Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Asia in January 2026

Investor	Social Media Asia investments
East Ventures	11
Incubate Fund	8
Mizuho Capital	8
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	6
SMBC Venture Capital	5
Mask Network	5
Kotaro Chiba	5
Kotaro Chiba	5
Edge Ventures	5
NewMargin Ventures	5
Sinovation Ventures	5
GGV Capital	4
Kensuke Furukawa	4
Masao Ito	4
Daiwa Corporate Investment	4
Genesia Ventures	4
Japan Finance Corporation	3
MSA Capital	3
Recruit Strategic Partners	3
Sky9 Capital	3
Ceres	3
TLM	3
Gobi Partners	3
Antler	3
Crystal Stream Capital	3
InVent	3
Colopl Next	3
K3 Ventures	3
CBC Capital	3
Tom Varkey	3
JAFCO	3
Quest Ventures	3
SBCVC	3
Zonff Partners	3
Ventech	3
Qingsong Fund	3
Shubhrendu Koche	3
Venture United	3
BW Ventures	2
Meridian Capital Asia	2
B Dash Ventures	2
Hash Global	2
MT Partners	2
Wuhan Optics Valley Elite Investment Management	2
Marat Kichikov	2
Freebank	2
Sinowisdom	2
Source Code Capital	2
Qiming Venture Partners	2
Tengxun Touzi	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

Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
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Prefab — Prefab offers cutting-edge AI SaaS solutions tailored for the construction industry, enhancing efficiency, safety, and decision-making through data-driven insights.

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

INDX — Unstructured data support, AI utilization without exposing confidential data, rapid implementation. Extensive experience in manufacturing, finance, and healthcare. Provide company-specific AI solutions with custom tuning.
Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
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

Lavol —
Morus — Morus is a university-based biotech startup developing functional food ingredients from silkworms to address global health and nutrition challenges.
Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.

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

Superworm — Superworm is a producer of environmentally friendly and long-term solutions to societal challenges. The company undertakes genome editing research and sells protein powders, biofuels, and organic fertilizers made from superworms, allowing customers to consume insect-derived proteins and biofuels.
Nehan — Nehan is a software firm that offers AI bidding information and a media outlet that delivers to local government businesses.
Space quarters — Space Quarters is a manufacturing company that produces payload deploy and panels, and develops space assembly robotic systems.

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

Portfolio highlights

Morus — Morus is a university-based biotech startup developing functional food ingredients from silkworms to address global health and nutrition challenges.
Nehan — Nehan is a software firm that offers AI bidding information and a media outlet that delivers to local government businesses.
Space quarters — Space Quarters is a manufacturing company that produces payload deploy and panels, and develops space assembly robotic systems.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
Coop Records — Coop Records Music
Puma Browser — Puma is a mobile browser and wallet for the Web3 ecosystem. Private by design. Today, we enable seamless payments for creators, app & game developers via Coil and ILP protocol and access to HNS & ENS domains. Long term, our goal is to give 1b people access to Web3 world, DeFi, the peer to peer and ownership based economy.

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.

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.

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.
AdvanSol Power — AdvanSol Power is dedicated to advancing the solar energy industry by focusing on the research and development of third-generation micro-string inverter technology.
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.

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

HPC-AI Technology — HPC-AI Technology provides a cloud-based platform to enhance AI computations by increasing CPU and GPU processing speeds.
Lanzhou Technology — Lanzhou Technology is a cognitive intelligence company that provides business insights products.
SiliconFlow — Silicon Mobile Technology is an AI infrastructure company that specilaizes in large models inference and deployment system to reduce the cost in the AIGC and LLM industries.

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

Moka — Moka is a SaaS software that helps companies optimize their recruiting services and find the right talent for their business. MokaHR is designed to summarize and analyze the resume information characteristics of a large number of job seekers using resume analysis techniques and machine learning algorithms. Through the local semantic analysis andpattern matching of important information in resumes, MokaHR learns a large number of enterprises' recruitment behavior data and conducts big data Statistics and analysis, so as to help enterprises to better understand the industry trends, to better identify the right candidates, and hiring key points to give guidance, to bring more accurate data analysis, the formation of data network effects.
Moodles — Moodles is a Chinese IT firm that specializes on the food business.
Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

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.

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.

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.
Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.

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, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Mined — Mined is a marketplace that provides online lessons in various subjects for elementary school students. Mind develops and operation of education-related services.
PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
Takumi Giken Kogyo — Takumi Giken Kogyo is a price technology developer to help parts manufacturers quickly identify acceptable product prices. Takumi Giken Kogyo assists in estimate calculation and product function through AI drawing search and repeat project determination function, enabling manufacturers with flexible customization of product functions based oncustomer requirements.

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, Funding Round, Seed
Japan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

INDX — Unstructured data support, AI utilization without exposing confidential data, rapid implementation. Extensive experience in manufacturing, finance, and healthcare. Provide company-specific AI solutions with custom tuning.
bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Dr.’s Prime — Doctor's Prime is a technology company that provides is a part-time job information service for optimizing the working style of doctors.

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.

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.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Zhixinda — Zhixinda is a leading high-tech enterprise dedicated to the research, development, and manufacturing of advanced semiconductor vacuum equipment, offering innovative solutions that support the production processes of the global semiconductor industry.
Donut — Donut is the first crypto agentic browser that uses the finest crypto in-domain model and a swarm of browsing agents.
Minxin Technology — Minxin Technology focuses on the research, development, manufacture, and sales of photo- and thermal-curing functional materials and electronic-grade wet chemicals.

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.

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

Mederi — Mederi is a FemTech company that operates Ubu, a women's wellness brand.
Requpo — Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.
Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.

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.
SleekFlow — SleekFlow makes customer messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook connected to one platform for teams to better support and engage customers.
nanoSkunkWorkx — nanoSkunkWorkX develops nanotechnology for AGI scaling and allergy biosensing.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Balo — Balo is the on-demand platform powered by the Top 1% of Salesforce Experts globally. Get immediate hands-on support for any Salesforce needs.
Voltrac — Voltrac is a robotics company that develops an autonomous, fully electric tractor platform called THOR, designed to operate in demanding environments for both agricultural and logistics use. THOR employs per-wheel electric motors instead of a conventional drivetrain, reducing mechanical complexity and maintenance requirements. It runs on swappable200 kWh battery packs, enabling long-duration operations and continuous work cycles. The platform supports a standard three-point hitch (Category II) and can be configured with a flatbed, making it versatile for fieldwork or transport tasks. Voltrac’s autonomy system combines reinforcement learning with real-time sensor data to adapt driving behavior and implements to changing terrain and crop conditions. Beyond farming, THOR is also intended for frontline logistics missions, with modular designs that can support cargo transport and resilience in challenging settings.
ROLO Robotics — ROLO Robotics is rethinking the kitchens of the future using robotics and automation.

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.

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.

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

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.
Wunderbar — Wunderbar provides intellectual property along with branding and marketing services.

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.
iEduGPT — iEduGPT is an AI-powered learning platform based in Singapore that offers personalized, adaptive learning solutions for professional and academic exam preparation. It leverages artificial intelligence to analyze individual learners' strengths and knowledge gaps and create optimized study paths. The platform aims to transform exam preparationby making learning smarter, more efficient, and tailored to each user’s unique needs, covering certifications in finance, academics, and languages.
Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a Clean- & Climate-Tech Company that enables circular economy implementation in the waste supply chain by leveraging proprietary waste management operation systems to transform waste into recycled materials and renewable resources.

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.

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.

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

QREATION — QREATION is a digital intellectual property studio specializing in producing a wide range of popular content that originates primarily from social media platforms. The company focuses on creating high-quality short-form entertainment, including short dramas, comedy sketches, and variety shows.
Forward — Forward is a SaaS-based startup that offers recruitment agency services.
Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.

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

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.

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 — Discover the Autonomous Neo Bank redefining finance. Earn bank-grade yield, make borderless payments, and power intelligent money movement for humans, AI, and machines.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Botify — Search engines miss about half the content on enterprise websites. Uncover those hidden opportunities with Botify, the leading enterprise SEO platform!
Crobox — Crobox's next generation guided selling solution humanizes your product data and discovery experience with product finders and product data enrichment.
Xpln.ai — Xpln.ai develops AI-driven solutions for measuring and optimizing ad effectiveness, 100% cookieless.

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

Portfolio highlights

Itanium Innovation — Itanium Innovation is a technology company providing integrated integration solutions for distributed edge computing microdata centers.
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.

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.

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.

BW Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Angel, Seed, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Fuulea — Fuulea is a high school tablet teaching system provider.
Lalu Shijia — Lalu Shijia is a processed food brand.
Mitu Huan Teng Technology — Mitu is a social platform for entertainment games, focusing on offline multiplayer entertainment games. With KOS (Key Opinion Sales) as the core, it provides consumers with online group buying and offline shopping. Play and other services.

Meridian Capital Asia was founded in Singapore in 2008 and has launched nine funds with a total of over 1.5 billion US dollars raised since. It has invested in more than 280 startups, with many notable exits, and has focused on areas such as deep tech, artificial intelligence, robotics, cloud, SaaS, enterprise, advanced manufacturing, renewableenergy, new material, semiconductors, agri-tech, education, internet, and new media, etc. All its partners are from either Singapore, Australia, the US or UK, with extensive experience and knowhow in all technology sectors. Meridian has offices in Singapore, Silicon Valley, Shanghai and Beijing and its investments cover geographies such as SEA, China, US, Mid-east, Japan, and Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, Latvia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Hanhai Energy — Hanhai Energy is dedicated to explore the science and technology to accelerate the commercialization of fusion energy.
Keyou Network — Data processing service provider
Xiaoneng Technology — Xiaoneng Technology is a company that provides online customer service solutions for e-commerce websites. Committed to providing real-time shopping guide and online customer management system LiveCRM for all online transactions and online display products and services, affiliated to Beijing Nengtong Tianxia Network Technology Co., Ltd.

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

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

KUN — KUN provides all-inclusive digital payment solutions for Web2 and Web3 enterprises.Its services include seamless on/off ramp solutions, developing markets-focused integrated payment systems, and cryptocurrency-enabled virtual and real card solutions.
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.
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.

MT Partners provides real estate management and financial services.

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Energy
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

aboon — Aboon develops is a coupon application that introduces shops that attract customers. Aboon was founded on 2018 and is based in Yokohama, Japan.
Updater — Minna Electric Power is an Electricity retail service for corporations and individuals company.

Wuhan Optics Valley Elite Investment Management is a specialized fund management company that supports talent entrepreneurship innovation and start-up enterprises based on the “3551 Optical Valley Talent Program” of Donghu Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone. Established in August 2015, Hubei Science and Technology Investment Group Co., Ltd.,an investment and financing platform affiliated to Wuhan East Lake New Technology Development Zone, is jointly invested by Hubei Taizhen Investment Management Co., Ltd. under the Pacific Securities and Hubei Hanjiang Investment Management Co., Ltd. under Camel Group Co., Ltd. Companies and other social capital funds were established. At present, the company manages two funds with a total scale of 1.1 billion yuan.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Angel, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

Jiahe — Jiahe Info provides objective and professional data information, and business consulting services.It is a high technology enterprise that is committed to the satellite remote sensing technique and application. Against the background of the rapid development of the aerospace industry, Jiahe builds an expert team relying on the State KeyLaboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing of Wuhan University. Headed by Gong Jianya, the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the key technical personnel at Jiahe all hold Ph.D. or master’s degrees. So far, Jiahe has won several core patents.
Yesense — Yesense is a manufacturer of motion sensing, positioning, and navigation products and solutions. Yesense develops, manufactures, and sells inertial sensors and integrated navigation systems such as the inertial measurement unit (IMU), the attitude and heading reference system (AHRS), and the inertial/GNSS integrated navigation system. Yesensecreates long-term value for customers by developing competitive and dependable products and solutions in smart cars, industrial vehicles, unmanned robots, and consumer electronics in open collaboration with ecosystem partners.
JIMU Intelligent — JIMU Intelligent, founded in 2011, is a leading AI company that dedicated to vision-based intelligent driving technology. Based on its self-developed computer vision technology, JIMU is always in pursuit of the development and popularization of intelligent driving. At present, JIMU has established cooperations with many car manufacturers to bringabout future smart driving and transportation, and forged partnership with insurance, fleets, and intelligent transportation firms to release cost-efficient ADAS-based industry solutions.

Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor. He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund. He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group. In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders. Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law. In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing!

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Intropia — Find Web3 jobs and other opportunities, capitalize your network, and hire the best talent.
SODA — SODA enables the next generation of consumer crypto and meme coins and allows meme coin developers to leverage Telegram.
Metatable.ai — Metatable.ai simplifies software development with AI. It removes unnecessary complexity from coding to create high-quality software faster and more efficiently than traditional methods. Metatable.ai lets you direct AI to write functions for your project. After stating your request LLM writes code for your function and checks it with the compilerfor errors. You can adjust code by asking AI or editing it by yourself. Once error-free, the funciton is built, deployed, and ready for production performance, all without worrying about DevOps. Metatable.ai allows you to develop your SQL database by stating the required tables and columns in plain English. AI will then create SQL requests and deploy them to the platform. You can work with your database using the Text-to-SQL feature, creating requests, new tables, or even plotting charts with simple commands. Your project is presented on a Figma-like canvas, where you can manage your functions, database tables, and make data entries to the database. Metatable.ai streamlines development processes, reducing the time and resources required to bring ideas to life.

Freebank provides funds, supports, and develops venture business managers with the aim of moving forward with the next decade. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Japan.

Investment focus

CRM, IT Management, Video Conferencing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Thinca — Thinca is an IT system planning, development, and operations company that provides a cloud-based CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) hospitality & communication solution for corporate offices.
QD Laser, Inc. — QD Laser offers semiconductor lasers such as quantum dot lasers for silicon photonics, and retinal projectors as well. From Japan to the world.
Digital Cruise — Digital Cruise Provides cloud services for video distribution and digital signage.

Zhe Jiang Huarui Investment Management Limited, founded in 2002, is a Chinese domestic private investment venture capital management agency.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, Philippines, United States

Portfolio highlights

Imbioray — Imbioray is a biotechnology company that specializes in cellular immunotherapy for tumors and immune diseases. The company engages in the development of global CAR-NK and tiNK cell therapy drugs and is committed to solving the treatment of clinically unmet diseases.
Dagui Electronics — Dagui Electronics is a semiconductor advanced packaging service provider, focusing on WBBGA, FC (flip chip), Bumping and 2.5D product packaging services, providing high-reliability solutions for the next-generation packaging architecture.
Xinxiang Technology — Xinxiang Technology focuses on the research, development and sales of key materials and complete sets of production equipment for super-mixed dry electrodes for lithium-ion batteries. The company is committed to providing complete solutions for the production of lithium battery pole pieces to promote technological progress and industrial upgradingin the lithium battery industry.

Founded in 2014, Source Code Capital is a leading China VC focused on the broad TMT sectors and investing in both early stage start-ups and growth stage companies. With $1.5 billion and RMB 3.5 billion under management, Source Code Capital has been successfully partnering with close to 150 leading Chinese technology founders since inceptionincluding Bytedance, Meituan, Homelink, among many others. Source Code is focused on the “Big 3” fundamental drivers, which are Internet+, AI+, and Global+ , and invests along sectors such as media and entertainment, consumer services, enterprise, finance, retail, transportation, housing, education, and healthcare.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

LibLib AI — LibLib AI is an AI image generation platform that provides cutting-edge content creation through multi-scenario and multi-dimensional applications and interactions. It is a subsidiary of Beijing Singularity Star Technology Co., Ltd.
Zhihe Computing — Zhihe Computing is an AI intelligent computing company that develops high-performance, scalable AI intelligent computing CPUs and RISC-V processors.
Xingmai Innovation — Xingmai Innovation creates, develops, and sells intelligent swimming pool cleaning robots.

Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners is a leading China venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong in China, and Singapore.Currently, Qiming Venture Partners manages eleven US Dollar funds and seven RMB funds with $9.5 billion in capital raised. Since our establishment, we have invested in outstanding companiesin the Technology and Consumer (T&C) and Healthcare industries at the early and growth stages.Since our debut, we have backed over 530 fast-growing and innovative companies. Over 200 of our portfolio companies have achieved exits through IPOs at the NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEX, Shanghai Stock Exchange, or Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or through M&A or other means. There are also over 70 portfolio companies that have achieved unicorn or super unicorn status.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AusperBio — AusperBio is a Phase II clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming hepatitis B treatment for a cure and advancing oligonucleotide therapeutics. Leveraging their innovative and proprietary Med-Oligo™ ASO platform with effective targeted delivery technologies, AusperBio strives to unleash the power of ASO therapeutics to treata wide range of diseases, including viral infections, metabolic conditions, genetic disorders, and immune diseases.
LongBio Pharma — LongBio Pharma is a biotech company that treats patients with an emphasis on complement and allergy diseases.
Tianchen Biotechnology — Tianchen Biotechnology is a biotech company that specializes in the research, design, development, and sales of ophthalmology-related medical products. It provides complete diagnostic and treatment solutions for ophthalmology.

Tengxun Touzi is a investment firm.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Gaming
Series A, Funding Round, Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Xiaoduo — Founded in 2014, Xiaoduo Technology is mainly engaged in artificial intelligence voice customer service. Its business scope covers e-commerce, government affairs, finance and other fields. China Telecom, Meituan, Haidilao and other enterprises are its customers.
Siwei Zongheng — Siwei Zongheng is a hyper-converged time-series database that can realize real-time data query, analysis and systems in various scenarios. Scenarios can include smart connected cars, smart energy, smart manufacturing, smart transportation, telecommunications, and finance.
WT Microtech Medical — MicroTech is committed to developing user-friendly diabetic glucose monitoring devices that provide a comprehensive solution for diabetic glucose monitoring.