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Top 30 Restaurants Angel Investors in Asia in December 2024

A list of 30 angel investors that invest in Restaurants startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Restaurants Angel Investors in Asia in December 2024

Investor Restaurants Asia investments
Kotaro Chiba 2
Li Kanglin 2
Serguei Netessine 2
Kotaro Chiba 2
Yusuke Tanaka 2
Komura Fujio 2
Ivan Arie Sustiawan 1
Lannan Neville Eacott 1
Pamitra Wineka 1
Jon Oringer 1
Kensuke Furukawa 1
Noguchi Keito 1
Jon Oringer 1
Nobuyuki Idei 1
Yu Akasaka 1
Alan Rutledge 1
Edward Lando 1
Kevin Aluwi 1
Guillaume Luccisano 1
Jon Oringer 1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch 1
Zhou Hongbiao 1
Seung Yoon Lee 1
Luis Sia 1
Nuseir Yassin 1
Nishio Kentaro 1
Toivo Annus 1
Nobuhiro Ariyasu 1
Shintaro Yamada 1
Farouk Kadous 1
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Kotaro Chiba Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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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.
Li Kanglin Angel
Li Kanglin
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Deyanshe
  • SoupMaster — SoupMaster is a Chinese restaurant chain and retail brand. It provides various nutritious soups for pregnant women, patients with a demand for health recuperation, and other people pursuing high-quality life.
  • Lancet Barbecue
Serguei Netessine Angel · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Serguei Netessine is Vice-Dean for Global Initiatives and Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He lived and worked in Russia, USA, France and Singapore., author and speaker on innovation.Prof. Netessine receivedBS/MS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology and, after working for Motorola and Lucent Technologies, he also received MS/Ph.D. degrees in Operations Management from the University of Rochester. His current research focuses on business model innovation and operational excellence and he worked on these topics with numerous organizations including Federal Aviation Administration (USA), Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s, Rolls Royce, Comcast, Expedia, ABB and US Air Force. He serves on advisory boards of multiple startup companies and regularly speaks on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.Professor Netessine has been the recipient of several teaching awards for delivering classes to MBA and Executive MBA students at the Wharton School and INSEAD, and he frequently teaches in Executive Education Programs. Prolific academic writer, professor Netessine holds senior editorial positions at several leading academic journals and he co-authored dozens of publications in prominent management journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review and other. His work has received extensive media coverage in CIO Magazine, the Economist, Forbes, Multichannel Merchant, New York Times, US News and Strategy & Business and other press. He regularly blogs about innovation on http://www.renaissanceinnovator.com and HBR Network. His latest book on Business Model Innovation is forthcoming with Harvard Business Press in 2014.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • TabSquare — Look to the future of the F&B industry - Tabsquare's POS integrated online restaurant system increases hospitality profitability through AI Technology.
  • Comedywire — Comedywire offers an online platform that enables its users to find, share, and create posts of comedic content. Comedywire enables its users to connect with each other and share ideas. Comedywire was founded by Preston Gitlin in December 2014.
  • Alltius — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
Kotaro Chiba Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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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.
Yusuke Tanaka Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
"Shin"ichiro joined Yahoo Japan in April 2013. From July 2013, he joined YJ Capital. He has served as COO of YJ Capital since January 2015. Prior to Yahoo! Japan, Shin was General Director of Dream Incubator Vietnam from 2007 to 2012, managing US$50 million private equity funds in Vietnam. He was formerly a Project Manager at DreamIncubator Japan. He started his career at Future Architect as a system engineer.Shin received his bachelor's degree in Policy Management from Keio University.
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Investment focus
  • Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • TakeMe Co., Ltd. — TakeMe aims to provide an “One-stop Inbound destination service” by enabling tourist to easily find, communicate with, and pay with smartphones via QR code at In-Travel destinations. TakeMe, is the country’s largest inbound service platform in Japan, which lets tourists find, communicate with, and pay with QR code at our affiliated shops,restaurants and tourist attractions. Since our launch in 2015 as JapanFoodie, we have expanded our merchant base to tens of thousands beyond food and restaurants, to include travel, lodging, shopping and events, providing every tourist with the best experience as your best local guide and friend.
Komura Fujio Angel
Komura Fujio
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Investment focus
  • Content, Ethereum, Marketing
  • Seed, Angel
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Ginkan — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
Ivan Arie Sustiawan Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Ivan Arie Sustiawan is a Founding and Managing Partner of Tunnelerate and aShareholder of TaniFund. Prior to that, he was the company's CEO and Co-Founder.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
  • Series A
  • Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • FreshKet — FreshKet is a integrated workflow marketplace for fresh food suppliers and restaurants.
Lannan Neville Eacott Angel
Lannan Neville Eacott
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Investment focus
  • B2B, B2C, Apps
  • Pre-Seed
  • Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • klikit — Founded in 2021, klikit is a Singapore-based venture helping restaurants across Southeast Asia grow their business. With a first-of-its-kind enterprise technology stack, klikit helps restaurants become far more efficient in food delivery operations, while also connecting restaurants to role-model creators to launch virtual food brands for extrarevenue. This team of 30 led by ex-Gojek, Uber, Twitch, Nike and other alumni is backed by Global Founders Capital, Wavemaker Partners, Uber alumni syndicate Moving Capital, Gojek co-founder Kevin Aluwi, Nuseir Yassin of NasDaily, Radish Fiction Founder Seung-yoon Lee, and more.In its first seven months, klikit has serviced over US$2.8 million in food delivery orders across 150 brands in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, as well as Taiwan and Australia.We’re hiring — join us as we help restaurants take back their power in food delivery! http://bit.ly/joinklikit
Pamitra Wineka Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Pamitra Wineka is the Chief Executive Officer of TaniHub. He was the company's President and Co-Founder before that. He earned a Master of Science (MS) degree in Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
  • Series A
  • Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • FreshKet — FreshKet is a integrated workflow marketplace for fresh food suppliers and restaurants.
Jon Oringer Angel · New York, New York, United States
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
  • Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
  • NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Kensuke Furukawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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, Media and Entertainment, Social Media
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Neighbor — The creative universe of Fortnite is infinite. To give an example , building fantasy and science fiction worlds, creating simple games and full-scale battle games can all be completed with Fortnite. Is the world of Fortnite, played by 350 million users worldwide, is it real or unreal? We will try to combining the vast world of Fortnite with the real world.
Noguchi Keito Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Jon Oringer Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
  • Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
  • Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.
Nobuyuki Idei Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Nobuyuki Idei has served as our independent director since June 2007.Being an experienced director, Nobuyuki Idei currently also serves as director of Accenture, director of FreeBit Co, Ltd., director of Lenovo Group, and chairman of the National Conference on Fostering Beautiful Forests in Japan.Nobuyuki Idei is the founder and chief executiveofficer of Quantum Leaps Corporation, a specialist consultancy that advises private and public institutions on the changing role of technology in the 21st century.Nobuyuki Idei is also the founder and chairman of the board of Asia Innovators’ Initiative, a private non-profit organization that he established in 2011 to serve as a catalyst for social innovation in Asia by bringing together a diverse range of individuals and promoting knowledge sharing.Nobuyuki Idei was chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Corporation from 2000 to 2005, chief corporate advisor from 2005 to 2007, and chairman of the advisory board from 2007 to 2012.Prior to that, Nobuyuki Idei held a range of leadership positions at Sony including general manager of the audio division, senior general manager of the home video group, and president and representative director.Nobuyuki Idei has also served in a number of other advisory positions including as counselor to the Bank of Japan, member of Japan’s national IT Strategy Council, and vice-chairman of Nippon Keidanren.Nobuyuki Idei received a bachelor of science degree in economics and politics from Waseda University in Tokyo.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Manufacturing, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • Japan, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Pyrenee — Pyrenee is a hardware startup that creates devices that protect people's lives.
  • Antescofo — Antescofo is the mariage of world-class R&D and Business endeavours. Their technology is the result of 7+ years of R&D in the world’s largest laboratory dedicated to Music and Technology, IRCAM in Paris, and public experience with the most important musicians and orchestras around the world. The principle? Through Intelligent MachineListening, they recognize how humans perform music in real-time and use that information to synchronize content and provide an immersive experience! Antescofo was incorporated in July 2016 and based in Paris, France.
  • Stake Technologies — Stake Technologies is a technology company that provides blockchain solutions to enterprises.
Yu Akasaka Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Alan Rutledge Angel
Alan Rutledge
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
  • FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
  • SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
Edward Lando Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
  • Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
  • Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.
Kevin Aluwi Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Kevin is the CEO of Gojek.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, B2B, Video Games
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
  • Argus Labs — Argus Labs is a game developer and publisher built around a collective of hackers and designers in pursuit of the next great paradigm shift in the video game industry. Our mission: Build the Internet of Games.
  • Dash Electric — Democratizes access to driver as a fleet solutions. Provides a crucial delivery infrastructure for business by leveraging the power of EV.
Guillaume Luccisano Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Guillaume Luccisano was the Co-Founder of TripleByte and Socialcam. He attended EPITECH for his degree in computer science.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Cryptr — DEFAULT : Get features like SSO to convert more B2B customers, regardless of their auth provider. Just a few lines of code to start working with enterprise clients.
  • Cauri Money — Cauri Money specializes in financial technology with a wide range of digital banking solutions via app for fund transfer.
  • Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
Jon Oringer Angel · Miami, Florida, United States
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
  • Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
  • NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch Angel · Miami, Florida, United States
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
  • Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zhou Hongbiao Angel
Zhou Hongbiao is the founder of Zhou Mapo
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Investment focus
  • Restaurants, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
  • Seed
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Beer Halo Man — Beerbitt Man is a new catering chain brand, which combines the national supply chain of Tsingtao Brewery's craft beer.
Seung Yoon Lee Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Seung-yoon Lee is a Global Strategy Officer at Kakao Entertainment. He attended University of Oxford.
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Investment focus
  • Software, B2B, Productivity Tools
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Singapore, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
  • Hubble — Hubble helps to create world class products by gathering high quality contextual feedback. Use Hubble to start collecting in-product UX insights from your own targeted users.
  • SkyArk — First Triple AAA Fantasy Anime Blockchain RPG from Veteran Studio
Luis Sia Angel
Luis Sia - Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer @ PayMongo
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Investment focus
  • Apps, SaaS, Beauty
  • Pre-Seed
  • Philippines
Portfolio highlights
  • AcadArena — AcadArena is the home of campus gaming in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Join tournaments, earn esports scholarships and meet new friends all for free!
  • Peddlr — Peddlr is a free POS mobile app for small businesses. Effortlessly track and manage your sales, expenses, inventory, and transactions. Use it anytime, anywhere, and even offline!
  • BeautyBuddy — BeautyBuddy is a SaaS enabled, social-powered marketplace designed to streamline operations and drive discovery for beauty services in SEA.
Nuseir Yassin Angel
Nuseir Yassin currently works as the CEO for Nas Academy. He previously worked at Venmo as a Software Engineer. Nuseir Yassin attended Harvard University.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, B2B, B2C
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Israel, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • klikit — Founded in 2021, klikit is a Singapore-based venture helping restaurants across Southeast Asia grow their business. With a first-of-its-kind enterprise technology stack, klikit helps restaurants become far more efficient in food delivery operations, while also connecting restaurants to role-model creators to launch virtual food brands for extrarevenue. This team of 30 led by ex-Gojek, Uber, Twitch, Nike and other alumni is backed by Global Founders Capital, Wavemaker Partners, Uber alumni syndicate Moving Capital, Gojek co-founder Kevin Aluwi, Nuseir Yassin of NasDaily, Radish Fiction Founder Seung-yoon Lee, and more.In its first seven months, klikit has serviced over US$2.8 million in food delivery orders across 150 brands in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, as well as Taiwan and Australia.We’re hiring — join us as we help restaurants take back their power in food delivery! http://bit.ly/joinklikit
  • Peech — Peech, an automatic video editing tool, analyzes the verbal content of your video, edits it into a short & catchy version and enhances it with suited visual elements that attract your audience.
  • Virtualness — Virtualness is a mobile-first platform created to assist brands and creators in navigating the challenging Web3 environment. It prioritizes artists and is developing the manual for simple design, effective sharing, and smooth digital commerce.
Nishio Kentaro Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Nishio Kentaro is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer & President at Game8.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet, Software
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
Toivo Annus Angel · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Singapore, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
  • Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
  • GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Internet, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
  • PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
  • Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
Shintaro Yamada Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Finance, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
  • Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Farouk Kadous Angel · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
Farouk Kadous is a Limited Partner of Chapter One.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Shipping, Logistics
  • Seed
  • Egypt, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • naqla — Fill in your shipment's details and get an immediate quote.
  • SOKNA — SOKNA is Egypt’s first end-to-end funeral service providing your loved ones with care and respect at the completion of their life’s journey.
  • Tablevibe — No setup fees, no fixed costs, no commission. Take direct orders on your own website and social media channels. Save on third-party commissions and get full access to all your customers' data. Build your customer databases and grow your business.
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