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Top 50 Sustainability Angel Investors in Asia in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Sustainability startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sustainability companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Sustainability Angel Investors in Asia in January 2025

Investor	Sustainability Asia investments
Ishara Yusdian	5
Edward Ismawan Chamdani	5
Ivan Lee	3
Shintaro Tabata	2
Osamu Ogasawara	2
Boon Hwee Koh	2
Tak Wai Chung	2
Thibault Villet	2
Daisaku Harada	2
David Pardo	2
Shintaro Yamada	2
Sunghwan Choi	2
Mamoru Taniya	2
Naruhisa Nakagawa	2
Yuzuru Honda	2
Nazmul Rupok	1
Patrick Berbon	1
Yoshitsune Ido	1
Savio Kwan	1
Aadarsh Baijal	1
William McClelland	1
Naoki Aoyagi	1
Dale Hardcastle	1
Paco Sandejas	1
Jason Zeng	1
Kotaro Chiba	1
Hiromi Watase	1
Kotaro Chiba	1
Jasper Lau	1
Takuma Iwasa	1
Gang Wang	1
Chang Wen Lai	1
Gerard George	1
Albert Wenger	1
Jaewoong Lee	1
Shailesh Rao	1
Bin Ge	1
Yoshinori Fukushima	1
Aso Kaname	1
Te Ling Nai	1
Benson Tam	1
Nir Eyal	1
Liu Xiaosong	1
Suzuki Tatsuya	1
Richard Eldridge	1
Alice Foo	1
Martin Li	1
Hongjia Zhang	1
Le Hoang Lan	1
Michael Diekmann	1

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Investor | Storyologist | Builder

Investment focus

Agriculture, Waste Management, Lifestyle
Seed, Convertible Note, Debt Financing
Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Foom — We are an Indonesian-based tech-enabled consumer product startup with mission to aid adult sm*krs move away from combustible sm*kng and encourage people to shift to safer way of consuming nic. No Hassle, No Worries! Switch Now!
PasarMIKRO — PasarMIKRO, aplikasi perdagangan komoditas pertanian dan hasil laut. Solusi inovatif untuk petani, nelayan dan pedagang mikro indonesia!
Gayo Capital — Investing Tomorrow's Winner

Managing and Founding Partner of Ideosource Venture Capital, an Indonesia focused venture capital firm dedicated on early-stage to later-stage investments.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Lifestyle, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Foom — We are an Indonesian-based tech-enabled consumer product startup with mission to aid adult sm*krs move away from combustible sm*kng and encourage people to shift to safer way of consuming nic. No Hassle, No Worries! Switch Now!
PasarMIKRO — PasarMIKRO, aplikasi perdagangan komoditas pertanian dan hasil laut. Solusi inovatif untuk petani, nelayan dan pedagang mikro indonesia!
Gayo Capital — Investing Tomorrow's Winner

Ivan Lee - Founder @ Raging Bull

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Lifestyle
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Grain — Grain is a food experience company that offers Meals On Demand and Catering for any occasion. Meals are crafted by chefs with wholesome ingredients and a whole lot of thoughtfulness.
Vanitee — Vanitee is a mobile app to discover new beauty trends and book beauty artists.
Golden Moments —

Shintaro Tabata - Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales @ Line

Investment focus

Sharing Economy, Audio, Content
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
Telework — Telework is a multi-location workspace that utilizes vacant seats and rooms.

Osamu Ogasahara is the founder, CEO, and president of FGN ABBA Lab.

Investment focus

SNS, Content, Fashion
Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.

Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.

Tak Wai CHUNG joined EQT Partners in February 2009 as a Vice President.Tak Wai holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and Mathematics-Economics from Wesleyan University (High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa), and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.Prior to joiningEQT Partners, Tak Wai was with Lehman Brothers for over six years. While at Private Equity in Hong Kong, he focused on making direct investments into China. Before that, he was in the Investment Banking division covering primarily telecommunications, financial institutions and natural resources in both New York and Hong Kong.Tak Wai is a member of the Mid Market Partners Investment Committee and the Greater China II Internal Investment Committee.

Investment focus

Food Processing, Waste Management
Seed, Angel
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ento Industries — At ENTO INDUSTRIES, food waste is given a new lease of life. Our focus as a biotechnology company is to close the loop on food waste with the help of our army of Black Soldier Flies.

Thibault Villet

Investment focus

Organic, Organic Food, Sustainability
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Zrou — Zrou provides consumers with delicious, healthy, and sustainable meat substitutes, and brings consumers new cooking options.
Youkuai — Youkuai is a plant-based protein producer focused on creating innovative plant-based superfoods. Youkuai’s main product is Z-Rou, a plant-based pork alternative that is tasty, and healthier and more sustainable than traditional pork. Z-Rou currently comes in minced and ground formats and is being sold across China.The company is headquartered inShanghai, China and aims to become a global food brand that champions plant-based diets and a brighter future of food.

Daisaku Harada is the Director of Management Strategy at Mercari. Daisaku attended Chuo University.

Investment focus

Finance, Tourism, Automotive
Seed, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.

Key lead of international businesses for 18+ years (eBay, PayPal, Mastercard and Blizzard) in eCommerce, Sustainability, Fintech and Gaming by innovating and driving change through Business Strategy, Product Management and UX, Business Operations, Data Management, Retention and Acquisition Marketing management, following five years studying withtop business schools.12+ years of start-up mentoring and investing with a handful of successful exits. Current portfolio value is 3X or 26% IRR.Also built and managed my own start-ups from scratch and/or in a Corporate environment (Joint Venture constructs).Based in Singapore and worked all over the world (France, UK, US, Korea) but focusing on South-East Asia right now.

Investment focus

Solar, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Okra Solar — Okra Solar is an IoT technology solution that enables solar generating communities to share and utilize more energy. It is a plug-and-play smart grid technology that enables rapid electrification for last-mile communities. Using mobile payments, modular grid design, and remote monitoring, they provide utility companies with a low-cost, data-drivensolution to operate solar networks in hard to reach communities. They are on a mission to connect off-grid communities to the modern economy.Okra Solar was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
Pollen — Pollen is your liquidation operating system & AI co-pilot for aged, unsold, obsolete inventory. Avoid business waste and destruction by automating workstreams, unlocking the power of pricing analytics, and empowering teams to take action for more sustainable outcomes.
GetSolar — GetSolar (formerly Solar AI) is a reliable solar company in Singapore that makes it easy for property owners to install solar systems with zero upfront cost.

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

Investment focus

Internet, Finance, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.

Sunghwan Choi

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.

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

Investment focus

Apps, Content, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting
Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zeigo — Zeigo by Schneider Electric provides sustainability software for efficient carbon reduction and supply chain decarbonization, aiming for a carbon-free future.
Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
Sniffer Robotics — Comprehensive methane emissions detection and quantification, advanced imagery and analytics; Sniffer Robotics provides advanced solutions that benefit the environment.

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

Investment focus

SNS, Internet, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan, Nigeria, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.

Nazmul Hasan Rupok Chief Executive Officer of WPDeveloper

Investment focus

B2B, B2C, Grocery
Pre-Seed, Angel
Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

SMEVai — Take your bookkeeping skills to the next level for your eCommerce or F-Commerce businesses using the ultimate accounting solution of SMEVai.
ChalkPencil — Chalkpencil.com is an online platform aiming to develop sustainable learning strategies for the young learners by altering the traditional education system.
Green Grocery — Green Grocery burst on the scene back in 2020 with a slogan - Quality That You Can Trust, Today the customers - most of who have turned into repeat customers with appreciation and love, publicly admire Green Grocery’s integrity and living up to its slogan. Green Grocery has brought you a wide array of products - rice of different types, handpickedfoods, ingredients, spices sourced from where they are produced best, oil, ghee, pickle, and more which have grown fondness among foodies for creating exotic explosions of flavor. Foods contaminated by unseen woes - harmful viruses, toxins, bacteria, parasites, and chemicals can leave our organs damaged, the body dysfunctional and our lives grappling with formidable challenges. However, these risks can be eliminated with a stringent food safety management system that can ensure the quality, safety, and nutrient value of food from the very beginning, when it’s in the early stage of farming. The trust Green Grocery has successfully built owes immensely to its close supervision and filtration system during the course of its products’ journey - farming, packaging, storing, delivery. Eating right is indispensable to stay strong and have a happy and normal life. Green Grocery has set a new norm by continuously delivering foods of the best quality with their safety and hygiene ensured. Checkout Green Grocery Website: https://greengrocery.com.bd

Patrick has an extensive background in metallurgy, aerospace, power and cleantech industries. Before co-founding CM Venture Capital, Patrick was a Senior Consultant at Performance Improvement, a risk analysis and management company specialized in power industries. Patrick is an experienced entrepreneur in the advanced materials space. His priorstart-up focuses on advanced nanograin aluminum alloys and its applications, the company was successfully listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange. Before his entrepreneurial ventures, Patrick was a Senior Scientist in Materials Science Division at Rockwell Scientific Inc. Patrick specializes in advanced materials and clean technologies, including renewable electricity generation, biofuels for transportation, green building, clean water, clean air, carbon dioxide emissions reduction, recyclable materials, sustainable foresting and agriculture, and energy efficiency.Patrick obtained Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, M.S. from Tsinghua University (China) and M.S./B.S. from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France), all in Materials Sciences.

Investment focus

Solar, Mobile, Automotive
Seed, Series A, Series B
China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Seeder — Seeder offers zero-cost solar financing solutions for commercial and industrial rooftops and connects these projects to the project investors and structures power purchase agreements to get the building's savings of 10-15% on the electricity. Seeder leverage a diverse network of pre-qualified vendors and has the ability to collect multiplequotes and proposals.Seeder also offers advisory and development services to facilitate on and off-site power purchase transactions for solar and other renewable energy procurement in China. It helps corporations lower their electricity bills by up to 20%, boost their visibility, and reduce their carbon footprint all while achieving their global renewable energy goals
Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd. — UltraTouch is the ultimate in touch technology that goes everywhere you do. Combining advanced piezoelectric materials with sophisticated software

Yoshitsune Ido

Investment focus

Information Technology, Robotics, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
BionicM — BionicM develops high-performance robot prostheses that enhance mobility for people with disabilities.BionicM has been conducting research on innovative technologies since 2015 at the University of Tokyo's Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (JSK) under the guidance of Professor Inaba and utilizing the world's most advancedrobotics research. In 2016, we were adopted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency as part of "Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology" (START), and in 2018, the company was established as a joint-stock company.
Dots for — Dots for is a technology that aims to improve the lives of rural residents by providing them with digital services.

Savio Kwan was appointed to the Board of British American Tobacco p.l.c. as a Non-Executive Director in January 2014. He is a member of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee and the Nominations Committee.Savio has significant business experience of Greater China and Asia. During his extensive career he has worked broadly in technologyfor General Electric, BTR plc and Alibaba Group, China’s largest internet business, where he was Chief Operating Officer and later, a Non-Executive Director. He is a founding partner and CEO of A&K Consulting Co Ltd, advising entrepreneurs about start-up businesses in China.Born in Hong Kong, Savio speaks fluent Mandarin and English. His international career has seen him live in China, the US, Singapore and the UK. He is a visiting Professor at Henley Business School and a regular lecturer on Chinese business strategy and leadership.Savio is married with one adult child, and lives in Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Smart Cities, Smart Building, Energy Efficiency
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Venturous Group — Venturous Group is China’s first Citytech™ Group. Powering Smart City economies, it is an investor, business builder and operator of Smart Citytech infrastructure companies. Creating value by transforming the future of city living, Venturous leverages the latest deep Citytech, strategic partnerships and digital transformation to make cities moreliveable, sustainable and productive, in China and beyond. The Group’s corporate structure allows for venture capital, private equity, pre-IPO deals, M&A, co-investments, incubation, strategic partnerships and joint ventures, and it has its own IPO on the horizon.

Aadarsh Baijal is the Partner at Bain & Company.

Investment focus

Forestry, Software, Sustainability
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Thryve.Earth — Thryve Earth is a platform that unites multiple stakeholders to nature-based carbon projects in a scalable manner.

Will McClelland is the Co-Founder & General Partner of Elizabeth Street Ventures. He is also Co-Founder of Bambike. He was a Partner at Grace Beauty Capital and Managing Director of Ironwood Capital Management. He attended Yale University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Ringly — Ringly designs and develops wearable technology solutions that are compact in size, but powerful in functionality. It is our belief that technology can blend more seamlessly into our lives and provide frictionless interactions with our environment, our devices and our selves. We get excited about pushing boundaries and solving big problems thatwill make our world a more enjoyable place to live.In 2015, we began shipping our first product and became an industry leader in fashionable wearable technology. We’ve built a specialized and integrated team that controls every aspect of the business including design, brand, software, hardware and manufacturing.
Supergoop — Supergoop is a skincare brand completely dedicated to sun protection.
MM.LaFleur — M.M.LaFleur is a New York-based womenswear brand known for introducing the world to Power Casual: the clothing equivalent of work-life balance. They were founded on the belief that when women succeed, the world becomes a better place.

Naoki Aoyagi is a Senior Vice President at GREE, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of GREE International, Inc. He joined GREE, Inc. in March 2006 from Deutsche Bank, where he had specialized in tech and media sector IPOs and M&A advisory work. At GREE, Aoyagi oversaw the Company's partnership with KDDI and its IPO before leading thedevelopment of GREE’s global operations, a role he continues today. Aoyagi earned a bachelor's degree in policy management from Keio University in 2002.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
Parallel — Parallel is the hangout app where you can enjoy games, videos, music, and more with friends.
Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.

Dale Hardcastle is the Climate Advocate and Head of Carbon Markets & Nature Based Solutions

Investment focus

Forestry, Software, Sustainability
Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Thryve.Earth — Thryve Earth is a platform that unites multiple stakeholders to nature-based carbon projects in a scalable manner.

Paco Sandejas currently works as the Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Xepto Education, Stratpoint Technologies, and Narra Ventures. He is Chairman of the Philippine S&T Development Foundation and an Independent Director serving on the boards of Sunlife of Canada (Philippines), Sunlife Asset Management, Maya Bank, and Medical Doctors Inc (MakatiMed). He sits on the board also of Ostrea Mineral Laboratories, Diversified Holdings. He assisted UnionBank of the Philippines in its digital transformation as Independent Board Member until 2021. Paco completed his Ph.D. and MS In Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1995 and was the first summa cum ladue graduate in Applied Physics from the University of the Philippines. Paco loves to compete in tennis, football (soccer), and recently golf…ideally as teammate of his children and wife.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Training, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Philippines, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flyspaces — FlySpaces empowers businesses as a digital marketplace that provides short-term work and meeting space solutions to entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and mobile professionals. Whether the need is for an hour, a day, a week or a few months - we have a network of hundreds of spaces to discover across key South East Asian cities.For venue owners,FlySpaces acts as a digital marketing platform that connects you to a vast user base, allowing you to optimize and monetize your space.We recognize that workspace is more than a mere location. It is a setting that inspires ideas, motivates action and promotes growth. With FlySpaces, find where your business will accomplish its next milestone.FlySpaces empowers businesses as a digital marketplace that provides short-term work and meeting space solutions to entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and mobile professionals. Whether the need is for an hour, a day, a week or a few months - we have a network of hundreds of spaces to discover across key South East Asian cities.For venue owners, FlySpaces acts as a digital marketing platform that connects you to a vast user base, allowing you to optimize and monetize your space.We recognize that workspace is more than a mere location. It is a setting that inspires ideas, motivates action and promotes growth. With FlySpaces, find where your business will accomplish its next milestone.
Humble Sustainability — Humble Sustainability provides products and accessories reuse and recycle services.
Xepto Education — Xepto Education provides learning management systems, CPD courses, digital resources, and other education technology solutions.

Jason Zeng, one of the Core Founders and Advisor Emeritus of Tencent Group. Jason founded the Group in 1999. As the Chief Operating Officer during 1999 and 2007, Jason was responsible for overseeing the Company's business lines and product portfolios and the managing the Company’s sales and marketing activities across China. Prior toTencent, Jason worked in the Shenzhen Data Telecommunications Bureau and was familiar with the Internet and telecommunications industries in China. Since June 2007, Jason has been the Advisor Emeritus of the Company.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Social Media
Seed, Angel, Series B
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Quivr — A new way to date. Let matchmakers do the work for you or play Cupid yourself.
Quivr — Quivr empowers you to take control of your digital identity, making it easier to connect with a community that truly shares your passions and values.
Little Spoonful — Little Spoonful 小勺满满 provides fresh, safe, and nutritious foods for children in China.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Drones, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Hiromi Watase

Investment focus

Apps, Rental, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Ecbo cloak — Ecbo cloak is a sharing service that connects "persons who want to store luggage with shops with space to store luggage. Instead of coin lockers, you can pre-order places online online and store your luggage in the open space of stores of various types of business.
TASKAJI — TASKAJI is an online housekeeping service that matches people looking for someone to do their housekeeping with those who want to work as housekeepers.The companies motto is of “from the nuclear family to the extended family” and it aims to provide people with more leisure time through its concept of “housekeeping sharing.

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

Investment focus

Travel, Internet, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Jasper Lau is the Founder and CEO of Era, a global investment firm backed by leading closely-held family enterprises across 19 countries and 25 industries. Era harnesses the collective knowledge, corporate intelligence, and strategic capital of the firm's families to build and back a new era of technology companies that are posed to solvesociety’s greatest industrial challenges. Previously, Jasper co-founded and led 8090 Partners, a private partnership of 20 industry-leading families and self-made entrepreneurs. Seeded by a multi-billion dollar family office, Jasper launched 8090 to invest in growth-stage technology companies and other opportunistic transactions.

Investment focus

Software, Electric Vehicle, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Seashell — Seashell is reimagining the flow of money in 2022, making high and stable yield more accessible to all. Consumers can earn up to 10% interest on their cash.
Fabric Systems — At Fabric, AI supercomputing and crypto natives have come together for the first time to deliver the next revolution in computing and break free of the hardware barriers of this era.
Shennon Biotechnologies — Shennon Biotechnologies analyzes and manipulates a massive number of cells on the single-cell level to develop more effective treatments for human diseases. It functionally profiles millions of immune cells to find the best targets for cancer immunotherapy.

Takuma Iwasa is a Founder & CEO at Cerevo.

Investment focus

Water, Beauty, IT Management
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
nanoFreaks — nanoFreaks builds a rescue system on the sea, creating an environment where everyone can live with peace of mind.

Gang Wang

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wozaijia.com — Wozaijia is a social e-commerce platform for home furniture."I am at home" is a trustworthy home to share direct purchase platform. Here, people can discover, experience, buy, share their favorite home products, we change the home to share economic practice of buying methods. "I am at home" believes that the world will bee better if we can always get a better life with less cost.
Qianyu Islands — Qianyu Islands is the flagship brand of Beijing Beike Youjia Technology Co., Ltd., which is positioned in the “Urban Shared Accommodation Space”. It is committed to providing users with different traditional hotels and B&Bs, younger, more free, more possibilities and higher value for money accommodation options.Since its inception in 2017,Qianyu Islands is based on a sense of quality, experience and freshness for a new generation of consumer groups. It is transforming the traditional accommodation industry with a more Internet-based way to fill the market for urban mid-end accommodation.
Huidu Environmental — Huidu Environmental is a recyclable packing material developer.

Chang Wen is CEO and Co-Founder of Ninja Van. After graduating with a Bachelor of Finance from Singapore Management University,he worked as a derivatives trader at Barclays before setting up men’s custom fashion retailer Marcella. His experience with the online retail business made him realise there could be a more efficient way of delivering andtracking packages, resulting in the creation of Ninja Van and the rest, as they say, is history. Chang Wen's vision is for a Ninja to be within the reach of any consumer in Southeast Asia so that Ninja Van can provide a consistently great and seamless logistics experience for shippers and shoppers alike in the current Southeast Asian markets Ninja Van operates in.

Investment focus

Solar
Seed
Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Okapi Technologies — Solar Financing Platform

Gerard George

Investment focus

SaaS, Forestry, Internet
Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Handprint — Handprint makes it easy and cost efficient to differentiate your organisation with science-backed impact solutions beyond offsetting.

Albert Wenger is the Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Brale — Combining the best of CeFi & DeFi.
Terra.do — Learn about climate change and start working on climate change solutions today with the Terra.do community.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

Jaewoong Lee is the founder of Daum Communications Corp. which is one of the leading Internet portal service companies in Asia. He also served as CEO of Lycos Inc., which was acquired by Daum in 2004 and also served as CEO of Daum for 12 years since he founded the company in 1995. He is currently a partner at "sopoong" which is asocial venture incubating company focusing on social ventures. Jaewoong also founded and served as CEO of Daum Foundation which is a non-profit focusing on solving media divide problems. He is an entrepreneur interested in social ventures and internet/media industry and he has served as board member of various internet/media companies and non-profits. Jaewoong holds B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science from Yonsei University. He is also one of Young Global Leader from World Economic Forum.

Investment focus

News, SaaS, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Vietnam, South Korea, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Byline — BYLINE is a London-based crowdfunding journalism startup that enables journalists and bloggers to directly reach their readers. Writers can contribute regularly to a particular topic and stand the chance of getting paid per article or per month while interacting with their readers through Supporter’s Café and offer them special rewards to encouragepayment. Byline was founded by Seung Yoon Lee and Daniel Tudor in January 2007 and is based in London, England.
Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
Cohost AI — Cohost Club is a community of professional co-hosts and busy hosts. Thousands of co-hosts around the world can help manage your properties and short term rental business. Download our app and start renting today

Shailesh Rao

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Khabri — Khabri is a digital audio platform for content in vernacular. Ita app allows content creators to create channels and programmes that reach vernacular listeners. Aankit Roy, Pulkit Sharma, and Sandeep Singh launched the company in Haryana, Haryana in 2016.
Neosec — Neosec API software is the intelligent way to protect your APIs from business abuse and data theft. Try our API Security platform now.
AttainU — Secure Your Career With AttainU's Online Courses with Placement Guarantee | No Prior Background/Experience Required | Live-Online Interactive Classes for Placement Guarantee Courses by Domain Experts | Click to Learn More.

Bin Ge

Investment focus

CleanTech, Architecture, Environmental Engineering
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Zero Carbon System — Zero Carbon System specializes in global low-carbon building design and low-carbon urban planning solutions.

Completed the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He developed the service of “Gunosy” while he was in graduate school. Established Gnosy in 2012 and appointed CEO. In 2013, he was appointed President and CEO. 2012 IPA Unexplored Super Creator. He also served as President of LayerX.

Investment focus

Internet, Marketing, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Aso Kaname

Investment focus

Organic, Residential, Waste Management
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a firm that utilizes discarded food waste to create ingredients such as plant-based proteins.

Te-Ling Nai is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Food Processing, Waste Management
Angel
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ento Industries — At ENTO INDUSTRIES, food waste is given a new lease of life. Our focus as a biotechnology company is to close the loop on food waste with the help of our army of Black Soldier Flies.

Benson Tam is the Founder and CEO of Venturous Group.

Investment focus

Fashion, Textiles, Smart Cities
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

WeStyle.ai — Community Hubs are collections of all the best community and official game content as rated by users.
Venturous Group — Venturous Group is China’s first Citytech™ Group. Powering Smart City economies, it is an investor, business builder and operator of Smart Citytech infrastructure companies. Creating value by transforming the future of city living, Venturous leverages the latest deep Citytech, strategic partnerships and digital transformation to make cities moreliveable, sustainable and productive, in China and beyond. The Group’s corporate structure allows for venture capital, private equity, pre-IPO deals, M&A, co-investments, incubation, strategic partnerships and joint ventures, and it has its own IPO on the horizon.

Nir Eyal is a writer at Nir and Far, a blog that cover aspects of psychology, technology, and business in relation to user experience design, behavioral economics, and neuroscience. On Nir and Far, Eyal writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives. Healso writes for TechCrunch, Forbes, and Psychology Today, and is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences and Fortune 500 companies.Eyal is the author of “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” and lectures at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. His prior work experience includes his time in the video gaming and advertising industries.Eyal holds a degree from Harvard University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Psychology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Betafi — Make user interviews and usability testing a breeze with Betafi. Import your Figma, Adobe XD, or web prototypes with a single click. Start running moderated sessions through our integrated platform with built-in video recordings, automatic transcription, powerful annotation tools, Zoom integration, and much more.
Privyr — Supercharge your sales with instant lead alerts, auto-personalised content, interest tracking, easy follow-ups & lead management. All from your phone, within seconds.
Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.

Liu Xiaosong

Investment focus

Robotics, Manufacturing, Semiconductor
Angel, Series B
China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Yizhun Intelligent — Yizhun Intelligent is an AI & Robotics company.
Quantified Energy Labs — Quantified Energy Labs (QE LABS) is a deep tech spinoff company from the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore/National University of Singapore. We are a team of professionals with expertise in the fields of solar energy, computer vision, and drone technology.

1985. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University. In 2008, he engaged in new business support and venture support for large companies at Inspire Co., Ltd. In 2011, he was appointed director of UXConsulting company wacul. In 2012, he was appointed director of giftee.

Investment focus

Internet, Agriculture, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Synflux — Synflux is a fashion lab comprising of fashion designers, software engineers & architects focused on fashion industry.
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.

Richard Eldridge is the current CEO and Chairperson of Infinit-O. He previously worked at LenddoEFL as a Co-Founder. Richard Eldridge attended the University of Warwick.

Investment focus

Recycling, Sustainability, Waste Management
Seed
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Humble Sustainability — Humble Sustainability provides products and accessories reuse and recycle services.

Alice Foo is an angel investor for Alterpacks.

Investment focus

Recycling, Biotechnology, Waste Management
Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AlterPacks — Alterpacks - Food Waste Solutions. A Singapore Management University, Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Business Innovation Generator (BIG) Incubatee.

Entrepreneur and Investor based in Hong Kong. Attended Questrom School of Business, Boston University.

Investment focus

Transportation, Logistics, Freight Service
Seed, Series A, Series B
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Kyt — Kyt is an early-stage EdTech startup building a world-class online-first academy for extra-curricular courses, designed by the best instructors from around the world and offering individual and small group live classes for ages 5 to 15 years.They believe that interests and hobbies aren’t just extra – they are essential to all-round development.Nurturing interests outside the world of academia equips children with essential life skills. Plus, access to reputable institutions and respected teachers paves the way for a life-long love for learning.They want the children who sign up for classes to find something that interests them and wish to pursue whole-heartedly.Kyt is backed by Asia's marquee venture capital and industry veterans, that have just embarked on this journey and are excited to change how a child learns.
Sinoiov — SINOIOV is a data technology company that takes data as its core and uses artificial intelligence technology to help the road freight industry reduce costs and increase efficiency and provide comprehensive services for the road freight industry. Up to now, the company has accumulated rich experience in commercial vehicle networking operationmanagement and service, and has established national vehicle networking industrial bases in Beijing and Chongqing, with more than 40 provincial branches covering the whole country
Kargo Technologies — Kargo adalah layanan logistik online yang menyediakan solusi pengiriman barang yang mudah, cepat, dan terpercaya. Temukan layanan yang dapat diandalkan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pengiriman Anda.

Hongjia Zhang

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Recycling
Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Resolar — Resolar provides whole-chain PV recycling solution, which can reach 99.9% separation rate and extract 95% of the total value with $80/MT cost. We have closed the entire PV recycling loop, which includes separating PV modules and Ag, processing the silicon to 6N level, casting ingot with recycled silicon and manufacturing recycled PV modules.

Le Hoang Lan

Investment focus

Sustainability, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
Pre-Seed
Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

BUYO Bioplastics — BUYO provides a 100% nature-based and biodegradable bioplastic solution, using our advanced proprietary technology to convert bio-waste and plant-based materials into...

Michael Diekmann is Supervisory Board Member at Siemens.

Investment focus

mHealth, CleanTech, Smart Home
Series A, Series C
China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BERGLUF — BERGLUF develops and sells air purification system products.
Huma — Huma is a global health technology company that provides a modular platform to support digital 'hospitals at home' across different disease areas. Its platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers, and real-world data to advance proactive, predictive care and research.The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered inLondon, England.

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