Top 50 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Asia in April 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Manufacturing startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Asia in April 2025
Investor | Manufacturing Asia investments |
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Jan Hammer | 5 |
Lijie Wang | 4 |
Byung Joon Han | 3 |
Hirofumi Miki | 2 |
Xin Xu | 2 |
Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu | 2 |
Nobuhiro Ariyasu | 2 |
HP Jin | 2 |
Yusuke Sato | 2 |
Nobuyuki Idei | 2 |
Christopher Rust | 1 |
Padmasree Warrior | 1 |
Minoru Moriya | 1 |
Hua Guoping | 1 |
Jichuangtan Jichuangtan | 1 |
Weili Dai | 1 |
Boon Hwee Koh | 1 |
Lim Tai Tian | 1 |
Kubo Keiichi | 1 |
Arai Yoshihide | 1 |
Andrew Andrew | 1 |
Albert Wenger | 1 |
Kumi Sakurai | 1 |
Yoshiro Yonezawa | 1 |
Roshni Mahtani | 1 |
Keisuke Wada | 1 |
Jun Zhang | 1 |
Roman Smolevskiy | 1 |
Yusuke Murata | 1 |
Hao Chen | 1 |
Shen Qin | 1 |
Wawan Salum | 1 |
Wang Tianmiao | 1 |
Peter Li | 1 |
Hao Yan | 1 |
Peter Tan | 1 |
Xiangyang Yang | 1 |
Meng Xiong Kuok | 1 |
Hongjia Zhang | 1 |
Teik Guan Tan | 1 |
Jenny Chen | 1 |
MAEDA GIKEN | 1 |
Qiaoling Wang | 1 |
Tatsuo Sakamoto | 1 |
Yoshitsune Ido | 1 |
Chang-Hung Tseng | 1 |
Bingqiang Gao | 1 |
Ren Huiyin | 1 |
Kenji Kasahara | 1 |
Kenshin Fujiwara | 1 |
Jan joined Index in 2010, and is a London-based partner, focusing on fintech and information/data services across all stages of growth.He is one of Index Ventures’ leading fintech investors, working with the founders of Adyen, Credit Benchmark, Robinhood and TransferWise. In all, Index has backed more than two dozen fintech companies, withmore than $400 million. Jan has also led Index investments and is on the boards of Beamery, Collibra, SafetyCulture and Silverfin.Before he joined Index, Jan was at General Atlantic in London, where he worked on investments in Kaspersky Lab, Northgate Information Solutions and Torex Retail. He also worked in the M&A, TMT and Capital Markets divisions at Morgan Stanley. Jan is a graduate of Oxford University, and holds an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MacroLux — MacroLux operates as a medical technology company focusing on endoscopic interventional business. MacroLux develops endoscopic interventional therapy solutions and promote them to the majority of medical customers.
- Yuetong Eye Clinic — Yuetong Eye Clinic is a medical institution that provides myopia surgery for adults and myopia prevention and control for adolescents. It is a medical institution focusing on adult myopia surgery and adolescent myopia prevention and control.
- Xiwei Biotechnology — Xiwei Biotechnology is an ophthalmology implanted medical device developer that specializes in the unique product development of new bio-modified materials for ocular implantable medical devices and regenerative medicine.
Leo Wang is recognized as an active angel investor and leading proponent of Mobile Internet, Blockchain, and Angel Investment in China. Boasting over twenty years in mobile internet and tech, he has invested in 300 startups, spanning healthcare to fintech and blockchain, including 2 NASDAQ-listed companies and 5 unicorns.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Aerospace, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Huma Finance — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
- Huojianpai — Huojianpai is a commercial aerospace company providing earth-moon space economy and future-oriented deep space exploration.
- Reserve — Reserve is a universal currency company. Reserve provides people with hyperinflation protected savings accounts to protect and use their money globally. They offer rtokens, collateral baskets, and over collateralization.
Dr. Byung-Joon (BJ) Han is co-founder and CEO @ Silicon Box. He served as Chief Technology Officer, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board for JCET STATS Chippac – the world’s No. 3 OSAT – where he worked for twenty years (1999-2019). During that time, he grew revenue at STATS Chippac from $100M to $4.3B by transformingSingapore--based STATS into a global company.Dr. Han is the inventor of semiconductor packaging products, currently shipping 100B+ per year in unit volume, including quad flat no-lead (QFN). He has led teams that have won awards for technological breakthroughs in the space. Dr. Han brings his considerable know-how and expertise in advanced packaging to Silicon Box, and to address the current lack of chiplet integration infrastructure.Dr. Han served as Group Chairman of the Technology Strategy Committee overseeing technology direction for the JCET group of companies. In the prior 14 years, he held positions at AT&T Bell Labs, IBM Research, and Anam Semiconductor (later Amkor, world’s No. 2 OSAT). Dr. Han is a consultant at Bain and holds directorships at several important semiconductor firms and innovation initiatives.Dr. Han was a member of the main committee for Singapore President’s Science and Technology Awards, a member of the National Research Foundation of Singapore and a Director at the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. He served as Director for the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative from 2005-2017. Dr. Han holds over 300 patents. Dr. Han received his PhD from Columbia University in the City of New York, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.
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Investment focus
- Electronics, Manufacturing, Semiconductor
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Silicon Box — We are an advanced chiplet interconnection company specialising in cutting-edge semiconductor integration services. Learn more about our proprietary integration technology.
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.
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Investment focus
- Content, Marketing, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
- Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
- Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
Xin Xu
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Investment focus
- Video, Mobile Apps, Food Delivery
- Angel, Series A, Series B
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Easy Foods — Easy Foods engages in the food packaging equipment and food production business.
- Ren Ren TV — Ren Ren TV is an oversea cultural video streaming platform.
Pawoot is like an icon of Thailand online business. Many people call him "the godfather of E-Commerce"
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Thailand, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- DayWork — People and Part-time marketplace
- PEAK — PEAK (peakaccount.com) is one of the leading online accounting software provider in Thailand. We manage accounting record of almost 100,000 transactions valued over 2 billion bath per month. PEAK is a supported startup from True Incube and is invested by True, GSB, and SET. We won several awards and recognitions including winner prize for Ease ofDoing Business Solution, Design Innovation, True Incube Batch 2. We are not only providing online accounting software but we are building business infrastructure for future data-driven economy. We help SMEs in Thailand have a better accounting system and have a better chance of getting loan or money they need to expand their business.
- Protoss Technology — Technology outsourcing company
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Internet, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
- PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
- Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.
HP co-founded Telenav in 1999 and has led the company to become a global leader in location-based services (LBS), automotive navigation and location-targeted mobile advertising. Telenav was the first company to launch GPS navigation services for mobile phones to the world, and today its product reaches more than 100 countries on mobile phones andwithin vehicles. Telenav was also the first LBS company in the USA to IPO when it began publicly trading on NASDAQ in May 2010. Telenav has subsidiaries in US, China, Europe and South America.Prior to starting Telenav, HP served as a Senior Strategy Consultant for the McKenna Group and a Business Strategy and Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company. HP has also served as a Technical Director at LINCSS/Loral Space Communication. HP holds a Ph.D. in Guidance, Navigation and Control (Aeronautics and Astronautics department), a Ph.D. minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Robotics, Furniture
- Seed, Series A
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ronbow — Ronbow is a commercial company that distributes, designs, and manufactures a diverse selection of decorative bathing products, including sinks, vanities, medicine cabinets, and more. The company selects the highest-quality hardwood and puts them through a rigorous 10-step finishing process that is finalized with a comprehensive assembly process.Ronbow offers a dynamic and diverse design spectrum to fit any style home, from ultra contemporary to old world traditional. Their versatile designs allow for interchangeable sinks and countertops in wood, glass, stone & ceramic to match any home decor. The company provides options for interchangeable sizes and materials to inspire a truly unique customizable experience.Ronbow was founded by Jason Chen in 2002 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA, USA.
- Hanyang Technology — Hanyang Technologies is a company that specialises in the design, research, development, manufacturing, sales, and servicing of garden intelligent robot products.
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
Nobuyuki Idei has served as our independent director since June 2007.Being an experienced director, Nobuyuki Idei currently also serves as director of Accenture, director of FreeBit Co, Ltd., director of Lenovo Group, and chairman of the National Conference on Fostering Beautiful Forests in Japan.Nobuyuki Idei is the founder and chief executiveofficer of Quantum Leaps Corporation, a specialist consultancy that advises private and public institutions on the changing role of technology in the 21st century.Nobuyuki Idei is also the founder and chairman of the board of Asia Innovators’ Initiative, a private non-profit organization that he established in 2011 to serve as a catalyst for social innovation in Asia by bringing together a diverse range of individuals and promoting knowledge sharing.Nobuyuki Idei was chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Corporation from 2000 to 2005, chief corporate advisor from 2005 to 2007, and chairman of the advisory board from 2007 to 2012.Prior to that, Nobuyuki Idei held a range of leadership positions at Sony including general manager of the audio division, senior general manager of the home video group, and president and representative director.Nobuyuki Idei has also served in a number of other advisory positions including as counselor to the Bank of Japan, member of Japan’s national IT Strategy Council, and vice-chairman of Nippon Keidanren.Nobuyuki Idei received a bachelor of science degree in economics and politics from Waseda University in Tokyo.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Manufacturing, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Japan, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Pyrenee — Pyrenee is a hardware startup that creates devices that protect people's lives.
- Antescofo — Antescofo is the mariage of world-class R&D and Business endeavours. Their technology is the result of 7+ years of R&D in the world’s largest laboratory dedicated to Music and Technology, IRCAM in Paris, and public experience with the most important musicians and orchestras around the world. The principle? Through Intelligent MachineListening, they recognize how humans perform music in real-time and use that information to synchronize content and provide an immersive experience! Antescofo was incorporated in July 2016 and based in Paris, France.
- Stake Technologies — Stake Technologies is a technology company that provides blockchain solutions to enterprises.
Christopher Rust is the Co-Founder and Partner at Clear Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Kaiam — Kaiam A deal website that offers discounts, coupons, and other deals in order to attract customers. The deals are usually organized by categories such as Organic & Fashion.
- Tignis — Tignis is an information technology company that enables hardware and software vendors to continually monitor performance data while their products are in use. Using real-time edge computing, machine learning, and customer-specific controls, vendors can quickly identify and proactively remedy performance issues and predict problems before theyoccur.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Washington, United States.
- Robin.io — Automate deployment of complex 5G & enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost with cloud native Kubernetes storage on the Robin platform.
Padmasree Warrior is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Fable. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of NextEV, U.S. She also serves as the Chief
Development Officer of NextEV, as well as a member of its Board of Directors. In these capacities, she is responsible for the brains of NextEV's autonomous, electric vehiclesand the overall user experience. She is based in San Jose, CA where NextEV US is headquartered.Previously, Warrior served as the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer (CTSO) for Cisco until
September 2015. In this capacity she was charged with aligning the company's technology and
business strategy to business results. She was in charge of corporate strategy, mergers,
acquisitions, venture investments, and strategic partnerships. Previous to that she was the GM for
Cisco Enterprise segment and co-led Cisco's worldwide engineering organization. Prior to joining
Cisco, she was executive vice president and CTO at Motorola. Under her leadership, Motorola was
awarded the 2004 U.S. National Medal of Technology.Padmasree Warrior has been widely recognized for her creative, visionary leadership. Forbes has
named her one of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" for three years running. In 2013, The
International Alliance for Women gave her the World of Difference Award. In 2012, Business Insider called her one of the "25 Most Influential Women in Wireless". The Aspen Institute gave her the first Leadership in Science and Technology Award. India's National Association of Software & Service Companies (NASSCOM) named her the Global CTO Award winner. The Wall Street Journal has called her one of "50 Women to Watch." Fast Company included her among the "100 Most Creative People in Business." The Economic Times listed her as "the 11th Most Influential Global Indian."Warrior holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology in New Delhi and a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell
University. In addition to NextEV's board, Warrior serves on the board of Microsoft. She previously served on the board of Gap and Box.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Genetics, Automotive
- Series A
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- NIO — NIO Inc. is a pioneer in China’s premium smart electric vehicle market. NIO’s mission is to shape a joyful lifestyle by offering premium smart electric vehicles and being the best user enterprise. NIO designs, jointly manufactures, and sells smart and connected premium electric vehicles, driving innovations in next generation technologies inconnectivity, autonomous driving and artificial intelligence. Redefining the user experience, NIO provides users with comprehensive, convenient and innovative charging solutions and other user-centric services. NIO began deliveries of the ES8, a 7-seater high-performance premium electric SUV in China in June 2018, and its variant, the six-seater ES8, in March 2019. NIO officially launched the ES6, a 5-seater high-performance premium electric SUV, in December 2018 and began deliveries in June 2019. NIO officially launched the EC6, a 5-seater smart premium electric Coupe SUV, in December 2019 and plans to commence deliveries in 2020.
- Color — Color is a population health technology company that focuses on providing large-scale health care programs and clinical testing. It improves the key health infrastructure systems to make health accessible, convenient, and cost-effective, serving health systems, employers, research institutions, and individual consumers.Its Population GenomicsPlatform offers modular and end-to-end solutions that enable organizations to effectively build and scale population health programs. It provides technology, software, and clinical services to help population programs launch and scale quickly. By combining innovative technology, specialized laboratory infrastructure, and clinical health services, Color creates complete and effective programs that include: Program strategy, planning, and implementation; Participant outreach and engagement; participant education and consent about testing and results; sample (blood or saliva) collection and genetic sequencing; data management and clinical reporting; HIPAA compliance and data security; return of results; clinical services, like genetic counseling and clinical pharmacy; personalized care routine; and ongoing population health management. Color’s partners include NorthShore University Health System, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Ochsner Health System, Verily, Visa, Levi Strauss, and Salesforce.Elad Gil, Nish Bhat, Taylor Sittler, and Othman Laraki launched Color in 2015 and is based in Burlingame, California.
Minoru Moriya is a director at AuB.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- M-Box — M-Box provides IT solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and operates web services.
- HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
- Willbox — Willbox is an international logistics company providing an international logistics digital platform for shippers and logistics companies. The company's platform "Giho" connects shippers and logistics companies (transportation, packaging, warehousing, customs clearance, etc.) with a direct contract. It visualizes the three elements of[lead time, money, and safety], which have been regarded as a black box, and supports comparative examination and decision making. Willbox digitizes the packing technique of wooden boxes and steel, mandatory for international logistics, and incorporated them into their system. Their mission is to solve the logistics issues focusing on the large cargo of industrial products.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa.
Hua Guoping is the the founder of Hualan Co.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Diagnostics
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Boyi Biotechnology — Boyi Biotechnology is a technology-based firm that provides vital raw materials and complete solutions to biomedical customers in the in vitro diagnostic market. It focus on diagnostic microspheres, testing raw materials, and quality control products.
Jichuangtan Jichuangtan
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Machinery Manufacturing, Industrial Manufacturing
- Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Shengqi Technology — Zhejiang Shengqi Technology Co.,Ltd: As one of the most professional ball valve, plug valve, knife gate valve, diaphragm valve and pressure relief valve manufacturers and suppliers in China, we warmly welcome you to buy high quality industrial valves at competitive price from our factory.
Weili Dai is the Executive Vice Chairwoman and Founder of DreamBig Semiconductor. She previously worked at Marvell Technology as a Co-Founder and President. Weili Dai attended the University of California, Berkeley.
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Investment focus
- Semiconductor, Electronics, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ronbow — Ronbow is a commercial company that distributes, designs, and manufactures a diverse selection of decorative bathing products, including sinks, vanities, medicine cabinets, and more. The company selects the highest-quality hardwood and puts them through a rigorous 10-step finishing process that is finalized with a comprehensive assembly process.Ronbow offers a dynamic and diverse design spectrum to fit any style home, from ultra contemporary to old world traditional. Their versatile designs allow for interchangeable sinks and countertops in wood, glass, stone & ceramic to match any home decor. The company provides options for interchangeable sizes and materials to inspire a truly unique customizable experience.Ronbow was founded by Jason Chen in 2002 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA, USA.
- Gravel — Gravel is a technology company that makes it simple for you to find qualified and trustworthy construction workers.
- Silicon Box — We are an advanced chiplet interconnection company specialising in cutting-edge semiconductor integration services. Learn more about our proprietary integration technology.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
- Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
- Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.
Lim Tai Tian
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Investment focus
- Sustainability, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
- Pre-Seed
- Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- BUYO Bioplastics — BUYO provides a 100% nature-based and biodegradable bioplastic solution, using our advanced proprietary technology to convert bio-waste and plant-based materials into...
Kubo Keiichi
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- SPACE WALKER — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
Arai Yoshihide - CEO & Chairman @ Atrae
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- SPACE WALKER — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
Andrew is the founding partner of brizan.
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Investment focus
- Robotics, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Changyao Innovation — Changyao Innovation is a cutting-edge technological company. It provides intelligent robots to families. The current first-generation devices emphasize automating the entire grass management process. The main focus is on robotic lawnmowers with a vision-based full process.
Albert Wenger is the Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Brale — Combining the best of CeFi & DeFi.
- Terra.do — Learn about climate change and start working on climate change solutions today with the Terra.do community.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
Kumi Sakurai is a Co founder of Premo Partners.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Manufacturing, Product Research
- Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Spine Chronicle — Spine chronicle is a medical device manufacturing firm that specializes in developing orthopedic medical equipment.
Yoshiro Yonezawa Doctor at Yonezawa Orthopedic Hospital.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Manufacturing, Product Research
- Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Spine Chronicle — Spine chronicle is a medical device manufacturing firm that specializes in developing orthopedic medical equipment.
Roshni Mahtani is the CEO and Founder of Tickled Media, the publisher of parenting social network - ParentTown, and media assets - theAsianparent.com and IndusParent.com Her company reaches 11 million Asian mums monthly and has operations in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and India.Roshni is also actively involved in the start-up community. In 2015, she founded the Female Founders Network, a group of over 3,000 female founders. She also sits on the board of TIE Singapore and is an angel investor in a dozen of early stage start-ups.
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Investment focus
- Furniture, E-Commerce, Home Decor
- Seed
- Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Fabelio — Fabelio is a design-centric e-tailer operating in Indonesia and soon in entire South East Asia. They partner with the best designers in Indonesia to create original designs and they work closely with the best factories to manufacture good-quality products at attractive prices. At fabelio they focus on furnishing happiness.
After graduating from Kyoto University, Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd., CyberAgent Investment: through the (now Cyber Agent Ventures), established Selene Venture Partners (now representative partner). Then, has engaged in incubation activities of Internet ventures, including the establishment of the Corporation Pokerabo. The established:(typical current partner), you are doing investment and incubation activities with a focus on social apps field incubator fund bait in 2010.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Human Resources
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
- M-INT — M-INT is a life science company that offers medical infrastructure and medical IT system.
- Ark Edge Space — Ark Edge Space provides design, manufacturing & operational services for micro-satellites along with software solutions and consulting.
Jun Zhang - Partner @ PreAngel
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Investment focus
- Military, Aerospace, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- ZIYAN UAV — ZIYAN UAV is a manufacturer of electric unmanned helicopter platforms.
- Westwell Lab — Westwell Lab is a commercial lab specializing in neuromorphic circuits and systems. Through innovative algorithms, custom silicon, and a biology-inspired approach, the company aims to bring neuromorphic systems to big data, embedded systems, and industry. The company was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.
Roman Smolevskiy is currently the co-founder at BuildTech VC. He was also the founder of Akvapoint. He attended the University of California.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- xRobotics — Smallest and powerful pizza-making robot in the world. Top 3 ingredients: sauce, cheese and pepperoni. Adjustable volume 100-300 pizzas per hour.
- Aethero — Aethero enables satellites to deploy AI/ML applications on orbit with high-performance space computers. Their compute modules are equipped with the latest storage, processing, and connectivity capabilities to support reinforcement learning and in-space model training for missions such as such visual positioning, EO data processing, link budgetcalculation, autonomous operation, and more
- SpaceX — SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
In 1999, he founded SaaS startup (towards financial institutions). After exited, he joined the NIF Ventures (now Daiwa Corporate Investment) in 2003, and mainly dealt with investment for internet-related startups and fund management. In 2010, founded Incubate Fund as one of co-founder and general partner, and works on investment and incubation inmedia, gaming, digital health, and frontier-tech areas. He won #1 prize of Forbes JAPAN’s MIDAS LIST 2017.
Since 2015, he is on the Japan Venture Capital Association (JVCA) as General Manager of planing department and Chairperson of Fund Eco-System Committee and Director of LP Relationship department.
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Investment focus
- Nursing and Residential Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Fager — Fager is an agriculture firm specializing in promoting decarbonization projects, agricultural carbon production, and sales.
- Ark Edge Space — Ark Edge Space provides design, manufacturing & operational services for micro-satellites along with software solutions and consulting.
- Woodstock — Woodstock is an investment app that allows to invest in US stocks.
Hao Chen is an founder of Shokz.
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Investment focus
- Wearables, Manufacturing, Virtual Reality
- Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Xianshun Technology — Xianshun Technology develops near-eye display optical systems and integrates them with ultra-low-power hardware architecture to give consumers with AR smart glasses.
He is a partner at Shengyu Investment / Sharewin Investment, and a follow-up investor for them as well.
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Investment focus
- Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
- Series C
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Longsailing — Longsailing is a semiconductor manufacturing firm that works on smart connectivity and wireless sectors.
- Yizhun Intelligent — Yizhun Intelligent is an AI & Robotics company.
Wawan Salum is a CEO Atome Financial Indonesia.
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Investment focus
- Textiles, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Wifkain — Wifkain platform connects fashion businesses with fabric suppliers.
Wang Tianmiao
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Investment focus
- Robotics, Product Research
- Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Xiaoyu Zhizao — Xiaoyu Zhizao is an industrial robot manufacturer, focusing on industrial robot manufacturing, intelligent robot research and development.
- Xiangke Intelligence — Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, computer and robotics professionals, and industrial serial entrepreneurs founded Xiangke Intelligence. It was established by the former founder of "Speed Technology" and the general manager of SharkNinja China Robot R&D Centre.
Peter Li is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, Industrial, Manufacturing
- Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- xinsuanyiti — xinsuanyiti is a visual system integration solution provider.
Hao Yan is the Representative Director of EPS Holdings.
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Investment focus
- Robotics, Manufacturing, Medical Device
- Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- BionicM — BionicM develops high-performance robot prostheses that enhance mobility for people with disabilities.BionicM has been conducting research on innovative technologies since 2015 at the University of Tokyo's Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (JSK) under the guidance of Professor Inaba and utilizing the world's most advancedrobotics research. In 2016, we were adopted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency as part of "Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology" (START), and in 2018, the company was established as a joint-stock company.
Peter Tan
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- Baby, Machinery Manufacturing
- Seed
- Singapore
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- Snuugo — Singapore's 1st designed and built smart wearable breast pump that puts mums first. Delight in the versatility of choice with our discreet design so you can slip on and carry on with optimised pumping and uncompromised comfort through our hospital-grade efficiency and 28 rhythm and intensity settings via Snuugo app.
Xiangyang Yang
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- Aerospace, Industrial, Manufacturing
- Series A, Angel
- China
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- 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.
Meng Xiong Kuok - Founder & Managing Partner @ K3 Ventures
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Transportation
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Singapore, United States, China
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- Cicil — Solusi pembiayaan untuk kegiatan rantai pasok bisnis Anda dari hulu ke hilir yang mudah dan cepat.
- SimplyGood — SimplyGood supplies environmentally friendly cleaning and personal care products.
- Lottery.com — Lottery.com is the internet's top source for official lottery results, numbers, games, jackpots, winners and news.
Hongjia Zhang
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- Solar, Energy, Recycling
- Seed
- China
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- Resolar — Resolar provides whole-chain PV recycling solution, which can reach 99.9% separation rate and extract 95% of the total value with $80/MT cost. We have closed the entire PV recycling loop, which includes separating PV modules and Ag, processing the silicon to 6N level, casting ingot with recycled silicon and manufacturing recycled PV modules.
pQCee.com is a startup in the quantum cybersecurity space. We are in the business of designing and building post-quantum products and services to strengthen and protect the next generation of computing against quantum attacks.
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- SaaS, Enterprise Software, Software Engineering
- Seed
- Singapore
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- Phasio — Phasio develops software for SME manufacturers that makes ordering parts, designing parts and communicating with customers seamless.
Jenny Chen
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- 3D Printing, Health Care
- Seed
- Singapore
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- Craft Health — Craft Health aims to combine all your daily medicines and supplements into a single daily pill, through 3D printing of personalized medicines and supplements. Our technology allows controlled release of each active ingredient as selected by the user.
MAEDA GIKEN
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- 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round
- Japan
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- ExtraBold — ExtraBold specializes in the development of 3D printers.
Qiaoling Wang
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- Solar, Energy, Recycling
- Seed
- China
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- Resolar — Resolar provides whole-chain PV recycling solution, which can reach 99.9% separation rate and extract 95% of the total value with $80/MT cost. We have closed the entire PV recycling loop, which includes separating PV modules and Ag, processing the silicon to 6N level, casting ingot with recycled silicon and manufacturing recycled PV modules.
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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- Information Technology, Education, Recruiting
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
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- Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
- Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Yoshitsune Ido
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- Information Technology, Robotics, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Japan
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- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- BionicM — BionicM develops high-performance robot prostheses that enhance mobility for people with disabilities.BionicM has been conducting research on innovative technologies since 2015 at the University of Tokyo's Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (JSK) under the guidance of Professor Inaba and utilizing the world's most advancedrobotics research. In 2016, we were adopted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency as part of "Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology" (START), and in 2018, the company was established as a joint-stock company.
- Dots for — Dots for is a technology that aims to improve the lives of rural residents by providing them with digital services.
Chang-Hung Tseng
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- 3D Printing, Health Care
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Craft Health — Craft Health aims to combine all your daily medicines and supplements into a single daily pill, through 3D printing of personalized medicines and supplements. Our technology allows controlled release of each active ingredient as selected by the user.
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.
Ren Huiyin is the managing director of Jintou Zhiyuan.
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- Manufacturing
- Angel
- China
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- Guangrun Vacuum — Guangrun Vacuum is a technological firm that specializes in vacuum coating equipment R&D, design, sales, manufacture, and service. It was an early equipment firm involved in vacuum magnetron sputtering coating of flexible composite current collectors, and it helped design the first home vacuum equipment that used both magnetron and evaporationtechnology.
Born in 1975, Kenji Kasahara grew up in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo.
Inspired by the case studies of IT business he studied in a university seminar on management strategy and by the rapid rise of Internet business in Silicon Valley in the USA, he started up “Find Job !”, an online jobinformation site, in 1997. In 1999 Kasahara established eMercury, Inc. (mixi, Inc.) and assumed the post of representative director.
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- Aerospace, Information Technology, Robotics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Japan, United States
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- Age well Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
- ONE — One is a Japanese startup. It primarily creates and operates consumer apps, some of which have been sold to publicly traded Japanese corporations.This runs the BeReal exchange application "BeMatch."
- Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.
Kenshin is a CEO at Hacarus Inc., a healthcare technology startup based in Kyoto, Japan.He co-founded several tech startups with 2 exits in the past 15 years. His first career started as an engineer at Sony Computer Entertainment and worked on PlayStation development projects. HIs fist startup was acquired by Japanese public company, and thesecond startup was sold to the US company.Born in 1976. He holds a Computer Science degree from California State University. He loves mountain hiking and currently living in Kyoto Japan with his wife and family.
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- Mobile, Medical, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Japan
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- Helpfeel — Our vision is to make saving, sharing, and exploring ideas as natural as breathing. On this journey we're humbled to be helping millions around the world from solo makers to university research labs, from gamers to pro designers, and large to small teams like ours.
- HACARUS — We make AI work, where common Big Data aproaches fail. Get explainable results, even from small data amounts. Available on the cloud or as embedded devices.
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