Top 10 Photography Angel Investors in Asia in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Photography startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Photography companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Photography Angel Investors in Asia in January 2026

Investor	Photography Asia investments
Jinbo Yao	1
Yang Shoubin	1
James Tan	1
Kenji Endo	1
Ryosuke Matsumoto	1
Ming Lei	1
Xin Deng	1
Seiji Kurokoshi	1
Toivo Annus	1
Kazuhiro Ishikura	1

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Jinbo Yao is the President, Founder and CEO at 58.com.

Investment focus

Marketing, Logistics, Automotive
Angel, Series A, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Chaboshi — Chaboshi offers vehicle conditions, vehicle inspection, car warranty and used car valuation services.
Xiongmao Kuaishou — Xiongmao Kuaishou is a provider of delivery, logistics and supply chain management services.
Cbeidou Supply Chain — Canbeidou is a food catering logistics service provider in China.

Yang Shoubin is the Founding Partner of FH Capital.

Investment focus

Consumer, E-Commerce, Photography
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Hilookea — Hilookea is a supermarket for table cooked food.
Moments — Meishi Meike is a platform that connects parents who want to get portfolios of their kids clicked with photographers.

James is the Founder and Managing Partner of Quest Ventures – China’s leading seed to angel fund for technology companies that have scalability and replicability in large internet communities. He is also the Co-Founder and former COO of 55tuan (NASDAQ: WOWO), one of the largest social e-commerce site in China with a presence across more than onehundred cities. James was recognised as a finalist in the Telstra Sensis Australia China Alumni Award for ICT and New Media. He has been guest speaker at China-centric and entrepreneurship events such as Global Entrepreneurship Week and Venture Lab. He is a regular guest lecturer at IE Business School and Tsinghua SEM.

Investment focus

Internet, Social Media, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
Singapore, Uzbekistan

Portfolio highlights

Burpple — Burpple - great food and local experiences, where people gatherFounded in Silicon Valley by three Singaporeans, Burpple was launched in May 2012 with a mission to help people find the perfect places to enjoy their meals with the people that matter. Three years on, Burpple is now the food discovery platform of choice in Singapore and KualaLumpur. Powered by over two million photo reviews from the community, in 2015 alone, over four million people used Burpple to discover great places to eat – be it for first date, a quick meal nearby, brunch with friends, or a family celebration. We believe that food has a special bonding power, and the idea at the core of our company is simple: enjoyment.Burpple is supported by leading international venture capitalists, Tembusu Partners, SPH Media Fund, Triumph Capital, Silicon Straits, Neoteny Labs, QuestVC, NUS Enterprise and Brad Porteus. For more information, visit www.burpple.com.
Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.
Spiking — Spiking, founded by Dr. Clemen Chiang, PhD. is the No. 1 stock market trading, cryptocurrency, options trading AI data platform for legal insider trading.

Kenji Endo - Director @ Japan Business Systems

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Internet
Seed, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Pixta — Pixta company’s goal is to assist graphic professionals in the transfer, tracking and collaboration of digital media over the Internet. We build Internet “Cloud”-based applications that provide a great customer experience, easy-to-use, secure and reliable.To assist our customers in transferring large-files simply and securely across the Internet,we built PixtaSynapse. Using PixtaSynapse, the sender needs only a web-browser to send files. To make the service super-reliable, we built the servers and core-technology for our custom file processing pipeline. We then located those key-servers one-hop off the Internet backbone to reduce latency. Our core file pipeline is physically located in a secure Class A co-location facility. We have setup secure, automated, off-site backups to safeguard our customers data in case of a catastrophic emergency.
HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
Address — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.

Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.

Investment focus

Art, Reservations, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.

Ming Lei (雷鸣) is the chief executive officer of Kuwo Science and Technology, a Chinese company providing digital entertainment services. Prior to that, he was a senior engineer at Baidu, a Chinese web services company. Lei holds an MBA from Stanford University, United States and a master’s degree in computer from Peking University, China.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Angel
China, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Collov — Collov is a virtual interior design & shopping platform that offers interior design services stocked with shoppable goods from many brands.
Bailian.AI — Bailian.ai is an artificial intelligence company that specializes in providing intelligent customer service. It aims to apply AI technology to deepen unstructured business information on the Internet into structured sales leads to help improve customers. Efficiency, reducing the cost of getting customers.Bailian Smart is committed to thedevelopment of automated knowledge generation technology based on deep learning, collecting, cleaning, extracting, screening and rewriting business information, refining it into precise and trustworthy knowledge and enhancing business awareness.
FundedHere — FundedHere Crowdfunding Platform

Xin Deng - CEO and Founder @ Xueda

Investment focus

Information Technology, Consumer, Software
Angel, Corporate Round
China

Portfolio highlights

Beidou Fuxi — Beidou Fuxi Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the "Company") is a leading domestic provider of new spatiotemporal big data and low-altitude intelligent Internet applications and technology services. It was established in 2015. In March 2022, with the support of the Anhui Provincial Government, the Hefeiheadquarters company was jointly funded by the Yuanpei Fund of Peking University, the founding team of Beidou Fuxi, and the listed company of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Space Science and Technology, forming the Beidou Fuxi Beijing and Hefei dual headquarters operation system.
Moments — Meishi Meike is a platform that connects parents who want to get portfolios of their kids clicked with photographers.

Seiji Kurokoshi (黒越誠治) is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Sports, Travel, Fashion
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Ezay — Ezay provides a mobile platform that connects rural 'mom-and-pop' shops with B2B market place and provide financial and logistics services.
CURBON — CURBON is a Japan's largest photo learning site for C2C,Provides learning content such as video lectures and photography classes, Lightroom presets, etc.
Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Singapore, United States, Estonia

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.

Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.