Top 15 Social Impact Angel Investors in Asia in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Social impact startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social impact companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Social Impact Angel Investors in Asia in January 2026
| Investor | Social Impact Asia investments |
|---|---|
| Keito Noguchi | 1 |
| Kenji Kasahara | 1 |
| Kyung wook Han | 1 |
| Maiko Kojima | 1 |
| Takuma Iwai | 1 |
| Katsuhiro Tamukai | 1 |
| Gerard George | 1 |
| Arya Setiadharma | 1 |
| Sotaro Karasawa | 1 |
| Mamoru Taniya | 1 |
| Chantalle Dumonceaux | 1 |
| Takashi Okutani | 1 |
| Tatsuo Sakamoto | 1 |
| Toru Ei | 1 |
| Shailesh Rao | 1 |
Keito Noguchi is a Brave group Representative Director, and Angel Investor.
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Investment focus
- Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Born in 1975, Kenji Kasahara grew up in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo.
Inspired by the case studies of IT business he studied in a university seminar on management strategy and by the rapid rise of Internet business in Silicon Valley in the USA, he started up “Find Job !”, an online jobinformation site, in 1997. In 1999 Kasahara established eMercury, Inc. (mixi, Inc.) and assumed the post of representative director.
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Information Technology, Robotics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
- ONE — One is a Japanese startup. It primarily creates and operates consumer apps, some of which have been sold to publicly traded Japanese corporations.This runs the BeReal exchange application "BeMatch."
- Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .
Kyung-wook Han is an Individual Investor.
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Investment focus
- Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Co-Founder and Vice President CTO/CFO at Prime Again Inc.
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Investment focus
- Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Takuma Iwai Co-CEO of Advisor Time.
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Investment focus
- Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Katsuhiro Tamukai is a COO of Cost Science.
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Investment focus
- Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Gerard George
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Forestry, Internet
- Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Handprint — Handprint makes it easy and cost efficient to differentiate your organisation with science-backed impact solutions beyond offsetting.
CEO at Prasetia Dwidharma
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
- Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Flokq — Get Room for Rent in Jakarta from Flokq. Looking to Share apartment or monthly rental Coliving Space in Jakarta? Connect with us today!
- UpBanx — Upbanx helps to manage money, get financing, grow commercial partnerships, launch digital assets and raise investments.
- PT Wallezz Finansial Teknologi — wallezz is the answer to accelerate digital payment in Indonesia. We create User and Merchant Application, we create digital payment switching for local government as a SaaS for eTax and eRetribution, we create customise social media for community, loyalty management for banks, and some IoT to support our Financial Technology solution like fullyautomation building parking tht people can reserve from home or anywhere, and they can choose the available slot, and when they arrived, the system will know that the person who is parking at the slot is the right person. we create statics qr codes for small medium and traditional market that aviod fraud system, QR codes for attendance, saas for egovernment and eNTERPRISE< aND THE LAST one we create an online banking Bnk Sampah (Waste Bank Management).beside the solution we also engaged with the local government to develop smart city by wallezz way, firstly to digitize their revenue collection channel to reduce corruption, so they can increase their revenue, and then reducing cost by implementing a green solution like solar panel, led, and then when they have increase their revenue and reduce their cost, so they could developing their smart city in to sustinable development.
Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Art, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Anique — Anique is a service that utilizes blockchain technology to make artworks.
- Atmoph — A smart digital window that opens to beautiful scenery from around the world. By simply putting it on your desk or hanging it on the wall, Atmoph Window will open up a whole new world before you.
- FRAME00 — FRAME00 is a blockchain technology startup developing a decentralized funding platform. Our product "Dev Protocol" is an open source middleware that fairly evaluates any activity and support sustainability with staking. More innovative way than donating your money.
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.
Chantalle Dumonceaux
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Arab Emirates, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Melltoo — Best quality & prices for new and used mobiles, computers & laptops, electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, autos. FREE DELIVERY UAE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
- Souqalmal — Compare more quote features than ever from top UAE brands at souqalmal.com
- OfficeRock — Online e-commerce store specifically built to service small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to offer end to end business supply solutions from office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry, cleaning and uniforms.
Takashi Okutani Graduated from University of Washington( Seattle WA) 1997 Enter Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. 1997-2000 working at MUJI store in Tokyo Japan 2000-2002 be seconded to trading company called Sanyei Detschland GmbH(cooperated trading company) 2003-2007 working at household division & joined to establish MUJI in-house design office,mainly taking care of the project called World MUJI 2007-2010 working at Apparel Divison. Produced MUJI’s Iconic item called 90 Degree Sock. 2010-2015 General Manager of WEB Business Divison. Produce MUJI passport 2015-Join Oisix as Chief Omni-Channel officer.
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Investment focus
- Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Education, Recruiting
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
- Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Toru Ei is a Kaizen Platform CGO, and Beautydoors CEO.
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Investment focus
- Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Shailesh Rao
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Khabri — Khabri is a digital audio platform for content in vernacular. Ita app allows content creators to create channels and programmes that reach vernacular listeners. Aankit Roy, Pulkit Sharma, and Sandeep Singh launched the company in Haryana, Haryana in 2016.
- Neosec — Neosec API software is the intelligent way to protect your APIs from business abuse and data theft. Try our API Security platform now.
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