Top 40 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Hong Kong in January 2026
A list of 40 angel investors that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in Hong kong. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from Hong kong. We update this investor list every month.Top 40 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Hong Kong in January 2026
| Investor | Media (entertainment) Hong Kong investments |
|---|---|
| Yat Siu | 2 |
| Yat Siu | 2 |
| Carman Chan | 2 |
| Michael Hansen | 2 |
| Adam Lindemann | 2 |
| Carman Chan | 2 |
| Michael Hansen | 2 |
| Adam Lindemann | 2 |
| Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile | 1 |
| Gabby Dizon | 1 |
| Neilson Lee | 1 |
| Gabby Dizon | 1 |
| Hugo Barra | 1 |
| Johan Lidström | 1 |
| Ryan Holmes | 1 |
| Steve Kirsch | 1 |
| Marc Bhargava | 1 |
| Shakil Khan | 1 |
| Sabrina Hahn | 1 |
| Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya | 1 |
| Johan Lidström | 1 |
| Jennifer Zeng | 1 |
| Olivia Wang | 1 |
| Marc Bhargava | 1 |
| Ryan Holmes | 1 |
| Loic Gouzer | 1 |
| Hugo Barra | 1 |
| C.Bob Lott | 1 |
| Jennifer Zeng | 1 |
| Andrew Steinwold | 1 |
| Loic Gouzer | 1 |
| Steve Kirsch | 1 |
| C.Bob Lott | 1 |
| Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya | 1 |
| Andrew Steinwold | 1 |
| Sabrina Hahn | 1 |
| Olivia Wang | 1 |
| Shakil Khan | 1 |
| Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile | 1 |
| Scott Banister | 1 |
Yat Siu is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Outblaze a messaging communications company that services over 40 million users today based out of Hong Kong.Yat has previously worked for Atari Germany, served as Director and Head of East Coast Operations for Lexicor, established Hong Kong Cybercity (the first free web page and e-mail providerin Asia, later renamed Freenation), as well as AT&T Solutions System Integration practice.He has been named a Global Leader of Tomorrow and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.It has been reported that Yat Siu sold Outblaze messaging to IBM to become Lotus iNotes.Yat is also responsible FON's operations in China.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
- Humanity Protocol — Humanity Protocol developing Proof of Humanity as a novel feature of Humanity Protocol to provide developers with unique-human authentication mechanisms, and users complete ownership over data and identity.
- Darewise Entertainment — Play, connect, and create in our persistent online worlds.
Yat Siu is the Strategic Direction of Daydaycook. and also Strategic Advisor of DigitalX.
Yat Siu is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Outblaze a messaging communications company that services over 40 million users today based out of Hong Kong.Yat has previously worked for Atari Germany, served as Director and Head of East Coast Operationsfor Lexicor, established Hong Kong Cybercity (the first free web page and e-mail provider in Asia, later renamed Freenation), as well as AT&T Solutions System Integration practice.He has been named a Global Leader of Tomorrow and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.It has been reported that Yat Siu sold Outblaze messaging to IBM to become Lotus iNotes.Yat is also responsible FON's operations in China.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- LOVO — Your Voice for Metaverse. Capture the most realistic AI voices on the web.
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
- Space Runners — Space Runners designs and launches digital wearable NFTs for metaverses in collaboration with celebrities and brands.
Carman Chan is one of the top 5 Women to watch in Asia Tech (Nikkei Asian Review). She is a veteran in the technology industry with decades of experience as an entrepreneur with multiple exits, a tech columnist and a globally recognized venture capitalist.Carman is the founder of Click Ventures, a global early stage venture capital firm. ClickVentures has grown into a leading investment manager, and two of its funds are featured as Top 5 Seed Fund (Vintage 2003-2015) in the world and Top 4 Funds to Watch by Preqin respectively. Click Ventures' investments include Spotify (ipo), Docusign(ipo), Palantir, Memebox and Youappi.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, China
Portfolio highlights
- Oddup — Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method.
- EventX — The EventX Virtual Event Platform is a comprehensive platform for hosting virtual events, meetings, conferences, and webinars that help you attract leads and audiences.
- FutureLeague — FutureLeague is an ed-tech company that teaches kids ages 6-12 engineering and programming with a focus on teamwork, creativity, and design thinking. It specializes in the fields of ed-tech, internet, and education. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Michael’s responsible for strategic growth in the Asia Pacific region of Zendesk. An IT sales veteran, Michael has more than 20 years experience in a variety of sales and marketing roles spanning the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia.Prior to becoming Zendesk’s first employee, Michael was selling help desk projects in Australia. Michael is anarmy officer who has studied at the Danish Technical University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Art, SaaS
- Seed
- Germany, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- ChartMogul — SaaS & subscription reporting, analytics & metrics for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and PayPal. In one click get your MRR, LTV, churn rate, cohort analysis and more.
- Soundbrenner — Innovative music tools that remove the hassle from your practice. Master your craft with the Core, Pulse or our app The Metronome.
Adam Lindemann is an entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the founder and Chairman of imindi.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Art, Music
- Seed, Post-IPO Debt, Post-IPO Equity
- Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Get Jamn — WHO THEY AREJamn PLAYER is from Johnny Quattro and a Hong Kong-based team. It began after Johnny sold his successful snowboard design consultancy and launched a music business to make music easier and more fun. The first app, Jamn Multi-Tool, featured Johnny’s patent-pending Jamn Wheel and presents complex music theory in a way anyone canunderstand. Under his leadership the app scored over a million downloads and multiple awards. Together since 2012, the core team’s responsibilities span design and coding.WHY THEY'RE DOING THISAs musicians they understand the challenges people encounter when playing music. They want to make discovering and playing music easier for everyone, so they developed a series of Jamn products to break down those barriers. Their latest app, Jamn PLAYER, launched mid-January 2015, garnered over half a million downloads within the first few weeks. It has also attracted enquiries from leading investment firms from across the world, musicians and labels for partnership opportunities.MOST IMPRESSIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTThey bootstrapped and developed a product and business model that generates revenue and can be rapidly scaled. They've also proven themselves as a strong team with more than one successful product. Now they're ready for the next step to make PLAYER bigger and smarter than before!Jamn Multi-Tool - Find chords to any key fast - over a million downloads - features a patent-pending Jamn wheel - Apple iTunes Best of 2013 apps - Hong Kong ICT Awards 2014 Find out more at http://getjamn.com/more-apps
- Imindi — IMINDI is the world's first Thought Engine that helps people to collect their thoughts and share them with like minded people on the web.Imindi is as simple to use as a blog but but brings together sophisticated semantic annotation and thought mapping and recommendation technology under the hood to help people to discover new thoughts andeven create new knowledge by connecting with other liked-minded people.IMINDI is the latest research development in the sixty year old field of augmenting human intelligence via computer science that was pioneered by the likes of Vannever Bush and Douglas Englebart. IMINDI has taken the state of the art a step forward by adding some insights from the field of neuroscience and cognitive psychology to form a new patent-pending technology.The vision of the semantic web and artificial intelligence is ultimately to teach computers to think. IMINDI takes the opposite approach by claiming that we should be using computers to help individual humans think.By capturing a database of thoughts and their associations IMINDI is building a global mind index which is an entirely new resource for building collective intelligence and leveraging human creativity and subjectivity on the web.
- TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Carman Chan is one of the top 5 Women to watch in Asia Tech (Nikkei Asian Review). She is a veteran in the technology industry with decades of experience as an entrepreneur with multiple exits, a tech columnist and a globally recognized venture capitalist.Carman is the founder of Click Ventures, a global early stage venture capital firm. ClickVentures has grown into a leading investment manager, and two of its funds are featured as Top 5 Seed Fund (Vintage 2003-2015) in the world and Top 4 Funds to Watch by Preqin respectively. Click Ventures' investments include Spotify (ipo), Docusign(ipo), Palantir, Memebox and Youappi.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, China
Portfolio highlights
- Oddup — Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method.
- EventX — The EventX Virtual Event Platform is a comprehensive platform for hosting virtual events, meetings, conferences, and webinars that help you attract leads and audiences.
- FutureLeague — FutureLeague is an ed-tech company that teaches kids ages 6-12 engineering and programming with a focus on teamwork, creativity, and design thinking. It specializes in the fields of ed-tech, internet, and education. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Michael’s responsible for strategic growth in the Asia Pacific region of Zendesk. An IT sales veteran, Michael has more than 20 years experience in a variety of sales and marketing roles spanning the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia.Prior to becoming Zendesk’s first employee, Michael was selling help desk projects in Australia. Michael is anarmy officer who has studied at the Danish Technical University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Art, SaaS
- Seed
- Germany, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- ChartMogul — SaaS & subscription reporting, analytics & metrics for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and PayPal. In one click get your MRR, LTV, churn rate, cohort analysis and more.
- Soundbrenner — Innovative music tools that remove the hassle from your practice. Master your craft with the Core, Pulse or our app The Metronome.
Adam Lindemann is an entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the founder and Chairman of imindi.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Art, Music
- Seed, Post-IPO Debt, Post-IPO Equity
- Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Get Jamn — WHO THEY AREJamn PLAYER is from Johnny Quattro and a Hong Kong-based team. It began after Johnny sold his successful snowboard design consultancy and launched a music business to make music easier and more fun. The first app, Jamn Multi-Tool, featured Johnny’s patent-pending Jamn Wheel and presents complex music theory in a way anyone canunderstand. Under his leadership the app scored over a million downloads and multiple awards. Together since 2012, the core team’s responsibilities span design and coding.WHY THEY'RE DOING THISAs musicians they understand the challenges people encounter when playing music. They want to make discovering and playing music easier for everyone, so they developed a series of Jamn products to break down those barriers. Their latest app, Jamn PLAYER, launched mid-January 2015, garnered over half a million downloads within the first few weeks. It has also attracted enquiries from leading investment firms from across the world, musicians and labels for partnership opportunities.MOST IMPRESSIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTThey bootstrapped and developed a product and business model that generates revenue and can be rapidly scaled. They've also proven themselves as a strong team with more than one successful product. Now they're ready for the next step to make PLAYER bigger and smarter than before!Jamn Multi-Tool - Find chords to any key fast - over a million downloads - features a patent-pending Jamn wheel - Apple iTunes Best of 2013 apps - Hong Kong ICT Awards 2014 Find out more at http://getjamn.com/more-apps
- Imindi — IMINDI is the world's first Thought Engine that helps people to collect their thoughts and share them with like minded people on the web.Imindi is as simple to use as a blog but but brings together sophisticated semantic annotation and thought mapping and recommendation technology under the hood to help people to discover new thoughts andeven create new knowledge by connecting with other liked-minded people.IMINDI is the latest research development in the sixty year old field of augmenting human intelligence via computer science that was pioneered by the likes of Vannever Bush and Douglas Englebart. IMINDI has taken the state of the art a step forward by adding some insights from the field of neuroscience and cognitive psychology to form a new patent-pending technology.The vision of the semantic web and artificial intelligence is ultimately to teach computers to think. IMINDI takes the opposite approach by claiming that we should be using computers to help individual humans think.By capturing a database of thoughts and their associations IMINDI is building a global mind index which is an entirely new resource for building collective intelligence and leveraging human creativity and subjectivity on the web.
- TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Art
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- XMTP — XMTP is a decentralized and quantum-resistant messaging protocol for builders.
- TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
- Rand — Distributed Finance is a distributed financial services provider driving NFTs and DAOs on Algorand, setting the gold standard for others.
Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
- Clout Kitchen — Combining fandom and emerging technology, Clout Kitchen builds generational digital products with supercharged distribution. We help creators become icons that last.
- Nectar AI — Nectar AI is a virtual AI companion platform that offers users the ability to create and interact with the digital customized personalities and companions.
Neilson Lee
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Investment focus
- Software, Social Media, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Freechat — Freechat is a fully decentralized social application based on blockchain technology that offers many unique features. It differs from traditional social media because it returns user data and control back to the users themselves.Freechat's features include UGC (user-generated content), DID identity verification, decentralized advertising,encrypted payments, NFTs, games, and more. The most notable feature is Freechat AI, an artificial intelligence algorithm developed using machine learning and deep learning technologies for content recommendation and display, providing a personalized user experience.Users on Freechat can create profiles, post updates and topics, browse and participate in community topics, interact with friends and followers, complete challenge tasks and games, and use cryptocurrency for payments.Freechat also ensures security, anonymity, and privacy protection through the use of smart contracts, distributed ledgers, and other technologies. Additionally, it provides a completely decentralized advertising platform where users can display ads, earn revenue, and interact with brands.Overall, Freechat is an innovative and disruptive social application aimed at providing users with a more secure, decentralized, privacy-protected, and personalized social experience.
Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Hong Kong, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
- Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
- Clout Kitchen — Clout Kitchen is THE Virality Engine for brands and creators, designing data-driven viral campaigns with distribution marketing.
Hugo Barra is the Co-Founder of /dev/agents. He previously worked at Detect as a CEO. Hugo Barra attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
- MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
- Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.
Johan Lidström - Founding Partner @ Northern Light Capital
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Investment focus
- Music, Big Data, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- NUSIC — NUSIC is a social music platform for making mashups and remixes, powered by an AI DJ. It enables everyone to unleash their musical creativity and make their own mashups and remixes. Through a wide and comprehensive selection of creator submitted songs, NUSIC creates new mixing possibilities for the user and new revenue streams for music creators.
Ryan Holmes is the CEO and Founder of HootSuite. Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, he has redefined the face of social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom.Holmes has grown HootSuite from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with 8 million users,including 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed HootSuite in 2009.Today, Holmes is an authority on the social business revolution, quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and called upon to speak at TEDx and SXSW Interactive Conferences. An angel investor and advisor, he mentors startups in Canada and around the world. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Truss — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
- Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
- Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
Steve has been at the forefront of tech innovation for more than three decades. He invented and owns a patent on an early version of the optical mouse, founded Infoseek, one of the first Internet search engines, and helped create FrameMaker, a popular publication tool used by technical writers. Sick of having 357 different usernames andpasswords, Steve founded OneID in September 2011. The company is backed by Vinod Khosla’s Khosla Ventures. He helped rid the world of junk faxes, establishing an organization for businesses and consumers and winning lawsuits and judgments against junk fax operations.Steve holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Digital Media
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Notey Labs — Notey Labs believe in designing technology that enables companies, businesses, and ideas to be truly global. Their mission is to bridge the digital divide between China and the Western internet and give businesses the tools to more fearlessly embrace a global web. Their company has been featured on Techcrunch, CNBC as well as Business Insider,highlighting Notey as one of the “15 Fastest Growing Startups in the World”.
Marc Bhargava is the Managing Director at General Catalyst. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
- Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
Shakil Khan is currently Head of Special Projects at Spotify, where he is also personal advisor to founder and CEO Daniel Ek. He has had a number of online businesses in the UK since 2000, was part of the founding team at buy.at, which was acquired by AOL, and he recently founded CoinDesk, a bitcoin news site.Shak has done extensive volunteerwork as an ambassador for charity: water, having helped raise millions of dollars for clean and safe drinking water. He is also a keen supporter and friend of Pencils of Promise, who build schools for those most in need.Having lived in China, Shak speaks Chinese (as well as English, Urdu, Punjabi, and Danish) and currently divides his time between London, San Francisco, New York and airport lounges.Shak is an investor in BitPay, Spotify, Top10, Duedil and YPlan. Shak was also an investor and mentor to Nick D'Aloisio who built and sold Summly, a news curation app that was sold to Yahoo in March 2013.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
- Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.
- Founders Pledge — Home | Founders Pledge
Sabrina Hahn is a prolific venture investor across sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Norway, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Nomic AI — Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI.
- Doppel — Doppel is a real-time, cross-chain monitoring platform for detecting NFT fraud -- starting with counterfeits.
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya
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Investment focus
- Art, Auctions, Online Auctions
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Johan Lidström - Founding Partner @ Northern Light Capital
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Investment focus
- Music, Big Data, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- NUSIC — NUSIC is a social music platform for making mashups and remixes, powered by an AI DJ. It enables everyone to unleash their musical creativity and make their own mashups and remixes. Through a wide and comprehensive selection of creator submitted songs, NUSIC creates new mixing possibilities for the user and new revenue streams for music creators.
Jennifer Zeng is a Chinese-born human rights activist and author.
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Investment focus
- Art, Auctions, Online Auctions
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Olivia Wang
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Investment focus
- Art, Medical, Auctions
- Seed
- Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Marc Bhargava is the Managing Director at General Catalyst. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
- Meanwhile — The world's first regulated Bitcoin life insurance. Tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term Bitcoin holders.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
Ryan Holmes is the CEO and Founder of HootSuite. Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, he has redefined the face of social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom.Holmes has grown HootSuite from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with 8 million users,including 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed HootSuite in 2009.Today, Holmes is an authority on the social business revolution, quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and called upon to speak at TEDx and SXSW Interactive Conferences. An angel investor and advisor, he mentors startups in Canada and around the world. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Truss — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
- Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
- Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
Loic Gouzer
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Investment focus
- Art, Auctions, Online Auctions
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Technology executive & investor
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
- MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
- Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.
C.Bob Lott
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Investment focus
- Events, Sports, Cycling
- Pre-Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Miro AI — The most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) in sports identifies players, teams, sponsors and scenes in seconds
Jennifer Zeng is a Chinese-born human rights activist and author.
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Investment focus
- Art, Auctions, Online Auctions
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Andrew Steinwold Managing Partner @ Sfermion
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
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- Allora Labs — The source for NFT pricing. Upshot uses machine learning to provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlocks a wave of exotic new DeFi possibilities.
- Showtime — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.
Loic Gouzer
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- Art, Auctions, Online Auctions
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Steve has been at the forefront of tech innovation for more than three decades. He invented and owns a patent on an early version of the optical mouse, founded Infoseek, one of the first Internet search engines, and helped create FrameMaker, a popular publication tool used by technical writers. Sick of having 357 different usernames andpasswords, Steve founded OneID in September 2011. The company is backed by Vinod Khosla’s Khosla Ventures. He helped rid the world of junk faxes, establishing an organization for businesses and consumers and winning lawsuits and judgments against junk fax operations.Steve holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.
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- Internet, Software, Digital Media
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- Notey Labs — Notey Labs believe in designing technology that enables companies, businesses, and ideas to be truly global. Their mission is to bridge the digital divide between China and the Western internet and give businesses the tools to more fearlessly embrace a global web. Their company has been featured on Techcrunch, CNBC as well as Business Insider,highlighting Notey as one of the “15 Fastest Growing Startups in the World”.
C.Bob Lott
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- Events, Sports, Cycling
- Pre-Seed
- Hong Kong
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- Miro AI — The most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) in sports identifies players, teams, sponsors and scenes in seconds
Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya
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- Art, Auctions, Online Auctions
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Andrew Steinwold Managing Partner @ Sfermion
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Art
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
- Allora Labs — The source for NFT pricing. Upshot uses machine learning to provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlocks a wave of exotic new DeFi possibilities.
- Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale
Sabrina Hahn is a prolific venture investor across sectors.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Norway, Hong Kong
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- Doppel — Doppel is a real-time, cross-chain monitoring platform for detecting NFT fraud -- starting with counterfeits.
- Sapien — Sapien is a platform for creating autonomous coworkers for finance professionals. It promotes its service as an AI-native system created from the ground up that connects with Excel, ERP systems, and customer relationship management platforms.
- Integrated Biosciences — Integrated Biosciences is the first company in history to be able to virtually stress cells.
Olivia Wang
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- Art, Medical, Auctions
- Seed
- Hong Kong, United States
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- Earli — Earli is a developer of cancer treatment devices designed to search for natural biomarkers. The company's mission is to make cancer a benign experience. Cancers are detected early when they are homogeneous; and then located early, so they can be treated when the chances of survival are multiple times higher. Rather than rely on biomarkers thatcancer may - or often may not - naturally provide, Earli's technology forces cancer cells to make a synthetic, non-human biomarker using a novel gene therapy approach called Synthetic Biopsy. The early cancer is then visible in a PET scanner. The same platform is also usable for therapeutics.
- TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Shakil Khan is currently Head of Special Projects at Spotify, where he is also personal advisor to founder and CEO Daniel Ek. He has had a number of online businesses in the UK since 2000, was part of the founding team at buy.at, which was acquired by AOL, and he recently founded CoinDesk, a bitcoin news site.Shak has done extensive volunteerwork as an ambassador for charity: water, having helped raise millions of dollars for clean and safe drinking water. He is also a keen supporter and friend of Pencils of Promise, who build schools for those most in need.Having lived in China, Shak speaks Chinese (as well as English, Urdu, Punjabi, and Danish) and currently divides his time between London, San Francisco, New York and airport lounges.Shak is an investor in BitPay, Spotify, Top10, Duedil and YPlan. Shak was also an investor and mentor to Nick D'Aloisio who built and sold Summly, a news curation app that was sold to Yahoo in March 2013.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong
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- Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
- Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.
- Founders Pledge — Home | Founders Pledge
Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Art
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- XMTP — 2M+ web3 identities trust XMTP for secure & private messaging
- TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
- Rand — Distributed Finance is a distributed financial services provider driving NFTs and DAOs on Algorand, setting the gold standard for others.
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
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- TipTop — Buying stuff is easy. Selling it is not. But what if there is a way to make selling things just as fun and simple as buying them?
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
- Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.
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