Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Hong Kong in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Software startups based in Hong kong. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Hong kong. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Hong Kong in January 2025
Investor | Software Hong Kong investments |
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Yat Siu | 4 |
Carman Chan | 4 |
Fabio Cannavale | 2 |
Michael Hansen | 2 |
Sunghwan Choi | 2 |
Chryseis Tan | 2 |
Donald Tang | 2 |
Roger Allen | 2 |
Stein Jakob Oeie | 2 |
Donald Skinner | 1 |
Michael Kazam | 1 |
Simon Loong | 1 |
Jon Oringer | 1 |
Guillaume Luccisano | 1 |
Andrew Riddick | 1 |
Feng Liu | 1 |
Kate Choyce | 1 |
Jack Gillett | 1 |
Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 1 |
Antanas Guoga | 1 |
Joe Zhu Pan | 1 |
Yuming Bai | 1 |
Gabriel Fong | 1 |
Wolfgang Lehmacher | 1 |
Jon Oringer | 1 |
Sofia Liang | 1 |
Henri Arslanian | 1 |
Wei Guo | 1 |
Edward Lando | 1 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 1 |
Owen Van Natta | 1 |
Ayataro Nakagawa | 1 |
Gabby Dizon | 1 |
Ryan Holmes | 1 |
Alan Rutledge | 1 |
Igor Rybakov | 1 |
Junhao Liao | 1 |
Neilson Lee | 1 |
Santiago Roel Santos | 1 |
John Lindfors | 1 |
Sal Ismail | 1 |
Steve Kirsch | 1 |
Steve Melhuish | 1 |
Tom James | 1 |
Julien Chabe | 1 |
Vladimir Soloviev | 1 |
Khailee Ng | 1 |
Mai Fujimoto | 1 |
Hugo Barra | 1 |
Ruby Lu | 1 |
Yat Siu is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Outblaze a messaging communications company that services over 40 million users today based out of Hong Kong.Yat has previously worked for Atari Germany, served as Director and Head of East Coast Operations for Lexicor, established Hong Kong Cybercity (the first free web page and e-mail providerin Asia, later renamed Freenation), as well as AT&T Solutions System Integration practice.He has been named a Global Leader of Tomorrow and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.It has been reported that Yat Siu sold Outblaze messaging to IBM to become Lotus iNotes.Yat is also responsible FON's operations in China.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
- BLIFE Protocol — BLIFE Protocol's objective is to promote growth and development of Web3 on Bitcoin.
- Humanity Protocol — Humanity Protocol developing Proof of Humanity as a novel feature of Humanity Protocol to provide developers with unique-human authentication mechanisms, and users complete ownership over data and identity.
Carman Chan is one of the top 5 Women to watch in Asia Tech (Nikkei Asian Review). She is a veteran in the technology industry with decades of experience as an entrepreneur with multiple exits, a tech columnist and a globally recognized venture capitalist.Carman is the founder of Click Ventures, a global early stage venture capital firm. ClickVentures has grown into a leading investment manager, and two of its funds are featured as Top 5 Seed Fund (Vintage 2003-2015) in the world and Top 4 Funds to Watch by Preqin respectively. Click Ventures' investments include Spotify (ipo), Docusign(ipo), Palantir, Memebox and Youappi.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, China
Portfolio highlights
- Oddup — Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method.
- EventX — The EventX Virtual Event Platform is a comprehensive platform for hosting virtual events, meetings, conferences, and webinars that help you attract leads and audiences.
- FutureLeague — FutureLeague is an ed-tech company that teaches kids ages 6-12 engineering and programming with a focus on teamwork, creativity, and design thinking. It specializes in the fields of ed-tech, internet, and education. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Michael’s responsible for strategic growth in the Asia Pacific region of Zendesk. An IT sales veteran, Michael has more than 20 years experience in a variety of sales and marketing roles spanning the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia.Prior to becoming Zendesk’s first employee, Michael was selling help desk projects in Australia. Michael is anarmy officer who has studied at the Danish Technical University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Art, SaaS
- Seed
- Germany, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- ChartMogul — SaaS & subscription reporting, analytics & metrics for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and PayPal. In one click get your MRR, LTV, churn rate, cohort analysis and more.
- Soundbrenner — Innovative music tools that remove the hassle from your practice. Master your craft with the Core, Pulse or our app The Metronome.
Sunghwan Choi
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
- CHAI — CHAI is a mobile payments dApp that allows consumers to pay for items online by simply adding their bank account.
- Sequin — Sequin is on a mission to fight the Pink Tax with cashback rewards & money education.
Ms. Chryseis Tan serves as Director at Cardiff Asset Limited.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Beauty, Fashion
- Seed, Series A
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Goxip Inc — Goxip is ultimate destination for searching, discovering and purchasing any fashion and beauty products.By partnering with over 500 international online retailers, Goxip’s database covers more than 36,000 luxury brands and 5 million items. Being the biggest fashion and beauty ecommerce platform, can simply search with text, categories or evenimages to find ideal items.They are super connector between content and ecommerce sites. Whatever see and inspires , Goxip is here to help bring home that piece of fashion cannot live without.Discover trends, find inspiration and share own styles with the Goxip community of fashionistas.Snap. Shop. Wear.
Donald Tang
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Terminal 1 — Terminal 1 is a recruiting firm that combines high quality recruitment consultants with automated tools to improve placement quality and speed.
- Chain of Demand — Chain of Demand specializes in predictive analytics in retail & supply chain related industries.Their proprietary AI distills hundreds of millions of structured and unstructured data points into actionable insights and recommendations for retail, supply chain and financial industries to improve profitability and sustainability.#fintech#retailtech #ML #predictiveanalytics
- Catalyte — Catalyte uses AI to discover high-potential talent, develop them and deploy them directly into client organizations.
Roger Allen, director and co-founder of A&B, has practical credentials directly relevant to the Fund based upon over thirty years as a chief executive of a major Australian IT services company with worldwide operations, then 13 years as an active investor in private companies in the ICT industries.Roger grew shareholder value in ComputerPower from $250k in 1978 to $170m in 1995 (at the time of his retirement) and also grew the annual revenue to over $300m and staff to more than 3,000. Roger obtained private equity from News Corporation, through the direct involvement of Rupert Murdoch, prior to taking Computer Power public on the ASX in 1987. He has direct personal experience in selling Australian information technology products and services in the USA, Europe, Asia, as well as Australia.He served for six years until 1997 as deputy chairman of Austrade and is very well known throughout the information technology industry in Australia and internationally. He was the first chief executive from an Australian company to be elected chairman of the Australian Information Industries Association, has represented Australia at the World Computer Services Forum and was vice-president of the Asia-Pacific industry organisation. He has also served on two advisory councils to the Prime Minister and has chaired state advisory boards in both NSW and Victoria. He has been an adjunct professor in the School of Entrepreneur-ship of Swinburne University and regularly lectures at INSEAD in the School of Entrepreneurship. Roger was recently awarded the 2007 Pearcey Medal for Lifetime Achievement in recognition for his outstanding contribution to the ICT industry.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- My Mirror — My Mirror is a mental health care center that offers psychology sessions, mental health assessments, and treatment services.
- Unleash live — Enterprise real-time computer vision and live video streaming capabilities from virtually any camera for improved operations and safety across Energy, Transport, and Resources
- Marlee (Fingerprint For Success) — AI technology to bring out the best in your team. Start now for free. Trust in more than 1 million coaching minutes, rated 4.4 out of 5 with a 90% success rate.
Stein Jakob Oeie is the Founder & Managing Director, Indonesia at Rocket Internet GmbH.
Before joining Rocket Internet as Managing Director Indonesia, Stein worked for J.P. Morgan as Associate.
Stein holds a Master's degree from the HEC School of Management / HEC Paris.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Internet, Shopping
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Talkpush — Talkpush is the leading conversational CRM for recruitment. Automate the repetitive stuff and focus on the right talent.
- Propseller — Sell, buy and rent property smarter with Propseller. Get premium service and full transparency for a fair commission. Sell for only 1%.
- Lazada Group — Lazada is the number one online shopping and selling destination in Southeast Asia – present in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Lazada helps more than 100,000 local and international sellers, as well as 2,500 brands, serve the 560 million consumers in the region through its marketplace platform, supportedby a wide range of tailored marketing, data, and service solutions. Lazada offers an excellent customer experience through a wide network of logistics partners and it's own first- and last-mile
Donald Skinner - Executive Chairman, CLSA Capital Partners @ CLSA
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Investment focus
- Education, E-Learning, Recruiting
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Pathship — Pathship is an education platform that leverages AI and ML. An alternative to today’s higher education, connecting people with jobs they’re passionate about.
Michael Kazam is a Partner, LE BOOK & CONNECTIONS.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Blockchain, Marketplace
- Series A
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision uses smart contracts to help creators sell digital fashion and other accessories.
Simon Loong is the Founder and CEO of WeLab – Asia’s leading Fintech company – which operates Wolaidai (我来贷), one of China’s largest mobile lending platforms and WeLend, Hong Kong’s leading online lending platform. Founded in 2013, WeLab reinvents traditional financial services with its proprietary risk management technology and seamless mobilelending experiences. WeLab’s investors include Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah, Chinese provincial government fund Guangdong Technology Financial Group, CK Hutchison’s TOM Group, ING Bank, China Constuction Bank, World Bank’s IFC, and Sequoia Capital. WeLab was named in a KPMG-sponsored report as one of the top 100 fintech companies in the world – #6 in China and #33 globally. Prior to founding WeLab, Simon spent 15 years in retail banking divisions of leading international banks. Most recently, Simon served as the Head of Standard Chartered’s Unsecured Lending business in North East Asia. Prior to that, he was the Marketing Director for Citibank Taiwan and the Regional Risk Officer for Citibank Asia Pacific. Simon serves as an advisor on a number of professional organizations including Shenzhen Consumer Council, Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. Simon has a Master of Science in Management (MSM) from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and he is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He was awarded “Innovation Leadership Achievement in Hong Kong” by The Asian Banker in 2017, "CEO of the Year" by Capital CEO in 2016 and Silicon Dragon’s "Entrepreneur Achievement Award" in 2014.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Series A
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- MioTech — MioTech is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers investment managers to better serve their clients in a world of complex data. By integrating and analyzing data from all types of sources, MioTech streamlines the entire investment process, creating an ultimate data-driven investing experience. MioTech has offices in Shanghai and HongKong.MioTech is backed by Horizons Ventures, ZhenFund, and prestigious individual investors around the world.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
- NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Guillaume Luccisano was the Co-Founder of TripleByte and Socialcam. He attended EPITECH for his degree in computer science.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Cryptr — DEFAULT : Get features like SSO to convert more B2B customers, regardless of their auth provider. Just a few lines of code to start working with enterprise clients.
- Cauri Money — Cauri Money specializes in financial technology with a wide range of digital banking solutions via app for fund transfer.
- Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
Andrew Riddick - Head of Research @ CLSA
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Investment focus
- Education, E-Learning, Recruiting
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Pathship — Pathship is an education platform that leverages AI and ML. An alternative to today’s higher education, connecting people with jobs they’re passionate about.
Feng Liu is the Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer of Blocks.tech.
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Investment focus
- Apps
- Series A
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- OneKey Customer Service — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Aptos and more, with EAL 6+ top-notch Security. Backed by Coinbase Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, Ribbit Capital.
Kate is a driven and focused leader with a solid understanding of how to create successful businesses from nothing in uncharted territory. Her passion to redefine the traditional recruitment space is reinforced by her grassroots design, build, and in-house experimentation experience.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Human Resources, Predictive Analytics
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- HR Tech International — Revolutionise your recruitment process with automation saving up to 60% of your time usually spent on interviews, screening and induction.
Jack Gillett
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Supply Chain Management
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- LTAI — LIberatrade uses companies existing data or SaaS supply chain data management tools to build more resilient supply chains. We drive growth while reducing logsitics costs, and improving access to capital.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Antanas Guoga was the Founder of iBus Media Network. He attended the University of Leicester.
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Investment focus
- Fitness, mHealth, Software
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Olivex — OliveX is a digital lifestyle company with a focus on the health and fitness industry. It operates as a subscription-based business, providing applications, smart technology, and a user experience that is built on artificial intelligence, gamification, and premium content. With users in over 170 countries including Hong Kong, Australia, and China,OliveX enables brands, influencers, and fitness coaches to engage with their consumers when at home.
Joe Zhu Pan
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Investment focus
- Software, Lifestyle, Mental Health
- Pre-Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- EthicalAI — EthicalAI is a global initiative committed to reshaping the future of artificial intelligence with a foundation in ethics, privacy, and innovation. Its mission is to ensure AI technologies serve humanity responsibly and transparently, addressing critical issues like data security, intellectual property, and creator rights.EthicalAI drivesprogress through a distributed network of R&D teams and global offices, uniting experts from diverse fields to develop cutting-edge, user-centric solutions. By championing ethical practices and fostering collaboration, EthicalAI empowers individuals and organizations to harness the transformative potential of AI for societal benefit while maintaining trust and integrity.
Yuming Bai
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Modelife — Modelife is a platform designed for serverless hosting and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs). It allows developers to deploy custom LLMs with high performance, ensuring no cold start times and offering cost-effective per-token pricing. Modelife supports task-specific models that deliver fast and accurate results, rivaling top-tier modelslike GPT-4 but at a lower cost. The platform enables easy fine-tuning with minimal code adjustments, reducing LLM deployment costs significantly, while ensuring full model ownership without vendor lock-in.
Gabriel Fong - CEO & Co-founder @ CallFixie
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Investment focus
- Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
- Seed
- Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- WaHome — WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform. It connects cleaners to clients across Seoul. Moreover, WaHome provides safe and trustworthy helpers who have completed cleaning training. The company was founded in 2015.
- LTAI — LIberatrade uses companies existing data or SaaS supply chain data management tools to build more resilient supply chains. We drive growth while reducing logsitics costs, and improving access to capital.
- H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.
Board member, executive adviser and business angel. Partner to corporates, asset owners and start-ups to accelerate growth and perpetuate technology enabled business transformation. Global thought leader and practitioner in supply chain and logistics, driving innovation, expansion and growth for decades and across continents.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
- Seed
- Spain, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Catevering — Founded in 2018, Catevering is the easiest way to find and order catering. Through an online marketplace, Catevering connects high quality caterers with companies looking for the best catering options in their city.The company was invested on Pre-Seed round (100k) for Encomenda and Abac nest, both an important Spain VCs. After this, Catery.ru,one of the most influence international player from B2B food sector, joined Catevering on 2019 in their 500k investment round. Also Andreas Mihalovits German serial entrepreneur and angel investor who invested in more than 70 international startups, trusted in Catevering.
- LTAI — LIberatrade uses companies existing data or SaaS supply chain data management tools to build more resilient supply chains. We drive growth while reducing logsitics costs, and improving access to capital.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.
Sofia is the Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions Group at ICBC International. Sofia has 17 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining ICBC International, she was Managing Director and Head of Greater China Equity Capital Market at Macquarie Capital. She has an bachelor's degree in International Economics fromPeking University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, InsurTech, Blockchain
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- JobsLab.io — JobsLab is a Hong Kong-based digital recruitment exchange. We help companies and talent connect through our unique end-to-end recruitment platform quickly and discretely. Our community has exclusive access to rewards and benefits that goes beyond traditional recruitment agencies. We use advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to matchprofessionals with exceptional employers. Find your dream job today. Visit: www.jobslab.io
Henri Arslanian is the PwC FinTech & RegTech Lead for China/Hong Kong. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course in Asia.Henri is a TEDx speaker, a published author, and currently sits on several finance, academic, government, civil society, andFinTech/RegTech related boards and advisory boards in Asia and globally.Henri is a member of the Hong Kong regulator’s SFC FinTech Advisory Group and the Hong Kong government’s FSDC Fintech working group. He also sits on the board of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and the board of the International RegTech Association.A member of the Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle and with over 350,000 LinkedIn followers, Henri has been awarded many industry and academic awards over the years from being named one of the Most Influential Individuals in FinTech in Asia to being awarded the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal for Academic Excellence. Henri was also recently recognized as one of the global 2017 LinkedIn Top Voices in Economy & Finance.Before joining PwC, Henri was with a FinTech start-up and previously spent many years with UBS Investment Bank in Hong Kong. Henri started his career as a financial markets and funds lawyer in Canada and Hong Kong. Henri speaks five languages including English, French, Armenian, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.He holds a Masters in Chinese Law from Tsinghua University; a joint Global Executive MBA from Columbia Business School, London Business School, and Hong Kong University; a Masters in Transnational Law from the University of Sherbrooke; and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Montreal (Dean’s List of Excellence).
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Blockchain
- Series A
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Hex Trust — Access custody, DeFi, brokerage, and financing services built on regulated infrastructure with Hex Trust, fully-licensed and insured digital asset custodian in Asia.
Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
- Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
- Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
- Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
- Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.
- Talus Network — Talus Network is an L1 blockchain purpose-built for Smart Agents. Built with the MoveVM, Talus allows for seamless development, ownership, and monetization of composable Smart Agents.
Owen Van Natta is currently Founder and Managing Partner of Prefix Capital, an early stage investment fund founded in 2019. Owen is also a Founder and Managing Partner at 415 Investments. Previously, Owen was the Executive Vice President of Business at Zynga. He was responsible for the company's revenue strategy, corporate development,international expansion, and brand. Owen was also a member of Zynga's Board of Directors.Before Zynga, Owen served as Chief Executive Officer of MySpace, where he was responsible for all aspects of the company's strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. Owen joined the MySpace team after serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Project Playlist, a music sharing website allowing users to search for music, create custom playlists, and share the content with friends.Prior to Project Playlist, Van Natta was the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, where he focused on revenue operations, business development, and strategic partnerships.Earlier in his career, Owen was Vice President of Worldwide Business and Corporate Development at Amazon.com, where he managed global marketing programs and strategic partnerships. He was part of the founding team of A9.com, the Amazon.com search company, and was responsible for site operations and sponsored-link advertising.Owen holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Singapore, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
- Bags — Grow your business with access to fair and flexible funding options designed to help you do your thing. Bags is the best place for business owners to get dollars for working capital, inventory, marketing, expansion, or anything else you need to grow.
- Wheels Up — Wheels Up is a membership-based private aviation company that focuses on reducing the upfront cost to fly privately, providing flexibility, service, and safety. Its mobile app enables members to book flights, manage their accounts, and participate in ride-share opportunities. Its members also have given access to the Wheels Down program.
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.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.
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- Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Hong Kong, Australia
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- Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
- Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
- Clout Kitchen — Combining fandom and emerging technology, Clout Kitchen builds generational digital products with supercharged distribution. We help creators become icons that last.
Ryan Holmes is the CEO and Founder of HootSuite. Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, he has redefined the face of social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom.Holmes has grown HootSuite from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with 8 million users,including 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed HootSuite in 2009.Today, Holmes is an authority on the social business revolution, quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and called upon to speak at TEDx and SXSW Interactive Conferences. An angel investor and advisor, he mentors startups in Canada and around the world. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders.
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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, Hong Kong
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- Truss — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
- Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
- Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
Alan Rutledge
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Mexico
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- Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
- FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
- SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
Igor Rybakov - Co-Founder @ Larix
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- Family, Fitness, Women's
- Seed, Series C
- Hong Kong, United Kingdom
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- World Chess — World Chess (LSE:CHSS) is the leading chess company and FIDE commercial partner. World Chess rt for the modern consumer by developing chessarena.com, the official gaming platform of FIDE, Armageddon, official merchandise, as well as major tournaments. The company organized some of the largest chess
- amma pregnancy tracker — amma pregnancy tracker is an international mobile service and one of the world’s largest communities for pregnant women and their families. amma pregnancy tracker provides clear, evidence-based pregnancy information and personalized recommendations from professional obstetricians and gynecologists. amma pregnancy tracker allows mothers to track keychanges during pregnancy, receive medical advice from specialists and emotional support from thousands of pregnant women around the world. amma pregnancy tracker is downloaded by 7% of the pregnant women in the world. The active monthly audience of amma pregnancy tracker exceeds 1.5 million people. amma pregnancy tracker tops the ratings of popular applications in the "Health" segment in dozens of countries around the world.
Junhao (Alex) Liao is the co-founder of Greadamy, an innovative educational platform designed to enhance student learning through AI-driven tools. With a background in Business Administration from the City University of Hong Kong, Alex specializes in information management and business operations. His expertise in start-up ventures, teamleadership, and AI technologies has been instrumental in building Greadamy into a comprehensive learning assistant platform that supports personalized education and efficient study practices for students worldwide.
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- Software, Education
- Angel
- Hong Kong
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- Greadamy — Greadamy is an educational technology company that revolutionizes how students learn by offering a comprehensive AI-driven platform. The platform provides personalized learning experiences through adaptive quizzes, AI-generated flashcards, and a Notion-style editor for structured note-taking. Greadamy is designed to support efficient self-study,human and AI tutoring based on fine-tuned LLM, and a collaborative learning community. Backed by regional investors and leading education technology partners, Greadamy aims to empower students globally by making learning more personalized, efficient, and accessible.
Neilson Lee
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- Software, Social Media, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- Freechat — Freechat is a fully decentralized social application based on blockchain technology that offers many unique features. It differs from traditional social media because it returns user data and control back to the users themselves.Freechat's features include UGC (user-generated content), DID identity verification, decentralized advertising,encrypted payments, NFTs, games, and more. The most notable feature is Freechat AI, an artificial intelligence algorithm developed using machine learning and deep learning technologies for content recommendation and display, providing a personalized user experience.Users on Freechat can create profiles, post updates and topics, browse and participate in community topics, interact with friends and followers, complete challenge tasks and games, and use cryptocurrency for payments.Freechat also ensures security, anonymity, and privacy protection through the use of smart contracts, distributed ledgers, and other technologies. Additionally, it provides a completely decentralized advertising platform where users can display ads, earn revenue, and interact with brands.Overall, Freechat is an innovative and disruptive social application aimed at providing users with a more secure, decentralized, privacy-protected, and personalized social experience.
Santiago Roel Santos was a Partner at ParaFi Capital.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Australia
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- MegaETH — MegaETH is the first blockchain in real time and entirely on-chain, immediate, interactive apps are enabling mankind to reach its greatest potential.
- SkyTrade — SkyTrade is a blockchain-based air rights marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and lease airspace, enabling them to manage and control access to low-altitude airspace.
- Uranium Digital — Uranium Digital is astartup that uses tokenization to target the uranium market. The business represents uranium ore with blockchain tokens, facilitating smooth transactions in this highly regulated and initially underfunded industry.
John Lindfors is a Co-Founder of DST Global. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs as the head of tech and media investment banking in the EMEA region before transitioning to Digital Sky Technologies in 2010.
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- E-Commerce, Communities, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed, Series D
- Finland, South Korea, Sweden
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- Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Yolk.fm — Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
- Pixieray — Pixieray modernizes traditional eyeglass optics by introducing a pioneering adaptive solution giving anyone perfect vision.
Sal Ismail - General Partner @ Mount Parker Ventures
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- iOS, Apps, Mobile
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- GoGoX — GOGOX (formerly GOGOVan) is the first app-based logistics platform in Asia committed to providing extensive logistics services through innovative technology. You can hire a van by using GOGOX mobile app or website anywhere anytime.
Steve has been at the forefront of tech innovation for more than three decades. He invented and owns a patent on an early version of the optical mouse, founded Infoseek, one of the first Internet search engines, and helped create FrameMaker, a popular publication tool used by technical writers. Sick of having 357 different usernames andpasswords, Steve founded OneID in September 2011. The company is backed by Vinod Khosla’s Khosla Ventures. He helped rid the world of junk faxes, establishing an organization for businesses and consumers and winning lawsuits and judgments against junk fax operations.Steve holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.
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- Internet, Software, Digital Media
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- Notey Labs — Notey Labs believe in designing technology that enables companies, businesses, and ideas to be truly global. Their mission is to bridge the digital divide between China and the Western internet and give businesses the tools to more fearlessly embrace a global web. Their company has been featured on Techcrunch, CNBC as well as Business Insider,highlighting Notey as one of the “15 Fastest Growing Startups in the World”.
Steve Melhuish is the Founder of Rumah, Co-Founder and Board Director at PropertyGuru Group, Founder and CEO at Planet Rise, Founding Partner at Wavemaker Impact, and an Advisor and Investor at Eco-Business and Ampd Energy. He attended the University of Plymouth and the University of Reading.
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- Real Estate, Internet, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, India, Philippines
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- TablePointer — TablePointer is the A.I. and intelligent energy solution for small & medium commercial facilities to optimise energy efficiency, manage assets, upgrade profitability, and unlock sustainability gains right away.
- Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
- Lhoopa — Making homeownership achievable for every Filipino family.
Tom James - Advisor @ OneLogin
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- SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
- seedata.io — Seedata.io provides cloud-native deception technology to improve threat detection with AI-driven honeypots
- MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.
Founder & Director of WiiiWaaa.
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- Search Engine, Developer Tools
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- WiiiWaaa — WiiiWaaa is the place to bookmark, discover and share Local Places. You can easily search Local Places all around the world, a french restaurant in Hong Kong, an amusement park in California.They work with Factual and initially started their own database of Local Places covering more than 5000 local places. It took them a long time to build theproduct, they pivoted along the way but the core idea was relevant. They now have a small traction and continue to grow it.
Vladimir Soloviev
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- Software, Consulting, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Hong Kong
Khailee Ng is Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder and CEO of SAYS. He graduated from the University of Technology Sydney, the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.
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- FinTech, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia
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- Talkpush — Talkpush is the leading conversational CRM for recruitment. Automate the repetitive stuff and focus on the right talent.
- YogaTrail — YogaTrail connects yoga providers with their yogis. Get everyone's classes in one simple place and always know what's up in your yoga world.
- Call Levels — Don't let the markets drive you crazy - we watch the markets so you don't have to.
Mai Fujimoto is known domestically and internationally as Miss Bitcoin. She has been promoting the spread of Bitcoin around the world since 2011.
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- Blockchain, Marketplace, Art
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Canada, Hong Kong
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- RSS3 — RSS3 structures open information for the next Twitter, Google, and OpenAI.
- GCR DAO — Global Coin Research is a Community-led DAO for Web3 Research & Investing. We source, vet & fund Pre-Seed to Series A opportunities. Join to Invest Together!
- Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision uses smart contracts to help creators sell digital fashion and other accessories.
Technology executive & investor
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Hong Kong
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- Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
- MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
- Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.
Ruby Lu is the Founder of Atypical Ventures. She attended the University of Maryland.
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- Fashion, Shopping, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, China, Hong Kong
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- Flip — Download Flip App for free today to discover, learn & shop your favorite brands all in one place. Share and monetize your video reviews.
- Sprout — Sprout is an equity and token management solution helping companies manage shares, ESOPs, tokens, fundraising and investors on one platform.
- Moqun Qukuailian — Moqun Qukuailian is a distributed computing infrastructure provider company.
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