Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Asia in May 2025

Investor	Social Media Asia investments
East Ventures	10
Incubate Fund	8
Mizuho Capital	7
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	6
Sinovation Ventures	5
Kotaro Chiba	5
Kotaro Chiba	5
Edge Ventures	5
NewMargin Ventures	5
Mask Network	5
Daiwa Corporate Investment	4
GGV Capital	4
Genesia Ventures	4
Masao Ito	4
SMBC Venture Capital	4
Kensuke Furukawa	4
Gobi Partners	3
Crystal Stream Capital	3
Ventech	3
TLM	3
Sky9 Capital	3
Antler	3
Qingsong Fund	3
Ceres	3
Tom Varkey	3
SBCVC	3
Shubhrendu Koche	3
Recruit Strategic Partners	3
MSA Capital	3
Zonff Partners	3
InVent	3
Quest Ventures	3
Venture United	3
Colopl Next	3
K3 Ventures	3
CBC Capital	3
Japan Finance Corporation	3
JAFCO	3
Sequoia Capital	2
IDG Capital	2
Yamaguchi Capital	2
B Dash Ventures	2
DHVC	2
MTG Ventures	2
Komura Fujio	2
Ceyuan Ventures	2
Infocomm Investments	2
Matrix Partners China	2
Akatsuki Games Inc.	2
Elysium Venture Capital	2

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Gatebox — It is a research laboratory beyond dimension" which is researching and developing to realize "a world where you can live with a character". Therefore, Gatebox Co., Ltd. refers to itself as "Gatebox Lab" and conducts research and development beyond dimension in the area of Akihabara day and night. Dreaming that day,coming to meet beyond dimension.
NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Quemix — Quemix is an IT company specialized in providing quantum computing solutions.
Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.
M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization

Sinovation Ventures is a full-service venture capital firm that actively invests in the Chinese technology market.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Sand AI — Sand AI is an AI company that focuses on producing videos.
AutoAgents — AutoAgents is committed to offering software services for intelligent assistants (Copilot) and autonomous agents (AI Agents) through AI.
Sainte — Sainte is a company which provides professional nutritional solutions for babies with different nutritional needs

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, 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.

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, Internet
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.

Edge Ventures is a young equity investment fund. They are highly aligned with the interest of their founders, because they have been entrepreneurs too. With rich experience and top-level background in entrepreneurship, their management team are skilled in scouting the entrepreneurship spirit of outstanding candidates. Regardless of short-termrewards, they fight alongside their portfolio companies and fully support them in a long-term basis.They are highly aligned with the interest of their limited partners, because they invest in their selves too. With commitment of more than 20% self-funded capital in each EdgeVentures’ investment fund, they will control the fund size with intention of promising rate of return.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Gaming, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Shuizhiko — Shuizhiko is a functional personal care company that specializes in Asian skin types.
SiXing Semiconductor — SiXing Semiconductor is a manufacturer of equipment parts that specializes in the research and development of core components for semiconductor inspection equipment.
Tongyou Intelligent Equipment — Tongyou Intelligent Equipment focuses on the integration of ultra-micro inductor materials, equipment, processes and product OEM.

NewMargin Ventures is a Chinese venture capital management company that supports emerging entrepreneurs.Founded in July 1999, NewMargin Ventures offers a unique and compelling combination of strong local and national government support within an organizational culture defined by independent decision-making, professionalism, and teamwork.NewMargin currently has about $520 million under management.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Internet
Series A, Angel, Series B
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

ZS Robotics — ZS Robotics specializes in technological innovation and the provision of dependable intelligent storage products and solutions.
Guorun Energy Storage — Guorun Energy Storage is an enterprise focusing on the manufacture of all-vanadium flow battery equipment and the production of core diaphragm materials for flow batteries, electrolyzed water for hydrogen production and hydrogen fuel cells. The two core products are all-vanadium flow energy storage battery products and perfluorinated ion membrane.
Powernice Intelligent Technology — Powernice is a high-tech company that specializes in the development and production of high-precision intelligent actuators and equipment.

Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Japan

Portfolio highlights

GamerBoom — GamerBoom is an artificial intelligence-driven protocol for gaming data analytics, developed on the Solana blockchain.
Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
Coral Finance — Coral Finance is a decentralized marketplace for trading premium derivatives that offers dependable, long-term liquidity solutions.

Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.

Investment focus

Software, Task Management, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.

We believe the talent to build great companies comes from anywhere. A global venture capital firm that invests in local founders. As a multi-stage, sector-focused firm, GGV focuses on seed- to growth-stage investments across Social/Internet, Enterprise Tech, and Smart Tech sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mind Network — The 1st Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Restaking Layer for AI and POS Networks. Mind Network is backed by Binance Labs, Hashkey, Big Brain, Chainlink, etc.
Supermom — Supermom helps parents make the right decisions on what to buy and where to buy at the lowest prices. Best prices guaranteed for millions of mom, baby & kids products.
Botai Automation — Botai Automation is specialized in CNC system research and development. Its CNC system can be used in machine tools, including drilling and tapping machines, turning and milling compound machining centers and their control accuracy, stability, and performance outperform earlier products of the same type.

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

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.
Mined — Mined is a marketplace that provides online lessons in various subjects for elementary school students. Mind develops and operation of education-related services.
Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

Investment focus

Content, Social Media, Information Technology
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.
Alyaum — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
DelizMart — Deliz Mart is a digital-driven platform that helps to solve food distribution challenges and reduce cost transactions in the food industry.
Penetrator — Penetrator transforms the real estate market with space technology, tackling transaction issues and forming landslide observation systems.

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".

Investment focus

Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.

Gobi Partners: Leading Venture Capital in Asia. Accelerating Innovation, Fueling Success.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, Malaysia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

RushOwl — RushOwl is a dynamic ride-sharing company that offers timely and affordable shuttle rides.
ChaZence — ChaZence is an environmental consulting and biotechnology company that manufactures, innovates, and designs naturally degradable materials for a sustainable lifestyle.
SkyeChip — Your Preferred cutting edge IP & IC Design solutions for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.

Crystal Stream Capital specializes in making early-stage investments in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Robot Era — Robot era is an emerging technology business creates embodied intelligence and generic humanoid robot technologies and products. Xingdong Era is committed to the development of universal humanoid robots that can adapt to a wide range of fields, multiple scenarios, and high intelligence, striving to realize the beautiful vision of intelligent robotsentering thousands of households and integrating into the lights of thousands of homes.
Yupan Technology — Yupan Technology specializes in the core control technology of car intelligent chassis, offering secure chassis execution systems and global stable intelligent control solutions.
Powernice Intelligent Technology — Powernice is a high-tech company that specializes in the development and production of high-precision intelligent actuators and equipment.

On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xpln.ai — Xpln.ai develops AI-driven solutions for measuring and optimizing ad effectiveness, 100% cookieless.
Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.
Omaha Insights — Omaha Insights is a company that provides standardized financial data and analytical tools to help investors do research and analysis.

TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, SNS
Seed, Angel, Series B
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
Nanameue — Nanameue creating a new future that makes people smile and has a fun experience. Create your own place by connecting people to people in “nanameue” way.
Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.

Sky9 Capital is a leading venture capital fund dedicated to supporting disruptive technologies and outstanding innovators to drive change and create positive impact for the society, environment and individual lives.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mint BioTech — Mint BioTech is a biotechnology company that provides develops eco-friendly biomolecules and materials to improve sustainability.
CrytocoinMiner — CrytocoinMiner presents a seamless and easy-to-use cloud mining solution that allows you to easily discover the world of cryptocurrency mining, whether you're interested in Bitcoin or Ethereum.
Final Round AI — Final Round AI is an AI-driven platform designed to fundamentally change the job search process.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

GenPage — GenPage is a SaaS platform that supercharges outreach & account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns with personalized landing pages that captivate, engage, and close. We help our users create unique experiences at scale for every prospect with AI - and win more deals.
Lodgicl — Lodgicl streamlines the insurance supply chain to enhance the claims experience for policyholders, insurers, and partners.
FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!

Founded in June 2012 by Liu Xiaosong, Dong Zhanbin, and Su Wei, three Internet and investment circle veterans, Qingsong Fund is an early venture capital firm specializing in investment in education, social networking, consumerism, innovation, technology and applications. It manages four RMB funds with a total value of about RMB 2 billion. So far,it has invested in more than 140 companies, including 1 to 1 head, 1 DaDa English, squirrel AI, onion mathematics, wedding calendar, werewolf killing, flystep technology, HomeFacial. Pro and other star projects - 50% exit project returns more than 60 times, multiple project valuation multiples increased nearly 200 times, and educational projects have an average annual value increase of 500%. Among them, the Qingsong Smart Fund, which was newly established in 2018, focuses on the underlying technologies of the underlying AI and Smart Connect, as well as investment in such areas as smart healthcare, enterprise services and intelligent transportation applications. Liu Xiaosong, founding partner of Qingsong Fund, is a Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University. He invested in Tencent in 1999 and has a return on investment of tens of thousands of times. In 2000, he founded A8 New Media Group, which was successfully listed on the main board in Hong Kong in 2008. In 2015, he hatched in November 2018. Listed in Hong Kong stocks in the year. As a leading early investment institution in China, Qingsong Fund and its founding partners have repeatedly won Top 10 of Zero2IPO China's early investment institutions/investors, Top10 of China's education sector, Top100 of Chinese investors, and China's best early venture capital investment. Institution/Investor Top10; 36氪 China's new entertainment sector investment institutions Top10, online education sector investment institutions/investors Top10 and other mainstream awards.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Internet, Education
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Volant Aerotech — Volant Aerotech is a company specializing in the R&D, manufacturing, and service of passenger eVTOL, an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
Shufang New Energy — Shenzhen Sufang New Energy focuses on the research, development, and production of lithium-rich manganese-based cathode materials.
Tongwei New Energy — Tongwei New Energy is a company that manufactures zero-carbon solid oxide fuel cells. Its major product is distributed zero-carbon power plants.

Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
Indent — Indent creates products that help writers create original works such as novels, manga, screenplays, and game scenarios. They will work to create an environment in which artists can focus on their creations and enjoy sharing their work.

Tom is a veteran in financial markets and is Principal at Stonehill Capital. Prior to this he has held positions with Lazard Asset Management & Fidelity Investments focusing on emerging markets and corporate debt. Tom is an MBA from Harvard Business School & has a MA in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, E-Learning, Education
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Knocksense — A local news and recommendations platform.
Clever Harvey — Complete one-stop study abroad solution by Ivy League alumni. Get expert, end-to-end assistance for profile building, admissions & scholarships.

Established in 2000, SB China Capital (SBCVC) is a leading venture capital and private equity firm that manages both USD and RMB funds. Their investment focuses on high-tech, high growth companies in TMT, clean technology, healthcare, consumer/retail, and advanced manufacturing sectors; and they invest across all stages of companies.Withextensive entrepreneurial and operating experiences, their professional and seasoned deal team members recognize the vision and champion the ideas of start-up companies. In addition to providing capital support, they help their portfolio companies realize their strategic and commercial potential by giving value-adding services and advices including planning, business development, recruiting and resources deployment.They have a proven track record and solid reputation in identifying high potential start-ups and creating successful industry-leading companies. Some of their spotlight portfolio companies are Alibaba, Taobao, Focus Media, GDS, BGI, Ankon, Di’an, and Edan.With their operational headquarters located in Shanghai and regional offices spread in Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Hangzhou and Taiwan, they have an extensive coverage of the greater China region and access to potential investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

UCaize — UCaize is a biopharmaceutical company that researches and develops novel medications for the treatment of blood cancers.
Shengyin Optoelectronics — Shengyin Optoelectronics is a platform-based micro-nano manufacturing firm that creates ornamental films for electrical appliances and portable electronics.
Xindi Digital Engineering System — Xindi Digital Engineering System specializes in the development of 3D CAD software for manufacturing enterprises.

Shubhrendu Koche

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sports, eSports
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.
BazaarNXT — BazaarNXT is an e-commerce company that optimizes the packaging procurement for Businesses using technology. It is a modern, futuristic, and extended version of the local bazaar. BazaarNXT was founded by Gaurav Badharkhe and Dhananjaya S. in 2017 and is headquartered in Karnataka, India.

Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
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ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.

MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
DP Technology — DP Technology is a global leader in the "AI for Science" research paradigm, where AI learns scientific principles and data, then tackles key challenges in scientific research and industrial R&D.DP's commitment to interdisciplinary research has led to the creation of the DP "Particle Universe", an array of pre-trainedlarge science models designed to bridge foundational research with practical industrial applications. DP's software suite includes the Bohrium® Scientific Research Space, Hermite® Computational Drug Design Platform, RiDYMO® Dynamics Platform, and Piloteye® Battery Design Automation Platform. Together, these platforms form a robust foundation for industrial innovation and an open ecosystem for AI in science, fostering advancements in key areas such as drug discovery, energy, material science, and information technology.
DP Technology — Deep Technology uses a new generation of molecular simulation technology to tackle micro-scale industrial design difficulties. Founded in 2018 and is based in Beijing China.

Zonff Partners is a fund focused on venture investments, quantitative hedging, and mining& computing investments in the blockchain industry.

Investment focus

Gaming, Financial Services, Blockchain
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Soul Land — SoulLand is a gamified social subscription platform designed to tackle Web3's sinking information and social demands through the use of gaming.
StakeStone — StakeStone is the best yield-bearing ETH with a decentralized yield optimizing service ready for mass adoption on layer2s.
Orbiter Finance — Bridge and swap crypto assets quickly, affordably, and securely across Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Solana, BNB Chain, Polygon, Ethereum, and more blockchain ecosystems with Orbiter.

InVent is a corporate venture capital project of the Intouch Group which invests in high-growth companies with emphasis on potential value creation to the group business. A pioneer investor since the starting days of the tech startup ecosystem in Thailand, InVent has an annual fund size of approximately $7 million.Invent invests in products andservices that are related to the group’s business such as mobile phone related businesses, telecommunications and infrastructure, IT related businesses, cloud computing, internet applications, and digital media and contents. InVent will also focus its investments in products and services that can support the group’s business competitiveness and enhance customer experience.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Thailand, Singapore, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Conicle — Hello, They're Conicle! ... Their mission is to improve human's learning and education with technology, creativity and inspiration.Theybelieve the right innovation can enrich people's learning, make their life more flourish, and move the society forward.Their purpose is to empower people to share and spread their goodlessons and courses to other people so that everyone can learn from each other positively ... and also a bit change the world.
PARONYM — PARONYM is a startup developer of TIG, a next-generation interactive video technology.
Choco CRM — Thailand’s leading professional CRM & POS solutions for business.

Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan

Portfolio highlights

ZumVet — ZumVet provides access to affordable and convenient veterinary care through video calls and medication delivery. They are passionate about animals and want them to get the best possible care by offering video consults, referrals, home visits, and emergency services. It was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Singapore.
Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.
Smoothly — Mobile app helping working millennials sleep better, wake up refreshed and increase energy with science-backed breathing exercises

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Travel, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.

Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Levellr — Stop losing insights in Discord noise
SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
CaseBlink — AI for immigration lawyers | CaseBlink is AI software for immigration law firms. With CaseBlink, generate EB-2 NIW, EB-1A, and O-1 applications end-to-end.

K3 Ventures provides venture capital for technology startups in various sectors such as finance, education, healthcare, food and agriculture and others. The firm is headed by Kuok Meng Xiong.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

WIZ.AI — WIZ.AI Talkbot is a leading Generative AI-powered omnichannel customer engagement solution for enterprises to propel business growth.
Abound — Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans. It aims to expand access to low-cost personal credit by using the UK’s new Open Banking standard to analyze consumers’ historical bank statement data. Open Banking data allows us to build a granular view of customers’ financial circumstances, properlyunderstand their affordability, and place less reliance on credit reference agency scores.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a climate-tech startup that provides waste management and recycling services to optimise the waste value chain.

CBC, founded by Dr. Edward Suning Tian in 2006, is a China-based private equity firm focusing on TMT investments. With its extensive industry expertise , CBC has been regarded as one of the most influential investors in the Internet and technology space in China, leading many exceptional investments in both the Enterprise and the Consumer Internetsectors. CBC leverages its operational background to create significant value for its portfolio companies. CBC currently manages multiple USD and RMB funds with a total AUM of over USD 2 billion and has built a strong portfolio consisting of leading industry companies such as 21Vianet, AsiaInfo, Longshine, Qiniu, Fraudmetrix, Dianping, Focus Media, Oriental Pearl, Babytree, Ximalaya, and Wacai.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

G7 — G7 has an installation base of 800,000 cargo vehicles throughout China. Through its proprietary hardware devices, the company is able to compile data for logistics companies and drivers on location, route optimization, fuel consumption, and cargo status (temperature, humidity, etc).
Robotphoenix — An industrial robot manufacturer in China
Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
Japan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
KG Motors — KG Motors is an automotive firm that manufactures electric vehicles that can be moved comfortably and safely by one person.

Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to thecreations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
Pocket Sign — Pocket Sign develops digital platforms that store e-signatures and other authentication details for it's users privacy and security.
Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

GondolaBio — GondolaBio researches, develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products.
Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
Safe Superintelligence — Safe Superintelligence is an artificial intelligence research lab that solves the technical challenge of building superhuman intelligence. The company operates a dedicated lab to advance capabilities while prioritizing safety through revolutionary engineering.

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector. Today they work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors, and business entities from around the world. Their limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds,pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices, and business luminaries.IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, they are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Their highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Galaxy Bot — Galaxy Bot is an innovative robotics company that provides intelligent universal service robotic products.
Sentient — Community-built open AGI
Chengdu Pukang Biotechnology Co. — Chengdu Pukang Biotechnology Co., Ltd specializes in the development, production, and supply of high-purity single molecular PEG series derivatives, polypeptide long-acting drug side chains, and their intermediates. The company focuses on serving the pharmaceutical industry with a range of chemical supplies that are crucial for drug development andmanufacturing processes. With a professional R&D team, Chengdu Pukang Biotechnology is dedicated to advancing pharmaceutical intermediates technology and providing solutions that meet the evolving needs of the healthcare sector. The company's commitment to research and development is evident in its continuous efforts to innovate and improve its product offerings to support the pharmaceutical industry.

Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm. Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. was established in 1996 and is based in Yamaguchi-ken, Japan.

Investment focus

Apps, Manufacturing, Task Management
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

ZABoooN — ZABoooN is a shipping company that offers crew labor management, movement management, and ship management services.
KOMPEITO — Office de Yasai is an online platform that enables users to order and get vegetables delivered to their offices. The platform’s operations are based in Tokyo, Japan.
Live Search — Live Search provides the real estate industry with online room availability management, property photography, and floor plan services.

B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Taiwan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

DHVC is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, that invests in Enterprise, Consumer, FinTech, and Healthcare companies.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TensorOpera — TensorOpera, Inc. is an innovative AI company based in Silicon Valley, specifically Palo Alto, California. We specialize in developing scalable and secure AI platforms tailored for enterprises and developers. Its flagship products include: TensorOpera® AI Platform: Accessible at TensorOpera.ai, this platform serves as a comprehensive generative AIecosystem. It features robust tools for enterprise AI platforms, model deployment, model serving, AI agent APIs, and more. It supports launching training and inference jobs on a serverless/decentralized GPU cloud, experimental tracking for distributed training, and enhanced security and privacy measures. TensorOpera® FedML: Available at FedML.ai, this platform is a leader in federated learning and analytics, supporting zero-code implementation. It includes a lightweight, cross-platform Edge AI SDK suitable for edge GPUs, smartphones, and IoT devices. Additionally, it offers a user-friendly MLOps platform to streamline decentralized machine learning and deployment in real-world applications.
Shentu Chain — The Shentu Chain's mission is to create a more trustworthy blockchain world for all, starting with the Shentu Chain, a public platform that's secure, decentralized and compatible & interoperable with other blockchain ecosystems. Where security is a need, not a nice-to-have.
SURGE Therapeutics — SURGE Therapeutics seeks to dramatically improve cancer patient survival by disrupting cancer immunotherapy is deployed.

MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.

Investment focus

Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
HitoBito — HitoBito is a LINE advertising and account management agency.
EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.

Komura Fujio

Investment focus

Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Seed, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

GINKAN — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.

Ceyuan Ventures is a Beijing-based early stage venture capital firm focused on IT and emerging growth companies. They emphasize backing great teams, technology and business innovation. Their mission is to assist entrepreneurs in creating and building world-class businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ruidiwei — Ruidiwei is a tech enterprise that specializes in the design, development, production, sales, and service of antennas and components in microwave and millimeter-wave frequency bands.
Qinglei Technology — Qinglei Technology is a radar sensing technology startup.
Siyue Intelligence — Siyue Intelligence produces software and hardware for TFT-LCD semiconductor automation. It integrates R&D, design, production, and service, and is committed to providing fully automated warehousing robot systems, and intelligent detection.

Managing more than $200 million, Infocomm Investments builds and invests in start-up companies in Singapore and globally. Through our investments, global reach, and partnerships across private and public sectors, we accelerate the development of start-ups in their formative phase, and invest further as they move forward with growth and expansion.We play a central role in building a vibrant tech start-up ecosystem in Singapore, and we are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Analytics
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
Singapore, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
Fashory — JUAL DOMAIN AGED DAN EXPIRED MURAH DAN BERKUALITAS SIAP PAKE UNTUK PBN DAN MONEY SITE - HARGA 1 JUTAAN
Secondmind — Helping automotive engineers design better cars, faster.

Matrix Partners China builds long-term relationships with entrepreneurs and helps them build significant, industry-leading companies.Since its inception in 1977, Matrix Partners China has made hundreds of investments and played an active role in the development of many successful businesses, 50 of which went on to IPO, and 75 of which have goneon to profitable M&A events. The firm consistently ranks in the top venture firms in terms of returns to its investors.Matrix Partners China combines local knowledge with global experience and vision. Its team consists of both former entrepreneurs and experienced investors. Its past successes include Focus Media, Eachnet, and Baidu, among others. The company invests across multiple sectors and stages.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

LeXiang Intelligence — LeXiang Intelligence is a robotics company that specializes in the development of intelligent consumer-grade robots.
Zhongcheng Technology — Zhongcheng Technology is a centralized lubrication system developer that focuses on the research and development, manufacturing, sales, and technical services of centralized lubrication systems.
Titanium Robotics Technology — Titanium Robotics Technology specializing in the development and production of advanced robot hardware and solutions. It focuses on customized services, R&D, and production of robot hardware, aiming to create high-performance, industry standard products, develops lightweight, collaborative robots, humanoid robots, and exoskeletons, leading thesupply chain towards lightweight, miniaturization, and ease of use.

Akatsuki offers MobileSocialGame services. They utilize cutting edge technology and ideas to realize and deliver their ambitions to their users. They provide new value to society through the services we manage daily. Providing services throughout the world that brighten up everyone's daily lives.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Japan, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hitcard — Hitcard is a trendy card culture brand that uses technology to upgrade card-like consumer products.
Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
MetaverseGo — MetaverseGo is a web 3.0 app that offers easy access to Play-and-Earn Games, Guilds, NFTs, and Decentralized Applications allowing users to own assets, connect with industry players, and use their earnings across multiple payment platforms.

Elysium Venture Capital is an investment management group focused on global technology opportunities. Utilizing a wide range of industry experience, the firm seeks partnerships with exceptional management teams to commercialize innovative technologies, accelerate growth and create long term value across the world.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Spice AI — Designed for apps and machine learning, Spice AI is helping developers working with web3 and blockchain data to build the next generation of apps.
Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Betr — At betr, It provides tools to support responsible play and give you control over your gambling. It encourage you to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within your personal limits.