyoshi Ryuichiro | 1 |
Saurabh Mittal | 1 |
Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Singapore, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
- GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.
Richard Lau serves as Head of Wealth and Personal Banking Risk at Hang Seng Bank.
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Investment focus
- Content, Marketing, Digital Media
- Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- DoubleL — Doublel is a general trading company of pop culture that develops Japanese manga, anime, and games internationally. The company was founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
Jonathan Shipman is a VP, Strategy (Product & Marketing) at Lantronix.
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Investment focus
- eSports, Beauty, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- United States, Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- NEWNESS — Newness is focused on building differentiated tools and features that work well for the beauty streamer market in particular.
- MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
- Riley — Grapevine AI is the first AI powered personal assistant that captures, organizes, and easily retrieves the details that build better relationships. Learn more!
Jun Lin is the Founder of Leiphone.com. Founder of Tianjiwang. Once served as the vice president of Duowan Youxiwang and an early investor in the mobile Internet.
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Investment focus
- Video, Advertising, Digital Media
- Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Leikeji.com — Lei Keji provides digital media products and short video content.
Shiv Choudhury
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Internet, Payments
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fewcents — Fewcents enables small payments for the creator economy. We enable digital publishers to unbundle and micro-monetize text, audio, or video formats in 50+ currencies.
For more than 10 years, Mr. Prantik Mazumdar has led a successful digital consulting firm, trained and advised more than 500 enterprises in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region on all things “social” – devising social strategies for brands’ marketing, sales and customer service functions. His genuine passion for transformative social media has made himone of LinkedIn’s top 100 connectors in the APAC region and that’s what keeps his Klout score at 70. He has advised regional brands including Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Bloomberg, Fonterra, Starbucks, Kaplan, Royal Brunei Airlines, TigerAir, Nanyang Business School and Standard Chartered Bank on social strategies to drive business transformation. He has also been appointed a key member of the Global Digital Board at Time International. He has advised government agencies in Singapore and in ASEAN on leveraging digital to chart out inclusive public policies and scale up political campaigns. Prantik is a regular commentator on digital marketing in regional blogs and publications such as Marketing Magazine, Campaign Asia and the Singapore Business Review. He has spoken at regional conferences such as ad:tech & iMedia and was awarded the Young Entrepreneur Award at the Global Youth Marketing Forum. When not advising clients, he can be found either enjoying a game of cricket or chatting about sports, politics or public policy.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Internet, Payments
- Seed
- Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fewcents — Fewcents enables small payments for the creator economy. We enable digital publishers to unbundle and micro-monetize text, audio, or video formats in 50+ currencies.
- Seeds — Seeds is a fintech company that offers a multi-asset investment platform assisting digital-savvy millennials to earn passive income.
Ryan Holmes is the CEO and Founder of HootSuite. Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, he has redefined the face of social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom.Holmes has grown HootSuite from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with 8 million users,including 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed HootSuite in 2009.Today, Holmes is an authority on the social business revolution, quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and called upon to speak at TEDx and SXSW Interactive Conferences. An angel investor and advisor, he mentors startups in Canada and around the world. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Truss — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
- Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
- Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Internet, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
- PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
- Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
Shinichi Misawa - Director @ Zappallas
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Investment focus
- Content, Marketing, Digital Media
- Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Kudan — Kudan has been providing proprietary Artificial Perception technologies based on SLAM to enable use cases with significant market potential and impact on our lives such as autonomous driving, robotics, AR/VR and smart cities
- DoubleL — Doublel is a general trading company of pop culture that develops Japanese manga, anime, and games internationally. The company was founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
Francesco Alberti
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Internet, Payments
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fewcents — Fewcents enables small payments for the creator economy. We enable digital publishers to unbundle and micro-monetize text, audio, or video formats in 50+ currencies.
Mr. Takeshi Natsuno serves as the Chairman of Japan Operations at Great Wall Club. Mr. Natsuno is a Professor of KEIO University. He served as a General Manager of Consumer Services Division and Manager of Distribution Platform Business Development Division at Pia Corporation since April 2012 and served as its Chief of Sales Promotion Bureau sinceApril 2010. He joined DoCoMo in 1997. He served as the Managing Director of Multimedia Services, Products & Services Division for NTT DoCoMo Inc. until June 23, 2009 and served as its General Manager of i-Mode Planning Division since July 2001, Senior Vice President from June 21, 2005 to June 23, 2009, Executive Officer and General Manager Multimedia Service Division since June 2005. At NTT DoCoMo, he developed the business strategy of all of NTT DoCoMo’s multimedia-related services, including i-mode strategic alliances with global application/content providers and key Internet players. He served as Vice President of Hyper Net Co., Ltd. since June 1996. He started his career with Tokyo Gas. He held key executive positions with HyperNet. He has been a Director of Dwango Co. Ltd., since December 1, 2008. He has been a Outside Director at Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. since June 2008. He has been a Director at Pia Corporation since April 2010. He serves as a Director of D.L.E Co. Ltd. He has been a Director of Gree, Inc. since September 2009 and Trans Cosmos, Inc. since 2008. He serves as a Director of GREE Ventures, Inc. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Great Wall Club. He served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of SBI Holdings Inc. from June 27, 2008 to June 28, 2012. He served as a Director of Hyper Net Co., Ltd. since June 1996. He is the Author of i-mode Strategy, published in 2000, a la i-mode, published in 2002, Keitai-no-Mirai, published in 2006, Iccho-yen kaseida otokono shigotojutu, and Google ni izonshi Amazon wo maneru bakakigyou published in 2009. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Economics from Waseda University, Japan in 1988 and an Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Music, Venture Capital
- Angel, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ZUU — ZUU is a Japan-based company that supports financial advisors with related consultancies and manages monetary websites. It also supports the asset management and asset advisor business of executives with finance and IT.
- Zuu Online — ZUU online is a Tokyo-based financial media which provides original insights on financial market news,the latest business trend and personal finance advice
- Confidence — Confidence ensures that the entertainment industry's cutting-edge manufacturers will be able to fulfil their objectives in the future.
Technology executive & investor
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
- MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
- Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.
Kenneth Bishop
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Investment focus
- Beauty, FinTech, Internet
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fewcents — Fewcents enables small payments for the creator economy. We enable digital publishers to unbundle and micro-monetize text, audio, or video formats in 50+ currencies.
- Alcheme Skincare — Alcheme Skincare was founded in January 2017 and is due to launch its line of personalized skincare in November 2017 in Singapore. Each customer has unique skin needs and their skin care should be as well. Alcheme selects, expertly combines plant based active ingredients that are highly effective and safe. Each product is made to address eachcustomer’s individual needs, idenfied during an innovative, artificial intelligence based consultation.
Arjun Anand - Investment Professional @ Verlinvest
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Wakefit — Buy mattress and pillows online at best price. Select from wide range of single, double, king size and queen size mattresses. *100 nights risk free trial *10 year warranty *COD *Free Shipping
- Cialfo — Cialfo is a faster, better organised, and whole new way of college & university counseling, trusted by leading schools. Find out why!
- Fewcents — Fewcents enables small payments for the creator economy. We enable digital publishers to unbundle and micro-monetize text, audio, or video formats in 50+ currencies.
Mr. Sugashita joined Polaris as Advisor in May 2011. He is Director and CEO of Sugashita Partners, Ltd since 1998 and provides consulting services to financial institutions and ventures in and outside of Japan. Prior to that position, he was CEO of Lazard Japan Asset Management from 1991 to 1998. His business career also includes positions at DaiwaSecurities and Merrill Lynch Securities, Tokyo Branch. On the academic front, Mr. Sugashita received a BA in Economics from Ritsumeikan University and since 2009 is Special Advisor for the Dean of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.
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Investment focus
- Marketing, Travel, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
Shakil Khan is currently Head of Special Projects at Spotify, where he is also personal advisor to founder and CEO Daniel Ek. He has had a number of online businesses in the UK since 2000, was part of the founding team at buy.at, which was acquired by AOL, and he recently founded CoinDesk, a bitcoin news site.Shak has done extensive volunteerwork as an ambassador for charity: water, having helped raise millions of dollars for clean and safe drinking water. He is also a keen supporter and friend of Pencils of Promise, who build schools for those most in need.Having lived in China, Shak speaks Chinese (as well as English, Urdu, Punjabi, and Danish) and currently divides his time between London, San Francisco, New York and airport lounges.Shak is an investor in BitPay, Spotify, Top10, Duedil and YPlan. Shak was also an investor and mentor to Nick D'Aloisio who built and sold Summly, a news curation app that was sold to Yahoo in March 2013.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
- Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.
- Founders Pledge — Home | Founders Pledge
Before the founding of Jiuhe Ventures, Wang Xiao was a member of the founding team of Baidu Seven Musketeers. In Baidu's first ten years, Wang Xiao built the underlying system of the first generation of search engines, served as the head of several Baidu star projects, and formed the wireless business unit in the last two years of leavingBaidu. In 2011, Wang Xiao founded Jiuhe Venture Capital and led the investment of 36 companies, the kitchen, Qingyun Qingcloud, Zepp, Fast Drug Delivery, Butter Camera, Eclipse, New Studio, and Good Residence. In the past five years, Wang Xiao has been pursuing the concept of “walking between technology and humanity” to find the top domestic startup companies, and at the same time making full use of the accumulated high-quality Internet resources of the past ten years to provide PR, market, HR and other aspects to the invested enterprises. Services; observe and promote the integration and innovation of the mobile Internet with e-commerce, healthcare, finance, education and the sharing economy.Wang Xiao holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and an MBA from China Europe International Business School. He is the Director of Oneflow.
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Investment focus
- Digital Media, Fashion, Consumer
- Seed, Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Youbu — Youbu offers clothing supply chain services based on digital printing technology.
- Tong Shi App — Tong Shi App is an employee communication platform.
After working at KDD Corporation (Currently known as KDDI Corporation), Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept†and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.
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Investment focus
- News, Social Media, Big Data
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
- Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
- TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Goshi Yamaguchi
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Digital Media, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- ReadHub — ReadHub is a Information technology , Planning, development and management of Internet media and applications company.
- Pan For You — Pan For You is a Food & Beverage Company. We deliver delicious bread from all over the world with our unique freezing technology and propose a lifestyle where you can enjoy freshly baked bread anytime.
- ZAZA — ZAZA is focus to make the world where people can respect each other even thought they have a different culture and belief.
Xiaoguang Wu was named Senior Management Adviser in June 2015. He joined Tencent in 1999 and was a member of the founding team. Xiaoguang Wu led the development and product planning for the Group’s core product, QQ, and served as project manager for the QQ research and development team. He also served as General Manager of the IM product divisionand General Manager of the internet business division. He was later promoted to Senior Executive Vice President of the internet services division and Chief Executive Officer of Tencent E-Commerce Holdings Limited. Xiaoguang Wu has extensive experience in product research and development, product planning, product operations and marketing internet businesses. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Weather Dynamics from Nanjing University in 1996 and an EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in 2008.
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Investment focus
- Software, Service Industry, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- China
Portfolio highlights
- DayDayUp — DayDayUp is a business community that connects Chinese and global innovators.
- Feipotong — Feipotong is a nationwide service company that focuses on airport parking.
- Waterdrop — Waterdrop is an insurance platform that plans to solve the problem of high medical fees faced by most patients, especially those with a critical illness. Shuidihuzhu offers three products: mutual insurance, crowdfunding and commercial insurance. All their services are conducted through the platform’s official WeChat account, where users could postcrowdfunding campaigns, buy insurances, or claim indemnities according to their policies.
Sheng Fu
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Developer APIs, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Bijixia — Bijixia is a digital media that provides business knowledge management services.
- Markable Creators(Markable AI) — BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers canclick and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come.Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020.
- Nanigans — Nanigans provides an advertising automation software that powers the in-house performance marketing teams. Offered as Software-as-a-Service, Nanigans software features programmatic media buying, predictive revenue optimization, and real-time business intelligence across today’s most valuable channels. Nanigans is headquartered in Boston, withoffices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Sydney, and Singapore.
Poh Kam WONG is a Professor at the Business School of National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. Through the centre, he oversees the university's entrepreneurship education programs, as well as the university's incubator, seed funding programs and mentoring scheme for nurturing spin-offcompanies by the university's professors and students. He has published extensively in leading academic journals on high tech entrepreneurship and innovation policy in Asia, and has consulted frequently for technology companies in Asia, as well as international organizations such as the World Bank. He is an active angel investor in technology start-ups in Singapore, Asia and Silicon Valley, and is the founding Chairman of Business Angel Network Southeast Asia (BANSEA) and chairman and partner of BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd, a business angel fund based in Singapore. He is the initiator of StartUp@Singapore, the annual national business plan competition in Singapore since 1999.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Wearables, Rehabilitation
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- FundedHere — FundedHere Crowdfunding Platform
- TechStorm — Asia's number one 24/7 Esports, gaming & tech-centric entertainment network available in 26 countries. TechStorm is a brand new 360 international network on Asian Esports and tech-centric entertainment. The network celebrates the region’s trail blazers, the biggest Asian Esports and tech names, bringing them to a truly global audienceand fan base.The 24/7 network’s meteoric rise across Asia now reaches 43 million viewers, 100 platforms across multiple countries and is slated to exceed 20 countries globally. Its original Storm Bytes content is readily distributed to 96 million mobile handset users in 26 countries. This exponential growth was all achieved in less than 22 months.TechStorm is an international Esports and tech entertainment network backed by blue-chip, high profile venture capital groups and founded by prominent industry business leaders in media and technology with more than 30 years of extensive domain expertise and business operations. Its dynamic leadership team is fuelled by a passion to drive change and be the voice for Asia’s Esports and tech entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Glassette — Discover and collect beautiful, curated homeware from the best brands in the UK. Shop thoughtfully, live joyfully.
- Get A Drip — Get A Drip offers IV drips, booster shots and Longevity therapies. IV Drips are administered by medical staff, GMC registered Doctors and NMC registered Nurses.
- Stubben Edge — Financial services for a new generation. Sign up free to sell better financial products, cheaper, faster and to more people with Flightdeck
Jeremy Butteriss
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Internet, Payments
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fewcents — Fewcents enables small payments for the creator economy. We enable digital publishers to unbundle and micro-monetize text, audio, or video formats in 50+ currencies.
Nitesh Kripalani is an Advisor and Mentor at Qoruz.He was Executive Vice-President: New Media, Business Development & Digital/Syndication at Sony and built Sony’s New Media and Digital business from scratch; the revenue stream in 3 years is a multi-million dollar business. Sony has been the leader amongst Indian broadcasters to launchtwo Premium Video-on-Demand service – Sony LIV in January 2013 and then LIV Sports in June 2014. He also conceptualised and led the launch of Sony’s 1st ever Sports Channel – SIX in April 2012. Including business plan, Sports federations and agency relationships, team hiring and launch. He led multiple rights bids including – BCCI Cricket rights, English Premier League, West Indies, IPL International and New Media rights, NBA, UFC and others. He joined Sony in 2009, where his primary role was to assist the CXOs in turning around the business from a loss-making unit to a sustainable profit-making unit. He has strong International experience in New Media, Telecom/Tech and Strategy across start-ups and corporations. He has previously worked with British Telecom in London, A.T. Kearney in Singapore and Outsourcing startups - OfficeTiger and Ajuba Solutions.Nitesh is an opinion leader in the Digital/New media industry, widely interviewed/consulted. More recently he has been recognized in the IMPACT Digital Power 100 list for 2013 and also, one of the Business Today’s “Top 40 under 40” 2014 list of high performing executives.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Lifestyle, Restaurants
- Seed
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Klip.in — Nangaya Designs offers professional aari work blouse in Chennai. Get customized bridal aari work, simple aari work, and more. 100% unique designs at affordable prices.
- Bonhomia — Bonhomia serves gourmet tea or coffee that is made from the finest beans and leaves; customized for connoisseurs of both taste and technology to homes, offices, or studios in India. Bonhomia comes in by providing artisan coffees in capsule format. Its capsules are well-preserved and brewed to ensure the rich aroma and flavors of coffee and fineteas.
- Fewcents — Fewcents enables small payments for the creator economy. We enable digital publishers to unbundle and micro-monetize text, audio, or video formats in 50+ currencies.
Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng is a President at Summit Media. Attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Philippines, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Edamama — Shop online for mama and baby essentials. Enjoy free shipping with minimum spend of P1,500. Buy online now!
- Otis AI — Otis is the first AI-powered virtual assistant that helps run and optimize your digital marketing cross-platform, at scale and at a budget that works for your business.
- VAMA — VAMA is a one-stop virtual platform that provides easy access to e-pujas, e-darshans, and astrology services, to devotees from across India and the world.
Steve has been at the forefront of tech innovation for more than three decades. He invented and owns a patent on an early version of the optical mouse, founded Infoseek, one of the first Internet search engines, and helped create FrameMaker, a popular publication tool used by technical writers. Sick of having 357 different usernames andpasswords, Steve founded OneID in September 2011. The company is backed by Vinod Khosla’s Khosla Ventures. He helped rid the world of junk faxes, establishing an organization for businesses and consumers and winning lawsuits and judgments against junk fax operations.Steve holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Digital Media
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Notey Labs — Notey Labs believe in designing technology that enables companies, businesses, and ideas to be truly global. Their mission is to bridge the digital divide between China and the Western internet and give businesses the tools to more fearlessly embrace a global web. Their company has been featured on Techcrunch, CNBC as well as Business Insider,highlighting Notey as one of the “15 Fastest Growing Startups in the World”.
Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
- Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
- Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.
Toyoshi Ryuichiro - CEO @ Misoca
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Investment focus
- Apps, mHealth, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Japan
Saurabh Mittal is a self-made billionaire entrepreneur and investor with a hands-on strategic value-add approach. He is the Founder and Chairman of Mission Holdings, his private global investment holding company.Mr Mittal partners with world class entrepreneurs going after multibillion-dollar opportunities and helps them achieve massive scalewith both capital and strategic value add. Mission Holdings is typically the largest shareholder of its core portfolio, operating as a true partnership across all issues of scaling and operating a business. Some of his portfolio holdings include ONE Championship (Asia’s largest sports media property with a global broadcast to 1 billion potential viewers across 118 countries), Incedo (a US$100m data and analytics company with 2,000 employees), BSI Financial (a substantial Fin-tech player in the multi-trillion dollar mortgage industry), SelfScore (a Silicon Valley based Fin-tech company backed by Accel and others), and many other companies across a wide spectrum of industries and geographies.Prior to Mission Holdings, he was a senior partner at Noonday, an affiliate of Farallon Capital Management, one of the world’s largest hedge funds where he was responsible for large public and private investments in the areas of Financial Services and Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT). Mr Mittal also was a co-founder of Indiabulls, India’s leading financial services and real estate conglomerate, and through the partnership with Farallon, helped the business achieve massive scale and success.Mr. Mittal holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. He holds a BS in Electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi where he was the Best Graduating Student. He is also a member of multiple boards including the Harvard Business School Alumni Board and Paarivar, a leading charitable organization running India’s largest residential school for destitute children.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Internet, News
- Seed, Series C, Series D
- Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Deserve Inc. — Digital-first and cloud-based, Deserve has built the credit card platform of the future.
- Fewcents — Fewcents enables small payments for the creator economy. We enable digital publishers to unbundle and micro-monetize text, audio, or video formats in 50+ currencies.
- ONE Championship — ONE Championship is Asia's largest sports media property with a global broadcast to over 1 billion potential viewers across 128 countries. Headquartered in Singapore, the world’s most exciting martial arts organization is home to some of the greatest martial artists in the world, hosting Asia's greatest sports entertainment events in thelargest stadiums of the most iconic cities across the region.
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