Top 50 ESports Startup Investors in Asia in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Esports startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Esports companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 ESports Startup Investors in Asia in November 2024
Investor | eSports Asia investments |
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Hustle Fund | 4 |
David Ng | 3 |
Shubhrendu Koche | 3 |
SOSV | 3 |
Tom Varkey | 3 |
Kevin Lin | 2 |
ZhenFund | 2 |
Innoangel Fund | 2 |
1kx | 2 |
BITKRAFT Ventures | 2 |
JMS Ventures | 2 |
Tamarace | 2 |
Sea of Stars Capital | 2 |
Loyal VC | 2 |
Fenghou Capital | 2 |
Huasheng Capital | 1 |
MIQ | 1 |
Seedthrift Ventures | 1 |
W ventures | 1 |
DWeb3 Capital | 1 |
Hana Ventures | 1 |
TNB Aura | 1 |
CRAES | 1 |
Prox Ventures | 1 |
CSC Group | 1 |
Fantom Foundation | 1 |
Jianjing Fund | 1 |
Share Capital | 1 |
Karel Vuong | 1 |
Blockchain Capital | 1 |
Endeavor Catalyst | 1 |
Chiratae Ventures | 1 |
Vulpes Innovative Technologies | 1 |
Metavest Capital | 1 |
Mirana | 1 |
Gandel Invest | 1 |
vEmpire | 1 |
Orbit Startups | 1 |
Faisal Nasimuddin | 1 |
Kenji Narushima | 1 |
Marcus John | 1 |
Tembusu Partners | 1 |
Kingsway Capital | 1 |
Tusholdings | 1 |
Zhongtou Guangsheng Jijin Guanli | 1 |
Shishir Bharti | 1 |
TheCodes | 1 |
Rob Gilby | 1 |
Michael Patent | 1 |
Huaang Intelligent | 1 |
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Uprise — Uprise is building wealth management for all - bringing the tools and the tricks of the 1% to everyone :). The company was founded by Chris Goodmacher and Jessica Chen Riolfi.
- Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
- Phaseshift Technologies — Phaseshift Technologies is developing a Computational Materials Engineering (CME) platform to help accelerate the Research and Development of High-Performance Alloys. The CME platform is driven by Quantum Chemistry calculations and aided by Machine Learning based predictive algorithms.
David Ng is the CEO & Founder of goGame.
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Investment focus
- eSports, Media and Entertainment, Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ampverse — Ampverse champions hyperlocal gaming communities through a connected universe of owned esports teams, gaming channels, original content, and merchandise. Through our ecosystem of talent, content, and technology, we create the connective tissue that bridges brands with gaming audiences.
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Shubhrendu Koche
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Sports, eSports
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, United Kingdom
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.
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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.
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, E-Learning, Education
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
- Knocksense — A local news and recommendations platform.
- Clever Harvey — Clever Harvey JuniorMBA is an online programme led by IIM and Ivy league alumni to teach your child the essentials of entrepreneurship, strategy and technology!
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.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
ZhenFund is a seed fund founded by former entrepreneurs to invest in the most promising innovators. New Oriental co-founders Bob Xiaoping Xu and Victor Qiang Wang established ZhenFund in 2011 in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. ZhenFund now has a network of over 800 portfolio companies, including over 30 unicorns based in China. Webelieve that great businesses start with exceptional founding teams. We are dedicated to helping our entrepreneurs build successful companies by providing them with mentorship and the best resources available. Some of our services include biannual demo days to top Chinese VCs, ZhenHR services, marketing and PR consulting, as well as fundraising. Our strong and large CEO network also facilitates entrepreneurs helping each other, especially via our WeChat platform. ZhenFund has been ranked as the “#1 Early-Stage Investment Firm” for six years. Bob Xiaoping Xu, Founder of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2016 and ranked #11 in 2019. Anna Fang, Founding Partner and CEO of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2019 and made her 4th appearance as #12, and #1 on Midas Seed List in 2022.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- UXLINK — UXLINK is a social infrastructure comprised of social protocols and a collection of Dapps.UXLINk creates groundbreaking landing sceneries for web3 groups.
- MioTech — MioTech is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers investment managers to better serve their clients in a world of complex data. By integrating and analyzing data from all types of sources, MioTech streamlines the entire investment process, creating an ultimate data-driven investing experience. MioTech has offices in Shanghai and HongKong.MioTech is backed by Horizons Ventures, ZhenFund, and prestigious individual investors around the world.
- Yi'an Holdings — Yi'an Holdings is a financial services company that provides one-stop investment banking services to small and medium-sized companies.
Innoangel Fund is an investment firm that invests in early stage companies.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- China, Canada, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Rushen Robotics — Rushen Robotics focuses on the domains of rehabilitation and fitness, and is committed to building modular and human-machine integrated rehabilitation robots.
- Zhiyuan Shenlan — Zhiyuan Shenlan focuses on data-driven biomolecule design and manufacturing.
- Saiyun Biotechnology — Saiyun Biotechnology is committed to the development of cutting-edge delivery carrier technology and breakthrough medicinal therapies.
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
- Predicate — Predicate network simplifies transaction prerequisites.
- Layer — Ethereum is the settlement layer, build full stack decentralized apps on top with Web Assembly and the EVM.
We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Loot Labs — Loot Labs builds ways to acquire digital collectibles.
- Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
- Darkbright Studios — Darkbright Studios is the developer of Smolbound, a Web3 life sim RPG.
Early Stage Investor
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Investment focus
- Sports, eSports, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Tamarace is a venture capital private equity firm focusing on investing TMT, mobile Internet, culture, entertainment, O2O, intelligent hardware, smart home, big data, and cloud computing. It was founded in 2011 and grows to over 50 members in 2017.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Service Industry
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Huakong Power — Huakong Power is a manufacturer that specializes in the development of energy-saving and intelligent control services.
- Guoyu qianjian — Guoyu Qianjian is a building and operating company that specializes in airbag sports venues. Its operations include sports event organizing, investment, construction, and maintenance of sports venues, as well as fitness and leisure activities. It actively encourages athletic power with its central tenet of "injecting sports genes into everychild". Its airbag sports facilities are more ecologically friendly, low-carbon, energy-efficient, versatile, and adjustable, and they can accommodate various social groups' sporting demands at various times.
- Xiling Biotechnology — Xiling Biotechnology is a medical company that specializes in the development of oncology and advanced treatments for malignant tumors.
Chen Hai Capital, Sea Capital Corporation (S Capital) is a venture capital firm institution that focuses information technology and traditional industries to bring opportunities for industrial change. Founded in August 2015, it was co-founded by three well-known investors from Jinglin Assets, Huaying Capital and Innovation Works, Chen Chen, WangWeijun and Chen Yuetian.
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Internet, Animation
- Series A, Series B, Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Just Free — Just Free operates and manages the wholesale markets of agricultural products. With the improvement of people's living standards, the consumption of healthy and safe imported medium and high-end food will inevitably become the mainstream consumption trend in society. The resources of SF Express Group will be used to focus on globalhigh-quality food, and gradually realize the direct production of global origin and shorten the supply chain Allow users to enjoy truly pollution-free, safe and healthy, high-quality and high-quality global cuisine.
- DHSP GROUP — DHSP GROUP sells clothes and provides street dance training service.
- Castor Studio — Castor Studios is an indie game development company that develops apps, games and creates game assets for others.
Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- UTOBO INC. — utobo is the one-stop platform for educators and coaching services to take live classes, create courses and test series, and sell them online in just 30 minutes.
- NIU NIU — NIU NIU is an e-Waste operating system that maximizes critical mineral extraction, while minimizing the environmental and social impact
- The Leaf Protein Company — Unlocking Earth's most abundant source of proteins - green leaves.
Fenghou Capital is early-stage equity investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Information Services, Internet
- Angel, Series A, Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Kuaipan Tech — Kuaipan Tech is a cloud gaming and cloud application technology solution service company based on ARM cloud technology.
- Wenge Group — Zhongke Wenge is positioned in the wisdom media big data application, aiming to provide technology engine for China's media transformation and upgrading, and to serve media communication capacity building. The company is facing the influence of China's media, government and enterprises, and is committed to the research and development ofnew media big data technology and systems. It has formed the "Wenhai" new media big data platform, "Wen Ge" central kitchen, "Wen Si" decision-making service. The platform's three major product systems, as well as the “Wenhai” new media data service platform, the “cloud trace” communication monitoring and evaluation system, the “Yunyong” media visualization analysis system, the “Yayi” text semantic analysis component, and the four flagship products.
- Fengmao Dongtou — Fengmao Enterprise is a bulk raw material logistics operator that transports bulk chemical products corrosive and non-corrosive by road.
Huasheng Capital is a Chinese venture capital firm that invests in real estate companies and is an investment arm of China Renaissance.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Software
- Series B, Series C, Series D
- China, Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AUTOST. — AUTOST. is a retail and used car auction platform.
- Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.
- Lihe Weiwei — Lihe Weiwei is a food processing firm that produces and supplies condiments and prefabricated vegetables.
MIQ operates as a domestic digital marketing and e-sports service provider. Its business covers digital advertising business, traffic technology services, pan-search optimization services, overseas traffic services, self-learning digital marketing AI engine, big data open platform, Taobao live broadcast, content production and distribution, thelive broadcast business of each platform, e-sports events, tele competition venues, e-sports education, e-sports towns, smart hardware, cultural and sports brokers, Internet cafe operation and maintenance services, and other sectors.The company was founded in 2012 by young global leaders of Davos and the Chinese digital pioneer team.
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Investment focus
- Sports, eSports, Payments
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Wangjing Network Technology — Wangjing Network Technology is a Hangzhou-based eSports service provider. Wangyudashi, which operates wangyuhudong.com, is a specialized platform for internet cafe payment and eSports registry developed by Zhejiang Wangjing Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Seedthrift Ventures incubate early phases of blockchain with capital, support, and promotion.
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Investment focus
- Software, Training, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Safeverse — Safeverse is a training, Learning, and Education to equip people for future jobs in the metaverse and real life.
- AdLunam, Inc. — Engage to Earn NFT-integrated Proof of Attention IDO Launchpad for the Web3 Attention Economy
- Astra Guild Ventures — Astra Guild Ventures is one of the world's play-to-earn gaming guilds. Astra Guild Ventures is bridging the gap between players and investors in order to capitalize on the growth of non-traditional games.
W ventures is a Japan-based venture capital firm investing in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds. They have been conducting investment to 25 companies in a total of about a year from the start of investment activities in April 2019. The company works not only with investment business but also with companies that provide services related to HR, PR,infrastructure, legal and accounting, etc., as incubation support after investment. It is also characteristic to provide support for the investor companies. In addition, in cooperation with other venture capital companies, Ar Rase TAGE startups regularly hold office hours that allow financing and business consultations to two companies at the same time and actively support startups are doing.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Uniam — Uniam is a manufacturing company that produces and sells pet food and other pet-related products.
- Edukita — Belajar Bahasa Inggris jadi menyenangkan, interaktif, dan memberi hasil yang nyata. Diajar oleh guru asing berpengalaman.
- Fogg Japan — Fogg is a platform that makes life styles more convenient without being affected by trends and deprecation like media and content
Digital fund focused on crypto & digital assets investments related to blockchain technology, Decentralized Finance DeFi, web 3, NFT, metaverse, Bitcoin, & more
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, United States, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Releap Protocol — Releap Protocol is a decentralized social graph on Sui and zkSync Era
- Rivalz Network — Rivalz is creating The first AI Intel Layer, powered by a DePIN-based RollApp on Dymension using Celestia/EigenDA.
- Martial Arts Awakening — Martial Arts Awakening is a blockchain game developer focused on the long-term development of blockchain, Web3.0, Metaverse, and NFT ecosystems.
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, Japan, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
- Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
Founded by entrepreneurs and fund managers who have established, grown and exited several businesses, TNB Aura looks to become the marquee venture capital fund in Southeast Asia.We believe in people and companies with strong fundamentals, and invest $1 – $5 million per investee company at either Series A or B.In combination with our innovationand corporate advisory arms, we provide more than just equity – we provide the tools for companies to scale and succeed in the region.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Retail, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Techcoop — At TechCoop, we are proud to be the pioneer that provides multiple support to the farmers, suppliers, financial institutions.
- PEXX — Discover PEXX, the ultimate solution for quick and secure stablecoins to fiat conversions. Send USDT and USDC globally, enjoying competitive rates in Euros, USD, IDR and more.
- Révi Coffee & Tea — Révi Coffee & Tea is a tech-enabled coffee chain company.
CRAES operates as an investment company of professional investors.
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Investment focus
- eSports
- Seed
- Singapore
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.
Proxima Ventures focuses in the healthcare industry, supporting outstanding enterprises with innovative technologies or service models that have tremendous potential.They manage multiple funds in RMB and US dollar, covering from seed to growth stages. Their team members with multidisciplinary backgrounds and resourceful networks, have many yearsof remarkable venture capital experience and achievements. They believe that active and effective collaboration with entrepreneurs will make substantial economic returns while bring meaningful improvements in public health.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- China, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zhenyi Yiliao — Zhenyi Yiliao is a medical enterprise focusing on structural heart disease.
- Rhino Medical — Rhino Medical develops advanced technologies with independent intellectual property rights. The founding team has rich experience in R&D, marketing, and clinical. On the basis of benchmarking imported phacoemulsification instruments and vitrectomy instruments
- Cytonus Therapeutics — Cytonus Therapeutics is a biotech company that develops a therapeutic platform designed to treat immune-related disorders. The Cargocyte platform at Cytonus has diverse applications as it can be engineered to target specific tissues and can deliver strategic therapeutic payloads.
CSC Group is an innovation investment management firm.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Enterprise, Health Care
- Angel, Series A, Series B
- China
Portfolio highlights
- KTVme — KTVme is a digital entertainment platform.
- saisi — saisi focuses on the development, production, and sales of time and frequency system solutions.
- 6Cloud Technology — 6Cloud Technology is a cloud security service firm.
Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, eSports
- Seed
- Norway, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Gateway.fm — GatewayFM is the first truly decentralized blockchain infra/node provider, with globally distributed, multichain infrastructure
- MagicCraft /New Generation Game — MagicCraft is an exciting multiplayer PvP MOBA blockchain game: fast moving multiplayer battles. Earn through our in game cryptocurrency. Free to play and play to earn options for all.
Jianjing Fund
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Investment focus
- Sports, eSports, Payments
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Wangjing Network Technology — Wangjing Network Technology is a Hangzhou-based eSports service provider. Wangyudashi, which operates wangyuhudong.com, is a specialized platform for internet cafe payment and eSports registry developed by Zhejiang Wangjing Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Karel is the Co-Founder of Treasure, a community-driven gaming ecosystem building the next gaming and entertainment powerhouse. Since launching in September 2021, Treasure has become home to over 15+ games and hundreds of thousands of players to emerge as one the leading web3 gaming ecosystems. Some of Treasure's games include: The Beacon,Kaiju Cards, Mighty Action Heroes, Zeeverse, Kuroro Beasts, and Knights of the Ether.Karel was previously a Senior Associate and Chief of Staff at Sagard and Portage wearing many hats and working closely with Paul Desmarais III on special projects and across communications, investor relations, fundraising, operations, and more. Before Sagard, was the first employee at Diagram to launch a $30M venture builder and served as a founding member of initial two portfolio companies, Dialogue (IPO - TSX:CARE; later acquired by Sun Life) and Collage (acquired by People Corporation).Started career in product management and software engineering at various startups and tech companies in Toronto, Waterloo, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A
- Canada, Philippines, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
- Satsuma — Speed up your app with our best-in-class blockchain indexing and query platform. Never worry about downtime or lag again.
- Delegate — Delegate focuses on increasing the security of on-chain identities and digital asset management such as NFTs and ERC20 tokens.
Partners to crypto builders since 2013.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Yellow Card — Buy and Sell BTC, ETH, USDT & More in Africa | Yellow Card
- Bluesky — Bluesky is a new social media platform.
- Drift — Drift brings on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures to Solana. Making futures DEXs the best way to trade.
Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- ASAAS — Asaas helps individuals and companies automate financial processes and improve their relationship with customers. It brings in a single place, sending invoices, automation of communication through different channels, and receivable management. It’s possible to receive payments through bank payment slip, credit, and debit, send transfers, pay bills,anticipate receivables and NFS-e. It’s also connected to a credit card to withdraw from ATMs. Much more than a bank account, it drastically reduces manual work in administrative tasks and reduces the default rate, improving the customer’s cash flow.
- Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
- First Circle — First Circle is an award-winning FinTech company that has been supporting SMEs since 2016. We help businesses increase sales, fund projects, manage payments, and ultimately overcome the biggest barriers to their growth.
Chiratae Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management and a portfolio of over 220 companies built over the last 15 years. The Chiratae Ventures network is comprised of five independent partnerships managing funds in North America and Asia. Each partnership makes investments on behalf of itslimited partners, including International Data Group (IDG), the world's largest IT media company. By combining the IDG platform – an unparalleled combination of global publishing, market research (IDC), and conferences and exhibition resources – with years of hands-on experience in early-stage company building, each Chiratae Ventures fund helps companies understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competition.With partnerships in the USA, Korea and multiple locations throughout China, India and Vietnam, the IDG Ventures network offers the international perspective and the local market expertise to help companies grow from start-ups to global success stories.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- BuyStars — BuyStars is a online gaming platform with a lot of fantasy sports.
- Skye Air Mobility — Skye Air provides an affordable and fast drone delivery service for online orders. We use drones to deliver products to consumers in just a few minutes
- Cropin — CropIn is a leading AI and Data-led agri-tech organization that provides SaaS solutions to agribusinesses globally. CropIn’s unique suite of products enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to adopt and drive digital strategy across their operations. Using cutting-edge technology like big data analytics, artificial intelligence,machine learning, and remote sensing, CropIn creates an interconnected network of all these stakeholders at different levels of the agriculture ecosystem, enabling clients to analyze and interpret data to derive real-time actionable insights on standing crop. Businesses can thus leverage technology to effectively drive their initiatives around Digitization, Predictability, Compliance, Sustainability and Traceability. With the vision to ‘maximize per acre value’ and the mission to ‘make every farm traceable’, CropIn adds value to agri-businesses by increasing efficiency, scaling productivity, and strengthening sustainability across the board. Thus far, CropIn has digitized over 5.5 million acres of farmland and enriched the lives of nearly 2.1 million farmers, while gathering data on 380+ crops and 3,600+ crop varieties in 46+ countries on 6 continents.
Vulpes Innovative Technologies
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Investment focus
- Legal, eSports, Software
- Series A
- Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ampverse — Ampverse champions hyperlocal gaming communities through a connected universe of owned esports teams, gaming channels, original content, and merchandise. Through our ecosystem of talent, content, and technology, we create the connective tissue that bridges brands with gaming audiences.
- PactSafe — Learn about Ironclad Clickwrap, the fastest, most frictionless way to execute legally binding contracts online.
Metaverse & NFT gaming consultancy. Project incubation, capital & advisory #playtoearn
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Hong Kong, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Inery — First-Ever Decentralized Database Management
- Myria — Myria is a decentralised Ethereum Layer 2, built to empower digital assets, NFT and blockchain gaming.
- Today — Today is a Web3 social simulation game, offering interactions with GenAI backed NPCs, and no-code tools for virtual world development.
Mirana Ventures is a leading global investment fund that provides long-term capital and strategic partnerships to visionary founders and fund managers in the Web3 space.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SatLayer — SatLayer to protect any sort of dApp or protocol as a Bitcoin Validated Service (BVS), significantly enhancing security for all of cryptocurrency.
- SnakeLite — Snake Lite is a classic arcade snake game with a competitive edge and offers offline and online play. It is designed for smooth controls and fast performance.
- Kinza Finance — Kinza Finance is a DeFi lending protocol that focuses on security and liquidity incentivization and offers innovative, and secure financial solutions.
Providing strategic capital and expertise to established and growth businesses around the globe.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.
- Singularity — Portal Gate operates as a compliant on-chain gateway to privacy and anonymity.
- LightLink — EVM-compatible, optimistic-rollup Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain offering a gasless Enterprise Mode.
vEmpire is a venture capital investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Ethereum
- Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Soulbound — Saga is a decentralized gaming community that aims to improve and grow the metaverse by creating a chain-agnostic market infrastructure.
- bitsCrunch — Forensic and AI-powered NFT analytics that fight wash trading, fraud and give accurate value for digital assets.
- Chibi Dinos — 10,000 Chibi Dinos on 10 different teams looking for a new home. Coming August 20th at 6 pm PST.
Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, Pakistan
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- medIQ — medIQ is integrated virtual care platform’ providing on-demand healthcare at the point of need in Pakistan.
- Truckistan — Truckistan is developing a logistics platform to make shipping faster and cheaper. The company provides real-time tracking, a customer dashboard, account management, and guaranteed transit time, as well as SaaS tools for routing, vehicle loading, and RFID implementation throughout the supply chain.
- Happioh Inc — Almost one in five people waste more than a third of their time at work. We care about freeing up people's time at work so they can spend more time on deep work and what makes them happy. Happioh is the only platform-and language agnostic SaaS meeting intelligence product in the market - born to safeguard and protect people againstlow-quality meeting hours. Happioh was nominated for the 2022 Product Award and 100 Most Promising Technology Companies. Semi-finalist at the Startup World Cup Silicon Valley, 2022, and WEF Technology Pioneer, 2023.The Scandinavian UX and design make it delightful and super easy to use. Happioh turns complex and manual meeting processes at work into simple automated solutions. A side-effect of Happioh is it helps you improve your attention, and memory, and lower your cognitive stress. Please contact us if you are interested in investing in our future rounds or learning more.
Faisal Nasimuddin
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- eSports
- Seed
- Singapore
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- 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.
Kenji Narushima is a Chief Strategy Officer / Chief Of Staff at CARRO
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- Apps, Sports, eSports
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Singapore
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- 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.
- Anyone AI — We invest in talent from Latam.
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Marcus John
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- eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Series A
- Singapore
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- Ampverse — Ampverse champions hyperlocal gaming communities through a connected universe of owned esports teams, gaming channels, original content, and merchandise. Through our ecosystem of talent, content, and technology, we create the connective tissue that bridges brands with gaming audiences.
Established in 2006, Tembusu Partners is a boutique private equity firm in Singapore dedicated to supporting high growth ventures across Emerging Asia.Leveraging our strategic location at the heart of Asia, we specialise in venture and growth-stage investments in fast-growing markets of Greater China, India, and Southeast Asia. Our deepunderstanding of markets, investment cycles and complex cultural nuances grants us clarity and insight in making our investments. We manage capital from our investors and partners across Asia, Europe, and America. To date, we have completed more than S$300 million worth of private equity transactions.Tembusu invests in disruptive technology that we believe have strong potential to drive innovation in key focus sectors such as financial and business services, consumer services, education and healthcare. With an advisory board and investment committee comprising well-connected corporate leaders and industry veterans ranging from technology to business services, we are committed to supporting founders and companies in their global growth.
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- Software, Blockchain, CRM
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States
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- Stacks — Blockstack is a decentralized computing network that puts users in control of their data and login. It’s the easiest way to build decentralized apps that can scale. Blockstack enables engineers to build secure, privacy-focused applications: users are in control of their data instead of storing it with large tech companies.Over 120 independentdeveloper teams have built apps on Blockstack.
- RSG — RSG is a professional e-sports organization operating across Southeast Asia to engage the gaming audience through e-sports teams and content creators. Its e-sports teams specialize in notable games such as Mobile Legends, PUBG, Call of Duty, and Warcraft, and have participated in over 200 tournaments collectively.
- InsurAce Protocol — InsurAce.io is the leading multi-chain decentralised cover protocol, aiming to make crypto safer for everyone in Web3.
Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- LandVault — In-Play is a non-intrusive monetization solution for games and digital spaces that puts player experience first.
- TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
- Tonstarter — Tonstarter is the TON-native launchpad, enabling crypto projects to raise capital in a decentralized, safe, and user-friendly environment.
Tusholdings is a large integrated enterprise that takes full responsibility for developing, constructing, operating and managing TusPark.As the flagship product of Tus-Holdings, TusPark(Beijing) is currently the largest single university science park in the world, with building area of 770,000 square meters, and more than 1500 enterprises havingbeen settled in the park. TusPark has become a gathering place for multi-national corporation R&D headquarters, China technology enterprise headquarters as well as innovation enterprises. It has become an important platform of Tsinghua University to serve the society and promote regional innovation, as well as a famous brand in China and even in the global science park industry. With more than two decades of development, Tus-Holdings has accumulated a wealth of experience in the development and operation of university science parks and established a high-caliber management team, actively promoting the organic interaction between innovative resources and the regional economy and successfully building up a nationwide innovation system with more than 300 incubators, science parks and science cities as the carrier. The radial network of Tus-Holdings covers more than 50 cities and regions including Hong Kong, Macau, the USA, the UK, Italy, Russia, Australia, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden, South Korea, Pakistan, Thailand, Egypt, Brazil, etc., being a new force of China's innovation system. TusHoldings actively responds to the national strategy of innovation-driven development in implementation of Tsinghua University’s role of serving the society. Under the overall objective of “striving to become a Chinese leader and a global model of S&T service industry”, with science park as the carrier, with S&T industry as the support, with S&T finance as a link, with Internet, big data and other new generation information technology as the basis, TusHoldings forms an innovation network with shared knowledge, information, talent, capital and other resources, makes clustering service innovation and promotes innovation, forming a business structure featuring synergetic trinity of “Science Park, S&T industry, and S&T finance”. So far, it has become China's new force in the process of building scientific and technological power, also a technology service provider with rich experience and wisdom, as well as comprehensive business capabilities.
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- Manufacturing, Electronics, Biotechnology
- Angel, Series A, Series C
- China, France, United States
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- Qingke Dynamics — Qingke Dynamics is a microgas turbine equipment manufacturer that focuses on emerging clean energy technology, steam turbines, auxiliary equipment sales, research and development
- Entropy Technology — Entropy Technology is a semiconductor heating material research and development enterprise.
- Stilla Technologies — Stilla Technologies is taking digital PCR to a whole new level with a unique 6-color target detection capability
Zhongtou Guangsheng Jijin Guanli is an investment firm.
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- Gaming, eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Series A
- China
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- Daily E-Sports — Daily E-Sports forms an e-sports event operation, e-sport terminal customization, e-sport big data service, e-sport education and training, e-sport town planning, and operations in business sectors by creating a cross-border integration of multi-resource scenarios and the e-sport industry. For CMEG and mobile e-sports tournaments, they produceequipment.
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.
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- Sports, eSports, Internet
- Angel
- Singapore
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- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Blockchain focused. Web3, DeFi. Gaming, DAO. Layer 2, anything.
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- Gaming, eSports, Blockchain
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- MagicCraft /New Generation Game — MagicCraft is an exciting multiplayer PvP MOBA blockchain game: fast moving multiplayer battles. Earn through our in game cryptocurrency. Free to play and play to earn options for all.
Rob Gilby
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- eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Series A
- Singapore
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- Ampverse — Ampverse champions hyperlocal gaming communities through a connected universe of owned esports teams, gaming channels, original content, and merchandise. Through our ecosystem of talent, content, and technology, we create the connective tissue that bridges brands with gaming audiences.
Michael Patent
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- eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Series A
- Singapore
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- Ampverse — Ampverse champions hyperlocal gaming communities through a connected universe of owned esports teams, gaming channels, original content, and merchandise. Through our ecosystem of talent, content, and technology, we create the connective tissue that bridges brands with gaming audiences.
Huaang Intelligent is an investment company.
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- Sports, Fitness, eSports
- Seed
- China
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- Guoyu qianjian — Guoyu Qianjian is a building and operating company that specializes in airbag sports venues. Its operations include sports event organizing, investment, construction, and maintenance of sports venues, as well as fitness and leisure activities. It actively encourages athletic power with its central tenet of "injecting sports genes into everychild". Its airbag sports facilities are more ecologically friendly, low-carbon, energy-efficient, versatile, and adjustable, and they can accommodate various social groups' sporting demands at various times.
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