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Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Asia

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

Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Asia

Investor SaaS Asia investments
Ayataro Nakagawa 29
Kotaro Chiba 23
Kotaro Chiba 23
Yu Akasaka 21
Yusuke Sato 20
Kensuke Furukawa 20
Boon Hwee Koh 19
Hirofumi Miki 19
Hidetoshi Takano 19
Nobuhiro Ariyasu 19
Mamoru Taniya 15
Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu 14
Masao Ito 13
Toru Shimada 11
Toivo Annus 10
Tatsuo Sakamoto 10
Balaji Srinivasan 10
Shogo Kawada 9
Yasuyuki Kin 9
Shintaro Yamada 9
Amrish Rau 9
Soichiro Kawai 9
Sandeep Nailwal 8
Quek Siu Rui 8
Masanori Sugiyama 8
Royston Tay 8
Jun Nishikawa 8
JJ Chai 8
Fumiaki Koizumi 7
Ryosuke Matsumoto 7
Yoshinori Fukushima 7
Noguchi Keito 7
Shunsuke Oyu 7
Mohammad Maaz 7
Yuzuru Honda 7
Huang Shao Ning 6
Rohit Bansal 6
Serguei Netessine 6
Gokul Rajaram 6
Charles Xue 6
Kiyoshi Nishikawa 6
Hironao Kunimitsu 6
Narita Shuzo 6
Wei Guo 6
Darius Cheung 6
Kunal Bahl 6
Yuki Naito 6
Eduardo Saverin 6
Bob Xiaoping Xu 5
Steve Melhuish 5
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Ayataro Nakagawa Angel
2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
Kotaro Chiba Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Travel, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Kotaro Chiba Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Drones, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Yu Akasaka Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Yusuke Sato Angel
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
Kensuke Furukawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".
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Investment focus
  • Content, Media and Entertainment, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Neighbor — The creative universe of Fortnite is infinite. To give an example , building fantasy and science fiction worlds, creating simple games and full-scale battle games can all be completed with Fortnite. Is the world of Fortnite, played by 350 million users worldwide, is it real or unreal? We will try to combining the vast world of Fortnite with the real world.
Boon Hwee Koh Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
  • Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
  • Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.
Hirofumi Miki Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
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.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Marketing, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AceRNA — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
  • 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.
Hidetoshi Takano Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
Nobuhiro Ariyasu Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Content, Finance
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
  • Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
  • Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
Mamoru Taniya Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Content, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
  • abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
  • RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
Pawoot Pom Pongvitayapanu Angel
Pawoot is like an icon of Thailand online business. Many people call him "the godfather of E-Commerce"
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Investment focus
  • Software, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Thailand, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • DayWork — People and Part-time marketplace
  • PEAK — PEAK (peakaccount.com) is one of the leading online accounting software provider in Thailand. We manage accounting record of almost 100,000 transactions valued over 2 billion bath per month. PEAK is a supported startup from True Incube and is invested by True, GSB, and SET. We won several awards and recognitions including winner prize for Ease ofDoing Business Solution, Design Innovation, True Incube Batch 2. We are not only providing online accounting software but we are building business infrastructure for future data-driven economy. We help SMEs in Thailand have a better accounting system and have a better chance of getting loan or money they need to expand their business.
  • Protoss Technology — Technology outsourcing company
Masao Ito Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Information Technology, Social Media
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
  • Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
Toru Shimada Angel
Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.
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Investment focus
  • Task Management, Manufacturing, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
Toivo Annus Angel · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Singapore, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
  • Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
  • GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.
Tatsuo Sakamoto Angel
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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Investment focus
  • Recruiting, Information Technology, Task Management
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
Balaji Srinivasan Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 34 investments in the past 12 months
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • MyShell — MyShell is a decentralized and comprehensive platform for discovering, creating, and staking AI-native apps.
  • Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.
  • Clique — Clique is building identity oracles that connect web2 user behavior data with web3 applications.
Shogo Kawada Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Shogo Kawada is Co-founder and Adviser of DeNA, a global Internet company focused on a social games platform, social games, e-commerce and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
  • sunblaze — sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time.
  • Spider Labs — Spider Labs offers solutions to help fight ad fraud and ensure data security.
Yasuyuki Kin Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yasuyuki Kin
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
  • Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
  • LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
Shintaro Yamada Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Finance, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Autify — Autify - Revolutionizing Software Testing with the most advanced AI-powered Software Testing Tool
  • Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Amrish Rau Angel
Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • India, Singapore, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
  • OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
  • CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
Soichiro Kawai Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Villio — Villio provides talent experience SaaS which helps companies with human resource development and recruitment of talented engineers.
  • HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
  • SPeak Corporation — SPeak Corporation operates JPort Match that is involved in direct recruiting service. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.
Sandeep Nailwal Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Succinct — The easiest way to discover, develop, and deploy ZK.
  • Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.
  • Ooga Booga — Ooga Booga is a liquidity aggregator designed to support the goal of becoming the most capital efficient blockchain.
Quek Siu Rui Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Siu Rui is a co-founder of Carousell and oversees Product and Marketing. Since the launch of Carousell in May 2012 together with co-founders Marcus Tan and Lucas Ngoo, Siu Rui has been deeply involved in product strategy, international expansion and capital strategy. He is passionate about technology and has been buying and selling online since hewas 13. This has been a driving force behind Siu Rui’s commitment to building a product-focused company, focused on solving meaningful problems for people globally.Prior to Carousell, Siu Rui spent some time in marketing and product management at VSee, Ogilvy & Mather and DBS Vickers. Siu Rui read Business Administration and Entrepreneurship at National University of Singapore and Stanford University (Under the NUS Overseas College Program in Silicon Valley, California), and dropped out of his Honours year to start Carousell.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Education, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Singapore, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Jackett — Jackett is your assessment automation platform for eliminating the hassle of writing & marking (quizzes, tests, worksheets, homework) - and so much more.
  • NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
  • Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
Masanori Sugiyama Angel
He graduated from Kansai University in 1988. He was enrolled in Ljoma while he was in college. 2002 Vice President of Practice (now index lights). In 2004, he became president of zappallas. Listed on the TSE Mothers in the second year of his appointment, and in 2010 he was listed in part of the TSE. In 2011 he became the CEO of enish. Listed on apart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thereafter, he served as outside directors such as Nikkatsu and JibannetHD.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • STUDIO — The easiest and quickest tool to turn any idea into a website. No code. All creative freedom.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
Royston Tay Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Royston Tay is Co-Founder & CEO at Zopim. He is GM of Chat at Zendesk.
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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.
Jun Nishikawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ eureka, Inc.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Content
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
JJ Chai Angel · 3 investments in the past 12 months
JJ Chai is the CEO & co-founder at Rainforest. He attended National University of Singapore.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Real Estate, Rental Property
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
  • Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
  • Needle — The world's first personal AI marketer for rising brands. It analyzes data, gives ideas and takes action. Sign up for early access!
Fumiaki Koizumi Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari
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Investment focus
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Osiro — Osiro is a community management firm.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
  • FABRIC TOKYO — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
Ryosuke Matsumoto Angel
Ryosuke Matsumoto is the founder and CEO of Community Factory Inc.Ryosuke is born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1981. He joined launching of the publication venture company, and ran a cafe while he was attending Chuo University in Tokyo. Since he joined launching the social media venture company in 2004, he has been in social media business. In2006, Ryosuke founded Community Factory Inc. which specialized in planning and operating social media and blog services.Community Factory started to specialize in social application for mobile from 2009, and Community Factory draw investments of around 4.5 million US dollars from venture capitals and mixi inc. then the biggest social media in Japan. DECOPIC, Community Factory's one of the apps for smartphone, has been downloaded 6 million times in the 6 months since its release, and it is rapidly gaining users mainly in Asian countries.In Sep 2012, Ryosuke and other stock holders sold Community Factory to Yahoo Japan Corp., and he remains as CEO of Community Factory.
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Investment focus
  • Art, Reservations, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
  • TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
  • vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
Yoshinori Fukushima Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Completed the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He developed the service of “Gunosy” while he was in graduate school. Established Gnosy in 2012 and appointed CEO. In 2013, he was appointed President and CEO. 2012 IPA Unexplored Super Creator. He also served as President of LayerX.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Marketing, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Noguchi Keito Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Financial Services
  • Seed, Angel
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
  • Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
Shunsuke Oyu Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
  • Neighbor — The creative universe of Fortnite is infinite. To give an example , building fantasy and science fiction worlds, creating simple games and full-scale battle games can all be completed with Fortnite. Is the world of Fortnite, played by 350 million users worldwide, is it real or unreal? We will try to combining the vast world of Fortnite with the real world.
Mohammad Maaz Angel
Mohammad Maaz
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Information Technology, EdTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Bangladesh, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bonik — Bonik empowers small businesses with an easy-to-use app to create and run e-commerce stores independently. Download Bonik App and create your own online store for free today!
  • Travela — Travela is an accommodation-sharing platform.
  • Interactive Cares — Interactive Cares is a one stop virtual Edtech Platform for creating employability to 2.7 Million unemployed youth in Bangladesh & make them skilled through its integrated digital learning. Interactive Cares is working to create 1 M job placement by end of 2026.
Yuzuru Honda Angel
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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Investment focus
  • SNS, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
  • AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
  • Rensource Energy — Rensource develops, finances, and manages critical energy infrastructure for African enterprises with the objective of powering Africa's economy
Huang Shao Ning Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Co-founder of JobsCentral Singapore, Shao-Ning stayed on as the Singapore MD after the company was acquired. During this period, she oversaw operation integrations with the global business and started the company’s transition to become a SaaS player in its Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia operations. Since 2009, Shao-Ning has been mentoring startups in creative, digital and retail industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Home Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Homage — Homage is a trusted senior home care marketplace and technology platform seamlessly connecting seniors to the best quality of care on demand.The Homage platform uses a proprietary matching engine that pairs seniors with the best care professionals for their needs in real-time. Family members can schedule, manage, and monitor care visits throughHomage family app from anywhere, stay in communication with the care professional and get real-time information on the care their senior is receiving. Homage app will let family members know who visited their loved ones, how long they spent in the home, and what activities they did. Homage's technology allows it to send a Homage care professional to senior's house within 2 hours. Homage's app for care professionals lets them efficiently run their business, gives them better client information: a care plan individualized to each senior, helpful tips, ability to run on their own schedule, easy communication with the family members through their app.
  • 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.
  • EngageRocket — We help organizations make better people decisions using real-time analytics. Our customers use EngageRocket platform to measure and improve employee experience.
Rohit Bansal Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • TyrePlex — Buy car and bike tyres. Best tyre price, features, reviews. Find right tyre size and tyre dealer details
  • Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
  • Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
Serguei Netessine Angel · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Serguei Netessine is Vice-Dean for Global Initiatives and Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He lived and worked in Russia, USA, France and Singapore., author and speaker on innovation.Prof. Netessine receivedBS/MS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology and, after working for Motorola and Lucent Technologies, he also received MS/Ph.D. degrees in Operations Management from the University of Rochester. His current research focuses on business model innovation and operational excellence and he worked on these topics with numerous organizations including Federal Aviation Administration (USA), Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s, Rolls Royce, Comcast, Expedia, ABB and US Air Force. He serves on advisory boards of multiple startup companies and regularly speaks on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.Professor Netessine has been the recipient of several teaching awards for delivering classes to MBA and Executive MBA students at the Wharton School and INSEAD, and he frequently teaches in Executive Education Programs. Prolific academic writer, professor Netessine holds senior editorial positions at several leading academic journals and he co-authored dozens of publications in prominent management journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review and other. His work has received extensive media coverage in CIO Magazine, the Economist, Forbes, Multichannel Merchant, New York Times, US News and Strategy & Business and other press. He regularly blogs about innovation on http://www.renaissanceinnovator.com and HBR Network. His latest book on Business Model Innovation is forthcoming with Harvard Business Press in 2014.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • TabSquare — Look to the future of the F&B industry - Tabsquare's POS integrated online restaurant system increases hospitality profitability through AI Technology.
  • Comedywire — Comedywire offers an online platform that enables its users to find, share, and create posts of comedic content. Comedywire enables its users to connect with each other and share ideas. Comedywire was founded by Preston Gitlin in December 2014.
  • Alltius Inc. — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
Gokul Rajaram Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
  • Cache — Holding on to individual stocks that make up a large percentage of your portfolio? Cache gives you access to the same advanced investing products used by the ultra-wealthy to manage concentrated wealth.
  • Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.
Charles Xue Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
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.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Information Technology, Retail
  • Series A, Angel, Seed
  • China
Portfolio highlights
Kiyoshi Nishikawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
After working at KDD Corporation (Currently known as KDDI Corporation), Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept” and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.
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Investment focus
  • News, Social Media, Big Data
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
  • Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
  • TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Hironao Kunimitsu Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.
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Investment focus
  • Virtual Reality, Content, Media and Entertainment
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
  • Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
  • Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
Narita Shuzo Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Narita Shuzo is a Executive Vice President/COO, CrowdWorks Inc.
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Investment focus
  • Task Management, Media and Entertainment, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • MiL Inc — Emerging products for healthcare food brands Producing food retailing and wholesale recipe development Restaurant management Catering media operation.
Wei Guo Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
  • Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
  • Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Darius Cheung Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Darius Cheung is co-founder of BillPin and CEO/co-founder of McAfee-acquired tenCube.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Mobile, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
  • Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
  • Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
Kunal Bahl Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Kunal is a technology entrepreneur and investor.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
  • Legistify — Discover unparalleled legal management with our AI-powered platform, all-in-one solution for enterprise-level matter management, IPR, notices, and contracts
  • Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
Yuki Naito Angel
Yuki Naito - CEO,President @ Drecom
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Internet, SNS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
  • Fools — Fools is a footwear manufacturing company.
  • Interstellar Technologies Japan — Interstellar Technologies is a rocket development, manufacturing and launch service.
Eduardo Saverin Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Eduardo Saverin is a Co-founder at Meta. Eduardo attended Harvard University.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Seed, Series C, Series A
  • Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Perx Technologies — Elevate engagement, energize users, and drive growth with Perx. Request a demo for innovative gamified loyalty solutions.
  • Antler — Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
  • Hopscotch — Hopscotch is an online store offering insider access to baby and kids brands from around the world, at unbeatable prices. F
Bob Xiaoping Xu Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Bob Xiaoping Xu is the founder of ZhenFund and one of China's most celebrated angel investors. Established in 2011 as a joint fund with Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund is China’s foremost angel fund. Managing USD 600 million, ZhenFund has 500 portfolio companies and offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Palo Alto. It has played a leading role inChina’s rise as a “startup nation”, and is widely considered a beacon of light in China’s vibrant startup environment. Prior to founding ZhenFund, Mr. Xu co-founded China's largest private English training and test preparation group, New Oriental Education, along with Michael Yu and Victor Wang. New Oriental became listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006 and currently has a market cap of USD 11 billion. The founders’ endeavors, which helped drive Chinese education toward a new global era, was featured in the box office hit “American Dreams in China”. The movie ranked as the #3 Chinese domestic box office hit in 2013. Mr. Xu’s success as an educator and an entrepreneur led him to angel investing, where he has pioneered a unique investment philosophy of investing in exceptional people. He became one of the most prolific patrons of entrepreneurship, as well as a leading mentor to young business leaders. Forbes Magazine has honored him on the Midas List as one of the World’s Top 100 Venture Capital Investors for two consecutive years (2016 and 2017). Mr. Xu currently serves as the Chairman of China Angel Investment Association. Mr. Xu has more than 11 million followers on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. He is also a prolific author who has published seven books on career growth and education. His writings, speeches and interviews on entrepreneurship, investment and education have had an immense impact on China’s emerging business leaders, and particularly on those who have studied abroad. He is the president of Committee 2005, an institution that gathers the most influential Chinese overseas returnees, including the likes of Robin Li, Neil Shen and Lee Kai-fu. Mr. Xu is deeply committed to philanthropy. He is a founding donor and the Committee Acting President of the Future Science Award, an annual award of USD 1 million for scientists who have made significant contributions to life sciences and physical sciences in Greater China. Mr. Xu graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, the Chinese equivalent of Julliard School of Music, with a bachelor’s degree in music. He received his master’s degree in music from the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to that he was a counsellor at Peking University for five years.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Series A, Angel, Seed
  • China, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • YOTA — YOTA provides a healthy and diet food delivery service.
  • Lagou — Lagou.com offers staffing services. The company’s clientele includes Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Group, SINA, JD.com, Beijing Xiaomi Tech, and Zhaopin.com.
  • Omni Prime — Omni Prime provides Lending as a Service solution to retailers.
Steve Melhuish Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Steve Melhuish is the Founder of Rumah, Co-Founder and Board Director at PropertyGuru Group, Founder and CEO at Planet Rise, Founding Partner at Wavemaker Impact, and an Advisor and Investor at Eco-Business and Ampd Energy. He attended the University of Plymouth and the University of Reading.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Real Estate, Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Singapore, India, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
  • TablePointer — TablePointer is the A.I. and intelligent energy solution for small & medium commercial facilities to optimise energy efficiency, manage assets, upgrade profitability, and unlock sustainability gains right away.
  • Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
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