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Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Asia

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

Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Asia

Investor	Food and Beverage Asia investments
Yu Akasaka	6
Boon Hwee Koh	5
Henry Soesanto	5
Yusuke Sato	4
Nobuhiro Ariyasu	4
Ryosuke Matsumoto	4
Ingo Drexler	4
Serguei Netessine	4
Ryan Bethencourt	3
Jun Nishikawa	3
Teng Wen Wee	3
Ivan Lee	3
Hidetoshi Takano	3
James Robertson	3
Toivo Annus	3
Naruhisa Nakagawa	3
Hayden Zou	3
Jahangir Alam	2
Shahjahan Jewel	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
Axel Peyriere	2
Komura Fujio	2
Lisa-Marie Tse	2
Umar Saleem	2
Li Kanglin	2
Dele Alli	2
Saad Saeed	2
Boquan He	2
Simon Newstead	2
Xin Xu	2
Yusuke Tanaka	2
Asif Keshodia	2
Tak Wai Chung	2
Youssef Salem	2
Chikako Morimoto	2
Hiroaki Kitano	2
Gokul Rajaram	2
Siqi Chen	2
Wes Schwalje	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
Dai Tamesue	2
Hsien Yang Lee	2
Lucas Driggers	2
Sahil Bloom	2
Matt Brezina	2
Kazuma Ieiri	2
Jeff Olyniec	2
Simon Szewach	2
Sung Ho Choi	2
Bala Chandra	2

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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.

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.

Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.

Henry Soesanto serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Monde Nissin Corporation.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Singapore, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Haofood — The popularity of plant-based meat is rapidly growing in China; in 2020, 39% of the population were attempting to reduce their meat consumption, and 65% of them were willing to try plant-based meat to help them in this. However, many are dissatisfied with the plant-based meat options in China; Haofood’s founders discovered that this was because ofthe tofu-like quality of products currently available in the market. On top of that, often flexitarians and vegetarians struggle with craving comfort foods. Being the most consumed meat in the world, chicken products, such as fried chicken, are a comfort food to and missed by countless first-time vegetarians.Haofood offers a solution to these problems with its realistically textured and healthy plant-based chicken. They are the first company in the world to use peanut protein as their base, taking advantage of its potential for a strong and elastic texture. Led by a founding team of senior professionals from the food industry, who, together, hold a well-rounded skill set ranging from entrepreneurship to food technology, Haofood uses its own proprietary extrusion technology and formulation to create affordable, delicious plant-based chicken made from sustainable, non-GMO peanuts.
WTH Foods — WTH Foods is a plant-based alternative protein company based in Manila, Philippines. Using local and sustainable ingredients, we create plant-based versions of processed meat products that Southeast Asian love
Shiok Meats — Delicious, healthy & cell-based seafood from Shiok Meats. Get variety of cultivated meat, cultivated seafood, cell cultured meat & Lab Meats in Singapore.

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.

Investment focus

Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Ryosuke Matsumoto is the founder and CEO of Community Factory Inc.Ryosuke is born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1981. He joined launching of the publication venture company, and ran a cafe while he was attending Chuo University in Tokyo. Since he joined launching the social media venture company in 2004, he has been in social media business. In2006, Ryosuke founded Community Factory Inc. which specialized in planning and operating social media and blog services.Community Factory started to specialize in social application for mobile from 2009, and Community Factory draw investments of around 4.5 million US dollars from venture capitals and mixi inc. then the biggest social media in Japan. DECOPIC, Community Factory's one of the apps for smartphone, has been downloaded 6 million times in the 6 months since its release, and it is rapidly gaining users mainly in Asian countries.In Sep 2012, Ryosuke and other stock holders sold Community Factory to Yahoo Japan Corp., and he remains as CEO of Community Factory.

Investment focus

Art, Reservations, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.

Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.

Serguei Netessine is Vice-Dean for Global Initiatives and Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He lived and worked in Russia, USA, France and Singapore., author and speaker on innovation.Prof. Netessine receivedBS/MS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology and, after working for Motorola and Lucent Technologies, he also received MS/Ph.D. degrees in Operations Management from the University of Rochester. His current research focuses on business model innovation and operational excellence and he worked on these topics with numerous organizations including Federal Aviation Administration (USA), Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s, Rolls Royce, Comcast, Expedia, ABB and US Air Force. He serves on advisory boards of multiple startup companies and regularly speaks on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.Professor Netessine has been the recipient of several teaching awards for delivering classes to MBA and Executive MBA students at the Wharton School and INSEAD, and he frequently teaches in Executive Education Programs. Prolific academic writer, professor Netessine holds senior editorial positions at several leading academic journals and he co-authored dozens of publications in prominent management journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review and other. His work has received extensive media coverage in CIO Magazine, the Economist, Forbes, Multichannel Merchant, New York Times, US News and Strategy & Business and other press. He regularly blogs about innovation on http://www.renaissanceinnovator.com and HBR Network. His latest book on Business Model Innovation is forthcoming with Harvard Business Press in 2014.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

TabSquare — Look to the future of the F&B industry - Tabsquare's POS integrated online restaurant system increases hospitality profitability through AI Technology.
Comedywire — Comedywire offers an online platform that enables its users to find, share, and create posts of comedic content. Comedywire enables its users to connect with each other and share ideas. Comedywire was founded by Preston Gitlin in December 2014.
Alltius Inc. — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.

Ryan is a co-founder and CEO at Wild Earth and a co-founder and Partner at Sustainable Food Ventures, bringing years of experience in leading, building and advising high-growth food and biotechnology companies. Ryan is a biotech entrepreneur, investor, and one of the founders of the biohacker movement. He’s a co-founder and former Program Directorat IndieBio and has invested in over 130 early stage biotech startups and served as the head of life sciences at the XPRIZE Foundation. As an ethical vegan, Ryan is passionate about the future of biology as a technology, applied across all industries to solve some of humanity’s most intractable problems. Ryan fosters dogs for Rocket Dog Rescue and is passionate about mindfulness, meditation, and mentoring. His work at the interface of science, food, and business has been covered by many major publications.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Chile, India

Portfolio highlights

WTH Foods — WTH Foods is a plant-based alternative protein company based in Manila, Philippines. Using local and sustainable ingredients, we create plant-based versions of processed meat products that Southeast Asian love
Sobo Foods — Sobo Foods is a plant based comfort food provider.
Libre Foods — Libre Foods is a biotech startup on a mission to liberate the food system and create a more free future for people, the planet, and animals. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ eureka, Inc.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Content
Seed, Series A, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
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.

Teng Wen Wee - Founder, Managing Partner @ The Lo & Behold Group

Investment focus

Internet, Food and Beverage, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Grain — Grain is an online restaurant that delivers healthy and tasty Meals On Demand, Meal Plans, as well as Catering.
RedMart — RedMart is an online supermarket in Singapore that delivers groceries and home essentials to your door. RedMart is not a traditional retailer. They are a platform that enables manufacturers to bypass retailers and engage shoppers directly. Their platform provides manufacturers with pioneering marketing capabilities and data analytics.
Eatsy Technologies — Eatsy Technologies operates as a restaurant technology company. The company helps restaurants to simplify their operations and retain their in-dining customers, in a single platform. Diners receive cashback when they order and pay in restaurant with the Diners App, while enjoying personalized in-app promos from their favorite restaurants.EatsyTechnologies is backed by Quest Ventures, a venture fund for technology companies.

Ivan Lee - Founder @ Raging Bull

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Lifestyle
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Grain — Grain is an online restaurant that delivers healthy and tasty Meals On Demand, Meal Plans, as well as Catering.
Vanitee — Vanitee is a mobile app to discover new beauty trends and book beauty artists.
Golden Moments —

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

James Robertson

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.

Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.

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.

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting
Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zeigo — Zeigo by Schneider Electric provides sustainability software that is built to simplify and accelerate carbon reduction, lighting the path toward a carbon-free future.
Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
Sniffer Robotics — Comprehensive methane emissions detection and quantification, advanced imagery and analytics; Sniffer Robotics provides advanced solutions that benefit the environment.

Hayden Zou

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.

Jahangir Alam COO of eFoli.

Investment focus

B2B, B2C, Grocery
Angel, Pre-Seed
Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Green Grocery — Green Grocery burst on the scene back in 2020 with a slogan - Quality That You Can Trust, Today the customers - most of who have turned into repeat customers with appreciation and love, publicly admire Green Grocery’s integrity and living up to its slogan. Green Grocery has brought you a wide array of products - rice of different types, handpickedfoods, ingredients, spices sourced from where they are produced best, oil, ghee, pickle, and more which have grown fondness among foodies for creating exotic explosions of flavor. Foods contaminated by unseen woes - harmful viruses, toxins, bacteria, parasites, and chemicals can leave our organs damaged, the body dysfunctional and our lives grappling with formidable challenges. However, these risks can be eliminated with a stringent food safety management system that can ensure the quality, safety, and nutrient value of food from the very beginning, when it’s in the early stage of farming. The trust Green Grocery has successfully built owes immensely to its close supervision and filtration system during the course of its products’ journey - farming, packaging, storing, delivery. Eating right is indispensable to stay strong and have a happy and normal life. Green Grocery has set a new norm by continuously delivering foods of the best quality with their safety and hygiene ensured. Checkout Green Grocery Website: https://greengrocery.com.bd
Protein Market — Protein Market is an agrotech startup that provides safe protein products to B2B and B2C customers and aims to build a safe and organic food chain and farming networks.

Md Shahjahan Jewel Chief Executive Officer at WPMangeNinja LLC

Investment focus

B2B, B2C, Grocery
Angel, Pre-Seed
Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Green Grocery — Green Grocery burst on the scene back in 2020 with a slogan - Quality That You Can Trust, Today the customers - most of who have turned into repeat customers with appreciation and love, publicly admire Green Grocery’s integrity and living up to its slogan. Green Grocery has brought you a wide array of products - rice of different types, handpickedfoods, ingredients, spices sourced from where they are produced best, oil, ghee, pickle, and more which have grown fondness among foodies for creating exotic explosions of flavor. Foods contaminated by unseen woes - harmful viruses, toxins, bacteria, parasites, and chemicals can leave our organs damaged, the body dysfunctional and our lives grappling with formidable challenges. However, these risks can be eliminated with a stringent food safety management system that can ensure the quality, safety, and nutrient value of food from the very beginning, when it’s in the early stage of farming. The trust Green Grocery has successfully built owes immensely to its close supervision and filtration system during the course of its products’ journey - farming, packaging, storing, delivery. Eating right is indispensable to stay strong and have a happy and normal life. Green Grocery has set a new norm by continuously delivering foods of the best quality with their safety and hygiene ensured. Checkout Green Grocery Website: https://greengrocery.com.bd
Protein Market — Protein Market is an agrotech startup that provides safe protein products to B2B and B2C customers and aims to build a safe and organic food chain and farming networks.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Startups - Mentoring - Advising - Emerging Markets. I am a enthusiastic entrepreneur and angel investor working with startups all around the world. Have worked / mentored / coached / partnered / invested in more than 200 startups around the world. Specially keen on online marketplaces and emerging and frontier markets.

Investment focus

Delivery, E-Commerce, Retail
Seed, Series A
Egypt, Nepal, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Appetito — Buy all your groceries and household essentials from your online supermarket. Order from the comfort of your home at your finger tips.
FreshGora — Food and Grocery delivery in Yangon, Myanmar.
Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.

Komura Fujio

Investment focus

Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Seed, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

GINKAN — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.

Lisa-Marie Tse is a Chief Brand Officer and Founder of Allklear.

Investment focus

Nutrition, Organic Food
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Future salad — Allklear is a Hong Kong food tech startup combining nature and technology.

Umar Saleem, SWVL.

Investment focus

Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods
Pre-Seed
Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.

Li Kanglin

Investment focus

Retail, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Deyanshe —
SoupMaster — SoupMaster is a Chinese restaurant chain and retail brand. It provides various nutritious soups for pregnant women, patients with a demand for health recuperation, and other people pursuing high-quality life.
Lancet Barbecue —

Dele Alli

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Retail, Organic Food
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TiNDLE — TiNDLE is a food-tech business which provides plant based chicken delicacy.
Next Gen Foods — SEE IT. TASTE IT. BELIEVE IT. The next generation of plant based foods is here. Using plants to create delicious and satisfying meat experiences you crave.

Saad Saeed is a Founder at Stealth Mode.

Investment focus

Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods
Pre-Seed
Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.

Boquan He

Investment focus

Tea, Bakery, Retail
Series A, Angel, Series D
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

HeyTea — HeyTea is a Chinese tea shop that specializes in cheese-topped tea and fruit tea. In 2012, HEYTEA originated from an alley in the riverside. Originally known as ROYALTEA , the royal tea was completely upgraded to the registered brand HEYTEA.
MarketX Ventures — MarketX is a one-stop shop for over 300 family offices, funds, and high net worth individuals to access high growth investment opportunities. Investment Management Platform Access to investment opportunities in high-growth companies all over the world from your smartphone.
Zetian Benjia — Zetian Benjia operates as a bakery snack brand.

Simon Newstead is CO-Founder and CEO of Frenzoo, creator of mobile 3D lifestyle games with it’s Me Girl™ series.

Investment focus

Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Organic Food
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Change Foods — We (re)create real dairy foods that delight the taste buds, nourish people and sustain the planet, by using the magic of microbes instead of animals.
Green Butcher — Green Butcher operates as a plant-based eatery chain.
THE PACK — Nutritionally complete vegan dog food. Grain-free & developed with food scientists & animal nutritionists, try our delicious vegan dog food now.

Xin Xu

Investment focus

Video, Mobile Apps, Media and Entertainment
Angel, Series A, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

Easy Foods — Easy Foods engages in the food packaging equipment and food production business.
Ren Ren TV — Ren Ren TV is an oversea cultural video streaming platform.

"Shin"ichiro joined Yahoo Japan in April 2013. From July 2013, he joined YJ Capital. He has served as COO of YJ Capital since January 2015. Prior to Yahoo! Japan, Shin was General Director of Dream Incubator Vietnam from 2007 to 2012, managing US$50 million private equity funds in Vietnam. He was formerly a Project Manager at DreamIncubator Japan. He started his career at Future Architect as a system engineer.Shin received his bachelor's degree in Policy Management from Keio University.

Investment focus

Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

TakeMe Co., Ltd. — TakeMe aims to provide an “One-stop Inbound destination service” by enabling tourist to easily find, communicate with, and pay with smartphones via QR code at In-Travel destinations. TakeMe, is the country’s largest inbound service platform in Japan, which lets tourists find, communicate with, and pay with QR code at our affiliated shops,restaurants and tourist attractions. Since our launch in 2015 as JapanFoodie, we have expanded our merchant base to tens of thousands beyond food and restaurants, to include travel, lodging, shopping and events, providing every tourist with the best experience as your best local guide and friend.

Asif Keshodia is an Angel Investor based in Dubai, UAE and the co-founder of Storfox.com. He is most notable for his work as the Group CFO of Souq.com, which was acquired by Amazon in a milestone deal for the Middle East tech sector. He joined Souq in 2011 as an early stage investor and raised over $400m to help it become the leading onlineretailer in the region. After its acquisition by Amazon in 2017, he took the role of MENA Regional Finance Director at Amazon. Asif has over 20 years of experience with some of the world’s biggest names, such as PwC, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, and Amazon, in countries around the world, including the UK, South Africa, Russia, and Pakistan. He is now using his decades of multinational corporate experience to help usher small startups to big success. He is dedicated to aiding young entrepreneurs launch their projects, with sights currently set on bolstering the e-commerce ecosystem in the MENA region and South Asia’s burgeoning market.In the recent past Asif has served on the Boards of Souq, Payfort.com, and Instashop.com, recently acquired by the Delivery Hero. He has also invested in a number of fledgling startups including Shipox, Clicky.pk, EzHire and Cartlow.comAsif is a graduate of the University of Karachi with a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce & Economics and a Chartered Accountant (FCA). In 2016, he was named Best Retail CFO of the MENA Region by renowned Middle Eastern publication, The CFO.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Consumer Goods
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Kamel Pay — Looking for best payment method and safe corporate payment solutions in Dubai? Kamelpay provide leading business payment services in UAE
CLICKY.PK — Clicky.pk offers the largest collection of trendy and affordable fashion and lifestyle products online. Clicky has the best online brand stores in Pakistan. Huge Collection of Jewellery, Handbags, Clutches, Sunglasses, Clothing, Nightwear & More!
PriceOye — Priceoye is Pakistan's No.1 marketplace for buying original mobile phones and electronics. Priceoye is Pakistan's most trusted online store and offers the lowest prices every day.

Tak Wai CHUNG joined EQT Partners in February 2009 as a Vice President.Tak Wai holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and Mathematics-Economics from Wesleyan University (High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa), and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.Prior to joiningEQT Partners, Tak Wai was with Lehman Brothers for over six years. While at Private Equity in Hong Kong, he focused on making direct investments into China. Before that, he was in the Investment Banking division covering primarily telecommunications, financial institutions and natural resources in both New York and Hong Kong.Tak Wai is a member of the Mid Market Partners Investment Committee and the Greater China II Internal Investment Committee.

Investment focus

Food Processing, Waste Management
Seed, Angel
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ento Industries — At ENTO INDUSTRIES, food waste is given a new lease of life. Our focus as a biotechnology company is to close the loop on food waste with the help of our army of Black Soldier Flies.

Youssef Salem CFO at Swvl.

Investment focus

Grocery, Delivery, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed
Pakistan, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.
Hotdesk — Instant access to workspaces anywhere at your fingertips. Unlock your productivity and #GetThingsDone.

Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu

Investment focus

Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.

Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.

Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
Class Companion — AI to help teachers give instant, personalized feedback written assignments. Engaged practice for students, time savings and insights for teachers. Use built-in assignments or add your own. Supported subjects include Social Studies, English, Science, and World Languages.
Kinetic Automation — Effortless modern vehicle maintenance. Service electric and autonomous vehicles at scale with effortless speed and precision using our all-in-one, in-the-box digital vehicle maintenance solution.

Siqi Chen is the Co-Founder of Runway and a Member Board Of Directors at Sandbox VR. Siqi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Bezi — Bezi is a collaborative 3D design tool.
Vocode — Vocode is an open-source library for building voice-based LLM applications.
Nim — Generate and edit videos with state-of-the-art AI models, advanced controls, and reusable assets

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Dai Tamesue is the Chief Marketing Officer of Miekuru.

Investment focus

Apps, Sports, Health Care
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
SAMURAI Security —

Hsien Yang Lee provides strategic counsel to GA and its portfolio companies in SE Asia.Mr. Lee served as Chairman and non-executive Director of Fraser and Neave, Limited, an Asia Pacific consumer group with core expertise and leading marketing positions in the food & beverage, properties, and publishing & printing industries fromOctober 2007 until February 2013. Prior to joining Fraser and Neave, Limited, Mr. Lee was the Group Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) from May 1995 until March 2007. Mr. Lee is currently Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, and Chairman of the Islamic Bank of Asia Private Limited (a DBS Bank subsidiary). Mr. Lee is also a director of the Singapore Exchange Limited, the Australian & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (ANZ) and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He serves on the International Advisory Boards of The Capital Group and Rolls Royce PLC, and is also President of the INSEAD South East Asia Council.Mr. Lee graduated with a double first in Engineering Science from Cambridge University, UK and has a Master of Science (Management) from Stanford University, USA.

Investment focus

Consumer Goods, Food Processing, Service Industry
Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

NOD inc — NOD is a healthy beverage solutions company based in Shanghai. It is a brand born in China with global ambitions, driven by a team with a proven blend of in-depth China and international expertise in the beverage sector.

Lucas Driggers

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.

Sahil Bloom

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Travel
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.
Forum — Forum is a marketplace for peer support groups that connects mission-driven facilitators with people seeking support for life's biggest challenges–including life transitions, career, health, relationships, and more. Peer support is a proven model for personal change, healing, and growth – and our vision is a world where everyone has easyaccess to it.
Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.

Matt Brezina investor and advisor Ford Street Ventures. University of Maryland.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Transportation
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Aerodome — The future of air support.
Trek Health — Maximize Practice Revenue with Smart Payment Solutions
Enara Health — Enara Health offers innovative and comprehensive weight loss solutions to healthcare providers looking to improve patient outcomes and increase revenue. Our home page offers an overview of our turnkey, data-driven solutions, including virtual care, personalized treatment plans, and comprehensive support for patients and providers.

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.

Investment focus

Content, Fashion, FinTech
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.

Jeff Olyniec has been the CEO of New Vision Display since the company formed in 2012. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration- Marketing from Mississippi State University.Jeff previously worked at International Display Works (which was later acquired by Flextronics and is now the current NVD) in senior management roles includingsales and supply chain. He then moved on to Solar Power Inc, a worldwide leader in the design and construction of solar power generating facilities, overseeing all of the company’s operations in Asia as the EVP of the company.Jeff has lived and worked in China since 1996 and speaks fluent Chinese.

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.

Simon Szewach - Managing Partner @ The Legats Group

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.

Sung Ho C. is the Managing Director at Fubo Gaming. He attended University of Chicago.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
GoSats — Earn bitcoin rewards when you shop online at your favourite brands in India.
Hang — Launch NFT memberships that unlock perks, benefits, and status for your community. Hang gives brands the power of web3 through its NFT-based membership platform.

Bala Chandra is the Founder and CEO of Propel Technology Group Inc. He previously worked at BRAG (Ragtagger Lifestyle Pvt Ltd) as an Angel Investor. Bala Chandra attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Credit, Events, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Maroo — The smartest way to pay for your wedding
Easy Eat — Easy Eat is a tech solution for such consumers. Using our solution in-dining guests can browse menus online, search for items, and review description and nutrition value. They can also place and track orders, make payments through an integrated interface and keep a record of their dining history.Restaurants can save time and money and bettermanage the footfall. They will also have access to advanced user analytics, something like Google Analytics. It will gives a fillip to their marketing intelligence, customer strategy and business efficiency.

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