Top 10 Mobile Advertising Startup Investors in Asia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Mobile advertising startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile advertising companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Mobile Advertising Startup Investors in Asia

Investor	Mobile Advertising Asia investments
Pradip Madan	1
Gene Capital	1
Young Sohn	1
NetEase	1
47 Ventures	1
Ferry Venture Capital	1
JAFCO Asia	1
Provident Capital Partners	1
Gunosy	1
Eagles Fund	1

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Pradip Madan is the Managing Partner at Great North Ventures and an Advisor at Cognito Networks. He previously worked as an Advisor at Virtue Analytics, Applied Spectra, and Echelon and the CEO, COO, and Co-Founder at Rivio. Pradip attended the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

AgTech, Mobile, Farming
Seed, Angel
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nativex — Nativex is dedicated to driving ROI and growth for all sectors of business in a digital and mobile-first world. Nativex enables marketers to create strong, sustainable growth through universal access to digital channels across China and the rest of the world. In addition to this, Nativex offers all the integrated tools needed for marketers tothrive and create a meaningful impact on their audiences. The Nativex Trading Desk is a cloud-based trading desk connected to various media platforms via marketing APIs as well as RTB technologies. Its functionality marks a first for marketers and advertisers as they can buy and optimize media campaigns as a managed service via ad exchanges, ad networks, programmatic buying platforms and other key inventories such as the US and Chinese top media. Part of Mobvista, Nativex has a global presence with 16 offices worldwide. Learn more at www.nativex.com.
Soiltech Wireless — Soiltech Wireless is a developer of ag-tech solutions to design electronic devices for agricultural professionals. Its product provides real-time data to drive efficiency and optimize quality. It also provides actionable data without installation hassles and creates scalable monitoring solutions for farmers.The company was founded in 2019 and isheadquartered in Rupert, Idaho.

Gene Capital is a venture capital fund founded by Cao Yundong, co-founder of TAL Education Group, in 2014. Their management team consists of successful entrepreneurs and highly experienced investors. They are committed to seeking excellent genes to assist the education industry and startups in the TMT sector to make great dreams come true. GeneCapital aims to help entrepreneurs who are passionate about entrepreneurship, have a deep understanding and acute awareness of the industry’s development trends, and utilize their investment concept to make their dreams come true.Their investment philosophy is to focus on entrepreneurial genes: Excellent entrepreneurial teams have excellent entrepreneurial genes, which are the core factors for long-term business development.

Investment focus

Education, Internet, E-Learning
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, France

Portfolio highlights

Sunmnet — Sunmnet specializes in providing smart education technology and solutions. It utilizes big data, artificial intelligence, facial recognition, and IoT that enables clients to develop efficient education systems and infrastructure.
Fengbao ASO — Fengbao ASO is a data analysis platform that provide mobile application developers with marketing services.
Delta Service Location — Delta Service Location is a provider of pumping and temporary energy equipment.

Young Sohn is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose passion is building businesses and fostering emerging technologies that have the potential to transform the world for the better. Currently, Sohn serves as Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics and Chairman of the Board of HARMAN. He leads Samsung’s strategy forglobal innovation, investment, and new business creation, and led the company’s $8 billion acquisition of HARMAN. Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, Sohn served as CEO of two successful, public Silicon Valley companies and on the boards of Arm, Cadence, Cymer (ASML), and others. Under his leadership as CEO and board member, he took PLX Technologies, Synnex Technologies, and Inphi public. He was also a seed investor in some of the industry’s most innovative companies, including Bitfury, Fungible, Graphcore, and Zoom.Sohn is a leader of the global Tech for Good movement. He helped launch the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), the world’s largest startup competition for entrepreneurs addressing global challenges. He also serves as a North America board member at MIT Sloan, a senior advisor to the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, a board member at Cadence, and an advisor for the University of California Innovation Council. Sohn holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS from the MIT Sloan School of Management. An avid outdoorsman, Sohn spends his personal time kite surfing, cycling, running, hiking, and competing in triathlons.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Revolear — Revolutionize your dealmaking with Revolear, the end-to-end platform for structuring, proposing, negotiating, and approving deals. Designed for Humans. Powered by AI.
Unique — Try Unique Finance GPT to increase productivity by automating manual workload through AI and ChatGPT solutions.
Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.

NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES) is a leading internet technology company dedicated to providing premium online services centered around content, community, communication and commerce. NetEase develops and operates some of the most popular PC-client and mobile games. Also, we operate Yanxuan, an e-commerce platform that caters to the risingmiddle-class consumer market in China as well as offering advertising, e-mail and other innovative services including music and online education.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MyDearest — MyDearest is a Full dive product planning and development company
Wanmi Culture — Wanmi Culture is a full-case marketing service provider that focuses on brand new media full-case services.
Build A Rocket Boy — We are a diverse, multinational group of developers, dedicated to making an all-new multi-world gaming experience, EVERYWHERE and MindsEye.

47 Ventures invest in high growth Pakistani businesses that leverage technology for scale.

Investment focus

Information Technology, iOS, Android
Seed, Series A
Pakistan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

1Bstories — Helping publishers and brands increase engagement and conversions using AI. Mobile, vertical, 60 second video formats made in an instant. Tell your story today!
Healthwire — Discover innovative digital healthcare services with Healthwire. From health management systems to online video consultation, find everything on Healthwire in a single click.
Jeeto Naye Andaz Say — Jeeto Naye Andaz Say is Pakistan’s first live mobile game show that enables you to win exciting prizes by answering 10 simple questions. Join the smartest Pakistani’s and win daily prizes by freely participating in the live show. Win game points, become part of lucky draws, get lifelines and other power ups to boost your chances of winning.

Ferry Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on building companies in the new technology industry. The firm invests in early-stage companies in three broad areas, mainly in Information Technology & Artificial Intelligence (IT & AI), Enterprise Services & Technology, and Consumer & Entertainment.FerryVenture Capital was founded in 2010 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Internet
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jishi yu — Jishi yu focuses on offering a multi-platform/multi-channel centralized and unified intelligent customer care SaaS platform for cross-border e-commerce sellers, with the goal of meeting the needs of foreign enterprise channel acquisition, customer operation, and brand management.
Zhihui Robot — Zhihui Robot is a research and development company that makes intelligent spraying robots. Zhihui Robot is a cutting-edge technological business specializing in the research, manufacture, sale, and use of special intelligent spraying robots.
Daochong Technology — Daochong Technology is a tech firm that does R&D, production and sales of high-power smart wireless charging systems.

Since its establishment in 1990, JAFCO Asia has grown to become a leading brand in the venture capital industry in the Asia Pacific region. Currently, JAFCO Asia has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and Beijing.With more than US$1.2 billion funds under management in aggregate, JAFCO Asia's experienced investment team hasinvested in over 368 companies in 13 countries (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, India, Israel and Vietnam) and divested more than 260 companies of which at least 86 have been publicly listed.Since the new millennium, JAFCO Asia has shifted its focus entirely to technology related investments and is now one of the pre-eminent venture capital technology investors in the region. They believe that their existing portfolio in the Asia Pacific region and the worldwide business network offer their portfolio companies significant potential for synergistic partnerships.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

MFast (DigiPay J.S.C.) — MFast operates as a fintech platform. MFAST is a brand under Digital Payment Solution Joint Stock Company - DigiPay JSC.
VenWiz — Find and connect with vendors matched to your requirements and manufacturing plant based on their capabilities and experience
Savelots — Savelots is a membership-based discount chain brand that primarily operates in discount retail and department store related activities.

Investment conglomerate with investments across a variety of industries, including telecommunications infrastructure, mining, real estate and biofuels. Together with its partners, Provident has founded and built three multi-billion dollar businesses in Indonesia, namely, Tower Bersama, Merdeka Copper Gold, and JD.ID.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
HeveaConnect — Discover the forefront of rubber trading innovation on our platform. Harness the power of technology and EUDR compliance as we reshape the rubber industry. Elevate your supply chain, transparency, traceability, sustainability, and procurement practices with our advanced digital tools. Join us for a seamless trading experience where innovation meets the rubber market's evolving demands.
Bersama Digital Infrastructure — Bersama Digital Infrastructure is a digital infrastructure platform controlled by Provident Capital and Saratoga. Bersama Digital Infrastructure operates telecom towers, fibre and data centres in southeast asia.

Gunosy is a news curation application that covers a wide range of news from entertainment news to political news. The application finds its news from multiple web sources and presents them according to how hot the topic is. Gunosy’s features include categorized tabs; the ability to customize the categories that users need to follow and create theirown personal magazine; instant access to a wide variety of news; and push notifications to remind users of news updates.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Japan.