Top 25 eSports Angel Investors in Asia (June 2026)

Tom is a veteran in financial markets and is Principal at Stonehill Capital. Prior to this he has held positions with Lazard Asset Management & Fidelity Investments focusing on emerging markets and corporate debt. Tom is an MBA from Harvard Business School & has a MA in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University.

Investment focus

Industry: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: India, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Round size: Seed $250k–$1.5M
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Knocksense — A local news and recommendations platform.
Clever Harvey — Complete one-stop study abroad solution by Ivy League alumni. Get expert, end-to-end assistance for profile building, admissions & scholarships.

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David Ng is the CEO & Founder of goGame.

Investment focus

Industry: eSports, Media and Entertainment, Sports
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Ampverse — Ampverse is a creator-first gaming marketing and interactive media company connecting brands and publishers across Southeast Asia.
Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform

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Shubhrendu Koche

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Sports, eSports
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: India, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Seed $450k–$600k; Pre-Seed $46k–$1.5M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.
BazaarNXT — BazaarNXT is an e-commerce company that optimizes the packaging procurement for Businesses using technology. It is a modern, futuristic, and extended version of the local bazaar. BazaarNXT was founded by Gaurav Badharkhe and Dhananjaya S. in 2017 and is headquartered in Karnataka, India.

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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

Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 121
Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $228k–$4.7M; Series A $6M–$25M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

Origin Lab — Origin Lab provides rights-cleared multimodal datasets, 3D environments, and custom AI training services for reasoning and AI models.
Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
Asterix — Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities.

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Education, Gaming
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Geography: Philippines, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Pre-Seed $125k–$228k
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 — Gretel is a B2B SaaS connecting people with all the in-company information they need to do their jobs through their favourite applications, which can be found in the Gretel Store.
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.

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Patrick Lee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fanverse. He previously worked at PKO Investments as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. [NAME] attended the University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Media and Entertainment, Comics
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Taiwan, Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$5M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Metagood — Tokenization as a Service for Modern Capital Markets
Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders
Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.

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Roland Ros is the founder of Kumu, a digital entertainment company for fans of Filipino creativity. With over 15 million users, Kumu has reached the #1 Grossing Social App in the Philippines. It has also cracked the Top 10 in Canada, Hong Kong, Kuwait, UK and Norway, as well as Top 20 in several other markets like the United States, Saudi Arabia,Italy, and Australia. He also currently serves as an investor and advisor for several start-ups; and is passionate about helping others.Prior to KumuMedia Technologies, Roland was Vice President of Spark Revenue, an Inc. 500 listed performance marketing & growth acquisition platform. Prior to Spark Revenue, Roland was VP Business Development for MediaTrust, an online performance advertising exchange and technology company. Prior to MediaTrust, Roland was Partner & VP Business Development at Tracking202, up until the company was acquired by Bloosky Interactive. Roland started his career as a Business Development Associate with GE Money Bank, where he oversaw a $400 million dollar book of business.Roland serves as a Trustee for the Ros Foundation. He has a BA in Asian American Studies from UC Santa Barbara, and studied as an Executive Scholar at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Investment focus

Industry: Audio, Coffee, Gaming
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Philippines, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Seed $750k–$5.1M; Series A $8.5M–$40M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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!
PickUp Coffee — PickUp Coffee is a start-up that aims to increase the accessibility of espresso and milk-based beverages. PickUp Coffee is located in Taguig, Philippines.
Lista — Manage your cash flow, maximize business potential and grow your business with Lista. Download now for FREE!

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Axel Wehr - Partner @ Firestartr

Investment focus

Industry: eSports, Media and Entertainment
Stage:Seed
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Eximpe — EximPe digitises workflows for exporters and importers to do cross border payments, compliances and access finance
Ampverse — Ampverse is a creator-first gaming marketing and interactive media company connecting brands and publishers across Southeast Asia.

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A well recognised serial tech-entrepreneur in Southeast Asia, Mr Lau founded his first tech company when he was 23. Since then, Mr Lau has took 3 tech companies public .At the start of his career Mr Lau was the co-founder and Managing Director of Viztel Solutions Berhad (Viztel), a telecom and mobile internet software startup that grew into amajor regional player. Mr Lau was, at the time, one of the youngest ever managing directors of a publicly traded company in Malaysia.Mr Lau has also led a group of investors to a successful take-over of the Oriented Media Group Berhad (Omedia), a publicly traded digital media company, of which he was later appointed, Executive Chairman. In 2007, Mr Lau co-founded Cellsafe Biotech Group, a regional biotechnology business group that focuses on non-controversial technologies for harvesting and cryogenic preservation of stem cells. Cellsafe has since become a leading stem cell bank network in Southeast Asia, with operations across four different countries.Mr Lau frequently supports and plays active role in entrepreneurial campaigns in colleges and universities. He is a regular judge at major business plan competitions in Singapore.Mr Lau was a scholar of a Malaysian government-controlled corporation and graduated first class honours in engineering from the University of Manchester, UK. He was also a faculty research staff and PhD candidate at the Imperial College London, UK.

Investment focus

Industry: Retail, Fashion, eSports
Stage:Seed
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

Dressabelle — Dressabelle is an online e-tailer with a very clear edge in providing quality clothing that is suitable for work, seamlessly taking a lady from work to play, day to night, at affordable prices. In the span of a few years, it has developed from a fashion house to a lifestyle brand, with capabilities in product marketing, social media, onlinemarketing, content creation and brand endorsements.
Esports Players League — Esports Players League is a global esports tournament and media network that is developing an integrated and open ecosystem for tournaments, media, brands, publishers, teams and players with a focus on community and digital interactivity.

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Holly Liu is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of PKO Investments. She attended the University of California Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Software
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Canada, Taiwan

Investor stats

Total investments: 31
Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9M; Pre-Seed $120k–$5M; Series A $15M–$100M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

Forge — Playtest, market and sell great Steam Games
Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
Blaze.tech — Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications.

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Michael Patent

Investment focus

Industry: eSports, Media and Entertainment
Stage:Series A
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Ampverse — Ampverse is a creator-first gaming marketing and interactive media company connecting brands and publishers across Southeast Asia.

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Marcus John

Investment focus

Industry: eSports, Media and Entertainment
Stage:Series A
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Ampverse — Ampverse is a creator-first gaming marketing and interactive media company connecting brands and publishers across Southeast Asia.

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Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.

Investment focus

Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 63
Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$25M
Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
Edgen — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.
SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.

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Manit Parikh

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, Sports, eSports
Stage:Angel
Geography: India, Singapore

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
GlocalBazaar — We connect thousands of MSME sellers and buyers and farmers, enabling & creating economic opportunity for all. Our range of Seller & Buyers Services and tools help Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises to start, manage and scale their businesses online.Our mission is to re-define Local and Global B2B and F2B commerce in ways that build amore fulfilling and lasting world. We are committed to empowering businesses while strengthening communities and engaging people.

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Rob Gilby

Investment focus

Industry: eSports, Media and Entertainment
Stage:Series A
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Ampverse — Ampverse is a creator-first gaming marketing and interactive media company connecting brands and publishers across Southeast Asia.

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Kenji Narushima is a Chief Strategy Officer / Chief Of Staff at CARRO

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Sports, eSports
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Round size: Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.5M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

MindFi — Supercharge workplace wellbeing with next-day access to therapy and coaching across 50+ countries. Set custom budgets and pay as you go.
Anyone AI — We invest in talent from Latam.
Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform

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Sicong Wang is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Prometheus Capital. He is a Director of the Dalian Wanda Group. and Founder of Panda TV.

Investment focus

Industry: eSports, Software, Online Games
Stage:Series A
Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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Yingxiong Huyu — Yingxiong Huyu is a developer of mobile e-sports games and an organizer of e-sports competitions.

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Jonathan Shipman is a VP, Strategy (Product & Marketing) at Lantronix.

Investment focus

Industry: eSports, Beauty, Internet
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Geography: United States, Nigeria, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Pre-Seed $1.9M–$2.7M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

NEWNESS — Newness is focused on building differentiated tools and features that work well for the beauty streamer market in particular.
MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
Riley — Grapevine AI is the first AI powered personal assistant that captures, organizes, and easily retrieves the details that build better relationships. Learn more!

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Poh Kam WONG is a Professor at the Business School of National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. Through the centre, he oversees the university's entrepreneurship education programs, as well as the university's incubator, seed funding programs and mentoring scheme for nurturing spin-offcompanies by the university's professors and students. He has published extensively in leading academic journals on high tech entrepreneurship and innovation policy in Asia, and has consulted frequently for technology companies in Asia, as well as international organizations such as the World Bank. He is an active angel investor in technology start-ups in Singapore, Asia and Silicon Valley, and is the founding Chairman of Business Angel Network Southeast Asia (BANSEA) and chairman and partner of BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd, a business angel fund based in Singapore. He is the initiator of StartUp@Singapore, the annual national business plan competition in Singapore since 1999.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Gaming, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Singapore, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
FundedHere — FundedHere Crowdfunding Platform
TechStorm — Asia's number one 24/7 Esports, gaming & tech-centric entertainment network available in 26 countries. TechStorm is a brand new 360 international network on Asian Esports and tech-centric entertainment. The network celebrates the region’s trail blazers, the biggest Asian Esports and tech names, bringing them to a truly global audienceand fan base.The 24/7 network’s meteoric rise across Asia now reaches 43 million viewers, 100 platforms across multiple countries and is slated to exceed 20 countries globally. Its original Storm Bytes content is readily distributed to 96 million mobile handset users in 26 countries. This exponential growth was all achieved in less than 22 months.TechStorm is an international Esports and tech entertainment network backed by blue-chip, high profile venture capital groups and founded by prominent industry business leaders in media and technology with more than 30 years of extensive domain expertise and business operations. Its dynamic leadership team is fuelled by a passion to drive change and be the voice for Asia’s Esports and tech entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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Faisal Nasimuddin

Investment focus

Industry: eSports
Stage:Seed
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Esports Players League — Esports Players League is a global esports tournament and media network that is developing an integrated and open ecosystem for tournaments, media, brands, publishers, teams and players with a focus on community and digital interactivity.

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Luis Sia - Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer @ PayMongo

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, SaaS, Beauty
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Pre-Seed $228k–$500k
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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!
Peddlr — Peddlr is a free POS mobile app for small businesses. Effortlessly track and manage your sales, expenses, inventory, and transactions. Use it anytime, anywhere, and even offline!
BeautyBuddy — BeautyBuddy is a SaaS enabled, social-powered marketplace designed to streamline operations and drive discovery for beauty services in SEA.

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Michael Chow is the Co-Founder of XRM Media.

Investment focus

Industry: Gaming, eSports, Education
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Philippines, United States

Investor stats

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

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!
Canvas Media Studios — Innovative Storytelling For Every Canvas

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Michael Broda is the Co-Founder and Board Member at Esports Players League.

Investment focus

Industry: eSports
Stage:Seed
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Esports Players League — Esports Players League is a global esports tournament and media network that is developing an integrated and open ecosystem for tournaments, media, brands, publishers, teams and players with a focus on community and digital interactivity.

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With 18+ years’ experience of working for large multinational companies, Shishir brings his expertise in all areas of Human Resources and has a proven track record of working with Senior Management Level Executives to integrate the People Strategy in the overall Business Strategy. Prior to aCommerce, Shishir worked with global companies likeHewlett Packard, Coca-Cola, Volvo Buses, as well as global start-ups such as LinkedIn and Uber.

Investment focus

Industry: Sports, eSports, Internet
Stage:Angel
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform

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