Top 20 Social Angel Investors in Asia in December 2024

Investor	Social Asia investments
Shunsuke Ikegami	1
Hugo Barra	1
Min-Liang Tan	1
Phanindra Sama	1
Sujeet Kumar	1
Daniel Schryer	1
Eddie Wu	1
Peng T. Ong	1
Justin Waldron	1
Kalyan Krishnamurthy	1
Hirofumi Miki	1
Fritz Demopoulos	1
Sheng Fu	1
Shakil Khan	1
Wing Vasiksiri	1
Hiroshi Sawa	1
Mohit Saxena	1
Kento Hayashi	1
Minhong Yu	1
Ron Cao	1

Shunsuke Ikegami is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Social, Cooking, Big Data
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
Datasection — Datasection is a social big data company that provides various big data analysis tools for its clients. It specializes in marketing research, data provision and processing, image analysis, overseas SNS, and data utilization and optimization. Datasection was founded in 2000.

Technology executive & investor

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Brazil, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.

Min-Liang Tan is the co-founder and CEO of Razer, where he directs and oversees the design and development of all Razer products. Mr. Tan was born in Singapore and resides in San Francisco. He graduated from the National University of Singapore Law School and was a lawyer before turning his passion for gaming into a 500-person global company.Min-Liang Tan was recently elected to the board of the PC Gaming Alliance. In March 2012 he contributed $10,000 USD to the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter project, admitting it was to atone for pirating Wasteland when he was a child. (Wasteland designer and Interplay CEO Brian Fargo replied that Mr. Tan has more than made up for his piracy of the game.)Min-Liang Tan has been named one of "The 25 Most Creative People in Tech" by the Business Insider together with Jonathan Ive and Gabe Newell. He has also been ranked one of the top 40 most powerful people in gaming by Kotaku in their "The Kotaku Power 40" list.

Investment focus

Social, Social Media
Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NextBlock — NextBlock enables neighbors to share deals and promotions, news updates, or simply list items on sale in the neighborhood.

Phanindra Sama is the Advisor of WestBridge Capital. He previously worked at redBus as a Founder and CEO. Phanindra Sama attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bitsila — Bitsila is an software company that allows retail shops to start and grow business through online platform.
Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
Billion Hearts — Did you sign-up for our beta launch?

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
Pizza Wings — Pizza Wings is a pizza brand, known for fresh, high-quality pizzas and more, available for dine-in, takeout, or delivery.
Third Wave Coffee — Third wave coffee is a manufacturer and distributor of easy coffee bags that help to make barista-quality coffee anytime without any equipment. The third wave roasts coffees in small batches and introduce specialty cofee.

Dan Schryer was formerly CEO of DCI Data Centers, a Blackstone backed technology real estate company. Together with Guru Gowrappan, formerly CEO of Verizon Media, he co-founded Bali Venture Partners, LLC to invest in seed and growth stage debt and equity opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, India, Panama

Portfolio highlights

54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
SOS Hydration — Rescue yourself from dehydration with SOS, doctor formulated rapid hydration with 80x less sugar than sports drinks and only 3g carbs and 10 calories.
Evry Health — Evry Health makes healthcare affordable and high quality again by providing expanded benefits at an affordable price. The company is responding to the need to make healthcare affordable and accessible again. Evry Health is based in Mountain View, California and was founded in 2017.

Eddie Wu is the Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group. He previously worked at Yahoo as a Heading of Technology Development. Eddie Wu attended Zhejiang University of Technology.

Investment focus

Events, Rental, Social
Angel, Series A, Series B
China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Teenker — Teenker is a platform that connects gifted talents with customers who want unique and high-quality service.
Tao Huichang — Tao Huichang is a venue short-term rental service platform for organizing events.
Thin Red Line — Thin Red Line dedicates the software and hardware opportunities of the AR track.

Peng is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a leading early-stage tech venture capital firm in Southeast Asia. Peng is an industry veteran with over 25 years of industry as an entrepreneur, founder, and investor in Silicon Valley and in Asia. He is based in Indonesia and is a board member of Glints, ELSA, Intelligent VideoSolutions, STOQO and Escapex.Prior to Monk’s Hill Ventures, he was a Venture Partner at GSR Ventures in China. The firm is known for its successful investments in companies like Didi Chuxing and Qunar. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded a series of successful companies including Electric Classifieds (today known as Match.com), Interwoven and Eccentuate, which combined today generate over USD$1 billion in revenues annually.Peng is currently the Chairman of SolveEducation! and serves as a board member of the International Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin and SEA Founders.Peng earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Singapore, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Osome — Osome helps foreign and Singaporean entrepreneurs to manage their businesses. Register and get your new company operational with our certified agents backed by modern technology
WeGoWhere — Discover things to do with your favorite people. Sync plans with your friends so you never miss out. Know where your friends are doing today, this week or next and join their plans IRL.
Pie — Making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time.

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Chile

Portfolio highlights

AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.

Mr. Kalyan Krishnamurthy is the CEO of Flipkart. Prior to joining Flipkart, Mr. Krishnamurthy served as the Director of Finance and Portfolio Companies at Tiger Global Management. Prior to Tiger Global, Mr. Krishnamurthy held various senior positions such as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at eBay Asia-Pacific and Country FinanceDirector (South-east Asia, Hong Kong) at eBay. He worked at Procter & Gamble. Mr. Krishnamurthy holds an MBA degree from Asian Institute of Management, the Philippines, and another MBA in Finance from UIUC College of Business, Illinois (US).

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Protonn — Protonn is an all-in-one solution to empower independent professionals
Turnip — Empowering online communities to run, discover and join interactive experiences.
The Whole Truth — Order online from The Whole Truth Foods with secure payment options and seamless online shopping experience.

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

aceRNA Technologies — 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.

Fritz Demopoulos has been an entrepreneur and investor within the media and internet industries for over 10 years. He co-founded Qunar.com, China's largest travel internet company; and Shawei.com, China's largest sports internet company. Fritz also had senior positions at Netease and The News Corporation.

Investment focus

Travel, Hospitality, Tourism
Series A, Series B, Seed
Germany, Spain, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Tourlane — Tourlane is a booking platform for multi-day tours, offering amazing experiences to over 30 countries worldwide. It creates adventures and authentic travel experiences to fabulous destinations in the world.The company combines the first-hand experience of a travel agency with the simplicity of an online product. Its apps bring travel consultancyto a state-of-the-art level of tech and design and thereby will shape the future of individual and adventure trips. Its product matches travelers with pre-selected travel specialists, making the booking of individual and adventure trips comparable, fast, and easy.
BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.
TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.

Sheng Fu

Investment focus

SaaS, Developer APIs, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Bijixia — Bijixia is a digital media that provides business knowledge management services.
Markable Creators(Markable AI) — BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers canclick and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come.Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020.
Nanigans — Nanigans provides an advertising automation software that powers the in-house performance marketing teams. Offered as Software-as-a-Service, Nanigans software features programmatic media buying, predictive revenue optimization, and real-time business intelligence across today’s most valuable channels. Nanigans is headquartered in Boston, withoffices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Sydney, and Singapore.

Shakil Khan is currently Head of Special Projects at Spotify, where he is also personal advisor to founder and CEO Daniel Ek. He has had a number of online businesses in the UK since 2000, was part of the founding team at buy.at, which was acquired by AOL, and he recently founded CoinDesk, a bitcoin news site.Shak has done extensive volunteerwork as an ambassador for charity: water, having helped raise millions of dollars for clean and safe drinking water. He is also a keen supporter and friend of Pencils of Promise, who build schools for those most in need.Having lived in China, Shak speaks Chinese (as well as English, Urdu, Punjabi, and Danish) and currently divides his time between London, San Francisco, New York and airport lounges.Shak is an investor in BitPay, Spotify, Top10, Duedil and YPlan. Shak was also an investor and mentor to Nick D'Aloisio who built and sold Summly, a news curation app that was sold to Yahoo in March 2013.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.
Founders Pledge — Home | Founders Pledge

Wing Vasiksiri

Investment focus

Financial Services, Blockchain, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Thailand, United States

Portfolio highlights

CHOYS — CHOYS is a holistic wellness subscription platform for organizations and employees that strives to offer every employee with access to benefits and impact that are tailored to their individual requirements, with the goal of making work more humanized and meaningful. CHOYS is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region and was founded in 2022.
WeGoWhere — Discover things to do with your favorite people. Sync plans with your friends so you never miss out. Know where your friends are doing today, this week or next and join their plans IRL.
Beep Technologies — Beep is creating a universal, modular platform bridging the physical and digital divide, powering smart, contextual & interoperable connectivity across physical touchpoints whilst ensuring true customer privacy by leveraging on decentralised technology.

Joined Fujitsu Limited in 1991, after working at Osaka City University's Faculty of Science. He has a wide range of business experience, from programming to new business development, such as developing Internet services. After that, engaged in IT-related new business development at Sojitz Corporation, and at a major business investmentcompany, engaged in business investment in venture companies, creation of business plans for companies, launching new services, and M & A. In 2008, he became an outside director of eLicense Corporation. In 2009, he was appointed Representative Director of Data Section Co., Ltd. after developing a trend analysis service utilizing big data. Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers on December 24, 2014. Outside director of Japan Data Exchange, Inc. Currently, he is an outside director of Solid Intelligence Co., Ltd. In June 2018, he became chairman.

Investment focus

Social, Big Data, Analytics
Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Datasection — Datasection is a social big data company that provides various big data analysis tools for its clients. It specializes in marketing research, data provision and processing, image analysis, overseas SNS, and data utilization and optimization. Datasection was founded in 2000.

Mohit Saxena is the Founder and Group CTO at InMobi Group. He oversees all CTO's leading the tech at various InMobi Group Companies.Prior to InMobi InMobi, Mohit managed technology operations at Virgin Mobile, designing and deploying their post-paid billing system and their pre-paid revenue recognition system. Mohit earlier worked at AT&Tand has contributed to many patents filed in the telecommunications area.Fascinated by small ideas that turned into global powerhouses, and innovation, simplicity, and the potential of technology have always been his passions. InMobi is a both a passion and a dream come true for him.Mohit has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.Mohit’s passion for technology doesn’t stop at work and is always on the look-out for ways that he can use it to make his life easier.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

FamPay — Sign up now to get your own FamCard and lots of rewards. FamPay offers a safe and secure banking experience for teens and their families.
Opentalk — Create, join and moderate private and public chat rooms. Chat and share with people worldwide in chat rooms and private messages. Chatrooms are a great way to meet virtual friends. Use pChat as a web chat app, or download the iOS / Android mobile application.
Factors.AI — Factors.ai is an end-to-end marketing analytics and attribution platform that integrated across data silos to deliver actionable, privacy compliant, AI-powered insights. Try now!

Kento Hayashi - President & CEO @ Datasection

Investment focus

Social, Big Data, Analytics
Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Fabeee — "Fabeee" meant to support customers with the challenge of new manufacturing and with all efforts. The line between offline and online is no longer there, and manufacturing is about to change. We will fundamentally change the definition of manufacturing and support customers from various angles.
Datasection — Datasection is a social big data company that provides various big data analysis tools for its clients. It specializes in marketing research, data provision and processing, image analysis, overseas SNS, and data utilization and optimization. Datasection was founded in 2000.

Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was anEnglish instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.

Investment focus

Education, Social Media, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Bottomsup — Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content.
Kuaipeilian — Kuaipeilian is an online piano training platform
Pingo Space — Pingo Space is a mobile platform that connects locals to expats through in-person experiences.

Mr. Ron Cao is a respected venture capitalist and the Founder and Partner of Sky9 capital. During his investment career across Silicon Valley and China, Ron has focused on investing in innovative and disruptive opportunities in consumer internet, industrial internet, enterprise services, deep tech and digital healthcare. He has invested in a numberof technology companies that have grown to become market leaders in their respective industries. Some of these investments include: Meituan/Dianping, PinDuoDuo, TuSimple, Energy Monster, Full Truck Alliance, FinVolution, QingCloud, FangDD, Innolight, Lianluo Interactive, MediaV (acquired by Qihoo), MetroWave (acquired by IPG Photonics), Opulan (acquired by Qualcomm), ShareWave (acquired by Cirrus Logic), Ainemo (acquired by Baidu), 51WORLD, ByteDance, eBroke, Tujia, Doctor Trust, YiAuto, Biren Technology, Starfield, NeoX and Xbiome. Ron has over 20 years of venture capital experience. He was the Managing Director of Lightspeed Venture Partners and started Lightspeed’s China operations from scratch. Prior to Lightspeed, Ron was Managing Director of KLM Capital, where he led the company’s early-stage cross-border investments in Silicon Valley and China. Before entering the investment field, Ron started his career in the US with Motorola, Goldman Sachs and Intel. Ron was named by Forbes China as one of the “Top Venture Capitalists of China” over multiple years. In 2013, Ron was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of its “Young Global Leaders” and served on the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and IT. Ron is actively involved with various philanthropic pursuits, especially in the areas of children’s education and impact investing. Ron has been involved on the boards of BEAM Alliance and Maitian Education Foundation. Ron holds bachelor’s and master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NodeReal — NodeReal empowers developers and investors to explore blockchain with most reliable solutions, and enable enterprises to generate business opportunities.
Chen Xianggui — Chen Xianggui is a catering brand and servicer that makes Lanzhou ramen and snacks, braised beef skewers, mutton, and other products.
Asia Innovations Group — Asia Innovations Group (AIG) owns a diverse portfolio of live social apps, including Uplive, which allows video social hosts to broadcast to the world, Lamour, the top dating app in global emerging markets, and SupreFans, a fan-centric live social app. AIG leverages cutting-edge technology, advanced streaming capabilities, and a scalable globalinfrastructure to deliver an optimal, seamless, and authentic live social experience. Focused on major emerging markets, AIG has twelve global offices, including in Casablanca, Cairo, Delhi, Tokyo, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Dallas.