Top 10 Web3 Angel Investors in China in October 2024
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Web3 startups based in China. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from China. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Web3 Angel Investors in China in October 2024
Investor | Web3 China investments |
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Lijie Wang | 2 |
Anatoly Yakovenko | 2 |
Adam Back | 1 |
Peng Zhang | 1 |
Max Keiser | 1 |
Ruby Lu | 1 |
Charlie Lee | 1 |
Muneeb Ali | 1 |
Laurenz Apiarius | 1 |
Ben Gorlick | 1 |
Leo Wang is recognized as an active angel investor and leading proponent of Mobile Internet, Blockchain, and Angel Investment in China. Boasting over twenty years in mobile internet and tech, he has invested in 300 startups, spanning healthcare to fintech and blockchain, including 2 NASDAQ-listed companies and 5 unicorns.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Aerospace, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
- Huojianpai — Huojianpai is a commercial aerospace company providing earth-moon space economy and future-oriented deep space exploration.
- Reserve — Reserve is a universal currency company. Reserve provides people with hyperinflation protected savings accounts to protect and use their money globally. They offer rtokens, collateral baskets, and over collateralization.
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
- SOON — SOON is building the highest throughput stack that allows for any SVM L2 to be deployed on any L1.
Having worked on e-cash protocols since 1995, Adam is an applied cryptographer and inventor of the hashcash proof-of-work and decentralized mining used in Bitcoin.In addition to implementing credlib, he was an e-cash consultant to Nokia and later to Credentica (acquired by Microsoft). Adam was an architect and cryptographer at Zero-KnowledgeSystems working on its Freedom network, a precursor to Tor. He has also consulted for leading security companies, including oneID, Vmware and QWcap. Most recently, Adam co-founded Picorp, which was acquired by EMC and where he was CSO of the company’s consumer division, Decho. Adam holds a Ph.D. in distributed systems and computer science from the University of Exeter.
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, Video Games, Cryptocurrency
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Initial Coin Offering
- China, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Portal — The only custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin. Swap native BTC, Ordinals, Runes with L2s and L1s
- 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.
Peng Zhang
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Blockchain
- Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Star Mine Technology — Star Mine Technology launched the world's first truly intelligent device with distributed data structure technology and business model - "Fans" with "Hardware + System" to establish a win-win community between star IP and fan users With a permanent and intelligent contract mechanism, through the deep interaction of real,trustworthy and continuous, realize the IP value and change the ecological future!
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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Investment focus
- Video Games, Gaming, Mobile
- Private Equity, Initial Coin Offering
- China, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Ruby Lu is the Founder of Atypical Ventures. She attended the University of Maryland.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Shopping, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, China, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Flip — Download Flip App for free today to discover, learn & shop your favorite brands all in one place. Share and monetize your video reviews.
- Sprout — Sprout is an equity and token management solution helping companies manage shares, ESOPs, tokens, fundraising and investors on one platform.
- Moqun Qukuailian — Moqun Qukuailian is a distributed computing infrastructure provider company.
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.
Muneeb Ali is the Co-founder and CEO at Trust Machines and the Co-founder and Exec Chairman of Hiro System. Muneeb Ali attended Princeton University and Lahore University of Management Sciences.
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, Hardware, Manufacturing
- Seed, Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Ryder — 60s Setup, Secure Signing, EAL6+ Secure Element, TapSafe Recovery, IP68 Rating, Encrypted NFC.
- Arch — Arch is a Blockchain Infrastructure Premier Bitcoin-Native Application Platform
- Zeus Network — Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.
He is the Founder & CEO of Blockwall Capital (www.blockwall.capital) – the first German crypto investment fund focused on Distributed Ledger/Blockchain technologies serving UHNWIs, Family Offices and Institutionals to gain access to this asset class.He is also non-executive director in two family businesses, which are a high-performancepolymer producer and a manufacturer for rheological testing devices. Previous engagements in various PE and VC investments.Educated in Germany (EBS University), South Africa (University of Stellenbosch) and Scotland (University of St. Andrews). Member of EO.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Public Transportation
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- bloXmove — bloXmove, the operating system to decentralize power and mobility and accelerate transactions between the business parties.
- Bella Protocol — Bella Defi suite allows users to simply deposit and enjoy high yield from sophisticated arbitrage strategies, either on-chain or via custodian service.
Ben became involved in exploring bitcoin mining he could be found in his home state of Alaska mining for gold. He studied Computer Science at the University of Alaska Anchorage with an emphasis on distributed systems and databases. From gold miner to bitcoin miner, Ben co-founded the Bitcoin company Cloudhashing in early 2013 serving as ChiefOperations Officer, which ultimately brought him to Silicon Valley. His fascination with Bitcoin’s decentralization paired well with his interests in applied data science, graph theory, automation, complex computation, and cryptography. Most recently, Ben was the VP, Business Development for PeerNova.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Funding Round
Portfolio highlights
- Bella Protocol — Bella Defi suite allows users to simply deposit and enjoy high yield from sophisticated arbitrage strategies, either on-chain or via custodian service.
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