# Top 15 Digital Media Angel Investors in Singapore 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.

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

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

Arjun Anand - Investment Professional @ Verlinvest

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

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

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.

## 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.

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

Shiv Choudhury

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

Jeremy Butteriss

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

Francesco Alberti

## 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.

## 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.

## Kenneth Bishop
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, FinTech, Internet

Kenneth Bishop

## 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.

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