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Top 15 Payments Angel Investors in China in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in China. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from China. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Payments Angel Investors in China in November 2024

Investor	Payments China investments
Anatoly Yakovenko	2
Lijie Wang	1
David J. Namdar	1
Muneeb Ali	1
Tao Zhang	1
Ben Gorlick	1
Zhao Shenghua	1
Max Keiser	1
Andrew Kang	1
Adam Back	1
Anatoly Yakovenko	1
Hongyu Xing	1
Zhang Huai	1
Charlie Lee	1
Laurenz Apiarius	1

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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, France

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.
Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
Blockcast — Blockcast is a next-generation content delivery network that utilizes one-to-many distribution to save costs. It is an open content delivery network (CDN) with a distinct caching architecture that offers large, flexible capacity.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Huojianpai — Huojianpai is a commercial aerospace company providing earth-moon space economy and future-oriented deep space exploration.
Reserve — Reserve is a universal currency company. Reserve provides people with hyperinflation protected savings accounts to protect and use their money globally. They offer rtokens, collateral baskets, and over collateralization.

David J. Namdar is the Co-Founder of NFT.com. Attended at University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Funding Round, Angel, Seed
United States, Switzerland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Docker — Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.
Provable — Welcome to Aleo. The first platform for fully private applications. Write, run, and host private applications on Aleo. The ultimate toolkit for building private applications is finally here.
Badger DAO — BadgerDAO is a decentralized collective of builders supporting community driven growth for Bitcoin across DeFi.

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.
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.

Tao Zhang (张滔) is the Founder and CEO of Dianping.com, MBA from the Wharton School. Tao was consultant in an American IT company. After coming back to China in 2003, he founded Dianping.com, the world’s pioneer in offering consumer reviews for restaurant. After 5 years of development, dianping has over 460,000 registered companies in over 340cities across China. More than 10 million regular visitors and 160 million page views per month make it the most popular city life website in China. Dianping has established branches in 5 cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou and is still expanding. Currently its service involves various consumption areas in city life, such as restaurant, shopping, reaction and living service, etc. With a favorable business model, Dianping has more than once been considered one of the companies with the most investment value in China by Zero2IPO and China Venture. It also raised funding from global leading venture capital firms, for example, Sequoia Capital. Dianping recorded profit in November 2008 and become the first profitable Web 2.0 Company and a search website centered on city life.

Investment focus

Internet, Education, Payments
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Z-Trip — Z-Trip is a company that provides travel management services for large and medium-sized enterprises. On the basis of integration of upstream supply chain resources, Z-Trip provides a one-stop SaaS service platform covering scenarios such as travel reservations, conference organization, fee settlement, payment and reimbursement to enterprises,including front-end PC terminals, mobile terminals and back-end service systems.
PalFish — PalFish provides an education platform for teachers to teach English in an open market. You can simply imagine PalFish as eBay, but the merchandise being sold are English Classes. They provide people who are fluent in English the opportunity to teach people who want to learn English in their free time, and thus, create a virtuous Englisheducation cycle.
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania — Welcome to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Ben became involved in exploring bitcoin mining he could be found in his home state of Alaska mining for gold. He studied Computer Science at the University of Alaska Anchorage with an emphasis on distributed systems and databases. From gold miner to bitcoin miner, Ben co-founded the Bitcoin company Cloudhashing in early 2013 serving as ChiefOperations Officer, which ultimately brought him to Silicon Valley. His fascination with Bitcoin’s decentralization paired well with his interests in applied data science, graph theory, automation, complex computation, and cryptography. Most recently, Ben was the VP, Business Development for PeerNova.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Funding Round

Portfolio highlights

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.

Zhao Shenghua is an individual investor.

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Digital Marketing
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Gizhi MicroQing — Gizhi MicroQing is a SaaS intelligent digital full-solution technology service company that has been privatized. The company is the first to use payment as the entry point to assist merchants and enterprises in locking in clients, assisting enterprises in building their own private domain traffic pools, and assisting merchants in engaging incorporate marketing more conveniently.

Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT, an English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news; presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London’s Resonance FM; and writes for Keiser is the CEO and co-founder ofMax Keiser invented “Virtual Specialist Technology,” a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange.

Investment focus

Video Games, Gaming, Mobile
Private Equity, Initial Coin Offering
China, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Pixelmatic — We connect people from around the world and spark their imaginations through games.
Infinite Fleet — Customize and take command of your fleet in this epic MMO space strategy game. Coming soon from Pixelmatic.

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.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Software, Blockchain
Angel, Funding Round
China

Portfolio highlights

Nyan Heroes — Nyan Heroes is an immersive NFT based shooter of futuristic revolutions, cats in robots, evil corporations.
Holograph — Holograph enables NFTs to survive and bridge between blockchains while maintaining total data integrity. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, US.
Zeus Network — Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.

Having worked on e-cash protocols since 1995, Adam is an applied cryptographer and inventor of the hashcash proof-of-work and decentralized mining used in Bitcoin.In addition to implementing credlib, he was an e-cash consultant to Nokia and later to Credentica (acquired by Microsoft). Adam was an architect and cryptographer at Zero-KnowledgeSystems working on its Freedom network, a precursor to Tor. He has also consulted for leading security companies, including oneID, Vmware and QWcap. Most recently, Adam co-founded Picorp, which was acquired by EMC and where he was CSO of the company’s consumer division, Decho. Adam holds a Ph.D. in distributed systems and computer science from the University of Exeter.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Video Games, Cryptocurrency
Funding Round, Private Equity, Initial Coin Offering
China, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Portal — The only custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin. Swap native BTC, Ordinals, Runes with L2s and L1s
Pixelmatic — We connect people from around the world and spark their imaginations through games.
Infinite Fleet — Customize and take command of your fleet in this epic MMO space strategy game. Coming soon from Pixelmatic.

Investment focus

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

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.
Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
SOON — SOON is building the highest throughput stack that allows for any SVM L2 to be deployed on any L1.

Hongyu Xing is the CTO at 58.com.

Investment focus

Payments, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Yunzhanghu — Yunzhanghu provides online income payment solutions and tax declaration services.

Zhang Huai is an individual investor.

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Digital Marketing
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Gizhi MicroQing — Gizhi MicroQing is a SaaS intelligent digital full-solution technology service company that has been privatized. The company is the first to use payment as the entry point to assist merchants and enterprises in locking in clients, assisting enterprises in building their own private domain traffic pools, and assisting merchants in engaging incorporate marketing more conveniently.

Charlie Lee is the Founder at Litecoin Foundation. Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternative currency to Bitcoin. He is an engineer manager at Coinbase. Charlie earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, China

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.
Monochrome — Monochrome Corporation is a multi-investment, financial services group specialising in infrastructure projects within the bitcoin and crypto-asset landscape.
Flare Network — Flare is the blockchain for data: an EVM-based layer 1 that gives developers secure decentralized access to high-integrity data from other chains and the internet.

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
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
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.

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