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Top 50 Gaming Angel Investors in Asia in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Gaming startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Gaming Angel Investors in Asia in May 2025

Investor	Gaming Asia investments
Toivo Annus	6
Yu Akasaka	6
Boon Hwee Koh	6
Kotaro Chiba	5
Kotaro Chiba	5
Yusuke Sato	5
Henry Soesanto	5
Hironao Kunimitsu	4
Ingo Drexler	4
Nobuhiro Ariyasu	4
Kevin Lin	4
Serguei Netessine	4
Ryosuke Matsumoto	4
Hayden Zou	3
Ayataro Nakagawa	3
Jun Nishikawa	3
Naruhisa Nakagawa	3
Murat Abdrakhmanov	3
Kensuke Furukawa	3
Ryan Bethencourt	3
Ivan Lee	3
Teng Wen Wee	3
Shunsuke Oyu	3
Sebastien Borget	3
Hidetoshi Takano	3
James Robertson	3
Alexis Ohanian	2
Tatsuo Sakamoto	2
Jeff Olyniec	2
Sahil Bloom	2
Hirofumi Miki	2
Mark Cuban	2
Axel Peyriere	2
Boquan He	2
Roland Navarro de Ros	2
Goshi Yamaguchi	2
Yusuke Tanaka	2
Umar Saleem	2
Lucas Driggers	2
Kazuma Ieiri	2
Siqi Chen	2
Holly Liu	2
Wes Schwalje	2
Bala Chandra	2
Luis Sia	2
Matt Brezina	2
Chikako Morimoto	2
Komura Fujio	2
Youssef Salem	2
Asif Keshodia	2

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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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Drones, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
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.
Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.

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.

Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Content, Media and Entertainment
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.

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 — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
Asterix — Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities.
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps

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 — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.

Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.

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.

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.

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Content
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka

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.

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 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.

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Beksar — Beksar offers A flexible reporting system for business of the company from its initial days.
GoDays — AI-driven Continuous passive and active analytical tool, preventing burnout of employees. Continuous well-being based on passive collaboration data, sentiment analytics.
PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low/no-code solutions with ready-made constructors that reduce the need for large resources and decrease time to market

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi （formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

Investment focus

Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.

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 — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI

Ivan Lee - Founder @ Raging Bull

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 —

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 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 — Temukan link alternatif terbaik untuk pesan makanan dengan mudah. Akses berbagai restaurant dan nikmati layanan EatsyApp untuk pemesanan cepat dan aman.

Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.

Investment focus

Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
Alliance Games — Decentralized gaming platform blending AI creation, multiplayer tech, and worker nodes.

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, Human Resources
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.

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.

Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.

Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Education, Recruiting
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.

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.

Sahil Bloom

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

Investment focus

Content, Marketing, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

aceRNA Technologies — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Vietnam, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bot-It — Online automation for everyone. Let Bot-It automatically complete your online tasks.
Allstar — Free, fast, and easy clip capture with zero FPS drop for Counter-Strike 2, League of Legends, Fortnite, and Dota 2.
Glove Wrap — Glove Wrap is a latex-free, thermoplastic elastomer band with the precise thickness, width, and length required to break in and shape your complete baseball glove while making the ideal pocket. Wrapping your glove with Glove Wrap applies pressure to the glove, reshaping it for easy use.

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.

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.

Roland Ros is the founder of KumuMedia Technologies, a livestream technology company for over 10+ million GenZ & Millennial Filipinos. Since its launch in 2018, Kumu has reached the #1 Grossing Social App in the Philippines. It has also cracked the Top 10 in Canada, Hong Kong, Kuwait, UK and Norway, as well as Top 20 in several other marketslike the United States, Saudi Arabia, Italy, and Australia. He also currently serves as an investor and advisor for several start-ups; and is passionate about helping others.Prior to KumuMedia Technologies, Roland was Vice President of Spark Revenue, an Inc. 500 listed performance marketing & growth acquisition platform. Prior to Spark Revenue, Roland was VP Business Development for MediaTrust, an online performance advertising exchange and technology company. Prior to MediaTrust, Roland was Partner & VP Business Development at Tracking202, up until the company was acquired by Bloosky Interactive. Roland started his career as a Business Development Associate with GE Money Bank, where he oversaw a $400 million dollar book of business.Roland serves as a Trustee for the Ros Foundation. He has a BA in Asian American Studies from UC Santa Barbara, and studied as an Executive Scholar at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Investment focus

Audio, Coffee, Gaming
Seed, Series A
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

AcadArena — AcadArena is the home of campus gaming in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Join tournaments, earn esports scholarships and meet new friends all for free!
PickUp Coffee — PickUp Coffee is a start-up that aims to increase the accessibility of espresso and milk-based beverages. PickUp Coffee is located in Taguig, Philippines.
Lista — Manage your cash flow, maximize business potential and grow your business with Lista. Download now for FREE!

Goshi Yamaguchi

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Digital Media, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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, Recruiting
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.

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

Rork — Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links.
Troveo AI — AI companies are scouring the internet for high-quality video. Troveo helps you capture the value and turn your video into revenue.
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.

Holly Liu is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of PKO Investments. She attended the University of California Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
Blaze — Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications.
Chaos Genius — Chaos Genius is a DataOps Observability platform for Snowflake & Databricks. We help enterprises understand, monitor, and optimize cloud data costs

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 — Temukan pengalaman bermain toto togel 4D dan toto slot terbaik di SAUDARATOTO. Bergabunglah dengan situs toto resmi yang terpercaya di Asia, dengan berbagai pilihan permainan dan peluang kemenangan besar. Daftar sekarang dan rasakan sensasi menang besar!

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.

Luis Sia - Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer @ PayMongo

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Beauty
Pre-Seed
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

AcadArena — AcadArena is the home of campus gaming in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Join tournaments, earn esports scholarships and meet new friends all for free!
Peddlr — Peddlr is a free POS mobile app for small businesses. Effortlessly track and manage your sales, expenses, inventory, and transactions. Use it anytime, anywhere, and even offline!
BeautyBuddy — BeautyBuddy is a SaaS enabled, social-powered marketplace designed to streamline operations and drive discovery for beauty services in SEA.

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 — Medically guided, from lifestyle changes to GLP-1 medications, to achieve lifelong results.

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.

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.

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.

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 — 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.

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