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Top 50 Mobile Angel Investors in Asia in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Mobile startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Mobile Angel Investors in Asia in February 2025

Investor	Mobile Asia investments
Boon Hwee Koh	6
Toivo Annus	6
Ayataro Nakagawa	5
Gokul Rajaram	4
Murat Abdrakhmanov	3
Yu Akasaka	3
Kotaro Chiba	3
Yusuke Sato	3
Jun Nishikawa	3
Kotaro Chiba	3
Aminur Rashid	3
Hidetoshi Takano	2
Julian Farrior	2
Sunghwan Choi	2
Komura Fujio	2
Sriram Krishnan	2
Kensuke Furukawa	2
Arun Gupta	2
Owen Van Natta	2
Masahiko Inada	2
Shogo Kawada	2
Yusuke Tanaka	2
Anand Chandrasekaran	2
Darius Cheung	2
Shintaro Yamada	2
Soichiro Kawai	2
Nobuhiro Ariyasu	2
Takeuchi Makoto	2
Joel Neoh	2
Masao Ito	2
Julian Shapiro	2
Takashi Shibayama	2
Teruhide Sato	2
Justin Kan	2
Carman Chan	2
Yasuyuki Kin	2
Hirofumi Miki	2
Ratan Tata	2
Lijie Wang	2
Bill Lee	1
Narimatsu Jun	1
Razy Shah	1
Abhinay Peddisetty	1
Sagi Shorrer	1
Daniel Curran	1
Yuya Taketani	1
JJ Chai	1
Alan Rutledge	1
Danny Oei Wirianto	1
Jon Oringer	1

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Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.

Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Singapore, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
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.

Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Atlas — Atlas is an invite-only charge card that unlocks access to exclusive dining and travel experiences.
TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
Raspberry AI — Raspberry AI employs artificial intelligence technology to design styles that are in high demand. The platform offers the convenience of instantly generating technical packs and CADs for any product image, providing a comprehensive solution for product design requirements. It also features automated, high-conversion product descriptions andphotography, along with the capability to create new high-fidelity designs from a sketch or reference image.

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Beksar — Beksar offers A flexible reporting system for business of the company from its initial days.
GoDays — AI-driven Continuous passive and active analytical tool, preventing burnout of employees. Continuous well-being based on passive collaboration data, sentiment analytics.
PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low/no-code solutions with ready-made constructors that reduce the need for large resources and decrease time to market

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

Investment focus

Travel, Internet, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Media and Entertainment, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

Investment focus

Internet, Drones, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Aminur Rashid is a co-founder of Pickaboo.com.

Investment focus

Shopping, Cosmetics, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Pickaboo.com — Explore a wide range of authentic and quality products, including electronics, smartphones, cameras, kitchen appliances, mobile accessories and more. Get Official warranty, EMI facility and home delivery across Bangladesh.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kaimak — 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.

Julian Farrior

Investment focus

Mobile, Film, Comics
Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
Instawork — Instawork connects local businesses with proven hourly workers for temp, temp-to-hire shift work.
Graphic India — Graphic India Pte. Ltd. is a character entertainment company focused on creating leading characters, comics and stories through mobile and digital platforms. Founded by media entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman, Graphic India is owned by U.S. comic book Company, Liquid Comics and CA Media LP, the Asian investmentarm of The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG). The company’s partners and investors bring together decades of experience in building businesses in character entertainment, media and India. Graphic believes that India is home to some of the most creative talent in the world, with more than 500 million people under the age of 25 and more than 850 million mobile phone users in the country. The Company’s mission is to create enduring stories and heroes that foster the imaginations and fuel the inspirations of a new globalized generation of youth in both India and around the world. Graphic’s stories include, Ramayan 3392A.D., The Leaves and The Sadhu, in development as Hollywood films; 18 Days, a reimagining of the great eastern epic, the Mahabharata, by acclaimed graphic novel creator, Grant Morrison which was launched as an animated digital series in partnership with YouTube India; Devi, a female superhero from acclaimed filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur; Chakra The Invincible, the first superhero for India from legendary creator Stan Lee; and numerous other heroes and stories.

Sunghwan Choi

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Hong Kong, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
CHAI — CHAI is a mobile payments dApp that allows consumers to pay for items online by simply adding their bank account.
Sequin — Sequin is building a suite of credit products for women, starting with a debit card that builds credit.

Komura Fujio

Investment focus

Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Seed, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Ginkan — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.

Sriram Krishnan currently works as a General Partner for Andreessen Horowitz. He previously worked at Twitter as a Product. Sriram Krishnan attended SRM Engineering College, Anna University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Demox Labs — Demox Labs develops a decentralized, trustless oracle protocol for the connection of smart contracts to any off-chain data source. The company's data bridge from web2 to web3 unlocks all online data for smart contract development. Demox Labs was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
Lasso Labs — Lasso Labs is a data integration platform that provides real-time information flows that helps to stay current with new opportunities, and approachable analytics that helps in understanding of communities, by ingesting real-time data from on-chain and off-chain sources.
Aviator — Avoid broken builds, long code-reviews, cumbersome merge processes and flaky tests. Put your mundane, frustrating workflows on autopilot.

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi （formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

Investment focus

Content, Media and Entertainment, Social Media
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.

Arun Gupta, the Founder and CEO of MoMAGIC is a technology veteran turned first generation serial entrepreneur, with 25+ years of experience and multiple patents to his credit, while donning the hat of Director MediaTek, for close to a decade. Arun Gupta is credited with being the architect of the 1st version of MediaTek handset MMI.

Investment focus

Shopping, Cosmetics, E-Commerce
Seed
India, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Deciwood — Experience high quality sound, extended bass and your design with Deciwood Portable Bluetooth Speakers.We craft affordable, customisable speakers on etched wood
Pickaboo.com — Explore a wide range of authentic and quality products, including electronics, smartphones, cameras, kitchen appliances, mobile accessories and more. Get Official warranty, EMI facility and home delivery across Bangladesh.

Owen Van Natta is currently Founder and Managing Partner of Prefix Capital, an early stage investment fund founded in 2019. Owen is also a Founder and Managing Partner at 415 Investments. Previously, Owen was the Executive Vice President of Business at Zynga. He was responsible for the company's revenue strategy, corporate development,international expansion, and brand. Owen was also a member of Zynga's Board of Directors.Before Zynga, Owen served as Chief Executive Officer of MySpace, where he was responsible for all aspects of the company's strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. Owen joined the MySpace team after serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Project Playlist, a music sharing website allowing users to search for music, create custom playlists, and share the content with friends.Prior to Project Playlist, Van Natta was the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, where he focused on revenue operations, business development, and strategic partnerships.Earlier in his career, Owen was Vice President of Worldwide Business and Corporate Development at Amazon.com, where he managed global marketing programs and strategic partnerships. He was part of the founding team of A9.com, the Amazon.com search company, and was responsible for site operations and sponsored-link advertising.Owen holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
Bags — Grow your business with access to fair and flexible funding options designed to help you do your thing. Bags is the best place for business owners to get dollars for working capital, inventory, marketing, expansion, or anything else you need to grow.
Wheels Up — Wheels Up is a membership-based private aviation company that focuses on reducing the upfront cost to fly privately, providing flexibility, service, and safety. Its mobile app enables members to book flights, manage their accounts, and participate in ride-share opportunities. Its members also have given access to the Wheels Down program.

Masahiko Inada is the Venture Advisor at DNX Ventures. He was Founder and Chairman at Kabuku Inc. He attended The University of Tokyo.

Investment focus

SNS, Content, Finance
Angel, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Theoria — Theoria is a marketing team that brings together practical knowledge.
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.
Theoria Japan — Theoria Japan is a specialized Q & A service.

Shogo Kawada is Co-founder and Adviser of DeNA, a global Internet company focused on a social games platform, social games, e-commerce and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
Sunblaze — sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time.
Spider Labs — Spider Labs offers solutions to help fight ad fraud and ensure data security.

"Shin"ichiro joined Yahoo Japan in April 2013. From July 2013, he joined YJ Capital. He has served as COO of YJ Capital since January 2015. Prior to Yahoo! Japan, Shin was General Director of Dream Incubator Vietnam from 2007 to 2012, managing US$50 million private equity funds in Vietnam. He was formerly a Project Manager at DreamIncubator Japan. He started his career at Future Architect as a system engineer.Shin received his bachelor's degree in Policy Management from Keio University.

Investment focus

Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

TakeMe Co., Ltd. — TakeMe aims to provide an “One-stop Inbound destination service” by enabling tourist to easily find, communicate with, and pay with smartphones via QR code at In-Travel destinations. TakeMe, is the country’s largest inbound service platform in Japan, which lets tourists find, communicate with, and pay with QR code at our affiliated shops,restaurants and tourist attractions. Since our launch in 2015 as JapanFoodie, we have expanded our merchant base to tens of thousands beyond food and restaurants, to include travel, lodging, shopping and events, providing every tourist with the best experience as your best local guide and friend.

Anand Chandrasekaran is a Partner at General Catalyst. He previously worked at Facebook and attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
Fold Health — Crafting the building blocks of modern primary care

Darius Cheung is co-founder of BillPin and CEO/co-founder of McAfee-acquired tenCube.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

Investment focus

Internet, Finance, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.

Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Villio — Villio provides talent experience SaaS which helps companies with human resource development and recruitment of talented engineers.
Back Dooor — Back Dooor is an app that provides 1on1 chatting services with favorite player of the users.
SPeak Corporation — SPeak Corporation operates JPort Match that is involved in direct recruiting service. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

Investment focus

Finance, Internet, Content
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.

At Yamanouchi and Astellas, engaged in drug discovery research in the areas of inflammation and bone metabolism, and created osteoporosis treatment minodronate and overactive bladder treatment solifenacin. After serving as Director of the Chemical Research Laboratory, Astellas Pharma Research Division, Executive Officer, Research PromotionDivision, and General Manager of the Research Management Division, he became Senior Executive Officer, External Relations Director. In addition, he has been involved in a wide range of industry activities, serving as the Research and Development Committee of the Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, the chairman of the Industrial Policy Committee, and the Vice Chairman of the Regenerative Medicine Innovation Forum. He also studied at the University of Pennsylvania (Professor Amos B Smith III) for one year from 2001. Graduated from Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University Graduate School of Pharmacy. Lecturer at Seminar on Advanced Drug Discovery Science sponsored by the Pharmaceuticals Promotion Association

Investment focus

Information Technology, Mobile, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
Linkage — Linkage is a Online health support business and Online specific health guidance.

Joel Neoh is the Founder and CEO of Fave. He attended Monash University.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Fashion
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

KFit — KFit gets you into the best fitness studios, classes and gyms in your city. Get access to unlimited group fitness classes and activities with just one monthly membership. Transform your workouts.Never get bored. Discover new ways to move. Take as many classes per month as you’d like. Try a different studio everyday. It’s time to work out the wayyou want to.
Ejen2u — Platform Sistem Pengurusan Ejen paling Komprehensif
ULive — Live Commerce Enabler for Social Media Live Sellers.

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

Investment focus

Content, Social Media, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
Aruya Umu — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.

Julian Shapiro is a Partner at Hyper and a Startup Investor at Julian.capital. He previously worked as the Founder of Demand Curve, a Columnist — Growth Marketing at TechCrunch, and VP of Marketing at Webflow. Julian attended Y Combinator.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
Agroshift — Agroshift helps farmers sell their produce to businesses and consumers by providing a tech-enabled supply chain.

Takashi Shibayama

Investment focus

Music, EBooks, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

FOWD — FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.
AtHearth — AtHearth is a real estate agency offering specialized services for expats in Tokyo. Find Out More.
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.

Teruhide Sato is President and Group CEO of netprice.com, Ltd., a global internet and e-commerce business incubator group (Tokyo Stock Exchange 3328). Lead the group to deliver the latest experience in online shopping across Japan, US, Europe and Asia. Strongly believe in the power of entrepreneurship.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series B, Series A
India, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Zilingo — Zilingo was founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor with a vision to use technology to put fair and efficient business within everyone’s reach. Up until now, the fashion industry has favored a select few - if you had social, human and financial capital, you could get anything done. But we believe the future of fashion belongs to everyone.By using smart, technology-led solutions to bridge the gap between creators and producers, we’re re-imagining the fashion industry to make it accessible, connected and transparent for all. Find out more on business.zilingo.com.
InnerChef — InnerChef is an Indian food tech company that offers a mobile app for online food discovery and delivery. It allows users to order their favorite dishes which can be delivered within 20 minutes. The company offers ready-to-eat meals, gourmets do-it-yourself recipe kits (InnerChef DIY gourmet), detox cleanses, and healthy eats (InnerChef+) as wellas decadent desserts (Indulge by InnerChef). InnerChef has beverages ranging from cold coffees to thick shakes to fruit juices, all freshly prepared. The company also operates Indulge, a hyperlocal dessert marketplace where home bakers and neighborhood bakeries can offer their products to customers.
Pipa.Bella — Pipa.Bella currently offers custom-made and ready-made fashion jewelry at affordable prices to over 40,000 customers across India through an innovative online platform and aims to reach to 1.5 lakh customers over the next twelve months. With few branded players in the fashion jewelry segment, Pipa.Bella aims to solve a pain point that many womenface while shopping for jewelry - branded jewelry is either overpriced with high mark-ups, or unbranded jewelry is cluttered and lacks any proper curation or style guidance. Pipa.Bella launches approximately 100 new styles every week that are all priced well between INR 500 - 3000. The demand for fashion jewellery has grown significantly in the last few years due to high prices of gold and silver and is estimated to be a $6 billion market. The brand has hit operational profitability in FY 17-18 and is aiming to be cash flow positive in the next twelve months. Pipa.Bella targets the 22-35-year-old urban woman who is fashion-conscious, social media savvy and is quick to adapt to latest trends. Pipa.Bella derives its name from two European words that describe the company's range of products and customers. A typical "Pipa" woman is bold, edgy and always ready to experiment and a typical "Bella" woman is a classicist, graceful, more conservative. The brand celebrates the different styles that exemplify these two aesthetics through its product range, which consist of earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings, sterling silver jewelry, charms, personalized jewelry, wedding jewelry Pipa.Bella is a recipient of the Google SMB Heroes 2017 Award, Top 25 Startups by Singapore's Javelin Startup-O Victory Fund, and Digital Women in E-Commerce 2017 Award by Shethepeople.tv. The brand has been worn on top Bollywood celebrities and has been featured in International fashion and business publications such as Vogue, Harpers, Femina, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Economic Times, and Wall Street Journal.

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Qualified Health — Discover the Infrastructure for enforceable governance, agent creation, and post-deployment monitoring for Generative AI in healthcare

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.

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.

Yasuyuki Kin

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

Investment focus

Content, Marketing, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.

Ratan Tata is the Founder and Managing Director of RNT Associates.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GOQii — GOQii is headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. It is dedicated to enabling a permanent shift to a healthier lifestyle with the combination of advanced wearable technology, the world's leading experts, coaches and karma. GOQii focuses on sustained engagement & goal reinforcement and offers a complete ecosystem asa single integrated solution, which is a powerful combination of technology and human connection. GOQii is a collaboration of some of the world's leading experts and an amazing management team who are driven by a passion for healthy sustainable living, and who believe that all of us contain boundless potential. GOQii's goal is to enable millions of people across the world to "be the force" by helping them unleash their untapped potential.
Repos energy — Repos energy is a e-commerce of Fuel to move towards a carbon neutral future.
Goodfellows — Goodfellows aims to offer companionship to lonely senior citizens.

Leo Wang is recognized as an active angel investor and leading proponent of Mobile Internet, Blockchain, and Angel Investment in China. Boasting over twenty years in mobile internet and tech, he has invested in 300 startups, spanning healthcare to fintech and blockchain, including 2 NASDAQ-listed companies and 5 unicorns.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Aerospace, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Huma — 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.

Bill Lee was CEO and co-founder of Remarq, a Benchmark Capital-backed collaboration company. At Remarq, Bill guided the company in its development of a complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration platform. Before its acquisition by Critical Path in March 2000, the company developed high-volume messaging platforms for sites such aseBay, Sun, Novell, and Amazon. The company raised over $43 million in venture and debt financing.Bill has been appointed by the Mayor of San Jose to the Redevelopment Committee of San Jose. Bill also graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in accounting/finance and received a JD/MBA from UCLA.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
Lightning Labs — Building faster, cheaper, global layer-two bitcoin
Goldin Auctions — Goldin Auctions is the leading marketplace for trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other collectibles. Founder Ken Goldin has sold more than $1 billion in memorabilia from many of the biggest names in sports, history, and pop culture. The company routinely sets records for the most expensive trading cards and other memorabilia ever sold.Lifelong collectors and new hobbyists alike trust Goldin Auctions because the company professionally authenticates everything it sells.

Narimatsu Jun - Outside Director @ FiNC Technologies

Investment focus

Content, Media and Entertainment, SEO
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Pulit — Pulit innovates the brand new Content Distribution Infra.
Play Life — PlayLife is an experience sharing site where you can search, share, and post play information, where users can actually experience and plan a fun experience as know-how of play. It is a service that provides highly reliable information under the real name system, provides know-how that only experienced users can know, and information thatcoordinates the way of spending a day, making play more fun and convenient.
State of Mind — State of Mind is the development and operation of the cloud sourcing.

Razy Shah

Investment focus

Finance, Mobile Apps, Financial Services
Pre-Seed
Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Drutoloan — Unlock financial opportunities with Drutoloan. Your trusted partner for seamless lending solutions and expert guidance. Explore our range of services today

Abhinay Peddisetty is the Co-Founder of BukuWarung. He was an Angel Investor at Go Swift and the Head of Enterprise Business of APAC at Carousell before that.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Indonesia, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Hyperface — Hyperface is a banking-as-a-service startup that helps companies create and launch their own credit cards.
KitaLulus — Cari kerja dengan aman, dekat, dan cepat bersama KitaLulus. Tersedia untuk wilayah Jabodetabek, Surabaya, Bandung, dan Makassar.
Fit Hub Indonesia — Fit Hub Indonesia is a Health & Wellness Startup in Indonesia.

Sagi Shorrer is an Entrepreneur, advisor and angel investor in the digital media and technology space, with 15 years of strategic and operational experience across large companies and startups (including: Google, BBDO, i-Touch, Brainbow). Strong focus on mobile apps, monetization and Internationalization.

Investment focus

Digital Entertainment, Gaming, Mobile
Seed, Series A
Singapore, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Intellect — Intellect is a modern-day mental health company with a mission to make mental healthcare & wellbeing support accessible for everyone. Today, Intellect is the largest and fastest growing mental health tech company in Asia, and serves over 2 million members and leading organisations globally through our mental health platform. Intellect wasalso selected as one of Google’s Best Apps of 2020. Intellect is backed by leading investors including Insignia Ventures Partners, Y Combinator, and an extensive list of family offices, big tech executives & renowned angel investors.
Trailblazer Games — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!
Trailblazer Games — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!

Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease

Yuya Taketani - Chief Executive Officer @ Gunosy

Investment focus

Apps, News, Mobile
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Gunosy — 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.
Telescope Japan — Telescope Japan Internet Company

JJ Chai is the CEO & co-founder at Rainforest. He attended National University of Singapore.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Real Estate, Rental Property
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
Needle — The world's first personal AI marketer for rising brands. It acts like a smart assistant to help you defy the odds. Sign up for early access!

Alan Rutledge

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.

Danny Oei Wirianto is Co-Founder of MINDTALK and CEO of MCM Group. Previously he was Chief Marketing Officer of Kaskus.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Classifieds, Marketplace
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Carousell — Great deals & variety on electronics, fashion, used cars, aircon servicing, handyman services, furniture and more on Carousell.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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