Top 15 Digital Media Angel Investors in Singapore (June 2026)

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

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Singapore, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

Total investments: 37
Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3M; Series A $2M–$6M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: India, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

Total investments: 48
Round size: Seed $599k–$2.6M; Series A $1.2M–$6.6M; Series B $1.4M–$15M
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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.
ICON — Shop high-quality travel bags, suitcase bags, trolley bags, and travel accessories. Ideal for travel and tourism. Explore now!
IndiaLends — Easy Personal Loans available instantly at IndiaLends. Our personal loan help meet all your financial needs at low interest rates. Apply now & get cash in 2 days.

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Jeremy Butteriss

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Internet, Payments
Stage:Seed
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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Francesco Alberti

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Internet, Payments
Stage:Seed
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Digital Media, Advice
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: India, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
Sukoon.Unlimited — Sukoon Unlimited empowers seniors by providing a digital platform for heartfelt connections and community support.

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Arjun Anand - Investment Professional @ Verlinvest

Investment focus

Industry: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
Stage:Series C, Seed, Series A
Geography: India, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 12
Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2.1M; Series A $6.3M–$33M; Series C $21M–$35M
Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

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.
The Eye Foundation — The Eye Foundation is an eye hospital that treats cataract eye surgery, lasik, smile surgery, glaucoma treatment, and optical services.

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

Investment focus

Industry: eSports, Beauty, Internet
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Geography: United States, Nigeria, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Pre-Seed $1.9M–$2.7M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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!

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Kenneth Bishop

Investment focus

Industry: Beauty, FinTech, Internet
Stage:Seed
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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.

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

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Payments, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Philippines, Singapore, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 13
Round size: Seed $500k–$4.3M; Series A $2M–$20M
Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

Edamama — Discover your ultimate baby products haven! Discover everything from cozy cribs, diapers to playful toys. Shop now and start creating beautiful memories today!
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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Lifestyle, E-Commerce, Tea
Stage:Seed
Geography: India, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Seed $500k–$2M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Klip.in — Klip is a product discovery tool for interesting and off beat lifestyle products. It is for people who like things on and around them to reveal more of who they are.If you like standing out in the way you dress, if you like doing up your desk or home with things that have an edge about them or like to collect fun and quirky knick knacks orsimply have a taste for creative stuff that’s not main stream, then Klip is the perfect tool for you. It helps you find and create a virtual collection of these far out and quirky products.
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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Gaming, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Singapore, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Internet, News
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
Geography: Singapore, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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.
Creative Galileo — Creative Galileo sits at the intersection of education, technology, and gaming, and leverages character based learning with cutting edge technology.. Our first product is the Little Singham: Kids Early Learning App which 1M downloads on the Plat Store

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Fitness
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 25
Round size: Seed $916k–$5.9M; Series A $1.5M–$10M
Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

Get A Drip — Premium IV vitamin drips, booster shots, diagnostics and longevity treatments. Clinician-led wellness clinics helping you optimise energy, health and performance.
Stubben Edge — We make it easy for anyone from a broker to a retailer to access the best products, earn better commissions, and grow their businesses.
Tonic Health — Tonic Health is leading a nutrition movement. The 1 million strong community that subscribes to all-natural, high-impact vitamin drinks and gummies to fuel your energy, mood and immunity without the junk. Try our tonic effervescent vitamins drinks, no added sugar gummies, or max strength drinks.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Singapore, United States, China

Investor stats

Total investments: 46
Round size: Seed $399k–$5M; Series A $704k–$20M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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.

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