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Top 35 Music Angel Investors in Asia (August 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Asia Music startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Asia Music startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Kazuomi Kaneto
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series B, Series C Artificial Intelligence, Music, Energy
Michael Hansen
Angel
2 Germany, Hong Kong Seed Software, Art, SaaS $500k–$1.5M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Travel, Internet, Apps $700k–$213M
Ken Soga
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D Music, Content, E-Commerce $457k–$9.9M
Yat Siu
Angel
2 United States, Hong Kong, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Software $100k–$32M
Hongyu Zhang
Angel
1 China Series A Art, Apps, Music
Andy Zain
Angel
1 Indonesia Seed, Angel, Series B Retail, Music, Events $15k–$8.2M
Oleg Semenov
Angel
1 Indonesia Pre-Seed Music, Music Label, Digital Entertainment
Evgenii Dar
Angel
1 Indonesia Pre-Seed Music, Music Label, Digital Entertainment
Masahiro Yamashiro
Angel
1 Japan Seed B2C, SaaS, Music $695k–$740k
Johan Lidström
Angel
1 Hong Kong Pre-Seed Music, Big Data, Mobile Apps
Ravid Chowdhury
Angel
1 Bangladesh, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing Logistics, E-Commerce, Software $50k–$6M
Masanori Sugiyama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Software, Web Design $6M–$18M
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Content, Education $272k–$17M
Masaru Sunagawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Finance, Software, Artificial Intelligence $740k–$18M
Maksim Ovtin
Angel
1 Indonesia Pre-Seed Music, Music Label, Digital Entertainment
Shuhei Yamashita
Angel
1 Japan Seed Music, Content Creators, Artificial Intelligence
Minhong Yu
Angel
1 China Seed, Angel, Series A Education, Social Media, Apps $425k–$10M
Katsuaki Sato
Angel
1 Japan Seed Apps, Music, Content
Atsushi Fukuda
Angel
1 Japan Seed Music, Content Creators, Artificial Intelligence
Takejiro Kamei
Angel
1 Japan Seed B2C, Music, Consulting
Takeshi Natsuno
Angel
1 Japan, United States Angel, Series A Financial Services, Music, Events $1.7M–$15M
Masashige Obara
Angel
1 Japan Seed Education, E-Learning, SNS $14M–$21M
Soga Takeshi
Angel
1 Japan Seed Music, Mobile, Content $609k–$9.9M
Paul Rosenberg
Angel
1 Japan, United States Series A Music, Apps, Logistics $20M–$23M
Takashi Shibayama
Angel
1 Japan Seed Music, EBooks, Gaming $553k–$5.8M
Saito Taro
Angel
1 Japan Seed B2C, Music, Tourism
Takuma Kudo
Angel
1 Japan Seed B2C, Music, Consulting
Adam Lindemann
Angel
1 Hong Kong, United States Seed, Post-IPO Debt, Post-IPO Equity Apps, Art, Music $425k–$4.2M
Daiki Ichikawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed Music, EBooks, Gaming
Satoshi Aoyagi
Angel
1 Japan Seed B2C, Music, Consulting
Sato Hirohisa
Angel
1 Japan Angel Music, Internet, Animation
Max Loong
Angel
1 Singapore Pre-Seed Music, Media and Entertainment
Wanqiang Li
Angel
1 China Angel, Seed Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Art $2.8M–$50M
Tom James
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel SaaS, Software, Information Technology $276k–$1.5M
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Kazuomi Kaneto
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Music startups

Kazuomi Kaneto is the Founder & CEO of Dream Project Incubators. He previously worked at Pacifico Energy as a Founder, President & CEO. Kazuomi Kaneto attended Tsinghua University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Music, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sustainable Lab — SusLab is a data bank that uses AI technology to support SDG and ESG development goals and investments.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Persistent Energy Partners — Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.
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Michael Hansen
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Music startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Art, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Music startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Internet, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$41M; Series A $13M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

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 Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
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Ken Soga
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Music startups

Ken Soga is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Content, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tooon — Tooon Inc. is a technology company that deals with development and operations of business management tools .
  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
  • Volve Creative — Volve Creative is a media company that provides virtual artist management, events, advertising video, and music production services.
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Yat Siu
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Asia Music startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $100k–$7M; Series A $5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
  • BeraTone — BeraTone is a farm life simulation game developed on Berachain technology.
  • BLIFE Protocol — Bringing Web3 to Bitcoin with the backing of Animoca Brands. Merged with @Portalcoin
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Hongyu Zhang
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

The founder of PPS, the leading peer-to-peer streaming video network software in China. After PPS was purchased by Baidu for USD 370m, Mr. Zhang served as the co-CEO of Iqiyi, one of the largest online video platform. Hongyu has extensive knowledge in the fields of internet and content streaming in China.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Apps, Music
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Artand — Artand is a community business platform and an online gallery for artists.
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Andy Zain
Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Andy Zain is one of the pioneers in the mobile industry in Indonesia. He helped launch some of the first and most successful mobile start-ups in the country. He also established digital services and go-to market strategies for global brands such as Disney, Yahoo!, Cartoon Networks and advised several successful startups in social media, mobilevideo platform and social gaming.Andy is a founder of MobileMonday Indonesia, a networking forum for mobile industry professionals in Indonesia and a Director of the Jakarta Founder Institute, a mentorship and incubation program for startups.Andy oversees the growth and marketing strategy for 8vilages and manages relationship with carriers and key distribution partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Music, Events
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Laku6 — Laku6 helps emerging middle class own and upgrade smartphones affordable through recommerce and financing.
  • GDILab — Data toto sgp hari ini menyajikan keluaran sgp real time yang dipakai pemain serius untuk membaca jeda angka, ritme pola, dan momentum taruhan. Bukan tebak angka, tapi kontrol permainan togel singapore.
  • Konserku — Konserku is an online demand forecast platform that allows music fans to bring their favourite artists to perform in their cities.
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Oleg Semenov
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Oleg Semenov

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Music Label, Digital Entertainment
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Demuzo — Demuzo is a digital marketplace where individuals can buy shares of music copyrights. Demuzo transforms music enthusiasts from passive consumers into active contributors within the music industry. This shift signifies a future where the connection between artists and fans is more interwoven, fostering mutual benefits and a collective dedication topropelling the industry forward. Demuzo goes beyond merely a platform; it embodies a movement towards a more inclusive and financially sustainable music sector where fans play a pivotal role in shaping its future.
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Evgenii Dar
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

With 15 years as an entrepreneur, he currently serves as the General Director of a consulting firm specializing in anti-crisis business management. Having been a board member of a major manufacturing company, he transitioned to private investing eight years ago, accumulating a track record of over a dozen successful cases. Recognized as a qualifiedinvestor in the Russian stock market, he also has a passion for cats and appreciates high-quality music.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Music Label, Digital Entertainment
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Demuzo — Demuzo is a digital marketplace where individuals can buy shares of music copyrights. Demuzo transforms music enthusiasts from passive consumers into active contributors within the music industry. This shift signifies a future where the connection between artists and fans is more interwoven, fostering mutual benefits and a collective dedication topropelling the industry forward. Demuzo goes beyond merely a platform; it embodies a movement towards a more inclusive and financially sustainable music sector where fans play a pivotal role in shaping its future.
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Masahiro Yamashiro
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Masahiro Yamashiro is the Co-Representative of Growth Camp.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, SaaS, Music
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $695k–$740k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jizai — Jizai is a provider of artificial intelligence technology, offering AI solutions, software-as-a-service products powered by AI, and robots that utilize AI capabilities for businesses across various industries. The company focuses on generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics, offering customizable AI platforms and automation tools.It also engages in AI consulting and research collaborations.
  • Back Dooor — Back Dooor is an app that provides 1on1 chatting services with favorite player of the users.
  • OnlyOne Travel — Only One is a travel agency specialized in Latin American destinations run by Japanese managers.
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Johan Lidström
Angel · Umeå, Vasterbottens Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Johan Lidström - Founding Partner @ Northern Light Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Big Data, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Ravid Chowdhury
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Ravid Chowdhury is an American-Bangladeshi entrepreneur and investor. He has over a decade of global investment experience across venture capital, private equity, and corporate development. He currently works at Techstars as an Investment Manager, is an active angel through his syndicate RC Ventures, and has served as a venture partner,entrepreneur in residence, and mentor for various VC funds and accelerators.He began his investing career in Private Equity in New York, then in Hong Kong. He was the CFO of Pathao, Bangladesh and Nepal's #1 ride-sharing, food delivery, courier and payments super app, where he raised several rounds of financing including a strategic Series A led by Go-Jek. Thereafter, Ravid led the seed round of Truck Lagbe, Bangladesh's #1 trucking platform, and joined the company as a board member and Head of Corporate Development. He raised several rounds of funding for Truck Lagbe including a Series A led by the IFC World Bank.He holds a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and a MPA in International Finance from Columbia University in New York. He was an International Growth Centre Economic Research Fellow from 2010-2012 with the LSE and Oxford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Bangladesh, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KajKey — KajKey in Bangla means "What Work?". KajKey is an online freelancing platform focused on Bangla speaking clients, employers, freelancers, and job seekers. Bangla is the 7th most spoken language in the world and the KajKey platform connects Bengali clients with freelancers that speak their language, understand their needs, can operate on alocalized budget, and receive payment with local payment solutions. In countries like Bangladesh where employment is heavily concentrated in the capital city, KajKey provides opportunity to millions in villages where unemployment is high and migrating to the city is prohibitively expensive.
  • EndingScene — ‘EndingScene’ is an animation studio provides high-end, affordable motion graphics video making services to its clients. Our story board artists, voice artists, 2D and 3D animators are always ready to turn your idea into result driven animated video.
  • Truck Lagbe — Truck Lagbe network is the first and the largest online platform in Bangladesh. In this app based truck rental service you can hire trucks & pickups in a minutes.
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Masanori Sugiyama
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

He graduated from Kansai University in 1988. He was enrolled in Ljoma while he was in college. 2002 Vice President of Practice (now index lights). In 2004, he became president of zappallas. Listed on the TSE Mothers in the second year of his appointment, and in 2010 he was listed in part of the TSE. In 2011 he became the CEO of enish. Listed on apart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thereafter, he served as outside directors such as Nikkatsu and JibannetHD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Web Design
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 .
  • STUDIO — The easiest and quickest way to build your beautiful portfolio website, landing page or anything. No code. All creative freedom.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$17M; Pre-Seed $272k–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
  • Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
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Masaru Sunagawa
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

After joining Mitsubishi Corporation, he studied at Harvard Business School. After graduating, he joined Globespan Capital Partners, an independent United States VC, and worked as a director of investment. He started LocationValue after the company's representative in Japan. Joined Google after selling the company to NTT DOCOMO. He served asDirector of Product Development for Google Maps and General Manager for Android. He left Google in February 2018 and started Smartround Co., Ltd. in May.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $740k–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
  • Sustainable Lab — SusLab is a data bank that uses AI technology to support SDG and ESG development goals and investments.
  • Paytner — Paytner 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 whereproblems such as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
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Maksim Ovtin
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Maksim Ovtin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Music Label, Digital Entertainment
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Demuzo — Demuzo is a digital marketplace where individuals can buy shares of music copyrights. Demuzo transforms music enthusiasts from passive consumers into active contributors within the music industry. This shift signifies a future where the connection between artists and fans is more interwoven, fostering mutual benefits and a collective dedication topropelling the industry forward. Demuzo goes beyond merely a platform; it embodies a movement towards a more inclusive and financially sustainable music sector where fans play a pivotal role in shaping its future.
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Shuhei Yamashita
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Shuhei Yamashita - Representative Director @ CRE

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Content Creators, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
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Minhong Yu
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was anEnglish instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Social Media, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $425k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bottomsup — Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content.
  • Kuaipeilian — Kuaipeilian is an online piano training platform
  • Pingo Space — Pingo Space is a mobile platform that connects locals to expats through in-person experiences.
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Katsuaki Sato
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Katsuaki Sato Founded Metaps Inc. in September, 2007, following entrance of university and assumed a position of president. Embarked on mobile SEO business and its monetization in 2008, and flash marketing business as well in 2010. Founded Metaps Pte. Ltd. in Singapore in 2011. Specialized in proposal of business models, establishment, operationand marketing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Music, Content
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Toremoro — toremo is a music platform app that targets sounds from all over the world such as ASMR and natural sounds.
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Atsushi Fukuda
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Atsushi Fukuda is the president of Speedy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Content Creators, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
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Takejiro Kamei
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Takejiro Kamei

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, Music, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
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Takeshi Natsuno
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Mr. Takeshi Natsuno serves as the Chairman of Japan Operations at Great Wall Club. Mr. Natsuno is a Professor of KEIO University. He served as a General Manager of Consumer Services Division and Manager of Distribution Platform Business Development Division at Pia Corporation since April 2012 and served as its Chief of Sales Promotion Bureau sinceApril 2010. He joined DoCoMo in 1997. He served as the Managing Director of Multimedia Services, Products & Services Division for NTT DoCoMo Inc. until June 23, 2009 and served as its General Manager of i-Mode Planning Division since July 2001, Senior Vice President from June 21, 2005 to June 23, 2009, Executive Officer and General Manager Multimedia Service Division since June 2005. At NTT DoCoMo, he developed the business strategy of all of NTT DoCoMo’s multimedia-related services, including i-mode strategic alliances with global application/content providers and key Internet players. He served as Vice President of Hyper Net Co., Ltd. since June 1996. He started his career with Tokyo Gas. He held key executive positions with HyperNet. He has been a Director of Dwango Co. Ltd., since December 1, 2008. He has been a Outside Director at Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. since June 2008. He has been a Director at Pia Corporation since April 2010. He serves as a Director of D.L.E Co. Ltd. He has been a Director of Gree, Inc. since September 2009 and Trans Cosmos, Inc. since 2008. He serves as a Director of GREE Ventures, Inc. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Great Wall Club. He served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of SBI Holdings Inc. from June 27, 2008 to June 28, 2012. He served as a Director of Hyper Net Co., Ltd. since June 1996. He is the Author of i-mode Strategy, published in 2000, a la i-mode, published in 2002, Keitai-no-Mirai, published in 2006, Iccho-yen kaseida otokono shigotojutu, and Google ni izonshi Amazon wo maneru bakakigyou published in 2009. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Economics from Waseda University, Japan in 1988 and an Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Music, Events
  • Stage:Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Angel $1.7M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ZUU — ZUU is a Japan-based company that supports financial advisors with related consultancies and manages monetary websites. It also supports the asset management and asset advisor business of executives with finance and IT.
  • Zuu Online — ZUU online is a Tokyo-based financial media which provides original insights on financial market news,the latest business trend and personal finance advice
  • Confidence — Confidence ensures that the entertainment industry's cutting-edge manufacturers will be able to fulfil their objectives in the future.
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Masashige Obara
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Masashige Obara

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, E-Learning, SNS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $14M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lang-8 — Lang-8 is the best place for learning and practicing foreign languages. Post an entry in the language you are learning, then a native speaker will correct your entries. Currently there are more than 80 languages available on Lang-8.
  • LanCul — LanCul is an education based start up.
  • TIGALA — TIGALA is deployed M & A services
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Soga Takeshi
Angel · Nerima, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Soga Takeshi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Mobile, Content
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $609k–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Univrs — UNIVRS is a popular market and entertainment platform.
  • SAKELOGY — SAKELOGY is a platform enables restaurants and retailers to easily create cloud-based sake menus.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
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Paul Rosenberg
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Paul Rosenberg is currently the CEO of Def Jam Recordings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Apps, Logistics
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series A $20M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cargo — Ara Screens is a digital out of home network solution provider, DOOH smart signage operator, and the world's leading car-top and in-car advertising placement provider for Rideshare & Taxi.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Sound — Sound is a suite of music and economic tools powering the next generation of artists and their communities, starting with listening parties for new releases
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Takashi Shibayama
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Takashi Shibayama

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, EBooks, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $553k–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Saito Taro
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Saito Taro - Outside Directors @ for Startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, Music, Tourism
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
  • OnlyOne Travel — Only One is a travel agency specialized in Latin American destinations run by Japanese managers.
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Takuma Kudo
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Takuma Kudo is the Branding Director at dof Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, Music, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
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Adam Lindemann
Angel · Sai Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Adam Lindemann is an entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the founder and Chairman of imindi.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Art, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Debt, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $425k–$4.2M; Post-IPO Equity $2.5M–$4.1M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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.
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Daiki Ichikawa
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Daiki Ichikawa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, EBooks, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FOWD — FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.
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Satoshi Aoyagi
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Satoshi Aoyagi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, Music, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
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Sato Hirohisa
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Sato Hirohisa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Internet, Animation
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TableCheck — TableCheck empowers restaurant operators worldwide to maximize guest engagement, reservations, and table utilization.We analyze and evaluate data from restaurants and use this information to create a more vibrant dining experience for their customers.Our team of creative minds is continuously seeking to drive innovative solutions to support ourrestaurant partners. TableCheck’s restaurant management tools give restaurants the power and flexibility to provide seamless customer experiences for every guest from the moment they make reservations. "
  • Dream Link Entertainment — DLE is a Japanese animation studio based in Tokyo. The mission of DLE is to turn people's dreams and imaginations into an experience.
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Max Loong
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Max Loong

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ACE — Get Personalized Video Greeting Messages from Celebrities for Birthdays, anniversaries. ACE is the #1 platform to get video greetings from celebrities.
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Wanqiang Li
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Wanqiang Li is responsible for the marketing of Xiaomi. He was the General Manager of Kingsoft Dictionary and notable for being one of the earliest UI practitioners in China. Graduated from Xi'an Science & Engineering Institute with a degree in Industrial Design in 2000, he joined Kingsoft’s UI Department and played a key role indeveloping many famous software projects including Kingsoft Antivirus, Kingsoft Dictionary and WPS Office. Wanqiang Li served at Kingsoft in various positions as Chief Designer of UI department, Director of Design Center and Director of Internet Content. Wanqiang Li is also a Co-founder of Xiaomi.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Art
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Angel $2.8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Artand — Artand is a community business platform and an online gallery for artists.
  • reddoon.ai — reddoon.ai creates professional-quality product images.
  • Xiaoyu Zhizao — Xiaoyu Zhizao is an industrial robot manufacturer, focusing on industrial robot manufacturing, intelligent robot research and development.
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Tom James
Angel · Abbotsbury, Dorset, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Asia Music startups

Tom James - Advisor @ OneLogin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $276k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
  • seedata.io — Seedata.io's automated deception platform plants, maintains and monitors honeypot traps throughout your estate, catching attackers before damage is done.
  • MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.
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