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Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in Asia in May 2025

Last updated: May 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 May 2025

Investor	Recruiting Asia investments
Tatsuo Sakamoto	3
Hidetoshi Takano	2
Shinichiro Sugiyama	2
Sato Takahiro	2
Stein Jakob Oeie	2
Darius Cheung	2
Yu Akasaka	2
Kensuke Furukawa	2
JJ Chai	2
Bashar Hamood	2
Fabio Cannavale	2
Noguchi Keito	2
Hesham Zreik	2
Yasuyuki Kin	2
Ayataro Nakagawa	2
Yuzuru Honda	2
Binny Bansal	2
Kazuma Ieiri	2
Akira Saigo	1
Yuki Sato	1
Kotaro Chiba	1
Donald Skinner	1
Thomas Hornbeck	1
Taira Sakuma	1
Toru Shimada	1
Sofia Liang	1
Hiura Toshihiko	1
Nimesh Kampani	1
Kotaro Chiba	1
Nobuhiro Ariyasu	1
Masaru Tange	1
Shota Iwasaki	1
Sławomir Czajkowski	1
Quek Siu Rui	1
John Lindfors	1
Umagami Emi	1
Chikako Morimoto	1
Andrew Riddick	1
Yasuo Takahata	1
Hu Hua	1
Kate Choyce	1
Yusuke Akiyama	1
Mariko Ichihara	1
Oshima Ayanobu	1
Johan Nyvene	1
Ming Feng Yeap	1
Masashi Mizunaga	1
Ichiro Fukushima	1
Arai Motoki	1
Hayama Takashi	1

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Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
TravelTales — TravelTales is a platform that connects travelers with local guides who offer personalized.
Mancano And Associates — Explore our domain marketplace to buy, lease, or secure your ideal domain name with flexible payment plans and lease-to-own options. Find premium domains and start your online journey effortlessly with options tailored to fit your budget and needs! - Synergy_Technologies_LLC

Fabio Cannavale - Founder @ Siamosoci

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Properly — Properly is a visual checklist tool that lets property owners share turnover instructions with cleaning pros effortlessly.Properly's mission is to have hosts and property managers get the same streamlined results during every guest turnover cleaning, and for professional cleaners to understand their clients' expectations and getrecognized for stellar work.
Contents — Generative AI Platform to Support Businesses in Creating High-performing, Original & SEO-optimized Content 10X Faster.
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes

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.

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
SFA — Lebanon and abroad for its personal account and non-account in all fields of trade and public industry.
TeaLeaf — TeaLeaf is a firm that wants to assist in the distribution of tea.

Yasuyuki Kin

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.

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.

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.

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

Investment focus

SNS, Internet, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan, Nigeria, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Akira Saigo - Professional officer @ Recruit Technologies Japan

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

Investment focus

Sports, Internet, Recruiting
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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.

Donald Skinner - Executive Chairman, CLSA Capital Partners @ CLSA

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

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.

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.

Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.

Investment focus

Task Management, Manufacturing, Content
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.

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.

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

Graduated from the University of Tokyo, graduated from the Department of Liberal Arts, Harvard University Graduate School of Management (MBA). In April 1983, he joined the Nippon Kogyo Bank Co., Ltd. (currently Mizuho Bank Co., Ltd.). After retirement, he joined Bain & Company in February 1986. For more than 30 years, he has been involved inconsulting activities for companies in Japan, US and Europe in various fields. He was appointed as a representative partner of the Tokyo Office in January 2008 and Chairman in April 2014. He also serves as an advisory partner in Bain & Company Tokyo and outside director of Aluhi Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Content, Recruiting, Task Management
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

stmn — stmn is an Operation of Engagement Management Consulting.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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.

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

Investment focus

Finance, Internet, Content
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Siu Rui is a co-founder of Carousell and oversees Product and Marketing. Since the launch of Carousell in May 2012 together with co-founders Marcus Tan and Lucas Ngoo, Siu Rui has been deeply involved in product strategy, international expansion and capital strategy. He is passionate about technology and has been buying and selling online since hewas 13. This has been a driving force behind Siu Rui’s commitment to building a product-focused company, focused on solving meaningful problems for people globally.Prior to Carousell, Siu Rui spent some time in marketing and product management at VSee, Ogilvy & Mather and DBS Vickers. Siu Rui read Business Administration and Entrepreneurship at National University of Singapore and Stanford University (Under the NUS Overseas College Program in Silicon Valley, California), and dropped out of his Honours year to start Carousell.

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
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.

<p>Stoic Venture Capital is an early-stage venture fund investing in emerging science and deep technology.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Education, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Finland, South Korea, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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.

Umagami Emi

Investment focus

Content, Recruiting, Task Management
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

stmn — stmn is an Operation of Engagement Management Consulting.

Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu

Investment focus

Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round
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.
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

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.

Yasuo Takahata - President @ DesignOne Japan, Inc.

Investment focus

Task Management, SNS, Recruiting
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

Content, Aerospace, Consulting
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Human Resources, Predictive Analytics
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

HiTalent — HiTalent is a tool that provides career planning services.

Mariko Ichihara isa Founding member of Macromill.

Investment focus

Finance, Recruiting, Human Resources
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Ryulog — Ryulog is a recruiting company that helps job seekers find international work opportunities and migrate abroad.
ECloud — E-Cloud is combines the experience and know-how cultivated in finance, IT and venture capital to provide information and opportunities related to venture investment, which has been limited until now, through the equity investment type cloud founding platform e-cloud. It provides to the general investor, and provides entrepreneurs with new means ofraising funds in addition to traditional banks and venture capital.

Oshima Ayanobu - Chairman and CEO @ Infratop

Investment focus

Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.

Founding CEO of HSC, Vietnam 2nd largest investment bank

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.

Ming Feng Yeap - Head of Seedly @ Seedly

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Recruiting
Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more

Masashi Mizunaga is the President and CEO of Star Mica Holdings.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
HiTalent — HiTalent is a tool that provides career planning services.

Ichiro Fukushima

Investment focus

Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources
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.

Arai is the CEO of Happy Elements KK (Japan Company). Arai-Sam manages the mobile business for the Japan market and the business development, product marketing, fans care in Japan.As a student, Motoki Arai worked as a programmer for tech startups such as Gaiax and KLab. He later was involved in the founding of Drecom, and became an executiveofficer just 4 months after joining the company.After being listed in the Mothers Index of the TSE, he started his own company, Cyworks, in Kyot

Investment focus

Wedding, Recruiting, Media and Entertainment
Seed
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.

Hayama Takashi - Outside Director @ Eco Style

Investment focus

SNS, Beauty, Medical
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

MedPeer — MedPeer operates as a community site for doctors. MedPeer is a recruitment agency collective registration service.MedPeer operation of "MedPeer," a collective intelligence service/ community website for physicians.

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