Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Asia (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
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9 | United States, India, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $800k–$28M |
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
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6 | United States, Singapore, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $450k–$40M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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5 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Internet, Drones, Travel | $700k–$213M |
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Tiang Lim Foo
Angel
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5 | Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $640k–$14M |
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Anatoly Yakovenko
Angel
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency | $2.5M–$74M |
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Toivo Annus
Angel
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4 | Singapore, United States, Estonia | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, FinTech | $1.4M–$6M |
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Dendi Suhubdy
Angel
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3 | Indonesia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $60k–$80k |
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Kain Warwick
Angel
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3 | United States, Australia, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services | $250k–$32M |
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Loi Luu
Angel
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3 | Singapore, United States, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform | $1.2M–$6M |
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Ryan Selkis
Angel
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3 | United States, Singapore, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $850k–$30M |
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Andrew Kang
Angel
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3 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Angel | Blockchain, Software, Bitcoin | $1.8M–$10M |
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Jonathan Chu
Angel
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2 | United States, Argentina, Indonesia | Series A, Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Developer Platform | $6M–$35M |
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Thanh Le
Angel
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2 | Singapore | Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin | $1.9M–$7M |
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Kevin Hu
Angel
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2 | Singapore, United States, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Internet, Software | $1.2M–$6M |
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Do Kwon
Angel
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2 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $1.2M–$28M |
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
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2 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment | $320k–$33M |
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Laurenz Apiarius
Angel
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2 | China, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Public Transportation | |
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel | Internet, Finance, Content | $320k–$28M |
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Yusuke Sato
Angel
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2 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Food and Beverage | $320k–$43M |
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Yusuke Tanaka
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed | Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce | $16M–$18M |
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Yu Akasaka
Angel
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2 | Japan, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel | Content, Food and Beverage, Apps | $425k–$68M |
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Owen Van Natta
Angel
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2 | United States, Singapore, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Mobile, Software, Internet | $600k–$50M |
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Trent McConaghy
Angel
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2 | Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency | $285k–$9.5M |
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Ana Andrianova
Angel
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2 | Kenya, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | |
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Chris McCann
Angel
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2 | United States, Singapore, Malta | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services | $500k–$400M |
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Akshay BD
Angel
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2 | Singapore, United States, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Health Care | $1.6M–$5.5M |
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Jaynti Kanani
Angel
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2 | India, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet | $375k–$40M |
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Francis Plaza
Angel
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2 | Philippines, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Education, Gaming | $125k–$228k |
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Christy Choi
Angel
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2 | Vietnam, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Cryptocurrency, Software, Video Games | $800k–$4M |
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Matthew Tan
Angel
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2 | Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, IaaS | $1.2M–$5M |
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Lisa Gokongwei
Angel
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2 | Philippines, Singapore, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Payments, Internet | $500k–$20M |
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Muneeb Ali
Angel
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2 | China | Seed, Angel | Bitcoin, Apps, Hardware | $1.2M–$8M |
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Darren Lau
Angel
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2 | United States, Singapore, Germany | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | $835k–$32M |
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JL Sampedro-Mazon
Angel
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2 | Singapore | Pre-Seed | Cryptocurrency, Gaming, FinTech | |
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Komura Fujio
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Ethereum, Marketing | |
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Masaru Sunagawa
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music | $9.2M–$18M |
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Paul Taylor
Angel
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2 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 | $1M–$10M |
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Mohandass Kalaichelvan
Angel
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2 | Singapore, India, Indonesia | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Payments, Health Care | $600k–$5.2M |
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel
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2 | Japan, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Angel | SNS, Internet, Software | |
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Osamu Ogasawara
Angel
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2 | Japan | Angel | SNS, Content, Fashion | |
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Stani Kulechov
Angel
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2 | United States, Australia, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $250k–$27M |
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Prabhakar Reddy
Angel
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2 | Singapore, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Software, Information Technology | $800k–$15M |
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Arthur Cheong
Angel
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2 | United States, Singapore, France | Seed, Angel | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $1.9M–$6M |
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Askar Dostiyarov
Angel
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2 | Kazakhstan | Seed, Angel | FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps | |
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Spencer Noon
Angel
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2 | United States, France, Singapore | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum | $1M–$8M |
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Fashion, FinTech | $380k–$41M |
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Tao Zhang
Angel
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1 | China, United States, India | Series A, Seed | Internet, Education, Payments | |
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Gavin Wood
Angel
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1 | Japan, France, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Blockchain, Internet | |
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Matthew Roszak
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore | Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Cryptocurrency, Computer | |
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Jun Du
Angel
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1 | Singapore, Germany | Seed, Corporate Round | Cryptocurrency, Information Services, Software | |
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Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including anonline MOOC.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 234
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$15M; Pre-Seed $800k–$4.2M; Series A $6M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BizScout — BizScout is an online platform of Off market deals for verified buyers and sellers.
- Parallax — Parallax offers a cross-border payments platform for freelancers, remote workers, and businesses. The service enables receiving international client payments, holding funds in USD, exchanging currencies, and sending money to domestic bank accounts and mobile wallets. Users manage balances and transfers through a web app with quoted rates anditemized fees. The platform supports global payouts and recurring disbursements to partners and team members. Compliance measures include identity verification and transaction monitoring aligned with regulatory standards. Documentation and support resources guide account setup, funding, and cash-out.
- Blueprint Bryan Johnson — On the surface, Blueprint may seem something about health, wellness and aging. It's really a system to make tomorrow better for you, me, the planet and our shared future with AI.
Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 179
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $450k–$5M; Series A $8M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Amasa — Amasa puts a new world of income streaming in the palm of your hand. Combine, stabilise and amplify micro income streams of cryptocurrencies. We want to help people improve their financial position, and be producers and participants, not products.
- Lattica — Lattica is a platform that allows AI models to process encrypted data, so no one, neither us nor the model provider, can see the raw data.
- Domination Finance — The world's first DEX for dominance trading
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Internet, Drones, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $700k–$43M; 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 an Internet Company.
Tiang Lim Foo is a Partner and co-founder of Forge Ventures. He currently serves as a Venture Partner at Next Billion Ventures. He was also a partner at SeedPlus, a leading seed fund in Southeast Asia backed by SGInnovate, Jungle Ventures, Cisco, and IFC. Previously, he launched and managed Evernote's operations in Asia. Tiang has invested incategory-leading startups in the region and currently serves as a board member of Qoala, a Sequoia-backed insurance tech company in Indonesia. Tiang graduated from Stanford with a degree in Management and Engineering and holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Honors from the National University of Singapore.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $640k–$4.1M; Series A $2.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Xfers — Xfers boosts your business with easy payment acceptance, seamless funds transfer, credit solutions and high-yield cash accounts.
- Talenox — Improve your HR processes with simple automation. Get a guided experience with the friendlist online HR system. Manage multiple entities with one account.
- Arrow — Arrow is the best checkout experience for your online businesses that drastically increases your conversions rates. Arrow supports the all major payment gateways and is pre-built with the latest and greatest payment methods in Southeast Asia (SEA).
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$11M; Series A $9.5M–$74M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.
- Circuit & Chisel — Circuit & Chisel is an agentic AI platform that enables agents to make transactions between autonomous agents.
- Inference — Inference is a distributed GPU cluster for LLM inference based on Solana, providing a fast, scalable, and token-based API for models such as DeepSeek V3 and Llama 3.3.
Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3M; Series A $2M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Research Scientist, Founder
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- Industry: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Pre-Seed $60k–$80k
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bitwyre — Bitwyre is a next gen, HFT-friendly Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange
Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.7M; Series A $6.7M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Euphoria — Euphoria is a crypto derivatives trading app that aims to simplify options and perpetual trading.
- 3Jane Protocol — 3Jane Protocol is a credit-based money market that permits unsecured credit lines underwritten against verifiable evidence.
- Polynomial — Trade DeFi options with highly efficient liquidity.
Loi Luu is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON.Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technology. Much of his work revolves around this community. He developed Oyente,the first open-source security analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts. Loi also cofounded SmartPool, another open source project which embraces decentralization of mining pools in existing cryptocurrency. He continues to champion decentralisation and trustless properties of the Blockchain with KyberNetwork, taking inspiration and developing value for the community.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2M; Series A $5M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SpaceComputer — SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.
- Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.
- Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.
Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Pre-Seed $850k–$4.5M; Series A $7.5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nxyz — Snowflake enables organizations to learn, build, and connect with their data-driven peers. Collaborate, build data apps & power diverse workloads in the AI Data Cloud.
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Reown — A complete, compliant payment method built on the world's largest wallet network, designed to fit directly into existing PSP stacks with a single, future-ready integration.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Bitcoin
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.
- Apollo ID — Apollo is the all-in-one operating system empowering hospitality and live entertainment.
- Shuffle — Play the best crypto casino games at Shuffle VIP crypto casino. Play 10,000+ games, instant deposit, sportsbook, and the exclusive SHFL Lottery and more!
Jonathan is co-founder and managing partner of Protofund. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Developer Platform
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, Argentina, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $6M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pintu — Aplikasi trading crypto & jual beli Bitcoin, token DeFi, NFT, AI Agent, Meme coin, Web3 dan aset digital di Indonesia. Harga final, exchange kripto terpercaya dengan crypto wallet praktis.
- Buenbit — Buenbit is a Cryptocurrency Exchange and Cross-Border payment platform. Cryptocurrency exchange with presence in Argentina & Perú. Leveraging cryptocurrency trading to offer a low cost Cross-Border payment solution.
- NEAR — NEAR is the unified commerce layer for unlocking asset liquidity and empowering agents to autonomously transact.
Thanh Le is Founder at Coin98 Finance. He attended University of Sciences.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TITAN — Titan provides users with the best swap price by searching through Solana’s on-chain liquidity through trusted sources. It then deploys revolutionary routing algorithms based on cutting-edge mathematics to determine the best price a user can get when trading any token.
- Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.
- Ranger Finance — Ranger Finance is perpetual DEX aggregator that offers deep aggregated liquidity, smart order routing, and comprehensive data insight.
Kevin Hu is a General Partner - Head of Liquid Strategies at Dragonfly Capital. He was an Alternative Investments at BlackRock. He attended the University of Toronto.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BounceBit — BounceBit is a chain solution that aims to provide a smart contract execution environment centered on the BTC Token.
- Nansen — The Nansen analytics platform analyzes millions of data points on Ethereum wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.
- Eclipse — The first customizable, modular rollups, using the Solana VM. Sign up to access our testnet.
Do Kwon is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Terraform Labs. Do Kwon is the Founder & CEO at Terraform Labs . Do Kwon attended Stanford University.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$18M; Series A $5M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
- Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
- Treehouse — Treehouse is the decentralized fixed income layer, building yield solutions and unifying on-chain interest rates through its products, tAssets and DOR.
Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $320k–$33M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
He is the Founder & CEO of Blockwall Capital (www.blockwall.capital) – the first German crypto investment fund focused on Distributed Ledger/Blockchain technologies serving UHNWIs, Family Offices and Institutionals to gain access to this asset class.He is also non-executive director in two family businesses, which are a high-performancepolymer producer and a manufacturer for rheological testing devices. Previous engagements in various PE and VC investments.Educated in Germany (EBS University), South Africa (University of Stellenbosch) and Scotland (University of St. Andrews). Member of EO.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Public Transportation
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: China, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- bloXmove — bloXmove, the operating system to decentralize power and mobility and accelerate transactions between the business parties.
- Bella Protocol — Bella Defi suite allows users to simply deposit and enjoy high yield from sophisticated arbitrage strategies, either on-chain or via custodian service.
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.
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- Industry: Internet, Finance, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2M–$28M; Angel $320k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
- Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$43M; Angel $320k–$43M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
"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.
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- Industry: Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $16M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$68M; Angel $425k–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.5M; Series A $1M–$50M; Series B $25M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- SwiftComply — SwiftComply helps water utilities increase compliance and cut admin. Compliance software for backflow, stormwater, pretreatment and FOG.
- Diamond Foundry — America's #1 diamond producer for the jewelry and semiconductor industries.
Trent McConaghy is the founder of Ocean Protocol, which is unbounding AI via blockchain technology. Past: - co-founded Analog Design Automation in 1999. AI for generative analog circuit design. It was acquired by Synopsys in 2004. - co-founded Solido Design Automation in 2004. AI for custom circuit verification. It was acquired by Siemens in2017. - co-founded ascribe GmbH in 2014. NFTs. It pivoted to BigchainDB in 2016. Decentralized database. - from BigchainDB, co-founded Ocean Protocol in 2017. Its token $OCEAN went public in 2018.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $285k–$285k; Initial Coin Offering $1.3M–$9.5M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anytype — An operating system for the new Internet
- Makina — Makina is a finance firm that provides a non-custodial option for users to gain exposure to advanced on-chain strategies.
- Yiedl — Rocket is a Financial Institution regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The vision is to create the world's first decentralized and distributed hedge fund (RocketDAO) driven by a Collective Artificial Intelligence generated through a Blockchain-based (on Polygon) machine learning competition to solve the financial market.
Ana Andrianova
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- Industry: Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mara — Mara is a company operating in the sub-Saharan Africa region. Mara offers a suite of crypto products including a cryptocurrency exchange, token collateralized lending, and an NFT marketplace.
- Nansen — The Nansen analytics platform analyzes millions of data points on Ethereum wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.
Chris McCann is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the General Partner of Race Capital. Chris previously worked at StartupDigest as a co-founder and CEO. Chris McCann attended the California Polytechnic State University.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Malta
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $15M–$400M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SolRazr — SolRazr is the first decentralized developer ecosystem for Solana, offering Launchpad, Accelerator, and Developer Tools.
- Delta One — Delta One is a yield generation protocol on Solana that offers novel delta-neutral and impermanent loss-free farming markets. Its mission is to create novel, easy-to-use Defi primitives that democratize the best risk-adjusted yield opportunities to achieve mass adoption of crypto investing.
- Katana — Katana provides a premier suite of packaged yield products, allowing users to quietly access a wide range of risk-adjusted strategies in the ecosystem.
Akshay BD is an Advisor at Solana Foundation.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Singapore, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Arcium — The first parallelized confidential computing network.
- 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.
Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $375k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.9M; Series A $18M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
- Mythik — Mythik operates as an entertainment company with a vision to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales.
- NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.
Francis Plaza currently works as an Advisor to the Boards for PayMongo. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Gaming
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Philippines, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Pre-Seed $125k–$228k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AcadArena — AcadArena is the home of campus gaming in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Join tournaments, earn esports scholarships and meet new friends all for free!
- Gretel.co — Gretel is a B2B SaaS connecting people with all the in-company information they need to do their jobs through their favourite applications, which can be found in the Gretel Store.
- NextPay — Receive, manage, and spend your company's finances on a single platform. Save time and costs with a digital financial suite built to empower growing businesses.
Christy Choi is based out of Singapore and is the Co-Founder of AO Labs. Christy previously worked at Binance as a Director Board Of Directors.Christy Choi attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Software, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Vietnam, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $800k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ondo Finance — Institutional Grade Finance. On-Chain. For Everyone.
- Coin98 — Coin98 is an open, decentralized crypto wallet offering tools and infrastructure for everyone to access and seize opportunities to build their future on the Open Internet.
- Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.
Matthew Tan is the creator of Blockchain 2.0 Explorer, API & Analytics Platforms Etherscan.io (Ethereum Smart Contracts Platform), Blockscan.com (Counterparty Tech) and also a Co-Founder of a 20 person internet and web software related services development company. More than 15 years in the IT industry with experience in managing, operating anddeveloping technical solutions for clients from various industries.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, IaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.2M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Metagood — Tokenization as a Service for Modern Capital Markets
- Nirvana Labs — The modern cloud built from the metal up for AI, databases, trading, Web3 and real-time systems. High-performance storage, high-clock compute, zero egress.
- Candlestick.io — Advanced crypto trading with smart money tracking and DeFi analytics
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Browse database — It's Free!Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng is a President at Summit Media. Attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Philippines, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.3M; Series A $2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Edamama — Discover your ultimate baby products haven! Discover everything from cozy cribs, diapers to playful toys. Shop now and start creating beautiful memories today!
- Otis AI — Otis is the first AI-powered virtual assistant that helps run and optimize your digital marketing cross-platform, at scale and at a budget that works for your business.
- VAMA — VAMA is a one-stop virtual platform that provides easy access to e-pujas, e-darshans, and astrology services, to devotees from across India and the world.
Muneeb Ali is the Co-founder and CEO at Trust Machines and the Co-founder and Exec Chairman of Hiro System. Muneeb Ali attended Princeton University and Lahore University of Management Sciences.
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- Industry: Bitcoin, Apps, Hardware
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ryder — 60s Setup, Secure Signing, EAL6+ Secure Element, TapSafe Recovery, IP68 Rating, Encrypted NFC.
- Arch — The pioneering network for building bridgeless apps directly on Bitcoin. Arch makes it easy to deploy interoperable smart contract-like programs on the L1, without fracturing liquidity or taking on bridge risk.
- Zeus Network — Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.
Darren Lau is the Founder at The Daily Ape.
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- Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $835k–$10M; Series A $6M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PStake — pSTAKE, developed by Persistence, is a liquid staking protocol unlocking the liquidity of staked assets. Stakers of PoS tokens can stake their assets while unlocking liquidity in the form of stkASSETs, which can then be used across DeFi to earn liquid staking rewards.
- Ariadne — Ariadne is a cross-chain DeFi marketplace that is lowering the fees to enter/exit farms on multiple blockchains and saves swaps and bridges costs for both EVM and non-EVM chains. Ariadne enables users of any supported chain to enter/exit yield farms on a multitude of blockchains, with virtually no lower limit of investment, and withouthaving to deal with bridges, swaps and slippage, transaction costs on receiving blockchains etc.
- DELV — Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets
Jose is a VC-backed founder, investor and advisor to both emerging tech start-ups and funds. As a Principal at Silicon Valley’s Mach49 Venture Investing practice, he specializes in advising Fortune 1000 organizations on how to design and manage world-class corporate venture capital funds, from developing the optimal investment thesis to unlockingaccess to top startup founders and investors globally, leveraging his network spanning from Silicon Valley to Asia.Notably, Jose is also an Advisor to pebblebed, a frontier tech venture fund started by founding engineers at Facebook AI Research and OpenAI; and a Seed Investor and Advisor at Web3 company poko.fund (YC W22), among several others. Prior to joining M49’s Venture Investing team, Jose also worked as a Venture Builder at Mach49, making him a trusted advisor to corporates seeking strategic advice across the ‘build, invest, partner, buy’ spectrum. Jose also has an extensive background advising Fortune 1000 companies in various other capacities, including as a New York qualified corporate finance lawyer at Linklaters, Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group, and Cloud Insight Director at Oracle. He has helped companies reach critical corporate milestones — from the design and execution of multimillion-dollar go-to-market strategies and digital transformations that tackled emerging markets across Southeast Asia — to helping banks restructure and navigate new regulatory requirements in order to withstand the European debt crisis of the 2010s. Jose holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree from King’s College London. He also obtained a diploma in venture capital fund formation from 500 Global, and holds certifications as a Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, Professional Scrum Master, and member of the New York State Bar.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Gaming, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
- Poko Technologies — Building something new in web3
Komura Fujio
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- Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $9.2M–$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 — 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.
Paul Taylor is an angel investor and advisor to 100+ companies in the web3 industry. He was the most active angel investor based in the US for crypto in 2024 (Crunchbase). He previously worked at Fancy Studios as a Core Contributor. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partners team. Paul attended Emory University where hereceived his BBA degree. He is also a 4-time national chess champion, international best-selling author, and mined Bitcoin back in 2011.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- VeryAI — VeryAI develops a privacy-preserving identity verification platform using palm-scan biometrics on the Solana blockchain.
- Satscreener — Satscreener is a developer of a data aggregation platform that provides extensive analytical tools for Bitcoin-native assets.
Mohandass Kalaichelvan is the CEO & Founder at Spenmo . Mohandass Kalaichelvan attended Dartmouth College.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore, India, Indonesia
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- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $5M–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Evo — Social Commerce Software
- Evo — Evo provides health and wellness direct-to-consumer services.
- Headquarters — Headquarters (HQ.xyz) helps Web3 teams be automate their financial activities and reporting. Aggregated balance overview, Payments and Payouts, book-keeping tailored for Web3/Crypto.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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- Industry: SNS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
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- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
- Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
Osamu Ogasahara is the founder, CEO, and president of FGN ABBA Lab.
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- Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
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Browse database — It's Free!Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $250k–$4.2M; Series A $6.7M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XMTP — XMTP is a decentralized and quantum-resistant messaging protocol for builders.
- Biconomy — Blockchain transactions made simple. Enable Gasless meta-transactions, instant cross-chain transfers, easy layer 2 onboarding & zero failed transactions
- DELV — Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets
Prabhakar Reddy is based out of New City, New York, and is the Founder and CEO of OpenFX. Prabhakar previously worked at Dramatize as a CEO. Prabhakar Reddy attended Harvard Business School. Prabhakar Reddy has been awarded the Most Promising Startup Idea.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, United States, India
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- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $800k–$11M; Series A $12M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cercli — Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
- Biconomy — Blockchain transactions made simple. Enable Gasless meta-transactions, instant cross-chain transfers, easy layer 2 onboarding & zero failed transactions
- Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
Arthur Cheong is the Founding Partner at DeFiance Capital
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Singapore, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ParaSwap — The leading DeFi aggregator that unites the liquidity of decentralized exchanges and lending protocols into one comprehensive and secure interface and APIs, providing the best prices for traders and dApps.
- Chain Debrief — Chain Debrief aims to inform, educate, and connect the global investment community through our crypto guides, news, analyses, and opinion pieces.
- Tensorplex Labs — Tensorplex Labs is building applications, infrastructure and tools to supercharge AI development and use-cases using decentralised technologies. Our products include liquid staking tokens, validators, Bittensor subnet delegation, AI applications and a platform to crowdsource human-generated datasets.
Askar Dostiyarov is an angel investor and Managing Partner at Meridian Capital Limited. He attended the Wharton School.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Kazakhstan
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Prosper Pay — Prosper Pay is a financial platform that allows employees to view up-to-date earnings and transfer funds.
Spencer Noon is a General Partner/ Investor at Variant. He attended Amherst College.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, France, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
- Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.
Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.
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- Industry: Content, Fashion, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $1M–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
- One Nova — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
Tao Zhang (张滔) is the Founder and CEO of Dianping.com, MBA from the Wharton School. Tao was consultant in an American IT company. After coming back to China in 2003, he founded Dianping.com, the world’s pioneer in offering consumer reviews for restaurant. After 5 years of development, dianping has over 460,000 registered companies in over 340cities across China. More than 10 million regular visitors and 160 million page views per month make it the most popular city life website in China. Dianping has established branches in 5 cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou and is still expanding. Currently its service involves various consumption areas in city life, such as restaurant, shopping, reaction and living service, etc. With a favorable business model, Dianping has more than once been considered one of the companies with the most investment value in China by Zero2IPO and China Venture. It also raised funding from global leading venture capital firms, for example, Sequoia Capital. Dianping recorded profit in November 2008 and become the first profitable Web 2.0 Company and a search website centered on city life.
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- Industry: Internet, Education, Payments
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: China, United States, India
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- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Z-Trip — Z-Trip is a company that provides travel management services for large and medium-sized enterprises. On the basis of integration of upstream supply chain resources, Z-Trip provides a one-stop SaaS service platform covering scenarios such as travel reservations, conference organization, fee settlement, payment and reimbursement to enterprises,including front-end PC terminals, mobile terminals and back-end service systems.
- PalFish — PalFish provides an education platform for teachers to teach English in an open market. You can simply imagine PalFish as eBay, but the merchandise being sold are English Classes. They provide people who are fluent in English the opportunity to teach people who want to learn English in their free time, and thus, create a virtuous Englisheducation cycle.
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania — Welcome to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Gavin Wood was the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of the Ethereum Project. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, author of its formal specification, and is the creator and author of the first functional Ethereum implementation. Gavin Wood designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, anddesigned and implemented the Whisper protocol. He has pushed “state-of-the-art” in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups.Gavin Wood has presented to numerous audiences around the world, from keynotes at regional technology conferences, to musings on the future of legal systems at Harvard. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York. His new initiative is the Polkadot protocol, which will connect public and private blockchains so that they can inter-operate. This ambitious project could make it frictionless for corporations that wish to work in private blockchains to connect with public blockchains.Gavin is founder and current director of Parity Technologies Ltd. He has pushed the state-of-the-art in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups, including Grid Singularity and Ethereum. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol and author of its formal specification, he created and wrote the first functional Ethereum implementation, designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Blockchain, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, France, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
- Redpill AI — Redpill's objective is to make the best AI resources accessible to everyone. The platform functions as a permissionless LLM router network, providing seamless integration across several AI models.
- Minimize Influence — Social Marketing
Matthew Roszak is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Bloq, Inc. He previously worked at InterAct911 as a Co-Founder. Matthew Roszak attended Lake Forest College.
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- Industry: Software, Cryptocurrency, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: United States, Singapore
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- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Qtum — Qtum is an open sourced public blockchain platform, leveraging the security of UTXO while enabling multiple virtual machines including EVM and the revolutionary x86 VM. Qtum is PoS based and boasts a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP) allowing specific blockchain settings to be modified by making use of smart contracts. For instance, the blocksize of Qtum can be increased without the need of a hard fork.Qtum is a global project that aims to be the bridge between the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities, the real world and blockchain world. Therefore it only makes sense that the Qtum team comes from both the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities as well traditional companies like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, NASDAQ and more. The Qtum project is proud to be backed by some of the most notable blockchain players, traditional Venture Capitalists, and executives from some of China’s largest technology companies.
- Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
- Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale
Jun Du is the Chief Executive Officer of New Huo Tech. He attended Qingdao University.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Information Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Singapore, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 0xScope — Discover the comprehensive suite of trading and research products leveraging 0xScope's cutting-edge Web3 Data Layer architecture. Trade with confidence using Scopechat, access advanced analytical tools with Scopescan, and tap into the extensive capabilities of ScopeAPI for traceable entity insights.
- BiKi.com — BiKi.com is a global digital currency trading service provider that is committed to creating a safe, stable, and efficient digital currency trading platform for users around the world. Currently, BiKi.com has supported many languages such as Chinese and English, and serves nearly 100 countries and regions, with over 1 million users worldwide.Itwas founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
- MXC Foundation — MXC is building a global data network that allows the devices of tomorrow to connect, commit and communicate more efficiently than ever before. Cities, companies and individuals benefit by building the network, or using it to transmit and manage their data.
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