Singapore’s economy has grown by an average of 9% each year since independence. Most startups need some form of mentoring and investment in order to scale. Angel investors bring in their business expertise, experience, contacts and infuse funds to help out startups. In this list we have featured the top 50 Active Angel Investors based out of Singapore.
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Jeffrey Paine
Jeff is a Founding Partner at Golden Gate Ventures – an early stage venture capital firm with investments in more than 25 companies spanning across 7+ countries in Asia.
Sector:
SaaS, Mobile, Consumer Internet, Games, Search, Social Media, Digital Entertainment, E-Commerce, Marketplaces, Personal Health, Social, Commerce, Education, Location Based Services, Crowdsourcing
Portfolio: AngelList, Coda Payments, Lenddo, Nitrous, Noonswoon
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Jayesh Parekh
Jayesh is founder of Sony Entertainment Television and Managing Partner at Jungle Ventures.
Sector:
All
Portfolio: Identified, PubNub, 500 Startups, Counsyl, Artiman Ventures
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Darius Cheung
Darius is founder and CEO of 99.co. His previous company tenCube got acquired by McAfee in 2010.
Sector:
Mobile, Consumer Internet, Finance Technology
Portfolio: Astrid, Crittercism, FlightCar, attune, Camperoo
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Vinnie Lauria
Vinnie is a Founding Partner at Golden Gate Ventures. He built two startups in Silicon Valley before moving to Singapore.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Mobile Internet, Local E-Commerce, Mobile Payments, Classifieds, Advertising Platforms, Marketplaces
Portfolio: AngelList, Carousell, Coda Payments, Nitrous, Lenddo
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James Chan
James is founder and Executive Chairman of Silicon Straits, an innovation tribe that makes early-stage investments, designs and engineers products, fosters community development. He is also VP (International) at Grey Orange, a venture-backed advanced robotics company.
Sector: Consumer Internet, Mobile Consumer, Electronics,Hardware Design
Portfolio: Animoca, Formlabs, HipVan, littleBits, Path, Viki
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Dara Akbarian
Dara is CFO of Omnicom Group, managing strategic business operations in Asia Pacific.
Sector:
Enterprise Software, Mobile, Consumer Internet, Social Media, E-Commerce, SaaS, Digital Media, Social Commerce, Big Data
Portfolio: Alibaba, Arista, Bracket, Brilliant, Flurry
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Kuo-Yi Lim
Kuo-Yi is C0-founder and Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a firm that makes early and growth stage investments in tech startups.
Sector:
Mobile Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Social Media, Big Data, SaaS, Content Discovery, Market Research, E-Commerce, Developer APIs
Portfolio: DataXu, Gengo, Kalibrr, Ninja Van, Reebonz
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Eddy Lee
Eddy is Managing Partner at Coffee Ventures and Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University.
Sector:
E-Commerce, Mobile, Consumer Internet, Digital Media, Marketplaces, Hardware, Big Data, Enterprise Software, Health Care, Wearables
Portfolio: 99.co, Alodoktor, analyticsMD, Bellabeat, BlockCypher
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Joel Sng
Joel is General Partner at Formation 8 and C0-founder/CEO of honestbee.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile, Health Care, Hardware
Portfolio: Facebook, Twitter, Palantir, Grabit
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Lhoucine Aderdor
Lhoucine is Global Fixed Income and Absolute Return Portfolio Manager at Amundi Asset Management.
Sector:
Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile, Health Care, Social Media Marketplaces, Health Care, SaaS, Internet of Things
Portfolio: Beepi, Blockstream, Breeze, Crew, Density
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John Kim
John is Managing Partner at Amasia.
Sector:
Mobile, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Big Data, E-Commerce
Portfolio: 500 Startups, BitPagos, Boostable, Channel, Complex Ploygon
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Roger Lim
Roger is a Partner at Innosight Ventures. He was also the Co-founder and CEO of Webvisions Pte Ltd.
Sector:
Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile
Portfolio: Asseta, Barricade, BitPagos, Boost Media, Crayon
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Deepak I. Shahdadpuri
Deepak is Founder and Managing Director of DSG Consumer Partners, InseadAlum Venturs and BCP Advisors.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Mobile, Food and Beverages, Payments, Point of Sale, Wine And Spirits, Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, E-Commerce,Retail, Personal Health, Finance
Portfolio: AngelList, Authy, Bakers Cirle, Birdi, Bread
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Justin Cornelius Hall
Justin is Principal Partner at Golden Gate Ventures.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Digital Media, ICT, Mobile, SaaS
Portfolio: Carousell, Coda Payments, Lenddo, TradeGecko, RedMart
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Andrew Vranjes
Andrew has rich experience in Telecom domain, product/practice management role. Currently he is working with Cisco.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Financial Exchanges, Personal Finance, Finance Technology, SaaS
Portfolio: 99.co, Chewse, Coda Pay, Density, GRANA
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Brad Porteus
Brad is CEO of OLX (Southeast Asia).
Sector:
Marketplaces, Media, eCommerce, User-generated content
Portfolio: Burpple, uBiome
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Steve Munich
Steve’s business development skill has given significant boost to companies like Ambit Design Systems and Chronologic simulations.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile, Semiconductors, Hardware, Information Technology, Smart Cities
Portfolio: Abacus, AdEspresso, Ambit Design, Beepi, Bento
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John Tan
John is Partner at 8Capita, BWB Ventures and Founder of Controlled Commodity.
Sector:
Mobile, Agriculture, Online Travel, Deals, Flash Sales, Consumer Internet, Hospitality, Peer-to-Peer Shared Services, Disruptive Models, SaaS, B2B, Small and Medium Businesses, E-Commerce
Portfolio: 8villages, AirHelp, Automate Ads, BitPagos, Boatbound
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Prashant Kirtane
Prashant is founder and CTO travelmob and VP (Asia) of HomeAway.com
Sector:
Marketplaces, eCommerce
Portfolio: Beepi, Crew, Equidate, Hiree, MyVR
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Craig G. Stark, MD
Craig is Regional Medical Director at International SOS.
Sector:
Mobile, Health Care, Robotics, Communications, Consumer Electronics, Big Data
Portfolio: Airdog, Double Robotics, iodine, Life360, SOLS System
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James Hare
James is founder of Memsaver.
Sector:
Life Sciences, Consumer Internet, Mobile, Social Media, Communities
Portfolio: AngelList, BlockStream, Chariot, Dagne Dover, Filament
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Varun Chatterji
Varun is Founder of Sent.ly. He previously co-founded tenCube, which got acquired by McAfee in 2010.
Sector:
Mobile, Consumer Internet, Developer APIs
Portfolio: Golden Gate Ventures, JFDI Asia, Lob
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Prithvi Rai
Prithvi is Director of Product and Global Information Security at Facebook.
Sector:
Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile, Health Care, Mobile Advertising, Social Commerce
Portfolio: CookShup, GoCoin, junotele, Life360, Minetta Brook
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Meng Weng Wong
Meng is founder of JFDI.Asia.
Sector:
Platforms, Deep Information Technology
Portfolio: AngelList, Carousell, Coda Boomerang, Crayon Data, Garuda Robotics, RedMart, Scrollback
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Keemin Ngiam
Keemin is a partner at Latham & Watkins.
Sector:
Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile, Health Care, Wearables, Personal Health, Online Travel
Portfolio: Dil Mil, Life360, Red Clay
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Roger Egan III
Roger is Co-founder and CEO of RedMart.
Sector:
E-Commerce, Analytics
Portfolio: Edit Suits Co.
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Piyush Chaplot
Piyush is a General Partner at Innosight Ventures.
Sector:
SaaS, Financial Services, Small and Medium Businesses, Mobile Payments
Portfolio: Anchanto, Barricade, Chope, LuxeNomad, MyVR
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Matthew Khian Hao Lim
Matthew is currently working as a hedge fund manager.
Sector:
Enterprise Software, Mobile, Finance, Finance Technology, Investment Management
Portfolio: Beepi, Call Levels Pte., Contactually, Garuda Robotics, Soothe
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Patrick Kershaw
Patrick is Investment Director at Leo Tech.
Sector:
Enterprise Software, Mobile Health Care, Mobile Advertising, Big Data, Business Analytics, Bitcoin, Education, Payments, Banking, SaaS, E-Commerce, Blockchains
Portfolio: Abra, Chaldal.com, Garuda Robotics, Global From Day 1, Jungle Ventures
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Serguei Netessine
Serguei Netessine is The Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD and the Research Director of the INSEAD-Wharton alliance.
Sector:
Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile, Retail, E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management
Portfolio: Edit Suits Co, MobileAds, Objective Logistics, SwarmX, look booker
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Rico Wyder
Rico is a Partner at RW Ventures and Regional Vice President of Product at Tickled Media.
Sector:
Mobile, Consumer Internet, Consumer Goods, Consumer Electronics, Business Services, Online Travel, Mobile, Commerce, Mobile Payments, Mobile Games, Education
Portfolio: Crittercism, EatAds, Leap Motion, Look4Help, Virtually Handmade
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Jim Green
Jim is Founder & CEO of Scaled Networks. Also the founder of investment company called Medra Capital.
Sector:
Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile
Portfolio: Boatbound, evvnt, Knowledge Transmission, Mover, PocketFM
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Henric Suuronen
Henric is Senior Creative Director of an interactive company called King. He was President and Co-founder of Nonstop Games.
Sector:
Mobile, Social Games, Mobile Games, Events, Games, Online Gaming, Digital Media, Social Media,Gamification
Portfolio: Grand Cru, Huuuge Games, Ministry of Games, Omniata, PlayRaven Oy
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Sau Sheong Chang
Sau is Director of Global Consumer Engineering at PayPal.
Sector:
Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile, Health Care
Portfolio: Anchanto, Golden Gate Ventures
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Will Klippgen
Will is Managing Partner at Tigris Capital.
Sector:
Mobile Consumer Internet Enterprise Software SaaS
Portfolio: Mozat Pte, Anacle Systems Pte, All Property Media Pte, Attentio Sa, Bestof.sg
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Alex Ognev
Alex is an Associate at KCG Holdings.
Sector:
Clean Technology, Enterprise Software, Health Care, Hospitality, Robotics, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Hardware, SaaS
Portfolio: Boatbound, Dabble, Paradigm4, Particle, taembe.com
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Roderick Chia
Roderick is founder of rodVENTURE, Technopreneur-in- Residence for School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Mobile, Social Games, Mobile Games, Online Gaming, Social Media Platforms
Portfolio: 3rd Planet Pte, Playsino, Sandbox Global, Xfire
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Willson Cuaca
Willson is CEO at Apps Foundry and Co-founder & Managing Partner at East Ventures.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile Advertising Platforms, Digital Media Publishing, Mobile Commerce, Marketplaces
Portfolio: Megafash, RedMart, Shoppr, Tech In Asia, Tokopedia, Waygo
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Ruoyu Bao
Ruoyu is Director of Global Analytics Hub at Lenovo.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Mobile, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Predictive Analytics
Portfolio: Chai, Rinse, VetPronto
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Robert Salesas
Robert is COO & Founder of Scaled Networks. He is also Partner at Medra Capital.
Sector:
Clean Technology, Mobile, Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energies, Energy Management, Energy Storage, UHB LEDs, Concentrated Solar Power, Solar 3D, Printing, Real Estate, Search, Marketplaces, Rental, Housing, Hardware, Security, Aerospace, Drones, Education, Robotics, Test and Measurement, Collaborative Consumption
Portfolio: Boatbound, Mover, Sugru, evvnt, incrediblue
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Nic Lim
Nic is Executive Chairman at 8common Limited and Partner at 8capita.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile Venture, Education, Families, Personal Finance, Parenting, Online Travel,Internet Social Games
Portfolio: AdventureLink Travel, BitPagos, CatchTheScoop, Colabspot, e27
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B. Paul Santos
B. Paul is Managing Partner at Wavemaker Partners.
Sector:
SaaS, Mobile, E-Commerce, Beauty, Cosmetics, Advertising Exchanges, Social Commerce, Social Media Platforms, Advertising Platforms, B2B, Marketplaces, E-Commerce Platforms, Enterprise Software, Small and Medium Businesses
Portfolio: Ardent Capital, Luxola, smove, TradeGecko, Tradesparq
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Neil Bearden
Neil is Associate Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile
Portfolio: Edit Suits Co., RedMart, WildFire.asia
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GOH Hian
GOH is a Founding Partner of NSI Ventures. He is also Board Member and Lead Investor of Zimplistic Inventions.
Sector:
Mobile, Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Telecommunications, Hospitality, Restaurants, Online Reservations, E-Commerce, Analytics
Portfolio: Chope, Redmart
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Sameer Narula
Sameer is Managing Director of August Capital Partners.
Sector:
Logistics, Health and Wellness, Education, Telecommunications, Medical Devices, Robotics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Agriculture, Security, Internet of Things
Portfolio: Bandar Foods, Etable Services, FreshMonk, MyDoc, Latize Pte
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Firas Alsuwaigh
Firas is Founder and CEO of Marcella Custom and Partner at BWB Ventures.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile, E-Commerce, Social Media, Health Care, Clean Technology
Portfolio: Automate Ads, Cinder, GiveMeTap, Lully, Mashgin
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Charif Elansari
Charif is CEO of Dropmysite.
Sector:
All
Portfolio: Hatcher, wootag
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Andy Hwang
Director of Small Business (SMB) at Facebook.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Mobile, Wearables, Enterprise Software
Portfolio: Xetum
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Amit Anand
Amit is Founding Partner of Jungle Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests startups across Asia Pacific.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Mobile, Digital Media, SaaS, Social Media,Video, Content Discovery, Mobile, Analytics, Social Commerce, Social Media Platforms, Enterprise Software ,Recruiting, Human Resources, E-Commerce, Automotive, Marketplaces
Portfolio: DocDoc, eBus, EkStop, Fastacash, iMoney
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Kelvin Au
Kevin is Managing Director of Metail Asia.
Sector:
Enterprise Software, Consumer Internet, Mobile, SaaS, Social Media, Social Commerce, Social Games, Business Analytics, Big Data Analytics, Mobile, Analytics
Portfolio: AwoX, Cast Software, Cerillion, Eco Market, Kiala
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Mohan Belani
Mohan is co-founder and CEO of e27, a media company focused on Asian startup ecosystem.
Sector:
Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile, E-Commerce, SaaS
Portfolio: 8capita, Golden Gate Ventures, Tees.co.id, Vault Dragon
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Note: Data has been sourced from AngelList and Linkedin. Please note that the list is not in any specific order.
Amazing list of contacts
I have been looking for something like this and can’t thank you enough for the opportunity that may come from this.
Regards Adam