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Top 50 Retail Angel Investors in Asia in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Retail startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Retail Angel Investors in Asia in January 2026

Investor	Retail Asia investments
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen	3
Wes Schwalje	2
Kenji Niwa	2
Walid Aradi	2
Allen Miner	2
Li Kanglin	2
Nate Matherson	2
Youcef Oudjidane	2
Charles Xue	2
Dylan Field	1
Weihan Liew	1
Mr. Wang Yahua	1
Matt Caspari	1
Zhengyao Lu	1
Brian Cu	1
Bingqiang Gao	1
Craig Hewett	1
Jerry Yang	1
Kok Long Chan	1
Vincent Lee	1
Alex Jiang	1
Makoto Takano	1
Ryan Petersen	1
Chase Lochmiller	1
Heissam Hartmann	1
Gang Wang	1
Edvard Engesæth	1
Dimiter Tschawow	1
Axel Peyriere	1
Christopher Rust	1
Yang Bin Kwok	1
Jan Wilmking	1
Andy Zain	1
Niklas Eklund	1
Jerry Yang	1
Nick Gundry	1
Alexandre Lazarow	1
Henry Hendrawan	1
Dele Alli	1
Ross Veitch	1
Jiahu Li	1
Julian Shapiro	1
Kevin Ryan	1
Ernest Cu	1
Chris Yeh	1
Olga Lyudovyk	1
Nadeem Hussain	1
Zachariah George	1
Austen Allred	1
Robert Lomnitz	1

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Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen grew up across Africa, from Angola and Guinea-Bissau to Tanzania and Libya, after his family fled the Angolan Civil War as refugees. Those early experiences instilled in him a belief that education, technology, and social innovation can transform lives and continue to anchor his career and philanthropic activities to this day.Today, Lars is a General Partner at Owl Ventures ($2.2 billion AUM), the world’s leading venture capital firm focused exclusively on education technology. He leads Owl’s expansion across Europe, Africa, and global markets, backing founders who harness AI and breakthrough technologies to make learning more accessible and impactful.Before joining Owl, Lars co-founded 2xN, an early-stage fund at the frontier of deeptech and quantum innovation, with standout investments including Quantinuum (valued above $10 billion), Oxford Ionics (acquired by IonQ in a $1 billion deal), QSimulate, and Sparrow Quantum. Prior to that, he was a General Partner at Balderton Capital in London during which time the firm led the Seed and Series A rounds in Revolut. His investments also span education (Labster, uLesson, StudySmarter, Kukua), mobility (Yassir, Voi, Monta, NoTraffic), and mobile and frontier tech (Hiya, Monarch Money, Rahko, Pocket, Colossal, Celus, Octant Bio, Vivino, OpenSea, Blue Bottle Coffee).Lars previously spent a decade in Silicon Valley, shaping some of tech’s most iconic growth stories. At Uber, he joined when it operated in fewer than 20 cities and, as Vice President, forged global alliances with Verizon and América Móvil that fueled its international expansion. Before Uber, as Head of Mobile at Dropbox, he was among the first 25 employees and helped the company reach its first 100 million users through partnerships with Samsung and other OEMs.Despite his career in technology and venture capital, Africa has never left Lars’s journey. After his father’s passing, he returned to Angola to trace his family’s history, discovering that his sister had died of malaria as a child. That revelation transformed a personal loss into a mission. A technologist turned humanitarian innovator, Lars filed a patent for genetically modified mosquitoes that light up when carrying malaria and began funding malaria-research projects in Angola through partnerships with global nonprofits. In 2024, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for malaria research, following earlier campaigns such as climbing the Matterhorn and crossing the Sahara by motorbike.A Danish-Portuguese national who served with the Royal Danish Guards, Lars holds an MBA from London Business School, where he was a member of the Board of Governors and Chairman of the Endowment Fund, an MSc from Oxford University (Keble College), and a BSc from King’s College London. Across every chapter, from refugee to technologist to investor, his purpose endures: advancing education, health, and innovation as catalysts for social change.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
StudySmarter — StudySmarter is an EdTech company that develops an intelligent and content-agnostic platform for lifelong learning. It was first published in 2018 and is used by millions of learners worldwide. StudySmarter has been voted the best EdTech start-up in Germany and Europe by university representatives and education experts.
Empirical — Culinary & scientific innovations applied in flavor to spirits and cans. From premium spirits to ready to drink cans, Empirical has an exciting selection. Order today!

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
Chhotastock — SAUDARATOTO adalah daftar situs toto slot dan bandar togel resmi 4D & 5D terpercaya yang menawarkan layanan aman, transaksi cepat, serta peluang menang besar setiap hari. Nikmati permainan lengkap dengan sistem stabil dan akses mudah kapan saja.

Founder CEO at Firstcard. Entrepreneur and Investor.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Cloosiv — Cloosiv is an ordering platform that allows users to order in advance from their favorite coffee shop, skip the queue, and get rewards from the platform to save time and money.
Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.
Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.

Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, Nigeria, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Allen Miner is a founder/General Partner of SunBridge Partners and the founder/CEO of SunBridge Corporation. Allen has significant experience in Internet, enterprise and open-source software, entrepreneurship, and international technology transfer. Allen has been actively involved in each of the firm’s investments resulting in numeroussuccessful IPOs, including salesforce.com, MacroMill, ITMedia and G-Mode, among others. Allen is currently a member of the Board of Directors of salesforce Japan.Allen graduated from Brigham Young University with degrees in Computer Science and Asian Studies. He joined Oracle Corporation in 1986 and was dispatched to Japan, where he founded and helped lead Oracle Japan to a successful IPO on the Japan stock market. Allen returned from Japan in 1996 to serve as Oracle’s Vice President in charge of Linux/Open Source.Allen created SunBridge Corporation in 1999. Allen currently serves on the Boards of several SunBridge portfolio companies and as an advisor to government-affiliated organizations focused on innovation and entrepreneurship. He was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Japan Venture Capital Association upon its founding in 2002.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Retail
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Japan, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Michroma — Michroma is a biotech platform producing natural ingredients in a sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective way. We are using synthetic biology to unleash the potential of filamentous fungi and develop proprietary strains capable of producing high-performance ingredients in bioreactors.
Favy — Favy is a platform that enables businesses such as restaurants and beauty salons to launch subscription services.
BONAVENTURA — BONAVENTURA is a luxury leather goods brand redefining the essence of next-generation luxury under the vision of 'Beyond Luxury,' combining a robust e-commerce foundation with an expanding network of retail stores.Embark on life's journey with BONAVENTURA, where Italian craftsmanship meets timeless design. Blending elegance,functionality, and premium materials, our creations are crafted to bring lasting joy and stand the test of time.The name "BONAVENTURA" and our symbol "Infinity Clover' symbolize good luck and eternal happiness for those who cherish life’s moments.

Li Kanglin

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 —

Nate Matherson is the Co-founder/CEO of Positional. Positional is a toolset for content teams to scale their content channels faster and drive more traffic from organic search.

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

DryMerge — AI agents that constantly monitor your email, calendar, and calls to keep your CRM updated with every detail.
ParadeDB — ParadeDB is an open source, ACID-compliant search and analytics database. Built on Postgres for update-heavy workloads.
Assembly HOA — Modernizing HOA management through advanced automation and transparency for streamlined community governance.

Youcef Oudjidane is the Founder and Managing Partner of BYLD and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Elevate (YC W22).

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
Next Gen Foods — Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists.

Charles Xue, also known as Xue Manzi, is a Chinese-American angel investor and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of UT Starcom and has invested in Chinese internet startups.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Retail
Series A, Angel, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

DeLink (DELC) —
Huaqin Zhilian — Huaqin Zhilian is a manufacturer of smart robot convenience devices in the field of smart retail.
YEUNGS SAGE E-COMMERCE —

Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

EarnBetter — Save time and get more interviews with AI
Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.

Weihan is a serial technology entrepreneur in Southeast Asia with twenty years of experience, having founded and successfully exited companies in the media and gaming space.

Investment focus

B2B, Energy, Retail
Seed, Series A
Pakistan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
Marham - Healthcare Super App — Pakistans most trusted platform to find doctors, book appointment, or consult online with the top specialist doctors across Pakistan.
Conatural Beauty —

Mr. Wang Yahua is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Retail, Wholesale, Packaging Services
Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Fengguang Tongchuang — Fengguang Tongchuang is a new material developer specializing in chemical product sales, non-ferrous metal alloy sales, building materials sales, packaging materials, and hardware product wholesale and retail.

Managing Partner at Strawberry Creek Ventures, an Alumni Ventures fund. AngelList syndicate lead. 2x venture-backed founder/CEO. Former Innovation @ Nike

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Clover — Clover lets you explode traditional, linear documents into an infinite "surface" for a more intuitive, visual way of note-taking, brainstorming, mind-mapping, and managing tasks.
Cabinet Health — Cabinet is the world's leading sustainable healthcare company. We bring you sustainably packaged medicines in low or no plastic containers.
The Better Meat Co. — The Better Meat Co. is a B2B ingredients company that offers plug-and-play plant protein formulations that quickly and cost-effectively enhance (or even replace) your meat products while improving nutrition, flavor, and yield.

Zhengyao Lu is the president and CEO of China Auto Rental Holdings Limited, a Chinese car rental business that offers sedans, sports utility vehicles, and multi-purpose vehicles for short- and long- term rentals, and leasing. Zhengyao founded the company in 2007, before which he founded a joint LuZhengyao Automobile Club in 2005. Lu holds abachelor’s degree in engineering from University of Science and Technology, Beijing, and an EMBA from Peking University.

Investment focus

Coffee, Retail, Food and Beverage
Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Luckin Coffee — Luckin coffee, a representative of China's new retail coffee, is committed to becoming a leading high-quality coffee brand and professional coffee service provider in the country.Luckin coffee, with preferred raw materials, exquisite coffee technology, innovative business models and leading mobile internet technologies, is striving to bringa higher quality coffee consumer experience to consumers and promote the popularization and development of coffee culture in China.

Brian Cu

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Philippines, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Toki — Toki is a social commerce platform is made to facilitate the safe, profitable, and pleasurable purchase and sale of collectibles. It allows collectors to easily handle transactions The company's platform allows vendors to post their products for categories like footwear, Lego, NBA Cards, and Funko Pops, and customers may buy the products justlike they would on other online marketplaces.
HireQuotient — With the vision to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally, HireQuotient’s virtual interviewers help companies test business skills at scale in an engaging and realistic manner, saving clients millions of dollars and man-hours. It has been used by more than 30,000 candidates in over 42 countries, and generated significant timesavings for hiring organisations while improving candidate quality in interviews.
Lista — Manage your cash flow, maximize business potential and grow your business with Lista. Download now for FREE!

Bingqiang Gao is the Independent Non-Executive Director of Q Tech.

Investment focus

Hardware, Robotics, Electronics
Seed, Angel
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aiator — Aiator is an artificial intelligence product and technology solutions company focusing on industrial fields and biotechnology. Founded in 2010 by Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Scientist in Shenzhen Qianhai DreamWorks, the core members of the team are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Hong Kong. Currently, there arefour peacock talents and nearly 30 independent intellectual property rights. Weiai Intelligent is committed to carrying out AI empowerment services for enterprises, reducing costs and increasing efficiency.
Shanmu SHANMU — Shanmu SHANMU is a micro medical robot specialist who uses self-developed digital microfluidic chipsets and artificial intelligence algorithms. The robot can continuously check the metabolic components in urine, establishing a link between the user's health status and disease and intelligently establishing multiple disease management cycles.
LuMing Robotics — LuMing Robotics is a developer of intelligent robots. LuMing Robotics focuses on the field of embodied intelligent robots, and its business covers intelligent robot R&D and sales, artificial intelligence algorithm development, etc.

Craig is the Co-Founder of Wego.com. He has more than 15 years experience in the online travel distribution industry, starting out with Holiday Inn Worldwide (now known as InterContinental Hotels Group) back in 1995 when the company launched the world's first online booking engine. He left Holiday Inn Worldwide in 1999 to join the start upteam for Priceline.com in Asia. He then joined the start up team for Zuji in Singapore where his tenure was cut short by the events of September 11th 2001. Craig then rejoined InterContinental Hotels Group at the time when the company was ramping up its online technology investments across key Asia Pacific Markets. He developed the company's online strategy across the region with key local investments in China and Japan, successfully introducing local language capabilities into the group's global reservation system and marketing websites.

Investment focus

Retail, Coupons, Internet
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Coupay — Coupay offers consumers the ability to be rewarded for their social equity. By using existing conversion methods, being coupons, cashback and comparison, if a user shares via a social network and a sale occurs, that user is rewarded financially for the share. Coupay has partnered with thousands of retailers, and has over 16 million productson site. Coupay, social shopping that pays in cash.

Jerry Yang is an Investor and Advisory Board Member of Sarcura. Jerry Yang attended the National Taiwan University and HEC Paris.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Semafor — Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
Somewear Labs — Somewear is a satellite communications solution designed for the increasingly digital world. Somewear is building a satellite-powered platform to keep people safe. Somewear gives any remote operative a reliable line to safety and keeps organizations compliant at a fraction of the traditional cost with a combination of compact satellite hotspots andsoftware designed for low-bandwidth applications.It was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mr. Chan Kok Long, aged 47, is one of the 3 key founders of iPay88 Sdn Bhd and currently is the Executive Director of iPay88 Sdn. Bhd and Mobile88.com Sdn Bhd. Both companies are the leading service provider in its own field in the South East Region (SEA). He is currently joint managing iPay88 Sdn Bhd which is the parent company for iPay88 SouthEast Asia. Currently iPay88 Sdn Bhd have offices in Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and soon in Thailand.He was a British Petroleum scholar who graduated from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (“UKM”) with a Bachelor of Science (2nd class upper honours) in 1990. He is a graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM, United Kingdom) and holds a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, United Kingdom.

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed
Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Gogobli — Distributor Online Kesehatan dan Kecantikan Terlengkap di Indonesia. Belanja Aman, Produk Terlengkap dan Brand Ternama. Cari Produk Sekarang!

Vincent Lee - Chairman @ IdeaRiverRun

Investment focus

Retail, Shopping, Automotive
Seed, Series A
Malaysia, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Carsome — Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowingthe customers to sell their cars.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.
WYZauto — WYZauto is an online marketplace that links luxury tyre wholesalers and auto repair facilities. WYZauto provides tire businesses with access to Thailand's largest tire inventory, references, and delivery choices.

Alex Jiang joined Antler to lead its China related investment as Founding Partner for Antler China. Antler is a global multi-stage VC with 25 global offices across 6 continents, covering every major market and innovation hub. As leading Partner for China, I'm backing global-minded Chinese founders who are building globalproducts/services, with 1) Capital from Day Zero to growth 2) Unmatched global founders community (5000+ Antler alumni founders) 3) Unfair advantage in accessing global markets through Antler's global partners, founders and advisors12-year experience in VC with recognized track record. Lead early investor in 3 unicorns and 2 IPOs: Zhihu知乎 (NYSE ZH), 每日互动(China IPO), Mininglamp Technology明略科技(AI unicorn), Advance Intelligence Group 领创集团(Fintech unicorn in SEA), Source 所思科技(leading VR/metaverse company), etc. Alex was voted two times FORBES CHINA TOP100 INVESTORS by Forbes and 2019 CHINA TOP50 VC INVESTORS.Prior to Antler, Alex co-founded Alpha Startup Fund in 2015 and oversees fund raising, investment and portfolio management. Alex was Co-Managing Partner at Sinnovation Ventures (leading early stage VC with a AUM of $3B across 10 funds) and Partner at WI Harper Group (San Francisco, Beijing and Taipei based cross-boarder fund). | Co-President, Harvard Business School Association of Beijing | Founding Chair, Harvard Beijing Angles | Rock climbing and mountaineering

Investment focus

Information Technology, Retail, Internet
Seed, Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Whale — Whale provides an omnichannel marketing platform that transforms marketing operations, digitalizes store operations and unifies offline & online brand experiences leveraging AI + IoT + Big Data to “Connect Brands with Customer”.Founded in 2017, Whale has since empowered 400+ global FMCG, F&B, Fashion and Automotive brands includingP&G, Unilever, Starbucks, UNIQLO, ARMANI, Watsons, Xiaomi, Midea, Lotus, POP MART etc. with over 150,000 stores across APAC, enabling brands to embrace the full potential of digital transformation.Equipped with AI capabilities, patented ReID technology and enterprise-grade security, Whale platforms comprising of Space Data Platform (SDP), Whale Marketing Cloud (WMC), Whale Open Platform (WOP) and Whale Analytics, serve as the end-to-end digitalization engine that enables brands to seamlessly engage with each customer.Whale is backed by Temasek Holding, NIO Capital, Source Code Capital, Linear Capital, Alpha Commune, BAI Capital and The Jiangmen, with 6 offices across Singapore, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen.
Advance Intelligence Group — Advance Intelligence Group is an AI-driven technology company in Asia-Pacific. Founded in 2016, it leverages innovative technology and partnerships to build an ecosystem of products and services serving consumers, enterprises, and merchants.

Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.

Investment focus

Content, Sports, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
PROGRIT — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Nuvo — The only onboarding platform with native fraud prevention and automated credit risk assessment from a portfolio of credit risk insights.
Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.
Little Umbrella — Future is Fun with Social & AI Games. At Little Umbrella, we create AI-powered games that deliver immersive experiences, bringing families, friends, and communities closer together. Proudly serving a growing community of over 30 million players

Chase is an avid tech enthusiast that is passionate about enabling new technologies like AI and blockchain to positively impact people’s lives. Prior to founding Crusoe, Chase was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, a $1Bn fund investing in blockchain technologies, digital assets and energy-intensive computing applications. Chase was previouslya quantitative researcher and trader at Jump Trading and GETCO, where he developed and managed a portfolio of algorithmic trading strategies. Chase holds undergraduate degrees in math and physics from MIT and a masters degree in computer science from Stanford, where he specialized in artificial intelligence. As a personal interest, Chase has climbed five of the “seven summits” including Mt. Everest.

Investment focus

Internet, B2B, Retail
Series A, Seed
Pakistan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
Ritual — Ritual is a reaction to the aforementioned issues. Fundamentally, it is envisioned as an open, modular, and autonomous AI execution layer. Ritual connects a distributed network of nodes with access to compute and model developers.
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.

Over 15 years experience in the Internet industry back Heissam Hartmann's solid knowledge about the online business.Prior to joining Rebate Networks as the Vice President of Eastern Europe, Heissam was Head of International Business Development at the largest German online fashion shopping club brands4friends. Before that, Heissam was CEOof the online postcard service AhaOho, which sent real postcards, and was soon successfully sold to Greetz.As the former Marketing & Business Development Director from the biggest German online video community MyVideo, Heissam, worked on new concepts for new media and video advertising within the online and media industry.He started his career as one of the first staff members at the German auction platform Alando.de, which was acquired by eBay in 1999. He grew with the company as Head of Entertainment on to the position of Senior Manager, helping to build up eBay Switzerland and Austria from the scratch.On an entrepreneurial level he co-founded various companies and, as a Business Angel, advises start-ups in building and growing their businesses. Following his passion he also co-founded fashion brands and personally supported motion pictures and music projects.As the founder of Passiontainment, he advises influential people from the entertainment & sports industries and celebrities on their internet strategies and by that, bridges the worlds between influential investors and up-and-coming startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Shopping
Angel, Seed
Germany, Austria, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

meinKauf — meinKauf/miKunu offers an innovative web & mobile platform for mobile retail marketing & brand promotions. Our services are available in Austria, Hungary and Turkey as we are about to enter another new market this year. We are proud to work with the top high street and brick and mortar as well as top FMCG companies in our activemarkets.
Inventorum — Inventorum’s software enables small retailers to manage their offline and online businesses by supporting daily processes such as point of sale and inventory management. Inventorum combines cash management, inventory management, customer support and e-commerce capability in one system.
Rubina Real Estate — A full service real estate agency based in Berlin with offices in Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Washington and Singapore.

Gang Wang

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wozaijia.com — Wozaijia is a social e-commerce platform for home furniture."I am at home" is a trustworthy home to share direct purchase platform. Here, people can discover, experience, buy, share their favorite home products, we change the home to share economic practice of buying methods. "I am at home" believes that the world will bee better if we can always get a better life with less cost.
Qianyu Islands — Qianyu Islands is the flagship brand of Beijing Beike Youjia Technology Co., Ltd., which is positioned in the “Urban Shared Accommodation Space”. It is committed to providing users with different traditional hotels and B&Bs, younger, more free, more possibilities and higher value for money accommodation options.Since its inception in 2017,Qianyu Islands is based on a sense of quality, experience and freshness for a new generation of consumer groups. It is transforming the traditional accommodation industry with a more Internet-based way to fill the market for urban mid-end accommodation.
Huidu Environmental — Huidu Environmental is a recyclable packing material developer.

Founder at Nurx

Investment focus

SaaS, B2B, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Greece, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
Breyta — Gather all your qualitative data and our AI assistant transcribes, analyses and delivers you accurate product insights and patterns at scale in seconds.
Journey Clinical — Journey Clinical is a platform that provides services to member psychotherapy practices that are independently owned and operated, and in no way owns, directs, or controls the mental healthcare clinicians providing care.

Dimiter Tschawow

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Mexico, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Valoreo — Valoreo acquires, operates, and scales outstanding e-commerce brands with superstar products. We focus on brands with excellent customer reviews and merchants that have proven success by being top-seller in niche categories with high-growth potential.
UpScalio — We will partner with you to invest, grow and scale your e-commerce business to new heights. For and by Indian entrepreneurs and innovators.
Zapp — Thousands of hand-picked products - delivered across London in minutes, 24/7.

Startups - Mentoring - Advising - Emerging Markets. I am a enthusiastic entrepreneur and angel investor working with startups all around the world. Have worked / mentored / coached / partnered / invested in more than 200 startups around the world. Specially keen on online marketplaces and emerging and frontier markets.

Investment focus

Delivery, E-Commerce, Retail
Seed, Series A
Egypt, Nepal, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Appetito — Buy all your groceries and household essentials from your online supermarket. Order from the comfort of your home at your finger tips.
FreshGora — Food and Grocery delivery in Yangon, Myanmar.
Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.

Christopher Rust is the Co-Founder and Partner at Clear Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Kaiam — Shilajit Resin UK Sourced from the Himalayas, Pure Shilajit resin boosts energy, vitality, and wellness. Free UK shipping on all orders.
Tignis — Cohu offers the broadest portfolio of test and inspection equipment and services for back-end semiconductor manufacturing, including a one-stop-shop for semiconductor test and handling equipment, thermal subsystems, test contacting, vision inspection and MEMS test solutions.
Robin.io — Automate deployment of complex 5G & enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost with cloud native Kubernetes storage on the Robin platform.

Yang Bin Kwok

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Upmesh — Upmesh provides e-commerce functionality for live commerce merchants on social media.
Akronym — Specialty coffee has become part of our daily routines in the most positive way. We now have access to what they want the most -- choices.In recent years, roasters have explored new ways to share coffees, making them more accessible and delicious without all the fuss. Enter specialty coffee-filled Nespresso® compatible capsules that open thepalate to discovering new tastes and experiences.
RaRa Delivery — RaRa Delivery is a e-commerce logistics company located in Selatan.

I believe in business can be a force of good. That’s why I invest in solutions for our world‘s most pressing issues. Passionate about human centred software, food tech, circularity, and mental positivity. I was part Zalando's leadership team pre-IPO until 2019, several years in McKinsey in consumer industries, and am active as angel investorand mentor for early stage teams at TechStars and beyond.

Investment focus

SaaS, Retail, Fitness
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Urbyo — Urbyo is a make possible for more people to buy real estate. And to do so quickly, transparently, and conveniently.
Reebelo — Reebelo is APAC’s leading marketplace for pre-loved tech devices. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for refurbished electronics. While doing so, we enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands and flexibly rent devices instead of buying them. Reebelo is based in Singapore with additional offices inAustralia, New Zeland & Malaysia. Get in touch if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
Clare&me — Clare is your virtual coach which calls you whenever you want and wherever you are. Stigma free phone calls and messaging based on cognitive- behavioral therapy. clare&me supports you on your self-help journey to better sleep, less worry and more self-confidence.

Andy Zain is one of the pioneers in the mobile industry in Indonesia. He helped launch some of the first and most successful mobile start-ups in the country. He also established digital services and go-to market strategies for global brands such as Disney, Yahoo!, Cartoon Networks and advised several successful startups in social media, mobilevideo platform and social gaming.Andy is a founder of MobileMonday Indonesia, a networking forum for mobile industry professionals in Indonesia and a Director of the Jakarta Founder Institute, a mentorship and incubation program for startups.Andy oversees the growth and marketing strategy for 8vilages and manages relationship with carriers and key distribution partners.

Investment focus

Retail, Music, Events
Seed, Angel, Series B
Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Laku6 — Laku6 helps emerging middle class own and upgrade smartphones affordable through recommerce and financing.
GDILab — Social Media Analytics helps corporations or brands in creating strategy for their overall business performance achievements.It makes business owners able to listen to their consumers’ experiences and feedbacks about the products and services they used. PT. Generasi Digital Internasional is a startup technology operating under IBM GlobalEntrepreneurship Program. Our focus is to develop a smart digital analytic engine we called LEAP (Listen Engage Analyze Predict) Technology, which will enable brands to accurately strategize and be the best. LEAP Technology capable to capture and monitor structured (company’s data) and unstructured data from social media platforms such as twitter, facebook, and instagram, as well as online media platforms.
Konserku — Konserku is an online demand forecast platform that allows music fans to bring their favourite artists to perform in their cities.

Over the past 25 years, Niklas has an entrepreneur built and internationalized a range of companies in the area of reservation systems, revenue management, online marketing, and web publishing; amongst others he was the CEO and co-founder Bookatable, Livebookings, Infogate, and Epani.Over the past 8 years, Niklas has a direct investor and advisorto investment companies and venture capital companies; amongst others he was a co-founder and general partner at D-Ax (Axel Johnson Group CVC), a venture partner for Wellington Partners Venture Capital. Niklas is currently a general partner for PES Holdings. Investment focus is the Digital Media Sector and Digital Growth Companies, primarily in the Nordic countries and across Europe. Niklas describes himself as a ‘computer software geek and wizard turned businessman’ as he started his career at the age of 15. His achievements in building internationally successful companies have been recognized by various industry awards.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
Sweden, Japan, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
Winnow — Winnow builds artificial intelligence tools to help chefs run more profitable and sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste in half. They develop technology to cut food waste in their operations. Their digital tools provide data to drive improvements in kitchen production processes and reduce environmental footprint.Winnow's mission is toconnect commercial kitchen, create a movement of chefs, and inspire others. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

Jerry Yang is an Investor and Advisory Board Member of Sarcura. Jerry Yang attended the National Taiwan University and HEC Paris.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Croatia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Semafor — Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
Somewear Labs — Somewear is the software-defined network unifying communications for frontline teams. Maximize situational awareness across all levels of an operation.

Nick Gundry is the Partner Development, Asia + Australia at Microsoft. He attended National University of Singapore.

Investment focus

Retail, Coupons, Internet
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Coupay — Coupay offers consumers the ability to be rewarded for their social equity. By using existing conversion methods, being coupons, cashback and comparison, if a user shares via a social network and a sale occurs, that user is rewarded financially for the share. Coupay has partnered with thousands of retailers, and has over 16 million productson site. Coupay, social shopping that pays in cash.

Alexandre Lazarow is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder and Managing Director of Fluent Ventures. Alexandre previously worked at Cathay Innovation as a Venture Partner. Alexandre Lazarow attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Retail, FinTech, Grocery
Pre-Seed, Seed
Brazil, Pakistan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
Boost Technology — Enabling informal small businesses to thrive in Africa's emerging digital economy
Bamboo Debt Capital Markets Platform — Bamboo Debt Capital Markets Platform helps originators find funding and helps investors find great high yield investments

Henry Hendrawan,Executive Board Member - Traveloka.

Investment focus

B2C, EdTech, Retail
Seed
Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Cosmart — Proses belanja rutin jadi kurang dari 5 menit! Tersedia 20.000+ produk dan Gratis Ongkir Tanpa Minimum Belanja!
Mindtera — Platform edukasi untuk belajar kecerdasan emosional, sosial, fisik dan pengembangan diri secara online
Diri Care — Diri Care provides Personalized healthcare solutions.

Dele Alli

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Retail, Organic Food
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TiNDLE — Delicious chicken made from simple, natural ingredients. A more sustainable option for the planet and your health.
Next Gen Foods — SEE IT. TASTE IT. BELIEVE IT. The next generation of plant based foods is here. Using plants to create delicious and satisfying meat experiences you crave.

Ross is CEO & Co-Founder at Wego, an online travel marketplace (aka travel metasearch) operating across APAC and MENA backed by top-tier investors including Tiger Global, Crescent Group, Square Peg Capital, MNC Group and MEVP. Ross is a veteran of the Asian internet industry having established Yahoo!s Southeast Asian operations in Singaporeback in 1998 and leading product development efforts across the region for 6+ years. He is also Singapore Co-Chair of H2, the premier global leadership network for the digital industry. Ross has been an active angel investor in the technology sector for a decade and enjoys working with other passionate entrepreneurs. He has worked in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Kuala Lumpur and is now splits his time between Singapore and Dubai. He travels frequently for business but not nearly enough for leisure.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed
Singapore, Thailand, United States

Portfolio highlights

PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
Light — Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.

Jiahu Li - CEO @ Tunlan Investment

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, Information Technology
Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Dianjia — Dianjia is an IT company specialized in developing retail service platform to provide O2O solutions.

Julian Shapiro is a Partner at Hyper and a Startup Investor at Julian.capital. He previously worked as the Founder of Demand Curve, a Columnist — Growth Marketing at TechCrunch, and VP of Marketing at Webflow. Julian attended Y Combinator.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
Agroshift — Agroshift helps farmers sell their produce to businesses and consumers by providing a tech-enabled supply chain.

Kevin Ryan is the Founder and CEO of AlleyCorp. He previously worked at MongoDB as a Founder and Chairman. Kevin Ryan attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

OYE — From Latin America to the world, we’re building a community to make emotional wellness part of everyday life.
Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
Knock — Buy before you sell, for people who are buying and selling homes, we partner with their lenders and agents to provide cash flow and more certainty, convenience, and competitiveness. Partner with Knock Today!

Ernest Cu - CEO @ Globe Telecom

Investment focus

Retail, Collectibles
Pre-Seed
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Toki — Toki is a social commerce platform is made to facilitate the safe, profitable, and pleasurable purchase and sale of collectibles. It allows collectors to easily handle transactions The company's platform allows vendors to post their products for categories like footwear, Lego, NBA Cards, and Funko Pops, and customers may buy the products justlike they would on other online marketplaces.

Chris Yeh was on the founding team of pioneering Internet companies such as United Online Services (Nasdaq: UNTD) and Merrill Lynch’s Intelligent Technologies Group. He has founded, advised, or invested in dozens of startups, including Ustream and PBworks.Chris is a much-quoted thought leader in the field of marketing and entrepreneurship;his research and publications have been incorporated into the Harvard Business School curriculum, while his projects have received press coverage in Fortune, the Financial Times, and the New York Times. He writes a popular blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital, Adventures in Capitalism and contributes to blogs such as TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Chris holds two degrees from Stanford University, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar (High Distinction).You can reach Chris by e-mail at chris@wasabiventures.com and follow him on Twitter or AngelList.

Investment focus

SaaS, Mobile, Advertising
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Pressto — Pressto helps to develop media literacy, critical thinking and strong writing skills in students of all ages through journalism. Teachers and parents are looking to modernize their approach to critical writing and media literacy: Pressto does both.
Fêtefully — Your Style. Your Budget. Your Way. A virtual experience personalized for every couple.
Next Gen Foods — SEE IT. TASTE IT. BELIEVE IT. The next generation of plant based foods is here. Using plants to create delicious and satisfying meat experiences you crave.

Olga Lyudovyk is the Founder at ShopHop.

Investment focus

CRM, Retail, Consumer
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Omnistream — Our retail technology solutions generate optimized store-level assortment & planograms to accelerate your sales growth, featuring store-level scenario planning.

Nadeem Hussain

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Internet
Seed
Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Well.pk — Dawaai is Pakistan's most trusted online medical store. Order medicines, consult doctors online, get your lab tests done at home.

Zacharia George is a Stanford alum, ex-Wall St investment banker, and co-founded Startupbootcamp Africa (one of the world’s leading accelerators)

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Egypt, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
PriyoShop — Online shopping in Bangladesh for men, women & kids. Buy dress, gift item, beauty products, unique items, jewelry, watch, electronics at PriyoShop.com

Austen Allred co-founded Lambda School and serves as its CEO.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Rork — Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links.
Kick — Daily bookkeeping for the modern business owner. Minimize your audit risk and only pay when you save. Join now and get your first $5,000 in Savings Credits.
Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.

Robert Lomnitz

Investment focus

Retail, Payments, Shopping
Seed
Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Dealcha! — Dealcha.com is Thailand's first cashback website, offering their users an opportunity to earn free cash through their online shopping activity. The concept is simple, register free on their website, choose any of their partner online stores, shop till you drop, and when you make a purchase...a percentage of the price gets credited back to yourDealcha! cashback account. The cashback you receive is on top of any promotions, credit card discounts, coupon codes or payments methods you make. You can then redeem your cashback as actual cash, completely free of charge.

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