Top 10 Payments Angel Investors in China
A list of 10 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 10 Payments Angel Investors in China
Investor | Payments China investments |
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Anatoly Yakovenko | 2 |
Zhao Shenghua | 1 |
Zhang Huai | 1 |
Muneeb Ali | 1 |
Andrew Kang | 1 |
Charlie Lee | 1 |
Tao Zhang | 1 |
Max Keiser | 1 |
Adam Back | 1 |
Hongyu Xing | 1 |
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
- Blockchain, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Ellipsis Labs — Ellipsis Labs is building Phoenix, a decentralized limit order book on Solana that is fully on-chain, non-custodial, and crankless.
- Parallel — Parallel is a Sci-Fi Card Game based on the Ethereum blockchain. Parallel is an application that provides users with the opportunity to purchase, collect, and showcase digital blockchain collectibles.
- Zeus Network — Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.
Zhao Shenghua is an individual investor.
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- SaaS, Payments, Digital Marketing
- Angel
- China
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- 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.
Zhang Huai is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Payments, Digital Marketing
- Angel
- China
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- 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.
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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- Hardware, Manufacturing
- Seed
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- 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.
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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- Nyan Heroes — Nyan Heroes is an immersive NFT based shooter of futuristic revolutions, cats in robots, evil corporations.
- Zeus Network — Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.
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.
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- Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, China
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- 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 leading provider of regulated crypto-asset investment solutions.
- Flare Network — Flare is an EVM-based layer 1 that gives developers secure decentralized access to high-integrity data from other chains and the internet.
Tao Zhang (张滔) is the Founder and CEO of Dianping.com, MBA from the Wharton School. Tao was consultant in an American IT company. After coming back to China in 2003, he founded Dianping.com, the world’s pioneer in offering consumer reviews for restaurant. After 5 years of development, dianping has over 460,000 registered companies in over 340cities across China. More than 10 million regular visitors and 160 million page views per month make it the most popular city life website in China. Dianping has established branches in 5 cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou and is still expanding. Currently its service involves various consumption areas in city life, such as restaurant, shopping, reaction and living service, etc. With a favorable business model, Dianping has more than once been considered one of the companies with the most investment value in China by Zero2IPO and China Venture. It also raised funding from global leading venture capital firms, for example, Sequoia Capital. Dianping recorded profit in November 2008 and become the first profitable Web 2.0 Company and a search website centered on city life.
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- Internet, Education, Payments
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- China, United States, India
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- 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.
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.
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- Video Games, Gaming, Mobile
- Private Equity, Initial Coin Offering
- China, Hong Kong
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- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, Video Games, Cryptocurrency
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Initial Coin Offering
- China, Hong Kong, United States
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- Portal — Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- 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.
Hongyu Xing is the CTO at 58.com.
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- Payments, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed
- China
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- Yunzhanghu — Yunzhanghu provides online income payment solutions and tax declaration services.
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