Top 50 Video Games Angel Investors in Asia in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Video games startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Video games companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Video Games Angel Investors in Asia in January 2025
Investor | Video Games Asia investments |
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Alexis Ohanian | 2 |
Mark Cuban | 2 |
Koki Yabu | 2 |
Hironao Kunimitsu | 2 |
Hans de Back | 2 |
Kensuke Furukawa | 2 |
Yusuke Sato | 1 |
Ayataro Nakagawa | 1 |
Chris Lee | 1 |
Poh Kam Wong | 1 |
Lev Leviev | 1 |
Kevin Lin | 1 |
Jonathan Shipman | 1 |
Alan Seid | 1 |
John Robinson | 1 |
Charlie Lee | 1 |
Otomi Tomohiro | 1 |
Timo Soininen | 1 |
Tatsuo Sakamoto | 1 |
Robert Chew | 1 |
Hiromi Okuda | 1 |
Juha Paananen | 1 |
Shunsuke Oyu | 1 |
Ken Berger | 1 |
Christopher Fisher | 1 |
Tin Nguyen | 1 |
Willow Li | 1 |
Santiago Roel Santos | 1 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 1 |
Parinya Narkprasert | 1 |
Harry Inaba | 1 |
Kentaro Ruichi | 1 |
Daniel Shin | 1 |
Yasuyuki Kin | 1 |
Pieter Walraven | 1 |
Harveen Narulla | 1 |
Masao Ito | 1 |
Aleksander Leonard Larsen | 1 |
Shuji Honjo | 1 |
George Chu | 1 |
Itamar Lesuisse | 1 |
Oliver Löffler | 1 |
Allen DeBevoise | 1 |
Lim Swee Yong | 1 |
Soga Takeshi | 1 |
Ken Soga | 1 |
Max Keiser | 1 |
Harri Manninen | 1 |
Kimiko Doan | 1 |
Yitz Applbaum | 1 |
Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
- TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
- Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.
Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Vietnam, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Bot-It — Online automation for everyone. Let Bot-It automatically complete your online tasks.
- Allstar — Free, fast, and easy clip capture with zero FPS drop for Counter-Strike 2, League of Legends, Fortnite, and Dota 2.
- Glove Wrap — Glove Wrap is a latex-free, thermoplastic elastomer band with the precise thickness, width, and length required to break in and shape your complete baseball glove while making the ideal pocket. Wrapping your glove with Glove Wrap applies pressure to the glove, reshaping it for easy use.
Koki Yabu is Founder, President & CEO at Mobcast inc.
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Investment focus
- Content, Finance, Data Mining
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Mobcast group — mobcast is a sports entertainment company that operates a mobile entertainment platform for smartphones and feature phones. It supports customers with social game and social media services. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of mobcast Inc.
- SmartApp Japan — Smart Apps is a developer of a blockchain services application designed for smartphones. The company's application uses cryptocurrency technology to offer token issuance, initial coin offering and dApps design support, providing a launchpad for start-up blockchain-related businesses.
Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.
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Investment focus
- Virtual Reality, Content, Media and Entertainment
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
- Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
- Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
Hans de Back
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Animation, Video Games
- Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Inzen Studio — CVtogel adalah salah satu situs togel online terkemuka di Asia menawarkan berbagai jenis permainan togel Dua permainan populer adalah Togel Singapore dan Togel Hongkong.
Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".
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Investment focus
- Content, Media and Entertainment, Social Media
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
- Neighbor — The creative universe of Fortnite is infinite. To give an example , building fantasy and science fiction worlds, creating simple games and full-scale battle games can all be completed with Fortnite. Is the world of Fortnite, played by 350 million users worldwide, is it real or unreal? We will try to combining the vast world of Fortnite with the real world.
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
- 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.
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.
Chris Lee is a seasoned capital market professional with banking,investment and public companies' operational experience. He is also a FinTech and Digital Payment technology specialist. Selected by analysts, Chris was the Best Hong Kong Executive by AsiaMoney and the Best CFO of tech hardware of APAC excl. Japan by Institutional Investor in2015 and 2016 respectively. Chris also holds the professional qualifications of Australian Chartered Accountant, Hong Kong CPA and FRM of the United States.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Blockchain
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Trailblazer Games — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!
- Trailblazer Games — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!
Poh Kam WONG is a Professor at the Business School of National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. Through the centre, he oversees the university's entrepreneurship education programs, as well as the university's incubator, seed funding programs and mentoring scheme for nurturing spin-offcompanies by the university's professors and students. He has published extensively in leading academic journals on high tech entrepreneurship and innovation policy in Asia, and has consulted frequently for technology companies in Asia, as well as international organizations such as the World Bank. He is an active angel investor in technology start-ups in Singapore, Asia and Silicon Valley, and is the founding Chairman of Business Angel Network Southeast Asia (BANSEA) and chairman and partner of BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd, a business angel fund based in Singapore. He is the initiator of StartUp@Singapore, the annual national business plan competition in Singapore since 1999.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Wearables, Rehabilitation
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- FundedHere — FundedHere Crowdfunding Platform
- TechStorm — Asia's number one 24/7 Esports, gaming & tech-centric entertainment network available in 26 countries. TechStorm is a brand new 360 international network on Asian Esports and tech-centric entertainment. The network celebrates the region’s trail blazers, the biggest Asian Esports and tech names, bringing them to a truly global audienceand fan base.The 24/7 network’s meteoric rise across Asia now reaches 43 million viewers, 100 platforms across multiple countries and is slated to exceed 20 countries globally. Its original Storm Bytes content is readily distributed to 96 million mobile handset users in 26 countries. This exponential growth was all achieved in less than 22 months.TechStorm is an international Esports and tech entertainment network backed by blue-chip, high profile venture capital groups and founded by prominent industry business leaders in media and technology with more than 30 years of extensive domain expertise and business operations. Its dynamic leadership team is fuelled by a passion to drive change and be the voice for Asia’s Esports and tech entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Lev Leviev is the Founder of LVL1 Group. Before founding LVL1 Group, he was an internet entrepreneur and investor, a co-founder of Russia's largest social network VK.com (originally VKontakte).
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Israel, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- ClanPlay — Provider of a messaging application platform intended to connect users of the games. The company's messaging application platform offers tools for players to communicate, plan their strategies, recruit newcomers, engage in diplomacy with other clans and share their accomplishments, enabling gamers to discuss brilliant strategies, gloriousbattles and win together.
- Mirror Emoji Keyboard — Mirror is your personal stickers! Take one selfie and get thousands of personal emojis and stickers of you and your friends. Use them in WhatsApp, Facebook, iMessage, Telegram, and other messenger!
- Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Jonathan Shipman is a VP, Strategy (Product & Marketing) at Lantronix.
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Investment focus
- eSports, Beauty, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- United States, Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- NEWNESS — Newness is focused on building differentiated tools and features that work well for the beauty streamer market in particular.
- MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
- Riley — Grapevine AI is the first AI powered personal assistant that captures, organizes, and easily retrieves the details that build better relationships. Learn more!
Alan Seid, Advisor to the President of Palau.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
President & COO of 100 Thieves.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Computer, Blockchain
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Denmark, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!
- Fast Break Labs — Fast Break Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that's building the future of sports gaming and entertainment.
- Bright Star Studios — Publisher of Ember Sword. We build zero-friction next-gen social MMOs that empower gamers through open player-centric-economies based on digital collectibles.
Charlie Lee is the Founder at Litecoin Foundation. Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternative currency to Bitcoin. He is an engineer manager at Coinbase. Charlie earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, China
Portfolio highlights
- Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
- Monochrome — Monochrome Corporation is a multi-investment, financial services group specialising in infrastructure projects within the bitcoin and crypto-asset landscape.
- Flare Network — Flare is the blockchain for data: an EVM-based layer 1 that gives developers secure decentralized access to high-integrity data from other chains and the internet.
Otomi Tomohiro - CEO @ Tyrus
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Travel, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- CUICIN — Quickin is changing the travel experience with the digital transformation.
- HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
- Magic Shields — Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products.
Timo Soininen is the co-founder at Small Giant Games.
Timo Soininen is the CEO and co-founder of Small Giant Games, maker of the hit game Empires & Puzzles.
Small Giant joined Zynga, Inc (ZNGA) in December 2018, when Zynga acquired 80% of Small Giant at $700M valuation.
Prior to Small Giant he was the longtime CEO of Habbo Hotel and is also anactive angel investor in several technology startups ranging from biomaterials and digital health to games (Spinnova, Aiforia, Critical Force).
Timo holds a M.Sc. degree in Marketing from Helsinki School of Economics/Aalto University and just loves tennis.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Gilion — Gilion (Formerly known as Ark Kapital) is creating custom growth loans that helps founders protect equity. Because founders who remain in control, are hard to overtake.
- Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
- MyGamez — With over 600 million mobile gamers, China is the biggest growth opportunity for global game companies.
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Education, Recruiting
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
- Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Robert is an active angel investor in the United States, and is the Singapore ambassador for Singularity University, based in Mountain View, California, and a member of the Innovation Board of XPRIZE Foundation.He is currently a board member of Anacle Systems Pte. Ltd., Scanadu Holdings Pte. Ltd., Alexandra Health System Pte. Ltd., IntegratedHealth Information Systems Pte. Ltd., Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital, TOUCH Community Services Limited, Shared Services for Charities Limited, National Council of Social Service, and the Singapore Institute of Directors.He is a Fellow of the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) and was awarded SCS's IT Leader of the Year in 2009, and SCS's President Award in 2014. He chaired the Information Technology Standards Committee from 2005 to 2012, and currently chairs its Cloud Computing Standards Task Force. For his contribution to standards development, he was awarded SPRING's Distinguished Partner Award in 2011. He was conferred the Public Service Medal in 2013.Robert was formerly a partner of Accenture where he led the strategy practice in Southeast Asia and the Communications, Media and High Tech industry practice in Singapore.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Sports
- Series B, Seed, Series C
- Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SourceSage — SourceSage (Pte. Ltd.) is a venture-backed technology company headquartered in Singapore, with operations in Malaysia, India, China, Japan, Middle East and North America. We built the world's first Amazon of Market Information, which transforms data into real-time business opportunities. SourceSage offers B2B professionals the ability tocheck real-time market information & data (Data as a Service), use that to connect to real-time enquiries and quotations (Brokerage as a Service), and to integrate with third apps for marketing automation (Software as a Service). Today, SourceSage technology platform has empowered more than 10,000 business professionals and companies across nearly 100 countries. Our user base has grown by more than 1000% year on year since 2015, and they are from companies such as P&G, Unilever, Nestle, Solvay, Sinolight Group, Shell, Sabic, etc.SourceSage is perfect for sales, marketing, traders, procurement professionals, distributors, suppliers, wholesalers, freight forwarders, agents, importers & exporters in fast-moving & volatile industries.
- inui Health — inui Health is a consumer medical diagnostics company based in Silicon Valley. Their vision is to make medical-grade information accessible anytime, anywhere. Their cloud-based diagnostic platform works in a mobile environment to empower consumers with access to their own health information. Their products will help consumers detect complicationsearly, monitor their health, and easily share their health information so they can work with their healthcare provider for timely interventions. The first product to be released will be the inui In-Home Urine Analysis test system, which provides patients and physicians with immediate lab test results.
- Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
Hiromi Okuda is the CEO of WizGroup Inc.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Metaverse, Video Games
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Juha Paananen - CEO & Co-Founder @ Soba
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Wellness, Video Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Finland, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Talewind — Talewind specialises in creating immersive brand experiences on Roblox, helping businesses engage with audiences through custom-built virtual worlds and interactive games.
- Revery — The team at Revery is on a mission to make access to wellness affordable and accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, through the medium of gaming.
- Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc.
Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016.
Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.
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Investment focus
- Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Lock On — Achieving high performance and minimizing risk through the analysis of 1B+ addresses and a fully automated index.
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
- Neighbor — The creative universe of Fortnite is infinite. To give an example , building fantasy and science fiction worlds, creating simple games and full-scale battle games can all be completed with Fortnite. Is the world of Fortnite, played by 350 million users worldwide, is it real or unreal? We will try to combining the vast world of Fortnite with the real world.
Ken Berger, CEO of Lorem Labs.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
Christopher Fisher - Managing Partner, Fund III @ Click Ventures
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Investment focus
- Advertising, E-Commerce, Fitness
- Seed
- Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Playto — Playto offers educational tools and games for children. It offers GlowMaster, a game that helps children aged 7 to 13 learn to focus on studies.
- Floship — Reduce shipping costs & time from one platform, choose Floship for you Global eCommerce fulfillment, and get closer to customers with our global facilities.
- Launchpilots — Launchpilots is a marketplace that connects brands and student sponsorships. Student leaders can apply to different brand sponsorships based on their requirements via our platform.
Tin Nguyen, Founder at Sipher.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
Willow Li, Founder and CEO of AyiConnect.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
Santiago Roel Santos was a Partner at ParaFi Capital.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Succinct — The easiest way to discover, develop, and deploy ZK.
- Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.
- Ooga Booga — Ooga Booga is a liquidity aggregator designed to support the goal of becoming the most capital efficient blockchain.
Parinya Narkprasert, Team Head, Corporate Banking at TMBThanachart Bank PCL.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
Harry Inaba - Senior Director @ Lionbridge
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Video Games, Developer Tools
- Series A
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Daylight Studios — Daylight Studios is a Singapore-based game development company founded on 5 May 2011 and formed with a passion for creative innovation in game design and IP creation.
Ruichi Kentaro is an Angel Investor.
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Investment focus
- Content, Video Games, Social Network
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Graffity — Graffity to provide AR experiences globally and enrich life more conveniently and invent the AR entertainment experience and provide it globally.
Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
- Port One — Experience every payment in the world with one line of code
- Korea Credit Data — • Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management solution to small and medium-sized businesses in Korea. KCD established a dominant position (M/S 70%+) through ‘Cashnote' and ‘Bizbot’ services used by more than 1.1 million businesses. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life.To this end, KCD will expand its business areas to include B2B commerce to B2C payment area.
Yasuyuki Kin
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
- Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
- LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
Pieter Walraven - Product Manager @ Google
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Investment focus
- Sports, Computer, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Saleswhale — Stop marketing leads from slipping through the cracks. Automate your conversion of neglected leads into sales meetings. No favors from your sales team required.
- Wrangle — Wrangle organizes requests in your Slack team channel. Automatically assign approvals and tasks for your team to follow up and track their status.
- Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
Harveen is an entrepreneur. After an early career as a lawyer with top-tier firms in Singapore, he spent a decade in various lead roles in technology ventures. This included co-founding and heading Hatcher, a leading technology venture builder in Singapore, whose portfolio includes Dropsuite (ASX:DSE), Telr (Middle East’s fastest growingonline payment processor), SocialCops (India’s leading comprehensive big data play) and Hatcher+ (big data transforming venture capital investing). Harveen also co-founded Pan African Logistics (PAL), which has grown into a leading third-party logistics player in East Africa. Harveen’s key competences include assembling and aligning strong teams, marshaling resources to start and grow businesses, deal negotiation and acquisitions, spotting arbitrage opportunities, and interventionist and supporting board roles.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Telr — Simplify your payment processes with our easy integration. Accept online payments seamlessly with our all-in-one solution. Discover more now.
- SocialCops — SocialCops are partner with leaders and organizations around the world to make data-driven decisions easier and more effective. Their work helps build a world with smarter cities, happier citizens, better policies, and a brighter future.Today's model of engaging with data — both the data they use and how they use it — is broken. Dataintelligence is the solution. It starts with finding all the data you need for your decision — extracted from elaborate internal systems, sourced from places you never would have thought to look, and unified with real-time data. they then transform this mass of data into intelligent insights that make the best decision obvious.SocialCops is backed by 500 Start-ups; Rajan Anandan, Managing Director of Google India; and Manoj Menon, Managing Director of Frost and Sullivan APAC. Its team consists of engineers and data scientists. The company won the love of the Forbes India '30 under 30', World Summit Youth Award, and IBM Smart Planet Challenge.
- Inzen Studio — CVtogel adalah salah satu situs togel online terkemuka di Asia menawarkan berbagai jenis permainan togel Dua permainan populer adalah Togel Singapore dan Togel Hongkong.
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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- Content, Social Media, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Japan
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- Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
- Aruya Umu — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.
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- Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Norway, Singapore, Brazil
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- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
- Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
Dr. Shuji Honjo provides business consulting to Japanese and international companies, focusing on new business development, marketing, technology and innovation. He advises large corporations and investors as well as entrepreneurial companies. He is active in entrepreneurial education and community development, as a mentor with 500 Startups,Founders Institute, Net Service Ventures, Docomo Innovation Village, Fukuoka Prefecture etc.Dr. Honjo is Visiting Professor at Tama Graduate School of Business. He is also a member of the editorial committee for Japan Marketing Association.As a speaker, panelist, moderator, and contest judge, Dr. Honjo is often invited to major events such as New Economy Summit, Slush Asia, ad tech Tokyo, Nikkei, Kyoto University, Infinity Ventures Summit, B Dash Camp, and G1 Summit.Dr. Honjo authored a number of books and articles. He introduced Tony Hsieh’s “Delivering Happiness” to Japan.Dr. Honjo was born and raised in Japan. He has extensive consulting experiences with Boston Consulting Group in Tokyo and Computer Sciences Corporation in California. After BCG and CSC, he was Assistant to Chairman and Group Strategy Manager of CSK/SEGA Group, a leader in enterprise IT solutions and digital entertainment in Japan. In 1999, he founded and represented the Tokyo office of General Atlantic LLC, an IT-focused growth equity firm. Since he left Lehman Brothers Japan as SVP for principal investment in 2008, Dr. Honjo has been Managing Director, Honjo International.Dr. Honjo has Ph.D. in International Studies from Waseda University, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. from the University of Tokyo.
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- Gaming, Sports, Video Games
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- Kek.tv — Kek eSports app. The free app, which is in public beta, is an eSports video aggregation platform that integrates multi-source livestreams and game video replays, as well as news, statistics and tournament feeds into one socially-curated experience for the growing audience of Asian eSports fans.
George Chu, Founder and CEO of FiO.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed
- Singapore
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- AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
Itamar is the co-founder and CEO of Argent. Prior to Argent, Itamar founded and led Peak, the top ranked mobile cognitive training service with over 50,000,000 users and 500,000 subscribers. Itamar led Peak to a profitable 8 digit per year business. He successfully sold it to Lagardere SCA in 2016.Before Peak, Itamar worked at Boston ConsultingGroup, Amazon and VISA. He holds a Masters in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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Oliver Löffler - Founder @ Kolibri Games
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- Gaming, Video Games, Digital Entertainment
- Seed
- Germany, Singapore
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- Kamedi — Kamedi is going to provide users a device for the hyperthermic treatment of irritated skin after insect bites, the heat_it.
- Trailblazer Games — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!
- Trailblazer Games — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!
Allen DeBeviose started Third Wave in 2014 after more than 30 years of experience incubating and investing in digital media companies. He has invested in over 70 digital media companies and has co-founded several of the most important digital media brands including Machinima, StyleHaul, DanceOn, INDMusic, Mitu, and Tubular Labs. Prior to foundingThird Wave, Allen built a strong track record as an Angel Investor in the digital media sector and has had over 15 high-multiple exits and NAVs. Allen is currently the Chairman of Machinima and sits on several digital media company boards including StyleHaul, MiTu, Tubular Labs, DanceOn, INDMusic, and Mondo Entertainment. He was an early investor and outside board member for several companies. LowerMyBills.com and Dealer.com are examples of two companies that had highly successful exits. He was featured on the Hollywood Reporter's Digital Power List 2009 and on Digital Media Wire's 2010 List of "25 Executives to Watch” and dubbed the Godfather of Online Video. Allen is a frequent speaker at major digital media conferences and considered an important leader in the rapidly growing Silicon Beach venture capital community.Allen has been engaged on the leading edge in the digital media and interactive arena for over three decades including working on the first uses of computer animation in entertainment ("Tron"), the first interactive video on the Mac ("Guernica"), the first interactive television trial (Time Warner Orlando) and the first broadband cable Internet prototype ("@Home").Allen has an A.B. in Mathematics and an MSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Media and Entertainment, Video, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong
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- Immortals Gaming Club — Immortals was founded in 2015 as a US-based esports and gaming organization that competes in League of Legends (LCS). At Immortals we aim to entertain, inspire, and be the voice of esports fans in the Great Lakes Region through our exciting players, talented creators and innovative regional experiences.
- Waggle.tv — Keep your fido safe in your RV/Home with America's most trusted Waggle Pet Monitor. Waggle gives safety to your pets and peace of mind for you. Learn more.
- Wisecrack — Wisecrack is a collective of academics, comedians and filmmakers who are endlessly curious about the world around us.
Mr. Lim Swee Yong is our Non-Executive Director. Mr. Lim brings with him more than 10 years of experience in corporate transactional work.Mr. Lim began his career in 2005 with Stamford Law Corporation as an Associate specialising in mergers and acquisitions as well as capital markets. In 2007, Mr. Lim joined Morrison and Foerster as anAssociate specialising in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity. Mr. Lim thereafter, in 2009, re-joined Stamford Law Corporation as a Senior Associate, and was promoted to Director in 2011. In 2015, Mr. Lim joined Fullerton Fund Management Company Ltd as Vice-President, Legal. Mr. Lim was appointed by DeClout to head its corporate office in 2015, and is currently responsible for providing leadership to business development and growth strategies, and to drive strategic plans including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate initiatives. Mr. Lim also oversees the legal and corporate secretarial functions of DeClout.Mr. Lim graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 2004. He was admitted to act as an advocate and solicitor of the Singapore Supreme Court in 2005 and as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2007.
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- E-Commerce, Industrial, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed
- Singapore, Indonesia
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- Charged — As a direct-to-user scale-up motorbike manufacturer and distributor, we are here to offer Indonesian clients affordable, practical, and sustainable mobility. Comparing our vehicles to conventional combustion motorbikes, they are competitive in terms of cost, performance, and quality.
- HeveaConnect — Discover the forefront of rubber trading innovation on our platform. Harness the power of technology and EUDR compliance as we reshape the rubber industry. Elevate your supply chain, transparency, traceability, sustainability, and procurement practices with our advanced digital tools. Join us for a seamless trading experience where innovation meets the rubber market's evolving demands.
- Daylight Studios — Daylight Studios is a Singapore-based game development company founded on 5 May 2011 and formed with a passion for creative innovation in game design and IP creation.
Soga Takeshi
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- Music, Mobile, Content
- Seed
- Japan
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- UNIVRS — UNIVRS is a popular market and entertainment platform.
- SAKELOGY — SAKELOGY is a platform enables restaurants and retailers to easily create cloud-based sake menus.
- Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
Ken Soga is an individual investor.
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- Content, Service Industry, SNS
- Seed, Series D
- Japan
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- UNIVRS — UNIVRS is a popular market and entertainment platform.
- Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
- Mono.un — Mono.un provides users with opportunities to meet authors and collaborate on tales and specializes in bringing exciting experiences full of stories of Japanese culture to the world.
Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT, an English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news; presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London’s Resonance FM; and writes for Keiser is the CEO and co-founder ofMax Keiser invented “Virtual Specialist Technology,” a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
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- Video Games, Gaming, Mobile
- Private Equity, Initial Coin Offering
- China, Hong Kong
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- Pixelmatic — We connect people from around the world and spark their imaginations through games.
- Infinite Fleet — Customize and take command of your fleet in this epic MMO space strategy game. Coming soon from Pixelmatic.
Harri Manninen - Founding Partner @ Play Ventures
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- Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, United States, India
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- FitXR — Enjoy your workout, not just the results. Try FitXR for 7 days free.
- StarBerry Games — StarBerry Games GmbH is a mobile games company based in Berlin, Germany. The company develops free-to-play casual mobile games and is best known for its games Merge Mayor and Idle Coffee Corp.
- Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
Kimiko Doan, Change Agent for Innovation/ Super-connector for Emerging Tech.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed
- Singapore
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- AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
Yitz Applbaum
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- Gaming, Sports, Video Games
- Seed
- Hong Kong
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- Kek.tv — Kek eSports app. The free app, which is in public beta, is an eSports video aggregation platform that integrates multi-source livestreams and game video replays, as well as news, statistics and tournament feeds into one socially-curated experience for the growing audience of Asian eSports fans.
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