Top 10 Hardware Angel Investors in Hong Kong

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Hardware startups based in Hong kong. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Hong kong. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Hardware Angel Investors in Hong Kong

Investor	Hardware Hong Kong investments
Michael Hansen	2
Xin Yan	2
Roger Allen	2
Tom James	1
Mai Fujimoto	1
C.Bob Lott	1
Navin Chaddha	1
Henri Arslanian	1
Yat Siu	1
Michael Kazam	1

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Michael’s responsible for strategic growth in the Asia Pacific region of Zendesk. An IT sales veteran, Michael has more than 20 years experience in a variety of sales and marketing roles spanning the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia.Prior to becoming Zendesk’s first employee, Michael was selling help desk projects in Australia. Michael is anarmy officer who has studied at the Danish Technical University.

Investment focus

Software, Art, SaaS
Seed
Germany, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

ChartMogul — SaaS & subscription reporting, analytics & metrics for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and PayPal. In one click get your MRR, LTV, churn rate, cohort analysis and more.
Soundbrenner — Innovative music tools that remove the hassle from your practice. Master your craft with the Core, Pulse or our app The Metronome.

Xin Yan is the Founder of EthSign.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Electronics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Instap — Tap to connect with new friends and earn crypto back at the same time! Buy now to receive up to 55% OFF!
KNN3 Network — KNN3 Network provides graph solutions for web3 multiverse relational aggregation to empower Social d/App and AI analytics. KNN3 aims to become a community-driven data curation protocol to enable on-chain data collaboration.

Roger Allen, director and co-founder of A&B, has practical credentials directly relevant to the Fund based upon over thirty years as a chief executive of a major Australian IT services company with worldwide operations, then 13 years as an active investor in private companies in the ICT industries.Roger grew shareholder value in ComputerPower from $250k in 1978 to $170m in 1995 (at the time of his retirement) and also grew the annual revenue to over $300m and staff to more than 3,000. Roger obtained private equity from News Corporation, through the direct involvement of Rupert Murdoch, prior to taking Computer Power public on the ASX in 1987. He has direct personal experience in selling Australian information technology products and services in the USA, Europe, Asia, as well as Australia.He served for six years until 1997 as deputy chairman of Austrade and is very well known throughout the information technology industry in Australia and internationally. He was the first chief executive from an Australian company to be elected chairman of the Australian Information Industries Association, has represented Australia at the World Computer Services Forum and was vice-president of the Asia-Pacific industry organisation. He has also served on two advisory councils to the Prime Minister and has chaired state advisory boards in both NSW and Victoria. He has been an adjunct professor in the School of Entrepreneur-ship of Swinburne University and regularly lectures at INSEAD in the School of Entrepreneurship. Roger was recently awarded the 2007 Pearcey Medal for Lifetime Achievement in recognition for his outstanding contribution to the ICT industry.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unleash live — Providing computer vision and live video streaming capabilities from virtually any camera for enterprises wishing to improve operations and improve safety across industries such as Energy, Transport, Resources and Renewables
August Robotics — We automate dirty, dangerous and dull tasks all over the world.
Fingerprint For Success — AI technology to bring out the best in your team. Start now for free. Trust in more than 1 million coaching minutes, rated 4.4 out of 5 with a 90% success rate.

Tom James - Advisor @ OneLogin

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
seedata.io — Using deception technology, our platform enables customers to deploy decoys quickly, automatically rotate them, and detect potential attackers early, reducing the chances of a security incident going unnoticed.
MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.

Mai Fujimoto is known domestically and internationally as Miss Bitcoin. She has been promoting the spread of Bitcoin around the world since 2011.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Marketplace, Art
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Canada, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

RSS3 — RSS3 structures open information for the next Twitter, Google, and OpenAI.
DeHorizon — With the rapid growth of crypto space, recent developments have greatly facilitated GameFi in going mainstream. "Play to earn" is no longer a mere slogan, but has fully come into reality. Regardless of exponential growth, a common defect in GameFi marketplace is lack of a Metaverse Game Ecosystem to develop, connect and support more andmore blockchain-based games even built on different chains. We are still in the early stages of the evolution of GameFi. For the next stage, a Metaverse Game Ecosystem is essential to make GameFi go further. That is why DeHorizon comes.
Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision has built an ecosystem for style, identity and culture, powered by the Fa$h Coin.

C.Bob Lott

Investment focus

Events, Sports, Cycling
Pre-Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Miro AI — Since early 2017, Miro has helped amateur & professional runners find their running event photos instantly. Combining deep learning, computer vision, scalable cloud infrastructure & ElasticSearch, Miro's RunnerTag product is the fastest, most-accurate athlete identification technology available. Used by events in Asia, Europe &North America, RunnerTag has analyzed over 15MM bodies.Miro uses all this data to train granular models for bodies in motion. From brand preferences to form/injury analysis, Miro's visual-mined data provides brands one-of-a-kind actionable insights for brands & athletes.

Navin Chaddha is the Managing Director at Mayfield Fund, Board of Directors of HashiCorp and Poshmark, a Series A Investor at Alchemy, and a Series Seed Lead at SeekOut and DevRev. He previously worked as a Board of Directors, Series Seed Lead at NUVIA Inc, Volterra, Portworx by Pure Storage, CloudGenix, and CloudSimple and a former CEO and Founderat Rivio. Navin attended Stanford University and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Investment focus

Software, Computer, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

SiMa.ai — SiMa.ai™ is a machine learning company transforming the embedded edge market through high-performance compute at the lowest power. Initially focused on computer vision applications, the company’s software-first approach simplifies ML integration and supports the broadest set of capabilities through a purpose-built MLSoC™ platform, enabling rapidadoption and creating the best of ease-of-use experience. SiMa.ai is led by technologists and business veterans and backed by a set of top investors committed to helping customers scale machine learning at the edge.
Portelco — Choose a memorable domain name. Professional, friendly customer support. Start using your domain right away.
Artera — Discover the power of Personalized Precision Medicine & AI Cancer Therapy with ArteraAI. Transforming cancer therapy through innovation.

Henri Arslanian is the PwC FinTech & RegTech Lead for China/Hong Kong. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course in Asia.Henri is a TEDx speaker, a published author, and currently sits on several finance, academic, government, civil society, andFinTech/RegTech related boards and advisory boards in Asia and globally.Henri is a member of the Hong Kong regulator’s SFC FinTech Advisory Group and the Hong Kong government’s FSDC Fintech working group. He also sits on the board of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and the board of the International RegTech Association.A member of the Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle and with over 350,000 LinkedIn followers, Henri has been awarded many industry and academic awards over the years from being named one of the Most Influential Individuals in FinTech in Asia to being awarded the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal for Academic Excellence. Henri was also recently recognized as one of the global 2017 LinkedIn Top Voices in Economy & Finance.Before joining PwC, Henri was with a FinTech start-up and previously spent many years with UBS Investment Bank in Hong Kong. Henri started his career as a financial markets and funds lawyer in Canada and Hong Kong. Henri speaks five languages including English, French, Armenian, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.He holds a Masters in Chinese Law from Tsinghua University; a joint Global Executive MBA from Columbia Business School, London Business School, and Hong Kong University; a Masters in Transnational Law from the University of Sherbrooke; and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Montreal (Dean’s List of Excellence).

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Blockchain
Series A
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Hex Trust — Access custody, DeFi, brokerage, and financing services built on regulated infrastructure with Hex Trust, fully-licensed and insured digital asset custodian in Asia.

Yat Siu is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Outblaze a messaging communications company that services over 40 million users today based out of Hong Kong.Yat has previously worked for Atari Germany, served as Director and Head of East Coast Operations for Lexicor, established Hong Kong Cybercity (the first free web page and e-mail providerin Asia, later renamed Freenation), as well as AT&T Solutions System Integration practice.He has been named a Global Leader of Tomorrow and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.It has been reported that Yat Siu sold Outblaze messaging to IBM to become Lotus iNotes.Yat is also responsible FON's operations in China.