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Top 50 Retail Angel Investors in Asia in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 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 July 2025

Investor	Retail Asia investments
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen	3
Nate Matherson	2
Youcef Oudjidane	2
Li Kanglin	2
Wes Schwalje	2
Kenji Niwa	2
Charles Xue	2
Walid Aradi	2
Nadeem Hussain	1
Maximilian Bittner	1
Zachariah George	1
Hirofumi Miki	1
Dylan Field	1
Weihan Liew	1
Mr. Wang Yahua	1
Austen Allred	1
Matt Caspari	1
Zhengyao Lu	1
Brian Cu	1
Bingqiang Gao	1
Robert Lomnitz	1
Craig Hewett	1
Jerry Yang	1
Kok Long Chan	1
Boquan He	1
Vincent Lee	1
Mr. Ma Fulin	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
Jenny Lee	1
Andy Zain	1
Mr. Wang Mengxiang	1
Cen Wang	1
Zhiyi Zhang	1
Yoshikazu Azuma	1
Royston Tay	1
Lim Qing Ru	1
Niklas Eklund	1
Jerry Yang	1
Lisa Gokongwei	1

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Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN and General Partner at Owl Ventures. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includestwo IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11 acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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Quantrol Ox — Building Machine Learning Based Software for Quantum Control with a goal to maximise quantum computer uptime.
UrbanKisaan — UrbanKisaan builds vertical farms in India and sells the produce directly to consumers via subscription based app. The farms create a positive change at every step from seed to store ensuring quality and traceability. They grow fresh veggies locally produced which are grown without using soil using 95% less water. It aims to create a sustainablefuture for farming and feed the world in a way that is good for both people and the planet.It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

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 — DryMerge is a chatbot that facilitates the development of custom processes and API integrations for teams and SaaS customers. The Drymerge chatbot communicates with clients or colleagues directly, takes note of their needs, and promptly builds workflows and API connections on top of your product to satisfy them.
ParadeDB — Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
Assembly HOA — Modernizing HOA management through advanced automation and transparency for streamlined community governance.

Youcef Oudjidane is the Co-Founder of Elevate. He previously worked at Class 5 Global as a Managing Partner. Youcef Oudjidane attended the University of Nottingham.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Organic Food
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.
Theneo — Generate Stripe-like API docs in just a few clicks. We support OpenAPI, Postman, GraphQL and much more
FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.

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 —

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 — Temukan pengalaman bermain toto togel 4D dan toto slot terbaik di SAUDARATOTO. Bergabunglah dengan situs toto resmi yang terpercaya di Asia, dengan berbagai pilihan permainan dan peluang kemenangan besar. Daftar sekarang dan rasakan sensasi menang besar!

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.

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 —

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.

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.

Max is part of the executive team of Lazada.com, a leading regional online department store founded by Rocket Internet in Southeast Asia. As CEO, Max is responsible for the performance of all 5 operating countries as well as overseeing regional buying.Max started his career at Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking division in London. Followinghis MBA, he joined McKinsey & Company in Germany. Over these 4 years at the firm, Max worked largely with Media and Retail clients as a consultant. During his time at McKinsey, he also joined the private equity firm 3i plc for 6 months on a secondment.Max initially joined Rocket Internet in Germany as a regional partner before taking on the role of CEO at Lazada.Max holds a bachelor degree of economics and history from University College London and a MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management in Chicago

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Logistics, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Series C
Singapore, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Lummo — Lummo empower entrepreneurs and brands in SEA to accelerate their growth and to serve their customers by giving them the best technology.
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!
Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.

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

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
Skrmiish — Skrmiish is a mobile “play-to-earn” app that enables gamers of every level to earn cash in every match they play across the AAA+ games.
PriyoShop — Online shopping in Bangladesh for men, women & kids. Buy dress, gift item, beauty products, unique items, jewelry, watch, electronics at PriyoShop.com

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

Investment focus

Content, Marketing, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.

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.

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.

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.
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.
Xingmai Innovation — Xingmai Innovation creates, develops, and sells intelligent swimming pool cleaning robots.

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.

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!

Boquan He

Investment focus

Tea, Bakery, Retail
Series A, Angel, Series D
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

HeyTea — HeyTea is a Chinese tea shop that specializes in cheese-topped tea and fruit tea. In 2012, HEYTEA originated from an alley in the riverside. Originally known as ROYALTEA , the royal tea was completely upgraded to the registered brand HEYTEA.
MarketX Ventures — MarketX is a one-stop shop for over 300 family offices, funds, and high net worth individuals to access high growth investment opportunities. Investment Management Platform Access to investment opportunities in high-growth companies all over the world from your smartphone.
Zetian Benjia — Zetian Benjia operates as a bakery snack brand.

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.

Mr. Ma Fulin 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.

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 — Kaiam is a private company commercializing photonic integrated circuits. In plain language, they specialize in the design and manufacture of gadgets that help transmit and receive data at very high speeds. The company also manufactures optronics equipment for computer networking and hyper-scale data centers. It also uses micromachined silicon, ademonstrated the CWDM4, a 100 Gigabit-per-second coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) silicon photonics transceiver using silicon modules and receivers.
Tignis — Tignis is an information technology company that enables hardware and software vendors to continually monitor performance data while their products are in use. Using real-time edge computing, machine learning, and customer-specific controls, vendors can quickly identify and proactively remedy performance issues and predict problems before theyoccur.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Washington, United States.
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.

Jenny Lee joined GGV Capital back in 2005 as a managing partner and was instrumental in setting up the GGV presence in China.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, 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.
Fiix — Our certified mobile mechanics will come to your office or any location to service your car.
Centific Inc — We empower the Magnificent Seven and enterprise clients with safe, scalable AI deployment and platform engineering. Start building with us today.

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.

Mr. Wang Mengxiang 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.

Cen Wang - Partner @ Sequoia Capital China

Investment focus

Retail, Health Care, Apparel
Angel
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Milly — Shop new arrivals at MILLY and discover cocktail dresses, day dresses, separates, swim and more from our newest collection. Enjoy free shipping on US orders $150+.
MILLY — MILLY is a high-end health and anti-aging brand focusing on nourishing health and beauty.
Wuye Banmian — Wuye Banmian produces retail products such as instant noodles, hot and sour powder, and cold noodles.

Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese actress and model. Her first major role was in The Road Home. She later gained international recognition for her role in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Internet
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Starluxe — Starluxe is a luxury service platform that provides customers with luxury products and accessories.

Yoshikazu Azuma - Representative Director and CEO @ TWO

Investment focus

Retail, Security, Marketing
Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AWL — AWL is a company that provides the leading edge AI camera solutions company .
W Tokyo — W TOKYO is a content production company that offers the latest and highest quality solutions by multiplying its own original content and solutions, centered on women, using the know-how cultivated in the Tokyo Girls Collection as a weapon .

Royston Tay is Co-Founder & CEO at Zopim. He is GM of Chat at Zendesk.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Germany, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Upmesh — Upmesh provides e-commerce functionality for live commerce merchants on social media.
Motorist — Motorist is a Singapore-based automotive platform that simplifies vehicle ownership through smart solutions. We help drivers and car owners to manage their vehicle by providing them with a range of auto services. Stay informed with our network of motorists and motor services.
eaze — At eaze, we are on the mission to democratise good sleep! With 1/3 of people suffering from sleep problems and prescription sleep medication as the current go-to solution, we set out to change this by offering the first digital sleep training. Based on cognitive behavioural therapy, your personal sleep psychologist guides you through anindividualised sleep training that helps you to sleep better for good.

Lim Qing Ru - VP Marketing - RainMaker @ Zopim

Investment focus

Apps, Retail, Computer
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MindFi — MindFi is an employee mental health and well-being app delivering personalized self-care recommendations, support, and behavioral coaches. MindFi enables people to achieve peak mental performance.
StaffAny — Workforce management software connecting Operations and HR for seamless scheduling and time tracking.

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.

Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng is a President at Summit Media. Attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Philippines, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Edamama — Discover your ultimate baby products haven! Discover everything from cozy cribs, diapers to playful toys. Shop now and start creating beautiful memories today!
Otis AI — Otis is the first AI-powered virtual assistant that helps run and optimize your digital marketing cross-platform, at scale and at a budget that works for your business.
VAMA — VAMA is a one-stop virtual platform that provides easy access to e-pujas, e-darshans, and astrology services, to devotees from across India and the world.

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