Top 10 Digital Media Startup Investors in Hong Kong in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in July 2025

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

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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

Internet, Software, Digital Media
Seed
Hong Kong

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”.

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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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

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

Portfolio highlights

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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

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.

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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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

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

Portfolio highlights

HOTO — HOTO Home Tools specializes in creating innovative home tools with a focus on modern design and smart functionality. The company aims to transform everyday gadgets into aesthetically pleasing and highly functional devices, catering to the needs of contemporary households. HOTO's product range includes a variety of tools designed to enhance theefficiency and convenience of home maintenance and DIY projects. By integrating smart technology into their products, HOTO Home Tools seeks to provide users with an improved and more intuitive tool-using experience, making home improvement tasks simpler and more enjoyable.
Yijian Health — Yijian Health is a one-stop precision medicine service platform. Its core products include genetic testing services and LIMS system software. It is mainly engaged in gene sequencing for individualized medication guidance for tumors, women and children, infections, chronic diseases and other diseases, providing professional testing for the generalpublic. Serve.
Beipei Technology — Beipei Technology offers children educational and companion toys that combine software and hardware, aiming to make significant breakthroughs in the field of educational toys.

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

Portfolio highlights

Boin Biotechnology — Boin Biotechnology is a cutting-edge biopharmaceutical company. The company is dedicated to the development of gene therapy drugs, with a particular focus on advancing the next generation of gene therapy.
Interstellar Lightyear — Interstellar Lightyear Technology is a developer specializing in dexterous robotic hands, focusing on creating intelligent dexterous hands with advanced capabilities for precise manipulation.
Dingou Biopharmaceuticals — Dingou Biotechnology is a developer of allergen diagnosis and treatment products, mainly engaged in allergen-specific diagnosis and treatment business

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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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.