# Top 50 Real Estate Angel Investors in Asia in June 2026 ## Simon Baker - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Real Estate, Property Management, Internet Simon Baker - Executive Chairman @ Property Portal Watch ## Zenos Schmickrath - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Rental Property, Property Management Zenos Schmickrath ## Marc Stilke - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Real Estate, Rental Property, Energy Management Marc Stilke ## Kotaro Chiba - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Content, Information Technology, Travel Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University. ## Yusuke Sato - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit. ## Steve Melhuish - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Internet, Software 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. ## Jakob Angele - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Rental Property, Property Management Jakob oversees is the CEO at Foodpanda - Romania and Bulgaria. ## Fumiaki Koizumi - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari ## Tim Marbach - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Marketplace, Real Estate, Rental Property 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. ## Balaji Srinivasan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software 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. 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 anonline MOOC. ## Kiren Tanna - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Real Estate, Rental Property Kiren Tanna is the Co-founder and CEO at Una Brands. Kiren Tanna attended University of Mumbai. ## Ross Veitch - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, Real Estate, Rental 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. ## Aminur Rashid - Type: Angel - Location: Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Shopping, Cosmetics, E-Commerce Aminur Rashid is a co-founder of Pickaboo.com. ## Boon Hwee Koh - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services 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. ## Jani Rautiainen - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Real Estate, Internet, Grocery 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). ## Yang Bin Kwok - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Apps Yang Bin Kwok ## Patrick Berbon - Type: Angel - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Solar, Mobile, Automotive Patrick has an extensive background in metallurgy, aerospace, power and cleantech industries. Before co-founding CM Venture Capital, Patrick was a Senior Consultant at Performance Improvement, a risk analysis and management company specialized in power industries. Patrick is an experienced entrepreneur in the advanced materials space. His priorstart-up focuses on advanced nanograin aluminum alloys and its applications, the company was successfully listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange. Before his entrepreneurial ventures, Patrick was a Senior Scientist in Materials Science Division at Rockwell Scientific Inc. Patrick specializes in advanced materials and clean technologies, including renewable electricity generation, biofuels for transportation, green building, clean water, clean air, carbon dioxide emissions reduction, recyclable materials, sustainable foresting and agriculture, and energy efficiency.Patrick obtained Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, M.S. from Tsinghua University (China) and M.S./B.S. from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France), all in Materials Sciences. ## Eduardo Saverin - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Internet, Financial Services, Mobile Eduardo Saverin is a Co-founder at Meta. Eduardo attended Harvard University. ## JJ Chai - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Internet JJ Chai is the CEO & co-founder at Rainforest. He attended National University of Singapore. ## Hidetoshi Takano - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Content 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. ## Toivo Annus - Type: Angel - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce. ## Huang Shao Ning - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Advice 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. ## Sunghwan Choi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Sunghwan Choi ## Brian Ma - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Real Estate, Property Management, FinTech 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. ## Nobuhiro Ariyasu - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Finance, Content, Internet Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United. ## Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Marketing, Internet Pawoot is like an icon of Thailand online business. Many people call him "the godfather of E-Commerce" ## Takaya Shinozuka - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Internet, Local, Sports Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel. ## Kazuma Ieiri - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Content, Fashion, FinTech 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. ## Arun Gupta - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Shopping, Cosmetics, E-Commerce 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. ## Masaru Tange - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Internet Masaru Tange graduated from Kyoto University and joined Incs Inc. in 2000 where he started their IT business and strategy consulting group with only 2 members and developed it into the company's main business with a team of 140 consultants with annual revenue of $50M in 5 years. He then founded SHIFT Inc in 2005 in his studio apartment. He wasthe only employee. The business world wasn't very kind to him - he made no revenue for a while but he kept experimenting with the business model listening to the needs of customers. In 2009, he finally found traction in the "software testing industry." In 2014, Masaru successfully IPO'ed the company. Shift now has 500 employees. ## Ayataro Nakagawa - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, Information Technology 2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd. ## Jaggie (Chen) Zhu - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology Chen Zhu, Jaggie is the founder and CEO of KiwiDrop. Stanford Alum. Prev. Bytedance, Poshmark and P&G ## Takashi Shibayama - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, EBooks, Gaming Takashi Shibayama ## William Hockey - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software William Hockey is the Co-CEO of Column. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University. ## Roshni Mahtani - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Furniture, E-Commerce, Home Decor 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. ## Yu Akasaka - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, Content, Internet During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO. ## Hari Krishnan - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Construction Hari Krishnan is the Chief Executive Office and Managing Director of PropertyGuru Group, bringing nearly two decades of industry leadership in Technology and Consumer internet organizations, across the Asia Pacific and the US. ## Kensuke Furukawa - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi （formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi". ## Gang Wang - Type: Angel - Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation Gang Wang ## Miles Albert - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Construction, Civil Engineering Miles was on the early team of Hashgraph, a next-generation distributed ledger technology that overcomes many of blockchain’s limitations. He has evangelized smart contract protocols since Ethereum's launch in 2015. Miles studied at the University of Southern California. ## Koji Murata - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Asset Management, Internet of Things Koji Murata - President and CEO @ TASUKI Corporation ## Anurag Srivastava - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Anurag became an entrepreneur in 2005 after working in various leadership positions in Singapore, London and India with firms like HCL-Hewlett Packard, Endecca, PTC and Interwoven. He co-founded Space Matrix Group in Singapore with his architect wife and has since led the firm into a $100M entity across 7 countries in Asia. His angel investmentsprior to this include the likes of Eloqua (NASDAQ Listed), Encentuate (acquired by IBM) and HolidayIQ (Acquired by Wego)Anurag is an active member of EO Singapore and also sits on the investment committee for Accel India Fund-1. Anurag is an IIT-Kanpur Alumni where he completed his Electrical Engineering ## Shinichiro Sugiyama - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor 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. ## Christian Hymer - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Real Estate, Construction, Property Management Christian Hymer ## Bin Ge - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: CleanTech, Architecture, Environmental Engineering Bin Ge ## Eric Tsang - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Home Services, Service Industry, Housekeeping Service Eric Tsang is a Hong Kong actor, film director, producer, and television host. ## Takashi Nagao - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: SNS, Video, Brewing Takashi Nagao ## Shintaro Tabata - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Sharing Economy, Audio, Content Shintaro Tabata - Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales @ Line ## Barney Schauble - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, FinTech, Finance Barney Schauble joined Nephila in 2004 as a Principal. Mr. Schauble's primary responsibilities include investor relations, risk sourcing, and other business development projects, as well as portfolio management. Mr. Schauble began his career in New York in 1994 as a broker for Marsh, and later moved to Guy Carpenter (Marsh's reinsurancebroking subsidiary). Mr. Schauble left Guy Carpenter in 1996 to join Goldman, Sachs & Co as part of their new Risk Markets effort, which was focused on securitizing insurance risks and other areas of intersection between insurance and capital markets. He was transferred to London in 1999, where he co-headed the European effort, before returning to New York in 2002. His responsibilities as a Vice President in Risk Markets included client coverage, product development, syndication and distribution for a variety of structured products such as risk-linked securities, weather derivatives, and credit derivatives. Mr. Schauble joined XL Capital's Weather & Energy subsidiary in 2003, and was appointed head of marketing for the weather business. At XLWE he was responsible for managing a global team, originating weather risk management business and hedging XLWE's excess weather risk with insurance and capital markets counterparties. Mr. Schauble attended Harvard College and received his B.A. in Economics in 1994; he wrote his senior thesis to explore the concept of investing in bonds linked to property catastrophe reinsurance risk. ## Patri Friedman - Type: Angel - Location: San Jose, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Legal, Software Patri Friedman is the General Partner of Pronomos. Attended at New York Institute of Technology - Ellis College.