Top 50 Real Estate Angel Investors in Asia in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Real estate startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Real estate companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Real Estate Angel Investors in Asia in January 2025
Investor | Real Estate Asia investments |
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Yusuke Sato | 4 |
Zenos Schmickrath | 4 |
Kotaro Chiba | 4 |
Kotaro Chiba | 4 |
Simon Baker | 4 |
Marc Stilke | 4 |
Balaji Srinivasan | 3 |
Ross Veitch | 3 |
Steve Melhuish | 3 |
Aminur Rashid | 3 |
Boon Hwee Koh | 3 |
Tim Marbach | 3 |
Jakob Angele | 3 |
Kiren Tanna | 3 |
Takaya Shinozuka | 2 |
JJ Chai | 2 |
Fumiaki Koizumi | 2 |
Toivo Annus | 2 |
Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu | 2 |
Nobuhiro Ariyasu | 2 |
Yang Bin Kwok | 2 |
Arun Gupta | 2 |
Eduardo Saverin | 2 |
Kazuma Ieiri | 2 |
Sunghwan Choi | 2 |
Huang Shao Ning | 2 |
Jani Rautiainen | 2 |
Brian Ma | 2 |
Michael Gryseels | 1 |
Paco Sandejas | 1 |
William Hockey | 1 |
Wayne Quek | 1 |
Shinsuke Usami | 1 |
Savio Kwan | 1 |
Michelle Lam | 1 |
Roshni Mahtani | 1 |
Takashi Nagao | 1 |
Hidetoshi Takano | 1 |
David Leechiu | 1 |
Christian Hymer | 1 |
Mera Kosuke | 1 |
Mr Maru | 1 |
Dirk van Quaquebeke | 1 |
Bin Ge | 1 |
Shinichiro Sugiyama | 1 |
Takashi Shibayama | 1 |
Aso Kaname | 1 |
Eric Tsang | 1 |
Matthew O'Neill | 1 |
Shintaro Tabata | 1 |
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
Zenos Schmickrath
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Rental Property, Property Management
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Drones, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Simon Baker - Executive Chairman @ Property Portal Watch
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Property Management, Internet
- Seed, Series B
- Brazil, Thailand, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
- AoCubo — The new development brokerage of independent agents. We manage the entire real estate purchasing experience from listing to closing via an Uber-like solution called iBroker, matching every lead with the right agent. We deliver a unique value and experience to buyers, developers and agents.
Marc Stilke
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Rental Property, Energy Management
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Thailand, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- onyo — The future of work is hybrid. onyo provides a one-stop solution to create and ensure a healthy working environment for your team at home. We help you consolidate the individual needs of your employees, match them with products and provide an attractive leasing solution. Via a digital platform, you can track and manage the home-office equipment withone click, 100% transparency, 100% cost control.
- VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
- Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
- Lica World — Hire Lica, AI Video Producer for Product, Sales, And Customer Success Teams
- OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
Ross is CEO & Co-Founder at Wego, an online travel marketplace (aka travel metasearch) operating across APAC and MENA backed by top-tier investors including Tiger Global, Crescent Group, Square Peg Capital, MNC Group and MEVP.
Ross is a veteran of the Asian internet industry having established Yahoo!s Southeast Asian operations in Singaporeback in 1998 and leading product development efforts across the region for 6+ years. He is also Singapore Co-Chair of H2, the premier global leadership network for the digital industry.
Ross has been an active angel investor in the technology sector for a decade and enjoys working with other passionate entrepreneurs. He has worked in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Kuala Lumpur and is now splits his time between Singapore and Dubai. He travels frequently for business but not nearly enough for leisure.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Singapore, Thailand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
- Light — Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
Steve Melhuish is the Founder of Rumah, Co-Founder and Board Director at PropertyGuru Group, Founder and CEO at Planet Rise, Founding Partner at Wavemaker Impact, and an Advisor and Investor at Eco-Business and Ampd Energy. He attended the University of Plymouth and the University of Reading.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Internet, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, India, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- TablePointer — TablePointer is the A.I. and intelligent energy solution for small & medium commercial facilities to optimise energy efficiency, manage assets, upgrade profitability, and unlock sustainability gains right away.
- Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
- Lhoopa — Making homeownership achievable for every Filipino family.
Aminur Rashid is a co-founder of Pickaboo.com.
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Investment focus
- Shopping, Cosmetics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- Pickaboo.com — Explore a wide range of authentic and quality products, including electronics, smartphones, cameras, kitchen appliances, mobile accessories and more. Get Official warranty, EMI facility and home delivery across Bangladesh.
Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
- Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
- Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.
Tim is a global entrepreneur and venture investor. He started his first company bonial.com in 2008 and sold it to German media conglomerate Axel Springer SE in 2011. In 2013, Tim relocated to South East Asia and has since co-founded and invested in many successful consumer internet companies through his private internet holding company Asia VentureGroup. Those companies have successfully raised several hundred million USD in follow-on venture capital and employ several thousand employees across the global. Those companies include HappyFresh, iPrice Group, iMoney (sold to iSelect), FlowerChimp, audibene (sold to Sivantos/EQT), Scalable Capital (sold to BlackRock), Jewelcandle (sold to Equistone), Vicampo (sold to Burda), CARS24, Movinga, Homebell, Fave, Stoyo and many more.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Rental Property, Real Estate
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, Thailand, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Alpakas — Alpacas, in the storm of delivery services, offer a real alternative. With their e-cargo bikes, they deliver sustainable products, sustainably packaged, directly to their homes. Those delivery products include fresh foods, pastries, beverages, household products, and beauty care. They offer gift packs for new products and on a weekly sales basis.
- MYNE Homes — MYNE Homes is a digital co-ownership platform for vacation properties. MYNE Homes was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
Jakob oversees is the CEO at Foodpanda - Romania and Bulgaria.
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Investment focus
- Rental Property, Real Estate, Property Management
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Thailand, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
Kiren Tanna is the Co-founder and CEO at Una Brands. Kiren Tanna attended University of Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Real Estate, Rental Property
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Thailand, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
- BazaarNXT — BazaarNXT is an e-commerce company that optimizes the packaging procurement for Businesses using technology. It is a modern, futuristic, and extended version of the local bazaar. BazaarNXT was founded by Gaurav Badharkhe and Dhananjaya S. in 2017 and is headquartered in Karnataka, India.
Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Local, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan
JJ Chai is the CEO & co-founder at Rainforest. He attended National University of Singapore.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Real Estate, Rental Property
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- Needle — What if a whole marketing agency was a tool? Meet Needle. It crunches data, gives ideas and creates content so you can do more with less.
- heymax.ai — Heymax.ai gives you a free trip every year by rewarding you with Max Miles. Heymax.ai doubles your favorite miles! heymax helps you find the best credit card to use anywhere you shop, and double dip to earn your preferred loyalty points and miles at 20+ airlines and hotels by shopping with our partners like Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Apple,Trip.com, Singapore Airlines and so many more.For businesses, heymax.ai is a simple and efficient way to convert high-spending customers who like rewards on their terms.
Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Content
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
- Aoyama Arts — Aoyama Arts is an architecture and consulting company that develops design offices and supports land search and financing plans.
- FABRIC TOKYO — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Singapore, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
- GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.
Pawoot is like an icon of Thailand online business. Many people call him "the godfather of E-Commerce"
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Thailand, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- DayWork — People and Part-time marketplace
- PEAK — PEAK (peakaccount.com) is one of the leading online accounting software provider in Thailand. We manage accounting record of almost 100,000 transactions valued over 2 billion bath per month. PEAK is a supported startup from True Incube and is invested by True, GSB, and SET. We won several awards and recognitions including winner prize for Ease ofDoing Business Solution, Design Innovation, True Incube Batch 2. We are not only providing online accounting software but we are building business infrastructure for future data-driven economy. We help SMEs in Thailand have a better accounting system and have a better chance of getting loan or money they need to expand their business.
- Protoss Technology — Technology outsourcing company
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Internet, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
- PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
- Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
Yang Bin Kwok
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Upmesh — Upmesh provides e-commerce functionality for live commerce merchants on social media.
- Akronym — Specialty coffee has become part of our daily routines in the most positive way. We now have access to what they want the most -- choices.In recent years, roasters have explored new ways to share coffees, making them more accessible and delicious without all the fuss. Enter specialty coffee-filled Nespresso® compatible capsules that open thepalate to discovering new tastes and experiences.
- RaRa Delivery — RaRa Delivery is a e-commerce logistics company located in Selatan.
Arun Gupta, the Founder and CEO of MoMAGIC is a technology veteran turned first generation serial entrepreneur, with 25+ years of experience and multiple patents to his credit, while donning the hat of Director MediaTek, for close to a decade. Arun Gupta is credited with being the architect of the 1st version of MediaTek handset MMI.
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Investment focus
- Shopping, Cosmetics, E-Commerce
- Seed
- India, Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- Deciwood — Experience high quality sound, extended bass and your design with Deciwood Portable Bluetooth Speakers.We craft affordable, customisable speakers on etched wood
- Pickaboo.com — Explore a wide range of authentic and quality products, including electronics, smartphones, cameras, kitchen appliances, mobile accessories and more. Get Official warranty, EMI facility and home delivery across Bangladesh.
Eduardo Saverin is a Co-founder at Meta. Eduardo attended Harvard University.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Financial Services, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Sugar.fit — Book your FREE webinar today and solve the root cause of metabolic health.
- Antler — Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
- Hopscotch — Hopscotch is an online store offering insider access to baby and kids brands from around the world, at unbeatable prices. F
Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.
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Investment focus
- Content, Fashion, Recruiting
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
- ONE NOVA — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
Sunghwan Choi
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
- CHAI — CHAI is a mobile payments dApp that allows consumers to pay for items online by simply adding their bank account.
- Sequin — Sequin is on a mission to fight the Pink Tax with cashback rewards & money education.
Co-founder of JobsCentral Singapore, Shao-Ning stayed on as the Singapore MD after the company was acquired. During this period, she oversaw operation integrations with the global business and started the company’s transition to become a SaaS player in its Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia operations. Since 2009, Shao-Ning has been mentoring startups in creative, digital and retail industries.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Home Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Homage — Homage is a trusted senior home care marketplace and technology platform seamlessly connecting seniors to the best quality of care on demand.The Homage platform uses a proprietary matching engine that pairs seniors with the best care professionals for their needs in real-time. Family members can schedule, manage, and monitor care visits throughHomage family app from anywhere, stay in communication with the care professional and get real-time information on the care their senior is receiving. Homage app will let family members know who visited their loved ones, how long they spent in the home, and what activities they did. Homage's technology allows it to send a Homage care professional to senior's house within 2 hours. Homage's app for care professionals lets them efficiently run their business, gives them better client information: a care plan individualized to each senior, helpful tips, ability to run on their own schedule, easy communication with the family members through their app.
- Motorist — Motorist is a Singapore-based automotive platform that simplifies vehicle ownership through smart solutions. We help drivers and car owners to manage their vehicle by providing them with a range of auto services. Stay informed with our network of motorists and motor services.
- EngageRocket — We help organizations make better people decisions using real-time analytics. Our customers use EngageRocket platform to measure and improve employee experience.
Jani Rautiainen Founded PropertyGuru, a leading real estate online group in South East Asia founded
in 2006 and grown the company since to 4 countries and over 400 employees. PropertyGuru today serves 14 million property seekers monthly in South East Asia and is used by majority of real estate developers and agents to market their properties.PropertyGuru has also raised S$230m of funding over the lifetime of the company. Prior to PropertyGuru worked with Internet firms since 1996, including founding two start-ups.Jani holds MBA from INSEAD (2005), and M.Sc in Computer Science from
Helsinki University of Technology (2000).
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Internet, Grocery
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, India, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- NoneAway — NoneAway is an AI -powered app that makes property buying, selling, and renting safer, smarter, and simpler.
- Propseller — Sell, buy and rent property smarter with Propseller. Get premium service and full transparency for a fair commission. Sell for only 1%.
- Square Yards — Square Yards is India's Growing Real Estate Website for BUY / SALE / RENT that help find your dream home backed with Trusted Real Estate Developers
Brian Ma is the Founder and Managing Partner at Iterative Capital.
Co-Founder at Decide.com, recently acquired by Ebay. He is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor at various startups.
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Investment focus
- Property Management, Real Estate, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Thailand, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Castia — acasa is a Latam based Proptech. acasa enables homeowners in Latam to move to a new home in a fast and simple manner, leveraging their current home equity. Then we sell the old home or else we buy it after 6 months.
- Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
- Brick — Brick is a financial data application programming interface (API) that allows developers to offer in-app financial services.
Dr. Michael Gryseels is the President of True Digital Group, the innovation unit set up by True Corporation, part of the Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group. True Digital was set up to capture new growth opportunities from digital, analytics, IoT, robotics, and related technologies. True Digital is headquartered in Thailand but has subsidiaries inIndonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, and investments in China, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Michael is also the Group Chief Digital Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of True's parent shareholder Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, Thailand's largest private corporation and one of the largest conglomerates globally, operating across 13 industries and 20+ countries, employing over 300,000 people.
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- Software, Energy, Mobile
- Seed, Series A
- Singapore, India, Philippines
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- Ackcio — Ackcio builds real-time, reliable, wireless, monitoring solutions for industrial applications.
- PixCap — PixCap - Web-based editor. Easily create 3D designs. We ship with thousands of assets, animations, poses, and characters to help you quickly get started. Best 3D software with no downloads for designers.
- VFlow Tech — VFlowTech is a Singapore based company that aims to produce the world's best Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries to the power the sustainable future with pure renewable energy.
Paco Sandejas currently works as the Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Xepto Education, Stratpoint Technologies, and Narra Ventures. He is Chairman of the Philippine S&T Development Foundation and an Independent Director serving on the boards of Sunlife of Canada (Philippines), Sunlife Asset Management, Maya Bank, and Medical Doctors Inc (MakatiMed). He sits on the board also of Ostrea Mineral Laboratories, Diversified Holdings. He assisted UnionBank of the Philippines in its digital transformation as Independent Board Member until 2021. Paco completed his Ph.D. and MS In Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1995 and was the first summa cum ladue graduate in Applied Physics from the University of the Philippines. Paco loves to compete in tennis, football (soccer), and recently golf…ideally as teammate of his children and wife.
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- Information Technology, Training, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Philippines, United States
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- Flyspaces — FlySpaces empowers businesses as a digital marketplace that provides short-term work and meeting space solutions to entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and mobile professionals. Whether the need is for an hour, a day, a week or a few months - we have a network of hundreds of spaces to discover across key South East Asian cities.For venue owners,FlySpaces acts as a digital marketing platform that connects you to a vast user base, allowing you to optimize and monetize your space.We recognize that workspace is more than a mere location. It is a setting that inspires ideas, motivates action and promotes growth. With FlySpaces, find where your business will accomplish its next milestone.FlySpaces empowers businesses as a digital marketplace that provides short-term work and meeting space solutions to entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and mobile professionals. Whether the need is for an hour, a day, a week or a few months - we have a network of hundreds of spaces to discover across key South East Asian cities.For venue owners, FlySpaces acts as a digital marketing platform that connects you to a vast user base, allowing you to optimize and monetize your space.We recognize that workspace is more than a mere location. It is a setting that inspires ideas, motivates action and promotes growth. With FlySpaces, find where your business will accomplish its next milestone.
- Humble Sustainability — Humble Sustainability provides products and accessories reuse and recycle services.
- Xepto Education — Xepto Education provides learning management systems, CPD courses, digital resources, and other education technology solutions.
William Hockey is the Co-CEO of Column. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Singapore, Pakistan
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- Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
- Maza — Maza is a mobile app that offers financial products and digital banking services.
- Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.
Wayne Quek - Director @ HOME LOAN WHIZ
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- Advice, FinTech, Retirement
- Seed
- Singapore
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- Doctor Wealth — Dr Wealth aspires to be the go-to resource for investors interested in Asian markets, positioning itself as a trusted authority that helps investors navigate the complexities of the Asian financial landscape and build their wealth. With a strong commitment to investor education, Dr Wealth empowers individuals with the knowledge and tools needed to make informed decisions, fostering financial confidence and success across the region.
Shinsuke Usami - Chairman @ CARTA HOLDINGS
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- Marketing, Real Estate, Task Management
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- STAR RESORT — Star Resort is a hotel professional the hotel management we aim for is simple.It is a hotel loved by customers being loved leads to a lot of use and can be a long-lasting hotel.
Savio Kwan was appointed to the Board of British American Tobacco p.l.c. as a Non-Executive Director in January 2014. He is a member of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee and the Nominations Committee.Savio has significant business experience of Greater China and Asia. During his extensive career he has worked broadly in technologyfor General Electric, BTR plc and Alibaba Group, China’s largest internet business, where he was Chief Operating Officer and later, a Non-Executive Director. He is a founding partner and CEO of A&K Consulting Co Ltd, advising entrepreneurs about start-up businesses in China.Born in Hong Kong, Savio speaks fluent Mandarin and English. His international career has seen him live in China, the US, Singapore and the UK. He is a visiting Professor at Henley Business School and a regular lecturer on Chinese business strategy and leadership.Savio is married with one adult child, and lives in Hong Kong.
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- Smart Cities, Smart Building, Energy Efficiency
- Series A
- China
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- Venturous Group — Create a better future today with Venturous, a pioneering smart city technology company that creates, builds, and invests in innovative cities across the globe.
Michelle is the co-founder and CEO of the intelligent apparel brand developed a passion for technology ventures and e-commerce, and worked closely with multiple startups including RentTheRunway, LinkedIn and EdgarOnline. Her background in investing and data science also includes tenures with the Boston Consulting Group, Microsoft and Parthenon Capital.
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- Advice, FinTech, Retirement
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Doctor Wealth — Dr Wealth aspires to be the go-to resource for investors interested in Asian markets, positioning itself as a trusted authority that helps investors navigate the complexities of the Asian financial landscape and build their wealth. With a strong commitment to investor education, Dr Wealth empowers individuals with the knowledge and tools needed to make informed decisions, fostering financial confidence and success across the region.
Roshni Mahtani is the CEO and Founder of Tickled Media, the publisher of parenting social network - ParentTown, and media assets - theAsianparent.com and IndusParent.com Her company reaches 11 million Asian mums monthly and has operations in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and India.Roshni is also actively involved in the start-up community. In 2015, she founded the Female Founders Network, a group of over 3,000 female founders. She also sits on the board of TIE Singapore and is an angel investor in a dozen of early stage start-ups.
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- Furniture, E-Commerce, Home Decor
- Seed
- Indonesia
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- Fabelio — Fabelio is a design-centric e-tailer operating in Indonesia and soon in entire South East Asia. They partner with the best designers in Indonesia to create original designs and they work closely with the best factories to manufacture good-quality products at attractive prices. At fabelio they focus on furnishing happiness.
Takashi Nagao
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- SNS, Video, Brewing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Japan
Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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- Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
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- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
David Leechiu
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- Real Estate, Property Management, Information Technology
- Seed
- Philippines
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- AHG Lab — Alternative Housing Group or AHG owns different real estate platforms and brands in the Philippines.
Christian Hymer
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- Real Estate, Construction, Property Management
- Series A
- Singapore
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- STILT STUDIOS — Prefab buildings manufacturing company offering high-quality tiny house and treehouses. Learn more and contact us for any inquiries.
Mera Kosuke
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- Real Estate, Asset Management, Internet of Things
- Seed
- Japan
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- TASUKI Corporation — TASUKI TECH is a SaaS-based real estate value distribution platform for real estate developers. It serves as a life platformer, connecting "people to people" and "people to the future" around the world. Tasuki IoT residence, Tasuki funds, Tasuki tech, DX consulting, and Tasuki incubation fund are some of their services.
Mr. Maru
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- Organic, Residential, Waste Management
- Seed
- Japan
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- AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a firm that utilizes discarded food waste to create ingredients such as plant-based proteins.
Dirk van Quaquebeke is a founding Managing Partner at BEENEXT Capital Pte. Ltd. Prior Dirk was a founding partner at Alps Ventures an early stage investor and company builder with a focus on South East Asia. He has personally built several companies from inception to profitability and/or exit which included KochaAbo (leading onlinesupermarket – exit 2014), Clusterhaus (leading co-working group in Europe – profitable) or Duriana (leading c2c marketplace – exit 2016). He started his career in 2006 in London’s private equity and banking industry for 5 years.
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- Payments, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, Singapore, Philippines
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- Koinex — Koinex is a multi-cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform that fuels Blockchain-powered internet. Its platform facilitates the real-time trading of multiple cryptocurrencies on a single platform, based on a peer-to-peer exchange model that enable potential buyers to place their bids and sellers to set 'asks' for the cryptocurrencythey want to trade-in.Koinex was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
- ZipMatch — Find your ideal property in the Philippines with ZipMatch. Whether you're looking for a condo or house in Makati or Taguig, you'll find your dream home here.
- Hive Health — Hive Health is a digital platform that provides access to easy-to-use, affordable, and quality HMO plans for SMEs in the Philippines.
Bin Ge
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- CleanTech, Architecture, Environmental Engineering
- Series A
- China
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- Zero Carbon System — Zero Carbon System specializes in global low-carbon building design and low-carbon urban planning solutions.
After HR in charge of the Tokyo Stock partially listed manufacturer, joined Pacific Management Co., Ltd. in 2001. After experience IPO on JASDAQ, TSE 2, and TSE partially listed, HR and management planningHe is responsible for management planning, equity finance, and IR, supporting the IPO of two Group companies to the TSE J-REIT market. JoinedEscrit Co., Ltd. in 2008, and oversees the listing of Mothers IPO and Tokyo Stock Exchange as CFO. Joined Bengo4.com Co., Ltd. in 2013 and launched several IPO and new businesses in Mothers in a year and a half as a director CFO. Representative Director of Burritudo Co., Ltd., 5 IPO Experience Companies. In July 2017, he was appointed Director of REXIT Co., Ltd. In November 2017, he became the Auditor of REXIT Co., Ltd.
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- Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor
- Seed, Angel
- Japan
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- REXIT — REXIT, Inc. is REal x IT. With a corporate philosophy of "new value in the Internet and real life", and toward the vision of "making the old business around the world a new business", the mission is to "restructure the bridal industry and create a world full of weddings." Is a company that is challenging. By adding theessence of the Internet and technology to wedding halls and weddings, we create new value that can contribute to society.
- MonooQ — MonooQ is a shared storage service that connects people who are looking for storage space for luggage and those who want to make effective use of the extra space.
- Carat Japan — Service development and operation to make people shine
Takashi Shibayama
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- Music, EBooks, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round
- Japan
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- FOWD — FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.
- AtHearth — AtHearth is a real estate agency offering specialized services for expats in Tokyo. Find Out More.
- Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
Aso Kaname
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- Organic, Residential, Waste Management
- Seed
- Japan
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- AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a firm that utilizes discarded food waste to create ingredients such as plant-based proteins.
Eric Tsang is a Hong Kong actor, film director, producer, and television host.
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- Home Services, Service Industry, Housekeeping Service
- Series A
- China
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- Qingsong Daojia — Qingsongdaojia provides a one-stop solution for home service.
Matthew O'Neill - Global Head of Business Development @ Flow Traders
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- Wholesale, E-Commerce, Real Estate
- Seed
- Hong Kong, United Kingdom
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- Chilango — Chilango is an online mexican food ordering platform. The website enables its users to look for restaurants based on the location or postal code.
- Spacious — Spacious is making it easier to find a great place to live across Asia.Spacious is an online marketplace connecting buyers and tenants with properties throughout Asia. Spacious differentiates itself by combining a superior user experience with powerful analytical tools and relevant content to make the process of buying, renting or selling aproperty as simple and efficient as possible. Dealing with property agents and existing aggregator sites in Asia is painful. Participants feel under serviced, over charged and are highly dissatisfied. Many agent listings on aggregator sites are fake or unavailable properties left as bait to generate leads. Additionally, there is limited availability of high quality valuation tools. The real estate market is ripe for a disruptor that can offer market transparency, independence and a superior user experience.
Shintaro Tabata - Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales @ Line
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- Sharing Economy, Audio, Content
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan
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- Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
- Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
- Telework — Telework is a multi-location workspace that utilizes vacant seats and rooms.
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