Top 10 Angel Investors in Asia (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Fauzi Sani
Angel
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2 | Indonesia | Seed | Venture Capital, Financial Services | |
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Kevin Ryan
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Software, E-Commerce | $1M–$55M |
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David Smilow
Angel
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1 | Japan | Series A | Incubators, Venture Capital | |
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Artur Janibekyan
Angel
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1 | United States, Armenia | Pre-Seed, Seed | SaaS, Software, Machine Learning | $750k–$1.1M |
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Pascal Chevalier
Angel
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1 | France | Seed | Apps, Education, Private Social Networking | $110k–$1.6M |
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John Riady
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services | |
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Ole Ruch
Angel
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1 | Singapore, India, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Sales, Finance | $2.6M–$20M |
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Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | News, Social Media, Big Data | $680k–$2.8M |
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Birger Nergaard
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services | |
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Andreas Ehn
Angel
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1 | Sweden, United States, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, Financial Services | $911k–$7.7M |
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Fauzi Sani is Partner at Invermay Ventures
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- Industry: Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Invermay Ventures — Invermay Ventures is a venture capital companies established in Indonesia actively contribute to providing funding to micro or SME businesses in Indonesia. Active investing since it was founded in 2017. Invermay has invested in more than 40 micro enterprises in Indonesia and operates as the first venture capital and early stage investors whoactively provide funding to small businesses with the aim of providing support for the creation of equitable welfare for Indonesian economy
Kevin Ryan is the Founder and CEO of AlleyCorp. He previously worked at MongoDB as a Founder and Chairman. Kevin Ryan attended Yale University.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $4M–$45M; Series B $35M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VALIDIO — VALIDIO manages data quality. They offer a next-generation data platform for any modern, data-driven organization. They validate and monitor the data quality of real-time streams and batch data, enabling proactive identification and mitigation of data quality issues.
- Everphone — Everphone provides solutions for the configuration, distribution, and management of mobile devices in organizations. The company focuses on device procurement, logistics, mobile device management, and hardware advisory services that allow organizations to choose mobile phones and tablets on a rental basis. The company also provides smartphones,tablets, accessories, and laptops.
- Blueground — Rent beautiful, fully furnished apartments for monthly stays in the best locations around the world. Thousands of furnished flats for short and long-term stays.
Mr. Smilow serves as Managing Director of Avenida and is a member of the Investment Committee. Mr. Smilow is a founder of Avenida, where he is responsible for portfolio and risk management. Mr. Smilow has been a sponsor of over a dozen start-up companies and has acquired approximately USD $250 million of real estate assets in the United States andLatin America over the course of his career. Mr. Smilow was the Founder and Chairman of Jefferson National Financial (“JNF”), an insurance company with over USD $2 billion of assets that offers variable annuity and other retirement products. Mr. Smilow oversaw investment activities and strategic planning for JNF, which was sold to Citibank in 2011.In addition, Mr. Smilow was the Founder, Chairman, CEO and CIO of TeleBanc (now E*Trade Bank). Under his direction, Telebanc became the largest Internet bank worldwide before its sale to E*Trade in 1999. Prior to founding TeleBanc, Mr. Smilow was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader at Goldman Sachs and Drexel Burnham Lambert.Mr. Smilow serves or has served on the Board of Directors of nine different companies, as well on the Board of Outward Bound Minnesota, Trust for Public Land Maine, and the Johns Hopkins Second Decade Society. Mr. Smilow has also lectured at Harvard Business School, New York University and Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Smilow received a BA from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Incubators, Venture Capital
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LaunchCenter 39 — LaunchCenter 39 works hand-in-hand with entrepreneurs to build Internet and technology businesses from the ground up, providing full-service incubation that generates the fastest time to market and best potential for returns. Through dedicated teams of specialists and generalists, and continual infusion of outside talent through our on-siterecruiting efforts, LaunchCenter 39 transforms breakthrough ideas into dynamic companies by equipping partners with the skills and talented people required for success.
Artur Janibekyan is based out of Yerevan, Armenia and is the Founder and Media Manager of Comedy Club Production. Artur Janibekyan attended Yerevan State University
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Armenia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Pre-Seed $750k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Activeloop — Activeloop is the company behind Deeplake, the GPU database for agents. Explore Deeplake at deeplake.ai.
- BallButton — Ballbutton (software & app) helps clubs & studios manage their business and grow the revenue by managing bookings, payments, programs, lessons, teams, and memberships. Ballbutton helped many clubs to restart their operations during the unprecedented difficult times the fitness industry had to go through because of the COVID-19: • Processbookings on the mobile app, • Process contactless payments online and on the mobile app, • COVID-19 waiver signing on the mobile app, • Online check-ins on the mobile app.Comes with a 1 month's Free Trial and 24/7 customer support! Go ahead and schedule your free zoom demo at www.ballbutton.com
- Seaside Startup Summit — The platform attracts leading angels, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers willing to join their peers in an intimate setting to think, act, and transform their environment via entrepreneurship.
Pascal Chevalier - Chairman @ Capital B
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- Industry: Apps, Education, Private Social Networking
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $110k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ExtraStudent — Landing page for an app startup featuring hero, features, and CTA with neumorphism style.
- Carnet de Mode — #CarnetDeMode is the top Paris-based marketplace of over 300 emerging designers.
- Asia Deal Group — Asia Deal Group helps develop and shape emerging digital products and ideas in South East Asia. The company supports new and established ventures to achieve their targets through corporate structures in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, The Philippines, and Vietnam.Asia Deal Group leverages its technology and marketingexperience in South East Asia to support new ventures. The company also creates, scales, and expands businesses with the help of its strategic advisors. Its products support cross device experiences, multi-market or language deployments, and deep integrations to top-tier third party applications.Asia Deal Group also specializes in online customer acquisition and retention. Headquartered in Singapore, Central Region, the company was founded in 2010 by Gregory Costamagna.
John Riady - Director @ Lippo Group
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- Industry: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Antler — Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
Ole Ruch is the Managing Partner at Nordstar. He attended Imperial College London.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Sales, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Singapore, India, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zazume — Zazume is an end-to-end rental management software simplifying the entire letting process for real estate companies, landlords. It works with real estate professionals, from letting agencies to property managers (Built-to-Rent, coliving, opcos, family offices, REIT, student housing…) to replace manual with digital processes and optimize thetenant’s journey from search to living. Zazume is an end-to-end rental management software simplifying the entire letting process for real estate companies, landlords.
- Antler — Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
- Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
After working at KDD Corporation (Currently known as KDDI Corporation), Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept†and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.
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- Industry: News, Social Media, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $680k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
- Astroscale — Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
- TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Birger Nergaard founded the firm in 1985 and was its managing partner through 2005.Having retired from his operational role in April 2008, Birger is today involved in the business through executive directorships on the General Partner companies serving funds V, VI, VII and VIII. He is also chairman at Verdane Capital III working alongsideGunnar Rydning with the remaining portfolio.Birger has been instrumental in bringing to the public market companies like Agresso, Stepstone, Infostream and Provida.Today he is a board member of Clarkson PLC which is listed on The London Stock Exchange. Furthermore he is a board member of Clarksons Platou Shipbroking AS and Clarksons Platou Securities AS. He is a member of the remuneration committee at Clarkson PLC.He is a board member of Marine& Merchant Bank and the holding company for Nets AS. Birger works together with Gunnar Rydning as an independent advisor for Advent International in Norway and the Nordics.Birger played an active role in the initiative to establish the Norwegian Venture Capital Association in 1987 and was the Associations first chairman. The Association was later restarted in 2001.In 2006, Birger was awarded His Majesty King Harald V’s Gold Medal for Achievement for pioneering the Norwegian venture capital industry.Birger has a law degree (cand. jur) from The University of Oslo, Faculty of Law.
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- Industry: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Antler — Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
Andreas is working on a service that will connect people, time and places on the web. He also works as an independent consultant helping other startups with product strategy, technical infrastructure, scalability and recruiting as well as financial companies (venture capital and private equity) with technical due diligence and in other advisorroles.He was CTO at Spotify from the launch of the company in August 2006 until November 2009. Before that he worked at Stardoll as an engineer and project manager.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Sweden, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $911k–$7.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Visor — Spatial computing designed for work.
- Mavenoid — Mavenoid is the only product support automation platform built for complex products and devices. Using our unique AI, we solve problems too complex for chatbots
- Red Flag — Red Flag develops an automated accounting, expenses, and invoicing platform for SMEs.
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