Top 10 Web3 Angel Investors in China in January 2025
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 January 2025
Investor | Web3 China investments |
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Anatoly Yakovenko | 2 |
Lijie Wang | 2 |
Ben Gorlick | 1 |
Max Keiser | 1 |
Muneeb Ali | 1 |
Adam Back | 1 |
David J. Namdar | 1 |
Peng Zhang | 1 |
Ruby Lu | 1 |
Laurenz Apiarius | 1 |
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.
- Blockcast — Blockcast is a next-generation content delivery network that utilizes one-to-many distribution to save costs. It is an open content delivery network (CDN) with a distinct caching architecture that offers large, flexible capacity.
- Fragmetric — Fragmetric is a native liquid restaking mechanism for Solana that improve the Solana ecosystem's security and economic potential.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
David J. Namdar is the Co-Founder of NFT.com. Attended at University of Southern California.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Funding Round, Angel, Seed
- United States, Switzerland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Docker — Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.
- Provable — Welcome to Aleo. The first platform for fully private applications. Write, run, and host private applications on Aleo. The ultimate toolkit for building private applications is finally here.
- Badger DAO — BadgerDAO is a decentralized collective of builders supporting community driven growth for Bitcoin across DeFi.
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!
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.
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.
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