Top 10 Digital Media Startup Investors in Hong Kong

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Digital media startups based in Hong kong. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from Hong kong. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Digital Media Startup Investors in Hong Kong

Investor	Digital Media Hong Kong investments
Shakil Khan	1
QF Capital	1
Empiricus Capital	1
Ryan Holmes	1
Hugo Barra	1
VentureSouq	1
Shunwei Capital	1
Frees Fund	1
Vectr	1
Steve Kirsch	1

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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

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Leiden Cryo — Leiden Cryo is an innovative technology company that specializes in the development of cryogenic technology and its cutting-edge market applications for creating low-temperature environments for storage and transportation of hydrogen energy.
Volant Aerotech — Volant Aerotech is a company specializing in the R&D, manufacturing, and service of passenger eVTOL, an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
Maiju Microelectronics — Maiju Microelectronics manufactures core chips for lithium batteries and solutions to management system applications.

Family office funded Early stage investor focus in globally scalable technology and consumer start ups

Investment focus

Content, Big Data, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series C
Hong Kong, United States

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”.
Spire Global — Spire is a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, offering access to unique datasets and powerful insights about Earth from the ultimate vantage point so that organizations can make decisions with confidence, accuracy, and speed. Spire uses one of the world’s largest multi-purpose satellite constellations to source hardto acquire, valuable data and enriches it with predictive solutions. Spire then provides this data as a subscription to organizations around the world so they can improve business operations, decrease their environmental footprint, deploy resources for growth and competitive advantage, and mitigate risk. Spire gives commercial and government organizations the competitive advantage they seek to innovate and solve some of the world’s toughest problems with insights from space.
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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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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Technology executive & investor

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Brazil, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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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.

VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

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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.Shunwei Capital is a China-based company that was founded in 2011 by Tuck Lye Koh and Lei Jun.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Internet, Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yunshan Power — Yunshan Power focus on the research, development, production, and sales of large cylindrical batteries.
LTZ Therapeutics — LTZ develops novel immunotherapies to treat patients that suffer from cancer and other diseases with an unmet clinical need.
Hooke Instruments — Hooke Instruments is a manufacturer of high-end optical life science instruments. It is committed to applying optical technology to solve biological and medical challenges, as well as creating and producing high-quality biomedical devices.

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

Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Polycent — Polycent, a technology company with expertise in power technology, industrial control, data intelligence, and FPGA, develops digital power solutions using advanced electrical, sensing, and algorithm technologies, accelerating industrialization and high-quality power system development.
Vibronix — Vibronix innovates for Precision Healthcare with spectroscopic imaging, optical & acoustic sensing, and machine learning.
Hangkai Microelectronics — Hangkai MicroTech focuses on the research, development, and manufacturing of Mems technology and products, with an emphasis on the demand for domestic sensor substitutes.

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

FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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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.