Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in Asia in July 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Recruiting startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in Asia in July 2025
Investor | Recruiting Asia investments |
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Tatsuo Sakamoto | 3 |
Binny Bansal | 2 |
Hidetoshi Takano | 2 |
Shinichiro Sugiyama | 2 |
Sato Takahiro | 2 |
Stein Jakob Oeie | 2 |
Darius Cheung | 2 |
Kensuke Furukawa | 2 |
JJ Chai | 2 |
Fabio Cannavale | 2 |
Noguchi Keito | 2 |
Ayataro Nakagawa | 2 |
Yu Akasaka | 2 |
Bashar Hamood | 2 |
Yasuyuki Kin | 2 |
Yuzuru Honda | 2 |
Kazuma Ieiri | 2 |
Hesham Zreik | 2 |
Kum Hong Siew | 1 |
Poh Kam Wong | 1 |
John Tan | 1 |
Khor Chieh Suang | 1 |
Toshiro Wakimaru | 1 |
Yusuke Sato | 1 |
Are Gløersen | 1 |
Hirofumi Miki | 1 |
ThuHuong Duong | 1 |
Akira Saigo | 1 |
Yuki Sato | 1 |
Kotaro Chiba | 1 |
Donald Skinner | 1 |
Thomas Hornbeck | 1 |
Taira Sakuma | 1 |
Sofia Liang | 1 |
Nimesh Kampani | 1 |
Masaru Tange | 1 |
Shota Iwasaki | 1 |
Sławomir Czajkowski | 1 |
John Lindfors | 1 |
Johan Nyvene | 1 |
Chikako Morimoto | 1 |
Andrew Riddick | 1 |
Yasuo Takahata | 1 |
Hu Hua | 1 |
Kate Choyce | 1 |
Yusuke Akiyama | 1 |
Umagami Emi | 1 |
Masashi Mizunaga | 1 |
Ichiro Fukushima | 1 |
Ronny Waage | 1 |
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Education, Recruiting
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
- Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Curefoods — Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market.
- BorderPlus — BorderPlus, a talent mobility platform connecting blue-collar workers to global opportunities and providing full support in financing.
- Sarla Aviation — We're developing India's most sophisticated eVTOL, driving innovation for widespread adoption in urban air mobility. Our focus is on creating an affordable, clean, and safe aerial travel experience, revolutionizing the way urban India moves.
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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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor
- Seed, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Sato Takahiro - CEO @ Sekaisha
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Investment focus
- Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- RIZAP GROUP —
Stein Jakob Oeie is the Founder & Managing Director, Indonesia at Rocket Internet GmbH.
Before joining Rocket Internet as Managing Director Indonesia, Stein worked for J.P. Morgan as Associate.
Stein holds a Master's degree from the HEC School of Management / HEC Paris.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Internet, Shopping
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Talkpush — Talkpush is the leading conversational CRM for recruitment. Automate the repetitive stuff and focus on the right talent.
- Propseller — Sell, buy and rent property smarter with Propseller. Get premium service and full transparency for a fair commission. Sell for only 1%.
- Lazada Group — Lazada is the number one online shopping and selling destination in Southeast Asia – present in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Lazada helps more than 100,000 local and international sellers, as well as 2,500 brands, serve the 560 million consumers in the region through its marketplace platform, supportedby a wide range of tailored marketing, data, and service solutions. Lazada offers an excellent customer experience through a wide network of logistics partners and it's own first- and last-mile
Darius Cheung is co-founder of BillPin and CEO/co-founder of McAfee-acquired tenCube.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
- Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
- Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
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".
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Investment focus
- Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
JJ Chai is the CEO & co-founder at Rainforest. He attended National University of Singapore.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Real Estate
- 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
- HeyMax — 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.
- The Wild Ventures — A house of sustainable brands, designed for disruption, differentiated by creativity, and supercharged by AI.
Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
- Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
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.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
- For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
- Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
- SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.
Yasuyuki Kin
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
- Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
- LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, SNS, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
- Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
- ForCreators — A unique virtual talent agency committed to expanding creator potential and elevating Vtubing as a respected profession. Join a community that fosters talent and redefines entertainment.
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, Logistics
- 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.
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
- Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
- TeaLeaf — TeaLeaf is a firm that wants to assist in the distribution of tea.
Kum Hong Siew is a Chief Operating Officer, Airbnb China.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Mobile, Staffing Agency
- Seed, Series A
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Truely Travel eSIM — Stay connected everywhere with Truely eSIM.
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- HeyMax — 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.
Poh Kam WONG is a Professor at the Business School of National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. Through the centre, he oversees the university's entrepreneurship education programs, as well as the university's incubator, seed funding programs and mentoring scheme for nurturing spin-offcompanies by the university's professors and students. He has published extensively in leading academic journals on high tech entrepreneurship and innovation policy in Asia, and has consulted frequently for technology companies in Asia, as well as international organizations such as the World Bank. He is an active angel investor in technology start-ups in Singapore, Asia and Silicon Valley, and is the founding Chairman of Business Angel Network Southeast Asia (BANSEA) and chairman and partner of BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd, a business angel fund based in Singapore. He is the initiator of StartUp@Singapore, the annual national business plan competition in Singapore since 1999.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Wearables, Rehabilitation
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- FundedHere — FundedHere Crowdfunding Platform
- TechStorm — Asia's number one 24/7 Esports, gaming & tech-centric entertainment network available in 26 countries. TechStorm is a brand new 360 international network on Asian Esports and tech-centric entertainment. The network celebrates the region’s trail blazers, the biggest Asian Esports and tech names, bringing them to a truly global audienceand fan base.The 24/7 network’s meteoric rise across Asia now reaches 43 million viewers, 100 platforms across multiple countries and is slated to exceed 20 countries globally. Its original Storm Bytes content is readily distributed to 96 million mobile handset users in 26 countries. This exponential growth was all achieved in less than 22 months.TechStorm is an international Esports and tech entertainment network backed by blue-chip, high profile venture capital groups and founded by prominent industry business leaders in media and technology with more than 30 years of extensive domain expertise and business operations. Its dynamic leadership team is fuelled by a passion to drive change and be the voice for Asia’s Esports and tech entrepreneurship ecosystem.
John Tan - Founder @ Controlled Commodity
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
- Voyagin — Voyagin is the tours and activities marketplace in Asia with a mission to help travelers discover and book the best travel experiences across Asia. Its website features over 1,800 things to do including tickets to museums and shows, cultural activities, romantic dinners, adventure experiences, and private guides bookable in English, Japanese, andChinese in over 50 destinations in Asia, in advance or in destination via its mobile optimized website. The Voyagin team believes that "travel in Asia is broken." Guests end up sightseeing because unique experiences are hard to find and insecure to book; hosts end up spending time and money on websites which are hard to update and mostly out of date. They also believe that an "experience is more than just an activity; it's about meeting people, trying something new and seeing the world from a different perspective." In hopes to differentiate themselves, they traveled around Asia to find and curate the best experiences and hosts.Launched in 2012, Voyagin provides a trusted platform for tours and activities providers (hosts) in Asia to list their experiences; its team of community managers work with each host to curate their activities both online and during the experience, ensuring their quality. Backed by its 100% satisfaction guarantee, multilingual customer support, and verified reviews from actual guests, Voyagin is the best place for travelers visiting Asia to discover and book their next local experience.Voyagin was founded in 2011 as FindJPN, a marketplace for authentic activities in Japan. FindJPN changed its name to Voyagin in December 2012 when they expanded into Asia.
- Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
Chieh Suang focuses on sourcing companies with good potential and helping them to refine their business model and strategy.Prior to joining DMP, Chieh Suang worked at Nusantara Ventures, a family-owned venture fund focusing on Indonesia. There, she helped to incubate 2 startups in Indonesia and worked on a joint venture investment.In2007-2010, she was an Investment Manager with Infocomm Investments, with primary responsibilities in deal sourcing and the conduct of due diligence on potential co-investment deals. She also helped to formulate exit strategies for portfolio companies.Chieh Suang started her career at the Economic Development Board of Singapore, working to develop Singapore into a hub for technology startups. She designed and formulated startup friendly policies, early stage co-investment programmes and marketed Singapore to entrepreneurs, business angels, venture capital firms and technology transfers offices.Chieh Suang has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore. She is fluent in English, Bahasa Melayu, and Mandarin.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Angel
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Pulsifi — Based on People Science, Pulsifi's People Data Platform holistically understands hard skills, soft traits and other aspects of each candidate or employee, by unifying multiple sources of people data – including CVs, psychometric assessments, video interviews and employee benchmarks. The platform then makes personalized recommendations andaccurately predicts work outcomes such as job performance and high potential, fit to role and culture, work styles and values. Customers achieve over 90% accuracy with these predictions, and reduce up to 70% in manhours with the platform.
Toshiro “Tosh” Wakimaru is the Chief Operating Officer of MedPeer, Inc. , Tokyo, Japan since May 2010. Medpeer is the “Medical Doctor Exclusive” SNS in Japan that has just successfully gone to the market in 2014.Prior to the current job, Tosh had been actively working for Price Waterhouse Consulting, Japan LLP (now IBM Japan, Ltd.) aftergraduating from the Boston University School of Management in 1996. While there he completed numerous projects in corporate strategy, operation improvement, and new business development focusing on the retail, service, and healthcare industries with a secondment to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
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Investment focus
- Task Management, Food and Beverage, SNS
- Seed, Funding Round
- Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
- Clear — Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE".
- Cub McPaws — Buy comfortably fashionable kids clothes (4 - 12 years) online in India from Cub Mcpaws at best prices. Gorgeous dresses, jumpsuits, t-shirts, shirts & bottom wear for boys and girls | Free Shipping | COD
- Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
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
- Kaymak — 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.
Are Gløersen
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Recruiting
- Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Careera — HIRING AND GETTING HIRED SHOULDN'T BE A PAIN. Finding the right job or the right candidate can be hard, even using digital platforms. The matching experience just isn't good enough. Plus, there's always a level of bias in the process. In the end, many hiring companies go back to using a recruiter to reduce the workload. Still,there's never a guarantee that you find the right person.Careera gets rid of the job application altogether. Instead, we match great people with inspiring jobs – through an engaging and unbiased platform.
After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.
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Investment focus
- Content, Marketing, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
- Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
- Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
ThuHuong Duong
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- JOBHOPin — JobHop is a SaaS company that connects reputable companies and most suitable talents in SEA, starting with Vietnam. Powered by latest AI/ML technology ,JobHop automates the sourcing process and help make work happen faster, easier and cheaper. JobHop ATS (Applicant Tracking System) helps companies streamline their recruitment process,enhance predictive analytics, smart reporting to ultimately save time and focus in what matter: The candidates.
Akira Saigo - Professional officer @ Recruit Technologies Japan
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- HiTalent — HiTalent is a tool that provides career planning services.
Engineer since 10 years old. Electronics, Mechanical, Web, iOS Android
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Investment focus
- Sports, Internet, Recruiting
- Seed
- Japan
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Content, Internet
- 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.
Donald Skinner - Executive Chairman, CLSA Capital Partners @ CLSA
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Investment focus
- Education, E-Learning, Recruiting
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Pathship — Pathship is an education platform that leverages AI and ML. An alternative to today’s higher education, connecting people with jobs they’re passionate about.
Entrepreneur, technologist, educator, and angel investor working with the most innovative companies to change the world
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- JOBHOPin — JobHop is a SaaS company that connects reputable companies and most suitable talents in SEA, starting with Vietnam. Powered by latest AI/ML technology ,JobHop automates the sourcing process and help make work happen faster, easier and cheaper. JobHop ATS (Applicant Tracking System) helps companies streamline their recruitment process,enhance predictive analytics, smart reporting to ultimately save time and focus in what matter: The candidates.
Taira Sakuma is the founder of FORCAS.
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Investment focus
- Human Resources, Software, Consulting
- Seed, Funding Round
- Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
- Wellday — Eliminates dissatisfaction, anxiety, misfortune, etc. “Misfortune”, and aims to realize in the world where all people can work while imagining the future positively, Japan's first employ SuccessThe platform “Well” is provided. The service is a service that analyzes data of communication tools such as Slack normally used by AI, and allows youto objectively see employee condition and organizational issues.
- OVERFLOW — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
Sofia is the Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions Group at ICBC International. Sofia has 17 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining ICBC International, she was Managing Director and Head of Greater China Equity Capital Market at Macquarie Capital. She has an bachelor's degree in International Economics fromPeking University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, InsurTech, Blockchain
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- JobsLab.io — JobsLab is a Hong Kong-based digital recruitment exchange. We help companies and talent connect through our unique end-to-end recruitment platform quickly and discretely. Our community has exclusive access to rewards and benefits that goes beyond traditional recruitment agencies. We use advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to matchprofessionals with exceptional employers. Find your dream job today. Visit: www.jobslab.io
Nimesh is the Founding Partner at 108 Capital, a Growth-stage venture fund partnering with founders building digital-first, scalable and sustainable businesses. Prior, Nimesh was the cofounder at trica, a full-stack technology platform for growth-stage investments and equity management. He has been an avid Investor in private markets and is alsofounding venture partner for India’s first $100Mn revenue based financing fund N+1 Capital and also advisor & Board member of Campus Fund – 1st dorm fund in India
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- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Seekho — Seekho is a membership-based career accelerator platform. Start your 30-day trial and get unlimited access to Live Workshops, Courses, Certifications, Community to build your career in Product Management, Consulting, Finance, Analytics, Digital Marketing.
- Koinbasket — KoinBasket lets you invest in diversified cryptocurrency portfolios and indexes with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Altcoins and DeFi tokens on Binance, Coinbase and Huobi.
- Intents Mobi — Mobile analytics, Logistics, Transportation, Fleet Management, Data Analytics
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.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States
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- Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
- S-Mat — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
- Launchable — Shorter test runs, smarter test triaging, test health insights, and test failure analysis. Remove friction from the dev-test loop to iterate & ship faster.
Shota Iwasaki
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- Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
- Seed
- Japan
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- Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
- TranSe — TranSe is a company that creates the future with videos through YusukeOkawa, TranSe Salon, OneSe Personal, & your school.
- Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
Sławomir Czajkowski
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- SaaS, Recruiting
- Pre-Seed
- Singapore
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- Careera — HIRING AND GETTING HIRED SHOULDN'T BE A PAIN. Finding the right job or the right candidate can be hard, even using digital platforms. The matching experience just isn't good enough. Plus, there's always a level of bias in the process. In the end, many hiring companies go back to using a recruiter to reduce the workload. Still,there's never a guarantee that you find the right person.Careera gets rid of the job application altogether. Instead, we match great people with inspiring jobs – through an engaging and unbiased platform.
<p>Stoic Venture Capital is an early-stage venture fund investing in emerging science and deep technology.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Education, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Finland, South Korea, Sweden
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- Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Yolk.fm — Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
- IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
Founding CEO of HSC, Vietnam 2nd largest investment bank
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- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Seed
- Singapore
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- JOBHOPin — JobHop is a SaaS company that connects reputable companies and most suitable talents in SEA, starting with Vietnam. Powered by latest AI/ML technology ,JobHop automates the sourcing process and help make work happen faster, easier and cheaper. JobHop ATS (Applicant Tracking System) helps companies streamline their recruitment process,enhance predictive analytics, smart reporting to ultimately save time and focus in what matter: The candidates.
Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu
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- Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round
- Japan
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- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Andrew Riddick - Head of Research @ CLSA
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- Education, E-Learning, Recruiting
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- Pathship — Pathship is an education platform that leverages AI and ML. An alternative to today’s higher education, connecting people with jobs they’re passionate about.
Yasuo Takahata - President @ DesignOne Japan, Inc.
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- Task Management, SNS, Recruiting
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
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- Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
- M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
- Asia Educasion Labo —
Hu Hua
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- Content, Aerospace, Consulting
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
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- MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
- Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
- OVERFLOW — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
Kate is a driven and focused leader with a solid understanding of how to create successful businesses from nothing in uncharted territory. Her passion to redefine the traditional recruitment space is reinforced by her grassroots design, build, and in-house experimentation experience.
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- Recruiting, Human Resources, Predictive Analytics
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- HR Tech International — Revolutionise your recruitment process with automation saving up to 60% of your time usually spent on interviews, screening and induction.
Yusuke Akiyama is a former equity analyst at Goldman Sachs Securities Co., Ltd.
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- Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
- Seed
- Japan
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- HiTalent — HiTalent is a tool that provides career planning services.
Umagami Emi
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- Content, Recruiting, Task Management
- Seed
- Japan
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- stmn — stmn is an Operation of Engagement Management Consulting.
Masashi Mizunaga is the President and CEO of Star Mica Holdings.
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- Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
- Seed
- Japan
Ichiro Fukushima
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- Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed
- Japan
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- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
Ronny Waage
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- SaaS, Recruiting
- Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Careera — HIRING AND GETTING HIRED SHOULDN'T BE A PAIN. Finding the right job or the right candidate can be hard, even using digital platforms. The matching experience just isn't good enough. Plus, there's always a level of bias in the process. In the end, many hiring companies go back to using a recruiter to reduce the workload. Still,there's never a guarantee that you find the right person.Careera gets rid of the job application altogether. Instead, we match great people with inspiring jobs – through an engaging and unbiased platform.
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