Top 10 Payments Angel Investors in Hong Kong in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in Hong kong. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Hong kong. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Payments Angel Investors in Hong Kong in February 2025

Investor	Payments Hong Kong investments
Henri Arslanian	1
Sofia Liang	1
Derrick Fung	1
Raymond Chan	1
Chaval Jiaravanon	1
Robby Hilkowitz	1
Chatchaval Jiaravanon	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
Neilson Lee	1
Moses Tsang	1

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Henri Arslanian is the PwC FinTech & RegTech Lead for China/Hong Kong. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course in Asia.Henri is a TEDx speaker, a published author, and currently sits on several finance, academic, government, civil society, andFinTech/RegTech related boards and advisory boards in Asia and globally.Henri is a member of the Hong Kong regulator’s SFC FinTech Advisory Group and the Hong Kong government’s FSDC Fintech working group. He also sits on the board of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and the board of the International RegTech Association.A member of the Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle and with over 350,000 LinkedIn followers, Henri has been awarded many industry and academic awards over the years from being named one of the Most Influential Individuals in FinTech in Asia to being awarded the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal for Academic Excellence. Henri was also recently recognized as one of the global 2017 LinkedIn Top Voices in Economy & Finance.Before joining PwC, Henri was with a FinTech start-up and previously spent many years with UBS Investment Bank in Hong Kong. Henri started his career as a financial markets and funds lawyer in Canada and Hong Kong. Henri speaks five languages including English, French, Armenian, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.He holds a Masters in Chinese Law from Tsinghua University; a joint Global Executive MBA from Columbia Business School, London Business School, and Hong Kong University; a Masters in Transnational Law from the University of Sherbrooke; and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Montreal (Dean’s List of Excellence).

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Blockchain
Series A
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Hex Trust — Access custody, DeFi, brokerage, and financing services built on regulated infrastructure with Hex Trust, fully-licensed and insured digital asset custodian in Asia.

Sofia is the Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions Group at ICBC International. Sofia has 17 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining ICBC International, she was Managing Director and Head of Greater China Equity Capital Market at Macquarie Capital. She has an bachelor's degree in International Economics fromPeking University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, InsurTech, Blockchain
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

JobsLab.io — JobsLab is a Hong Kong-based digital recruitment exchange. We help companies and talent connect through our unique end-to-end recruitment platform quickly and discretely. Our community has exclusive access to rewards and benefits that goes beyond traditional recruitment agencies. We use advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to matchprofessionals with exceptional employers. Find your dream job today. Visit: www.jobslab.io

Derrick Fung is the CEO of Drop. he previously worked as a CEO and Co-Founder of Tunezy.

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Analytics
Seed
Canada, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Shopline — SHOPLINE provides a total commerce solution and customised services to support businesses of all sizes to go online and go global.
Gallop Labs — DomainMarket.com sells premium domain names to entrepreneurs, businesses, and nonprofits that want to dominate their online marketplaces and control great brands.

In the last 10+ years, Raymond has specialized in digital media, internet and technology startups. He currently leads product and is a co-founder at Culinary Agents, a venture backed startup that is revolutionizing networking and job matching for the food, beverage and hospitality industry.Prior to Culinary Agents, he partnered with Kevin Tungto co-found and lead technology and product at venture-backed Image Space Media (ISM), a digital advertising platform that connects brands with the trillions of images & visual content on the web. ISM was acquired in January 2012 by Vibrant Media where he currently leads Product Management. Prior to ISM, Raymond led product development at venture-backed Inform building powerful semantic SaaS products that allowed clients like CNN and Washington Post to connect their readers with interesting content by identifying related topics & entities. Raymond started his career at Citi as part of their technology leadership program. He left Citi after 6 years after becoming one of the youngest VPs in the Global Engineering organization.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Video
Seed, Debt Financing
United States, India, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

DLVR — DLVR Action™ is an entirely cloud based solution dedicated to measuring and optimizing video experiences for every user, every time, on all devices. Their patent pending technology uses a completely unique approach that for the first time takes into consideration all the factors that influence the Quality of Experience (QoE) of Internet video toend users. Instead of depending on client-side SDKs or code, DLVR works from the cloud. Publishers receive optimized video, detailed analytics of every user session, seamless multiCDN execution, and a host of additional benefits, all with zero client-side code maintenance. No longer wrestle with SDK’s, Plug-ins, and for the first time achieve visibility into every device, regardless of its client -side capabilities.
Shopline — SHOPLINE provides a total commerce solution and customised services to support businesses of all sizes to go online and go global.
Culinary Agents — Culinary Agents is a website to find career-related information about the hospitality industry. The platform empowers aspiring and existing talent to easily discover and apply to the best jobs.

Chaval (Richie) Jiaravanon is the Partner at Infinity Ventures Crypto. He attended Chulalongkorn University.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Aspen Digital — Aspen Digital is the gateway to Digital Asset allocation, an innovative technology-driven platform that empowers asset and wealth managers to offer / invest into digital asset products with confidence.

Robby Hilkowitz is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Neat — Built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneursAs entrepreneurs our businesses are always in motion: starting from an idea, to making a first sale, to expanding globally. We need a financial experience that evolves with us – an experience that’s still stable and secure, but adaptive too. Banks were built for a different era of business, not for thenew economy – where borders are disappearing and it’s easier than ever to start a global business. Neat believes in making international business a reality for entrepreneurs around the world. Today, Neat is a modern alternative to a bank, designed to support you wherever you go. Tomorrow, we’re a platform for doing business: building a dynamic and frictionless economy.
Bambu — Bambu is a leading global digital wealth technology provider for financial institutions. We enable companies to make saving and investing simple and intelligent for their clients. The cloud-based platform is powered by our proprietary algorithms and machine learning tools. The company serves over 20 financial institutions globally. Founded in 2016,Bambu is headquartered in Singapore with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom and the United States and EMEA representatives.
Moneyhub — Moneyhub is a data and payments fintech that provides open banking, open finance, and open data solutions.

Chatchaval Jiaravanon is the Chairman of Finansia Syrus Securities. He attended the University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round
Thailand, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Lightnet — Lightnet is the next-generation financial network that is built on the true interoperability concept by bridging between existing banking rail and non-bank agent networks to provide efficient and instantaneous transactions.Lightnet is bidding to take on the trillion-dollar remittance market, starting with the millions of unbanked migrant workerscurrently using what it calls outdated, costly, and fragmented services in major Southeast Asian markets.
Aspen Digital — Aspen Digital is the gateway to Digital Asset allocation, an innovative technology-driven platform that empowers asset and wealth managers to offer / invest into digital asset products with confidence.

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