# Top 35 Digital Media Angel Investors in Asia in June 2026

## Toivo Annus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.

## Takeshi Aoki Yamato
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Social Media, Digital Media, Social Network

Takeshi Aoki Yamato is the Representative Director of Capital Medica Ventures.

## Jonathan Shipman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: eSports, Beauty, Internet

Jonathan Shipman is a VP, Strategy (Product & Marketing) at Lantronix.

## Arjun Anand
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce

Arjun Anand - Investment Professional @ Verlinvest

## Goshi Yamaguchi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Digital Media, Food and Beverage, Apps

Goshi Yamaguchi

## Boon Hwee Koh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

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.

## Nitesh Kripalani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Lifestyle, E-Commerce, Tea

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.

## Hugo Barra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Hugo Barra is the Co-Founder of /dev/agents. He previously worked at Detect as a CEO. Hugo Barra attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Prantik Mazumdar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Digital Media, Advice

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.

## Shakil Khan
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Nobuhiro Ariyasu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Content, Internet

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

## Ryan Holmes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

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.

## Quanling Zhang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Video, Social

Quanling Zhang has been serving as independent non-executive director of Shougang Concord International Enterprises since January 6, 2018. She holds a bachelor degree in arts. She joined China Central Television in 1997 and has hosted the famous programmes such as “Oriental Horizon”, “Focus Interview”. She participated in numerous news livecoverage and was awarded the Golden Microphone Awards, the Golden Eagle Awards, the Fan Changjiang Journalism Award, the most prestigious journalism award in China, and the 19th top ten Outstanding Chinese Youths. She is the Founding Partner of Ziniu Fund. She has extensive experience in news media, brand building and strategic planning.

## Toyoshi Ryuichiro
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, mHealth, Internet

Toyoshi Ryuichiro - CEO @ Misoca

## Shiv Choudhury
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Internet, Payments

Shiv Choudhury

## Deepak Shahdadpuri
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce

Deepak I. Shahdadpuri has over 20 years of private capital experience in both private equity and venture capital. Before DSGCP, he co-founded and managed the Beacon India Private Equity Fund and GEM India. Prior to that, Deepak worked with Reuters Venture Capital, Bain & Company and Ernst & Young. Deepak currently serves on portfolio boardsincluding Veeba, Epigamia, Baker's Circle, Eazydiner, India Lends, Mswipe, The Mom's Co, Piccolo, Pip & Nut, Furtado's School of Music, Ramblin Brands, Perromart, Brewlander, Salad Stop, Kinds Kones and The Golden Duck. His investment experience also includes RBL Bank, Indostar, India's National Stock Exchange, OYO Rooms, Cleartrip, GOQii, Redmart, Chope, F&B Asia and Hostmaker. Deepak has an MBA with distinction from INSEAD where he graduated on the Dean's list, an LLB (Hons) from King's College London and a FCA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales. Deepak is actively engaged with entrepreneurship at his post-graduate alma mater INSEAD, where he serves on the Advisory Board of INSEAD's Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI) and is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD Centre for Entrepreneurship. Deepak is also the co-founder of INSEADAlum Ventures, a seed fund providing capital, mentorship and value-added resources to early-stage ventures run by selected INSEAD alumni who are becoming entrepreneurs after graduation. Deepak also serves on board of Magic Bus Singapore, a non-profit organization helping develop underprivileged children through sports.

## Nigel Wray
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Fitness

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.

## Xiaoguang Wu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Software, Service Industry, SaaS

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.

## Steve Kirsch
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Digital Media

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.

## Shinichi Misawa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Content, Marketing, Digital Media

Shinichi Misawa - Director @ Zappallas

## Shaw Wang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Digital Media, Fashion, Consumer

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.

## Jeremy Butteriss
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Internet, Payments

Jeremy Butteriss

## Dan Neary
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: News, Events, Travel

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

## Takeshi Natsuno
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Music, Events

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.

## Kiyohiro Sugashita
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketing, Travel, Reservations

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.

## Hu Zemin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Catering, Computer, Internet

Hu Zemin is a Chinese investor.

## Richard Lo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Content, Marketing, Digital Media

Richard Lau serves as Head of Wealth and Personal Banking Risk at Hang Seng Bank.

## Francesco Alberti
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Internet, Payments

Francesco Alberti

## Jun Lin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Video, Advertising, Digital Media

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.

## Kiyoshi Nishikawa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: News, Social Media, Big Data

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.

## Seiichiro Wada
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Legal, Content, Agriculture

Seiichiro Wada started his career as employee No.5 at a technology startup. He then joined Dwango, the fast-growing startup that operates Japanese Youtube "Niko Niko Douga", incubating new businesses for the company and then helped the company go public. After that, he joined Monex Group, the leading online brokerage group in Japan, andled new businesses there as well. He also helped establish Monex Ventures as the CVC of Monex Group first and then raised funds from external LPs for an independent early-stage venture capital. He has invested in more than 100 early stage startups, including Money Forward (IPO), Uzabase (IPO), Mentalhealth Technologies (IPO), MFS (IPO), Folio, Emerada, Gracia, and orb.

## Saurabh Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: FinTech, Internet, News

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.

## Poh Kam Wong
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, Mobile

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.

## Lisa Gokongwei
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mandaluyong, Cavite, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Internet

Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng is a President at Summit Media. Attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.

## Sheng Fu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Social, Internet

Sheng Fu