# Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Asia in June 2026 ## Yu Akasaka - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Content, Food and Beverage, Apps 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. ## Henry Soesanto - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food Henry Soesanto serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Monde Nissin Corporation. ## Boon Hwee Koh - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services 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. ## Yusuke Sato - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit. ## Serguei Netessine - Type: Angel - Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Nobuhiro Ariyasu - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Finance, Content, Internet Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United. ## Ryosuke Matsumoto - Type: Angel - Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Art, Software, Reservations Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University. ## Ingo Drexler - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce 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. ## Ivan Lee - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Beauty, Wellness, Lifestyle Ivan Lee - Founder @ Raging Bull ## Ken Soga - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D - Focus: Music, Content, E-Commerce Ken Soga is an individual investor. ## Hayden Zou - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage Hayden Zou ## James Robertson - Type: Angel - Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage James Robertson ## Teng Wen Wee - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Food and Beverage, Apps Teng Wen Wee - Founder, Managing Partner @ The Lo & Behold Group ## Ryan Bethencourt - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Biotechnology, Food Processing, Food and Beverage 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. ## Hidetoshi Takano - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Content 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. ## Jun Nishikawa - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, Mobile, Content Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka ## Naruhisa Nakagawa - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Manufacturing, Beauty, Drones Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital. ## Toivo Annus - Type: Angel - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce. ## Sung Ho Choi - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Beauty, FinTech Sung Ho C. is the Managing Director at Fubo Gaming. He attended University of Chicago. ## Lisa-Marie Tse - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Nutrition, Organic Food Lisa-Marie Tse is a Chief Brand Officer and Founder of Allklear. ## Simon Szewach - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage Simon Szewach - Managing Partner @ The Legats Group ## Nazmul Rupok - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: B2B, B2C, Grocery Nazmul Hasan Rupok Chief Executive Officer of WPDeveloper ## Toru Shimada - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Task Management, Content Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989. ## Sajid Rahman - Type: Angel - Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School. ## Axel Peyriere - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Delivery, E-Commerce, Retail 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. ## Wes Schwalje - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology 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 ## Siqi Chen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Gaming Siqi Chen is the Chief Financial Officer of Runway. He previously worked as an Advisor at Laserlike Inc. Siqi attended UC San Diego, where he obtained a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science. ## Chris Yeh - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, EdTech, Mobile 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. ## Hsien Yang Lee - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Consumer Goods, Food Processing, Service Industry 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. ## Nate Matherson - Type: Angel - Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Software 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. ## Goshi Yamaguchi - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round - Focus: Digital Media, Food and Beverage, Apps Goshi Yamaguchi ## Dai Tamesue - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Sports, Health Care Dai Tamesue is the Chief Marketing Officer of Miekuru. ## Walid Aradi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Health Care Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling ## Xin Xu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Series A, Series B - Focus: Video, Mobile Apps, Food Delivery Xin Xu ## Wang Rui - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Sales, AgTech Wang Rui ## Kazuma Ieiri - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Content, Fashion, FinTech 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. ## Simon Newstead - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Seafood Simon Newstead is CO-Founder and CEO of Frenzoo, creator of mobile 3D lifestyle games with it’s Me Girl™ series. ## Chikako Morimoto - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Employment, Human Resources, Marketing Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu ## Bala Chandra - Type: Angel - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Credit, Events, Software 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. ## Umar Saleem - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods Umar Saleem, SWVL. ## Saad Saeed - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods Saad Saeed is a Pakistani serial entrepreneur based in Berlin, Germany, known for his ventures in the consumer sector. His portfolio includes a range of innovative companies, including a health tech company called Crumb, a grocery delivery unicorn called Flink, and his latest travel AI company called Layla. He is also an active business angel witha degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. ## Sahil Bloom - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Travel, FinTech Sahil Bloom ## Youcef Oudjidane - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments Youcef Oudjidane is the Founder and Managing Partner of BYLD and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Elevate (YC W22). ## Asif Keshodia - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps 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. ## Thibault Villet - Type: Angel - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Organic, Organic Food, Sustainability Thibault Villet ## Jahangir Alam - Type: Angel - Location: Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, B2C, Grocery Jahangir Alam COO of eFoli. ## Matt Brezina - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Matt Brezina investor and advisor Ford Street Ventures. University of Maryland. ## Shahjahan Jewel - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, B2C, Grocery Md Shahjahan Jewel Chief Executive Officer at WPMangeNinja LLC ## Tak Wai Chung - Type: Angel - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Food Processing, Waste Management 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. ## Masaru Tange - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Internet Masaru Tange graduated from Kyoto University and joined Incs Inc. in 2000 where he started their IT business and strategy consulting group with only 2 members and developed it into the company's main business with a team of 140 consultants with annual revenue of $50M in 5 years. He then founded SHIFT Inc in 2005 in his studio apartment. He wasthe only employee. The business world wasn't very kind to him - he made no revenue for a while but he kept experimenting with the business model listening to the needs of customers. In 2009, he finally found traction in the "software testing industry." In 2014, Masaru successfully IPO'ed the company. Shift now has 500 employees.