Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Asia in February 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
Mask Network	5
Kotaro Chiba	5
Edge Ventures	5
NewMargin Ventures	5
Genesia Ventures	4
Daiwa Corporate Investment	4
SMBC Venture Capital	4
Masao Ito	4
Kensuke Furukawa	4
GGV Capital	4
Venture United	3
Gobi Partners	3
Qingsong Fund	3
MSA Capital	3
Crystal Stream Capital	3
Ventech	3
Colopl Next	3
TLM	3
Sky9 Capital	3
SBCVC	3
Shubhrendu Koche	3
Ceres	3
Antler	3
Tom Varkey	3
InVent	3
Zonff Partners	3
Recruit Strategic Partners	3
Quest Ventures	3
K3 Ventures	3
CBC Capital	3
Suneight Investment	2
Mistletoe	2
IT-Farm	2
Shixing Mao	2
aucfan Co.,Ltd.	2
Digital Renaissance	2
Hash Global	2
Jeff Shouger	2
Mark Vranesh	2
Hidetoshi Takano	2
Hustle Fund	2
Sansei Capital Investment	2
Oleg Shchegolev	2
Atom Ventures	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

Kaguoku — Kaguoku develops and provides the AI-based home staging services. It offers a service that uses AI to process interior photos of real estate properties to increase the property's ability to attract customers.
Time Prediction — Time Prediction focuses on development of diagnostic pharmaceuticals, drugs and medical devices for the treatment of neurological diseases.
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

Torihada — Torihada is a creative firm specializing in influencer marketing, creating content, and digital marketing.
MOSH Japan — MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners.
Gaudi Clinical — Gaudi Clinical is a health care firm that engages in regenerative medicine outsourcing and cell processing contract establishments.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
Tensegrity Pharma — Tensegrity Pharma is the developer of a novel drug designed to minimize bottlenecks and provide innovative value to patients.
Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.

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

Noematrix — Noematrix is an embodied intelligence company that specializes in innovative general robotic intelligence solutions and services.
Anage Technology — Anage Technology is a software company focused on providing artificial intelligence-driven charging solutions for electric vehicles.
HPC-AI Technology — HPC-AI Technology provides a cloud-based platform to enhance AI computations by increasing CPU and GPU processing speeds.

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

Investment focus

Internet, 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.

Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

mbd — mbd is a Web3 social platform developer specializds in the research and development of machine learning recommendation systems as well as on-chain data pre-training, with the goal of providing dynamic, relevant material and activities to each user.
Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.

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

Investment focus

Travel, Internet, 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.

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.

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

Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.

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.
COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
Hydro Powtech Japan — Nippon Hydropowtech uses proprietary technology and experience in hydrolysate production to investigate new food applications.

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

Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
Hireroo — HireRoo is an online coding test service that checks the skills of engineers through programming tests. It provides problems that correspond to a wide range of levels, from new graduates to mid-career tech leads, engineering managers, and various occupations. They also provide coding test planning and execution services.
Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.

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.
Aruya Umu — 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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
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.

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.

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.

Gobi Partners is the most interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital firm with US$1.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, the firm supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets.Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 15 funds to date, invested inover 350 startups and nurtured 10 unicorns. Gobi has grown to 15 locations across key markets in Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Surabaya.As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Gobi Partners is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption to ensure long-term value creation and sustainability across our portfolio.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Jazro — Robotic Academy. Develop Digital Talents . Fun Ways To Learn Programming, Coding & Robotic. Give Your Child a Memorable School Holiday. Book Now. Courses: Jazro Mbot, Make X Training, Jazro Coding, Raspberry Pi Jazro, Jazro IOT Project, Jrone, Jazro DIY, Jazro Art & Craft & Jazro Autism Robot Class.
iMotorbike — iMotorbike is the #1 motorbike online E-commerce website in South East Asia, providing a fast, secure, simple and trouble free online experience with a wide variety of product range, setting itself apart from what exists in the market. iMotorbike offers three main categories: motorbikes, parts and accessories. For a complete 360° experience,iMotorbike also enables users the access to services such as insurance and financing. At iMotorbike we always strive to offer our customers the best experience through a complete and efficient online ecosystem for motorbike users, lovers and professionals.
DCAP Digital — Reimagine Consumer Financing With Our Full Stack Financing Platform and Lending-as-a-Service Platform, first-of-its- kind in Malaysia

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

Coopel — Coopel is an RPA that allows beginners to easily automate daily tasks and make work efficient.
Levellr — Levellr software helps creators & brands to build, manage and monetise messaging communities within existing apps, including Discord & Telegram. Our tools, which sit on top of Discord & Telegram, help our customers to acquire powerful-first party data on superfans, build highly engaged communities & generate tangible revenueopportunities, whilst also providing our customers with community strategy & on-going moderation services to ensure their communities thrive.
ChillStack — ChillStack provides information on AI, security, and development.

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.

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

HaploX Biotechnology — HaploX Biotechnology is a Shenzhen-based genetic sequencing company.
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.

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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.

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.

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.

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.

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 — Orbiter Finance is a decentralized, cross-Layer 2 (L2) protocol.Orbiter Finance is undertaking disruptive product advancements and is building a zero knowledge (ZK) technology.

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.

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

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, Food and Beverage
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.
Sending Network — A super-app that combines chat, socializing, and trade, giving you complete control over your social data, while you build communities and share ideas, seamlessly.

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.

Suneight is a independent Venture Capital firm that invests and supports business development of all the stages of the venture companies.

Investment focus

Internet, Social Media, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B
Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
Aquaconnect — Aquaconnect was founded in 2017 as a full-stack aquaculture technology venture to offer data-driven farm advisory solutions and market place solutions to Shrimp and Fish farmers. As a part of promoting sustainable farming practices in aquaculture ecosystem, we have launched an Artificial Intelligence farm advisor 'FarmMOJO' - a friendlyfarm companion. FarmMOJO's data intelligence improves farm productivity and connects farmers with aquaculture industry stakeholders under its market place. Aquaconnect works with about 3000 farmers in Indian states of Andhra, Tamilnadu, and Gujrat to improve their farm revenues through technology intervention.
Virohan — Virohan is India's leading professional training partner of NSDC, providing paramedical diploma courses in MLT, OTT, HA, etc for 12th pass and graduates.

Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
Aquaria — Discover how you can secure access to safe, clean water from air using Aquaria's atmospheric water generators.
Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
EV Motors Japan — EV Motors Japan provides sales and services for commercial vehicles in the automotive industry.
Honeycomb — Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do.

Discus Fish is the CEO and co-founder of Cobo, a leading global developer building the infrastructure that makes cryptocurrencies and decentralized apps easily accessible to anyone. Cobo’s flagship product, launched in February 2018, is Cobo Wallet, the first mobile wallet that offers proof-of-stake pooling services for users, a groundbreakinginnovation that assimilates to interests and dividends. Considered to be China’s cryptocurrency pioneer, for first introducing cryptocurrency to China in 2011 with his widely viewed mining tutorials, Discus Fish was a moderator of the first Chinese Bitcoin forum, BTCMAN, and the first Litecoin forum, LTCBBS. He later contributed to the marketing of Avalon, the first cryptocurrency ASIC miner from Canaan, which filed for an IPO in May 2018, and became co-founder and COO of Yibite, the first Bitcoin portal in China. In 2013, Discus Fish was most well known for co-founding F2Pool, the first mining pool in China, where he shifted the reliance on oversea mining pools to China and also pioneered the 24 hour settlement protocol, which is now considered a global standard today. Now the largest multi-currency mining pool in the world, F2Pool is globally the #1 Ethereum and Litecoin miner, and the 5th largest Bitcoin miner.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Finance, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Meson Network — meson network provides fast,stable,cheap content delivery globally
Puffer Finance — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.

Aucfan is the only company in Japan that provides all the eCommerce price data across the big three market, America, China and Japan. The data Aucfan aggregates has reached more than 800millions with last 8 years coverage and Aucfan provides these data through its website Aucfan.com. (www.aucfan.com).The data Aucfan provides both to theconsumers and the retailers include the the price across the major global EC and Auction sites such as Rakuten, the No1 shopping site in Japan, Yahoo! Auction, the No1 Auction site in Japan, and Amazon Japan as well as eBay.com, the No1 EC site in US, and Taobao, the No1 Auction site in China.By visiting the Aucfan.com, buyers and sellers can easily find the price and the value of the product globally.Aucfan currently focuses on the consumer buesinss but Aucfan's next strategy is to expand its business to the BtoB by providing the price data to the EC and retail markets and helping them make the critical judgement for the price setting and purchsing just like the Bloomberg providing the financial informationto the financial brokers and helping them make the business judgement.Aucfan's next ambition is to expand its business globally and as the part of that strategy, Aucfan has already launched the Chinese website in JULY/2010 and plans to open the US site in SEP/2010.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
Japan, Indonesia, France

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.
Yuwaeru — Yuwaeru is a Direct-to-Consumer company
nextProtein — nextProtein is developing a large scale and sustainable insect based source of protein. The bioconversion of fly larvae fed with organic waste generates valuable feed components for fish, livestock and pets.

Digital Renaissance is an entrepreneurial group that works with elite teams to establish a true open web.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Decent Land Labs — Accelerating the permaweb.
Pianity — The new way to experience and discover music! Own rare musical gems attached to amazing fan experiences, Support talented upcoming artists, and join exclusive and authentic communities...
Cassava Network — Cassava Network is a blockchain infrastructure solution that builds several disruptive DeFi and NFT solutions for Africans to connect with the global mass of crypto enthusiasts and blockchain finance.

Hash Global is a fund management company that specializes on blockchain and crypto asset investing.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Singapore, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

DataDance — DataDance is a Layer 2 network based on Ethereum, focusing on protecting user privacy in the AI era while enabling smooth and secure transactions of user assets.
Pharos — Pharos incorporates effective blockchain technology into real-world asset verticals and decentralized finance. Pharos Network is promoting trustless innovations that benefit asset markets and underprivileged communities, bolstering the global economy of the future and facilitating the widespread use of Web3 technologies.
RD Technologies — RD Wallet is a licenced Stored Value Facility in Hong Kong. It is the first business-focused, multiple-currency mobile wallet. RD Wallet offers deposits, local and cross-border payments and foreign exchange services for businesses.

Finance executive (Certified Public Accountant) with broad experience managing and developing high performing teams.Extensive experience scaling finance departments, financial planning and forecasting, treasury, driving operations and process development for private venture back as well as multinational public companies including: Zynga, GileadSciences, Intuit, Sandisk, Monogram Biosciences, Novacea, Avanex, Cell Genesys, Nektar Therapeutics and Proteolix.Deal experience covering a variety of transactions, including acquisitions, initial public offerings (IPO), debt offerings, corporate partnerships and follow-on offerings.Broad understanding of public company issues and structuring pre-IPO for transition to public company.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Social Media
Seed, Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

Mark Vranesh was named Chief Financial Officer of financial and business experience in the software, entertainment and related technology industries. Mark also spent 8 years with Ernst & Young LLPâ€™s high tech practice, most recently as an Audit Senior Manager and earned a degree in Business from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1990.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Social Media
Seed, Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kaymak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Teammates.ai — Autonomous AI Teammates that deliver superior results.
Ruck — RUCK offers 2-3 hour, Same-Day, or Scheduled delivery for construction materials. Order from your local stores like Home Depot, Lowes, Builders FirstSource or lumberyards and nurseries and Ruck can pick up your building materials delivery order for you. Just let the team know where to drop off the cargo and we'll get it done!
Bicycle Health — Embark on your journey to recovery with Bicycle Health, an online medication assisted treatment provider for opioid dependence.

Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.

Investment focus

Content, Software, Medical
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
ASOVIEW Inc. — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.

Oleg Shchegolev is the founder and CEO at SEMrush.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Social Media
Seed, Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

Atom Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in start-up and early stage of investments. It prefers to invest in smart hardware, smart manufacturing, healthcare, internet, mobile internet, pan-entertainment, online to offline, B2B and consumption upgrade sectors.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Electronics
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Forsense — Forsense is a technology company that provides software and hardware products for MEMS inertial sensors and integrated navigation systems and comprehensive in-depth, all-weather technical support to help customers solve a series of problems such as selection, integration, and data fusion.
Yufanlingguang — Yufanlingguang focuses on optical transmission subsystems in laser communication systems.
Cenfeng Technology — Cenfeng Technology specializes in the technological research and development, product manufacturing, and sales of laser spectrum detection and analysis.