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Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Asia in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Publishing startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Asia in December 2024

Investor	Publishing Asia investments
Ceyuan Ventures	3
Trustbridge Partners	3
ChineseAll Digital Publishing	2
Infinity Ventures Crypto	2
Geekhouse Capital	2
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)	2
Guojin Capital	2
Frees Fund	2
Julian Farrior	2
Genesia Ventures	2
IT-Farm	2
Drone Fund	2
North Base Media	2
East Ventures	2
Vickers Venture Partners	1
Nextblue	1
Alan Rutledge	1
David Chreng-Messembourg	1
Tiger Global Management	1
Nihal Mehta	1
Wuhan Optics Valley Elite Investment Management	1
DWF Labs	1
Creation Venture Partners	1
8 Decimal Capital	1
Arthur Hayes	1
Chain Capital	1
Animoca Brands	1
Ourpalm	1
Huarong Securities	1
Saison Capital	1
Angel Plus China	1
JISCO	1
Longtu Game	1
Genertec Investment Management	1
Gepic Energy Development	1
Cherubic Ventures	1
Huayi Brothers Media Group	1
Nippon Venture Capital	1
Presto Ventures	1
IRENA	1
STRIVE	1
Youzu Interactive	1
NOW Japan	1
The Spartan Group	1
Circle Ventures	1
Amazon Web Services	1
Greenwoods Asset Management	1
FBG Capital	1
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation	1
Zeus Interactive	1

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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.

Trustbridge Partners is a mission-driven growth equity firm founded in 2006 with approximately $8 billion under management.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cherre — Connect all your real estate data and make it available to the entire organization for better investment, management, and underwriting decisions.
Hystar — Hystar develops polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzers designed for large-scale green hydrogen production. Founded in 2020, Hystar's technology uses a unique cell design and process architecture that provides the ability to reduce electricity consumption and increase hydrogen output, enabling professionals to tackle various criticalenergy challenges and having the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Hope Medicine — Hope Medicine is committed to researching, developing and commercializing the first innovative drugs aimed at improving the quality of life for a wide range of popular male and female diseases.

Chinese Online (中文在线) is a company focused on digital publishing. It provides digital reading products to mobile phones, hand-held terminals, and the internet as well as other media. Chinese Online takes copyright organizations and authors as the genuine digital content source, and collaborates with them to manage the content.It also offersvalue-added services of digital content such as copyright derivatives and more.As a leading enterprise of digital publishing domestically, Chinese Online has established a complete media publishing model of unique content, variety in media and synchronized publishing.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Education, Mobile
Series A, Angel, Funding Round
China

Portfolio highlights

Jiuyuu.com — Jiuyuu.com is a cutting-edge pan-entertainment content company.
Ri Yuetong — Ri Yuetong is a cultural science and technology innovation enterprise.
QingTing FM — QingTing FM is a network audio application. Since its release in September 2011, it has grown into one of the leading audio content aggregation platforms in China. QingTing FM adheres to the slogan of “More World, Listening” and uses innovative technology to create an influential and popular audio media brand. QingTing FM was founded in 2011.

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Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
Fluid Protocol — Fluid Protocol is a decentralized, over-collateralized lending mechanism designed especially for Fuel Network. In order to maximize capital efficiency, Fluid offers users a safe and effective method of releasing liquidity from their collateral without having to liquidate their underlying assets.

Geekhouse Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Publishing, Gaming, Sports
Series A, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

Augusmith — Augusmith is a workshop that produces and retails handcrafted jewelry pieces.
Das Master — Das Master is an online and offline automotive service platform.
Yun Yue Wenxue — Yun Yue Wenxue is a novel creation platform.

MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136

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.

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

XellSmart — Xellsmart develops stem cell treatment solutions for a variety of degenerative diseases for which there are now no clinical treatments. Xellsmart is located in Minhang District, Shanghai, China.
Dezao Technology — Dezao Technology is an e-commerce transaction provider, mostly involved in the sales of electronic products, mobile phones, and mobile phone accessories.
Molar Intelligence — Molar Intelligence is a professional artificial intelligence data service provider.

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.

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Congrant — Congrant is a fundraising platform that collects donations and charity for NPOs, social enterprises, and voluntary organizations.
Logipeace — Logipeace is a SaaS communication platform that offers semi-automation of logistics operations and communication using generative AI.
Japan Career — Japan Career is a company that offers a job change and employment help platform tailored to international talent.

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
EV Motors Japan — EV Motors Japan provides sales and services for commercial vehicles in the automotive industry.
Honeycomb — Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do.

Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.

Investment focus

Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

LOMBY — LOMBY is a logistic firm that delivers orders through its robotic machines.
Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
CuboRex — CuboRex realizes creative mobility using its crawler technology.

NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!

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.

Funding a Better World: We invest in deep tech sectors globally to help solve real world problems.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

RWDC Industries — RWDC develops biodegradable bioplastic that can be used to make cutlery, drinking straws and cup lids, foodand beverage packaging, as well as diapers, among other things. It produces medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoate(mcl-PHA), which are naturally produced by bacterial fermentation of plant-based oils or sugar. RWDC’s PHA is certified to befully biodegradable in soil, water and marine conditions.
Eavor — Eavor is an advanced geothermal technology company dedicated to creating a clean, scalable form of clean baseload power on a global scale.
Qianyuhui Environmental Protection — Qianyuhui Environmental Protection is a provider of comprehensive solutions for carbon emissions.

Nextblue is a Tokyo and Berlin based early-stage Venture Capital investing in disruptive and impact-driven startups in Japan and EU

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

kencko — kencko started with the simple belief that organic fruits and vegetables should be available anytime, anywhere, in any shape or format. kencko is on a mission to reinvent fresh organic fruits and vegetables into convenient products that are hassle-free to consume while preserving all the goodness of freshly harvested produce.
Bento — Create a beautiful page to show your audience everything you are, create, and sell in one link. Designed in Berlin.
Bento — Discover the people and stories behind the coolest projects, and share how you've built yours.

Alan Rutledge

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.

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

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
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.
consola.finance — consola.finance is business-to-business finance and accounting SaaS platform that aims to automate financial processes for Web3 businesses, including bookkeeping, reporting, and analytics.

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Cresta — Self-service, live coaching, and post call insights. AI that uncovers expertise so teams can make every customer conversation count.
Kong — Kong powers APIs and microservices with the world's most popular open source API gateway and industry-leading service connectivity platform. Kong is funded by leading VC firms, including Index Ventures, a16z, CRV, GGV, Tiger Global, Stanford University, Jeff Bezos, and Eric Schmidt.
Checkmate — Integrate over 100 ordering platforms directly to your restaurant POS system and manage all your ordering platform menus in one place.

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

Portfolio highlights

Rocean — Rocean makes smart appliances to change how we consume water. Our first product the Rocean One is a seamless, reusable water ecosystem with best-in-class filtration that carbonates, flavors and enhances tap water. The Rocean One gives consumers more choice and convenience than they will find in their local supermarket.
Street FC — 100+ Street soccer games every month. Join a club or build one with us.
SportsIcon — Harnessing frontier technology to build innovative approaches in sports, media, and entertainment.

Wuhan Optics Valley Elite Investment Management is a specialized fund management company that supports talent entrepreneurship innovation and start-up enterprises based on the “3551 Optical Valley Talent Program” of Donghu Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone. Established in August 2015, Hubei Science and Technology Investment Group Co., Ltd.,an investment and financing platform affiliated to Wuhan East Lake New Technology Development Zone, is jointly invested by Hubei Taizhen Investment Management Co., Ltd. under the Pacific Securities and Hubei Hanjiang Investment Management Co., Ltd. under Camel Group Co., Ltd. Companies and other social capital funds were established. At present, the company manages two funds with a total scale of 1.1 billion yuan.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Angel, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

Jiahe — Jiahe Info provides objective and professional data information, and business consulting services.It is a high technology enterprise that is committed to the satellite remote sensing technique and application. Against the background of the rapid development of the aerospace industry, Jiahe builds an expert team relying on the State KeyLaboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing of Wuhan University. Headed by Gong Jianya, the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the key technical personnel at Jiahe all hold Ph.D. or master’s degrees. So far, Jiahe has won several core patents.
Yesense — Yesense is a manufacturer of motion sensing, positioning, and navigation products and solutions. Yesense develops, manufactures, and sells inertial sensors and integrated navigation systems such as the inertial measurement unit (IMU), the attitude and heading reference system (AHRS), and the inertial/GNSS integrated navigation system. Yesensecreates long-term value for customers by developing competitive and dependable products and solutions in smart cars, industrial vehicles, unmanned robots, and consumer electronics in open collaboration with ecosystem partners.
JIMU Intelligent — JIMU Intelligent, founded in 2011, is a leading AI company that dedicated to vision-based intelligent driving technology. Based on its self-developed computer vision technology, JIMU is always in pursuit of the development and popularization of intelligent driving. At present, JIMU has established cooperations with many car manufacturers to bringabout future smart driving and transportation, and forged partnership with insurance, fleets, and intelligent transportation firms to release cost-efficient ADAS-based industry solutions.

DWF Labs Global digital asset market maker and multi-stage web3 investment firm

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mars4 — Mars4 (MARS$) defines itself as a virtual reality platform powered by the blockchain, that allows users to create, experience, and monetize content and applications and earn passive income through revenue generating Mars NFT Land Plots. In this virtual world on Mars, users purchase plots of land that they can later navigate, build upon and monetize.
Velo Labs — Velo Labs is software company revolutionizing the old correspondent bank system by creating a global settlement network. We are empowering financial institutions with blockchain-based and compliance-friendly solutions to move money across borders.
Parex Market — Parex Market provides DAO ecosystem that includes a range of solutions.

Creation Venture Partners is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Hardware, Artificial Intelligence
Angel, Seed, Series A
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

HiStarlink — HiStarlink is a commercial company that makes communication technology like space-borne laser communication terminals and core devices. The main product matrix covers aerospace Advanced core optoelectronic devices, ultra-high-speed communication algorithms, laser communication terminals, and satellite-to-ground laser ground receiving systems.
Moffett AI — Moffett is building the world’s next generation AI computation platform, from ground up. They pioneer in deep learning algorithms and build computation platform that the world has never seen - powerful, fast and extremely energy efficient.
Yaoyu Technology — Yaoyu Technology specializes in the development, design and production of liquid crystal displays and liquid crystal display modules.

8 Decimal Capital is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on both token and equity investment. We currently have more than 30 portfolio companies, and an AUM of 60M USD. Our investment team consists of more than 10 venture capital veterans, researchers, and trading professionals. We thematically invest in core infrastructure layer projects thataddress security, scalability, and privacy, provide a full suite of post-investment value-add to our portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Polkadot — Polkadot is a protocol that allows independent blockchains to exchange information. Polkadot is an inter-chain blockchain protocol which unlike internet messaging protocols (e.g. TCP/IP) also enforces the order and the validity of the messages between the chains. This interoperability also allows the additional benefit of scalability bycreating a general environment for multiple state machines.
Parallel Finance — Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services.
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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

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Information Technology
Seed, Series A
Singapore, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

NF3 — NF3 is a community focused NFT swaps and finance market.
Elixir — Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs.
Ethena — Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.

Chain Capital was established in April 2015. The teams covered in Silicon Valley, Toronto, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Moscow, London and Shanghai. The core members are the industry experts from Franklin Templeton Sealand Fund Mangament, Facebook, Qudian, Ogilvy, ShopEx and others. Chain Capital specializes in investing blockchain projects, discoverand help the outstanding teams to better use blockchain technology in order to make the world better.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Read2N — Read2N is a Web3 reading application and content copyright platform.
KOK Chain — KOK Chain is a Keystone of Opportunity and Knowledge - Fair and Shared Digital Contents Blockchain. it is a next-generation business model that pursues qualitative and quantitative growth in the content market through equitable distribution.
Marquee — Marquee - Defi2.0 Insurance & DAO Platform.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Haven1 — EVM multi-app blockchain
Qooverse — Qooverse is a Web3 gaming studio that creates fast-paced, win-to-earn mobile card games with a compelling gameplay loop. This involves developing an ecosystem of mid-core and casual social games for Telegram and future social platforms.
Igloo — Our mission is to create the largest onchain community, driving the consumer crypto revolution.

Beijing Zhangqu Technology Company of Limited Liability is engaged in the development, issue, and operation of moving target games.Founded in August 2004, the company is national high-tech and double soft certified company, with a registered capital of 164 million Yuan. Zhangqu Technology has its own game platform with self developedtechnologies for mobile game distribution channels. It partners with over 900 game promotion channels and over 100 local and international game developers, whose products have entered the Southeast Asian, American, and European markets. After several years of business development as a merger and restructurer, the company has developed into a domestic mobile game developer, publisher, and operator, which ranks third in the evaluation of Chinese mobile game businesses.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Digital Entertainment
Series A, Post-IPO Equity, Angel
China, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Uminton — Uminton is a mobile game development company that specializes in developing sports games.
Gamepoch — Gamepoch offers publishing services for domestic and overseas console game studios.
SPARKLY KEY — SPARKLY KEY is an animation film and television production company.

Huarong Securities provides securities brokerage and trading services.

Investment focus

Education, Virtual Reality, News
Post-IPO Equity, Series A, Series C
China

Portfolio highlights

CQNEWS — CQNEWS is a local news portal website for Chongqing area.
GDI — GDI is a research company in the VR industry.
VRSCHOOL — VRSchool is a virtual reality technology company that offers VR education system.

They invest in Seed to Series A companies across South East Asia and India. Although they have a sector agnostic fund mandate, they particularly like to work with founders that are building ecosystems with the potential to distribute financial services to the unbanked.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Vantient — Bring your people together with engaging experiences, and collect zero-party data consentingly. Build trusted data relationships with your community.
Concordia — Concordia is a modular risk and collateral management protocol that unifies and enables multi-chain collateralization of digital assets.
StepChange — Discover StepChange, India's best platform for ESG management. Measure, analyse, report, and reduce emissions. Request a free demo to get started!

Angel Plus is a China-based venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Health Care
Angel, Series A, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Enchen — Enchen is a daily necessities brand.
Xreal — Nreal is the developer of ready-to-wear mixed reality glasses. Its flagship product, Nreal light, is the first lightweight and comfortable mixed reality glasses, sporting a vivid display combined with spatial computing algorithms for an immersive experience. The company aims to make mixed reality available and accessible to everyone. They strive torealize the full potential of mixed reality by empowering developers to create applications that can ultimately propel a new era of entertainment, productivity, and more.Nreal was founded in 2017 and is based in Beijing, China.
Dongpin Daojia — Dongpin Daojia is a cold chain company.

JISCO is a manufacturer and distributor of steel products, marketing its products both domestic and international. The company was founded in 1958 and is based in Jiayuguan.

Investment focus

News, Internet, Publishing
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Duzhe — Duzhe provides a reading platform and magazine.

Longtu Game is a mobile game development company.

Investment focus

Mobile, Computer, Publishing
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Ugamehome — Ugamehome is a studio for developing games.
Yueren Wangluo — Yueren Wangluo publishes and distributes internet mobile games.

Genertec Investment Management is specialized in securities investment, private equity investment, asset management, and equity management.

Investment focus

News, Internet, Publishing
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Duzhe — Duzhe provides a reading platform and magazine.

GEPIC Energy Development engaged in the electricity production and sales business.

Investment focus

News, Internet, Publishing
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Duzhe — Duzhe provides a reading platform and magazine.

Cherubic Ventures is an early stage focused venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Greater China.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
Bot Auto — Bot Auto develops and operates autonomous trucks for middle-mile freight.
Anzen — USDz is a stablecoin backed by a diversified RWA portfolio, allowing holders to mitigate volatility and earn rewards through all market cycles

Huayi Bros. Media Group is a Chinese comprehensive entertainment group.The company entered the film industry by investing in Feng Xiaogang and Jiang Wen's films, and gained a reputation by investing in the New Year blockbuster directed by Feng Xiaogang. After that it entirely focused on the media industry, investing and operating in moviesand TV drama programs, artist management, records releasing, entertainment marketing, etc.Huayi Bros. Media Group achieved good results in its focused fields and founded Huayi Brothers Media Corporation in 2005. On October 30, 2009, it was formally listed in the GEM of Shenzhen.Huayi Bros. Media Group was founded by Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei in 1994.

Investment focus

Video, Film, Gaming
Series A, Series D
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lytro — The Raytrix Light Field Technology provides 3D capture and high resolution with different one shot cameras. 3D camera | Light field camera
XianyuGame — Shenzhen Galaxy Interactive Technology Co., Ltd. was established in late 2013, is a collection of research and development, operations, distribution as one of the integrated mobile game business. Headquartered in Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai and other places with wholly-owned subsidiary. The company owns the "Best Team", "StreetballAlliance", "The Biggest Dream of the Rabbit", with the launch of the brand salted fish game, the research and development of the brand time machine studio, the Sansi San studio, the e-sports brand WUCG League, "Streetball one to one" and other industries vertical sub-field benchmarking products.
Baofeng Mojing — Baofeng Mojing Chinese video streaming company. Baofeng Mojing appears to be a few steps ahead of the market in that its product is already available to consumers. It’s also one of the cheapest VR experiences on the market,

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

Gecipe — Gecipe is a video service for e-sports players.
Rege Nephro — Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics.
Renalys Pharma — Renalys Pharma is a private, late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical firm in Japan dedicated on developing new therapies that address unmet needs in the management of renal illness in Japanese and Asian patients.

We're a Prague-based VC firm investing in fast growing tech companies and empowering talented startup founders from Central and Eastern Europe.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Czech Republic, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zerops — Zerops is a cloud platform that builds, deploys, runs and manages your apps, no matter the size or environment.
Elin.ai — Elin.ai is a cognitive antivirus. It serves as your companion for the online world. It keeps an eye on your experience and analyzes the content you read, listen, watch, or produce. Right on your screen, it provides a useful context in various ways to protect you from harmful emotional reactions.
Jeff — Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other typesof digital footprint.Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score.The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.

Founded in 2001, IRENA window of sport is China's leading sports industry platform company and after 10 years of operation, it aims to tap into the whole industry chain of ecological system, the venues and copyright event resources integration, mobile Internet, making innovation model sports operating platform; From the venue, fieldoperations, up to entertainment assets operation now based on sports resource of copyright; window of Sports is using mobile Internet to change the window of the sports industry and realize value restructuring of all sports, the entertainment and the whole industry ecosystem .iRENA is the long-term partner of top sports events in China, including China's national football team | Beijing Guo’an | Shanghai Greenland and Shenhua | Evergrande Taobao Guangzhou | CBA Shougang | NBA Chinese international series @ China | women's volleyball team | I love football, and its service includes event sponsorship, ticket agent, game holding, VIP, box and fan club, etc. Based on the profound understanding of facility operation, outstanding creative and strong resource strength in operating practice, Window of the sports made a systematic summary of solution suitable for China - IRENA, and they solved the worldwide problem of the sports venues in the long-term. [China's top sports marketing platform] [China’s Almighty city venues operating platform] [Chinese vanguard of the body entertainment fans aggregation platform] [Chinese forefront of the industry chain operating platform]

Investment focus

Gaming, Publishing, Console Games
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Gamepoch — Gamepoch offers publishing services for domestic and overseas console game studios.

STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
Bytebeam — Accelerate your IoT initiatives with Bytebeam - our platform makes it 10X simpler and quicker to build cutting-edge smart products
Showroom B2B — SHOWROOM B2B is building the largest B2B “Phygital” platform for India’s $108 Bn fashion industry by connecting Tier 2+ clothing retailers directly with small to mid-scale apparel manufacturers and providing all parties with solutions for distribution, credit, logistics, and marketing.Showroom works on “Touch & Feel” mode of selling where itsunique distribution model ensures that there is almost NO RETURN of products sold. It creates Experience Centres for its retailers which gives them the confidence to buy without any iota of doubt about product quality.Showroom's offerings = Better Margins for Clothing Retailers + Aggressive Growth for Clothing Manufacturers

YOOZOO GAMES Co., Ltd. (SZ.002174) is a world-leading provider of interactive entertainment. YOOZOO Games implements the strategies of big data, globalization, and quality products to achieve integrated development across four major arenas: globalized game R&D and publishing, IP management, big data and intelligent technology, andpan-entertainment industry investment

Investment focus

Mobile, Gaming, Software
Angel, Series B, Series C
China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

idatag — idatag offers big data-oriented enterprise precision marketing solutions.
DiYiDan — DiYiDan is an online platform for discussion, make friends, and improve skills.
Monte Carlo — Monte Carlo is an AI-based blockchain technology company that provides users with high-simulation agents and intelligent credit data products.

Next One for the World.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aracan — Aracan is an e-commerce business that provides online and offline car-sharing services for vehicles.
GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
HIGHRESO — GPUSOROBAN is a GPU cloud service that enables anyone to perform high-speed calculations on high-end GPUs with ease. Hi-Res, the running business, is the first GPU cloud operator in Japan to be accredited as a "NVIDIA Elite Partner," the program's highest level (CSP Compute field). Furthermore, it received the "Best CSP Partnerof the Year" award at the NVIDIA NPN Partner Award 2022. It is widely used by university research institutes, large corporations, and AI venture firms, with over 100 uses per year.

We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Credora — XMargin utilizes zero-knowledge proof technology to provide cross-margin, credit, and settlement services for the financial markets. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.
OmniNetwork — OmniNetwork is an Ethereum interoperability protocol, focusing on the field of blockchain technology services.
Catalyst — Contributing to Catalyst, the permissionless liquidity layer for modular chains.

Circle Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York, New York. The company prefers to invest in the field of technology.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, France

Portfolio highlights

AlloyX — AlloyX makes it simple and accessible for protocols, DAOs, and institutional investors to create diversified RWA investment strategies. We provide lenders with a flexible and efficient platform for managing all of their RWA assets based on their yield, risk, and liquidity preferences.
Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Noble XYZ — Noble is changing how stablecoins and other real world assets are issued on blockchains by combining minimalistic, high security architecture with the cross-chain efficiencies of the IBC protocol.

Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services. Its products and solutions include cloud computing, compute, networking, storage and content delivery, databases, analytics, application services, deployment and management, mobile services, applications, AWS marketplace software,startups, enterprises, partners, government and education, websites and web applications, big data and HPC, gaming, and digital media as well as backup, storage, and archive. The company also provides AWS management console, documentation, SDKs and tools, downloads, platforms, Java, JavaScript, mobile, PHP, Ruby, Python, Windows, .NET, resources, forums, tutorials and articles, whitepapers, training and certification, and AWS user groups for developers. In addition, it offers compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services; and mobile services, websites, and backup and recovery services. Amazon Web Services serves the government, education, and non-profit sectors in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. Amazon Web Services was founded in 2006 and is based in Seattle, Washington. It has data center locations in the United States, Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia. It operates as a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Lebanon, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VeraNet — VeraNet builds AI platforms that automate decision-making, providing businesses with data-driven recommendations.
EvolutionaryScale — ESM3. Enabling scientists to understand, imagine, and create proteins.
Bonumbit — Bonumbitt aims to enhance security, transparency, and efficiency in online transactions. The company offers advanced features such as smart contracts, a decentralized review system, and AI-driven analytics to provide personalized shopping experiences. The company's commitment to cutting-edge technology and strategic partnerships positions itas a leader in the evolving e-commerce landscape. With its upcoming token launch on major cryptocurrency exchanges, BBT is set to drive significant growth and redefine the future of online commerce.

Greenwoods Asset Management is an investment management company specializing in managing funds investing into mainland China companies, including but not limited to A shares, B shares, H shares, Red Chips, and ADRs. Greenwoods funds include both international funds investing in Greater China equities for global investors and A-share trusts forqualified Chinese domestic investors.Investors of funds and accounts managed by Greenwoods include reputable institutional investors from around the globe, such as sovereign wealth funds, pensions, endowments, banks, insurers, investment banks, family offices, and high net worth individuals.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series A, Angel, Series C
China

Portfolio highlights

Urban Revivo — Urban Revivo is a luxury clothing retail chain brand.
Chaodian Culture — Chaodian Culture is a brokerage firm that provides in cultural brand of the bilibili video screen network.
Aqara — Aqara is a leading smart home and IoT device manufacturer. Our products are best in class and are compatible with the major home automation platforms.

FBG Capital is a digital asset management firm in blockchain-based capital market.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Poglin — Poglin is a metaverse game IP developer and operator specializes in producing rich and engaging gaming environments.
Swan Chain — FilSwan provides a layer 2 cross-chain infrastructure for Web3 projects by integrating data, computing, and payment into one suite. FilSwan offers a complete solution that enables web3 developers to integrate decentralized storage, edge computing, and payment across multiple chains with ease.
Skyfire Systems — Skyfire, a financial stack designed to enable autonomous agentic AI commerce, is to establish the first fully autonomous, open agentic AI economy in history.

Leading Malaysia's People Forward in Digital Economy

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, B2B
Grant, Seed, Debt Financing
Malaysia, United States

Portfolio highlights

FLEXIROAM — The smartest way to travel flexibly
du-it — du-it is a Fintech that provides revolutionary payment solution for businesses & customers through 'Buy Now , Pay Later' business model.
Algobizz Berhad — Company Background We focused ourselves on developing and providing a Cloud Tax Computation Solution to the Professional Industry, mainly Tax Agents, Accountants and Auditors. Our main objective is to ease the complexities of taxation procedures, enhance efficient submission of taxes, eliminate human error and minimizing operational costs. Thetax software's application is designed in a simple to use, easy to learn, no on-site training requirement and practical manner. With iBiZZtax Cloud, tax agents can now access their clients' data at any time, from anywhere and any internet-connected devices for prompt advisory. Most importantly, by moving to cloud-based tax application, it will be free from being exposed to high risk of becoming a victim of cyber-attack due to the highly confidentiality of tax information.In addition, the solution has successfully integrated to LHDNM newly launched e-filing submission format, namely e-Dts via Web-API in November 2019. An official endorsement has been presented to us for our competency in this field. In line with the government's focus in the field of digital transformation, we will continue to play our role in supporting it as a whole. Our Vision: To build a Digital Tax Economy Ecosystem for the 15 member countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).Our Mission: To continuously explore the field of AI technology in tax software industry towards providing simplified process of tax system.

Zeus Interactive is an entertainment company focused on mobile games.

Investment focus

Children, Internet, Education
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Y2Game — Y2Game is a mobile and indie game publisher that provides a package solution for Release No. app (SAPPRFT app), localization, multi-platform SDK, user management, and payment.
bbpapp.com — bbpapp.com is an Internet education company that specializes in the R&D of maternal, infant and child education products.

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