# Top 50 Legal Startup Investors in Asia in June 2026

## Nissay Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

## SMBC Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Software

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

## Pierre Lorinet
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Hotel, Legal, Software

Pierre Lorinet is a Non-Executive Director at Trafigura Group. He attended INSEAD.

## HSG
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

We help founders build enduring companies.

## Linear Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Robotics

Linear Capital is a Frontier Tech Fund founded in 2014 by Harry Wang, Facebook's first Chinese R&D manager. We currently manage 10 funds with AUM of more than $2 billion.

## JAFCO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to thecreations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.

## Thomson Reuters
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Thomson Reuters empowers professionals with cutting-edge technology solutions informed by industry-leading content and expertise.

## Bengo4.com
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Consulting, Legal, Information Technology

Bengo 4.com is a legal consulting web that offers free legal counseling services.

## Monex Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

## IMO Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce

IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.

## First Light Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Advertising

First Light Capital is venture capital firm.

## ANOBAKA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.

## Iflytek
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hefei, Anhui, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software

Anhui USTC iFLYTEK Science and Technology Co., Ltd. (科大讯飞) is a software enterprise focused on the research of intelligent speech and language technologies, development of software and chip products, provision of speech information services, and integration of e-government systems.As a key supplier of intelligent speech technologies, USTCiFLYTEK holds long-term research experience in the field of intelligent speech technologies, and reputed achievements in a variety of technologies such as speech synthesis, speech recognition and spoken language evaluating.

## Huayu Kechuang
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Haidian, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: Legal, Software, Electronics

Huayu Kechuang is an investment company.

## 500 Startups Japan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, SaaS

500 Startups is the most active seed VC in the world. 500 Startups Japan is a $35M regional fund focusing on Japan.

## Eudaimonia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile

Eudaimonia Capital Pte. Ltd. is a seed stage investments firm.

## Chihiro Asano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Content, Legal, FinTech

Chief Technology Officer at Money Forward.

## Paul Kuo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Reservations, Travel, SaaS

Paul Kuo - Director - Board of Directors @ Tamecco

## Taki Toshio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Legal, Finance, Education

Taki Toshio is the Founder at Money Forward .

## Deep30
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuramae, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Content

Deep30 is specializing in AI technologies such as deep learning that consists of individuals connected to the University of Tokyo’s Matsuo Lab, which is famous for AI research.

## Seio Nagami
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Task Management, SaaS, Legal

Seio Nagami

## Fundinno
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding
- Focus: Information Technology, Content, Health Care

Fundinno is an equity investment crowdfunding platform.

## Tan Kim Seng
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Legal, Software, Legal Tech

Kim Seng is based in Singapore and is a co-founder of 3V SourceOne Capital. He brings with him over 20 years of venture capital management and banking experience in addition to 5 years of operating experience within the IT and electronics industries. He has previously served as the Chairman of Industry Development Committee of the Singapore VentureCapital & Private Equity Association and the Honorary Treasurer.

## Salesforce Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

100% invested in enterprise cloud companies.

## K3 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

K3 Ventures provides venture capital for technology startups in various sectors such as finance, education, healthcare, food and agriculture and others. The firm is headed by Kuok Meng Xiong.

## BEENEXT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has
invested in over 180 companies globally.

## Investible
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

## Skystar Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

We are Skystar Capital, an early-stage VC firm committed to supporting tech entrepreneurs to create a lasting and profound positive difference in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.

## Ravi Mantha
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Ravi Mantha is the Chief Financial Officer at BOLLANT. He is also a co-Founder and Director at Surge Impact. Ravi worked as a portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments in Boston and London for about 10 years where he co-managed $35 billion select global equity portfolios. Ravi was also lead portfolio manager of $1 billion select emerging marketsequity strategy.He is currently an angel investor, an adviser to social impact enterprises, and an author too. He pursued BA in liberal arts from the University of Puget Sound in Washington State in the year 1993.He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and also an active charter member of TiE, the global network of entrepreneurs and is the Chairman, for its Singapore chapter. He not only serves on the global board of Trustees of TiE but he is also on the advisory board of the Action for India Forum.

## SEEYON.COM
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Haidian, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: Legal, AgTech, Events

SEEYON.COM is a management software and cloud service provider company.

## Beijing SDL Technology
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Changping, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Legal, Law Enforcement, Information Services

Beijing SDL Technology designs and produces discharge monitoring, atmospheric environmental quality monitoring, water environmental quality monitoring, ecological environment big data analysis, industrial process analysis, and third-party testing.

## nVentures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Being founders ourselves, we know the pains of raising capital. We're a seed fund focusing on B2B Fintech startups in South & Southeast Asia.

## Tetsuro Yoshimatsu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Legal, Sales, Biofuel

Tetsuro Yoshimatsu is the President and Chief Executive Officer of istyle.

## Jeffrey Khoo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Legal, Software, Legal Tech

Jeffrey is based in Singapore and is a co-founder of 3V SourceOne Capital. He actively looks at regional cleantech projects and integrated industrial park developments in Greater China and IndoChina. Mr. Khoo has more than 19 years of working experience in varied industries including semiconductor, medical devices, fund management, propertydevelopment, travel and leisure.He has co-founded Erimos Pharmaceuticals, LLC (North Carolina, U.S.A.) which developed small molecule drugs for serious diseases including cancer.His expertise is in the areas of financial planning and control, mergers and acquisitions, business development, strategic planning and fund management.

## Naoki Aoyagi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Fashion, Internet, Software

Naoki Aoyagi is a Senior Vice President at GREE, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of GREE International, Inc. He joined GREE, Inc. in March 2006 from Deutsche Bank, where he had specialized in tech and media sector IPOs and M&A advisory work. At GREE, Aoyagi oversaw the Company's partnership with KDDI and its IPO before leading thedevelopment of GREE’s global operations, a role he continues today. Aoyagi earned a bachelor's degree in policy management from Keio University in 2002.

## Sim Hoo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Legal, Software, Legal Tech

Sim Wong Hoo of C​reative Technologies.

## Chong Ping
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Legal, Software, Legal Tech

Chong Chiet Ping

## Nobuhiro Ariyasu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Content, Internet

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

## Walden International
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Semiconductor

Walden International is unique among US venture firms through its focus on cross-border investments that leverage global markets and talent to grow industry-leading companies. For more than 30 years, their integrated team has brought extensive added value to help companies through capital, relationships and expertise.They look to partner with thebest of the best – entrepreneurs with a strong appreciation for the benefits of leveraging talent and markets independent of geography to gain unfair advantage.Their team brings both extensive venture expertise together with in-depth operating experience to help you grow your company.They invest in early and expansion stage companies across sectors such as Semiconductors, Clean Tech, Internet & Digital Media and Software.

## NAC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: SaaS, Legal, Medical

NAC engages in delivery-related businesses such as home delivery and Duskin, and residential-related businesses.Since the company's founding, it has been engaged in various businesses. Starting with Duskin, NAC entered the environmental hygiene business for restaurants, architectural consulting utilizing the customer base, and in 2002, andthen home sales and home water distribution business. Furthermore, in 2013, JIMOS Co., Ltd., which handles the mail-order business, was grouped, and NAC's business is developing as a "useful company for living" centered on the two axes of living and living.

## SPARX Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

SPARX Group Co., Ltd. is an independent Asia-based equity and credit asset management services and Asian fund financial specialist with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul for global institutional and individual investors, including financial advisors and financial planners, with alternative strategies (including activist, short-enabled, private equity and quantitative and fund-of-funds) and mutual funds (through SPARX Asia Funds such as SPARX Asia Pacific Opportunities Fund, SPARX Asia Pacific Equity Income Fund, SPARX Japan Smaller Companies Fund and SPARX Japan Fund) managed or sub-advised by SPARX Asset Management Co. Ltd., SPARX Asia Investment Advisors Limited and Cosmo Asset Management Co., Ltd.

## Tsinghua Innovation Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Haidian, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Angel
- Focus: Medical, Manufacturing, Health Care

Tsinghua Innovation Ventures is an investment management firm.

## Hainan Jingheng Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hainan, Hainan, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Legal, Consulting, Law Enforcement

Hainan Jingheng Investment is an investment firm.

## GFC
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Legal, Internet, Financial Services

GFC is an investment firm.

## Shinsuke Mori
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Legal, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence

Shinsuke Mori - Joint Researcher and Technical Advisor @ LegalForce Japan

## Beijing Zhenyun Zhineng Chuangye Touzi Youxian Gongsi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Legal, Advice

Beijing Zhenyun Zhineng Chuangye Touzi Youxian Gongsi is an investment firm.

## Beijing Silu Innovation Technology
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Legal, Law Enforcement, Information Services

Beijing Silu Innovation Technology is a high-tech enterprise specializing in information technology development and services.

## Kelvin Chan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Legal, Software, Legal Tech

Kelvin Chan is a Investment Professional at Partners Group.

## Chandra Mohan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Legal, Software, Legal Tech

Chandra Mohan

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

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