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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Asia (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Asia Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Asia Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
9 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $665k–$31M
Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
6 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $450k–$40M
Tiang Lim Foo
Angel
5 Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $640k–$14M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
5 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Drones, Travel $700k–$213M
Anatoly Yakovenko
Angel
5 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $2.5M–$74M
Toivo Annus
Angel
4 Singapore, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, FinTech $1.4M–$6M
Loi Luu
Angel
3 Singapore, United States, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.2M–$6M
Kain Warwick
Angel
3 United States, Australia, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services $250k–$32M
Ryan Selkis
Angel
3 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $850k–$30M
Andrew Kang
Angel
3 United States, China, Canada Seed, Angel Blockchain, Software, Bitcoin $1.8M–$10M
Dendi Suhubdy
Angel
3 Indonesia Seed, Pre-Seed Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $60k–$80k
Prabhakar Reddy
Angel
2 Singapore, United States, India Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $800k–$15M
Osamu Ogasawara
Angel
2 Japan Angel SNS, Content, Fashion
Yuzuru Honda
Angel
2 Japan, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Angel SNS, Internet, Software
Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
2 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment $320k–$33M
Mohandass Kalaichelvan
Angel
2 Singapore, India, Indonesia Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Payments, Health Care $600k–$5.2M
Arthur Cheong
Angel
2 United States, Singapore, France Seed, Angel Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.9M–$6M
Owen Van Natta
Angel
2 United States, Singapore, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B Mobile, Software, Internet $600k–$50M
Christy Choi
Angel
2 Vietnam, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Software, Video Games $800k–$4M
Laurenz Apiarius
Angel
2 China, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Public Transportation
Chris McCann
Angel
2 United States, Singapore, Malta Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services $500k–$400M
Akshay BD
Angel
2 Singapore, United States, India Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Health Care, Cryptocurrency $1.6M–$5.5M
Jaynti Kanani
Angel
2 India, Singapore, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet $375k–$40M
Francis Plaza
Angel
2 Philippines, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Software, Education, Gaming $125k–$228k
Jonathan Chu
Angel
2 United States, Argentina, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Developer Platform $6M–$35M
Thanh Le
Angel
2 Singapore Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin $1.9M–$7M
Do Kwon
Angel
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $1.2M–$28M
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
2 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel Internet, Finance, Content $320k–$28M
Stani Kulechov
Angel
2 United States, Australia, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $250k–$27M
Askar Dostiyarov
Angel
2 Kazakhstan Seed, Angel FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps
Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Content, Fashion, FinTech $380k–$47M
Raj Gokal
Angel
2 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $800k–$24M
Moses Tsang
Angel
2 Hong Kong Series A FinTech, Payments, Messaging $7M–$19M
Matthew Tan
Angel
2 Singapore, United States, Cayman Islands Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency $1.2M–$5M
Lisa Gokongwei
Angel
2 Philippines, Singapore, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Payments, Internet $500k–$20M
Muneeb Ali
Angel
2 China Seed, Angel Bitcoin, Apps, Hardware $1.2M–$8M
JL Sampedro-Mazon
Angel
2 Singapore Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Gaming, FinTech
Darren Lau
Angel
2 United States, Singapore, Germany Seed, Series A Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $835k–$32M
Masaru Sunagawa
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music $9.2M–$18M
Komura Fujio
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Yusuke Sato
Angel
2 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Food and Beverage $320k–$43M
Kevin Hu
Angel
2 Singapore, United States, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Internet, Software $1.2M–$6M
Trent McConaghy
Angel
2 Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $285k–$9.5M
Spencer Noon
Angel
2 United States, France, Singapore Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum $1M–$8M
Yusuke Tanaka
Angel
2 Japan Seed Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce $16M–$18M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
2 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Content, Food and Beverage, Apps $425k–$68M
Ana Andrianova
Angel
2 Kenya, Singapore Seed, Series A Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Paul Taylor
Angel
2 United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 $1M–$10M
Matthew Roszak
Angel
1 United States, Singapore Seed, Debt Financing Software, Cryptocurrency, Computer
Jun Du
Angel
1 Singapore, Germany Seed, Corporate Round Cryptocurrency, Information Services, Software
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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 9 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 242
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$15M; Pre-Seed $665k–$4.2M; Series A $6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trepa
  • 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.
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 6 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

  • ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
  • Arcana Network — Arcana Network builds tools that make it easier for developers to make the adoption of Web3 dApps simple. Arcana Auth is the first of such tools. Boost your customer conversion rates by 90% with our social and email login solution.
  • Domination Finance — The world's first DEX for dominance trading
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Tiang Lim Foo
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 5 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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).
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Asia Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Anatoly Yakovenko
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

  • Raiku — Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability.
  • VeryAI — VeryAI develops a privacy-preserving identity verification platform using palm-scan biometrics on the Solana blockchain.
  • 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.
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Toivo Annus
Angel · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 4 investments in Asia Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Loi Luu
Angel · 3 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • 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.
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Kain Warwick
Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 3 investments in Asia Payments startups

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

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Investment focus

  • 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

  • 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.
  • Polynomial — Trade DeFi options with highly efficient liquidity.
  • Fogo Digital — Fogo is a high-performance SVM Layer-1 built for pros who trade at the speed of light. Sub-40ms block times, gas-free sessions, and fair execution. no latency, no friction, no bullshit.
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Ryan Selkis
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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Andrew Kang
Angel · 3 investments in Asia Payments startups

Andrew Kang is a cryptocurrency entrepreneur and investor. He is the Co-Founder of Mechanism Capital which invests in cryptocurrency through prop trading, mining, ventures, and secondary markets. Kang previously worked in portfolio management and venture capital at Digital Capital Management. In 2020, Kang was deeply involved in various DeFirelated ventures, he is also very active in providing analysis on DeFi projects through Twitter.

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Investment focus

  • 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

  • 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!
  • Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
  • Perpetual Protocol — Perp Labs was founded in 2019 with a mission to create powerful financial tools available to all. As the builder behind Perpetual Protocol and Nekodex, we develops innovative DeFi products that simplify access to decentralized finance for all.
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Dendi Suhubdy
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 3 investments in Asia Payments startups

Research Scientist, Founder

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Prabhakar Reddy
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$11M; Series A $12M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Biconomy — Blockchain transactions made simple. Enable Gasless meta-transactions, instant cross-chain transfers, easy layer 2 onboarding & zero failed transactions
  • Genopets — Genopets is a non-fungible token (NFT) “move-to-earn” game where players are rewarded for the steps they take in real life.
  • Key AI — Unlock new networking and career opportunities with Key, the leading AI-powered professional networking platform. Build and manage communities, host and join exclusive events, and create meaningful connections to supercharge your growth all in one place.
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Osamu Ogasawara
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Mohandass Kalaichelvan
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • 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.
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Arthur Cheong
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

Arthur Cheong is the Founding Partner at DeFiance Capital

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Owen Van Natta
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Christy Choi
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Laurenz Apiarius
Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Chris McCann
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Akshay BD
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

Akshay BD is an Advisor at Solana Foundation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Health Care, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Jaynti Kanani
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Francis Plaza
Angel · Makati, Manila, Philippines · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Jonathan Chu
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Thanh Le
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Do Kwon
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Stani Kulechov
Angel · Como, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $250k–$4.2M; Series A $6.7M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Biconomy — Blockchain transactions made simple. Enable Gasless meta-transactions, instant cross-chain transfers, easy layer 2 onboarding & zero failed transactions
  • Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
  • DELV — Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets
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Askar Dostiyarov
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

Askar Dostiyarov is an angel investor and Managing Partner at Meridian Capital Limited. He attended the Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Kazakhstan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Prosper Pay — Prosper Pay is a financial platform that allows employees to view up-to-date earnings and transfer funds.
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Fashion, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $1M–$7.4M; Series A $3.5M–$47M
  • 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.
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Raj Gokal
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

Raj leads operations, product, and finance. He has spent 10 years in product management and finance.He was a venture investor at General Catalyst, started the consumer medical device company Sano which attracted over $20m in investment, and led product management at Omada Health as it grew tenfold.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$7M; Pre-Seed $800k–$5M; Series A $8.3M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
  • DataHive AI — DataHive delivers for AI companies hard-to-collect web data - collected, labeled, and ready for model training. If you are building in AI and need data for model training (text or multi-modal), check us out. We will deliver an initial pilot dataset for free - to ensure it is exactly what you need. Learn more and request your pilot dataset atwww.DataHive.ai
  • Circuit & Chisel — Circuit & Chisel is an agentic AI platform that enables agents to make transactions between autonomous agents.
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Moses Tsang
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

Moses Tsang, executive chairman of Hong Kong-based AP Capital Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Messaging
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Series A $7M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SleekFlow — SleekFlow makes customer messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook connected to one platform for teams to better support and engage customers.
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Matthew Tan
Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, Cayman Islands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1.2M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gomu — Gomu supercharge your app, dapp, wallet with actions and data in NFTs, DeFi, DEX, DAO. Built by a team hailing from Coinbase, CoinMarketCap, Chainlink, Zendesk and Millennium. Request for a demo today.
  • Aurigami — MultiPLY with Aurigami, the noncustodial lending and borrowing haven on Aurora
  • OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
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Lisa Gokongwei
Angel · Mandaluyong, Cavite, Philippines · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Muneeb Ali
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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JL Sampedro-Mazon
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Gaming, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

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

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
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Darren Lau
Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

Darren Lau is the Founder at The Daily Ape.

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Investment focus

  • 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

  • WeMeta — Powering the Next Generation of Cross-Chain Experiences | Pioneering Omnichain Connectivity: Where users, applications, and environments converge.
  • 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
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Masaru Sunagawa
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: 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.
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Komura Fujio
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

Komura Fujio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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.
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kevin Hu
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Trent McConaghy
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Spencer Noon
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Yusuke Tanaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

"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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Investment focus

  • 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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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Ana Andrianova
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

Ana Andrianova

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Paul Taylor
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • OP_NET
  • 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.
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Matthew Roszak
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in Asia Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cryptocurrency, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • 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
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Jun Du
Angel · 1 investments in Asia Payments startups

Jun Du is the Chief Executive Officer of New Huo Tech. He attended Qingdao University.

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Investment focus

  • 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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