# Paul Ark

> Paul Ark is a seed investor at Seedstars (Bangkok) backing Mobile and Sustainability. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Seedstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedstars)
- Location: Bangkok, Thailand
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Sep 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulark/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Paul_Ark
- Website: https://x.com/Paul_Ark

Paul Ark is a seed investor at Seedstars in Bangkok focused on Mobile and Sustainability. Finance, strategy, technology, retail & real estate professional with over 25 years of on-the-ground management and deal experience in North, South, and Southeast Asia, with tenures in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street. Active angel investor and venture capitalist.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $10M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 3 | 33% |
| Sustainability | 2 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 22% |
| AgTech | 1 | 11% |
| Banking | 1 | 11% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 22% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 44% |
| Israel | 1 | 11% |
| Thailand | 1 | 11% |
| Singapore | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wearwell | wearwell is making it easier to find clothes that fit your personal style and the impact you want to make in the world. We're doing this with a unique subscription service through which customer can purchase clothing and accessories. Over 34 million women in the US today identify as conscious consumers and want to know that the garment workerwho made their clothing was paid a living wage and that environmental impact was considered. While brands the fall into the ethical fashion and sustainability category are on the rise and the conscious consumer market has grown tremendously over the past few years, the consumer experience - an unacceptable amount of hours of searching, wading through information and decoding certifications - has remained unchanged. We're solving this problem with a membership service that's growing it's paid user base organically 20% month-over-month. |  | Convertible Note | Sep 30, 2020 |  |
| Re-Nuble | Re-Nuble is an MWBE-certified agricultural technology company that uses organic cycling science™ technology to transform unrecoverable vegetative food byproducts into a platform of sustainable technologies for soilless farming. Our closed-loop process transforms unrecoverable food byproducts into organic goods while eliminating landfill waste andgreenhouse gasses. We were founded with the mission to help global agricultural communities reimagine localized food waste for more sustainable, environmentally-friendly growing practices. |  | Convertible Note | Sep 28, 2020 |  |
| PayKey | PayKey enables banks to provide their customers with the ability to initiate and complete a range of financial services, including P2P payments, chatbot engagement, balance check, cardless withdrawal, and more, from within any mobile application. Offering a cross-platform banking button on the smartphone’s keyboard boosts the bank’s brandengagement while making the banking experience quick, contextual, and simple for users. Banks are battling to remain relevant as they face an unprecedented competitive environment coupled with changing consumer expectations for instantaneous, highly-efficient, and seamless financial experiences. In a time where consumers expect to access services from any channel at any time, PayKey is helping banks to improve their user experience and boost their brand engagement by enabling their customers to access financial services from within any mobile application. | $10M | Series B | Jun 26, 2017 |  |
| PayKey | PayKey enables banks to provide their customers with the ability to initiate and complete a range of financial services, including P2P payments, chatbot engagement, balance check, cardless withdrawal, and more, from within any mobile application. Offering a cross-platform banking button on the smartphone’s keyboard boosts the bank’s brandengagement while making the banking experience quick, contextual, and simple for users. Banks are battling to remain relevant as they face an unprecedented competitive environment coupled with changing consumer expectations for instantaneous, highly-efficient, and seamless financial experiences. In a time where consumers expect to access services from any channel at any time, PayKey is helping banks to improve their user experience and boost their brand engagement by enabling their customers to access financial services from within any mobile application. | $10M | Series B | Jun 26, 2017 |  |
| OmiseGO | OmiseGO enables financial inclusion and interoperability through the public, decentralized OMG network. |  | Initial Coin Offering | Jun 10, 2017 |  |
| Waygo Visual Translator | Waygo Visual Translator (formely Waigo Chinese Translator) was created by Translate Abroad, Inc. and is your ultimate tool for navigating life in China.Waygo uses a phone camera to instantly translate text without an internet connection. Just point and translate. The first Waygo app is for Chinese to English translation and is available in theapp store, with more languages on the way.The company built the first iteration while in the Betaspring Accelerator in Providence, Rhode Island in the Summer of 2011. Just having graduated from Batch 5 of 500 Startups Accelerator, Waygo continues to work out of Mountain View, CA, with team members now in Taipei and Shanghai. | $900K | Seed | Jul 16, 2013 |  |
| Waygo Visual Translator | Waygo Visual Translator (formely Waigo Chinese Translator) was created by Translate Abroad, Inc. and is your ultimate tool for navigating life in China.Waygo uses a phone camera to instantly translate text without an internet connection. Just point and translate. The first Waygo app is for Chinese to English translation and is available in theapp store, with more languages on the way.The company built the first iteration while in the Betaspring Accelerator in Providence, Rhode Island in the Summer of 2011. Just having graduated from Batch 5 of 500 Startups Accelerator, Waygo continues to work out of Mountain View, CA, with team members now in Taipei and Shanghai. |  | Seed | Jun 04, 2013 |  |
| WashBox24 | WashBox24 is a 24 hours, 7 days laundry service focused on delivering value for its customers and partners. Its locker and software solution helps solve the issue of inconvenient hours and locations of traditional laundry stores. The service makes it convenient for its customers to use it 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.With WashBox24’sproprietary software, it has the ability to track its customers’ orders, take photos of items, and even text its customers when it’s ready for pickup. It was launched in 2013 by Nithipont Thaiyanurak and is based in Bangkok, Thailand. |  | Seed |  |  |
| FGL.com | FGL provides distribution and monetization services for Android, iOS, Unity, Flash, and HTML5 games. It was initially founded back in 2008 by two indie game developers, who were seeking a new way to monetize their games. FGL is based in Santa Monica, California. |  | Seed |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CommerzVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commerzventures-gmbh) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Magma Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magma-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mindset Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mindset-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MizMaa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizmaa-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SBI Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbi-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SCB 10X](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scb10x) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Seedstars

VC Fund · Geneva, Switzerland

Seedstars is an industry-agnostic investment firm dedicated to emerging and frontier markets. We’ve invested across Latam, Africa, MENA, CEE and Asia backing ventures working to solve key societal challenges such as access to financial services, healthcare, education or commerce.

5 contacts available at Seedstars.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Charlie Graham-Brown | Chief Investment Officer & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charlie-graham-brown |
| Mohd Atasha Alias | Venture Partner & Ambassador in Malaysia | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohd-atasha-alias |
| Alberto Garuccio | Business Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberto-garuccio |
| Alexander Manolov | Startup Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-manolov |
| Alisee Tonnac | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alisee-de-tonnac |

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Ark invest in?

Paul Ark invests primarily in Mobile, Sustainability and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Paul Ark's check size?

Paul Ark typically joins rounds of $10M–$10M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Paul Ark participates in.

### When did Paul Ark last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Ark closed in Sep 2020. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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