Investors

Ambient Sound Investments (ASI, www.asi.ee) was established in 2003 as an equal partnership by four founding engineers at Skype Technologies to hold a minority stake in Skype. At the end of 2005 ASI sold its stake to eBay and now operates as a private investment vehicle. Today ASI is a team of about 10 people managing 100 million Euros of the partners’ assets and growing an independent investment vehicle spanning multiple generations.

Joichi Ito more commonly known as Joi Ito, is a Japanese activist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist.
Ito has received recognition for his role as an entrepreneur focused on Internet and technology companies and has founded, among other companies, PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. He maintains a blog, a wiki and an IRC channel and contributes to the Tokyo Metroblogging. Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons.

Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (“IDA”). Infocomm Investments complements IDA’s industry development efforts by providing financial and developmental support to both local and foreign venture-backed information communications technology start-ups in Singapore. Operating an evergreen fund in excess of US$200 million for equity investment into growth-stage infocomm enterprises, Infocomm Investments is poised to attract and nurture a vibrant pool of technopreneurs and start-ups to enhance the technology depth and increase the diversity of Singapore’s infocomm ecosystem.

Horizons Ventures is a Hong Kong based investment fund focusing on early stage technology companies.

Fit-One Capital is a subsidiary of Fit-One Holdings, a Japanese startup business incubator founded by Yukihiro Kayama.