# Top 50 Social Network Angel Investors in Asia in June 2026

## Kensuke Furukawa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, SNS, Software

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".

## Tom Varkey
- Type: Angel
- Location: Westfield, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Education, E-Learning

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.

## Shubhrendu Koche
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Sports, eSports

Shubhrendu Koche

## Hironao Kunimitsu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Virtual Reality, Gaming

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.

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

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. 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 anonline MOOC.

## Xin Yan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Electronics

Xin Yan is the Founder of EthSign.

## Sebastian Knutsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, FinTech

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.

## Yuto Nagatomo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SNS, Video, Beauty

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

## Reid Hoffman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet

Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and a member of the Sanmai Board of Directors. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Oxford, where he earned his M.St. in Philosophy.

## Yusuke Sato
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.

## Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Al Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Social Network

Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani is the Chief Executive Officer at DAAL. He attended Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University.

## Takeshi Aoki Yamato
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Social Media, Digital Media, Social Network

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

## Hossain Md Shahidul Haq
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Lifestyle, Health Care

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

## Germaine Jiang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Social Network, Information Technology

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

## Kenji Narushima
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Sports, eSports

Kenji Narushima is a Chief Strategy Officer / Chief Of Staff at CARRO

## Shishir Bharti
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Sports, eSports, Internet

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.

## David Ng
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: eSports, Media and Entertainment, Sports

David Ng is the CEO & Founder of goGame.

## Nicole Zhang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Web3, Gaming

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

## Seiichiro Wada
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Legal, Content, Information Technology

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.

## Cecilia Li
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

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

## Tang Hongbo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

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

## Spencer Yang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, SMS, Finance

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

## Peng T. Ong
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Social

Specialties: Starting companies; strategy; product definition; software design; engineering and services operations.
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Former statutory board memberships: ACE, SUTD, IDA, NRF, MDA, IE Singapore, IMDA.
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## Loi Luu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform

Loi Luu is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON.Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technology. Much of his work revolves around this community. He developed Oyente,the first open-source security analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts. Loi also cofounded SmartPool, another open source project which embraces decentralization of mining pools in existing cryptocurrency. He continues to champion decentralisation and trustless properties of the Blockchain with KyberNetwork, taking inspiration and developing value for the community.

## Arthur Cheong
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Arthur Cheong is the Founding Partner at DeFiance Capital

## Chris Sirisereepaph
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Grocery

Chris Sirisereepaph is a Partner at Saison Capital.

## Neilson Lee
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Cryptocurrency

Neilson Lee

## John Lindfors
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Education, E-Commerce

<p>Stoic Venture Capital is an early-stage venture fund investing in emerging science and deep technology.

## Anatoly Yakovenko
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

## Margulan Seissembai
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social Media, Social Network, Web Development

Margulan Seissembai is a well-known Kazakhstani entrepreneur and investor.

## Bakht Niyazov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1

From 1997 through 2003 Bakht Niyazov worked in the state system of securities market regulation and was a member of Kazakhstan stock exchange board of directors.In 2004 founded Real-invest.kz, a trading company, without using any borrowed capital. 4 years later the company became one of the leaders at the securities and mutual funds market;company capitalization grew from $50k to $25 mln. Under the guidance of Niyazov, Real-invest.kz participated in the introduction of and placement of shares and bonds of 10 companies, including Gosprodkorporatsiya, ATF-Bank, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan Engineering. The total value of transactions exceeded $500 mln.Apart from the stock market, Bakht Niyazov is experienced in private equity investments.In 2009 he founded a microloan provider – Real-Credit. Within a year the company became one of the top players in terms of portfolio yield, a number of loans and market share.
In 2014 launched a VIP passenger transportation service in Moscow – CyberTransRu.
In 2010 founded an investment company – DIFC – that provides financing to projects in the international market.
In 2015 became a co-founder of a revolutionary project in the biotechnologies field – MeiraGTx.Over 18 years of experience in executive positions in the banking and investment sectors.

## Ray Chan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Web3, Gaming, Comics

Ray is the co-founder of 9GAG, one of the leading user generated content sites in the world, where he focuses on making a sustainable business out of humor. 9GAG is a Y Combinator and 500 Startups alumnus where Ray and his team spent a large amount of their time in Silicon Valley, learning from the best. Before founding 9GAG, Ray was working onSingboard, a web-meets-karaoke game. He was also a product manager at aNobii, an online reading community that was acquired by a new venture backed by HMV Group, Harper Collins, Penguin and Random House in 2010.

## Sanjay Popli
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Social Network, Information Technology

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

## Ryan Selkis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

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.

## Kamata Tomihisa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Fitness, Medical, Genetics

Dr. Kamada earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo. In 1984, he pursued his journey to establish his own business that focused on information appliances and mobile software, namely ACCESS Co., Ltd.. With great success, the company entered the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Market in 2001. He left ACCESS Co., Ltd. in 2011, and founded TomyK Ltd.in 2012 where he supports startups possessing revolutionary business ideas that revitalize the Japanese economy.

## Suji Yan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

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

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

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.

## Cecilia Bratt
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social Media, Social Network, Content Delivery Network

Cecilia Bratt

## Paul Taylor
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3

Paul Taylor is an angel investor and advisor to 100+ companies 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 as a Core Contributor. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partners team. Paul attended Emory University where hereceived his BBA degree. He is also a 4-time national chess champion, international best-selling author, and mined Bitcoin back in 2011.

## Sreeram Kannan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency

Sreeram Kannan is the Founder of Eigenlayer .

## Samarth Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social Media, Social Network, Content Delivery Network

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

## Kazuhiko Ishikura
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Content, Fashion

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.

## Raj Gokal
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Raj leads operations, product, and finance. He has spent 10 years in product management and finance.He was a venture investor at General Catalyst, started the consumer medical device company Sano which attracted over $20m in investment, and led product management at Omada Health as it grew tenfold.

## Dingaling ‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, PC Games, Software

Dingaling is an individual investor and crypto twitter celeb.

## Ayataro Nakagawa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, Content

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.

## Manit Parikh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: B2B, Sports, eSports

Manit Parikh

## Otomi Tomohiro
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Travel, Content

Otomi Tomohiro - CEO @ Tyrus

## Ron Zuckerman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Internet, Video, Apps

Ron Zuckerman is the Co-Founder and Director of TV Time.

## Alexander Pack
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Blockchain

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.

## Roger Ehrenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Advertising, Software

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

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