Top 5 Angel Investors in Asia in July 2025
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Venture capital startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Angel Investors in Asia in July 2025
Investor | Venture Capital Asia investments |
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John Riady | 1 |
Birger Nergaard | 1 |
Andreas Ehn | 1 |
Kiyoshi Nishikawa | 1 |
Ole Ruch | 1 |
John Riady - Director @ Lippo Group
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Investment focus
- Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed
- Singapore
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!
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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Investment focus
- Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed
- Singapore
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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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Leetify — We help gamers identify their weaknesses, work on those weaknesses and track their progression.
- Prog.AI — Prog.AI helps to find developers based on their technical proficiency, libraries they have used, or even just the contributions they have made to GitHub projects.
- Single Technologies — Founded in Stockholm, Sweden, with its long tradition in fiber optics, ultra-sensitive fluorescence spectroscopy and DNA sequencing, SINGLE’s ambition is to become the instigator of 3-D Sequencing.
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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Investment focus
- News, Social Media, Big Data
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, United States
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 the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
- TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Ole Ruch is the Managing Partner at Nordstar. He attended Imperial College London.
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Investment focus
- Sales, Finance, Marketing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, India, Japan
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.
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