Top 20 Digital Media Startup Investors in Hong Kong (September 2026)

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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 13
Round size: Seed $510k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.1M; Series A $5M–$12M
Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

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 — Founders Pledge is a nonprofit organization committed to helping entrepreneurs, founders and change-makers to the most good with their charitable giving.

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Luma Ventures is a Venture Capital fund that focuses on investments in enterprises that leverage Data Science to build their products or solutions. We support companies from early-growth to growth stages with capital requirements from EUR 0.75 million up to EUR 2 million. We are industry and business model agnostic. Our fund is based in Warsaw yetwe do not limit ourselves to Poland only and we actively search for investment targets in the CEE region.At Luma Ventures we believe that acceleration activities and non-financial support are crucial for our portfolio companies to increase their probability of success. That is why we strive to provide the real smart money to our entrepreneurs by sharing our experience, knowledge, business contacts and social capital.

Investment focus

Industry: Business Intelligence, Big Data, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: Poland, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Round size: Seed $213k–$1.7M
Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow

Portfolio highlights

NUADU — Data-driven, personalised, online learning solution for schools and students worldwide.
Algolytics — Algolytics helps automate business decisions and processes with Machine Learning, AI & Data Science.
Forkast.News — Covering stories of blockchain and emerging technology at the intersection of business, economy, and politics. From Asia, to the world.

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Longling Investment Is An Equity Investment Institution Founded By The Famous Angel Investor Cai Wensheng. It Aims To Help More Innovation And Entrepreneurship And Provide Strong Support For Technological Innovation Entrepreneurs. Longling Investment Mainly Focuses On The Investment Direction Of The Internet And TMT Fields. The MainInvestment Stages Are: Seed Round, Angel Round And A Round. The B Round Will Selectively Follow The Investment, And At The Same Time, It Has A Clear Exit Plan. Pre-IPO Or Later Mature Projects.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Blockchain, E-Commerce
Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
Geography: China, Singapore, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 62
Round size: Seed $927k–$8.5M; Angel $425k–$1.4M; Series A $1.4M–$10M
Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

Zhihuige — Zhihuige is as an AI customer service developer specializing in the e-commerce sector. The company focuses on providing AI-powered customer service solutions for e-commerce platforms, leveraging advanced artificial intelligence large model technology and proprietary natural language processing (NLP) algorithms.
Dora Factory — Dora Factory is the digital infrastructure builder of the Global Hacker Movement. It creates protocols, toolings, and public good infrastructures that help open source communities and frontier tech builders to thrive.
Pando Finance — Pando Finance is a licensed institution that provides investment solutions to corporate and individual investors. I t provides asset management, trading and advisory.

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Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia. Founded in Shanghai in 2015 by veterans across both blockchain and traditional financial industries, it has to date supported over 80 leading projects across 4 continents leveraging blockchain technology to reshape myriad industries such as finance,healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods. Fenbushi’s mission is to drive healthy and sustainable growth in the global blockchain ecosystem, and actively works as a long-term strategic partner to its portfolio projects.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: United States, Singapore, China

Investor stats

Total investments: 212
Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $3.7M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$50M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

ME Group — MetaEra is a one-stop resource aggregator for Web3.0. Meta Era focuses on blockchain and metaverse exploration, pursuing professional, thorough, and reliable information and data.
Canopy Network — AI creates apps. Canopy creates owners. Build and launch in days. Backed by @Arrington_Cap, @Fenbushi, @Borderless_Cap, @SNZHolding, @CodecraftGroup and more.
Chronicle Labs — Chronicle Protocol brings data onchain via decentralized, cost-efficient, verifiable oracles, powering DeFi and RWAs with DeFi and Proof of Asset Oracles.

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AMTD Group is a Hong Kong financial institution group specializing in investment banking, corporate insurance solutions, asset management and tech & innovative investments. As an emerging powerhouse in Asia, AMTD serves as a super-connector into China. AMTD is the only Hong Kong-based financial institution that has been selected as a strategicpartner associate of the World Economic Forum (“WEF”). Mr. Calvin Choi, Chairman and President of AMTD Group, was selected by the WEF as “2017 Young Global Leader”, the only Hong Kong-based financial sector leader who has received this accolade.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Stage:Series A, Series C, Seed
Geography: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan

Investor stats

Total investments: 12
Round size: Series A $1M–$60M; Series C $33M–$207M
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

AwanTunai — AwanTunai seek to reinforce Indonesian needs and productivity by providing digital loan for a better financial freedom and capability to micro-entrepreneurs
58 Finance — 58 Finance is a Fintech company.
Forkast.News — Covering stories of blockchain and emerging technology at the intersection of business, economy, and politics. From Asia, to the world.

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The Entrepreneurs Fund is a not-for-profit initiative launched by Alibaba Group in 2015 to help entrepreneurs and young graduates realize their dreams and vision. Two separate funds have been set up in Hong Kong and Taiwan respectively to support specific programs in each place.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 81
Round size: Seed $510k–$8M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $7M–$150M
Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $130M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

Tiiny AI — Tiiny AI offers a ready-to-use open-source ecosystem with one-click installation for models.
Vpon Holdings — Vpon Holdings is an AI big data analysis and advertising company.
Ziwu Technology — Ziwu Technology offers the conversion of bio-based waste into sustainable new materials and provides environmentally friendly solutions.

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Meitu offers free image and video apps for iOS and Android platforms.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Beauty
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: China, Singapore, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 21
Round size: Seed $6M–$10M; Series A $2.3M–$22M; Series B $10M–$17M
Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

Portfolio highlights

Seele — Seele is developing an advanced 3D AI platform that utilizes AI technology to aid 3D creators in generating alternative 3D animations, models, color settings, animations, and scenery animations.
Whatif — Whatif Technology PTE. LTD. is an innovative robotics company designing emotionally intelligent social robots for companionship, interaction, and lifestyle enhancement. Our interdisciplinary team includes experts from Harvard, MIT, and Umeå University, bringing together expertise in AI, robotics, and design. Headquartered in Singapore, we haveR&D centers in both Shanghai and Boston. Backed by cutting-edge AI, robotics, and design, we aim to redefine human-robot relationships by creating lifelike, intuitive, and engaging experiences.
Cross Star Studio — Cross Star Studio is an ACG content developer platform that provides comic, animation, and gaming content to provide players with the perfect combination of story and gameplay.

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By adopting revolutionary mechanisms, FREES FUND is devoted to change the long-established rules in the venture capital. By leveraging the cutting-edge technologies and resources, FREES FUND aims at investing in great startups and helping them grow into great enterprises that are valuable to our society. We mainly invest in early-stagestartups, and hope to become their first-round institutional investor. Our primary interested areas are broad-sense TMT (Technology, Media, Telecom), B2B and deep technology.

Investment focus

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology
Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
Geography: China, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 229
Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M; Angel $447k–$14M; Series A $1.4M–$35M
Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $144M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

Chuguang 3D — Chuguang 3D is a optical micro-nano 3D sensor technology platform that focuses on research and development, and manufacturing of micro-nano-level optical three-dimensional sensing and measurement and testing instruments.
Flysound — Flysound is a hearing technology company focused on making advanced AI-powered hearing aids affordable and accessible. Its products combine AI sound processing, Bluetooth connectivity, app-based personalization, and rechargeable convenience. With a focus on innovation, quality, and user-friendly design, Flysound aims to help people hear moreclearly and stay connected to everyday life.
Yanming Biology — Pyrotech pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that focuses om development for drugs for the treatment of inflammation and tumors.

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QF Capital is a fund management company that focuses on private equity investments.

Investment focus

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Software
Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
Geography: China, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 173
Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Angel $425k–$14M; Series A $1.4M–$16M
Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

Tianlin — Tianlin Holdings provides robotic intelligent construction services, with a focus on creating an ecosystem that includes intelligent construction robots, green building materials, and intelligent construction digital platforms.
Violoop — Violoop is a Chinese AI hardware startup Specializes in AI-PC automation hardware as a "physical-level AI Operator", bridging legacy software and AI agents for 24/7 workflows without APIs.
Traverser — Traverser is a commercial manned aerospace technology company that develops reusable manned spacecraft and operates space tourism activities.

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Shunwei Capital is a venture capital fund that focuses on early to mid-stage investments in local internet industry. It specializes in incubation, startups, early to mid-stage, and growth capital investments. It seeks to invest in the technology, media, telecommunications, high technology, new media, games, internet finance, and rural area internetsectors. Their investors include sovereign wealth funds, fund of funds, university endowment funds, and family offices.

Investment focus

Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Internet
Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
Geography: China, United States, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 574
Round size: Series A $1.5M–$35M; Series B $8M–$55M; Series C $25M–$105M
Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

uban — Uban provides an internet office leasing and trading services platform that helps to connect owners, customers and brokers, corporate customers in order to provide office rental and follow-up services, enabling its clients to receive real estate related services through a single portal. The company is based in Beijing, China.
Z.ai — The AI Lab behind GLM models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity. https://t.co/gOw7WpwkJt https://t.co/ot9sGVXU8x
Darma — DARMA - Digital Healt

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VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

Total investments: 221
Round size: Seed $225k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $300k–$50M
Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
MilkStraw AI — Save 53% on your AWS bill in 5 minutes!

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

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Medical, Software
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: United States, Brazil, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 24
Round size: Seed $500k–$14M; Series A $13M–$100M; Series B $57M–$70M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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Ryan Holmes is based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, and is the Interim CEO, Founder and Director of the Board of Hootsuite. Ryan previously worked at Aritzia as a Board of Directors. Ryan Holmes attended the University of Victoria. Ryan Holmes has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, B2B
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Geography: Canada, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 34
Round size: Seed $657k–$4M; Angel $551k–$1M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.4M
Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

Favs — The Memory Company
Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
Go Oil — Go Oil is car maintenance made easy. Our service vans come to you and change your car's oil, rotate your truck's tires, replace your SUV's battery and more

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Sora Ventures acquires and operates publicly traded companies across Asia, integrating disciplined Bitcoin treasury strategies on the balance sheet.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Taiwan, Japan

Investor stats

Total investments: 90
Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M
Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

Saturn — Saturn is a decentralized Bitcoin exchange that enhances peer-to-peer non-custodial orderbooks and provides a secure trading experience.
Nakamoto — Nakamoto is a newly established Bitcoin-native holding company and a prominent player in the cryptocurrency industry. Nakamoto Company is designed to serve as a global conglomerate focused on accelerating Bitcoin adoption and utility across capital markets.
Blockspace Media — Blockspace Media is a media publishing agency that offers digital media content aimed at covering the Bitcoin ecosystem.

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Vectr is a venture firm based in Hong Kong. They combine investment, creation and growth to deliver game-changing impact to teams ready to tackle global issues, transform industries and improve the lives of millions.That combines capital, creation and partnership to deliver game-changing impact. We strive to be the ideal partner for founders thatare building transformation products and looking to expand their businesses into asia.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 80
Round size: Seed $547k–$6.5M; Series A $1M–$37M; Series B $12M–$70M
Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
Micro Connect — Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
MasterExchange — Trading platform for music rights leveraging emerging technology to create friction free and compliant investment opportunities to everyone.

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CMCC Global is a venture capital funds focused solely on blockchain investments.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Canada, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 42
Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$5M
Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Levl — Levl's infrastructure makes stablecoin-powered payments accessible, compliant, and operationally seamless. Supporting USD, EUR, GBP Named Accounts and liqudity into emerging markets.
Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
OpenTrade — OpenTrade providers web3 treasurers, institutions, and accredited investors access to on-chain structured financial products backed by investment grade RWAs.

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Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 517
Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $5M–$40M
Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

Vangrid — Vangrid operates as a decentralized physical infrastructure network.
Slinky Network — Slinky Network provides an on-chain marketplace and payment protocol that connects AI agents and applications with third-party APIs. The company offers the SlinkyLayer platform, which wraps developer endpoints as discoverable skills and exposes them through an x402 pay-per-execution interface. Each API call triggers a non-custodial on-chainmicropayment, settling in the same request loop using networks such as Base and BNB Chain. Developers set prices, earn a defined revenue share, and receive instant payouts to their wallets without subscriptions or custodial holds. AI agents authenticate via wallet signatures, enabling autonomous, machine-to-machine access and payment without traditional logins or credit cards. The platform also records call ratings on-chain to provide portable, verifiable reputation for services.
Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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Don Tapscott, CEO of The Tapscott Group, is one of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of technology on business and society. He has authored 16 books including Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything which has been translated into over 25 languages.Don has been advancing ground-breaking concepts for over 3 decades. His1992 bestseller Paradigm Shift helped coin the seminal management concept, and in 1995 his book The Digital Economy changed business thinking about the transformational nature of the Internet. Two years later he helped popularize the terms “Net Generation” and “the Digital Divide” in Growing Up Digital.Don’s most recent and perhaps most ambitious book is co-authored with his son, startup CEO and bitcoin governance expert Alex Tapscott. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology behind bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World has been a bestseller in Canada since its release in May 2016, and has been featured in nearly every major publication in North America since then. Blockchain Revolution is also in the process of being translated into 12 languages. In 2015, Don became a member of the Order of Canada, and was ranked the 4th most influential management thinker in the world by Thinkers50. He is Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management, an Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and Chancellor of Trent University in Ontario.It is hard to imagine anyone who has been more prolific, profound, and influential in explaining today’s technological revolutions and their impact on the world.

Investment focus

Industry: News, Retail, Shopping
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Canada, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

SHOP.CA — SHOP.CA is the first multi-merchant marketplace built for Canadians, and managed by Canadians.In June of 2012 the site launched and now has millions of products, across 28 categories, and includes over 5000 brands.SHOP.CA provides Canadians with the brands, products and services they need and want from trusted retailers, manufacturers andservice providers, all through one universal shopping cart and one account. Through a cloud based Marketplace-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform, SHOP.CA makes it easy for approved partners to list, price and sell their products and services they have online and/or offline to Canadians, through a single destination.By integrating social elements into the eCommerce platform and user experience, SHOP.CA engages and rewards Canadians for every purchase and for social activities that lead to purchases.
Forkast.News — Covering stories of blockchain and emerging technology at the intersection of business, economy, and politics. From Asia, to the world.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Software, Digital Media
Stage:Seed
Geography: Hong Kong

Investor stats

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

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”.

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