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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Asia in May 2025

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

Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Asia in May 2025

Investor	Payments Asia investments
Balaji Srinivasan	9
Anatoly Yakovenko	5
Sandeep Nailwal	5
Kotaro Chiba	5
Kotaro Chiba	5
Anatoly Yakovenko	4
Toivo Annus	4
Tiang Lim Foo	4
Kain Warwick	3
Ryan Selkis	3
Shintaro Yamada	3
Dendi Suhubdy	3
Loi Luu	3
Shunsuke Oyu	2
Osamu Ogasawara	2
Jaynti Kanani	2
Chris McCann	2
Christy Choi	2
Matthew Tan	2
Owen Van Natta	2
Jose L Sampedro Mazon	2
Yuzuru Honda	2
Lisa Gokongwei	2
Komura Fujio	2
Yusuke Tanaka	2
Spencer Noon	2
Kazuma Ieiri	2
Jonathan Chu	2
Paul Taylor	2
Do Kwon	2
Mohandass Kalaichelvan	2
Yusuke Sato	2
Yu Akasaka	2
Ana Andrianova	2
Thanh Le	2
Francis Plaza	2
Laurenz Apiarius	2
Masaru Sunagawa	2
Kevin Hu	2
Yasser Bashir	1
Lukas Schor	1
Aaron Kemmer	1
Bas Godska	1
Qiao Wang	1
Tanmay Bhat	1
Kensuke Furukawa	1
Dan Neary	1
David Carrico	1
Muneeb Ali	1
Nisa Amoils	1

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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. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. 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 an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.
Kindly MD — Kindly MD is a healthcare services and technology company that offers solutions for sleep support, pain treatment, and medication management through advanced data analytics. The company integrates mental health services, traditional medication, and plant-based alternatives to provide comprehensive, whole-person treatment. Dedicated to promoting abrighter, healthier future, Kindly MD delivers personalized care that addresses the unique needs of each patient.
Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.
MagicBlock — MagicBlock Labs is a gaming and technology firm that creates infrastructure for fully on-chain games.
FrodoBots Lab — FrodoBots Lab is pioneering advancements in Embodied AI research at the intersection of crypto and gaming.

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
Optimum — Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains.
Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Drones, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.
MagicBlock — MagicBlock Labs is a gaming and technology firm that creates infrastructure for fully on-chain games.
FrodoBots Lab — FrodoBots Lab is pioneering advancements in Embodied AI research at the intersection of crypto and gaming.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

GajiGesa — GajiGesa is the preferred financial wellness partner for employers in Indonesia. GajiGesa's powerful fintech platform is built to help millions of hardworking Indonesians take control of their financial lives with dignity. The GajiGesa app provides member employees with earned wage access, financial education, and other financial managementtools to improve their long-term financial health responsibly. It also empowers employer partners with an enterprise-grade HR analytics platform to improve employee productivity, engagement, and retention by reducing financial stress for their teams. The company has seen 12x growth since January with more large enterprises keen to embrace this financial wellness solution. And we have doubled our overall enterprise customer base in the last quarter and now partner with 60+ companies, serving tens of thousands of employees. Based on GajiGesa’s most recent survey, for employers that partner with GajiGesa, over 75% of their employees have stopped using informal lenders for short term needs because our EWA solution gives them the financial security they need under the purview of the employer. GajiGesa is also increasingly popular for employees that have micro-businesses at home. They often use GajiGesa and use their salary as working capital rather than turning to informal lenders. Health related expenses is another common reason for GajiGesa usage. In early May, the company launched GajiTim, Southeast Asia’s first employee management app for MSMEs and SMEs to manage their workforce efficiently bringing transparency in income tracking and salary calculation. The app is aimed at businesses with between 5 to 100 workers and has gained more than 50,000 active users since it was launched in mid-March. This latest product innovation supercharges GajiGesa’s effort to expand financial resilience - establishing greater transparency in employee management as well as creating a holistic and meaningful integrated employee benefits solution for businesses of all sizes and their employees.The company was founded in 2020 by Martyna Malinowska (formerly Product Lead at Standard Chartered Bank, Product Director at LenddoEFL) and Vidit Agarwal (formerly Head of Business Development APAC at Stripe, COO at CARRO, and first employee at Uber in Asia). The company is Headquartered in Jakarta with a distributed team also based in India and Singapore. GajiGesa announced a US$2.5 million Seed round in February (led by Defy.vc and Quest Ventures) and an undisclosed growth round in early May from additional strategic investors including OCBC NISP Ventura, the Founders of Kopi Kenangan, and other Indonesian investors and family offices.
Finantier — Finantier is building the (go-to) Open Finance platform of SEA to become the heart of it's digital economy. Provides the infrastructure and data products required by businesses to build the next generations of financial services.
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).

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

CAP Labs — CAP Labs is a stablecoin developer platform that produces various denominations of redeemable stablecoins.
EarthFast — EarthFast provides cryptocurrency front-end hosting solutions. It enables projects to build and deploy decentralized apps, providing a secure alternative to traditional cloud platforms.
Fogo Digital — Defying physics to achieve real-time experiences at scale. | SVM Layer 1 | Pure Firedancer Client | Institutional-Grade Finance

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, India

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.
Agora — Make great governance your competitive advantage. Trusted by Optimism, ENS, Uniswap and more.
StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
Peach Cars — 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.

Research Scientist, Founder

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Bitwyre — Discover the simplicity of high-frequency trading, unparalleled performance, and leading market share in the stablecoin and fiat markets.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.
Alliance Games — Decentralized gaming platform blending AI creation, multiplayer tech, and worker nodes.
Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.

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.

Investment focus

Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.

Osamu Ogasahara is the founder, CEO, and president of FGN ABBA Lab.

Investment focus

SNS, Content, Fashion
Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.

Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

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.
NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.
Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.

Chris McCann is the Partner at Race Capital and a Seed Investor at Solana, Lightning Labs, Kado, Notifi, Zeet, Hedge Labs, Bundlr Network, and Opaque Systems. He is also the Co-Founder of StartupDigest. Prior to that, Chris was a Community Lead at Greylock Partners. Mr. McCann attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Malta

Portfolio highlights

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.
Aleph.im — Aleph.im is a distributed cloud platform that provides serverless trusted computing services, file storage, and database hosting to its users.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Software, Video Games
Seed, Pre-Seed
Vietnam, United States

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, IaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
Nirvana Labs — Our mission is to make blockchain infrastructure economical and accurate, ultimately lowering the barriers to entry for Web3 engineers.
Candlestick.io — Permissionless copy trading platform on the blockchain

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Gaming, FinTech
Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
Poko Technologies — Building something new in web3

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

Investment focus

SNS, Internet, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan, Nigeria, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.

Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng is a President at Summit Media. Attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Philippines, Singapore, India

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.

Komura Fujio

Investment focus

Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Seed, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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

Spencer Noon is a General Partner/ Investor at Variant. He attended Amherst College.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Singapore

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.

Investment focus

Content, Fashion, Recruiting
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

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.

Jonathan is co-founder and managing partner of Protofund. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Developer Platform
Series A, Seed, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Argentina, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Pintu — Aplikasi Jual Beli dan Investasi Bitcoin dan Aset Digital. Harga Final, Tanpa Komisi, Tarik Rupiah Murah.
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 chain abstraction stack, empowering builders to create apps that scale to billions of users and across all blockchains.

Paul Taylor is a prolific angel investor and advisor 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 (Polygon gaming studio that reached $1b+ valuation) as a Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partnersteam. Paul attended Emory University where he received his BBA degree. He is also a 4-time national chess champion, international best-selling author, and mined Bitcoin back in 2011.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
FortyTwo — Fortytwo is a decentralized AI network that employs swarm intelligence by linking consumer devices to execute small AI models. It provides a scalable and cost-efficient alternative to centralized AI systems, enabling users to contribute computing resources while ensuring data privacy. Fortytwo's goal is to create a reasoning engine thatoperates on a planetary scale and is driven by the community.
Sats Terminal — Sats Terminal is a Bitcoin DeFi aggregation protocol that integrates fragmented DeFi opportunities.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

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.

Mohandass Kalaichelvan is the CEO & Founder at Spenmo . Mohandass Kalaichelvan attended Dartmouth College.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, India, Indonesia

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Ana Andrianova

Investment focus

Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A
Kenya, Singapore

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.

Thanh Le is Founder at Coin98 Finance. He attended University of Sciences.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Bitcoin, FinTech
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Aura Network — Aura Network is the dedicated RWA chain designed for the next generation of enterprise, entertainment, and government innovation, delivering enhanced efficiency, transparency, and accessibility
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.

Francis Plaza currently works as an Advisor to the Boards for PayMongo. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Gaming
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Philippines, United States

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.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Public Transportation
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
China, Ireland

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.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

BounceBit — BounceBit is a chain solution that aims to provide a smart contract execution environment centered on the BTC Token.
Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
Manta Network — Manta Network is pioneering modular blockchain technology for ZK applications. Featuring Manta Pacific, the first EVM-equivalent ZK-application platform powered by Celestia DA and Polygon zkEVM.

Yasser Bashir is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Arbisoft. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

CAD, Hardware, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Pakistan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inventhub — Inventhub an electronics design collaboration and data management platform helps maximize product quality, accelerate commercialization and boost productivity.
Truckistan — Truckistan is developing a logistics platform to make shipping faster and cheaper. The company provides real-time tracking, a customer dashboard, account management, and guaranteed transit time, as well as SaaS tools for routing, vehicle loading, and RFID implementation throughout the supply chain.
PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.

Lukas Schor

Investment focus

Payments, Accounting, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.

A serial entrepreneur and advisor, Mr. Kemmer co-founded Made In Space when Singularity University offered the challenge of creating a project that would affect 1 billion people. Aaron’s belief is that off-world manufacturing will dramatically change the way we look at space exploration, commercialization and mission design today. He has workedwith several startup companies, including Heritage Cross, SUpost, Movis and YouTip. Aaron is an alumnus from the University of Florida and Singularity University and served as the Team Project Advisor for Singularity University and the Business Plan Advisor for New Space in 2012.Aaron’s publications include “3D Printing in Space: Enabling New Markets and Accelerating the Growth of Orbital Infrastructure,” which was featured at NASA’s Space Studies Institute 14th Space Manufacturing Conference in October 2010.

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.
Peddlr — Peddlr is a free POS mobile app for small businesses. Effortlessly track and manage your sales, expenses, inventory, and transactions. Use it anytime, anywhere, and even offline!

General Partner & Founder Acrobator Ventures, Tech Investment Fund. Founder Acrobator.com, growth hack and marketing advisory firm. Digital Dutchman, entrepreneur-turned-investor. eCommerce expert, growth hacker and marketeer since 2000. Assisted 100+ companies worldwide as CMO, MD, board advisor, consultant. Personal angel investmentportfolio, overall company value nearing $3BN, follow-ons raised (>$150 MN) from Accel, Iconiq, Insight Ventures, EBRD, Techstars, Acrobator Ventures. Ranked #1 Foreign Angel Investor in Russia (EWDN); Top 10 Angel Investor (Firrma.ru/SLON), Crunchbase: #1 Dutch (2019) & Top 50 EU angel investor. Techcrunch / Crunchbase: "Bas Godska is one of the most prolific Western investors in Eastern Europe."Roles Europe/Russia/CIS (2003-2019): CMO lastminute.com ; Country Manager Sportingbet ; CMO Europe Ebookers.com / Orbitz.com ; MD Gogol Media. CMO / dep. CEO Ozon.ru ; VP Marketing Gloria Jeans ; CMO Lamoda.ru (Rocket Internet) ; CMO Digital KupiVIP.ru ; eCommerce Director a.i. Enter | Svyaznoi ; MD myThings.com ; Guest Lecturer Digital Marketing at Moscow School of Management MBA (3 years).Portfolio: miro.com; harver.com; travelata.ru (co-founder); Chocofamily Holding: chocotravel.kz, chocolife.me, aviata.kz, chocomart.kz (exit), lensmark.kz, rahmet.kz, chocofood.kz, iDoctor.kz, HRbot; Newzmate.com (partial exit to Piano.io); storyterrace.com, getobjectiv.com; Crossss (sold to Leadhit); clockster.com; linkpizza.com; zakaz.ua; urbandine.nl; 6nomads.com, instreamatic.ai., omdena.com, aura-aware.com, awesomic.com, memoryOS.com, VC investments: leapfunder.com; respeecher.com; letsenhance.io; studyfree.org.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, The Netherlands, Kazakhstan

Portfolio highlights

Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
SuperWorld — The Virtual World mapped on top of the real world to create, discover and monetize content.
knopka — knopka - is an advanced automated nurse calling system that ensures help is provided on time. One-hour installation. Completely wireless. Compatible with cardiac monitors, fitness trackers, and smartwatches.

Qiao Wang is a believer in decentralized technologies such as cryptocurrencies that shift the balance of power from the elite to the commoner.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
NEBRA Labs — NEBRA Labs is a blockchain services company.
TiTi Protocol — TiTi Protocol always monitors changes in the total value of reserve to calculate the average price of TiUSD in circulation and adjusts the market-making peg price of TiUSD in the primary market through the ReOrders mechanism.

Tanmay Bhat, SuperteamDAO.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Digital Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unikon.ai — Unikon.ai has solved the issue of access on this open-source platform. Every user has a personal profile that they can modify to include different prices for direct messaging, video calls, and audio calls."Unikon" means "you and I connect."
EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
Offline — Offline is a private members' community for the top 10% tech founders and CEOs in India. Apply online to become a member.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.

Dan Neary is a Vice President of Asia Pacific at Meta. He attended DePaul University.

Investment focus

News, Events, Travel
Seed, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

e27 — e27 is Asia's largest Tech media platform. We cover the latest news on emerging and disruptive businesses across the region. e27 also organizes world-class events like Echelon.
Voyagin — Voyagin is the tours and activities marketplace in Asia with a mission to help travelers discover and book the best travel experiences across Asia. Its website features over 1,800 things to do including tickets to museums and shows, cultural activities, romantic dinners, adventure experiences, and private guides bookable in English, Japanese, andChinese in over 50 destinations in Asia, in advance or in destination via its mobile optimized website. The Voyagin team believes that "travel in Asia is broken." Guests end up sightseeing because unique experiences are hard to find and insecure to book; hosts end up spending time and money on websites which are hard to update and mostly out of date. They also believe that an "experience is more than just an activity; it's about meeting people, trying something new and seeing the world from a different perspective." In hopes to differentiate themselves, they traveled around Asia to find and curate the best experiences and hosts.Launched in 2012, Voyagin provides a trusted platform for tours and activities providers (hosts) in Asia to list their experiences; its team of community managers work with each host to curate their activities both online and during the experience, ensuring their quality. Backed by its 100% satisfaction guarantee, multilingual customer support, and verified reviews from actual guests, Voyagin is the best place for travelers visiting Asia to discover and book their next local experience.Voyagin was founded in 2011 as FindJPN, a marketplace for authentic activities in Japan. FindJPN changed its name to Voyagin in December 2012 when they expanded into Asia.

David Carrico

Investment focus

Software, Media and Entertainment, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kona — Bring team empathy back into Slack. The team check-in that builds and measures culture. One tool for employee engagement, employee wellbeing, and team building.
Campus — Live courses with top professors.
Capsule — Capsule is a startup that makes tools for editing short-form videos.

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.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Hardware, Manufacturing
Seed, Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Ryder — 60s Setup, Secure Signing, EAL6+ Secure Element, TapSafe Recovery, IP68 Rating, Encrypted NFC.
Zeus Network — Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.

Nisa Amoils

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Nansen — The Nansen analytics platform analyzes millions of data points on Ethereum wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.
Securitize — Securitize is modernizing capital markets by enabling digital securities, making it easier for eligible investors to own, manage, and trade digital securities within designated capital markets for equity, funds, fixed income, and real estate. Securitize is the only SEC Registered Transfer Agent integrated with multiple regulated US-basedmarketplaces with a working protocol and live issuers. The company also offers KYC/AML and capital management services. Securitize, Inc. is not a registered broker-dealer and does not make any endorsement of offerings.
Protego Trust Bank — Protego is a federally chartered, digital asset bank that secures institutional holdings. Learn about Protego Trust Bank's digital asset platform today.

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