Top 50 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Asia in April 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Machine learning startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Machine learning companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Asia in April 2025
Investor | Machine Learning Asia investments |
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Mark Cuban | 3 |
Ankit Nagori | 2 |
Suresh V Shankar | 2 |
Nina Alag Suri | 2 |
Binny Bansal | 2 |
Yao Song | 2 |
Mamoru Taniya | 2 |
Güimar Vaca Sittic | 2 |
Fabio Cannavale | 2 |
Fabrice Grinda | 2 |
Roger Allen | 2 |
Thanapol Kongboonma | 2 |
Serguei Netessine | 2 |
Ratan Tata | 2 |
Kazuhiro Ishikura | 2 |
Sujeet Kumar | 2 |
Abhishek Sharma | 2 |
Ravi Trivedi | 2 |
Stein Jakob Oeie | 2 |
Takaya Shinozuka | 2 |
Prince Mojumder | 1 |
Kazuhiro Aoyagi | 1 |
Thomas Hornbeck | 1 |
Evan Davidson | 1 |
Victor Wang | 1 |
Johan Nyvene | 1 |
ThuHuong Duong | 1 |
Edith Yeung | 1 |
C.Bob Lott | 1 |
Zaved Akhtar | 1 |
Social Work Platform | 1 |
SIE-B Biniyog Briddhi | 1 |
Suriya Zannat Annie | 1 |
Minhong Yu | 1 |
Asif Anwar | 1 |
Xiangyang Yang | 1 |
Murat Abdrakhmanov | 1 |
Nihal Mehta | 1 |
Kazuhiko Ishikura | 1 |
Yuming Bai | 1 |
Bingqiang Gao | 1 |
Hiroki Nakamura | 1 |
Nobuhiro Ariyasu | 1 |
Uenoyama Katsuya | 1 |
Kensuke Murashima | 1 |
Peter Li | 1 |
Ganesh Krishnan | 1 |
Prashant Mehta | 1 |
Samuel Z. Alemayehu | 1 |
Mark Cuban | 1 |
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fetii — Fetii is a group-centric rideshare app that allows groups to ride together using our network of 15-passenger transit vans for about $5 per person on average, thus enhancing the transportation experience while reducing unnecessary vehicles off of the roads.
- Remento — A science-backed app to capture family stories through conversation.
- Duzter Hockey — Duzter offers a wide range of cut resistant hockey protective equipment to keep players safe on the ice. We have everything you need to stay protected while training or playing.
Ankit N. is the founder at Curefoods. Attended Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
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Investment focus
- Software, Food and Beverage, Wellness
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.
- ZenStatement — ZenStatement is a economic automation and cash flow monitoring platform.
- House of Chikankari — House of Chikankari is a fashion company offering hand-embroidered chikankari kurtas, kurtis, palazzos, and dupattas for women and men.
Suresh V Shankar is the Founder and CEO at Crayon Data.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- boxx.ai — Boxx.ai democratizes analytics: Boxx uses Artificial Intelligence to build products that enable enterprises solve their most critical analytics problems quickly and at affordable costs.
- Crayon Data — Leading global provider in B2B AI solutions for customer engagement and data management. Helping enterprises accelerate revenue and cost savings since 2012
Nina Alag Suri is a Founder and CEO at X0PA AI. He attended Pune University.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Big Data, Analytics
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- X0PA AI — Automate hiring with AI-driven recruiting software. Screen candidates, reduce bias & speed up hiring with intelligent talent matching & predictive insights.
Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Curefoods — Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market.
- BorderPlus — BorderPlus, a talent mobility platform connecting blue-collar workers to global opportunities and providing full support in financing.
- Sarla Aviation — We're developing India's most sophisticated eVTOL, driving innovation for widespread adoption in urban air mobility. Our focus is on creating an affordable, clean, and safe aerial travel experience, revolutionizing the way urban India moves.
Yao Song
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- VirtAI Tech — VirtAI Tech’s Orion AI computing platform helps customers build datacenter class AI accelerator resource pools so that user applications can transparently share and use AI accelerators on any server in the data center without modification, which can not only help customers improve resource utilization and can greatly facilitate the deployment ofuser applications. A bunch of artificial intelligence, Internet and public cloud companies have begun to use the Orion AI computing platform.
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Content, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
- abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
- RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- rintin — rintin is a B2B marketplace that connects small independent retailers with curated emerging brands.
- Lara AI — Helping leaders maximize the employee experience in a personalized manner
- Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
- OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
- PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- My Mirror — Find the right online psychologist in Australia, tailored to your needs and schedule. Start online therapy today with no wait times. Book now, pay later
- Unleash live — Enterprise real-time computer vision and live video streaming capabilities from virtually any camera for improved operations and safety across Energy, Transport, and Resources
- Marlee (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.
Thanapol Kongboonma
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Investment focus
- Text Analytics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- iApp Technology Co., Ltd. — iApp Technology is a leading AI company in Thailand, providing cutting-edge AI solutions for businesses and individuals.
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.
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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.
Ratan Tata is the Founder and Managing Director of RNT Associates.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- GOQii — GOQii is headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. It is dedicated to enabling a permanent shift to a healthier lifestyle with the combination of advanced wearable technology, the world's leading experts, coaches and karma. GOQii focuses on sustained engagement & goal reinforcement and offers a complete ecosystem asa single integrated solution, which is a powerful combination of technology and human connection. GOQii is a collaboration of some of the world's leading experts and an amazing management team who are driven by a passion for healthy sustainable living, and who believe that all of us contain boundless potential. GOQii's goal is to enable millions of people across the world to "be the force" by helping them unleash their untapped potential.
- Repos energy — Repos energy is a e-commerce of Fuel to move towards a carbon neutral future.
- Goodfellows — Goodfellows aims to offer companionship to lonely senior citizens.
Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
- GoRally — GoRally operates a pickleball chain.
- Pizza Wings — Pizza Wings is a pizza brand, known for fresh, high-quality pizzas and more, available for dine-in, takeout, or delivery.
Abhishek Sharma is the Co-Founder and CEO of CoffeMug. He previously worked at Dineout as a COO. Abhishek Sharma attended Delhi University and Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Software, Machine Learning
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Terraview — TerraviewOS is an advanced vineyard management platform designed to integrate various data sources, offering comprehensive insights and tools for efficient vineyard operation and decision-making.
- TerraviewOS — TerraviewOS is an advanced vineyard management platform designed to integrate various data sources, offering comprehensive insights and tools for efficient vineyard operation and decision-making.
- gogoBus — gogoBus is redefining intercity travel in India with buses having ultra luxury seats, premium onboard services.
Ravi is the founder of Srijan Capital, which is focused building startups, and angel investing.He is a board observer and board member for few startups in his portfolio. He is a Mentor for IIM-A's iAccelerator, and Microsoft Accelerator. Ravi is also an hands-on Digital Marketer with experience in running online businesses, and currentlylearning the ropes of SAAS business.Prior to this, he worked as a Principal at Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, an early stage technology venture capital fund in North Carolina, USA. Before Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, he worked as Equity Analyst with Bank of America, where he covered companies over $120B in market capitalization. He was part of the team that was ranked runners up in the Alpha Hedge Fund Research rankings.He started his career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard and has global cross-functional experience in leading and managing technology functions. He worked in marketing, consulting and engineering functions at Hewlett Packard. Ravi co-authored the book Web Services Security, and participated in creating web services standards. He holds a Patent for "System and Methods for Recommending Third Party Services". Ravi completed his MBA from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business and has a Masters in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, News, SaaS
- Seed, Angel
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Tookitaki — Protect your business against financial crime with Tookitaki's smart AML screening, monitoring and case management solutions. Get in touch to get started.
- Skillenza — Skillenza is the optimum gap filler between required market-ready skills and the current college student skillset. We directly address the growing concerns of students & job seekers while connecting the right person with the right opportunity.
- Mech Mocha — Mech Mocha runs India's first vernacular social gaming platform for the next billion Indians.
Stein Jakob Oeie is the Founder & Managing Director, Indonesia at Rocket Internet GmbH.
Before joining Rocket Internet as Managing Director Indonesia, Stein worked for J.P. Morgan as Associate.
Stein holds a Master's degree from the HEC School of Management / HEC Paris.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Internet, Shopping
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Talkpush — Talkpush is the leading conversational CRM for recruitment. Automate the repetitive stuff and focus on the right talent.
- Propseller — Sell, buy and rent property smarter with Propseller. Get premium service and full transparency for a fair commission. Sell for only 1%.
- Lazada Group — Lazada is the number one online shopping and selling destination in Southeast Asia – present in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Lazada helps more than 100,000 local and international sellers, as well as 2,500 brands, serve the 560 million consumers in the region through its marketplace platform, supportedby a wide range of tailored marketing, data, and service solutions. Lazada offers an excellent customer experience through a wide network of logistics partners and it's own first- and last-mile
Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Local, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan
Prince Mojumder
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Investment focus
- Text Analytics, Machine Learning, Speech Recognition
- Pre-Seed
- Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- Socian Ltd — Let us make your Business Converse by bridging the gap between human and machine communication to ensure better tomorrow. Please stay tuned with us and keep supporting us. Exciting things are on the way!
Kazuhiro Aoyagi is the Representative Director, CEO, and Founder of Ignition Point Japan. he is also an Outside Director of Synapse Japan.
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Investment focus
- Marketing, Task Management, Machine Learning
- Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Synapse Japan — Synapse is a working with academic partners to improve efficiency through AI.
Entrepreneur, technologist, educator, and angel investor working with the most innovative companies to change the world
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- JOBHOPin — JobHop is a SaaS company that connects reputable companies and most suitable talents in SEA, starting with Vietnam. Powered by latest AI/ML technology ,JobHop automates the sourcing process and help make work happen faster, easier and cheaper. JobHop ATS (Applicant Tracking System) helps companies streamline their recruitment process,enhance predictive analytics, smart reporting to ultimately save time and focus in what matter: The candidates.
Evan Davidson is the Vice President Asia Pacific Japan at SentinelOne. Attended University of Southern Queensland.
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Investment focus
- B2B, CRM, SaaS
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Nektar.ai — Nektar helps B2B revenue teams with Salesforce activity capture, using AI insights to improve forecasting and convert more pipeline.
Victor Wang is a Partner at HOF Capital. He attended the University of California Berkeley.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Heptabase — A note-taking tool for visual learning.
- Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
- Dialect — Discover the fastest, most intuitive, and safest way to trade tokens over chat
Founding CEO of HSC, Vietnam 2nd largest investment bank
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- JOBHOPin — JobHop is a SaaS company that connects reputable companies and most suitable talents in SEA, starting with Vietnam. Powered by latest AI/ML technology ,JobHop automates the sourcing process and help make work happen faster, easier and cheaper. JobHop ATS (Applicant Tracking System) helps companies streamline their recruitment process,enhance predictive analytics, smart reporting to ultimately save time and focus in what matter: The candidates.
ThuHuong Duong
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- JOBHOPin — JobHop is a SaaS company that connects reputable companies and most suitable talents in SEA, starting with Vietnam. Powered by latest AI/ML technology ,JobHop automates the sourcing process and help make work happen faster, easier and cheaper. JobHop ATS (Applicant Tracking System) helps companies streamline their recruitment process,enhance predictive analytics, smart reporting to ultimately save time and focus in what matter: The candidates.
Edith is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and creator of the China Internet Report, and Silicon News.Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund. A few sectors we are particularly interested in are infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech verticals. She has invested in over 50 startupsincluding Agora.io (Nasdaq: API), Lightyear/Stellar (valued at $1.2B), Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Chirp (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), Solana, Oasis Labs, Hooked, DayDayCook, AISense, and many more.Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies. Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk.She frequently speaks on China and Silicon Valley technology and the investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and a commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc.Edith attended Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Purdue University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Malaysia, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Serum — Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permission less – we do not hold special power anymore. Itis up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will.
- Telepathic — Telepathic is redefining storytelling for the Snapchat generation. They believe there is a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing "lean" principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. Their first product is HOOKED, a “twitter for fiction” mobile app thatmakes reading addictive for teens. Their longterm vision is to release stories across multiple channels, including apps, video and virtual reality.The founders are Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, veterans from the mobile app world. They previously built music apps, like AutoRap, that have helped over 150MM people experience the joy of music creation. They've also produced several viral videos totaling over 300MM views. You can read more about the journey that led us to founding a storytelling startup in this piece they wrote for Vogue.
- AppOnboard — AppOnboard is a Los Angeles-based software company empowering creators to build businesses without any programming experience. The company offers two no-code products: Buildbox, the largest no-code mobile game engine, and AppOnboard Studio, a mobile, interactive design studio that enables anyone to create playable ads and app prototypes.
C.Bob Lott
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Investment focus
- Events, Sports, Cycling
- Pre-Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Miro AI — The most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) in sports identifies players, teams, sponsors and scenes in seconds
Zaved Akhtar is the CEO and MD at Unilever. Zaved Akhtar attended Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- iPage Bangladesh — iPAGE is a UN award-winning agritech service aggregator specializing in deep learning, precision hardware & software technologies, and AI. Our mission is to disrupt the existing agricultural value chain by delivering actionable information to the producers & the consumers using our artificially intelligent farm advisory & tradingservice.An array of homegrown, robust technologies packaged in an inclusive business model and delivered through a deeply rooted local network is something that makes iPAGE unique from its conventional peers.
Social Work Platform
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- iPage Bangladesh — iPAGE is a UN award-winning agritech service aggregator specializing in deep learning, precision hardware & software technologies, and AI. Our mission is to disrupt the existing agricultural value chain by delivering actionable information to the producers & the consumers using our artificially intelligent farm advisory & tradingservice.An array of homegrown, robust technologies packaged in an inclusive business model and delivered through a deeply rooted local network is something that makes iPAGE unique from its conventional peers.
SIE-B is an impact investment initiative co-created by Roots of Impact, the Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation, and Light Castle Partners to support highly impactful startups with impact investment, match fund, and impact measurement capacity-building opportunities.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- iPage Bangladesh — iPAGE is a UN award-winning agritech service aggregator specializing in deep learning, precision hardware & software technologies, and AI. Our mission is to disrupt the existing agricultural value chain by delivering actionable information to the producers & the consumers using our artificially intelligent farm advisory & tradingservice.An array of homegrown, robust technologies packaged in an inclusive business model and delivered through a deeply rooted local network is something that makes iPAGE unique from its conventional peers.
Suriya Zannat Annie
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- iPage Bangladesh — iPAGE is a UN award-winning agritech service aggregator specializing in deep learning, precision hardware & software technologies, and AI. Our mission is to disrupt the existing agricultural value chain by delivering actionable information to the producers & the consumers using our artificially intelligent farm advisory & tradingservice.An array of homegrown, robust technologies packaged in an inclusive business model and delivered through a deeply rooted local network is something that makes iPAGE unique from its conventional peers.
Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was anEnglish instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.
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Investment focus
- Education, Social Media, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Bottomsup — Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content.
- Kuaipeilian — Kuaipeilian is an online piano training platform
- Pingo Space — Pingo Space is a mobile platform that connects locals to expats through in-person experiences.
Asif Anwar
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Investment focus
- Text Analytics, Machine Learning, Speech Recognition
- Pre-Seed
- Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- Socian Ltd — Let us make your Business Converse by bridging the gap between human and machine communication to ensure better tomorrow. Please stay tuned with us and keep supporting us. Exciting things are on the way!
Xiangyang Yang
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Industrial, Manufacturing
- Series A, Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Eyemore — Eyemore provides AI vision imaging solutions.
- Sington — Sington is a manufacturer of high-performance composite materials. Sington focuses on high-performance alloy material design, vehicle lightweight design, aluminum alloy integrated hot stamping technology, etc.
- EllipSpace — Elliptical Space-Time has the leading core technology and invention patents for integrated satellite communication, navigation and remote control, and will provide real-time wide-area comprehensive perception services to the global market.
Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, B2B, Mobile
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Kazakhstan, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Zeely — Zeely is a website development platform designed to assist businesses in marketing their web pages. The company's platform allows businesses to create and promote websites without using codes or UI/UX designs, and these codes can be linked with Google Ads or other social media platforms to increase reach, allowing businesses to create awebpage based on AI and expand their audience network.
- Kwaaka — Kwaaka is a subscription-based service that integrates Food Delivery services like Glovo, Wolt, Bolt Food, Deliveroo direct into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, streamlining order taking processes and menu management through a single interface and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually repunchorders into their existing system.
- Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.
Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Singapore
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- Street FC — 100+ Street soccer games every month. Join a club or build one with us.
- Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
- SportsIcon — Venture Studio and Sports Agency harnessing frontier technology to build innovative approaches in sports, media, and entertainment.
Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.
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- Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
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- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Yuming Bai
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- Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- Hong Kong
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- Modelife — Modelife is a platform designed for serverless hosting and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs). It allows developers to deploy custom LLMs with high performance, ensuring no cold start times and offering cost-effective per-token pricing. Modelife supports task-specific models that deliver fast and accurate results, rivaling top-tier modelslike GPT-4 but at a lower cost. The platform enables easy fine-tuning with minimal code adjustments, reducing LLM deployment costs significantly, while ensuring full model ownership without vendor lock-in.
Bingqiang Gao is the Independent Non-Executive Director of Q Tech.
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- Hardware, Robotics, Electronics
- Seed, Angel
- China, United States
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- Aiator — Aiator is an artificial intelligence product and technology solutions company focusing on industrial fields and biotechnology. Founded in 2010 by Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Scientist in Shenzhen Qianhai DreamWorks, the core members of the team are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Hong Kong. Currently, there arefour peacock talents and nearly 30 independent intellectual property rights. Weiai Intelligent is committed to carrying out AI empowerment services for enterprises, reducing costs and increasing efficiency.
- Xingmai Innovation — Xingmai Innovation creates, develops, and sells intelligent swimming pool cleaning robots.
- Ai Sensing Technology — Ai Sensing Technology is a national high-tech enterprise that focus on the research, development and production of bionic olfactory chips.
After joining DENTSU, I initially produced only banner advertising, but it is expected to be active, and I will be able to work on a number of digital campaigns. In 2011, he became independent and founded PARTY with four members. Cannes Lions Young Competition, Japan's Cyber Division, 2nd place in the world. He has received more than 250advertising awards in Japan and abroad. Recent masterpieces include Lady Gaga's life-size hearing aids “GAGADOLL”, “UNIQLO / UT Picks”, “Suntory / Intensive Regain”, “TOYOTA / TOWN”, such as “Shizukita-” all digital campaigns. TOKYO FM Radio “Sawamoto Gonpachi will end soon.” Guest Personality.
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- Web Design, Software, Content
- Seed, Series A
- Japan
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- Edoga — Edoga is a VR production and education company. Edoga offer services such as "VR training" and "off-site VR".
- Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
- STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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- Finance, Internet, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore
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- 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.
Uenoyama Katsuya - CEO @ PKSHA Technology
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- Fashion, Software, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Corporate Round
- Japan
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- Babel — Babel is creating meaningful media for users and expanding globally.
- AppBrew — AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, hair care, and other related products of different brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
- Neural Pocket — Neural Pocket provides Smart City related services for commercial buildings and urban spaces utilizing AI enabled image recognition technology. The company focuses on business development and co-creation serve its clients. Other applications include solutions for digitalization of factories, warehouses, parking lots and retail stores.
Kensuke Murashima
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- Energy, Logistics, Marketing
- Series B, Seed, Series C
- Japan
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- miibo — miibo is an AI construction platform that allows businesses to develop conversational AI bots for their products and websites.
- X Mile — Corporate Site:https://www.xmile.co.jp/ Service Site:https://x-work.jp/
- Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
Peter Li is an individual investor.
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- Software, Industrial, Manufacturing
- Angel
- China
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- xinsuanyiti — xinsuanyiti is a visual system integration solution provider.
Ganesh is a serial entrepreneur with four successful green field ventures and exits. Most recently, he founded and led TutorVista which was acquired by US and UK listed education leader Pearson for $ 213 MM in January 2011.He is a strategic investor / promoter of India based consumer Internet and ecommerce companies bluestone.com (onlinejewellery), Bigbasket.com (egrocery), MustseeIndia.com (travel packages and content), bookadda.com (academic focused online books) and delyver.com (hyper local delivery).Ganesh was also Chairman, Investor and Advisor in the data analytics BPO firm Marketics until March 2007, when the company was acquired by NYSE listed WNS for $ 63 MM. His earlier venture, CustomerAsset was started in mid 2000 and later acquired by ICICI (NYSE listed, India's largest bank) and is now publicly listed in India as First Source Solutions. In 1990, as his first entrepreneurial venture, he co-promoted IT&T. And as its Founder and CEO, he played a major role in making the company one of India's top multi-vendor IT service and support till the business was sold to iGate (a listed company) in 2003.He is also on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and has a post-graduate degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University.
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- Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Impact — The Impact is a fitness, kindness mobile app where every step walked or jogged raises money for a social cause. Person workouts are sponsored by companies through their Corporate Social Responsibility and the money goes directly to the partnered NGOs.
- Euler Motors — Euler Motors is an automotive tech startup based out of New Delhi focused on commercial electric vehicles. Inspired by the work done by EV Companies across the globe esp. Tesla, Euler Motors is committed to accelerating India's transition to sustainable mobility. Euler aims to become the category leader for cargo transport by driving theElectric Vehicle Revolution in India. Euler Motors is focused on first solving last-mile logistics for e-commerce and 3PL players. To kickstart mass-market adoption - Euler is offering the entire "mobility as a service" stack instead of serving just one stage of a larger value-chain.
- CredR — Whether Buy & Sell Used Bikes or buy & sell Scooters online in India, CredR- the one-stop solution for all. Get 100% verified used two-wheelers in just 3 simple steps. No Legal Hassles. Premium Refurbished Bikes.
Prashant is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Komli Media including sales, product development, engineering, marketing and business development. Prashant worked for Eight years at Yahoo! Inc., where he was Vice President and Head of Monetization for Yahoo!’s Emerging Markets Group which included India, Southeast Asia,Latin America, Middle East and Eastern Europe. Prior to Yahoo!, Prashant held various roles at Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase (formerly, Chemical Bank) and NatWest.
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- E-Commerce, Advertising, Ad Targeting
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- India, Singapore
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- ZAPR — ZAPR, is one of the world's first media consumption repositories and cross-targeting platforms. ZAPR's technology platform auto-detects comprehensively all offline media content being viewed by millions of people. ZAPR is currently over 1000x larger than any audience measurement database in India and they're rapidly growing. Forthe very first time, a brand can bridge its offline advertising strategy with its social.mobile.digital strategies, by identifying their audiences, understanding their media habits and targeting the same user base across all mediums - offline and online - mobile and social. Users who are watching TV, but ignoring the commercials, can now be retargeted across social and mobile platforms, to ensure that a brand's wasted TV impressions are reinforced by the second screen. ZAPR is quickly expanding on all fronts - its user base, various media formats (live TV, radio, movies-in-theater, VOD, internet media) as well as geographic presence. ZAPR is a VC funded media-tech startup and is backed by iconic angel and institutional investors from India, Singapore, Europe and US.
- WayCool — global video community
- SilverPush — Silverpush is an AI-powered contextual video advertising company that uses moment targeting to produce engaging ads in a brand safe & suitable environment where your users are most likely to see them.
Samuel Z. Alemayehu is the Founder and Chairman Of The Board Of Directors of Cambridge Industries.
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- SMS, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Cameroon, Ethiopia, Singapore
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- SantéPhone — SantéPhone is a mobile-based health prevention platform founded in partnership with leading health insurance companies across West Africa. The application was powered by 4Afri Mobile.
- Nextbillion.ai — Nextbillion.ai aims to deliver a wide range of AI-powered hyperlocal solutions starting with the area of mapping. Nb.ai is working on building the geospatial infrastructure needed for enabling location-based experiences for the next billion users. The complexities in markets like India, Indonesia, and Nigeria are far greater than the traditionaldeveloped countries and we are building the future of location technology. Underdeveloped infrastructure, the rise of megacities, complex addresses, and an ever-changing road network make things even more challenging and we are trying to solve these extremely complex problems using a combination of data, AI, platform, and people.
- Cambridge Industries — Designing, constructing and operating extremely cost-competitive and scalable waste-to-energy facilities customised for Sub-Saharan Africa Cambridge Industries is a holistic waste management and renewable energy generation company, delivering leading technologies to address waste and energy deficiencies in Africa. They produce clean/greenenergy while solving waste-related problems by reducing the amount of waste going to landfills. Their goal is to turn one of Africa's most challenging social problems, the management of waste, into a source of new wealth. Cambridge’s 'Green Vision' is a comprehensive, sustainable, clean, and renewable power generation and waste management system designed specifically for African cities. Effective power generation and waste management are among the principal challenges faced throughout Africa, particularly in its rapidly urbanizing cities. Cambridge Industries provides local governments with an efficient, cost-effective solution to resolving power deficits while managing municipal waste, from garbage collection to the treatment and ultimate conversion of the waste to low-emission, renewable electricity and useful byproducts, such as recycled metals and building materials.
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.
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- Blockchain, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Vietnam, Singapore
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- 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.
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