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Top 50 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Asia in May 2025

Last updated: May 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 May 2025

Investor	Manufacturing Asia investments
Jan Hammer	5
Lijie Wang	4
Byung Joon Han	3
Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu	2
HP Jin	2
Hirofumi Miki	2
Nobuhiro Ariyasu	2
Xin Xu	2
Nobuyuki Idei	2
Yusuke Sato	2
Andrew Andrew	1
Albert Wenger	1
Keisuke Wada	1
Jun Zhang	1
Peter Tan	1
Bingqiang Gao	1
Kenji Kasahara	1
Ayataro Nakagawa	1
Hidetoshi Takano	1
Chen Zhongping	1
Liu Xiaosong	1
Tongchuang Albert	1
Yukihiro Maru	1
Mamoru Taniya	1
Katsushi Ishida	1
Avi Reichental	1
Michael Diekmann	1
Zhang Chao	1
Masahiko Homma	1
Jichuangtan Jichuangtan	1
Weili Dai	1
Boon Hwee Koh	1
Kumi Sakurai	1
Yoshiro Yonezawa	1
Roshni Mahtani	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
Xiangyang Yang	1
Meng Xiong Kuok	1
Hongjia Zhang	1
Teik Guan Tan	1
Jenny Chen	1
MAEDA GIKEN	1
Qiaoling Wang	1

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Pawoot is like an icon of Thailand online business. Many people call him "the godfather of E-Commerce"

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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.

Xin Xu

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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Content, Internet, 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.
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.
Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.

Andrew is the founding partner of brizan.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Peter Tan

Investment focus

Baby, Machinery Manufacturing
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.

Bingqiang Gao is the Independent Non-Executive Director of Q Tech.

Investment focus

Hardware, Robotics, Electronics
Seed, Angel
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
LuMing Robotics — LuMing Robotics is a developer of intelligent robots. LuMing Robotics focuses on the field of embodied intelligent robots, and its business covers intelligent robot R&D and sales, artificial intelligence algorithm development, etc.
Xingmai Innovation — Xingmai Innovation creates, develops, and sells intelligent swimming pool cleaning robots.

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.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Information Technology, Robotics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kaymak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.

Chen Zhongping, chairman of Hongyang Home Decoration Group.

Investment focus

Robotics, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Gugong Robot — Gongong Robot is a manufacturer of intelligent construction equipment. Intelligent construction equipment, such as line-setting robots, precision leveling robots, and upper limb support exoskeletons, are among its key offerings, as are intelligent manufacturing equipment for construction parts, such as steel cage flexible manufacturing productionlines.

Liu Xiaosong

Investment focus

Robotics, Manufacturing, Semiconductor
Angel, Series B
China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Yizhun Intelligent — Yizhun Intelligent is an AI & Robotics company.
Quantified Energy Labs — Quantified Energy Labs (QE LABS) is a deep tech spinoff company from the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore/National University of Singapore. We are a team of professionals with expertise in the fields of solar energy, computer vision, and drone technology.

Tongchuang Albert is an Angel and Individual Investor.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Battery, Biopharma
Angel, Funding Round
China

Portfolio highlights

Tangshi Technology — Tangshi Technology is a platform for research and development for carbon-based materials. It helps in creation, and use of conductive agents and negative electrode materials.
Innogen Pharmaceutical — Innogen Pharmaceutical Technology is a high-tech, innovation-driven international pharmaceutical manufacturing, and R&D company.

Yukihiro Maru is the Co-Founder of Glocalink Singapore. He previously worked at Euglena Co., Ltd. as a Technical Adviser. Yukihiro Maru attended the Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Beauty, Farming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

ARK — ARK is a manufacturer of special wards that designs and delivers a sustainable aquaculture solution.
ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
Integriculture — Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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.

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.

Katsushi Ishida is the President and Representative Director CEO japan elevator service holdings.

Investment focus

Foundries, Electronics, Industrial Engineering
Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Seiwa Holdings — Seiwa Holdings is a company that specializes in the welding of large structures. It holds a significant share in the large sign industry in the Chubu region. The company also has a subsidiary, Toei Coating, which boasts one of the largest facilities in Gifu for electric zinc plating. Seiwa Holdings is also involved in the production of road signposts and bridge fall prevention devices. The company operates in the financial services industry and has a workforce of 2 employees.

Avi Reichental is the current Co-Founder & Chairman of ParaMatters. He previously worked at Singularity University as a Core Faculty.

Investment focus

Health Care, 3D Technology, Internet of Things
Seed, Angel
United States, Israel, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NXT Factory — Development a groundbreaking beam delivery system, that converts a single laser into several million microlasers, without power degradation.
ParaMatters — Paramatters is a team of world-class experts in topology optimization, computational mechanics, CAD and artificial intelligence.
Centaur Analytics, Inc. — Centaur Analytics is a industrial data and IoT analytics platform for post-harvest quality monitoring.Centaur Analytics use data science and sensors to monitor and predict product quality and safety for grains, like malting barley, wheat, and other commodities.

Michael Diekmann is Supervisory Board Member at Siemens.

Investment focus

mHealth, CleanTech, Smart Home
Series A, Series C
China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BERGLUF — BERGLUF develops and sells air purification system products.
Huma — Huma is a global health technology company that provides a modular platform to support digital 'hospitals at home' across different disease areas. Its platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers, and real-world data to advance proactive, predictive care and research.The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered inLondon, England.

Zhang Chao is investor in Cosmoleap.

Investment focus

Automotive, Product Research, Industrial Engineering
Funding Round
China

Portfolio highlights

Cosmoleap — Cosmoleap is dedicated to the development and operation of medium and large reusable launch vehicles. Cosmoleap is dedicated to creating reusable, low-cost, and highly reliable launch vehicles while supporting satellite Internet engineering construction, all while upholding the engineer culture.

After graduating from Keio University, in the overseas investment arm of JAFCO, to carry out investments in Internet companies in Israel and Silicon Valley, JV establishment, the Japanese market business. From 2001, he worked in venture capital and corporate development department of Accenture. Works in the capital of Mitsubishi Corporationsubsidiary, to experience an IPO from venture capital MonotaRO, of Benchari public than in 2003. funds in 2007, specializing in seed stage investment of the net business, core People Partners establishment. He was appointed representative partner. is performed establishment phase of Pokerabo and gumi, the development of business investment in the establishment phase, significantly grow. 2010, incubate bait Fund No. 1 Limited Partnership establishment. Representative appointed partner.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, EdTech
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

SoftRoid — SoftRoid provides a software robot that patrols and collects data for analyzing the construction site.
Ark Edge Space — Ark Edge Space provides design, manufacturing & operational services for micro-satellites along with software solutions and consulting.
Blossom Energy — Developed advanced nuclear reactors that are able to produce clean energy, Blossom Energy manufactures nuclear reactors for the nuclear energy industry. The focus of the company is on providing affordable, stable, and sustainable energy for the world. The company utilizes HTGR, which is a fourth-generation nuclear reactor.

Jichuangtan Jichuangtan

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.

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.

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.

Kumi Sakurai is a Co founder of Premo Partners.

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.

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.

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.

Roman Smolevskiy is currently the co-founder at BuildTech VC. He was also the founder of Akvapoint. He attended the University of California.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
Series C
China

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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.

Investment focus

Textiles, E-Commerce
Seed
Indonesia

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Wifkain — Wifkain platform connects fashion businesses with fabric suppliers.

Wang Tianmiao

Investment focus

Robotics, Product Research
Angel
China

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Industrial, Manufacturing
Angel
China

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xinsuanyiti — xinsuanyiti is a visual system integration solution provider.

Hao Yan is the Representative Director of EPS Holdings.

Investment focus

Robotics, Manufacturing, Medical Device
Series A
Japan

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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.

Xiangyang Yang

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.

Meng Xiong Kuok - Founder & Managing Partner @ K3 Ventures

Investment focus

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

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Recycling
Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Enterprise Software, Software Engineering
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Phasio — Phasio develops software for SME manufacturers that makes ordering parts, designing parts and communicating with customers seamless.

Jenny Chen

Investment focus

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.

MAEDA GIKEN

Investment focus

3D Printing, 3D Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

ExtraBold — ExtraBold specializes in the development of 3D printers.

Qiaoling Wang

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Recycling
Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

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.

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