Top 15 Recruiting Startup Investors in Hong Kong in January 2026
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 2026
| Investor | Recruiting Hong Kong investments |
|---|---|
| Stein Jakob Oeie | 2 |
| SmartHub | 2 |
| Fabio Cannavale | 2 |
| 27V (Twenty Seven Ventures) | 2 |
| Donald Skinner | 1 |
| Kate Choyce | 1 |
| Andrew Riddick | 1 |
| Donald Tang | 1 |
| SOSV | 1 |
| Sofia Liang | 1 |
| Antoine Blondeau | 1 |
| Khailee Ng | 1 |
| Loyal VC | 1 |
| Rancilio Cube | 1 |
| John Lindfors | 1 |
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
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.
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Investment focus
- Internet, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- TransferGo — Move and manage money between borders quickly and affordably with TransferGo.
- 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!
Twenty Seven Ventures (27V) is a VC fund investing in global EdTech & Future of Work startups at Pre-Seed / Seed stage
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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.
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.
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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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.
Andrew Riddick - Head of Research @ 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.
Donald Tang
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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 — Uncovering Insights Through Behavioral Analytics - Chain of Demand is the first analytics platform that unveils the connections between events, behavioral patterns that lead to market action.
- Catalyte — Catalyte uses AI to discover high-potential talent, develop them and deploy them directly into client organizations.
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.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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
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- 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
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.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, France, Austria
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- 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.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia
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- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- WASTETIDE — Wastetide turns these wastes into profit, and your excel sheets into useful data.
- Bagel AI — Bagel AI is a product intelligence platform that automates product management, helping product teams turn data into insights, streamline GTM, and drive growth
- Aisel Health — Aisel Health provides AI that imitates psychiatrists for psychiatric clinics and hospitals to ensure efficient patient access to care.
Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Italy, Germany
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- 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.
<p>Stoic Venture Capital is an early-stage venture fund investing in emerging science and deep technology.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Education, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Finland, South Korea, Sweden
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- 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.
- IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
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