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Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Asia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Education startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Asia

Investor	Education Asia investments
Ishara Yusdian	5
Edward Ismawan Chamdani	5
Boon Hwee Koh	4
Kotaro Chiba	3
Quek Siu Rui	3
Mohammad Maaz	3
Robert Huang	3
Kotaro Chiba	3
Minhong Yu	3
Jitendra Gupta	2
John Danner	2
Rohit Bansal	2
Shiyan Koh	2
Tiger Fang	2
Eric Feldman	2
Tim Lee	2
Jefferson Chen	2
Hendra Kwik	2
Amrish Rau	2
Kunal Bahl	2
Bob Xiaoping Xu	2
Michael Hansen	2
Yinan Li	2
Allen Penn	2
Hidetoshi Takano	2
Keisuke Honda	2
Jeff Shouger	2
Mamoru Taniya	2
Marat Kichikov	2
Shintaro Yamada	2
Tatsuo Sakamoto	2
Kevin Lin	2
Darius Cheung	2
Nikhil Kamath	2
Kunal Shah	2
Stanley Tang	2
Kiyoshi Ayabe	2
Narita Shuzo	2
Jack Conte	2
Martin Li	2
Nobuhiro Ariyasu	2
Dmitri Melnikov	2
Francis Plaza	2
Marcus Tan Yi Wei	2
Oleg Shchegolev	2
Mark Vranesh	2
Kenji Takada	1
Hikaru Kashida	1
Joshua Schachter	1
Naoki Yamada	1

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Investment focus

Agriculture, Waste Management, Lifestyle
Seed, Convertible Note, Debt Financing
Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Foom — We are an Indonesian-based tech-enabled consumer product startup with mission to aid adult sm*krs move away from combustible sm*kng and encourage people to shift to safer way of consuming nic. No Hassle, No Worries! Switch Now!
PasarMIKRO — PasarMIKRO, aplikasi perdagangan komoditas pertanian dan hasil laut. Solusi inovatif untuk petani, nelayan dan pedagang mikro indonesia!
Gayo Capital — Investing Tomorrow's Winner

Managing and Founding Partner of Ideosource Venture Capital, an Indonesia focused venture capital firm dedicated on early-stage to later-stage investments.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Lifestyle, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Foom — We are an Indonesian-based tech-enabled consumer product startup with mission to aid adult sm*krs move away from combustible sm*kng and encourage people to shift to safer way of consuming nic. No Hassle, No Worries! Switch Now!
PasarMIKRO — PasarMIKRO, aplikasi perdagangan komoditas pertanian dan hasil laut. Solusi inovatif untuk petani, nelayan dan pedagang mikro indonesia!
Gayo Capital — Investing Tomorrow's Winner

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

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, China

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.

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

Investment focus

Internet, Drones, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Siu Rui is a co-founder of Carousell and oversees Product and Marketing. Since the launch of Carousell in May 2012 together with co-founders Marcus Tan and Lucas Ngoo, Siu Rui has been deeply involved in product strategy, international expansion and capital strategy. He is passionate about technology and has been buying and selling online since hewas 13. This has been a driving force behind Siu Rui’s commitment to building a product-focused company, focused on solving meaningful problems for people globally.Prior to Carousell, Siu Rui spent some time in marketing and product management at VSee, Ogilvy & Mather and DBS Vickers. Siu Rui read Business Administration and Entrepreneurship at National University of Singapore and Stanford University (Under the NUS Overseas College Program in Silicon Valley, California), and dropped out of his Honours year to start Carousell.

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Jackett — Jackett is your assessment automation platform for eliminating the hassle of writing & marking (quizzes, tests, worksheets, homework) - and so much more.
NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.

Mohammad Maaz

Investment focus

Payments, Information Technology, EdTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Bangladesh, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bonik — Bonik empowers small businesses with an easy-to-use app to create and run e-commerce stores independently. Download Bonik App and create your own online store for free today!
Travela — Travela is an accommodation-sharing platform.
Interactive Cares — Interactive Cares is a one stop virtual Edtech Platform for creating employability to 2.7 Million unemployed youth in Bangladesh & make them skilled through its integrated digital learning. Interactive Cares is working to create 1 M job placement by end of 2026.

Mr. Huang founded SYNNEX in 1980 and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Prior to this, Mr. Huang was the International Sales Manager at Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Huang holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kyushyu University, Japan, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.S. inManagement Science from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Language Learning
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Polyglots — POLYGLOTS designs and develops English news-reader mobile applications. It helps its application users learn English while reading news updates.POLYGLOTS is a development and operation of the English learning application "POLYGLOTS", the Japanese learning application "MONDO", and the finance / accounting specializedlearning application "Bigo", and the development and provision of an adaptive learning platform.

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

Investment focus

Internet, Travel, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was anEnglish instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.

Investment focus

Education, Social Media, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Bottomsup — Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content.
Kuaipeilian — Kuaipeilian is an online piano training platform
Pingo Space — Pingo Space is a mobile platform that connects locals to expats through in-person experiences.

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.

John Danner is an Angel Investor at Danner Capital. Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute from 2021 - to 2022.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Geniebook — Focused and Effective - Learning is more effective as Geniebook is powered by A.I. to focus your time & attention on mastering the areas you find challenging.Champion Progress - Geniebook encourages better academic performance by giving you greater visibility into learning progress & rewarding it.Empowered & Confident - WithGeniebook, everyone can confidently master any area of learning, anytime, anywhere.
Stoa — StoaMBA helps young professionals get into business roles at India's high-growth startups. Learn from top founders and 10x your career in just 6-months. Our program...
Odyssey — Odyssey connects families with states to get access to funding from states to use with approved vendors to customize education for children who need it most.

Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TyrePlex — Buy car and bike tyres. Best tyre price, features, reviews. Find right tyre size and tyre dealer details
Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!

Shiyan leads NerdWallet's Personal Financial Management products. Before NerdWallet, she was an investment professional at Bridgewater Associates.Shiyan was also a Senior Investment Associate at Institutional Venture Partners, and began her career as an Investment Banking Analyst at JPMorgan, serving technology and healthcare clients.She is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Tripitaca — Tripitaca provides digitizing travel businesses services. They also provide financial support, hospitality, digital storefronts, BNPL services, travel package, and fintech technology services.
Swarm — Swarm is the professional network for expert fractional tech folk in AI, Design, and Software Engineering.
Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

Tiger Fang is Co-Founder and CEO at Kargo Technologies. Before Cargo, Tiger had successfully led various technology companies. He is general manager at Uber Indonesia and China, and managing director at Lazada Thailand.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Accounting
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Trukkr — Trukkr is Pakistan's First and Largest Online Logistics Platform. They make the process of booking commercial cargo fast by linking a shipper with transporters over a secure, intuitive and powerful platform. We ensure that shippers have complete transparency in price discovery, visibility, flexibility, and choice while at the same time givetransporters easy access to more jobs, whenever they want them. Founded in 2019, Trukkr is committed to reinventing the old school trucking industry in Pakistan by making it easier for millions of truckers to book a load and move at capacity, while ensuring shippers have access to the right truck, at the right time.
Bunker — Bunker is a financial analytics platform that provides modern executives deep visibility of their numbers. Bunker provides intuitive financial dashboards and monthly reports.
Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

Eric Feldman is the Co-Founder of Eco.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Security, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

SphereOne — The SphereOne platform eliminates the complexity of Web3, making onboarding a breeze for players with no prior experience.
Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.

Timothy Lee, Former Sequoia Partner.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Sirka — Aplikasi Diet Online. Sehat Bersama Ahli Gizi Bersertifikasi
Arta Finance — Arta Finance is a network of innovators, researchers, finance specialists, and business executives who help people get the most of their finances. Arta offers access to financial opportunities that help people to plan and enjoy their financial future but with less complexity and lower fees. It was founded by Caesar Sengupta.
Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

Jefferson Lanjie Chen is the Co-Founder, Group Chairman & CEO at Advance Intelligence Group.

Investment focus

Shoes, Fashion, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Novelship — Novelship is Asia's fastest growing marketplace for limited edition sneakers, apparel and collectibles from the world's most exclusive brands including Jordan, Yeezy, Supreme and more!
SkorLife — Download Skorlife App now and check your credit score online for free! Take control, own, and see how Banks see your data only in a matter of seconds.
Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

Hendra Kwik is the Co-Founder of PAYFAZZ.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

UpBanx — Upbanx helps to manage money, get financing, grow commercial partnerships, launch digital assets and raise investments.
Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
DELOS — Leading the Indonesia Blue Revolution. We are at the forefront of aquaculture shrimp farming & sustainable lobster fishing industry.

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.

Kunal is a technology entrepreneur and investor.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
Legistify — Discover unparalleled legal management with our AI-powered platform, all-in-one solution for enterprise-level matter management, IPR, notices, and contracts
Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!

Bob Xiaoping Xu is the founder of ZhenFund and one of China's most celebrated angel investors. Established in 2011 as a joint fund with Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund is China’s foremost angel fund. Managing USD 600 million, ZhenFund has 500 portfolio companies and offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Palo Alto. It has played a leading role inChina’s rise as a “startup nation”, and is widely considered a beacon of light in China’s vibrant startup environment. Prior to founding ZhenFund, Mr. Xu co-founded China's largest private English training and test preparation group, New Oriental Education, along with Michael Yu and Victor Wang. New Oriental became listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006 and currently has a market cap of USD 11 billion. The founders’ endeavors, which helped drive Chinese education toward a new global era, was featured in the box office hit “American Dreams in China”. The movie ranked as the #3 Chinese domestic box office hit in 2013. Mr. Xu’s success as an educator and an entrepreneur led him to angel investing, where he has pioneered a unique investment philosophy of investing in exceptional people. He became one of the most prolific patrons of entrepreneurship, as well as a leading mentor to young business leaders. Forbes Magazine has honored him on the Midas List as one of the World’s Top 100 Venture Capital Investors for two consecutive years (2016 and 2017). Mr. Xu currently serves as the Chairman of China Angel Investment Association. Mr. Xu has more than 11 million followers on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. He is also a prolific author who has published seven books on career growth and education. His writings, speeches and interviews on entrepreneurship, investment and education have had an immense impact on China’s emerging business leaders, and particularly on those who have studied abroad. He is the president of Committee 2005, an institution that gathers the most influential Chinese overseas returnees, including the likes of Robin Li, Neil Shen and Lee Kai-fu. Mr. Xu is deeply committed to philanthropy. He is a founding donor and the Committee Acting President of the Future Science Award, an annual award of USD 1 million for scientists who have made significant contributions to life sciences and physical sciences in Greater China. Mr. Xu graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, the Chinese equivalent of Julliard School of Music, with a bachelor’s degree in music. He received his master’s degree in music from the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to that he was a counsellor at Peking University for five years.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

YOTA — YOTA provides a healthy and diet food delivery service.
Lagou — Lagou.com offers staffing services. The company’s clientele includes Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Group, SINA, JD.com, Beijing Xiaomi Tech, and Zhaopin.com.
Omni Prime — Omni Prime provides Lending as a Service solution to retailers.

Michael’s responsible for strategic growth in the Asia Pacific region of Zendesk. An IT sales veteran, Michael has more than 20 years experience in a variety of sales and marketing roles spanning the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia.Prior to becoming Zendesk’s first employee, Michael was selling help desk projects in Australia. Michael is anarmy officer who has studied at the Danish Technical University.

Investment focus

Software, Art, SaaS
Seed
Germany, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

ChartMogul — SaaS & subscription reporting, analytics & metrics for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and PayPal. In one click get your MRR, LTV, churn rate, cohort analysis and more.
Soundbrenner — Innovative music tools that remove the hassle from your practice. Master your craft with the Core, Pulse or our app The Metronome.

Yinan Li is a partner at Plum Ventures and is known for being the founder of luxury electric bike maker Niu Technologies Group.

Investment focus

Internet, Tutoring, Education
Seed, Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

EHello Online Education — EHello Online Education company is located in Nanjing, China. We are dedicated to connecting foreign people from all over the world with Chinese people through SKYPE and QQ.

Allen Penn is an Advisor at GV .He attended Miami University.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Kyt — Kyt is an early-stage EdTech startup building a world-class online-first academy for extra-curricular courses, designed by the best instructors from around the world and offering individual and small group live classes for ages 5 to 15 years.They believe that interests and hobbies aren’t just extra – they are essential to all-round development.Nurturing interests outside the world of academia equips children with essential life skills. Plus, access to reputable institutions and respected teachers paves the way for a life-long love for learning.They want the children who sign up for classes to find something that interests them and wish to pursue whole-heartedly.Kyt is backed by Asia's marquee venture capital and industry veterans, that have just embarked on this journey and are excited to change how a child learns.
OnLoop Pte. Ltd — The mobile-first feedback and goal sharing platform purpose built for the modern team. Leave clunky, hated enterprise tools in the pre-hybrid past and choose Collaborative Team Development instead.

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .

Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.

Finance executive (Certified Public Accountant) with broad experience managing and developing high performing teams.Extensive experience scaling finance departments, financial planning and forecasting, treasury, driving operations and process development for private venture back as well as multinational public companies including: Zynga, GileadSciences, Intuit, Sandisk, Monogram Biosciences, Novacea, Avanex, Cell Genesys, Nektar Therapeutics and Proteolix.Deal experience covering a variety of transactions, including acquisitions, initial public offerings (IPO), debt offerings, corporate partnerships and follow-on offerings.Broad understanding of public company issues and structuring pre-IPO for transition to public company.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Social Media
Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

Investment focus

Apps, Content, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.

Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor. He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund. He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group. In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders. Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law. In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing!

Investment focus

Software, Education, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Intropia — Find Web3 jobs and other opportunities, capitalize your network, and hire the best talent.
Starly.io — Launchpad and marketplace for your gamified NFT collections
EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

Investment focus

Internet, Finance, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Autify — Autify - Revolutionizing Software Testing with the most advanced AI-powered Software Testing Tool
Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.

Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Information Technology, Task Management
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Nest Wallet — Nest Wallet is a wallet created exclusively for traders, and all wallets are linked across mobile and extension.
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps

Darius Cheung is co-founder of BillPin and CEO/co-founder of McAfee-acquired tenCube.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

Nikhil Kamath is the Co-Founder of Zerodha & True Beacon. He previously worked at Kamath Associates as a Partner.

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, EdTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Pee Safe — Pee Safe was started in 2013, launching the first of its kind toilet seat sanitizer. Since 2017, the company has expanded into several personal hygiene categories including feminine hygiene (pads, tampons, cups, etc), men's intimate hygiene, hand hygiene (Palm Safe), face mask and mist (Pollution Safe), while being one of the leaders in a fewsub-categories.
Mainstreet — Browse through our vast collection of premium streetwear like sneakers, apparel & accessories. Mainstreet is India's premiere hype outlet for all sneaker-heads out there!
Nazara Technologies — From a kid on a mobile screen to thousands in an arena, we understand what it takes to assemble a dedicated global gaming community, one move at a time.

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Nurturev — Revenue intelligence is the process of analyzing & interpreting sales data to make informed business decisions. Transform your sales conversations, gain insights, & drive revenue growth.
SydeLabs — Secure your generative AI foundation with SydeLabs. Build with unshakeable confidence. Unleash the full potential of your applications.
Mave Health — Mave Health uses science-based interventions to provide a comprehensive solution that fits effortlessly into an individual's lifestyle and causes no inconvenience.

Stanley Tang is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at DoorDash. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Finance, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Honey Homes — Hassle-free Home Upkeep
Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.
The Coterie — https://blog.thecoterie.co/introducing-the-coterie-34e739cb85dcThe Coterie builds financial software for people who may make more from assets than salary. We offer founders access to venture capital investments, estate planning strategies and, coming soon, lending products. Our founders—Ethan Agarwal, Jeson Patel, and ChrisBoies—have all founded and sold companies before. We built The Coterie, alongside our incredible team, because we saw the need for these products first hand, and we created the world we want to live in. We’ve raised $50M in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Garry Tan (Midas List), Gokul Rajaram (IFKYK), Mar Hershenson (Midas List), Stanley Tang (Doordash co-founder), and more. Loans are made by Coterie Finance LLCLoans are made by Coterie Finance LLC. Investment advisory services provided through The Coterie Management Co LLC. Not investing advice, no guarantee of future results.

Kiyoshi Ayabe is the President and Founder of KIYO Learning.

Investment focus

Content, Education, E-Learning
Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

KIYO Learning — KIYO Learning offers a commuting course, an online course to acquire qualifications for business people.

Narita Shuzo is a Executive Vice President/COO, CrowdWorks Inc.

Investment focus

Task Management, Media and Entertainment, Content
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
MiL Inc — Emerging products for healthcare food brands Producing food retailing and wholesale recipe development Restaurant management Catering media operation.

Jack Conte is the Co-Founder and CEO of Patreon. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Creator Now — film school, reimagined for creators
Nas Company (Formerly Nas Academy) — Educators in Skills of the Future
Twelve Labs — Twelve Labs helps developers make programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do by giving them the most powerful video search API

Entrepreneur and Investor based in Hong Kong. Attended Questrom School of Business, Boston University.

Investment focus

Transportation, Logistics, Freight Service
Seed, Series A, Series B
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Kyt — Kyt is an early-stage EdTech startup building a world-class online-first academy for extra-curricular courses, designed by the best instructors from around the world and offering individual and small group live classes for ages 5 to 15 years.They believe that interests and hobbies aren’t just extra – they are essential to all-round development.Nurturing interests outside the world of academia equips children with essential life skills. Plus, access to reputable institutions and respected teachers paves the way for a life-long love for learning.They want the children who sign up for classes to find something that interests them and wish to pursue whole-heartedly.Kyt is backed by Asia's marquee venture capital and industry veterans, that have just embarked on this journey and are excited to change how a child learns.
Sinoiov — SINOIOV is a data technology company that takes data as its core and uses artificial intelligence technology to help the road freight industry reduce costs and increase efficiency and provide comprehensive services for the road freight industry. Up to now, the company has accumulated rich experience in commercial vehicle networking operationmanagement and service, and has established national vehicle networking industrial bases in Beijing and Chongqing, with more than 40 provincial branches covering the whole country
Kargo Technologies — Kargo adalah layanan logistik online yang menyediakan solusi pengiriman barang yang mudah, cepat, dan terpercaya. Temukan layanan yang dapat diandalkan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pengiriman Anda.

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

Investment focus

Internet, Content, Finance
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.

Dmitri Melnikov is COO and Co-founder of Semrush.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Social Media
Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

Francis Plaza currently works as an Advisor to the Boards for PayMongo. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Gaming
Pre-Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
Philippines, United States

Portfolio highlights

AcadArena — AcadArena is the home of campus gaming in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Join tournaments, earn esports scholarships and meet new friends all for free!
Gretel.co — Insights on conversions, ad spend, top pages, budget anomalies and campaign improvements. No data expertise required.
NextPay — Receive, manage, and spend your company's finances on a single platform. Save time and costs with a digital financial suite built to empower growing businesses.

Marcus Tan Yi Wei - Co-founder @ Carousell

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MindFi — MindFi is an employee mental health and well-being app delivering personalized self-care recommendations, support, and behavioral coaches. MindFi enables people to achieve peak mental performance.
Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

Oleg Shchegolev is the founder and CEO at SEMrush.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Social Media
Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

Mark Vranesh was named Chief Financial Officer of financial and business experience in the software, entertainment and related technology industries. Mark also spent 8 years with Ernst & Young LLPâ€™s high tech practice, most recently as an Audit Senior Manager and earned a degree in Business from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1990.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Social Media
Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

Kenji Takada - CEO @ Konomichi

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Viling — Viling is a provider of education services for children, including STEMON, a science-math programming school that utilizes building blocks and robot tools; BOKEN, an exploration-based learning school; and Afterschool LeaLea, a primary school that provides lessons for swimming, English, gymnastics and ballet, and more.

Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.

Investment focus

Consulting, E-Learning, Communities
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
Urban Machine — Urban Machine pioneers sustainable wood reclamation. Read more about how our robotic solutions turn lumber waste into premium wood products.
Hidden Door — A new kind of social roleplaying experience, powered by narrative AI.

Naoki Yamada

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

SPORNIA — SPORNIA is an editor of sports knowledge technology.We provide support for athletes using content and monetization using emerging media such as SNS and YouTube.
Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
THE APP BASE Inc — THE APP BASE Inc is a design firm that provides its clients with web and mobile services. Founded in 2012, the firm also operates co-working spaces.

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