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Top 15 Recruiting Startup Investors in Hong Kong in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Recruiting startups based in Hong kong. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Hong kong. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Recruiting Startup Investors in Hong Kong in January 2025

Investor	Recruiting Hong Kong investments
SmartHub	2
Fabio Cannavale	2
Stein Jakob Oeie	2
27V (Twenty Seven Ventures)	2
Antoine Blondeau	1
Donald Tang	1
John Lindfors	1
Khailee Ng	1
Welight Capital	1
Kate Choyce	1
Boost Heroes	1
Rancilio Cube	1
Donald Skinner	1
SOSV	1
Loyal VC	1

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SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best start ups to investors, and supports at every investments.Service solutions for investors – tailor made venture portfolios: focused pipeline, extensive analysis and research of investment options, deal structuring, legal paper work, quarterly reporting, investment rightsprotection till exit.Service solutions for startups – fast communications and feedback, mutually beneficial deal making, strategic development support, networking and consulting at fundraising stage.

Investment focus

Internet, SaaS, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.
Damon Motors — Damon is unleashing the full potential of personal mobility for the world’s commuters. With its proprietary electric drivetrain, the company has developed the world’s safest, smartest, fully connected electric motorcycle platform employing radical innovations in battery propagation resistance, sensor fusion and AI. Designed as a platform forworldwide line extension, Damon motorcycles will ship direct to consumer on subscription plans to drive scale. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Damon is a Techstars Mobility company founded by serial entrepreneurs Jay Giraud and Dom Kwong. Damon’s investors include Round 13 Capital, Techstars, Fontinalis, Extreme Venture Partners and Pallasite Ventures.
EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

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 — Revolutionizing AI content generation for enterprises, providing personalized, scalable solutions for e-commerce, publishers, and agencies, with seamless IT integration and brand consistency.
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

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

Twenty Seven Ventures (27V) is a VC fund investing in global EdTech & Future of Work startups at Pre-Seed / Seed stage

Investment focus

Software, Education, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Byteboard — A technical interview redesigned to be more effective, efficient, and equitable for all. Request a demo today!
Offered.ai — Use AI to find a new job with easy. We handle all the automation so you can focus on the interviewing.
Out Of The Box Education — Out Of The Box is a complete learning solution for parents who want to help their child learn better. Get our patent pending classroom-in-a-box to transform any space into an early childhood education environment, and visit our learning platform for personalized curriculum.

Antoine is a technology entrepreneur and an investor in technology companies in California and China. He has 20 years of leadership experience in technology marketing worldwide, as CEO, senior officer and director/advisor in listed companies, start-ups, turnarounds and midsize-to-large companies. Antoine has traded in the currency and stockmarkets for 10 years. Antoine's career highlights include working with the Tokyo representation of the French Prime Minister's DATAR unit to negotiate the setup of Mitsubishi Electric, Canon, Toshiba and Sony's industrial facilities in France, and a 4-year stint at Nortel Networks where he headed the OEM and Asia/Pacific unit of the company's digital wireless terminals business. Antoine was also president & COO of Zi Corporation, a developer of intelligent user interface software listed on the NASDAQ Main Board, and CEO of Dejima, Inc., a developer of distributed artificial intelligence software, which he sold to Sybase, Inc. In addition, Antoine worked at salesforce.com, the leader in on-demand enterprise applications, as vice-president, and at Good Technology, the last independent challenger to RIM Blackberry, as senior vice president. He is an investor, board member and advisor in a number of companies in California, Greater China and Japan. He is the author or co-author of 5 patents. Antoine holds a MBA from the Paris Graduate School of Management (ESCP) and has studied at the faculties of Economics and Commerce of Chuo University in Tokyo.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Cyber Security
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, France, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

GoShare — Moving, hauling, and delivery help is just a tap away with GoShare's easy app. Get a truck or cargo van in less than an hour.
LogicInk — LogicInk is developing bio-chemical signals that can be worn daily, to support your wellbeing with increased knowledge about your health and daily peace of mind.
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.

Donald Tang

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Terminal 1 — Terminal 1 is a recruiting firm that combines high quality recruitment consultants with automated tools to improve placement quality and speed.
Chain of Demand — Chain of Demand specializes in predictive analytics in retail & supply chain related industries.Their proprietary AI distills hundreds of millions of structured and unstructured data points into actionable insights and recommendations for retail, supply chain and financial industries to improve profitability and sustainability.#fintech#retailtech #ML #predictiveanalytics
Catalyte — Catalyte uses AI to discover high-potential talent, develop them and deploy them directly into client organizations.

John Lindfors is a Co-Founder of DST Global. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs as the head of tech and media investment banking in the EMEA region before transitioning to Digital Sky Technologies in 2010.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Communities, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Series D
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.
Pixieray — Pixieray modernizes traditional eyeglass optics by introducing a pioneering adaptive solution giving anyone perfect vision.

Khailee Ng is Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder and CEO of SAYS. He graduated from the University of Technology Sydney, the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Talkpush — Talkpush is the leading conversational CRM for recruitment. Automate the repetitive stuff and focus on the right talent.
YogaTrail — YogaTrail connects yoga providers with their yogis. Get everyone's classes in one simple place and always know what's up in your yoga world.
Call Levels — Don't let the markets drive you crazy - we watch the markets so you don't have to.

Welight Capital is an investment firm that invests in enterprise services, B2B, e-commerce, finance, education, new retail companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Education
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
China, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Volant Aerotech — Volant Aerotech is a company specializing in the R&D, manufacturing, and service of passenger eVTOL, an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
Clourney Semiconductor — Clourney Semiconductor is a research and development firm that makes Wi-Fi AP chips.
Hydrogen Aviation Technology — Hydrogen Aviation Technology is committed to innovative applications of lightweight hydrogen fuel stacks. Its self-developed hydrogen-powered UAV has reached the international leading level.

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.

Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!

Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Convoy — Using technology and automation, the Convoy Platform seamlessly connects carriers with shipments from brokers across the nation.
FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance — FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for entrepreneurs that makes it easy to open a business account and securely manage their finances.

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.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Edept — Edept empowers students with global opportunities and academic excellence, bridging industry and academia to develop skilled citizens.
UTOBO INC. — utobo is the one-stop platform for educators and coaching services to take live classes, create courses and test series, and sell them online in just 30 minutes.
The Leaf Protein Company — Unlocking Earth's most abundant source of proteins - green leaves.

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