Charles Kok 郭宏船

Fund Manager | Blockchain | Fintech

📍 Singapore🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
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Board Observer & Lead Investor
Jan 2024
Startale Group is a leading global web3 solutions provider on a mission to build the next civilization by bringing the world onchain. The company operates Astar Network, Japan’s largest public blockchain, and co-develops Soneium through Sony Block Solutions Labs, a joint venture with Sony Group Corporation. Beyond chain development, Startale also builds consumer and developer products such as the Startale App, which serves as an all-in-one gateway to the Soneium ecosystem and beyond, uniting blockchain-native applications in a single intuitive experience.
Board Observer & Lead Investor
May 2023
Transak is the payments infrastructure for stablecoins and crypto. With its Virtual Account APIs and compliance-ready rails, Transak enables apps to onboard users, facilitate cross-border payments, and support multi-party payment flows, natively within their platforms. Integrated by 450+ apps and used by over 10 million users globally, Transak powers fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat transactions through bank transfers, cards, local payment methods, and stablecoins. Transak operates globally, with a base in Miami and offices in London, Bengaluru, Dubai, and Hong Kong.
Board Member & Lead Investor
Jan 2020
Lightnet is a Singapore headquartered fintech company dedicated to improving the lives of the unbanked and underbanked by building an inclusive international remittance ecosystem that increases the efficiency of existing money transfer operators, financial institutions and other cross-border payment providers. Lightnet’s initial focus will be on Southeast Asia remittances, which it estimates to be in excess of USD 150 billion a year. Following a USD 31.2 million Series A financing round in late January 2020, the company is now backed by eight Asian conglomerates, giving Lightnet access to a giant network of banks and retail outlets. Investors include UOB Venture Management, Seven Bank, Uni-President Asset Holdings, HashKey Capital, Hopeshine Ventures, Signum Capital and Du Capital. Lightnet is co-founded by industry figurehead Chatchaval Jiaravanon, whose family controls Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group.
Board Member & Lead Investor
Jul 2019
Guangxi Chesir Pearl Material Co.,Ltd. (Stock Code: 06616.HK), founded in 2011, is one of the leading international manufacturers of pearlescent pigments and synthetic mica, for the industries of paints and coatings, plastics, printing ink, cosmetics, etc. Chesir adheres to the mission of “Delivering Good Quality to Customers, Bringing Beautiful Colors to the World”, and holds the core values of “Honesty, Innovation, Excellence and Harmony”. Driven by its technical innovation and strict quality standards, Chesir people dedicate to explore a new ground for pearlescent material to produce high-quality products and bring satisfying experience to customers.
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2024
Board Observer & Lead Investor
Jan 2024
Startale Group is a leading global web3 solutions provider on a mission to build the next civilization by bringing the world onchain. The company operates Astar Network, Japan’s largest public blockchain, and co-develops Soneium through Sony Block Solutions Labs, a joint venture with Sony Group Corporation. Beyond chain development, Startale also builds consumer and developer products such as the Startale App, which serves as an all-in-one gateway to the Soneium ecosystem and beyond, uniting blockchain-native applications in a single intuitive experience.
2023
Board Observer & Lead Investor
May 2023
Transak is the payments infrastructure for stablecoins and crypto. With its Virtual Account APIs and compliance-ready rails, Transak enables apps to onboard users, facilitate cross-border payments, and support multi-party payment flows, natively within their platforms. Integrated by 450+ apps and used by over 10 million users globally, Transak powers fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat transactions through bank transfers, cards, local payment methods, and stablecoins. Transak operates globally, with a base in Miami and offices in London, Bengaluru, Dubai, and Hong Kong.
2020
Board Member & Lead Investor
Jan 2020
Lightnet is a Singapore headquartered fintech company dedicated to improving the lives of the unbanked and underbanked by building an inclusive international remittance ecosystem that increases the efficiency of existing money transfer operators, financial institutions and other cross-border payment providers. Lightnet’s initial focus will be on Southeast Asia remittances, which it estimates to be in excess of USD 150 billion a year. Following a USD 31.2 million Series A financing round in late January 2020, the company is now backed by eight Asian conglomerates, giving Lightnet access to a giant network of banks and retail outlets. Investors include UOB Venture Management, Seven Bank, Uni-President Asset Holdings, HashKey Capital, Hopeshine Ventures, Signum Capital and Du Capital. Lightnet is co-founded by industry figurehead Chatchaval Jiaravanon, whose family controls Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group.
2019
Board Member & Lead Investor
Jul 2019
Guangxi Chesir Pearl Material Co.,Ltd. (Stock Code: 06616.HK), founded in 2011, is one of the leading international manufacturers of pearlescent pigments and synthetic mica, for the industries of paints and coatings, plastics, printing ink, cosmetics, etc. Chesir adheres to the mission of “Delivering Good Quality to Customers, Bringing Beautiful Colors to the World”, and holds the core values of “Honesty, Innovation, Excellence and Harmony”. Driven by its technical innovation and strict quality standards, Chesir people dedicate to explore a new ground for pearlescent material to produce high-quality products and bring satisfying experience to customers.
2018
Board Observer
Jun 2018
Nanofilm is a leading sustainable deep tech nanotechnology materials manufacturer and the leading provider of nanotechnology solutions in Asia. Leveraging our patented disruptive green technologies anchored by self-developed and built production equipment, we address pressing global challenges such as climate change, pushing the limits of material science and beyond.
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