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Top 50 Platforms Startup Investors in Asia in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Platforms startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Platforms companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Platforms Startup Investors in Asia in January 2025

Investor	Platforms Asia investments
Venture United	5
Shanda Capital	4
IDLC Finance	3
Incubate Fund	3
DCM Ventures	3
Yuanqi Capital	3
Gaorong Capital	3
N5Capital	3
Mount Parker Ventures	2
Qihoo 360 Technology	2
Epic Angels	2
SBI Investment	2
Guojin Capital	2
ANRI	2
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	2
Ferry Venture Capital	2
Vertex Ventures	2
Empower Investment	2
Sketchnote Partners	2
Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India	2
Hirofumi Miki	2
Innoangel Fund	2
Monex Ventures	2
Accord Ventures	2
Morningside Group	2
SMBC Venture Capital	2
Shorooq Partners	2
Ratio	2
Falcon Network	1
Betatron Venture Group	1
Sarmayacar	1
Visino Investment	1
SoftBank Corp.	1
Temasek Holdings	1
HongShan	1
East Ventures	1
Zuoyu Capital	1
Yakumi	1
Colopl Next	1
Huaying	1
Systems Limited	1
ABC Dream Ventures	1
Blue Collective	1
Goodwater Capital	1
Mekong Capital	1
Wuyuan Capital	1
Julian Shapiro	1
Kotaro Chiba	1
Tencent	1
Recruit Holdings	1

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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.

Shanda Capital is the private equity and venture capital arm of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. specializing in start ups, early and mid-stage investments. The firm does not invest in online game developers and operators. It seeks to invest in the mobile internet, TMT (technology, media, and telecommunication), and culture sector. and alsofocuses on new media as well as applications based on the Android operating system of Google Inc. Shanda Capital was founded on February 17, 2011 and is based in China

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Medical
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Dade Laser — Dade Laser provides laser automation systems and equipment. Its primary products are laser automatic vehicle power battery spot welding equipment, laser automatic plastic welding equipment, completely automatic liquid crystal display module (LCM) backlight pin welding equipment, and brittle material cutting equipment.
FOREVER — FOREVER develops and produces a truck, a 26-inch light vehicle, a 28-inch calibration vehicle, a postal vehicle, a track racing car, a road racing car, a pedal-powered automobile, an electric car, and an LPG gas moped. The company conducts research and create a range of machinery for the manufacture of bicycles.
Pregis New Materials — Pregis New Materials is a cold chain technology company that provides customers with dual carbon and temperature control solutions and materials.

IDLC is the Largest Non-Banking Financial Institution in Bangladesh

Investment focus

E-Commerce, iOS, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Arogga — Arogga App is the first Bangladeshi app that brought healthcare system to your doorstep. Easy and efficient. With a click of a button, upload your prescription and we will ensure safe delivery of your medicine at earliest possible time.
Chaldal — Order grocery and food online with same-day home delivery. Save money, save time
Truck Lagbe — Truck Lagbe network is the first and the largest online platform in Bangladesh. In this app based truck rental service you can hire trucks & pickups in a minutes.

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
Kaguoku — Kaguoku develops and provides the AI-based home staging services. It offers a service that uses AI to process interior photos of real estate properties to increase the property's ability to attract customers.
Time Prediction — Time Prediction focuses on development of diagnostic pharmaceuticals, drugs and medical devices for the treatment of neurological diseases.

DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

UJET — At UJET we are redefining customer experience with our cloud contact center platform.
Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Route-D — Route-D is an operation management app that improves operating income and expenditures and manages logistics operations.

Yuanqi Capital is an investment fund focusing on the big security industry.

Investment focus

Software, Operating Systems, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

WorldCom Hengqi — WorldCom Hengqi is an operating system & solution provider of intelligent operating systems using AI, big data & cloud technologies.
Zanta Technology — Zanta Technology sounds like a cutting-edge company focused on harnessing big data to improve risk management for a variety of sectors. Zanta Technology provides specialized tools and services to help these organizations analyze, manage, and mitigate risks through the use of data-driven insights.
Yunhui Creativity — Yunhui Creativity is an insurance technology platform. The organization mainly offers medical and health services, as well as life insurance, health insurance, and other customized insurance products.

Investors of Gaorong Capital include world-class sovereign wealth funds, university endowment funds, family foundations, pension funds and fund of funds, as well as successful entrepreneurs, including founders and managements of Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, JD, Xiaomi, Focus Media and VIPShop. They will provide with valuable industry resources,entrepreneurial experience, and global perspectives.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Ideaflow — Ideaflow is an AGI-era content technology firm focused on developing a new generation of content platforms powered by multimodal artificial intelligence. Its offering, the Dream Dimension app, is an interactive content platform that features a variety of stunning AI sceneries.
Zhongke Hydroyi — Zhongke Hydroyi focuses on the research and development of polymer diaphragm products.
Allink Biotherapeutics — Allink Biotherapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on oncology and immunological treatment.

N5Capital is a Beijing-based leading venture capital firm focusing on early stage investment in mobile internet. N5Capital is the only early stage USD venture fund in China specializing in mobile internet, big data and cloud’s disruptive convergence with consumer sectors. N5 believes these technologies are emerging to be the infrastructure ofproductivity growth and consumer behavior transformation. Founded in 2013 by Mr. Will Jiang and Mr. Weiguo Zhao, N5Capital is currently managing two RMB funds and one USD fund, with the total capital managed at $350 million USD. In 2016, N5Captial was awarded the Top 20 Early Stage Venture Capital Firm in China. The power of mobile disruption in the internet savvy Chinese population guarantees a strong investment potential. With more than 60 companies in its portfolio, N5Capital has represented some of the most leading-edge tech companies, including Talking Data, 360 Finance, Car 300, Hot & Hot, Viva Video, LGD, Ofashion and inMotion/SoloWheel. N5Capital has a unique GP team combination with a collective successful track record spanning from angel, early stage, and growth stage to corporate M&A with approximately 30 years combined investment experience. N5Capital analyzes in consumer sectors such as finance, retail, housing, automobile, travel among others and invests in start-ups that thrives on either build or leverage the underlying technology to disrupt or recreate the industry value chain . Through an expansive network, in-depth industry analysis and rigorous user behavior research, N5Capital is shifting the investment landscape for both start-ups and investors. For more information, visit www.n5capital.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Gaming
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Feiyu — Feiyu is an online purchasing platform for luxury trading bags.
Harmay — HARMAY is based on contemporary fashion and aesthetics, conveys the concept of beauty and beautiful life. Covering first well-known international cosmetics and skin care brands products, global unique boutiques, and HARMAY’s own products,
Zhongying Cross-border — Zhongying Cross-border is a cross-border e-commerce comprehensive service platform.

Mount Parker Ventures is a Venture Capital Firm backing early-stage startups in Asia. We invest mainly in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and India, backing brave teams with big ideas.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Hong Kong, India, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Fasal — Fasal, an agri-tech platform, developed by Wolkus Technology Solutions, is an AI-powered platform for the Agriculture ecosystem that records a variety of growing conditions on the farm. It then uses artificial intelligence and data science to make on-farm predictions, before delivering the insights anywhere on any device including (iOS, Android,Tablet, and web).Its data-driven precision agriculture solution recommends real-time agronomic solutions to growers using on-farm and micro-climate data collected through agnostic sensors that helps farmers with cost savings in terms of water, energy, fertilizers, and pesticides.
Wolkus — Wolkus provides technology for domains like agriculture and the environment.
Global Futures and Options — GFO-X is the UK's first regulated and centrally cleared trading venue dedicated to digital asset derivatives

360 Total Security is a leader in Cybersecurity software. With a billion active internet users, 360 has earned a strong reputation for excellence. Download Free

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Series A, Angel, Series B
China, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Hozon — Hozon integrates hardware products and software services through innovative technology research and development, intelligent manufacturing, and multi-channel sales services. Through the development of electric, intelligence, and connectivity, they are committed to creating cost-effective Intelligent electric vehicles of high quality, providingusers with a simple, intuitive, and comfortable travel experience.
Lanxin — Lanxin is a secure mobile work platform for government and enterprise.
HanSight — HanSight is dedicated to changing the cyber security landscape based on their award-winning big data analytics platform and patented machine learning algorithms, by unifying SIEM, User & Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and Network Traffic Analytics (NTA). Their mission is to empower organizations to detect and prevent to cyber breaches, fraudand insider threats that threaten their digital property and financial assets, in real time and with greater accuracy than ever before. With the vision "Data Driven Security", HanSight was founded in 2014 by seasoned entrepreneurs from Trend Micro, Microsoft and Oracle, with extensive experience in security analytics, big data technology and machine learning. They are backed by world-class ventures including IDG Capital, CASH Capital etc, and trusted by large-scale banks, telcos and government agencies. They are ranked #320 on Cybersecurity 500 list in 2017.

We're Epic Angels - the world's largest Collective of fabulous female investors, investing in APAC and LATAM. We're so active that Tech in Asia just ranked us #4 among ALL angel networks in Asia. Not bad for a women-only collective, right?

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Arogga — Arogga App is the first Bangladeshi app that brought healthcare system to your doorstep. Easy and efficient. With a click of a button, upload your prescription and we will ensure safe delivery of your medicine at earliest possible time.
Qarbotech — QarboGrow Photosynthesis Enhancer Sustainable and Efficient Farming Uncover the significance of photosynthesis and learn how our product can enhance it to new heights! Learn More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCp_pY8CzLg Curious about how our patented nanotechnology-based solution revolutionizes photosynthesis? What is photosynthesis and why is it inefficient? Photosynthesis is nature's remarkable process, where plants harness the power of sunlight
Matilda Health — Optimising your health through a comprehensive pre and post- surgery program that supports the whole you

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Lazuli — Lazuli is a SaaS platform that enables companies to utilize data for analysis, search, recommendation, marketing & supply chain management.
AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.

Guojin Capital Group is a venture capital firm specializing in early to middle stage investments. The firm also makes late stage investments minorly. It seeks to invest mainly in the internet, pan-entertainment and education sectors. The firm also prefers to invest minorly in consumer upgrade and industry upgrade. It also invests in interneteducation, industry services, artificial intelligence and health care sectors.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Education
Angel, Series A, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

Hozon — Hozon integrates hardware products and software services through innovative technology research and development, intelligent manufacturing, and multi-channel sales services. Through the development of electric, intelligence, and connectivity, they are committed to creating cost-effective Intelligent electric vehicles of high quality, providingusers with a simple, intuitive, and comfortable travel experience.
Dshifu — Dshifu is a supplier of frozen beef and mutton ingredients.
Doctor Shaoyang — Provider of a medical platform designed to provide users with psychological and mental health support services. The company's services include health consultation, doctor-patient communication services, one-on-one appointment consultation and pre-diagnosis, enabling patients and doctors to communicate easily online while having theirinformation protected.

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS

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, China

Portfolio highlights

Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
greenase — greenase is a manufacturer and seller of processed agricultural products.
Grand Central — Grand Central is a consulting company specializing in the sales field.

Ferry Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on building companies in the new technology industry. The firm invests in early-stage companies in three broad areas, mainly in Information Technology & Artificial Intelligence (IT & AI), Enterprise Services & Technology, and Consumer & Entertainment.FerryVenture Capital was founded in 2010 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Internet
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jishi yu — Jishi yu focuses on offering a multi-platform/multi-channel centralized and unified intelligent customer care SaaS platform for cross-border e-commerce sellers, with the goal of meeting the needs of foreign enterprise channel acquisition, customer operation, and brand management.
Zhihui Robot — Zhihui Robot is a research and development company that makes intelligent spraying robots. Zhihui Robot is a cutting-edge technological business specializing in the research, manufacture, sale, and use of special intelligent spraying robots.
Daochong Technology — Daochong Technology is a tech firm that does R&D, production and sales of high-power smart wireless charging systems.

Vertex US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Evinced — Evinced is a Digital Accessibility Platform built for modern software development teams. Leading enterprises use Evinced to weave accessibility into their software development process including design, development, CI/automated testing, QA, and production/compliance monitoring.Built with advanced rule-sets, computer vision, and AIalgorithms, Evinced automatically detects and pinpoints accessibility problems and suggests fixes. Leading enterprises use Evinced to weave accessibility into their software development process - including design, development, automated testing, and production/compliance monitoring.The company was founded in 2018 and based in Los Altos, California.
Trustero — Trustero provides solutions and services that enable demonstrable, sustainable trustworthiness for emerging enterprises. The Trustero Compliance as a Service (CaaS) offers, establishes, and manages regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments, security risk analyses, and other measures to ensure all business processes and systemsremain in full compliance. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies means their clients have the visibility needed to gain actionable insights into their compliance across the extended enterprise.
Hyperbolic — Access open-source inference and compute at a fraction of the cost. Build with us.

Empower Investment was founded in 2012 in Shanghai, China. Their investment covers early-stage ventures, mid-stage growth, and securities in the public market. With headquarters in Shanghai, the company established branch offices in Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu. Empower Investment has invested in over 150 high-tech and high-growthcompanies on a global scale covering regions including China, U.S, India, South Korea, Vietnam and Hong Kong. Their portfolio companies include fast-growing industries such as internet, AI, big data, automation & robotics, financial technology, cultural creativity, advanced materials, and healthcare.The Empower team has extensive experience in both deep technologies and financial services including internet, computer science, electronic engineering, materials science, auditing and investment banking. Some team members were serial entrepreneurs. With candidness and empathy, the team is eager to find and partner with the most visionary, determined and down-to-earth entrepreneurs. It always brings great excitement and pleasure to build a bright future with them.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Ykccn.com — Ykccn.com is a professional company that operates and replaces the operation and maintenance of new energy vehicles.
Hongpeng Airlines — Hongpeng Airlines is committed to developing, designing, and producing low-cost airplane engines.
Xunyuan Technology — Xunyuan Technology is a bio-refining and bio-manufacturing platform company based on non-grain carbon sources.

Apply for funding on Sketchnote, a unique opportunity for exceptional first-time entrepreneurs building first-rate startups

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Singapore, Indonesia, India

Portfolio highlights

Arogga — Arogga App is the first Bangladeshi app that brought healthcare system to your doorstep. Easy and efficient. With a click of a button, upload your prescription and we will ensure safe delivery of your medicine at earliest possible time.
ZenAdmin — Hybr1d operates as an end-to-end employee lifecycle management system.
Trace+ — Our Comprehensive Health-based HR Solution enables workplaces like Factories, Offices, Universities to boost Safety, Wellbeing & Productivity

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India invests in high-growth start-ups seeking their first round of institutional venture capital funding in Southeast Asia and India, with a primary focus on Singapore, India, Indonesia, Thailand and other emerging hubs of innovation across the region. It has a long and strong track record of investing in early-stage startups and building champions like Grab, Patsnap, 17Live, Nium, FirstCry, Licious, AsianParent, Validus, Warung Pintar, and others.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

COOLMATE — Coolmate is an online shopping mall committed to providing a complete shopping experience for Vietnamese male customers. It allows users to order up to 10 items like t-shirts and socks for under US$20. The company is headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam.
BigEndian — BigEndian is a platform for fabless semiconductor development in surveillance vertical.
Pilgrim — Pilgrim - Premium International Brand | No Animal Testing, No Harmful Chemicals, Natural, Vegan Friendly, FDA Approved.

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

Investment focus

Content, Marketing, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

aceRNA Technologies — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.

Innoangel Fund is an investment firm that invests in early stage companies.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Software
Angel, Seed, Series A
China, Canada, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Qianjue Technology — Qianjue Technology is a company that created the first full-stack application-level robot model and offers cloud-based artificial intelligence solutions to robot manufacturers.
Shifang Technology — Shifang Technology is a high-tech enterprise that provides integrated intelligent equipment for manufacturing industries.
Anquan Digital Intelligence — Anquan Digital Intelligence is an internet security technology service provider specializing in network security breach detection and defense, data risk and protection, artificial intelligence.

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is a private, secure online office suite. Discover an office with flexible deployment options and MS Office compatibility.

The Morningside group invests private-equity and venture capital in novel science and technology sectors and is committed to social responsibility.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

evonetix — Spearheading a radical new approach to gene synthesis to improve access to high-quality, gene-length DNA. Redefine possible.
Kappa Pay — Transfer money reliably across the globe. Available for both businesses and individuals in Cameroon. Sign up now and get early access.
Angitia Biopharmaceuticals — Angitia Biopharmaceuticals is a global biotechnology company focusing on the discovery and development of innovative therapeutics for serious musculoskeletal diseases.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Striemo — Striemo manufactures and develops electric personal mobility. Striemo was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Orbital Lasers — Orbital is a space tech company that provides space debris business to remove debris and a satellite LiDAR business to provide surface data.
RadioNano Therapeutics — RadioNano Therapeutics is developing innovative drugs for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), a type of radiation therapy that utilizes the nuclear reaction between thermal neutrons and boron-10 (¹⁰B) to destroy cancer cells by releasing alpha particles and lithium nuclei.

Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, United States, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Pemo — Pemo is an all-in-one spend management solution that empowers your business by packing every company invoice, expense, approval and spending decision into one powerful platform.Our offering includes smart corporate cards, invoice payment systems and expense tracking functions. These are supported by automated approval flows, direct accountingintegration and real-time reporting - features that allow business owners to save time, save money, automate admin and every expense so you can get on with what you do best - building great businesses.
Corgea — Corgea is an AI-powered security platform that automatically finds, triages, and fixes insecure code. Sign up today for free to try Corgea.
Colabs — Colabs is Pakistan’s fastest growing flexible workspace. Our community today has 1000 seats and over 100 companies across multiple facilities in Lahore. COLABS has a network of 100+ ecosystem partners across universities, VC funds, corporates, government and industry leaders. COLABS is constantly innovating, creating new work experiences, andredefining the future of work in Pakistan. Our mission is to knit together a community of 100,000 entrepreneurs across Pakistan.

Venture capital fund

Investment focus

Supply Chain Management, E-Commerce, Agriculture
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Bangladesh, Pakistan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Omni HR — Omni HR helps companies automate the end-to-end employee journey including onboarding, time off, employee management, and more. Easy to use and customizable!
TransBnk — Transbnk | Revolutionizing 'Global Transaction Banking' for Enhanced Business Agility, Security, and Resilience
HD — HD is a healthcare and surgery marketplace, powering over 1,500+ healthcare providers including some of the biggest hospitals. HD connects patients to hospitals, clinics, operating rooms, and surgeons while offering healthcare financing solutions to increase access to affordable care and surgeries. To date, over 250,000 patients have benefited frommore accessible and affordable healthcare and surgeries through the company's platform.

Falcon Network is a group of emerging markets-based angel investors.

Investment focus

Apps, iOS, Android
Seed, Pre-Seed
Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Jatri — Jatri is a public transport journey planner, digital ticketing and mobility marketplace, driving productivity by helping drivers to offer reliable transport to the commuters through our state-of-the-art technology.
Arogga — Arogga App is the first Bangladeshi app that brought healthcare system to your doorstep. Easy and efficient. With a click of a button, upload your prescription and we will ensure safe delivery of your medicine at earliest possible time.

Betatron Venture Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Hong Kong, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
Botsync — Botsync builds autonomous mobile robots to automate and digitize movement of goods from point to point for the logistics and manufacturing industry. Our robots can carry payloads from 500 kg to 1 tonne and are designed to operate in dynamic environments. Botsync's AMRs can be implemented at new facilities in minimal time with very minimalchanges to the existing infrastructure. With our technology, we hope to pioneer and push for larger scale adoptions of robotic automation in Asia's logistics and manufacturing industry.

Pakistan's largest Venture capital fund dedicated to the technology sector as it looks to build scalable, market-transforming and consumer technology

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Pakistan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aabshar — Aabshar offers AI-driven water-saving technology on a subscription model that reduces utility costs, prevents water damage, lowers CO2 emissions, and provides real-time insights. Our solutions empower communities and industries in water-stressed regions.
Truckistan — Truckistan is developing a logistics platform to make shipping faster and cheaper. The company provides real-time tracking, a customer dashboard, account management, and guaranteed transit time, as well as SaaS tools for routing, vehicle loading, and RFID implementation throughout the supply chain.
Revolving Games — Building new gaming experiences for Web3 and beyond. We create worlds without borders or limitations.

VISINO focuses on the portfolio investment of excellent equity investment funds and the direct investment of high-quality enterprises. The company has experience in equity investment and asset management , and have managed more than ten equity investment funds.

Investment focus

iOS, Internet, Software
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

31huiyi — 31Event was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Shanghai, China’s international finance center. It focuses on events industry, like conferences, exhibitions, trade shows, events and business meetings. By the innovative internet and mobile technology, 31huiyi.com is dedicated to improve events’ quality and efficiency. It is one of the most advancedbusiness events portal in China and the first interactive web platform combining the organizers, visitors and suppliers.31huiyi.com provides organizers with the professional and convenient web platform of one-stop platform publish, promotion and interaction.At the same time, 31huiyi.com provides user with easy events search, subscribe, sharing, registration, and interactive via Internet and smart phones,such as iphone , Android ,windows phone . 31huiyi.com has won great favor of users since its launch.

SoftBank is a provider of mobile and fixed-line communication and internet connection services.

Investment focus

Software, iOS, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Secondary Market
United States, Japan, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Latona — IoT/Edge Computing, Artificial Intelligence
TBCASoft — Creating a network of networks - for the largest open mobile payment network and ubiquitous merchant acceptance.
AutoStore — AutoStore is an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) that harnesses the power of warehouse robots for 24/7 order fulfillment within a cubic layout.

Temasek is a global investment company headquartered in Singapore with a multinational staff of over 900 people. Our portfolio is valued at S$389 billion.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series B, Series C, Series D
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

SarvaGram — Empowering Rural India
Huize — Huize is a solid-state lithium-ion battery manufacturer and developer company.Huize is focused on the future of energy transformation, developing and manufacturing the next generation of solid-state lithium-ion batteries as well as providing system solutions.
Veeam Software — Veeam is the global leader in Data Protection. The trusted provider of Simple, Flexible, and Reliable backup and recovery solutions for Cloud, Virtual, Physical.

We help founders build enduring companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

SoSoValue — SoSoValue is a groundbreaking technology that changes the way investors access and evaluate cryptocurrency data. The company intends to level the playing field by ensuring equal access to cutting-edge data technology and insights. SoSoValue leverages strong AI capabilities to provide extensive research tools, real-time data, and a thrivingcommunity for collaborative growth.
Kast — Kast Finance provides open access, financial freedom, and rapid gratification services.
GCL Optoelectronics — GCL Optoelectronics is a supplier of perovskite solar modules, focusing on the R&D and production of perovskite solar modules.

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

Zuoyu Capital is a financial advisory firm based in Beijing.

Investment focus

Autonomous Vehicles, Media and Entertainment, Automotive
Series A, Seed, Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

FELO — FELO is an electric vehicle company that specializes in the field of autonomous balancing and hybrid power for two-wheeled motorcycles. The company was founded in 2019 by Jingyi Zhang.
Zongmu — ZongMu Technology was founded in January 2013. Headquartered in Pudong ZhangJiang high-tech park of Shanghai, ZongMu has RD centers in Beijing and ShenZhen respectively. Through its innovative solution and excellent service to the local market, ZongMu has shipped multiple SurroundView ADAS (Advanced Driving Assistance System) in main stream OEMautomotive markets, becoming the leading SurroundView ADAS solution vendor for China domestic market and formed strategic partnership with multiple OEM car makers and their tier1 suppliers.
Jiyu Technology (JIYU-Chassis-DriveByWire) — Shanghai Jiyu Technology Co., ltd. main sales line chassis, control of unmanned at low speed, no delivery vehicles, and other products, providing customers with general unmanned drive-by-wire chassis solutions, research and development of advanced Technol

A platform connecting global angel investors with startups based in, or relating to, Japan

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, iOS
Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Playco — Playco is a developer of instant-play games across a variety of platforms.
MIRAI FOODS — Love meat? Mirai aims to produce the meat of the future by cultivating animal cells in a controlled environment
Wahl+Case — Wahl+Case is Tokyo's leading tech recruitment company. We help the most innovative businesses find the best people. We cover positions in IT, Engineering, Sales or Marketing in industries such as Consumer Tech, Enterprise Tech, FinTech or AdTech.

Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Coopel — Coopel is an RPA that allows beginners to easily automate daily tasks and make work efficient.
Levellr — Levellr software helps creators & brands to build, manage and monetise messaging communities within existing apps, including Discord & Telegram. Our tools, which sit on top of Discord & Telegram, help our customers to acquire powerful-first party data on superfans, build highly engaged communities & generate tangible revenueopportunities, whilst also providing our customers with community strategy & on-going moderation services to ensure their communities thrive.
ChillStack — ChillStack provides information on AI, security, and development.

Huaying is an investment management and consulting firm.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
China

Portfolio highlights

Breath Medical — Breath Medical is a medical device developer in the field of otolaryngology. It independently develops and promotes consumables and equipment, providing a total solution for ENT surgery. Its two core products are “low temperature plasma RF surgery system” and “fully degraded”. Sinus drug stent".
ELS Technology — ELS Technology focuses on supply chain management and supply chain financial product development.
Neoway Medical — Neoway Medical is a new high-tech company in medical CT imaging technology.

Systems Limited is a global leader of next-generation IT services and BPO solutions. Ever since its inception in 1977, the company has evolved and taken center stage in information and technology by providing computing strategies and solutions to Government and Private Organizations

Investment focus

E-Commerce, B2B, iOS
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

OneLoad — OneLoad is an online service that enables users to easily buy prepaid vouchers for all mobile companies, pay utility bills and transfer balance to others.
Jugnu — We drive social and economic empowerment for small businesses, with thousands of retailers at the core of the Jugnu community.
JOMO Technologies — Experience the joy of shopping with Pakistan's largest online fashion store, JOMO! Get a range of 100% authentic shoes, apparel, active wear, cosmetics, bags & accessories delivered to your doorstep for free. Try your order before you buy it and enjoy hassle-free returns & exchange.

ABC Dream Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Japanese media firm Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Social Media, Content
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

At Forest — At Forest is an end-of-life service provider that organizes circular burial services for the deceased.
Rei-Frontier — Rei-Frontier Inc. is the Japanese company which provides the mobile application using augmented reality technology. Rei-Frontier Inc. is based in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 2008.
Sentient.io — We provide a secure AI & Data platform with ready-made AI models for easy adoption and turnkey AI solutions for Enterprises on your digitalisation journey.

Venture Capital and Private Equity - Investing in phenomenal people building phenomenal businesses - Reach out to discuss your business

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Arogga — Arogga App is the first Bangladeshi app that brought healthcare system to your doorstep. Easy and efficient. With a click of a button, upload your prescription and we will ensure safe delivery of your medicine at earliest possible time.
Marble — Members earn up to 5% back for organizing all their existing insurance policies on Marble.
Green Project Technologies — Scope 1, 2 and 3 Emissions Tracking Software. We work with suppliers, vendors, portfolio investments, SMES, public companies, and more!

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
Tembo Money — Need help boosting your budget or accessing lower rates? Voted Best Mortgage Broker 2023 & 2022, our award-winning service is available 7 days a week.

Mekong Capital is a Vietnam-focused Private Equity firm, specializing in consumer driven businesses. Mekong Capital’s investee companies are typically among the fastest growing and market leading companies in Vietnam’s consumer-driven sectors such as retail, restaurants, consumer products and distribution.Established in 2001, Mekong Capitalhas the most extensive private equity track record in Vietnam. Our funds have completed 30 private equity investments, of which 22 have been fully exited and 1 has been partially exited. Mekong Capital has managed 5 funds, one of which is currently making new investments. Mekong Capital has a team of 50+ full-time people in our offices in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, who have an average tenure at Mekong Capital of around 6 years. Three Partners with combined 31 years at Mekong Capital.Mekong Capital invests in fast-growing companies, with ambitious expansion plans, and a strong commitment to building management teams that will apply best practices and successfully execute on those expansion plans. These companies are typically well-established companies in their sectors, but which typically operate in fragmented and fast growing markets which present attractive growth opportunities.Mekong Capital is strongly committed to adding significant value at each of its investee companies – through operational improvements, building management teams, introduction of best practices and outside experts, and applying other elements of our Vision Driven Investing framework.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Retail, Service Industry
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Vietnam, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Rever.vn — Rever is a technology company operating in the field of Real Estate, officially launched in early 2016. With a team of senior personnel in many fields, Rever develops online real estate distribution system based on the map, providing the perfect brokerage service, creates a smart and high-performance process of buying, selling, renting real estate,based on a combination of modern technology and commodity consultants. head.
Husk Ventures — Generate new revenue streams for rural communities by upcycling rice husk to create sustainable products that contribute to a circular economy.Husk Ventures aims to increase the incomes of rice farmers’ and rural communities with access to innovative technologies and capacity building to convert rice husk into valuable products for local andinternational markets.The unique characteristics of rice husk (high lignin and silica content) make it an ideal material that benefit from being strong, fireproof, mould, and insect resistant.Some innovations exist in the market to create alternatives to wood by mixing rice husk with plastic or natural resins to create furniture or construction materials using similar technologies to wood plastic composites (WPC).Creating products using Rice Husk Composites is an opportunity to reduce deforestation and plastic consumption.
Gene Solutions — Gene Solutions is a genetic testing company in Vietnam and the market leader for reproductive health tests, which respond to critical healthcare needs, such as helping parents detect chromosomal disorders during pregnancy, or preventing genetic problems, and helping to conceive a child (in-vitro fertilization – IVF).

Wuyuan Capital is a venture capital investment company located in China.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

StepStar — The goal of Stepstar is to "Ten Times the Possibility of Everyone" through Intelligent Step. Step Star firmly creates its own super model and actively uses important resources like
GruEnergya — Lithium ion battery
Light Years Beyond — Light Years Beyond operates as an AI start-up company. Light Years Beyond provides generative AI technologies to companies that enable domestic users to get access to AI technology and products.

Julian Shapiro is a Partner at Hyper and a Startup Investor at Julian.capital. He previously worked as the Founder of Demand Curve, a Columnist — Growth Marketing at TechCrunch, and VP of Marketing at Webflow. Julian attended Y Combinator.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
Agroshift — Agroshift helps farmers sell their produce to businesses and consumers by providing a tech-enabled supply chain.

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

Investment focus

Internet, Drones, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

StepStar — The goal of Stepstar is to "Ten Times the Possibility of Everyone" through Intelligent Step. Step Star firmly creates its own super model and actively uses important resources like
Zhipu AI — Zhipu AI is a data company developing an AI-based large model platform to provide API services. It includes a variety of smart application products such as the scientific and technological information analysis engine and AI cognitive engines to allow users to leverage AI-powered tools to reduce manual labor in digital tasks.
Shanggu Technology — Shanggu Technology is a company that provides comprehensive digital marketing solution that includes powerful artificial intelligence technology.

Recruit Co., Ltd. (株式会社リクルート) is a classified advertisement, publication and human resources company in Japan, founded in 1963 originally as an advertisement company specialized in university newspapers. (Source: Wikipedia)

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Recruiting
Series A, Series B, Series C
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

milog — -Milog inc is founded in April 2009, aiming to focus on Android platform on smartphone. Business domain is an intelligence of application usage data on Android OS platform to provide worldwide handset companies and telecom operators, employing high-level statistical analysis, with Harvard Physics Team. Milog has raised $5 million (1.2 million USDin a seed round, 3.8 million USD in Series A). Acquired on March 2012.-Milog is founded by Yohei Kiguchi, Co-Founder/ CEO in April 2009, and his friends, then sold the entire business in March2012. Milog has the headquarter in Tokyo, and also have contractors across the world, mainly in Shanghai, San Francisco. In Japan, milog patented a core programme for this field, and was widely recognized as a top runner and innovative challenger in IT field. Milog developed "AppLog", which was an embedded software to monitor application’s battery and data consumption on an android device, and automatically optimise the application’s running task to improve the battery life. To address the battery life problem, which is the most common users concern in many polls, the demand side approach was unique and more efficient, while a lot of hardware companies tackled the issue by improving the battery size or efficiency.Milog raised total 5 million USD(1.2 million USD in a seed round, 3.8 million USD in Series A) from JAFCO, No.1 Japanese VC, and OPT, No.1 advertising agency, and RECRUIT, No.1 Japanese Human Resource company.
Cloudbeds — Cloudbeds is a vertical SaaS business that creates cloud-based hospitality management software that simplifies the working lives of professional property owners, operators, and employees. It helps with OTAs, payments, reservations, and reporting so its clients can spend time on their most important job, taking care of their guests. Cloudbeds wasfounded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
HackerRank — HackerRank is the market-leading coding test and interview solution for hiring developers. Start hiring at the pace of innovation!

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