Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Asia in November 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 November 2024
Trustbridge Partners is a mission-driven growth equity firm founded in 2006 with approximately $8 billion under management.
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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.
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.
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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.
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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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.
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.
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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
- Anzen — USDz - stablecoin backed by real world assets
- 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.
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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.
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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 of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.
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.
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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.
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.
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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!
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.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Content
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Flucle — Flucle provides company rule building and risk mitigation, cloud advisor, human resource development, training & labor management services.
- Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
- Logipeace — Logipeace is a SaaS communication platform that offers semi-automation of logistics operations and communication using generative AI.
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.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
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.
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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.
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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.
Showa Leasing engages in the leasing of machine tools, construction machinery, medical equipment, and commercial equipment. The company was founded on April 2, 1969 and its headquarters are located in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
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Investment focus
- Printing, Publishing, Photography
- Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- CAMELOVE — Cameloveis a Camera equipment rental subscription service.
Chongqing Cultural Investment Group is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- News, Publishing, Information Services
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- CQNEWS — CQNEWS is a local news portal website for Chongqing area.
APGTIME engaged in books, periodicals, print reproduction, media technology research and development, equity investment and other services.
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Investment focus
- News, Internet, Publishing
- Series A, Post-IPO Equity
- China
Ucap Cloud is an IT company that has developed platforms such as digital intelligence government affairs, digital intelligence content, digital intelligence security, and digital intelligence justice.
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Investment focus
- Publishing, Information Services, Information Technology
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Xinhua Mobile — Xinhua Mobile provides command and dispatch, content creation, mobile publishing, new media management, and front-end application development, as well as integrated technological solution capabilities.
The Arena Capital has been jointly established by Guiren Bird (603555), Tigers Sports and Jinglin Capital Management Co., Ltd., focusing on sports industry investment. The mobile domain believes that the sports industry is becoming the core driving force for China's economic growth. It is believed that the people's consumption power isimproving, and Internet technology and reform dividends constitute an opportunity for the outbreak of the sports industry. The dynamic team relies on deepening the accumulation of resources in the sports industry for more than 10 years, and is committed to working with entrepreneurs to promote the brilliant future of Chinese sports.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Food and Beverage, Tea
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Teasure — Teasure is a new modern casual teahouse that offers healthy drinks. It specializes in providing high-end milk tea with lychee, matcha, tangerine, strawberry, and jasmine flavors.Teasure has three stores located in Beijing APM, Youtang, and Xi'an, which are designed by designers from the original research institute, China, and the UnitedStates. It is a company that belongs to Beijing Boiled Leaf Restaurant Management Co., Ltd.
- GOGO STORE — GOGO STORE (动咖啡) is a mobile coffee car franchise operator, providing customers with coffee made from high quality raw materials such as Arabica beans, imported fresh milk, and moline syrup. GOGO mobile shopkeepers can use the company's mobile application to facilitate business, analyze operations, and more.
- Next World Culture — Next World Culture is a startup focusing on creating AI-generated virtual humans.
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
- Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
ZONGHENG is a company engaged in film & television, star, sports copyright operation, game development and distribution services.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Publishing, Console Games
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Gamepoch — Gamepoch offers publishing services for domestic and overseas console game studios.
Fire Phoenix Capital focuses on youth subculture content, community economy and consumption, and next-generation social networks.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Publishing, Digital Media
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Read2N — Read2N is a Web3 reading application and content copyright platform.
CBC, founded by Dr. Edward Suning Tian in 2006, is a China-based private equity firm focusing on TMT investments. With its extensive industry expertise , CBC has been regarded as one of the most influential investors in the Internet and technology space in China, leading many exceptional investments in both the Enterprise and the Consumer Internetsectors. CBC leverages its operational background to create significant value for its portfolio companies. CBC currently manages multiple USD and RMB funds with a total AUM of over USD 2 billion and has built a strong portfolio consisting of leading industry companies such as 21Vianet, AsiaInfo, Longshine, Qiniu, Fraudmetrix, Dianping, Focus Media, Oriental Pearl, Babytree, Ximalaya, and Wacai.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- G7 — G7 has an installation base of 800,000 cargo vehicles throughout China. Through its proprietary hardware devices, the company is able to compile data for logistics companies and drivers on location, route optimization, fuel consumption, and cargo status (temperature, humidity, etc).
- Robotphoenix — An industrial robot manufacturer in China
- Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
AltoPartners is an international alliance of independent executive search firms.
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Investment focus
- Insurance, Publishing, Management Consulting
- Seed
- Indonesia, Singapore
Yuling Lin
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Investment focus
- Publishing, Content Creators, Media and Entertainment
- Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Yun Yue Wenxue — Yun Yue Wenxue is a novel creation platform.
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.
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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.
LinkVC committed to serving outstanding companies and developers in the field of blockchain with global commercial resources and professional financial services.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Online Games
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Read2N — Read2N is a Web3 reading application and content copyright platform.
- JDI Global — JDI Global is a Web3 hardware manufacturer.
- Flappy Moonbird — FlappyMoonbird is a free H5 gamefi.
Funcity Capital is an asset management company specializing in Internet finance, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and smart travel.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Bitcoin
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China, Malta
Portfolio highlights
- Biplusplus — Biplusplus is a Blockchain company.
- Didi — Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services.The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi-hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As apractitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation.
- More Sales — More Sales engages in supply chain management services focusing on FMCG.
Neil Cunha-Gomes is SoftBank Investment Advisor.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Finance, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- NF3 — NF3 is a community focused NFT swaps and finance market.
- 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.
- ConsenSys — Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.
Walden International is unique among US venture firms through its focus on cross-border investments that leverage global markets and talent to grow industry-leading companies. For more than 30 years, their integrated team has brought extensive added value to help companies through capital, relationships and expertise.They look to partner with thebest of the best – entrepreneurs with a strong appreciation for the benefits of leveraging talent and markets independent of geography to gain unfair advantage.Their team brings both extensive venture expertise together with in-depth operating experience to help you grow your company.They invest in early and expansion stage companies across sectors such as Semiconductors, Clean Tech, Internet & Digital Media and Software.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Software, Semiconductor
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Riboko — Ruiboke is a high-end optical film product research and development manufacturer.
- CMind-SEMI — CMind is committed to becoming the new global leader in smartphone communication chips by concentrating on 4G and 5G advanced wireless communication chips and complete solutions.
- Qingchun Semiconductor — Sichain Semi is a high-tech chip firm focused on the R&D and industrialization of Silicon Carbide semiconductors and its power devices.
iDreamsky is a Shenzhen, China based company founded in 2009. Even since it has established to be one of the leading smartphone application developers in China. With major clients such as Lenovo, China Telecom, Chung Hwa Telecom, HTC and many more. At 2011, iDreamsky have successfully secure a 2 million USD seed investment from Hwa XiuInvestment Group to create a new business operation: Skynet a one stop solution for game developer to expand and establish their business in China.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Mobile
- Series A, Angel, Series C
- China, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Night Wolf — Shanghai Based Gaming Start Up
- Mighty Jaxx — Singapore based designer toys and art collectibles studio and online store. Vinyl designer art toys by Jason Freeny, Whatshisname, ABCNT, Luke Chueh, Juce Gace and more. Licensed products with DC, Nickelodeon, Looney Tunes, Toki-doki, Sesame Street.
- Sandbox Network Technology — Zhuhai Sandbox Network is a startup founded in 2015. The company is committed to creating a global game UGC platform that helps ordinary players turn their ideas into games. The company has achieved rapid growth both in business and on the team. Up to now, the number of teams has reached 60. From a business perspective, products represented byBlockman GO have achieved nearly 50 million registered users worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Pakistan, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- EduFi — We are Pakistan's first student loan fintech; study now pay later. We helping students finance and plan for their education. Our innovative platform streamlines the borrowing process, making it easy for students to apply for loans and access funds quickly.
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
- PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.
North Island Ventures is a cryptocurrency investment company. The company believes that the emergence of new enabling technologies creates the best technology investment opportunities. Enabling technologies are innovation platforms; they provide a set of new capabilities that entrepreneurs can use and combine to create applications and experiencesthat did not previously exist.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- YeagerAI — YeagerAI is a pioneering AI research lab focused on developing technology that promotes sovereignty, transparency, and decentralization.
- Variational — Go long or short with leverage on memecoins, DEX pairs, pre-launch tokens, points markets, and more.
- Opacity — Opacity fosters user cooperation by employing cryptography for secure, trustless data sharing across closed digital ecosystems, enhancing privacy and collaboration without compromising security.
China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) is a large State-owned enterprise under the administration of SASAC and established in May 2004 with the approval of the State Council.ChemChina is in the list of Fortune 500 and China's largest chemical company and ranks 19th among the world's top 100 chemical corporations.Since itsestablishment in 2004, ChemChina has adhered to its development orientation – "traditional chemicals, advanced materials" and achieved an "extraordinary leaps and bounds". In 2013, its annual total assets reached 272.5 billion yuan, and its sales revenue reached 244billion yuan.The main business of ChemChina is made up of six sectors: new chemical materials; basic chemical materials; oil processing; agrochemicals; rubber products; chemical equipment.ChemChina has opened production and R&D bases in 140 countries and regions around the world with a sound marketing system. It controls 9 A-share listed companies and has a total of 118 enterprises, 6 overseas divisions, 4 subordinate units and 24 research and design institutes. It is a national innovative enterprise.ChemChina is implementing the 12th Five-year Plan and accelerating industrial restructuring. In the future, it will form a business layout of "3+1", namely: materials science, environmental science and life science plus basic chemical, and strive to become a world-class chemical company with international competitiveness.
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Investment focus
- News, Internet, Publishing
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Duzhe — Duzhe provides a reading platform and magazine.
PreIPO is a private equity fund that provides investors with access to pre-IPO companies.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Advertising, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Angel
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SVOLT — SVOLT manufacturer of electric batteries. They specialize in the manufacturing of automotive power batteries and energy storage systems. Their market applications include passenger cars, commercial vehicles, energy storage, and light power solutions. Their products include batteries and energy storage batterie. They provide users with energyvehicle charging piles, batteries recycling, and solutions.
- Weimob — Weimob, a WeChat-based CRM solution provider. Weimob is a SAAS platform that primarily provides enterprises with WeChat-based development, operation, training, and promotional solutions, helping businesses that do not have software development experiences to build m-commerce platforms on WeChat at lower costs. Wemob also provides SCRM and trafficanalytic tools, allowing clients to optimize promotion procedure and improve marketing performance.
- Nivriti Solutions Global Private Limited — 1. Sophisticated asset tracking system navigates the fleet on right paths and ensure speed limit compliance 2. SaaS model with enterprise software integrations provides precise reports that are user-friendly and adaptable 3. Custom IoT hardware predicts possible breakdowns and ensures preventive repairs 4. Regulatory approved standards reportingcompiled with requirements, allowing better investor attention and credit score 5. High quality devices capture live videos of ride, ensure driver soberness, and prevent fatigue state driving
We provide online services and English-speaking support, allowing you to make transactions anytime, anywhere.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Internet, Task Management
- Funding Round, Series A, Series C
- Japan, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- TAQA — TAQA is a utilities and energy company that engages in power, water, and oil and gas operations. It is an international company listed in Abu Dhabi and operates in 11 countries across four continents.The company's interests lie in conventional and alternative power generation, water desalination, oil and gas exploration and production,pipelines, and gas storage. TAQA was founded in 2005 and operates in Canada, Ghana, India, Iraq, Morocco, the Netherlands, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
- Mirfa International Power & Water Company — Mirfa International Power & Water Company is a renewable energy startup that delivers power and water solutions. A combined-cycle gas turbine power plant, a modular reverse osmosis plant, and three multi-stage flash desalination units comprise the company's power and water plant. It has a gross installed power capacity of 1.7 gigatonnes(GW) and a gross water desalination capacity of 53 million imperial gallons per day (MIGD). It aims to deliver a futuristic power generating plant with a net power capacity of 1600 megawatts to address the country's power issues.
Renren Games offers gaming and entertainment services.
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Investment focus
- Comics, Publishing, Digital Entertainment
- Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Jiuyuu.com — Jiuyuu.com is a cutting-edge pan-entertainment content company.
Funding a Better World: We invest in deep tech sectors globally to help solve real world problems.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Mobile
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, China, Singapore
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- 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
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- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Mexico
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- 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
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Sweden, Finland
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- 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.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
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- TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
- Foundersuite — Foundersuite Makes Awesome Tools For Awesome Startups
- Path Robotics — We create manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position, and weld your parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.
Gansu Guotou engaged in investment management and investment consulting.
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- News, Fruit, Sales
- Angel, Series A, Post-IPO Equity
- China
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- GWJ — Tianshui Great Wall Juice Group involves in the research and development, production and sales of apple juice products. Their products such as apple juice, portable apple juice concentrate, family-size apple juice concentrate, apple cider vinegar, apple drink, and pomace feed.
- Duzhe — Duzhe provides a reading platform and magazine.
- CHINA DRAGON SECURITIES — CHINA DRAGON SECURITIES provides brokerage, investment consulting, securities, and asset management services.
Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Singapore
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- 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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Angel, Series B
- China
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- 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
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, United Kingdom, United States
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- 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.
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- Manufacturing, Hardware, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- China, United States
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- 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.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, China
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- 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.
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United States, India
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- 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.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, United States, China
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- 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.
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