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Top 50 Photography Startup Investors in Asia in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Photography Startup Investors in Asia in July 2025

Investor	Photography Asia investments
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)	3
GDP Venture	2
Quest Ventures	2
Seiko Electric	2
Semir Garment	2
ANOBAKA	2
Frees Fund	2
Skystar Capital	2
BEENEXT	2
Share Capital	2
Chiratae Ventures	2
IDG Capital	2
Leaguer Group	1
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	1
Sapphire Lake Investment	1
SG INCUBATE	1
Openspace	1
Burda Principal Investments	1
Zhongtou Guoyin	1
Zhongzhiyixin Konggu	1
Ceyuan Ventures	1
Qianhai Hengji Jiahui	1
QR Investment	1
Yangjiade	1
Kyoto Capital Partners	1
Kyushin Social Capital	1
Kazuhiko Ishikura	1
Rongsheng Chuangfu	1
Walden International	1
TransCosmos	1
Allin Capital	1
FGN ABBA Lab	1
GGV Capital	1
Nippon Venture Capital	1
Light Up Ventures	1
Xin Deng	1
Evershine Capital	1
Jinbo Yao	1
James Tan	1
Venture United	1
DIGISEARCH & ADVERTISING	1
Kenji Endo	1
Tianxing Capital	1
Gakken Plus Japan	1
Ameba Capital	1
SHiP	1
Vision Knight Capital	1
Kaiyuan Securities	1
Ming Lei	1
Darwin Venture Management	1

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MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.
Rocket Link Technology — Rocket Link Technology is a product development company that specializes in designing LTP rockets for space travel.

GDP Venture is a venture builder focusing on commerce, consumer product, media & entertainment and solution companies

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.

Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan

Portfolio highlights

ZumVet — ZumVet provides access to affordable and convenient veterinary care through video calls and medication delivery. They are passionate about animals and want them to get the best possible care by offering video consults, referrals, home visits, and emergency services. It was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Singapore.
Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.
Smoothly — Mobile app helping working millennials sleep better, wake up refreshed and increase energy with science-backed breathing exercises

Seiko Electric has contributed to society with the best products and services. They have continued to develop technologies that usher in new eras based on sound management and human resource development. They will work to develop new products and businesses using original information and control technology and contribute to the construction ofenvironmentally friendly, safe, and comfortable social infrastructure.

Investment focus

Photography, Digital Media, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.

Zhejiang Semir Garment is a Wenzhou-based local apparel company with two leading casual wear brands, Semir for young casual wear & Balabala for kidswear.Semir opened its first store in 1997 in Jiangsu Province, selling leisurewear. Semir is now one of China's largest clothing retailers, with more than 7,500 stores.Semir ownsBalabala, which is China's leading children's clothing brand.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Food and Beverage
Series B, Series C, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Baman — Baman Hunan Rice Noodles is a restaurant chain that offers dine-in, takeout, retail, e-commerce, and unrestricted catering services.
Novabiotx — Novabio is a multimodal Treg cell therapy developer that specializes in creating medications for the treatment of metabolic, autoimmune, and neurological disorders.
Redcore Times — By 2013, more people will be using their mobile devices than PCs to get online. As your prospect customers are browsing the Internet on the go with their iPhone, Android, iPad, etc, are you getting ready to keep up with the mobile trend and give your customers a wonderful mobile experience? Now we are on the mission to help you create your customwebsite to perfect people's mobile browsing experience across platforms and locations.

ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.

Investment focus

Software, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Amoibe — Amoibe is a company providing engineer training services for the AI era called “amoibe OJT".
hicrea — hicrea is an AI-powered SaaS platform for fashion companies.
Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.

By adopting revolutionary mechanisms, FREES FUND is devoted to change the long-established rules in the venture capital. By leveraging the cutting-edge technologies and resources, FREES FUND aims at investing in great startups and helping them grow into great enterprises that are valuable to our society. We mainly invest in early-stagestartups, and hope to become their first-round institutional investor. Our primary interested areas are broad-sense TMT (Technology, Media, Telecom), B2B and deep technology.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Boin Biotechnology — Boin Biotechnology is a cutting-edge biopharmaceutical company. The company is dedicated to the development of gene therapy drugs, with a particular focus on advancing the next generation of gene therapy.
Interstellar Lightyear — Interstellar Lightyear Technology is a developer specializing in dexterous robotic hands, focusing on creating intelligent dexterous hands with advanced capabilities for precise manipulation.
Dingou Biopharmaceuticals — Dingou Biotechnology is a developer of allergen diagnosis and treatment products, mainly engaged in allergen-specific diagnosis and treatment business

We are Skystar Capital, an early-stage VC firm committed to supporting tech entrepreneurs to create a lasting and profound positive difference in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Mimin — Mimin adalah aplikasi gratis yang membantu seller online yang berbasis chat dalam mengatur bisnis dengan mudah. Proses Order. Cek Ongkir. Tagih pembayaran.
bythen — bythen enables the production of autonomous 3D avatar bots powered by AI.
Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a Climate-Tech Startup that offers waste management and recycling services to optimize the waste value chain.

BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Truely Travel eSIM — Stay connected everywhere with Truely eSIM.
fleetx.io — Cloud connectivity for efficient fleet and logistics operations, optimizing performance and streamlining processes.
Handpickd — Sorted operates as an omnichannel platform for fruits and vegetables. Sorted provides fruits and vegetables that come straight from the farms.

Chiratae Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management and a portfolio of over 220 companies built over the last 15 years. The Chiratae Ventures network is comprised of five independent partnerships managing funds in North America and Asia. Each partnership makes investments on behalf of itslimited partners, including International Data Group (IDG), the world's largest IT media company. By combining the IDG platform – an unparalleled combination of global publishing, market research (IDC), and conferences and exhibition resources – with years of hands-on experience in early-stage company building, each Chiratae Ventures fund helps companies understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competition.With partnerships in the USA, Korea and multiple locations throughout China, India and Vietnam, the IDG Ventures network offers the international perspective and the local market expertise to help companies grow from start-ups to global success stories.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

ZILO — Your favourite fashion brands, now delivered under 60 mins!
Expertia.AI — AI-powered screening and assessments: find and interview top candidates from 100+ platforms and hire in 24 hours, all at <10% of the cost.
Frinks AI — Frinks AI is an AI Software Development firm offering Effective, Efficient and Reliable Quality Control.

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector. Today they work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors, and business entities from around the world. Their limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds,pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices, and business luminaries.IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, they are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Their highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Sand.ai — Sand AI is an AI company that focuses on producing videos.
Kaia — Kaia is a public blockchain that utilizes Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for enhanced reliability and performance.
Wanhai Medical — Wanhai Medical is a prominent manufacturer specializing in the development and production of self-medication injection systems.

Leaguer Group engages in the business of technological innovation services that promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and assist in the incubation of innovative enterprises.Since its establishment, it has gradually gathered the four elements of technology, talents, carriers and capital of the science andtechnology innovation industry chain, and has formed a scientific and technological innovation incubation system with high integration of research and development platform, talent training, innovation base and investment incubation, and explored the close relationship between technological innovation and economic development. Combined development model and profit model.In 2015, together with the research institute of Shenzhen Tsinghua University, the Group won the “Guangdong Science and Technology Award Special Award” for the highest award in the field of science and technology system innovation in Guangdong Province due to the “Innovative Technology Innovation Incubation System Construction”.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Electronics, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Angel, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

LeanPlans — LeanPlans is a manufacturing company that provides CNC machining, 3D printing, sheet metal processing, and integrated application of AI.
Meet Feixiang — Meet Feixiang is a hardware designer and developer of outdoor portable water purifiers.
Zhongke Fifth Era — Zhongke Fifth Era focuses on new technology that builds a material foundation for embodied worlds and multimodal end-to-end large models, as well as intelligent robots.

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization

Sapphire Lake Investment is committed to providing investors with long-term stable performance returns. It aims to provide high-net-worth customers with suggestions for large-scale asset allocation and achieve long-term and stable investment returns for customers by building a full range of asset management products and practice the concept ofvalue investment with customers.

Investment focus

Gaming, Medical, Big Data
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

HYPERS — HYPERS is a group of professionals from global Internet and IT enterprises including Google.
Netjoy+ — Netjoy is a provider of short video marketing solutions. It offers integrated services that span the entire value chain, such as data analysis for a wide range of clients, programmatic cross-channel target marketing, short video content development, and real-time performance tracking. Short video marketing, short video trading, video production,event marketing, and other performance content businesses are all part of their business. With the revenue coming from the online marketing solutions company, their sectors are SaaS services, other businesses, and online marketing solutions business.
Microfun — Microfun develops and produces family-friendly casual games.

SG Incubation was born as an investment company for the formation of corporate venture capital (CVC), which invests in Kyushu's first startup company.Regardless of the stage of growth, the startup company that will be the investor will first value the “human nature” of the manager, determine whether it is a company that should support thefuture, and provide capital and management back up. The Seibu Gas Group will continue to aim for new business areas.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
BI Brid — BI Brid provides IT solutions and services for the medical industry.
Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.

Openspace Ventures is a leading venture capital firm finding and backing Southeast Asian companies creating a transformative impact where tech meets life.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Halodoc — Halodoc merupakan aplikasi kesehatan yang memberikan solusi kesehatan lengkap dan terpercaya untuk memenuhi kebutuhan kesehatan kamu dan keluarga.
Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
AMP — We make life simpler for merchants navigating the exponential growth of eCommerce with our suite of powerful software, global community, and educational resources.

Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
Nord Security — Nord Security is the leader in the field of online privacy and security. Our security tools have earned praise from respected experts and tech outlets.
Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare

Zhongtou Guoyin is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Photography, Photo Editing
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Quanjing — Quanjing is a visual content provider that allows users to buy and edit stock photos.

Zhongzhiyixin Konggu is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Photography, Photo Editing
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Quanjing — Quanjing is a visual content provider that allows users to buy and edit stock photos.

Ceyuan Ventures is a Beijing-based early stage venture capital firm focused on IT and emerging growth companies. They emphasize backing great teams, technology and business innovation. Their mission is to assist entrepreneurs in creating and building world-class businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ruidiwei — Ruidiwei is a tech enterprise that specializes in the design, development, production, sales, and service of antennas and components in microwave and millimeter-wave frequency bands.
Qinglei Technology — Qinglei Technology is a radar sensing technology startup.
Siyue Intelligence — Siyue Intelligence produces software and hardware for TFT-LCD semiconductor automation. It integrates R&D, design, production, and service, and is committed to providing fully automated warehousing robot systems, and intelligent detection.

Qianhai Hengji Jiahui is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Photography, Photo Editing
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Quanjing — Quanjing is a visual content provider that allows users to buy and edit stock photos.

QR Investment Operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Pet
Series B, Seed, Series E
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Gojo & Company — We are enabling financial inclusion for everyone by partnering with financial service providers.
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS
Spine Chronicle — Spine chronicle is a medical device manufacturing firm that specializes in developing orthopedic medical equipment.

Yangjiade is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Photography, Photo Editing
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Quanjing — Quanjing is a visual content provider that allows users to buy and edit stock photos.

Kyoto Capital Partners is an investment company affiliated with the Bank of Kyoto.

Investment focus

Retail, Medical, Elder Care
Series C, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Cizucu — Cizucu is a stock photo community that helps creators and brands to create photos.
Medigle — Medigle is a consulting firm that provides medical consulting and B2B services.
Sunda Technology Global — Sunda Technology Global is a manufacturing company that designs and produces automatic hand-pump water charge collection systems.

Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.

Investment focus

Beauty, Content, Fashion
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.

Rongsheng Chuangfu is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Coffee, Medical, Software
Angel, Series A, Post-IPO Equity
China

Portfolio highlights

Quanjing — Quanjing is a visual content provider that allows users to buy and edit stock photos.
WING CAFE — Wing Cafe is a coffee restaurant chain brand in China.
YUNNAN QIDAN PHARMACEUTICAL Co., Ltd. — YUNNAN QIDAN PHARMACEUTICAL Co., Ltd. manufactures Chinese herbal medicine, health food, and daily chemical products.

Walden International is unique among US venture firms through its focus on cross-border investments that leverage global markets and talent to grow industry-leading companies. For more than 30 years, their integrated team has brought extensive added value to help companies through capital, relationships and expertise.They look to partner with thebest of the best – entrepreneurs with a strong appreciation for the benefits of leveraging talent and markets independent of geography to gain unfair advantage.Their team brings both extensive venture expertise together with in-depth operating experience to help you grow your company.They invest in early and expansion stage companies across sectors such as Semiconductors, Clean Tech, Internet & Digital Media and Software.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Semiconductor
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Riboko — Ruiboke is a high-end optical film product research and development manufacturer.
CMind-SEMI — CMind is committed to becoming the new global leader in smartphone communication chips by concentrating on 4G and 5G advanced wireless communication chips and complete solutions.
Qingchun Semiconductor — Sichain Semi is a high-tech chip firm focused on the R&D and industrialization of Silicon Carbide semiconductors and its power devices.

Transcosmos Investments & Business Development, Inc., is a strategic corporate investor and an active local business partner for Internet-based U.S. technology companies expanding into the Japanese and Asian marketplace.It is offering capitalization of joint ventures, infrastructure development, strategic relationships, and localization tocompanies in the U.S. technology sector. Transcosmos Investments' portfolios, which focus on companies specializing in digital marketing, e-commerce and digital media, include such brand names as Ask.com, DoubleClick Inc., RealNetworks Inc., NetRatings Inc., Atom/Shockwave Entertainment, Inc., Become, Inc., Pheedo, Inc. and Brightcove, Inc.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Erasco — Erasco is Indonesia’s largest B2B trucking platform. Kargo’s product suites can seamlessly integrate with any business and empower supply chains to work with more transparency & efficiency. Kargo’s workflow tools allow freight to be priced, tracked and billed with technology. Kargo’s platform has highly managed and vetted transporters alongwith reputation systems to instill trust. The platform has managed to grow to tens of thousands of truckers and attracted notable clients such as some of the world's largest MNCs, the largest eCommerce platforms, and thousands of SME businesses
Anchanto — Anchanto is a global B2B SaaS company enabling warehouse management, omni-channel retail management; offers inventory management system, order management system and product information management
Reply.ai — Scale your customer service and deliver great customer experiences using AI chatbots and intelligent self-service that goes beyond static long FAQ answers. Improve self-service on chat, email and messaging.

Allin Capital is an investment Firm.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Robotics
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, India

Portfolio highlights

mewt — Grow your sales by over 30% by signing up with mewt. mewt offers India's first dual QR code that enables merchants to receive payments via UPI & extend risk-free credit to their customers, via the pay later feature. Simplify your financial management by managing all your accounts at one place and enjoy limitless transfers.We empower SME/MSME businesses from tier 3 and beyond cities of India to bridge the credit gap directly or indirectly. Further, for building Bharat, mewt is providing employment to over 1000 people across various cities of the country with an aim to give jobs to 10000 on-ground sales agents aka marshals. mewt offers its solution via a mobile app available on the app store & play store, a physical QR code and website. mewt has raised over 5 million dollars or 35 crore rupees from by marquee global fintech investors.
Zun Pai Communication — Zunpai Communication committed to providing high-performance, full-ecological smart scene chipsets and solutions for homes and businesses. It is currently developing Wi-Fi 6 router chips and complete solutions at full speed.
Common Mode Semiconductor — Common Mode Semiconductor focuses on research and development and sales of high-performance analog circuits.

FGN ABBA Lab is an investment fund that mainly supports pre-seed to series A early stage startups. In this FGN ABBA Lab fund, they will support startups with the idea of creating “things and things” that make the world exciting without limiting the genre, investment, training, and social implementation.

Investment focus

Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Japan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

neuet — neuet develops and operates a smartphone application that offers bike-sharing services.
HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
Sorano Me — Sorano Me is a content creation and media company that provides space related content, space data and consulting services.

We believe the talent to build great companies comes from anywhere. A global venture capital firm that invests in local founders. As a multi-stage, sector-focused firm, GGV focuses on seed- to growth-stage investments across Social/Internet, Enterprise Tech, and Smart Tech sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

UXLINK — UXLINK is a social infrastructure comprised of social protocols and a collection of Dapps.UXLINk creates groundbreaking landing sceneries for web3 groups.
Jam — Report bugs in seconds, and get back to what you were doing. It's as easy as taking a screenshot. Fast for you, and perfect for the engineers.
Nozomi Networks — Nozomi Networks keeps operational technology cyber resilient with OT network and endpoint visibility, threat detection, and AI-powered analysis.

Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Utill — Utill is anything that expands the possibilities of not only production but also our own services
LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
LUCA Science — LUCA Science develops innovative treatments intended for mitochondrial and related diseases.

Light Up Ventures is an Investment firm.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Market Research, Product Research
Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Cheiz — Cheiz is a travel and photo app that specializes in photography for foreign tourists occurring at overseas travel destinations.
Nagasuna Mayu — Nagasuna Mayu is a manufacturing firm that also conduct research on their silk material.

Xin Deng - CEO and Founder @ Xueda

Investment focus

Consumer, Photography, Information Technology
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Moments — Meishi Meike is a platform that connects parents who want to get portfolios of their kids clicked with photographers.

Evershine Capital is a private Investment Firm.

Investment focus

B2B, ISP, Wireless
Series A, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

exands — Exands is a business-to-business wireless service provider that aims to enable interactions and engagements between brands and their consumers. It spearheaded a series of innovative moves in China's fast-growing information technology market. It is committed to providing both chain enterprises and consumers with simple, reliable and securedintranet and internet service by leveraging wireless technology.
Naive Blue — Naive Blue is a photography service provider company.

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.

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.

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Travel, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.

DIGISEARCH & ADVERTISING is a financial service based company.

Investment focus

Fashion, Marketing, E-Learning
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Fondi — fondi is a completely new English conversation communication service that allows you to live a virtual communal life with the world.
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.

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 Japan — 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.

Tianxing Capital is a capital management company.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Information Services
Post-IPO Equity, Series C, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

ShopEx — ShopEx is an e-commerce software and service provider in China. It focuses on the research and development of e-commerce software and provision of related solutions and services. ShopEx has become the largest and most experienced professional team and develops e-commerce software with independent core technology and intellectual property rights andservices.
Senyint — Senyint is a medical cloud application solution provider.
Chaoqun Testing Technology — Chaoqun Testing Technology is an X-ray equipment manufacturer that focuses on the design and manufacturing of industrial and medical X-ray tubes, sources, and systems.

Gakken Plus is a publishing business offering a catalog of books and magazines.

Investment focus

Art, EdTech, Robotics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

OurPhoto — OurPhoto is a service that matches clients and photographers. Professional and semi-professional shooting is surprisingly high quality and reasonable.
MiRaY School — MiRaY School is an Education based company that service Gifte (! Kifte) is a service that offers a learning experience for the future of children and children.
GranSky Studios — GranSky Studios makes good stories as well as animations which all ages can enjoy. GranSky Studios brings light of dream and hope to people worldwide through our production.

Ameba Capital is a Chinese venture capital firm that provides early and growth stage investments. Ameba Capital makes investments in the telecommunications, media, and technology industries, focusing on SaaS, AI, Digital Transformation and other disruptive technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Services, E-Commerce
Angel, Series A, Series B
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Hina — Hina is a recruitment management system that helps to manage the recruitment process of candidates.
Collov — Collov is a virtual interior design & shopping platform that offers interior design services stocked with shoppable goods from many brands.
JKStack — Jingkun Technology is the first manufacturer to advocate Workflow in China. It builds "Enterprise IT ERP System" with automated data governance and workflow as the core, uses automation, low-code, faster and more flexible to open up application information islands, and redefines digital orchestration through Workflow. services, endow IToperations with automation capabilities, and deeply integrate with business. Jingkun benchmarks against the global Workflow leader.

SHiP provides management and services for demonstration areas.

Investment focus

Software, Hardware, Manufacturing
Series A, Angel, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

Welbell — Welbell is a computer software company providing intelligent system integration and intelligent community cloud platform services.
Broadcare Robot — Broadcare Robot is an industrial manufacturing company specialized in medical robot and medical automation.
Shenzhen 3D Dreamwork Co.Ltd — Shenzhen 3D Dreamwork Co.Ltd provides 3D printing, 3D photography, and building design solutions.

Vision Knight Capital Fund I,L.P. (hereinafter referred to as“VKC”) is a private equity fund focusing mainland China’s retail/consumer, internet and e-commerce sectors.At VKC, we have successfully integrated operation experts and investment experts to form a unique team. Our team consists of China’s top corporate senior managements andinvestment professionals with years of operation and investment experience. They have specialized industrial expertise and outstanding operation performance in China’s internet, e-commerce and retail sectors. In addition to the capital investment to the portfolio company, VKC’s unique operation and investment team also provide real value added services such as operation enhancement and business model transformation/upgrade, with the vision to enhance the portfolio company’s core value and in return be recognized in the capital market.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, Malaysia, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Zhile Technology — Zhile Technology is primarily involved in the design, development, and marketing of intelligent fitness goods and content. Zhile Technology has developed an eco-chain of intelligent sports and fitness devices that integrates "hardware + software + content," guided by product categories. Its primary offerings include exercise bikes,walking and running machines, and more.
Hicon Industry Technology — Hicon Industry Technology is a manufacturer in China, developing, manufacturing, and marketing household refrigeration appliances.
Galaxy Pai Sports and Game Hall — Galaxy Pai Sports and Game Hall is a multidimensional entertainment space station. it provides peripheral content related to sports and entertainment. Galaxy Pai is an indoor integrated multi-dimensional entertainment space station built for young people.

Kaiyuan Securities is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Industrial
Post-IPO Equity, Series B, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

MetaSilicon — MetaSilicon’s focus on edge computing could make a significant impact in various industries by enabling faster data processing closer to where it’s generated.
Rongxin Datalink — Rongxin Datalink is a big data solutions platform that provides mobile internet big data analysis, visualization, and computing services.
Shandong Hengsheng Graphite Technology — Shandong Hengsheng Graphite Technology is a graphite manufacturer that combines sales, application development, and deep processing of products.

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

Darwin Venture Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices in Hsinchu and the United States. Since our founding in 2009, we have managed eight funds, investing primarily in Series A/B, late-stage, and secondary funds. In 2022, we also launched an evergreen angel fund to enable more nimble bets onpromising early-stage teams, and especially those coming from Taiwan’s superb academic and research institutions. This exposure across stages and borders, coupled with the strong technical background of our team, is the source of Darwin’s differentiation. We recently launched our 8th fund Darjune.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Taiwan, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

KKday — KKday is an e-commerce travel platform that offers 10,000+ experiences around the world. It provides a wide breadth of experiences, including theme park tickets, cooking classes, multi-day tours, airport transfers, sim cards, and hidden sights off the beaten path. KKday was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in T'ai-pei, Taiwan.
Instalimb — Instalimb is the world's first 3D printing prosthesis business.
Findy — Findy is a Japanese company once surprised the world by sending out products such as cars and home appliances one after another

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