# Top 50 Gaming Angel Investors in Asia in June 2026

## Toivo Annus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

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

## 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.

## Boon Hwee Koh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Kotaro Chiba
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Drones, Travel

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

## Yusuke Sato
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage

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

## 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.

## Hidetoshi Takano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Ken Soga
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
- Focus: Music, Content, E-Commerce

Ken Soga is an individual investor.

## Kevin Lin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games

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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Hironao Kunimitsu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Virtual Reality, Gaming

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.

## 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.

## Hayden Zou
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Hayden Zou

## 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

## 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

## Sebastien Borget
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Sebastien Borget is based out of Paris, Île-de-France and serves as the Global Ambassador of The Sandbox. Sebastien attended The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

## Kensuke Furukawa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, SNS, Software

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".

## 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

## 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.

## Ayataro Nakagawa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, Content

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.

## 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.

## 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

## Shunsuke Oyu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment

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.

## Murat Abdrakhmanov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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

## 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.

## Tatsuo Sakamoto
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Education, Recruiting

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

## Hirofumi Miki
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Content, Marketing, Internet

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.

## Mark Cuban
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, E-Commerce

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.

## Roland Navarro de Ros
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Audio, Coffee, Gaming

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.

## Nazmul Rupok
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: B2B, B2C, Grocery

Nazmul Hasan Rupok Chief Executive Officer of WPDeveloper

## Wang Rui
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Sales, AgTech

Wang Rui

## Thibault Villet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Organic, Organic Food, Sustainability

Thibault Villet

## Xin Xu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Video, Mobile Apps, Food Delivery

Xin Xu

## Soga Takeshi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nerima, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Music, Mobile, Content

Soga Takeshi

## Koki Yabu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Content, Finance, Data Mining

Koki Yabu is Founder, President & CEO at Mobcast inc.

## 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

## Zhengdong Ni
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Online Games, Customer Service

Zhengdong Ni is a joint partner at QianHai FoFs and the founder of Zero2IPO Group.

## Seung Yoon Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, B2B, Productivity Tools

Seung-yoon Lee is a Global Strategy Officer at Kakao Entertainment. He attended University of Oxford.

## Boquan He
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Series D
- Focus: Tea, Bakery, Retail

Boquan He

## Yusuke Tanaka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce

"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.

## Umar Saleem
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods

Umar Saleem, SWVL.

## Chikako Morimoto
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology

Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu

## Komura Fujio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Ethereum, Marketing

Komura Fujio

## 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.

## Hans de Back
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Animation, Video Games

Hans de Back

## Sajid Rahman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at
MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.

## Li Kanglin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Restaurants, Food and Beverage

Li Kanglin

## Lucas Driggers
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Lucas Driggers