Top 15 Web3 Angel Investors in Hong Kong in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Web3 startups based in Hong kong. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from Hong kong. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Web3 Angel Investors in Hong Kong in January 2026
| Investor | Web3 Hong Kong investments |
|---|---|
| Xin Yan | 2 |
| Raj Gokal | 1 |
| Matt Dobel | 1 |
| Garri Zmudze | 1 |
| Ilya Suharenko | 1 |
| Sofia Liang | 1 |
| Michael Kazam | 1 |
| Mai Fujimoto | 1 |
| Chatchaval Jiaravanon | 1 |
| Rustam Gilfanov | 1 |
| Henri Arslanian | 1 |
| Chaval Jiaravanon | 1 |
| Sandeep Nailwal | 1 |
| Neilson Lee | 1 |
| Evan Luthra | 1 |
Xin Yan is the Founder of EthSign.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Electronics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Instap — Instap is a Web3 identity exchange protocol combined with SocialFi and real life interactions.
- KNN3 Network — KNN3 Network provides graph solutions for web3 multiverse relational aggregation to empower Social d/App and AI analytics. KNN3 aims to become a community-driven data curation protocol to enable on-chain data collaboration.
Raj leads operations, product, and finance. He has spent 10 years in product management and finance.He was a venture investor at General Catalyst, started the consumer medical device company Sano which attracted over $20m in investment, and led product management at Omada Health as it grew tenfold.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- ego.tech — Ego is a protocol that seeks to transform personal data found on the Internet into a financial asset.
- Circuit & Chisel — Circuit & Chisel is an agentic AI platform that enables agents to make transactions between autonomous agents.
- Raise — Raise is a digital prepaid and retail payment platform where consumers save money on every purchase at over 4,000 brands and earn rewards with Raise Pay. As a digital partner to more than 600+ national brands, Raise offers an innovative way for retailers to increase brand loyalty, engagement, and retention by adding value for their core consumers.Raise has saved its millions of members more than $200 million and received $147 million in funding from leading investors including Accel, PayPal, Bessemer Venture Partners, and New Enterprise Associates. Raise is available on both iOS and Android or at raise.com
Matt Dobel is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Eigenpie — Eigenpie is a restaking SubDAO that gives holders of Liquid Staking Tokens the chance to enhance their earning potential by restaking assets.
- Yei Finance — Yei Finance a pioneering decentralized, non-custodial money market protocol.
- Embr Labs — Embr.fun serves as a platform aimed at facilitating the development and advancement of the next generation of memes.
Garri is a seasoned business angel with an extensive track record in tech business and an early investor in science-intensive ventures, such as Insilico Medicine, Basepaws, Deep Longevity. Prior to founding LongeVC, he co-founded Longenesis — a medical technology startup company working towards providing a technological bridge between Healthcareinstitutions and the BioTech industry with an aim to help identify and unlock the hidden value of biomedical data to accelerate the novel drug and treatment discovery and provide better help to those in need. In 2021, Garri became Director of the Board at Longevity Science Foundation — a Swiss and USA based non-profit organisation advancing human longevity by funding research and development of medical technologies to extend the healthy human lifespan.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Basepaws — Basepaws cat health products help cat owners learn about their cat's health, breed traits and dental care - all with just a bit of saliva (DNA), collected at home.
- Longenesis — Promoting collaboration between biomedical institutions, patient organizations and research partners by identifying biomedical data from metadata files, by onboarding population cohorts and by engaging new patients in the research.
- Profi — The Only Comprehensive Platform for Care Delivery & Coaching. Enabling health and wellness providers deliver outstanding programs, collaborative care and member experience, all within one modern platform.
Ilya Suharenko, a private investor and one of the Managing Partners of LongeVC.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Marketplace
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Longenesis — Promoting collaboration between biomedical institutions, patient organizations and research partners by identifying biomedical data from metadata files, by onboarding population cohorts and by engaging new patients in the research.
Sofia is the Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions Group at ICBC International. Sofia has 17 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining ICBC International, she was Managing Director and Head of Greater China Equity Capital Market at Macquarie Capital. She has an bachelor's degree in International Economics fromPeking University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, InsurTech, Blockchain
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- JobsLab.io — JobsLab is a Hong Kong-based digital recruitment exchange. We help companies and talent connect through our unique end-to-end recruitment platform quickly and discretely. Our community has exclusive access to rewards and benefits that goes beyond traditional recruitment agencies. We use advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to matchprofessionals with exceptional employers. Find your dream job today. Visit: www.jobslab.io
Michael Kazam is a Partner, LE BOOK & CONNECTIONS.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Blockchain, Marketplace
- Series A
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision uses smart contracts to help creators sell digital fashion and other accessories.
Mai Fujimoto is known domestically and internationally as Miss Bitcoin. She has been promoting the spread of Bitcoin around the world since 2011.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Marketplace, Art
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Canada, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- RSS3 — RSS3 is an open protocol designed for content and social networks in the Web 3.0 era.
- GCR DAO — Global Coin Research is a Community-led DAO for Web3 Research & Investing. We source, vet & fund Pre-Seed to Series A opportunities. Join to Invest Together!
- Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision uses smart contracts to help creators sell digital fashion and other accessories.
Chatchaval Jiaravanon is the Chairman of Finansia Syrus Securities. He attended the University of Southern California.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round
- Thailand, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Lightnet — Lightnet is the next-generation financial network that is built on the true interoperability concept by bridging between existing banking rail and non-bank agent networks to provide efficient and instantaneous transactions.Lightnet is bidding to take on the trillion-dollar remittance market, starting with the millions of unbanked migrant workerscurrently using what it calls outdated, costly, and fragmented services in major Southeast Asian markets.
- Aspen Digital — Aspen Digital is the gateway to Digital Asset allocation, an innovative technology-driven platform that empowers asset and wealth managers to offer / invest into digital asset products with confidence.
Rustam Gilfanov, a business angel and a venture partner of the LongeVC investment fund.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Marketplace
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Longenesis — Promoting collaboration between biomedical institutions, patient organizations and research partners by identifying biomedical data from metadata files, by onboarding population cohorts and by engaging new patients in the research.
Henri Arslanian is the Founder and Managing Partner of Nine Blocks Capital Management. He previously worked at the Securities and Futures Commission as a FinTech Advisory Group, Appointed Member. Henri Arslanian attended the London Business School.
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Blockchain
- Series A
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Hex Trust — Access custody, DeFi, brokerage, and financing services built on regulated infrastructure with Hex Trust, fully-licensed and insured digital asset custodian in Asia.
Chaval (Richie) Jiaravanon is the Partner at Infinity Ventures Crypto. He attended Chulalongkorn University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Aspen Digital — Aspen Digital is the gateway to Digital Asset allocation, an innovative technology-driven platform that empowers asset and wealth managers to offer / invest into digital asset products with confidence.
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
- Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
- RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
Neilson Lee
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Investment focus
- Software, Social Media, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Freechat — Freechat is a fully decentralized social application based on blockchain technology that offers many unique features. It differs from traditional social media because it returns user data and control back to the users themselves.Freechat's features include UGC (user-generated content), DID identity verification, decentralized advertising,encrypted payments, NFTs, games, and more. The most notable feature is Freechat AI, an artificial intelligence algorithm developed using machine learning and deep learning technologies for content recommendation and display, providing a personalized user experience.Users on Freechat can create profiles, post updates and topics, browse and participate in community topics, interact with friends and followers, complete challenge tasks and games, and use cryptocurrency for payments.Freechat also ensures security, anonymity, and privacy protection through the use of smart contracts, distributed ledgers, and other technologies. Additionally, it provides a completely decentralized advertising platform where users can display ads, earn revenue, and interact with brands.Overall, Freechat is an innovative and disruptive social application aimed at providing users with a more secure, decentralized, privacy-protected, and personalized social experience.
EvanLuthra is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Blockchain
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- GGEM — GGEM develops a gaming platform with a Web3 game launcher. It enables the onboarding of traditional gamers into Web3 games by eliminating all steps of the user journey that might be difficult for non-crypto natives, allowing users to start playing blockchain games within seconds.
- Rewardable — Turn your spare time into extra cash with simple online tasks and micro-jobs. Earn money whenever and wherever you like.
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