Top 50 Social Network Angel Investors in Asia in July 2025

Investor	Social Network Asia investments
Tom Varkey	3
Kensuke Furukawa	3
Shubhrendu Koche	3
Xin Yan	2
Hironao Kunimitsu	2
Balaji Srinivasan	2
Seiichiro Wada	1
Takeshi Aoki Yamato	1
Madeleine Magnerius	1
Fredrik Hjelm	1
Brian Ma	1
Shishir Bharti	1
O.D. Kobo	1
Suji Yan	1
Siduri Poli	1
Hossain Md Shahidul Haq	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
Wu Dekan	1
Sebastian Knutsson	1
Kasit Rochanakorn	1
Sofia Dolfe	1
Yasuyuki Kin	1
Cecilia Li	1
David Ng	1
Tang Hongbo	1
Spencer Yang	1
Hiroaki Kitano	1
Ross Veitch	1
Yuto Nagatomo	1
Germaine Jiang	1
Sanjay Popli	1
Cecilia Bratt	1
Peng T. Ong	1
Paul Taylor	1
Wing Vasiksiri	1
Alexander Pack	1
Huang Shao Ning	1
Magda Lukaszewicz	1
Liang Xinjun	1
Yuma Umeda	1
Sreeram Kannan	1
Peng T. Ong	1
Craig Hewett	1
Kazuma Ieiri	1
Jussi Salovaara	1
Nicole Zhang	1
Ayataro Nakagawa	1
Ryan Selkis	1
Samarth Sharma	1
Kazuhiko Ishikura	1

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.

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.

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.

Xin Yan is the Founder of EthSign.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Electronics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Instap — Tap to connect with new friends and earn crypto back at the same time! Buy now to receive up to 55% OFF!
KNN3 Network — KNN3 Network provides graph solutions for web3 multiverse relational aggregation to empower Social d/App and AI analytics. KNN3 aims to become a community-driven data curation protocol to enable on-chain data collaboration.

Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Content, Media and Entertainment
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Aspora — Aspora help users bank seamlessly across countries, invest in diverse assets, access credit and insurance services.
Kindly MD — Kindly MD is a healthcare services and technology company that offers solutions for sleep support, pain treatment, and medication management through advanced data analytics. The company integrates mental health services, traditional medication, and plant-based alternatives to provide comprehensive, whole-person treatment. Dedicated to promoting abrighter, healthier future, Kindly MD delivers personalized care that addresses the unique needs of each patient.
Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.

Seiichiro Wada started his career as employee No.5 at a technology startup. He then joined Dwango, the fast-growing startup that operates Japanese Youtube "Niko Niko Douga", incubating new businesses for the company and then helped the company go public. After that, he joined Monex Group, the leading online brokerage group in Japan, andled new businesses there as well. He also helped establish Monex Ventures as the CVC of Monex Group first and then raised funds from external LPs for an independent early-stage venture capital. He has invested in more than 100 early stage startups, including Money Forward (IPO), Uzabase (IPO), Mentalhealth Technologies (IPO), MFS (IPO), Folio, Emerada, Gracia, and orb.

Investment focus

Legal, Content, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Chipee — Chipee is a social networking platform that enables its users to send digital gratitude in the form of chips.
AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
CharacterBank — CharacterBank offers game development and production services using VR technology.

Takeshi Aoki Yamato is the Representative Director of Capital Medica Ventures.

Investment focus

Social Media, Digital Media, Social Network
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Chipee — Chipee is a social networking platform that enables its users to send digital gratitude in the form of chips.

Madeleine Magnerius is a Vice President at EQT Partners.

Investment focus

B2B, Dating, Recycling
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, Germany, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Vara — Vara develops a breast cancer screening platform powered by AI for radiologists, allowing them to focus on finding cancer early. While we provide. Vara also provides remote mammography reading services to those that lack the radiologists. Vara's mission is to make affordable diagnostics available all over the world by designing machinelearning-powered workflows that users love to work with.
Circulate — Find the best packaging for you and the planet in our marketplace
Fika — Fika is a dating and social networking platform empowered by Artificial Intelligence, focusing on female users in Asia. Fika focuses on the most fundamental values: growth, authenticity, and equal benefits for all users, to optimize the dating experience and social connections to the highest quality!

Fredrik Hjelm co-founded Voi Technology in 2018 with a vision of improving the way people move around congested urban centres by offering fleets of electric scooters as a cleaner, affordable and exhilarating alternative to cars. Prior to Voi, Fredrik founded Guestit, the Nordics’ most successful Airbnb management company, and worked in businessdevelopment for Avito.ru, Russia’s leading - and the world’s third largest – classified advertising site. Fredrik’s entrepreneurial career began at 12 years of age when he ran a number of commercial projects including forestry work (he grew up in rural Sweden), events and website sales.After graduating from high school, he attended the Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, within the intelligence branch of Sweden’s special forces, where he studied Russian and linguistics. He served a total of four years in Moscow in the Defence Attache Office, where he worked as an interpreter and analyst, covering Russia as well as Kazakhstan and Belarus. He went on to study business and economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Angel
Sweden, France, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Kiku — Kiku using AI for scheduling, screening, and assessing applicants can help organizations manage large volumes of candidates efficiently.
Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface

Brian Ma is the Founder and Managing Partner at Iterative Capital. Co-Founder at Decide.com, recently acquired by Ebay. He is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor at various startups.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Property Management, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Castia — acasa is a Latam based Proptech. acasa enables homeowners in Latam to move to a new home in a fast and simple manner, leveraging their current home equity. Then we sell the old home or else we buy it after 6 months.
Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
Brick — Brick is a financial data application programming interface (API) that allows developers to offer in-app financial services.

With 18+ years’ experience of working for large multinational companies, Shishir brings his expertise in all areas of Human Resources and has a proven track record of working with Senior Management Level Executives to integrate the People Strategy in the overall Business Strategy. Prior to aCommerce, Shishir worked with global companies likeHewlett Packard, Coca-Cola, Volvo Buses, as well as global start-ups such as LinkedIn and Uber.

Investment focus

Sports, eSports, Internet
Angel
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform

O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.

Investment focus

Internet, Broadcasting, Video
Seed, Series A, Series B
China, Israel, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
GiveHope —
Totally Bored —

Suji Yan is the founder and CEO of Dimension/Mask Network.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Japan

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
EarlyFans — Welcome to EarlyFans! A new way to find your favorite creators, support them early, and get rewarded for it.

Siduri Poli is the Founder of CMNTY.XYZ.

Investment focus

Social Media, Social Network, Content Delivery Network
Pre-Seed
Armenia

Portfolio highlights

Melon — Save & organise content from any source. Follow experts and friends. Share your knowledge with others.

Composite work experience of 16+ years with exposure in Telecommunication, Credit Rating, Banking & Development Sector, and now MFS. Have worked in the finance sector with responsibilities in financial & management reporting, budget planning & allocation, accounts, financial feasibility, analyzing market trends within the scope ofbusiness support & planning as well as working as a cost controller. Have proven proficiency in driving bottom-line profitability through cost control and aiding in top-line growth through the implementation of company strategy.Specialties: Financial Reporting, Budgeting & Planning, Finance, Cost Controlling, Financial Analysis, Business Development, Revenue Generation, Market Research, Credit Rating

Investment focus

Wellness, Lifestyle, Health Care
Pre-Seed
Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Relaxy — Relaxy is a GenZ-friendly mental healthcare startup on a mission to make mental health support radically more accessible, preventative & relatable, and stigma-free. Relaxy provides a safe space for sharing emotions with personalized services like- meditations, fun activities with friends, therapy based on moods, habits, content consumption, andeven tone of communication.

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization

Wu Dekan is the CEO of Ningbo Mizhi Game Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Lifestyle, Communities, Social Network
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Tianju — Tianju is a script-killing grass community, focusing on the offline socialization of the script-killing industry for the C-end.

Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
Flower — We enable the energy system of tomorrow by combining pioneering technology with flexible assets, allowing clean energy to power society
Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs | Effortless AI Ads for Mobile Game Studios.

Kasit Rochanakorn is the Legal Director at Atomico.

Investment focus

Social Media, Social Network, Content Delivery Network
Pre-Seed
Armenia

Portfolio highlights

Melon — Save & organise content from any source. Follow experts and friends. Share your knowledge with others.

Sofia joined Index in April 2018. She spends time in the Nordics and The Netherlands, and focuses on investments in consumer internet and marketplace businesses across all stages. Prior to joining Index, Sofia was an investor at EQT Ventures in Stockholm. Sofia is a graduate of the London School of Economics (M.Sc. Management) and of the Universityof Edinburgh (M.A.), where she graduated at the top of her class.

Investment focus

Gaming, Dating, Mobile
Seed
Sweden, Turkey, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Atlar — Atlar’s platform lets businesses automate all of their payment activities – including initiating transfers, reconciling transactions, and handling direct debits – directly with their existing bank partners.The Stockholm-based company was founded in 2022 by Johannes Elgh, Joel Wägmark and Joel Nordström who were previously early team members atTink (acquired by Visa for $2.2bn). Atlar is backed by Index Ventures – a firm that has previously backed category defining companies such as Adyen, Revolut, Figma, and many more.Backed by world-class investors, we help great tech companies such as Banxware, Mynt, and Lassie automate their bank payments.
Fika — Fika is a dating and social networking platform empowered by Artificial Intelligence, focusing on female users in Asia. Fika focuses on the most fundamental values: growth, authenticity, and equal benefits for all users, to optimize the dating experience and social connections to the highest quality!
Cradle — Using robust prediction algorithms and AI design recommendations, Cradle assists biologists in rapidly designing better proteins. Cradle gives you complete ownership of the intellectual property while maintaining the privacy and security of your sequences and data.

Yasuyuki Kin

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.

Cecilia Li is the founder of Formless Capital and she attended Aix-Marseille University and Academy of Art University

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Vietnam, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Numio — Send Crypto Instantly and Save up to 100x on Ethereum Fees Cheap. Fast. Secure.
ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.
Affine — Alpine Empower Banking offers an exceptional financial solution designed to maximize your financial growth. With secure deposits and high yields, you can rest assured that your funds are protected while earning attractive returns. Additionally, Alpine Empower Banking provides convenient card benefits, ensuring easy access to your funds and a seamless banking experience.

David Ng is the CEO & Founder of goGame.

Investment focus

eSports, Media and Entertainment, Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ampverse — Ampverse champions hyperlocal gaming communities through a connected universe of owned esports teams, gaming channels, original content, and merchandise. Through our ecosystem of talent, content, and technology, we create the connective tissue that bridges brands with gaming audiences.
Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform

Tang Hongbo is the Co-Founder & CEO of DeBank.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

bbox — bbox offers professional trading on the Decentralized Perpetual Exchange and hybrid markets.
Mask Network — Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.
Pendle Finance — Pendle is a DeFi protocol focused on yield trading, allowing users to both fix or leverage their yield.

Spencer Yang is a core contributor at Fractal. He's the Managing Partner of Block Space Force.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, SMS, Finance
Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Yolk.fm — Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
Move AI — MoveAI is the end-to-end platform for relocation. Research, book, coordinate, and pay vendors all from one place. The Move AI platform streamlines relocation workflows, enabling data-driven decision making and real-time vendor communication. Plus, Move AI's in-house relocation experts deliver an all
Puffer Finance — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.

Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.

Ross is CEO & Co-Founder at Wego, an online travel marketplace (aka travel metasearch) operating across APAC and MENA backed by top-tier investors including Tiger Global, Crescent Group, Square Peg Capital, MNC Group and MEVP. Ross is a veteran of the Asian internet industry having established Yahoo!s Southeast Asian operations in Singaporeback in 1998 and leading product development efforts across the region for 6+ years. He is also Singapore Co-Chair of H2, the premier global leadership network for the digital industry. Ross has been an active angel investor in the technology sector for a decade and enjoys working with other passionate entrepreneurs. He has worked in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Kuala Lumpur and is now splits his time between Singapore and Dubai. He travels frequently for business but not nearly enough for leisure.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed
Singapore, Thailand, United States

Portfolio highlights

PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
Light — Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.

Yuto Nagatomo - President, CEO, and Founder @ Cuore Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

SNS, Sports, Content
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
SAURUS JAPAN —

Germaine Jiang is the Director, General Manager and Head,Strategy & Institutional Relations at Mask Network.

Investment focus

Social Network, Information Technology
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.

Sanjay Popli is the Co-Founder and Group CEO of Cryptomind Group Holdings.

Investment focus

Social Network, Information Technology
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.

Cecilia Bratt

Investment focus

Social Media, Social Network, Content Delivery Network
Pre-Seed
Armenia

Portfolio highlights

Melon — Save & organise content from any source. Follow experts and friends. Share your knowledge with others.

Specialties: Starting companies; strategy; product definition; software design; engineering and services operations. ___ Former statutory board memberships: ACE, SUTD, IDA, NRF, MDA, IE Singapore, IMDA. ___ Please note Monk's Hill Ventures mostly invest in Series A tech founders in Southeast Asia. If you are outside Series A and are stillinteresting in sharing your great ideas, business, or feedback, you can email info@monkshill.com. The best (and fastest way) to reach me is always through a soft intro from our network

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Apps, E-Learning
Seed, Series A
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Osome — Osome helps foreign and Singaporean entrepreneurs to manage their businesses. Register and get your new company operational with our certified agents backed by modern technology
WeGoWhere — Discover things to do with your favorite people. Sync plans with your friends so you never miss out. Know where your friends are doing today, this week or next and join their plans IRL.
Pie — Making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time.

Paul Taylor is a prolific angel investor and advisor in the web3 industry. He was the most active angel investor based in the US for crypto in 2024 (Crunchbase). He previously worked at Fancy Studios (Polygon gaming studio that reached $1b+ valuation) as a Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partnersteam. Paul attended Emory University where he received his BBA degree. He is also a 4-time national chess champion, international best-selling author, and mined Bitcoin back in 2011.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
FortyTwo — Fortytwo is a decentralized AI network that employs swarm intelligence by linking consumer devices to execute small AI models. It provides a scalable and cost-efficient alternative to centralized AI systems, enabling users to contribute computing resources while ensuring data privacy. Fortytwo's goal is to create a reasoning engine thatoperates on a planetary scale and is driven by the community.
Sats Terminal — Sats Terminal is a Bitcoin DeFi aggregation protocol that integrates fragmented DeFi opportunities.

Wing Vasiksiri

Investment focus

Financial Services, Blockchain, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Thailand, United States

Portfolio highlights

CHOYS — CHOYS is a holistic wellness subscription platform for organizations and employees that strives to offer every employee with access to benefits and impact that are tailored to their individual requirements, with the goal of making work more humanized and meaningful. CHOYS is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region and was founded in 2022.
WeGoWhere — Discover things to do with your favorite people. Sync plans with your friends so you never miss out. Know where your friends are doing today, this week or next and join their plans IRL.
Beep Technologies — Beep is creating a universal, modular platform bridging the physical and digital divide, powering smart, contextual & interoperable connectivity across physical touchpoints whilst ensuring true customer privacy by leveraging on decentralised technology.

Alex Pack is a Founding Partner on the deal team at AngelList, the largest platform for early-stage tech investing in the world. Previously he was an investor with Arbor Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in Hong Kong, where he focused on opportunities in cross-border FinTech, EdTech, and blockchain technology.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zerion — Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception.
SX Network — The global liqudity hub for betting
Affine — Alpine Empower Banking offers an exceptional financial solution designed to maximize your financial growth. With secure deposits and high yields, you can rest assured that your funds are protected while earning attractive returns. Additionally, Alpine Empower Banking provides convenient card benefits, ensuring easy access to your funds and a seamless banking experience.

Co-founder of JobsCentral Singapore, Shao-Ning stayed on as the Singapore MD after the company was acquired. During this period, she oversaw operation integrations with the global business and started the company’s transition to become a SaaS player in its Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia operations. Since 2009, Shao-Ning has been mentoring startups in creative, digital and retail industries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Home Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Homage — Homage is a trusted senior home care marketplace and technology platform seamlessly connecting seniors to the best quality of care on demand.The Homage platform uses a proprietary matching engine that pairs seniors with the best care professionals for their needs in real-time. Family members can schedule, manage, and monitor care visits throughHomage family app from anywhere, stay in communication with the care professional and get real-time information on the care their senior is receiving. Homage app will let family members know who visited their loved ones, how long they spent in the home, and what activities they did. Homage's technology allows it to send a Homage care professional to senior's house within 2 hours. Homage's app for care professionals lets them efficiently run their business, gives them better client information: a care plan individualized to each senior, helpful tips, ability to run on their own schedule, easy communication with the family members through their app.
Motorist — Motorist is a Singapore-based automotive platform that simplifies vehicle ownership through smart solutions. We help drivers and car owners to manage their vehicle by providing them with a range of auto services. Stay informed with our network of motorists and motor services.
EngageRocket — We help organizations make better people decisions using real-time analytics. Our customers use EngageRocket platform to measure and improve employee experience.

Magda joined Balderton in 2018. Prior to Balderton, Magda spent three years at Goldman Sachs, where she first worked in the financing group covering Nordics and later moved to the Consumer, Retail & Healthcare M&A team, where she was an associate and worked on a number of Nordic transactions. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Magda was involvedin politics and worked in startups. Magda has an MSc in Business & Economics from Lund University, where she was admitted to the Venture Lab for a one-year entrepreneurship programme. She also studied Business at Copenhagen Business School.

Investment focus

Pet, Dating, Dental
Seed, Series B
Sweden, Vietnam, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

32Co — Collaborate on treatments with the UK's top orthodontists using advanced aligner materials.
Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
Fika — Fika is a dating and social networking platform empowered by Artificial Intelligence, focusing on female users in Asia. Fika focuses on the most fundamental values: growth, authenticity, and equal benefits for all users, to optimize the dating experience and social connections to the highest quality!

Liang Xinjun is the Founder of the Fosun fashion group. He previously worked at Shanghai Guangxin Technology Development Co as a VP; Deputy GM. Liang Xinjun attended Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

NFTGo — NFTGo is a NFT data aggregator where users can find information about NFT, including NFT Drops, ranking, whale tracking, NFT search engine, market data, transaction data, and many more.
0xScope — Discover the comprehensive suite of trading and research products leveraging 0xScope's cutting-edge Web3 Data Layer architecture. Trade with confidence using Scopechat, access advanced analytical tools with Scopescan, and tap into the extensive capabilities of ScopeAPI for traceable entity insights.
TokenScript — A new standard for bridging web2 and web3

Yuma Umeda

Investment focus

Gift, Internet, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

XMart — Xmart is a Costs can be reduced by simply sending invoices for one month.
AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
Another works — Another works is a internet platform & the industry's first service that allows you to directly approach the talent you are interested in from a database of a variety of ready-to-work and multi-tasking personnel. You can also use the performance fee for free.

Sreeram Kannan is the Founder of Eigenlayer .

Investment focus

Blockchain, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Layer — Ethereum is the settlement layer, build full stack decentralized apps on top with Web Assembly and the EVM.
Fabric Cryptography — Fabric develops a custom cryptography hardware to accelerate cryptography algorithms. The chips, whose components exclusively serve cryptographic purposes, are based on Verifiable Processing Units (VPUs) which incorporate features of GPUs and ASICs to improve the speed and cost of advanced cryptographic workloads.

Peng is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a leading early-stage tech venture capital firm in Southeast Asia. Peng is an industry veteran with over 25 years of industry as an entrepreneur, founder, and investor in Silicon Valley and in Asia. He is based in Indonesia and is a board member of Glints, ELSA, Intelligent VideoSolutions, STOQO and Escapex.Prior to Monk’s Hill Ventures, he was a Venture Partner at GSR Ventures in China. The firm is known for its successful investments in companies like Didi Chuxing and Qunar. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded a series of successful companies including Electric Classifieds (today known as Match.com), Interwoven and Eccentuate, which combined today generate over USD$1 billion in revenues annually.Peng is currently the Chairman of SolveEducation! and serves as a board member of the International Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin and SEA Founders.Peng earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Singapore, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Osome — Osome helps foreign and Singaporean entrepreneurs to manage their businesses. Register and get your new company operational with our certified agents backed by modern technology
WeGoWhere — Discover things to do with your favorite people. Sync plans with your friends so you never miss out. Know where your friends are doing today, this week or next and join their plans IRL.
Pie — Making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time.

Craig is the Co-Founder of Wego.com. He has more than 15 years experience in the online travel distribution industry, starting out with Holiday Inn Worldwide (now known as InterContinental Hotels Group) back in 1995 when the company launched the world's first online booking engine. He left Holiday Inn Worldwide in 1999 to join the start upteam for Priceline.com in Asia. He then joined the start up team for Zuji in Singapore where his tenure was cut short by the events of September 11th 2001. Craig then rejoined InterContinental Hotels Group at the time when the company was ramping up its online technology investments across key Asia Pacific Markets. He developed the company's online strategy across the region with key local investments in China and Japan, successfully introducing local language capabilities into the group's global reservation system and marketing websites.

Investment focus

Retail, Coupons, Internet
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Coupay — Coupay offers consumers the ability to be rewarded for their social equity. By using existing conversion methods, being coupons, cashback and comparison, if a user shares via a social network and a sale occurs, that user is rewarded financially for the share. Coupay has partnered with thousands of retailers, and has over 16 million productson site. Coupay, social shopping that pays in cash.

Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.

Investment focus

Content, Fashion, Recruiting
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
ONE NOVA — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.

Jussi Salovaara - Co-founder and Managing Partner Asia @ Antler

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Retail
Pre-Seed, Seed
Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Fika — Fika is a dating and social networking platform empowered by Artificial Intelligence, focusing on female users in Asia. Fika focuses on the most fundamental values: growth, authenticity, and equal benefits for all users, to optimize the dating experience and social connections to the highest quality!
Peddlr — Peddlr is a free POS mobile app for small businesses. Effortlessly track and manage your sales, expenses, inventory, and transactions. Use it anytime, anywhere, and even offline!
PEXX — Discover PEXX, the ultimate solution for quick and secure stablecoins to fiat conversions. Send USDT and USDC globally, enjoying competitive rates in Euros, USD, IDR and more.

Nicole Zhang is a Partner at Lingfeng Innovation Fund. She is a former Executive Director at Binance Labs.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Web3, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.
Oshi — Oshi is an open animation platform that unites creators and fans to forge global anime hits within a blockchain-powered ecosystem.
Pivotal — We're transforming 5 million developers into 500 million creators through ChatAndBuild.com—our AI-powered platform that removes technical barriers between imagination and implementation.What makes our approach revolutionary is connecting creative intent directly to economic value through our Bitcoin Productivity Stack. When someone buildswith ChatAndBuild, their productive activity generates yield for Bitcoin stakers, creating a flywheel where productivity fuels more productivity. Complemented by EarnTV, our Bloomberg collaboration, we're building the infrastructure for the intention economy—where value flows to creators and users, not platforms.

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Content
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Agora — Make great governance your competitive advantage. Trusted by Optimism, ENS, Uniswap and more.
StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.

Samarth Sharma is the Head of Growth, EMEA App Dev at Google.

Investment focus

Social Media, Social Network, Content Delivery Network
Pre-Seed
Armenia

Portfolio highlights

Melon — Save & organise content from any source. Follow experts and friends. Share your knowledge with others.

Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.

Investment focus

Beauty, Content, Fashion
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.