Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Asia in November 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 in November 2024
Investor | Food and Beverage Asia investments |
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Yu Akasaka | 6 |
Henry Soesanto | 5 |
Boon Hwee Koh | 5 |
Nobuhiro Ariyasu | 4 |
Yusuke Sato | 4 |
Ingo Drexler | 4 |
Ryosuke Matsumoto | 4 |
Serguei Netessine | 4 |
Naruhisa Nakagawa | 3 |
James Robertson | 3 |
Hayden Zou | 3 |
Ryan Bethencourt | 3 |
Jun Nishikawa | 3 |
Teng Wen Wee | 3 |
Ivan Lee | 3 |
Toivo Annus | 3 |
Hidetoshi Takano | 3 |
Simon Szewach | 2 |
Nazmul Rupok | 2 |
Jahangir Alam | 2 |
Shahjahan Jewel | 2 |
Umar Saleem | 2 |
Saad Saeed | 2 |
Lucas Driggers | 2 |
Boquan He | 2 |
Dele Alli | 2 |
Axel Peyriere | 2 |
Xin Xu | 2 |
Yusuke Tanaka | 2 |
Hsien Yang Lee | 2 |
Youcef Oudjidane | 2 |
Wang Rui | 2 |
Asif Keshodia | 2 |
Kotaro Chiba | 2 |
Bala Chandra | 2 |
Thibault Villet | 2 |
Sahil Bloom | 2 |
Kazuma Ieiri | 2 |
Li Kanglin | 2 |
Tak Wai Chung | 2 |
Goshi Yamaguchi | 2 |
Komura Fujio | 2 |
Chris Yeh | 2 |
Siqi Chen | 2 |
Nate Matherson | 2 |
Matt Brezina | 2 |
Walid Aradi | 2 |
Wes Schwalje | 2 |
Lisa-Marie Tse | 2 |
Dai Tamesue | 2 |
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.
Henry Soesanto serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Monde Nissin Corporation.
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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.
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.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Internet, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
- PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
- Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kaymak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- 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.
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.
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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 WFM features integrated forecasting, capacity planning, automated scheduling and performance analytics for modern support teams.
Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.
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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.
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.
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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 — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting
- Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zeigo — Zeigo by Schneider Electric provides sustainability software for efficient carbon reduction and supply chain decarbonization, aiming for 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.
James Robertson
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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.
Hayden Zou
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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.
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.
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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 — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI
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.
Teng Wen Wee - Founder, Managing Partner @ The Lo & Behold Group
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Investment focus
- Internet, Food and Beverage, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Grain — Grain is a food experience company that offers Meals On Demand and Catering for any occasion. Meals are crafted by chefs with wholesome ingredients and a whole lot of thoughtfulness.
- 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
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Wellness, Lifestyle
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Grain — Grain is a food experience company that offers Meals On Demand and Catering for any occasion. Meals are crafted by chefs with wholesome ingredients and a whole lot of thoughtfulness.
- Vanitee — Vanitee is a mobile app to discover new beauty trends and book beauty artists.
- Golden Moments —
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.
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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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kaymak — 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.
Simon Szewach - Managing Partner @ The Legats Group
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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.
Nazmul Hasan Rupok Chief Executive Officer of WPDeveloper
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Investment focus
- B2B, B2C, Grocery
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- SMEVai — Take your bookkeeping skills to the next level for your eCommerce or F-Commerce businesses using the ultimate accounting solution of SMEVai.
- ChalkPencil — Chalkpencil.com is an online platform aiming to develop sustainable learning strategies for the young learners by altering the traditional education system.
- 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
Jahangir Alam COO of eFoli.
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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
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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.
Umar Saleem, SWVL.
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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.
Saad Saeed is a Founder at Stealth Mode.
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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.
Lucas Driggers
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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.
Boquan He
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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.
Dele Alli
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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 — Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists.
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.
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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.
Xin Xu
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Investment focus
- Video, Mobile Apps, Food Delivery
- 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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Youcef Oudjidane is the Co-Founder of Elevate. He previously worked at Class 5 Global as a Managing Partner. Youcef Oudjidane attended the University of Nottingham.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Organic Food
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
- Theneo — Generate Stripe-like API docs in just a few clicks. We support OpenAPI, Postman, GraphQL and much more
- FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.
Wang Rui
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Sales, AgTech
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Longmi Agro — Longmi Agro is a private company engaged in the agricultural products industry chain. It began operation on October 25, 2015, with its headquarters in Guangzhou in China.
- Putian Cool Drink — Putian Cool Drink focuses on the sales and promotion of plum wine, and has a full industrial chain from picking, brewing, filling, and sales.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Kamel Pay — Kamel Pay is a fintech and digital financial solutions provider. Kamel Pay offers end-to-end digital payment services to the 20 million underbanked expat population in GCC and to their families abroad through a fully integrated platform.
- 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.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Internet, Drones, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
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- 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.
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.
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- Credit, Events, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States
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- 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.
Thibault Villet
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- Organic, Organic Food, Sustainability
- Series A
- China
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- Zrou — Zrou provides consumers with delicious, healthy, and sustainable meat substitutes, and brings consumers new cooking options.
- Youkuai — Youkuai is a plant-based protein producer focused on creating innovative plant-based superfoods. Youkuai’s main product is Z-Rou, a plant-based pork alternative that is tasty, and healthier and more sustainable than traditional pork. Z-Rou currently comes in minced and ground formats and is being sold across China.The company is headquartered inShanghai, China and aims to become a global food brand that champions plant-based diets and a brighter future of food.
Sahil Bloom
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- Software, Blockchain, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Pakistan
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- Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
- 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.
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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- Content, Fashion, Recruiting
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
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- 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.
Li Kanglin
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- Retail, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- China
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- 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 —
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.
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- Food Processing, Waste Management
- Seed, Angel
- Singapore
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- 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.
Goshi Yamaguchi
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- Food and Beverage, Digital Media, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
- Japan
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- ReadHub — ReadHub is a Information technology , Planning, development and management of Internet media and applications company.
- Pan For You — Pan For You is a Food & Beverage Company. We deliver delicious bread from all over the world with our unique freezing technology and propose a lifestyle where you can enjoy freshly baked bread anytime.
- ZAZA — ZAZA is focus to make the world where people can respect each other even thought they have a different culture and belief.
Komura Fujio
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- 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.
Chris Yeh was on the founding team of pioneering Internet companies such as United Online Services (Nasdaq: UNTD) and Merrill Lynch’s Intelligent Technologies Group. He has founded, advised, or invested in dozens of startups, including Ustream and PBworks.Chris is a much-quoted thought leader in the field of marketing and entrepreneurship;his research and publications have been incorporated into the Harvard Business School curriculum, while his projects have received press coverage in Fortune, the Financial Times, and the New York Times. He writes a popular blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital, Adventures in Capitalism and contributes to blogs such as TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Chris holds two degrees from Stanford University, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar (High Distinction).You can reach Chris by e-mail at chris@wasabiventures.com and follow him on Twitter or AngelList.
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- SaaS, Mobile, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore
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- Pressto — Pressto helps to develop media literacy, critical thinking and strong writing skills in students of all ages through journalism. Teachers and parents are looking to modernize their approach to critical writing and media literacy: Pressto does both.
- Fêtefully — Your Style. Your Budget. Your Way. A virtual experience personalized for every couple.
- Next Gen Foods — Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists.
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.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Japan
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- Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
- Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
- Azura — Azura is a new all-in-one crypto application aggregation layer launched with the assistance of some of the most well-known cryptocurrency pioneers. The company's application and interfacing layer provides reliable access to DeFi assets, real-time market data, and full trade lifecycle support.
Nate Matherson is the Co-founder/CEO of Positional. Positional is a toolset for content teams to scale their content channels faster and drive more traffic from organic search.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Mexico
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- Unify AI — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
- DryMerge — DryMerge lets you connect your apps and automate repetitive tasks in minutes. Try for free today and save hours of time with 30 seconds.
- ParadeDB — Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
Matt Brezina investor and advisor Ford Street Ventures. University of Maryland.
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- Software, SaaS, Transportation
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, Pakistan
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- Aerodome — The future of air support.
- Trek Health — Maximize Practice Revenue with Smart Payment Solutions
- Enara Health — Enara delivers a clinically proven, insurance-covered* weight management program.
Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling
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- Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, Nigeria, Pakistan
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- Omnisient | Collaborative Consumer Intelligence — Secure Data Collaboration Platform platform that enables businesses to collaborate without compromising on consumer identity or information!
- Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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
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- FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Mexico
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- 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.
Lisa-Marie Tse is a Chief Brand Officer and Founder of Allklear.
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- Nutrition, Organic Food
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- Future salad — Allklear is a Hong Kong food tech startup combining nature and technology.
Dai Tamesue is the Chief Marketing Officer of Miekuru.
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- Apps, Sports, Health Care
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Japan
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- 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 —
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