Top 5 Social Angel Investors in Hong Kong in July 2025
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Social startups based in Hong kong. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social companies from Hong kong. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Social Angel Investors in Hong Kong in July 2025
Investor | Social Hong Kong investments |
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Hugo Barra | 1 |
Daniel Schryer | 1 |
Shakil Khan | 1 |
Ron Cao | 1 |
Fritz Demopoulos | 1 |
Hugo Barra is the Co-Founder of /dev/agents. He previously worked at Detect as a CEO. Hugo Barra attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong
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- 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
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.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Dyad.com — Dyad is a mentorship platform that has helped students earn over $27 Million in university scholarships.
- Cohuman Labs — 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.
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.
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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.
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