# Tess Hau

> Tess Hau is a seed investor at Animoca Brands (Palo Alto) backing Gaming and Blockchain. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tesshau/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/tesshau1
- Website: https://tessventures.com

Tess Hau is an investor and advisor to high performing startups, deep tech companies and extraordinary founders across the world.A respected leader and subject matter expert, Tess is a sought-after speaker, lecturer, and advisor on venture capital, startups, entrepreneurship, strategy, Southeast Asia expansion and growth. She has been bothspeaker and moderator on numerous prominent VC and entrepreneurship panels. She was featured on Thrive Global’s list of “Top Women to Watch 2019”.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 2 | 67% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 67% |
| Computer | 1 | 33% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 33% |
| Marketplace | 1 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 2 | 67% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MetaZone | MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons. | $3M | Seed | May 30, 2023 |  |
| Ultrade | Ultrade is a creator of a trading platform on the algorand blockchain designed for Defi. In addition to offering trading services, the company also makes it possible for anyone to create and launch a scalable Defi platform at a considerably lower cost, allowing users to create unique decentralized trading applications that support all asset classeswithout having to write low-level code for order books or matching engines. | $2.4M | Seed | Sep 06, 2022 |  |
| AAG Ventures | AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry. | $181K | Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Algorand Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algorand-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Big Brain Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-brain-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Castrum Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/castrum-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CMT Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmt-digital-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Community Gaming](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/community-gaming-88c8) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cukies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cukies) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Animoca Brands

VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

5 contacts available at Animoca Brands.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Robert Yung | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robby-yung |
| Tess Hau | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tess-hau |
| Ab Das | Product Consultant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ab-das-7059 |
| Arnoldo Concepcion | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arnoldo-concepcion |
| Chao Deng | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chao-deng-69f7 |

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## FAQ

### What does Tess Hau invest in?

Tess Hau invests primarily in Gaming, Blockchain and Computer startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Tess Hau last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tess Hau closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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