Top 15 Web3 Angel Investors in Hong Kong in May 2025
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 May 2025
Investor | Web3 Hong Kong investments |
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Xin Yan | 2 |
Chatchaval Jiaravanon | 1 |
Rustam Gilfanov | 1 |
Sofia Liang | 1 |
Henri Arslanian | 1 |
Neilson Lee | 1 |
Mai Fujimoto | 1 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 1 |
Evan Luthra | 1 |
Raj Gokal | 1 |
Matt Dobel | 1 |
Chaval Jiaravanon | 1 |
Garri Zmudze | 1 |
Michael Kazam | 1 |
Ilya Suharenko | 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 — Tap to connect with new friends and earn crypto back at the same time! Buy now to receive up to 55% OFF!
- 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.
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trillion-dollar remittance market, starting with the millions of unbanked migrant workerscurrently using what it calls outdated, costly, and fragmented services in major Southeast Asian markets.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.
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
Henri Arslanian is the PwC FinTech & RegTech Lead for China/Hong Kong. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course in Asia.Henri is a TEDx speaker, a published author, and currently sits on several finance, academic, government, civil society, andFinTech/RegTech related boards and advisory boards in Asia and globally.Henri is a member of the Hong Kong regulator’s SFC FinTech Advisory Group and the Hong Kong government’s FSDC Fintech working group. He also sits on the board of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and the board of the International RegTech Association.A member of the Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle and with over 350,000 LinkedIn followers, Henri has been awarded many industry and academic awards over the years from being named one of the Most Influential Individuals in FinTech in Asia to being awarded the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal for Academic Excellence. Henri was also recently recognized as one of the global 2017 LinkedIn Top Voices in Economy & Finance.Before joining PwC, Henri was with a FinTech start-up and previously spent many years with UBS Investment Bank in Hong Kong. Henri started his career as a financial markets and funds lawyer in Canada and Hong Kong. Henri speaks five languages including English, French, Armenian, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.He holds a Masters in Chinese Law from Tsinghua University; a joint Global Executive MBA from Columbia Business School, London Business School, and Hong Kong University; a Masters in Transnational Law from the University of Sherbrooke; and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Montreal (Dean’s List of Excellence).
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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.
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.
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.
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
- D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
- Optimum — Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains.
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
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.
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
- fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
- FrodoBots Lab — FrodoBots Lab is pioneering advancements in Embodied AI research at the intersection of crypto and gaming.
- 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.
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.
Garri Zmudze is a founding partner of LongeVC. 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 and Basepaws. Prior to founding LongeVC, he co-founded Longenesis.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Beauty, Retail
- Seed
- Estonia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- DOG PPL — DOG PPL Dog Park, Bar, Cafe & Lounge
- Haut.AI — Haut.AI is SaaS platform for skin care and skin health applicaitons
- 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.
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.
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.
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