Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in Asia in July 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Finance startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in Asia in July 2025
Investor | Finance Asia investments |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu | 7 |
Balaji Srinivasan | 5 |
Kotaro Chiba | 4 |
Kotaro Chiba | 4 |
Shintaro Yamada | 3 |
Yu Akasaka | 3 |
Tiang Lim Foo | 3 |
Daisuke Yanagisawa | 2 |
Ravi Trivedi | 2 |
Ayataro Nakagawa | 2 |
Hirofumi Miki | 2 |
Osamu Ogasawara | 2 |
Carman Chan | 2 |
Gokul Rajaram | 2 |
Ryota Matsuzaki | 2 |
Jun Nishikawa | 2 |
Yusuke Asakura | 2 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 2 |
Toivo Annus | 2 |
Tascha Punyaneramitdee | 2 |
Yuichi Kawasaki | 2 |
Kazuma Ieiri | 2 |
Boon Hwee Koh | 2 |
Daisaku Harada | 2 |
Nick Tong | 1 |
Tomohiro Kinoshita | 1 |
Hassan Ahmed | 1 |
Roger Crook | 1 |
Harveen Narulla | 1 |
Jason Choi | 1 |
Meng Xiong Kuok | 1 |
Nobuaki Tanaka | 1 |
0xMaki | 1 |
Lim Der Shing | 1 |
Masahiro Suda | 1 |
Ogawa Ryo | 1 |
Taizo Son | 1 |
David Vélez | 1 |
Navin Gupta | 1 |
John Dang | 1 |
Masahiko Inada | 1 |
Omar Rahim | 1 |
Nipun Mehra | 1 |
Shigeru Urushibara | 1 |
Chualapayap Srikarnchana | 1 |
Sagehashi Yuki | 1 |
Isaac Zu | 1 |
Charles Xue | 1 |
Chatchaval Jiaravanon | 1 |
Hidetoshi Takano | 1 |
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Content, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
- Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
- Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Aspora — Aspora help users bank seamlessly across countries, invest in diverse assets, access credit and insurance services.
- Kindly MD — Kindly MD is a healthcare services and technology company that offers solutions for sleep support, pain treatment, and medication management through advanced data analytics. The company integrates mental health services, traditional medication, and plant-based alternatives to provide comprehensive, whole-person treatment. Dedicated to promoting abrighter, healthier future, Kindly MD delivers personalized care that addresses the unique needs of each patient.
- 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.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, 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.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Content, Internet
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Finance, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Zypsy — A design collective building for web3. We invest creative expertise in exchange for equity/token.
- Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Tiang Lim Foo is a Partner and co-founder of Forge Ventures. He currently serves as a Venture Partner at Next Billion Ventures. He was also a partner at SeedPlus, a leading seed fund in Southeast Asia backed by SGInnovate, Jungle Ventures, Cisco, and IFC. Previously, he launched and managed Evernote's operations in Asia. Tiang has invested incategory-leading startups in the region and currently serves as a board member of Qoala, a Sequoia-backed insurance tech company in Indonesia. Tiang graduated from Stanford with a degree in Management and Engineering and holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Honors from the National University of Singapore.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- GajiGesa — GajiGesa is the preferred financial wellness partner for employers in Indonesia. GajiGesa's powerful fintech platform is built to help millions of hardworking Indonesians take control of their financial lives with dignity. The GajiGesa app provides member employees with earned wage access, financial education, and other financial managementtools to improve their long-term financial health responsibly. It also empowers employer partners with an enterprise-grade HR analytics platform to improve employee productivity, engagement, and retention by reducing financial stress for their teams. The company has seen 12x growth since January with more large enterprises keen to embrace this financial wellness solution. And we have doubled our overall enterprise customer base in the last quarter and now partner with 60+ companies, serving tens of thousands of employees. Based on GajiGesa’s most recent survey, for employers that partner with GajiGesa, over 75% of their employees have stopped using informal lenders for short term needs because our EWA solution gives them the financial security they need under the purview of the employer. GajiGesa is also increasingly popular for employees that have micro-businesses at home. They often use GajiGesa and use their salary as working capital rather than turning to informal lenders. Health related expenses is another common reason for GajiGesa usage. In early May, the company launched GajiTim, Southeast Asia’s first employee management app for MSMEs and SMEs to manage their workforce efficiently bringing transparency in income tracking and salary calculation. The app is aimed at businesses with between 5 to 100 workers and has gained more than 50,000 active users since it was launched in mid-March. This latest product innovation supercharges GajiGesa’s effort to expand financial resilience - establishing greater transparency in employee management as well as creating a holistic and meaningful integrated employee benefits solution for businesses of all sizes and their employees.The company was founded in 2020 by Martyna Malinowska (formerly Product Lead at Standard Chartered Bank, Product Director at LenddoEFL) and Vidit Agarwal (formerly Head of Business Development APAC at Stripe, COO at CARRO, and first employee at Uber in Asia). The company is Headquartered in Jakarta with a distributed team also based in India and Singapore. GajiGesa announced a US$2.5 million Seed round in February (led by Defy.vc and Quest Ventures) and an undisclosed growth round in early May from additional strategic investors including OCBC NISP Ventura, the Founders of Kopi Kenangan, and other Indonesian investors and family offices.
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- Arrow — Arrow is the best checkout experience for your online businesses that drastically increases your conversions rates. Arrow supports the all major payment gateways and is pre-built with the latest and greatest payment methods in Southeast Asia (SEA).
Daisuke Yanagisawa - Founder & CEO @ KAYAC
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Investment focus
- Finance, Financial Services, Small and Medium Businesses
- Seed, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.
Ravi is the founder of Srijan Capital, which is focused building startups, and angel investing.He is a board observer and board member for few startups in his portfolio. He is a Mentor for IIM-A's iAccelerator, and Microsoft Accelerator. Ravi is also an hands-on Digital Marketer with experience in running online businesses, and currentlylearning the ropes of SAAS business.Prior to this, he worked as a Principal at Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, an early stage technology venture capital fund in North Carolina, USA. Before Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, he worked as Equity Analyst with Bank of America, where he covered companies over $120B in market capitalization. He was part of the team that was ranked runners up in the Alpha Hedge Fund Research rankings.He started his career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard and has global cross-functional experience in leading and managing technology functions. He worked in marketing, consulting and engineering functions at Hewlett Packard. Ravi co-authored the book Web Services Security, and participated in creating web services standards. He holds a Patent for "System and Methods for Recommending Third Party Services". Ravi completed his MBA from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business and has a Masters in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, News, SaaS
- Seed, Angel
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Tookitaki — Protect your business against financial crime with Tookitaki's smart AML screening, monitoring and case management solutions. Get in touch to get started.
- Skillenza — Skillenza is the optimum gap filler between required market-ready skills and the current college student skillset. We directly address the growing concerns of students & job seekers while connecting the right person with the right opportunity.
- Mech Mocha — Mech Mocha runs India's first vernacular social gaming platform for the next billion Indians.
2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd.,
which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli
Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA
2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas
2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
- For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.
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Investment focus
- Content, Marketing, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
- Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
- Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
Osamu Ogasahara is the founder, CEO, and president of FGN ABBA Lab.
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Investment focus
- SNS, Content, Fashion
- Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
Carman Chan is one of the top 5 Women to watch in Asia Tech (Nikkei Asian Review). She is a veteran in the technology industry with decades of experience as an entrepreneur with multiple exits, a tech columnist and a globally recognized venture capitalist.Carman is the founder of Click Ventures, a global early stage venture capital firm. ClickVentures has grown into a leading investment manager, and two of its funds are featured as Top 5 Seed Fund (Vintage 2003-2015) in the world and Top 4 Funds to Watch by Preqin respectively. Click Ventures' investments include Spotify (ipo), Docusign(ipo), Palantir, Memebox and Youappi.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, China
Portfolio highlights
- Oddup — Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method.
- EventX — The EventX Virtual Event Platform is a comprehensive platform for hosting virtual events, meetings, conferences, and webinars that help you attract leads and audiences.
- FutureLeague — FutureLeague is an ed-tech company that teaches kids ages 6-12 engineering and programming with a focus on teamwork, creativity, and design thinking. It specializes in the fields of ed-tech, internet, and education. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Gokul Rajaram is a founding partner at Marathon Management Partners and Board of Director of Niural.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Laurel — Time by Ping frees lawyers from timekeeping so they can focus on their work, and firms can understand where time is being spent.
- Toma — Toma automates customer communications and operational tasks, helping dealerships boost revenue and enhance customer experiences with a conversational AI.
- Delphi — Delphi turns your expertise into an always-on presence, so you can grow your reach, serve your audience, and lead with clarity, without burning out.
Ryota Matsuzaki - CEO and Founder @ Kibidango, Inc.
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Investment focus
- Marketing, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Skimlinks — Skimlinks is the leading commerce content monetization platform. Its technology automatically monetizes product links in commerce-related content
- MV.Health — MysteryVibe offers the most advanced & award winning smart sex toys for men, women & couples that elevates their sexual health and wellbeing.
- HCVC — HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events.
Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Media and Entertainment, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
- Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
- Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
Yusuke Asakura is an entrepreneur, a businessman, a venture investor, a scholar and the co-founder of Signifiant Inc. At Signifiant, Yusuke manages a ¥20 billion growth fund “THE FUND” aimed at growth-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Finance, B2B, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Siiibo — Siiibo is a developer of an information platform intended to help private investors and companies to issue and purchase private bonds easily. The company's platform is creating a free, transparent, and fair direct finance that provides opportunities for an advisory to companies, such as support for diversification of funding using smallprivate placement bonds, and for building relationships with investors, enabling the private investors to get familiar with the issuance of corporate bonds.
- Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
- OVERFLOW — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
- Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
- RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Singapore, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
- GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.
Tascha Punyaneramitdee is the Co-founder of Alpha Finance. Attended University of California Berkeley.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- PStake — pSTAKE, developed by Persistence, is a liquid staking protocol unlocking the liquidity of staked assets. Stakers of PoS tokens can stake their assets while unlocking liquidity in the form of stkASSETs, which can then be used across DeFi to earn liquid staking rewards.
- TiTi Protocol — TiTi Protocol always monitors changes in the total value of reserve to calculate the average price of TiUSD in circulation and adjusts the market-making peg price of TiUSD in the primary market through the ReOrders mechanism.
- Voyage Finance — Voyage Finance provides Web3 firm decentralized loans for gamers and guilds.
Yuichi Kawasaki Prior joining SmartNews, I was COO at mixi, Founder & CEO at kamado, Executive Vice President at Hatena. I started my career at Cisco Systems G.K.
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Investment focus
- CRM, Finance, Security
- Angel, Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
- Givearth — Givearth app enable users to make donations just by carrying out their daily shopping and consumption activities.
- AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.
Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.
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Investment focus
- Content, Fashion, Logistics
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
- One Nova — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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.
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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.
Daisaku Harada is the Director of Management Strategy at Mercari. Daisaku attended Chuo University.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Tourism, Automotive
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
Nick Tong
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Investment focus
- Finance, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Voyage Finance — Voyage Finance provides Web3 firm decentralized loans for gamers and guilds.
Tomohiro Kinoshita - President @ Campanio
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Investment focus
- Finance, Asset Management, Financial Services
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- WhatzMoney — WhatzMoney is to realize the best choice of money for everyone from his previous work experience in banking.
Hassan Ahmed is the Head of Southeast Asia at Coinbase. Hassan Ahmed attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Finance, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Crestal — Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.
- Arrow — Arrow is the best checkout experience for your online businesses that drastically increases your conversions rates. Arrow supports the all major payment gateways and is pre-built with the latest and greatest payment methods in Southeast Asia (SEA).
Mr. Roger Crook has been Member of the Management Board with responsibility for the Global Forwarding and Freight Division at Deutsche Post AG since March 8, 2011. Mr. Crook started his career in 1978 as General Contracts Manager at Haden Young International. He joined the DHL Group in 1988 as Worldwide Business Development Manager at DHLWorldwide Express, Brussels. Mr. Crook has run the Company's Express business in Asia since the end of 2010. He is Member of the global Board of Management for Express and in addition oversees all global sales activities of the business unit. Previously, Mr. Crook held the position of CEO DHL Express Americas, as well as CEO DHL Global Customer Logistics. He has also held other responsibilities in the United States, as well as in Europe. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Liverpool University, which he graduated in 1978. He also attended Manchester Business School between 1985 and 1987.
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Investment focus
- Transportation, Logistics, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Jungle — Jungle is a payment method that enables the unbanked consumers to buy now and pay later without a need for a credit card or a credit history. Jungle lets you shop for your favorite purchases in monthly installments without a need for a credit card. Jungle is a payment method that enables consumers to buy now and pay later.
- Botsync — Botsync builds autonomous mobile robots to automate and digitize movement of goods from point to point for the logistics and manufacturing industry. Our robots can carry payloads from 500 kg to 1 tonne and are designed to operate in dynamic environments. Botsync's AMRs can be implemented at new facilities in minimal time with very minimalchanges to the existing infrastructure. With our technology, we hope to pioneer and push for larger scale adoptions of robotic automation in Asia's logistics and manufacturing industry.
- Pathway — Pathway is the data processing framework which handles streaming data updates for you.
Harveen is an entrepreneur. After an early career as a lawyer with top-tier firms in Singapore, he spent a decade in various lead roles in technology ventures. This included co-founding and heading Hatcher, a leading technology venture builder in Singapore, whose portfolio includes Dropsuite (ASX:DSE), Telr (Middle East’s fastest growingonline payment processor), SocialCops (India’s leading comprehensive big data play) and Hatcher+ (big data transforming venture capital investing). Harveen also co-founded Pan African Logistics (PAL), which has grown into a leading third-party logistics player in East Africa. Harveen’s key competences include assembling and aligning strong teams, marshaling resources to start and grow businesses, deal negotiation and acquisitions, spotting arbitrage opportunities, and interventionist and supporting board roles.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Telr — Simplify your payment processes with our easy integration. Accept online payments seamlessly with our all-in-one solution. Discover more now.
- SocialCops — SocialCops are partner with leaders and organizations around the world to make data-driven decisions easier and more effective. Their work helps build a world with smarter cities, happier citizens, better policies, and a brighter future.Today's model of engaging with data — both the data they use and how they use it — is broken. Dataintelligence is the solution. It starts with finding all the data you need for your decision — extracted from elaborate internal systems, sourced from places you never would have thought to look, and unified with real-time data. they then transform this mass of data into intelligent insights that make the best decision obvious.SocialCops is backed by 500 Start-ups; Rajan Anandan, Managing Director of Google India; and Manoj Menon, Managing Director of Frost and Sullivan APAC. Its team consists of engineers and data scientists. The company won the love of the Forbes India '30 under 30', World Summit Youth Award, and IBM Smart Planet Challenge.
- Inzen Studio — CVtogel adalah salah satu situs togel online terkemuka di Asia menawarkan berbagai jenis permainan togel Dua permainan populer adalah Togel Singapore dan Togel Hongkong.
Jason Choi is Venture Investor at Contrary Capital.
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- Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United States, Norway
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- Arch — The pioneering network for building bridgeless apps directly on Bitcoin. Arch makes it easy to deploy interoperable smart contract-like programs on the L1, without fracturing liquidity or taking on bridge risk.
- Hashflow — Tight spreads. Zero slippage. MEV-resistant.
- LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.
Meng Xiong Kuok - Founder & Managing Partner @ K3 Ventures
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Transportation
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Singapore, United States, China
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- Cicil — Solusi pembiayaan untuk kegiatan rantai pasok bisnis Anda dari hulu ke hilir yang mudah dan cepat.
- SimplyGood — SimplyGood supplies environmentally friendly cleaning and personal care products.
- SEGG Media — Lottery.com is the internet's top source for official lottery results, numbers, games, jackpots, winners and news.
Born in Mie Prefecture in 1982. Graduated from Faculty of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University in 2005.
Completed MBA in 2012 from GLOBIS Graduate School of Business Administration. He joined Aflac as a new graduate. Engaged in corporate sales at Globis Co., Ltd. In the early days of i-plug, he was in charge of corporate sales as COO.
After that,he worked as a CMO to create students, corporate marketing system and public relations, launched university sales, and started organizational development as a CHRO. Became CFO in September 2019 and supervise the Corporate Management Department.
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- Apps, Finance, Personal Finance
- Seed
- Japan
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- Givearth — Givearth app enable users to make donations just by carrying out their daily shopping and consumption activities.
0xMaki is the co-founder of SushiSwap which is one of the largest DEXes. 0xMaki is also a frequent speaker at DeFi conferences.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United Kingdom, Australia
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- Runes DEX — Swap Runes for BTC seamlessly, enjoy low fees, fast transactions, and earn yield as a liquidity provider.
- Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data
- Voyage Finance — Voyage Finance provides Web3 firm decentralized loans for gamers and guilds.
Der Shing is founder and CEO of the JobsCentral Group. His work scope includes strategic planning and responsibility for the group's P&L. His achievements include creating career media platforms that reach 10 million people in South East Asia. In 2011, he negotiated the acquisition of the group by CareerBuilder. Der Shing has a Bachelor ofEngineering (Summa cum laude) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a father of 3 and is an avid share investor and traveller. He is also involved in community work as a Council Member of the South West CDC and is a member of the Entrepreneurs Organisation in Singapore.
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- Internet, Wellness, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia
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- Homage — Homage is a trusted senior home care marketplace and technology platform seamlessly connecting seniors to the best quality of care on demand.The Homage platform uses a proprietary matching engine that pairs seniors with the best care professionals for their needs in real-time. Family members can schedule, manage, and monitor care visits throughHomage family app from anywhere, stay in communication with the care professional and get real-time information on the care their senior is receiving. Homage app will let family members know who visited their loved ones, how long they spent in the home, and what activities they did. Homage's technology allows it to send a Homage care professional to senior's house within 2 hours. Homage's app for care professionals lets them efficiently run their business, gives them better client information: a care plan individualized to each senior, helpful tips, ability to run on their own schedule, easy communication with the family members through their app.
- Motorist — Motorist is a Singapore-based automotive platform that simplifies vehicle ownership through smart solutions. We help drivers and car owners to manage their vehicle by providing them with a range of auto services. Stay informed with our network of motorists and motor services.
- Alodokter — App Kesehatan No.1 Di Indonesia. Dapatkan Info Kesehatan Terkini & Terlengkap, Fasilitas Online Booking Rumah Sakit & Dokter, Chat Bersama Dokter, Gratis!
Masahiro Suda - Chief Executive Officer @ Enigmo
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- Parking, Automotive, Reservations
- Corporate Round
- Japan
Ogawa Ryo - CEO @ Timee
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- Apps, Social, Finance
- Seed
- Japan
Taizo Son is the Co-Founder of VIVITA. Taizo Son attended the University of Tokyo.
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- Financial Services, Information Technology, Water
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, Singapore
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- LIFT99 — LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
- Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nu Colombia. He previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. David Vélez attended Stanford University.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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- Beep Saúde — Application that lets you find high quality healthcare services where you need.
- Carecode — Carecode system combines powerful Generative AI models with continuous learning mechanisms, enabling natural and autonomous interactions that adapt to complicated environments without the need for human intervention.
- Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.
John Dang is the Founder of ZipMatch.
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- Credit, Finance, Tourism
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Philippines, United States
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- Get Stoked — Get Stoked is an IOS native app (coming to android soon) allowing travelers to find something to do quickly for the best deal possible.Get Stoked in one sentence can be described as the “Skyscanner for activities.”Users can find things to do through our Explore feature which is made up of curated activities, tailor fit to the user'sinterests. A search button allows them to quickly sort through suppliers offering similar experiences so they can compare by price. At the same time, Get Stoked also empowers suppliers to optimize their business by allowing them to instantly drop their prices at any time by using our hot deals feature.The Get Stoked brand is youthful, edgy, and exciting. We are establishing ourselves as the go-to app for booking outdoor activities on-the-go for travelers.
- Loansolutions.ph — Get the best loan offers from up to 5 lenders for Car, Home, Business, OFW, Salary, and other loan types. Lending in Manila, Cebu, Davao & the whole Philippines.
Masahiko Inada is the Venture Advisor at DNX Ventures. He was Founder and Chairman at Kabuku Inc. He attended The University of Tokyo.
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- SNS, Content, Finance
- Angel, Seed
- Japan
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- Theoria — Theoria is a marketing team that brings together practical knowledge.
- Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
- Theoria Japan — Theoria Japan is a specialized Q & A service.
Omar Rahim
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- Finance, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- Singapore
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- Koinbasket — KoinBasket lets you invest in diversified cryptocurrency portfolios and indexes with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Altcoins and DeFi tokens on Binance, Coinbase and Huobi.
Nipun is a co-founder of Ula. Nipun has had previous stints building out businesses and categories at Amazon and Flipkart, has been an investment advisor with Sequoia Capital and been part of the leadership team at payments unicorn Pine Labs. Nipun holds a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University an MBA from The Wharton School
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- Financial Services, Apps, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Indonesia
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- Semaai — Full-stack agri-tech solution for Indonesian farmers
- GajiGesa — GajiGesa is the preferred financial wellness partner for employers in Indonesia. GajiGesa's powerful fintech platform is built to help millions of hardworking Indonesians take control of their financial lives with dignity. The GajiGesa app provides member employees with earned wage access, financial education, and other financial managementtools to improve their long-term financial health responsibly. It also empowers employer partners with an enterprise-grade HR analytics platform to improve employee productivity, engagement, and retention by reducing financial stress for their teams. The company has seen 12x growth since January with more large enterprises keen to embrace this financial wellness solution. And we have doubled our overall enterprise customer base in the last quarter and now partner with 60+ companies, serving tens of thousands of employees. Based on GajiGesa’s most recent survey, for employers that partner with GajiGesa, over 75% of their employees have stopped using informal lenders for short term needs because our EWA solution gives them the financial security they need under the purview of the employer. GajiGesa is also increasingly popular for employees that have micro-businesses at home. They often use GajiGesa and use their salary as working capital rather than turning to informal lenders. Health related expenses is another common reason for GajiGesa usage. In early May, the company launched GajiTim, Southeast Asia’s first employee management app for MSMEs and SMEs to manage their workforce efficiently bringing transparency in income tracking and salary calculation. The app is aimed at businesses with between 5 to 100 workers and has gained more than 50,000 active users since it was launched in mid-March. This latest product innovation supercharges GajiGesa’s effort to expand financial resilience - establishing greater transparency in employee management as well as creating a holistic and meaningful integrated employee benefits solution for businesses of all sizes and their employees.The company was founded in 2020 by Martyna Malinowska (formerly Product Lead at Standard Chartered Bank, Product Director at LenddoEFL) and Vidit Agarwal (formerly Head of Business Development APAC at Stripe, COO at CARRO, and first employee at Uber in Asia). The company is Headquartered in Jakarta with a distributed team also based in India and Singapore. GajiGesa announced a US$2.5 million Seed round in February (led by Defy.vc and Quest Ventures) and an undisclosed growth round in early May from additional strategic investors including OCBC NISP Ventura, the Founders of Kopi Kenangan, and other Indonesian investors and family offices.
- SuperK — SuperK is the fastest growing supermarket chain in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana with 100+ stores across Kadapa and Anantapur
Shigeru Urushibara - President & CEO @ UL Systems
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- Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- Japan
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- EmbodyMe — Making the unimaginable, imaginable with AI
- SPACE WALKER — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
- SingulaNet Ltd — SingulaNet Ltd provides a total solution using cutting-edge blockchain services.
Chualapayap Srikarnchana
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- FinTech, Finance, Developer Platform
- Seed
- Thailand
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- Money Table — MoneyTable driver first was formed in late 2016 to become the leading online financial platform to fix the problems with the current. And as a platform for further development, welfare organizations, focusing on facilitating online financial and personnel work. After VC funding from leading Asian and form a strong team. At present, we have beentrusted by many leading companies.
Sagehashi Yuki
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- Content, FinTech, Finance
- Angel, Seed
- Japan
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- DariaMe — DariaMe is a web media planning, development and operation, planning and production of various contents, online consultation service.
- BrainCat — BrainCat is a Japanese company that specializes in developing FinTech platforms. It has developed a social fund service “Gojo”. BrainCat was established on June 29, 2016.
- Kepple — Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
Isaac Zu
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- Finance, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- Singapore
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- Voyage Finance — Voyage Finance provides Web3 firm decentralized loans for gamers and guilds.
Charles Xue, also known as Xue Manzi, is a Chinese-American angel investor and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of UT Starcom and has invested in Chinese internet startups.
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- Internet, Information Technology, Retail
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China
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- Huaqin Zhilian — Huaqin Zhilian is a manufacturer of smart robot convenience devices in the field of smart retail.
- YEUNGS SAGE E-COMMERCE —
Chatchaval Jiaravanon - Advisory Committee @ Kejora Capital
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- FinTech, Finance, Developer Platform
- Seed
- Thailand
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- Money Table — MoneyTable driver first was formed in late 2016 to become the leading online financial platform to fix the problems with the current. And as a platform for further development, welfare organizations, focusing on facilitating online financial and personnel work. After VC funding from leading Asian and form a strong team. At present, we have beentrusted by many leading companies.
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.
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- Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
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- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
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