Top 15 Payments Angel Investors in Taiwan (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Kevin Lin
Angel
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3 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games | $228k–$25M |
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Kun Gao
Angel
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2 | United States, Japan, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Blockchain, Web3 | $1.1M–$25M |
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Holly Liu
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Software | $120k–$100M |
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Patrick Lee
Angel
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2 | United States, Taiwan, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Media and Entertainment, Comics | $1.1M–$9M |
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Steve Chen
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, Taiwan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $350k–$40M |
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NFTboi
Angel
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1 | United States, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Bitcoin, FinTech | |
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Michael van Paesschen
Angel
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1 | Taiwan, Bahamas | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance | |
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Chris Wang
Angel
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1 | United States, Taiwan, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Private Equity | Software, Blockchain, Financial Services | $882k–$9M |
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Okra SF
Angel
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1 | Taiwan | Pre-Seed | Bitcoin, FinTech, Software | |
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Publius.btc
Angel
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1 | Taiwan | Pre-Seed | Bitcoin, FinTech, Software | $500k–$2M |
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Teflon btc
Angel
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1 | Taiwan | Pre-Seed | Bitcoin, FinTech, Software | |
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Mithil Thakore
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Taiwan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency | $900k–$10M |
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Sebastien Borget
Angel
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1 | United States, France, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $250k–$60M |
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Kurt Grela
Angel
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1 | Taiwan | Pre-Seed | Bitcoin, FinTech, Software | |
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Paul Taylor
Angel
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Web3, Cryptocurrency | $1M–$525M |
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Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.
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- Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $228k–$4.7M; Series A $6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Origin Lab — Origin Lab licenses premium content from game studios and 3D universes - delivering structured, multimodal data for AI training.
- Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
- Asterix — Hybrid is the future
Kun Gao is the Co-Founder, President, and COO of Forge and GGWP.
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- Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $18M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Root — Root is a next-generation social platform that combines communication tools with a customizable app framework, allowing communities to organize, coordinate, and extend their functionality through apps.
- SekaiE — Sekaie is a company that provides solutions and services in various sectors, including technology and digital transformation. Their offerings include web development, mobile application development, and digital marketing services. Sekaie aims to help businesses enhance their online presence and improve operational efficiency through tailoredsolutions. The company focuses on leveraging technology to meet the unique needs of its clients, helping them remain competitive in the digital landscape.
- welevel — Building games with attitude
Holly Liu is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of PKO Investments. She attended the University of California Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9M; Pre-Seed $120k–$5M; Series A $15M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Forge — Playtest, market and sell great Steam Games
- Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
- Blaze.tech — Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications.
Patrick Lee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fanverse. He previously worked at PKO Investments as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. [NAME] attended the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Media and Entertainment, Comics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Taiwan, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Metagood — Metagood is the operating layer for tokenized assets across their full lifecycle: compliance, transfer rules, entitlements, corporate actions, and audit.
- Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders
- Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.
Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $350k–$12M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $6M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artue — Artue is pioneering the art industry's digital transformation.
- E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
- Moonlake AI — Vibe code games and worlds into existence.
NFTboi is the founder of BoiLabs.
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- Industry: Gaming, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Liquidium — Liquidium is the official native Bitcoin lending protocol for borrowing USDT against BTC without selling your Bitcoin. Supply BTC, borrow stablecoins, and manage cross-chain loans from one account.
- Satscreener — Real-time token aggregator for the Bitcoin ecosystem.
- Tokyo Beast — A Crypto Entertainment centered on Web3 Games. Earn TB MYSTERY TICKET through the campaign and wait for the release What to do now https://t.co/uIDcI7qrrp
Michael van Paesschen
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Taiwan, Bahamas
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WOO Network — Discover WOO's ecosystem of centralized and decentralized apps to seize every opportunity in crypto.
- Orderly Network — Omnichain orderbook infrastructure for DeFi. Launch your own perp DEX with shared liquidity across 17+ chains.
Chris spent two years as a Google engineer before founding Playdom. Before officially joining Google, Chris received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon—completed in a record-breaking two years and ten months—and interned at, you guessed it, Google. Chris also holds a BA in computer science from Berkeley. However, his knack forprogramming and obsession with gaming goes much further back: As a high schooler, Chris took 14th place in the USA Computing Olympiad and spent countless days trying to program his first 3D RPG.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: United States, Taiwan, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $882k–$9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sandbox — Sandbox is a global community for young entrepreneurial people. It helps young, entrepreneurial, and passionate individuals who like to develop and build new things.Sandbox’s mission is to identify ambitious young people and to help them become global leaders by connecting them with peers and mentors. Its team includes entrepreneurs, designers,opera singers, investment bankers, academics, and more.Sandbox enables its users to find their professional peers in any field of expertise, in any region, and at any time; build up their social presence in the network and connect online as well as offline; communicate with members across borders and industries in a secure private environment; and receive updates about the network, follow other members, and share ideas of their own.Sandbox was founded by
- Forge — Playtest, market and sell great Steam Games
- Castle Finance — Castle Finance provides the safest way to earn yield for DAOs and their communities.
Okra is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Satscreener — Real-time token aggregator for the Bitcoin ecosystem.
publius .btc
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- Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $500k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ord.io — Search, browse, and vote on ordinal inscriptions like never before.
- Satscreener — Real-time token aggregator for the Bitcoin ecosystem.
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- Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Satscreener — Real-time token aggregator for the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Mithil Thakore is based out of Dubai and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Velar. Mithil previously worked at Government Blockchain Association as a Member. Mithil Thakore attended Vellore Institute of Technology.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $900k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Botanix Labs — Botanix Labs is a fully Ethereum-equivalent second-layer virtual machine built on top of Bitcoin. It unites Bitcoin's market cap with Ethereum's dApp ecosystem to meet its diverse applications, igniting a new frontier.
- 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.
- Hermetica — Hermetica is a crypto-native team with extensive financial technology experience, having worked with big organizations such as Kraken and State Street. Hermetica is dedicated to developing innovative financial products that capitalize on Bitcoin's security and transparency.
Sebastien Borget is based out of Paris, Île-de-France and serves as the Global Ambassador of The Sandbox. Sebastien attended The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $250k–$7M; Series A $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rocapine — We craft apps that help people feel truly alive
- VOYA Games — Voya Games is a Berlin-based game development studio. The company focuses on creating a network of interconnected Web3 games centered around player ownership and tokenized economies. Their flagship title, Craft World, is a casual resource management game set in a post-apocalyptic world where players collaborate with friendly dinosaurs to rebuildcivilization. Craft World integrates blockchain features such as NFTs and a utility token called Dyno Coin, enabling players to own, trade, and participate in a decentralized game economy.
- Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
Kurt Grela is the Founder and CEO at Think Exponential. He is also a member of The Financial Club.
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- Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Satscreener — Satscreener is a developer of a data aggregation platform that provides extensive analytical tools for Bitcoin-native assets.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Web3, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$8M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$525M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Utexo — Instant, private USDT payments on Bitcoin. Move stablecoins the way you move money.
- OP_NET — OPNET is a Bitcoin Layer 1 metaprotocol that enables smart contracts to function directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, without the use of sidechains or Layer 2 solutions.
- VeryAI — VeryAI develops a privacy-preserving identity verification platform using palm-scan biometrics on the Solana blockchain.
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