Top 10 Publishing Angel Investors in Singapore in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Publishing startups based in Singapore. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Singapore. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Publishing Angel Investors in Singapore in September 2025

Investor	Publishing Singapore investments
Julian Farrior	2
Oskar Hartmann	1
Hellmut Schutte	1
Nihal Mehta	1
Neeraj Bhargava	1
Arthur Hayes	1
Eduardo Saverin	1
David Chreng-Messembourg	1
Neil Cunha-Gomes	1
Vijay Shekhar Sharma	1

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Julian Farrior

Investment focus

Mobile, Film, Comics
Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
Instawork — Instawork connects local businesses with proven hourly workers for temp, temp-to-hire shift work.
Graphic India — Graphic India Pte. Ltd. is a character entertainment company focused on creating leading characters, comics and stories through mobile and digital platforms. Founded by media entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman, Graphic India is owned by U.S. comic book Company, Liquid Comics and CA Media LP, the Asian investmentarm of The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG). The company’s partners and investors bring together decades of experience in building businesses in character entertainment, media and India. Graphic believes that India is home to some of the most creative talent in the world, with more than 500 million people under the age of 25 and more than 850 million mobile phone users in the country. The Company’s mission is to create enduring stories and heroes that foster the imaginations and fuel the inspirations of a new globalized generation of youth in both India and around the world. Graphic’s stories include, Ramayan 3392A.D., The Leaves and The Sadhu, in development as Hollywood films; 18 Days, a reimagining of the great eastern epic, the Mahabharata, by acclaimed graphic novel creator, Grant Morrison which was launched as an animated digital series in partnership with YouTube India; Devi, a female superhero from acclaimed filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur; Chakra The Invincible, the first superhero for India from legendary creator Stan Lee; and numerous other heroes and stories.

Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Russian Federation, India

Portfolio highlights

Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.

Prof. Dr. Hellmut Schütte joined INSEAD's faculty in Fontainebleau, France, in 1981 after a successful career in the areas of marketing and investment banking covering a period of 11 years. As Senior Affiliate Professor of International Management, he teaches and does research in the area of international business and international marketingwith a special focus on Asia. His present work is concerned with markets and consumers in Asia, with the emergence of China and India, and with the regionalisation of the strategies and organisational structures of multinational firms. Professor Schütte studied economics and business administration in Germany and obtained his doctorate from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. He was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, a visiting professor at Boston University, and visiting scholar at Harvard University.Up to the fall of 2006, Professor Schütte was the Dean of INSEAD's fast growing Asia Campus located in Singapore. It comprises of state-of-the-art facilities, a faculty of 40 full-time resident professors, and welcomes 300 MBA participants and 2500 executives per year.Prof. Dr. Schütte has lived and worked in nine different countries, and taught in seminars in about 40 countries all over the world. He is a well-known speaker in conferences and business meetings and is actively involved in various executive programmes, board and advisory roles and consulting assignments. He is a regular contributor to the World Economic Forum in Davos and other places in the world. Professor Schütte is the author of many articles and of five books. The third edition of this bestselling book "Strategies for Asia Pacific" (co-author P. Lasserre) appeared in 2006.Prof. Dr. Schütte is a permanent resident of Singapore and is a devoted offshore yachtsman.

Investment focus

Content, Publishing, Advertising
Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

The Parentinc — Suntec Singapore Convention Center 71, Ayer Rajah Crescent, #01-04/05 Singapore 139951

Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Street FC — 100+ Street soccer games every month. Join a club or build one with us.
Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
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Neeraj Bhargava is the Founder, Chairman, and Group CEO of Rainshine Global Inc. He previously worked at Allygrow as a Director. Neeraj Bhargava attended NYU Stern School of Business.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, CRM
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Juno Clinic — Juno Clinic is an online platform that helps people get online counseling for emotional and psychological problems from our therapists.Inhibition to approach and lack of access to experienced mental health care providers in India is a massive growing problem with most cities in India lacking mental health therapists. The total number of mentalhealth care providers in India is less than the number of cardiologists in Delhi and Mumbai. More than 80% patients with mental health issues don’t ever see a trained therapist; Juno Clinic is there to address this problem.
Graphic India — Graphic India Pte. Ltd. is a character entertainment company focused on creating leading characters, comics and stories through mobile and digital platforms. Founded by media entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman, Graphic India is owned by U.S. comic book Company, Liquid Comics and CA Media LP, the Asian investmentarm of The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG). The company’s partners and investors bring together decades of experience in building businesses in character entertainment, media and India. Graphic believes that India is home to some of the most creative talent in the world, with more than 500 million people under the age of 25 and more than 850 million mobile phone users in the country. The Company’s mission is to create enduring stories and heroes that foster the imaginations and fuel the inspirations of a new globalized generation of youth in both India and around the world. Graphic’s stories include, Ramayan 3392A.D., The Leaves and The Sadhu, in development as Hollywood films; 18 Days, a reimagining of the great eastern epic, the Mahabharata, by acclaimed graphic novel creator, Grant Morrison which was launched as an animated digital series in partnership with YouTube India; Devi, a female superhero from acclaimed filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur; Chakra The Invincible, the first superhero for India from legendary creator Stan Lee; and numerous other heroes and stories.
Kinsane Entertainment — Kinsane Entertainment, Inc., a US corporation, and its India subsidiary, Kinsane Digital LLP, has a simple mission: to create great content for kids, and, in so doing, create brands that are globally recognized. On this page is some of the press/media coverage Kinsane has received.

After graduating with a degree in economics from the Wharton School of Business, Arthur lived in Hong Kong as an equity derivatives trader. He was the market-maker for Deutsche Bank and Citibank’s Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) businesses. He also has extensive experience trading equity index futures, forwards, and swaps as well as non-deliverable FXforwards. Arthur brings a deep understanding of how to structure and trade financial derivatives.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Cytonic — Cytonic is a multi-virtual-machine blockchain. Cytonic is compatible with blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Infinit — Infinit is the DeFi Abstraction Layer that removes the enormous friction associated with creating and scaling DeFi ecosystems.

Eduardo Saverin is a Co-founder at Meta. Eduardo attended Harvard University.

Investment focus

Internet, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series C
Singapore, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

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David Chreng-Messembourg - Co-Founder and General Partner @ LeadBlock Partners

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Blockchain
Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
Austria, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

NF3 — NF3 is a community focused NFT swaps and finance market.
Vinter — Making smarter indexes for crypto ETF issuers.
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Neil Cunha-Gomes is SoftBank Investment Advisor.

Investment focus

Finance, Blockchain, Web3
Seed, Series C, Series D
Singapore, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

NF3 — NF3 is a community focused NFT swaps and finance market.
Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
yoloyolo — In order to match the top NFT IPS with leading brands and uncover growth opportunities and revenue models for both these brands and the NFT IP holders, Yoloyolo is developing new infrastructure.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering.