Top 25 Social Angel Investors in Asia (June 2026)

Specialties: Starting companies; strategy; product definition; software design; engineering and services operations. ___ Former statutory board memberships: ACE, SUTD, IDA, NRF, MDA, IE Singapore, IMDA. ___ Please note Monk's Hill Ventures mostly invest in Series A tech founders in Southeast Asia. If you are outside Series A and are stillinteresting in sharing your great ideas, business, or feedback, you can email info@monkshill.com. The best (and fastest way) to reach me is always through a soft intro from our network

Investment focus

Industry: Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Social
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Singapore, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Round size: Seed $600k–$1.2M
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

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
Raven — Your group's vibe manager.
Coffee Meets Bagel — The dating app for serious daters

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Kento Hayashi - President & CEO @ Datasection

Investment focus

Industry: Social, Big Data, Analytics
Stage:Series A
Geography: Japan

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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Kalyan Krishnamurthy is based out of Singapore and serves as the CEO of Flipkart. Kalyan previously worked at Tiger Global Management as Managing Director. Kalyan Krishnamurthy attended Asian Institute of Management.

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Fashion, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
Geography: India, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 25
Round size: Seed $50k–$9M; Series A $5M–$13M; Corporate Round $30M–$700M
Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

Vokal — https://www.vokal.in - Share Knowledge with Indians through Questions & Answers and Opinions about various topics - using voice - and in Indian languages. Visit https://www.vokal.in or get the Vokal App. Learn from others. Vokal bridges the knowledge gap for Indians that don't speak English (~90% of India). India is adiverse country with 100+ languages and 22 official languages. With the internet largely in English, content availability is a big gap. Vokal solves that by enabling peer to peer knowledge sharing using multiple formats like Questions & Answers, Opinions, Chatting with Experts, Live sessions etc.
Protonn — Protonn is an all-in-one solution to empower independent professionals
The Whole Truth — Order online from The Whole Truth Foods with secure payment options and seamless online shopping experience.

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Shunsuke Ikegami is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Industry: Social, Cooking, Big Data
Stage:Seed
Geography: Japan

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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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

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 13
Round size: Seed $510k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.1M; Series A $5M–$12M
Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

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

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Wing Vasiksiri

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Gaming
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Singapore, Thailand, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 10
Round size: Seed $850k–$6M
Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

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.

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Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: India, Singapore, Kenya

Investor stats

Total investments: 71
Round size: Seed $500k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $625k–$1.8M; Series A $2.4M–$27M
Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

Flam — Flam is an AI-powered mixed reality (MR) publishing platform.
Pizza Wings — Order Online from Your Favorite Pizza Wings - Powered By Uengage
GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.

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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

Industry: Content, Internet, Software
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Japan

Investor stats

Total investments: 27
Round size: Seed $2.8M–$16M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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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

Industry: Travel, Tourism, Hospitality
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: Germany, Spain, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Round size: Series A $4.5M–$8.5M; Series B $16M–$21M
Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

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.
Perk (formerly TravelPerk) — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.

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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

Industry: Social, Big Data, Analytics
Geography: Japan

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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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

Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Round size: Seed $465k–$4.7M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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!

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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

Industry: Education, Social Media, Apps
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
Geography: China

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Seed $425k–$10M
Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

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.

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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

Industry: Social, Social Media
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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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

Industry: Events, Rental, Social
Stage:Angel, Series A, Series B
Geography: China, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Series A $2.8M–$12M
Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

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.

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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

Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
Geography: United States, India, Panama

Investor stats

Total investments: 31
Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Series A $50k–$4.5M; Series B $61k–$50M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

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.

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Mr. Masaki joined Mitsui Ventures in May 2008 as Venture Partner, and since has been focused on investments in retail and service sector. Previously, he worked at Fujita Corporation, a large operator of restaurants and retail chain, where he was responsible for store development and merchandising in Tokyo area. After several successfulyears at Fujita, he took a position with Service Business Division of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., in charge of developing new business utilizing the franchise method.

Investment focus

Industry: Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
Stage:Seed
Geography: Japan

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.

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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

Industry: Internet, SaaS, Software
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 38
Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Angel $250k–$350k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.1M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

Kraftshala — Kraftshala is a online skilling platform for non-coding domains.
Chai Bisket — The Telugu Culture Company! Our Family - Girl Formula, Boy Formula, Chai Bisket Food, Kiraak Style, Chai Bisket Podcasts and Chai Bisket Shorts.
Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.

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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

Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: China, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 24
Round size: Seed $400k–$22M; Series B $14M–$130M
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

Dyad.com — Dyad is a mentorship platform that has helped students earn over $27 Million in university scholarships.
o1.exchange — Building the next generation NASDAQ and AI Religion to bring human beings together with social and financial AI Agents @ Cohuman Labs. Trillion Dollar Market Cap. Backed by a16z games (SPEEDRUN), and many other top investors. AI + Web3 + Infra + Consumer
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.

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Quanling Zhang has been serving as independent non-executive director of Shougang Concord International Enterprises since January 6, 2018. She holds a bachelor degree in arts. She joined China Central Television in 1997 and has hosted the famous programmes such as “Oriental Horizon”, “Focus Interview”. She participated in numerous news livecoverage and was awarded the Golden Microphone Awards, the Golden Eagle Awards, the Fan Changjiang Journalism Award, the most prestigious journalism award in China, and the 19th top ten Outstanding Chinese Youths. She is the Founding Partner of Ziniu Fund. She has extensive experience in news media, brand building and strategic planning.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Video, Social
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: China

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Bijixia — Bijixia is a digital media that provides business knowledge management services.
Walnut Live — Walnut Live is a video course and knowledge sharing service platform.

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