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Top 50 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Asia in July 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 July 2025

Investor Manufacturing Asia investments
Jan Hammer 5
Lijie Wang 4
Byung Joon Han 3
Nobuyuki Idei 2
Yusuke Sato 2
Hirofumi Miki 2
HP Jin 2
Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu 2
Nobuhiro Ariyasu 2
Xin Xu 2
Ayataro Nakagawa 1
Hidetoshi Takano 1
Katsushi Ishida 1
Michael Diekmann 1
Zhang Chao 1
Jichuangtan Jichuangtan 1
Boon Hwee Koh 1
Yoshiro Yonezawa 1
Roshni Mahtani 1
Hao Chen 1
Wawan Salum 1
Peter Li 1
Meng Xiong Kuok 1
Hongjia Zhang 1
Jenny Chen 1
Kenshin Fujiwara 1
Bob Xiaoping Xu 1
Willy Koh 1
Otomi Tomohiro 1
Huang Hao 1
Liu Keyong 1
Freny Firoze Irani 1
Koji Yamada 1
Keisuke Wada 1
Jun Zhang 1
Kenji Kasahara 1
Chen Zhongping 1
Liu Xiaosong 1
Tongchuang Albert 1
Yukihiro Maru 1
Mamoru Taniya 1
Avi Reichental 1
Masahiko Homma 1
Weili Dai 1
Kumi Sakurai 1
Roman Smolevskiy 1
Yusuke Murata 1
Shen Qin 1
Wang Tianmiao 1
Hao Yan 1
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Jan Hammer Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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 Medical Technology Co., Ltd.
  • 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.
Lijie Wang Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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.
Byung Joon Han Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
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.
Nobuyuki Idei Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Yusuke Sato Angel
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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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.
Hirofumi Miki Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
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.
HP Jin Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu Angel
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 Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Content, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
  • Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
Xin Xu Angel
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.
Ayataro Nakagawa Angel
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.
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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.
Hidetoshi Takano Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
Katsushi Ishida Angel
Katsushi Ishida is the President and Representative Director CEO japan elevator service holdings.
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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.
Michael Diekmann Angel
Michael Diekmann is Supervisory Board Member at Siemens.
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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 Angel
Zhang Chao is investor in Cosmoleap.
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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.
Jichuangtan Jichuangtan Angel
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.
Boon Hwee Koh Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Yoshiro Yonezawa Angel
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 Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
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.
Hao Chen Angel
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.
Wawan Salum Angel
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.
Peter Li Angel
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.
Meng Xiong Kuok Angel
Meng Xiong Kuok - Founder & Managing Partner @ K3 Ventures
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Transportation
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 Angel
Hongjia Zhang
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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.
Jenny Chen Angel
Jenny Chen
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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.
Kenshin Fujiwara Angel · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
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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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Medical, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Bob Xiaoping Xu Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Bob Xiaoping Xu is the founder of ZhenFund and one of China's most celebrated angel investors. Established in 2011 as a joint fund with Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund is China’s foremost angel fund. Managing USD 600 million, ZhenFund has 500 portfolio companies and offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Palo Alto. It has played a leading role inChina’s rise as a “startup nation”, and is widely considered a beacon of light in China’s vibrant startup environment. Prior to founding ZhenFund, Mr. Xu co-founded China's largest private English training and test preparation group, New Oriental Education, along with Michael Yu and Victor Wang. New Oriental became listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006 and currently has a market cap of USD 11 billion. The founders’ endeavors, which helped drive Chinese education toward a new global era, was featured in the box office hit “American Dreams in China”. The movie ranked as the #3 Chinese domestic box office hit in 2013. Mr. Xu’s success as an educator and an entrepreneur led him to angel investing, where he has pioneered a unique investment philosophy of investing in exceptional people. He became one of the most prolific patrons of entrepreneurship, as well as a leading mentor to young business leaders. Forbes Magazine has honored him on the Midas List as one of the World’s Top 100 Venture Capital Investors for two consecutive years (2016 and 2017). Mr. Xu currently serves as the Chairman of China Angel Investment Association. Mr. Xu has more than 11 million followers on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. He is also a prolific author who has published seven books on career growth and education. His writings, speeches and interviews on entrepreneurship, investment and education have had an immense impact on China’s emerging business leaders, and particularly on those who have studied abroad. He is the president of Committee 2005, an institution that gathers the most influential Chinese overseas returnees, including the likes of Robin Li, Neil Shen and Lee Kai-fu. Mr. Xu is deeply committed to philanthropy. He is a founding donor and the Committee Acting President of the Future Science Award, an annual award of USD 1 million for scientists who have made significant contributions to life sciences and physical sciences in Greater China. Mr. Xu graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, the Chinese equivalent of Julliard School of Music, with a bachelor’s degree in music. He received his master’s degree in music from the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to that he was a counsellor at Peking University for five years.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Series A, Angel, Seed
  • China, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • YOTA — YOTA provides a healthy and diet food delivery service.
  • Lagou — Lagou.com offers staffing services. The company’s clientele includes Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Group, SINA, JD.com, Beijing Xiaomi Tech, and Zhaopin.com.
  • Omni Prime — Omni Prime provides Lending as a Service solution to retailers.
Willy Koh Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Willy Koh is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Racer Technology.
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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.
Otomi Tomohiro Angel
Otomi Tomohiro - CEO @ Tyrus
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Travel, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • CUICIN — Quickin is changing the travel experience with the digital transformation.
  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
  • Magic Shields — Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products.
Huang Hao Angel
Huang Hao is the chairman of Yuanxu Fund.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Angel
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Yiweisen — Yiweisen is a research and development firm that manufactures functional natural compound raw materials.
Liu Keyong Angel
Liu Keyong
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Investment focus
  • Industrial, Market Research, Industrial Automation
  • Seed
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Huamai Electric — Huamai Electric engaged in research and development, production, and sales of industrial automation control equipment, Industry 4.0, inverters, and servo drives.
Freny Firoze Irani Angel
Freny Firoze Irani
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Investment focus
  • Robotics, CleanTech, Marketing
  • Series A
  • Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Lionsbot — LionsBot's objective is to empower cleaners with easy-to-use, powerful and smart cleaning robots which help perform and fulfil key cleaning roles - Vacuum, Clean, Scrub, Mop and yes, even Pull.
Koji Yamada Angel
Participated in the management of a student venture company while attending Keio University's Faculty of Policy Management. After graduation, he worked at Accenture Co., Ltd. for consulting services for companies in different industries such as media, apparel, finance and entertainment. In 2012, founded boundary spanner Co., Ltd. He alsoserved as a project manager for JAPAN CON-TECH FUND and a director of the Japan Home Party Association.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
Keisuke Wada Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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 Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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.
Kenji Kasahara Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
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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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.
Chen Zhongping Angel
Chen Zhongping, chairman of Hongyang Home Decoration Group.
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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 Angel
Liu Xiaosong
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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 Angel
Tongchuang Albert is an Angel and Individual Investor.
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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 Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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.
Mamoru Taniya Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
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.
Avi Reichental Angel · Ventura, California, United States
Avi Reichental is the current Co-Founder & Chairman of ParaMatters. He previously worked at Singularity University as a Core Faculty.
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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.
Masahiko Homma Angel
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.
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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.
Weili Dai Angel · Santa Clara, California, United States
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.
Kumi Sakurai Angel
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.
Roman Smolevskiy Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Yusuke Murata Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Shen Qin Angel
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.
Wang Tianmiao Angel
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.
Hao Yan Angel
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.
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