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Top 50 Angel Investors in China

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in China. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from China. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Angel Investors in China

Investor China investments
Gang Wang 13
Charles Xue 8
Bob Xiaoping Xu 8
Jinbo Yao 6
Xiaoguang Wu 5
Frank Li 5
Bingqiang Gao 5
Minhong Yu 5
Xiaolai Li 4
Jun Lei 4
Wanqiang Li 4
Jiawei Gan 3
Hayden Zou 3
Tao Zhang 3
Patrick Cheung 3
Xiangyang Yang 3
Ming Lei 3
Eddie Wu 3
James Robertson 3
Wei Guo 3
Jason Zeng 3
Thibault Villet 2
Li Zexiang 2
Anatoly Yakovenko 2
Qi Lu 2
Bo Feng 2
Mingming Zhu 2
Lucas Driggers 2
Hsien Yang Lee 2
Jaggie (Chen) Zhu 2
Adrian Cheng 2
Xiaopeng He 2
Jack Xu 2
Boon Hwee Koh 2
George Godula 2
Jeff Olyniec 2
Cui Xinxin 2
O.D. Kobo 2
Yang Shoubin 2
Yinan Li 2
Yao Song 2
Boquan He 2
Xin Xu 2
Simon Szewach 2
Wang Rui 2
Anyi Shengyin 2
Richard Liu 2
Victor Wang 2
Hu Zemin 2
Xiaochuan Wang 2
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Gang Wang Angel · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Gang Wang
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation
  • Series A, Angel, Seed
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Wozaijia.com — Wozaijia is a social e-commerce platform for home furniture."I am at home" is a trustworthy home to share direct purchase platform. Here, people can discover, experience, buy, share their favorite home products, we change the home to share economic practice of buying methods. "I am at home" believes that the world will bee better if we can always get a better life with less cost.
  • Qianyu Islands — Qianyu Islands is the flagship brand of Beijing Beike Youjia Technology Co., Ltd., which is positioned in the “Urban Shared Accommodation Space”. It is committed to providing users with different traditional hotels and B&Bs, younger, more free, more possibilities and higher value for money accommodation options.Since its inception in 2017,Qianyu Islands is based on a sense of quality, experience and freshness for a new generation of consumer groups. It is transforming the traditional accommodation industry with a more Internet-based way to fill the market for urban mid-end accommodation.
  • Huidu Environmental — Huidu Environmental is a recyclable packing material developer.
Charles Xue Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Charles Xue, also known as Xue Manzi, is a Chinese-American angel investor and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of UT Starcom and has invested in Chinese internet startups.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Information Technology, Retail
  • Series A, Angel, Seed
  • China
Portfolio highlights
Bob Xiaoping Xu Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Bob Xiaoping Xu is the founder of ZhenFund and one of China's most celebrated angel investors. Established in 2011 as a joint fund with Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund is China’s foremost angel fund. Managing USD 600 million, ZhenFund has 500 portfolio companies and offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Palo Alto. It has played a leading role inChina’s rise as a “startup nation”, and is widely considered a beacon of light in China’s vibrant startup environment. Prior to founding ZhenFund, Mr. Xu co-founded China's largest private English training and test preparation group, New Oriental Education, along with Michael Yu and Victor Wang. New Oriental became listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006 and currently has a market cap of USD 11 billion. The founders’ endeavors, which helped drive Chinese education toward a new global era, was featured in the box office hit “American Dreams in China”. The movie ranked as the #3 Chinese domestic box office hit in 2013. Mr. Xu’s success as an educator and an entrepreneur led him to angel investing, where he has pioneered a unique investment philosophy of investing in exceptional people. He became one of the most prolific patrons of entrepreneurship, as well as a leading mentor to young business leaders. Forbes Magazine has honored him on the Midas List as one of the World’s Top 100 Venture Capital Investors for two consecutive years (2016 and 2017). Mr. Xu currently serves as the Chairman of China Angel Investment Association. Mr. Xu has more than 11 million followers on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. He is also a prolific author who has published seven books on career growth and education. His writings, speeches and interviews on entrepreneurship, investment and education have had an immense impact on China’s emerging business leaders, and particularly on those who have studied abroad. He is the president of Committee 2005, an institution that gathers the most influential Chinese overseas returnees, including the likes of Robin Li, Neil Shen and Lee Kai-fu. Mr. Xu is deeply committed to philanthropy. He is a founding donor and the Committee Acting President of the Future Science Award, an annual award of USD 1 million for scientists who have made significant contributions to life sciences and physical sciences in Greater China. Mr. Xu graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, the Chinese equivalent of Julliard School of Music, with a bachelor’s degree in music. He received his master’s degree in music from the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to that he was a counsellor at Peking University for five years.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Series A, Angel, Seed
  • China, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • YOTA — YOTA provides a healthy and diet food delivery service.
  • Lagou — Lagou.com offers staffing services. The company’s clientele includes Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Group, SINA, JD.com, Beijing Xiaomi Tech, and Zhaopin.com.
  • Omni Prime — Omni Prime provides Lending as a Service solution to retailers.
Jinbo Yao Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Jinbo Yao is the President, Founder and CEO at 58.com.
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Logistics, Automotive
  • Angel, Series A, Seed
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Chaboshi — Chaboshi offers vehicle conditions, vehicle inspection, car warranty and used car valuation services.
  • Xiongmao Kuaishou — Xiongmao Kuaishou is a provider of delivery, logistics and supply chain management services.
  • Cbeidou Supply Chain — Canbeidou is a food catering logistics service provider in China.
Xiaoguang Wu Angel · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Xiaoguang Wu was named Senior Management Adviser in June 2015. He joined Tencent in 1999 and was a member of the founding team. Xiaoguang Wu led the development and product planning for the Group’s core product, QQ, and served as project manager for the QQ research and development team. He also served as General Manager of the IM product divisionand General Manager of the internet business division. He was later promoted to Senior Executive Vice President of the internet services division and Chief Executive Officer of Tencent E-Commerce Holdings Limited. Xiaoguang Wu has extensive experience in product research and development, product planning, product operations and marketing internet businesses. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Weather Dynamics from Nanjing University in 1996 and an EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in 2008.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Service Industry, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series B
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • DayDayUp — DayDayUp is a business community that connects Chinese and global innovators.
  • Feipotong — Feipotong is a nationwide service company that focuses on airport parking.
  • Waterdrop — Waterdrop is an insurance platform that plans to solve the problem of high medical fees faced by most patients, especially those with a critical illness. Shuidihuzhu offers three products: mutual insurance, crowdfunding and commercial insurance. All their services are conducted through the platform’s official WeChat account, where users could postcrowdfunding campaigns, buy insurances, or claim indemnities according to their policies.
Frank Li Angel
Frank Li is a former at Ameba Capital. CEO of WaCai. Prior to founding Ameba Capital, Mr. Li worked for Alibaba Group, where he focused on website planning and construction. He developed Alibaba’s biggest paying client base and second biggest income product, 1688 CXT. Mr. Li founded Koubei.com in 2004 and acted as CEO. Alibaba Group acquiredKoubei.com for over 50 million US dollars in 2008. Koubei.com merged with Yahoo China before finally merging with Taobao.
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Investment focus
  • B2B, Retail, Internet
  • Series A, Angel, Seed
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • ROM — ROM provides fire safety, health security, management security, and personal safety services.
  • Dianjia — Dianjia is an IT company specialized in developing retail service platform to provide O2O solutions.
  • Pumpkin Coach — Pumpkin Coach is an O2O platform that helps users to make online appointments with hairstylists at Pumpkin Coach locations in Shanghai and Hangzhou. The company directly connects hairdressers to customers, facilitating communications, payment, and CRM while maximizing revenues for each hairdresser. Each Pumpkin Coach location features all necessarymachinery, equipment, and supplies.
Bingqiang Gao Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Bingqiang Gao is the Independent Non-Executive Director of Q Tech.
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Investment focus
  • Hardware, Robotics, Electronics
  • Seed, Angel
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Z·Pilot — ZPilot is a stylish electronic new retail brand that combines contemporary toys and digital art to present viewers with a deeper visual.
  • Insep Technology — Insep Technology is an insect protein technology and product developer.
  • Changyao Innovation — Changyao Innovation is a cutting-edge technological company. It provides intelligent robots to families. The current first-generation devices emphasize automating the entire grass management process. The main focus is on robotic lawnmowers with a vision-based full process.
Minhong Yu Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was anEnglish instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Social Media, Mobile
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Bottomsup — Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content.
  • Kuaipeilian — Kuaipeilian is an online piano training platform
  • Pingo Space — Pingo Space is a mobile platform that connects locals to expats through in-person experiences.
Xiaolai Li Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
BitFund was founded in the middle of 2013 by Xiaolai Li, started from as little as $3.5 Million, and within one year, BitFund became the most influential Venture Capital related to crypto-currency in China. Xiaolai Li, a middle-aged retired formal teacher, a life-long learner, an individual who has always been curious about innovations andenthusiastic on efficiency, Li is the first individual in China who has been publicly collecting bitcoins without trying to remain anonymous (everyone puts great emphasis on anonymity of bitcoin when they first know about bitcoin), therefore he is well-known in China, and became even more influential after the BitFund founded.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Social Media, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • China, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • WYAN — WYAN develops a stranger red social app that provides social services for users.
  • Zhongmei Group — A Media & Entertainment Company based in Hangzhou,China.
  • MASS MEDIA HOLDING GROUP — MASS MEDIA HOLDING GROUP integrates media operations, reputation management, media advertising, and integrated marketing.
Jun Lei Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Jun Lei is the Co-Founder, Founding Partner, and Chairman at Shunwei.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Mobile, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MarketX Ventures — MarketX is a one-stop shop for over 300 family offices, funds, and high net worth individuals to access high growth investment opportunities. Investment Management Platform Access to investment opportunities in high-growth companies all over the world from your smartphone.
  • WITHWHEAT — WITHWHEAT is a bread baking brand in China that provides healthy and tasty bread.
  • Dongpin Zaixian — Dongpin Zaixian is a B2B e-commerce platform focusing on the frozen food supply chain. By adopting mobile internet technology and innovative business model, the company relies on the feedback of user terminal's demand, establishes a data model, and re-creates the effective flow of information flow, capital flow and logistics generated in thetraditional circulation process of frozen products, improves circulation efficiency, and creates “ The Internet innovation platform of light platform, short process and fast mode, the company innovatively established the Frozen Fruit Research Institute, integrates the supply chain resources of brand manufacturers according to big data and research results, and provides platform Saas services for traditional wholesalers in more cities. Supply chain services, financial services.
Wanqiang Li Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Wanqiang Li is responsible for the marketing of Xiaomi. He was the General Manager of Kingsoft Dictionary and notable for being one of the earliest UI practitioners in China. Graduated from Xi'an Science & Engineering Institute with a degree in Industrial Design in 2000, he joined Kingsoft’s UI Department and played a key role indeveloping many famous software projects including Kingsoft Antivirus, Kingsoft Dictionary and WPS Office. Wanqiang Li served at Kingsoft in various positions as Chief Designer of UI department, Director of Design Center and Director of Internet Content. Wanqiang Li is also a Co-founder of Xiaomi.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Art, Apps
  • Angel, Series A, Funding Round
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Dayou — Dayou is a metaverse digital space service provider.
  • reddoon.ai — reddoon.ai creates professional-quality product images.
  • Optimist — Optimist is a private consumer brand that creates gear for artificial intelligence. It manufactures AI hardware products.
Jiawei Gan Angel
Jiawei Gan
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Investment focus
  • Consumer Electronics, Energy, Rental
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Dingding Xianshi — Dingding Xianshi is a fresh food supply and distribution service platform.
  • Preceive Technology — Preceive Technology provides comprehensive data intelligence solutions for businesses, assisting them in seizing chances in the increasingly cutthroat market rivalry.
  • Shanghai LinkedCare Information Technology — Shanghai LinkedCare Information Technology is a Healthcare company.
Hayden Zou Angel
Hayden Zou
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Investment focus
  • Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.
Tao Zhang Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Tao Zhang (张滔) is the Founder and CEO of Dianping.com, MBA from the Wharton School. Tao was consultant in an American IT company. After coming back to China in 2003, he founded Dianping.com, the world’s pioneer in offering consumer reviews for restaurant. After 5 years of development, dianping has over 460,000 registered companies in over 340cities across China. More than 10 million regular visitors and 160 million page views per month make it the most popular city life website in China. Dianping has established branches in 5 cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou and is still expanding. Currently its service involves various consumption areas in city life, such as restaurant, shopping, reaction and living service, etc. With a favorable business model, Dianping has more than once been considered one of the companies with the most investment value in China by Zero2IPO and China Venture. It also raised funding from global leading venture capital firms, for example, Sequoia Capital. Dianping recorded profit in November 2008 and become the first profitable Web 2.0 Company and a search website centered on city life.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Education, Payments
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • China, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Z-Trip — Z-Trip is a company that provides travel management services for large and medium-sized enterprises. On the basis of integration of upstream supply chain resources, Z-Trip provides a one-stop SaaS service platform covering scenarios such as travel reservations, conference organization, fee settlement, payment and reimbursement to enterprises,including front-end PC terminals, mobile terminals and back-end service systems.
  • PalFish — PalFish provides an education platform for teachers to teach English in an open market. You can simply imagine PalFish as eBay, but the merchandise being sold are English Classes. They provide people who are fluent in English the opportunity to teach people who want to learn English in their free time, and thus, create a virtuous Englisheducation cycle.
  • Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania — Welcome to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Patrick Cheung Angel
Patrick is currently the Founding and Managing Partner of ZWC Partners, which has a strategy to invest in innovative companies with high growth potential in TMT (technology, media & internet) and consumer sectors. His successful continuous entrepreneurial experience has enabled him to establish extensive network resources and diversity industryexperience in many industries.The investment track records of Patrick include Focus Media Group, Tantan, VIPKid, 58 Finance, 4Paradigm, Mobike, Souche, Yunhu Technology, RootCloud, Zebra Prime,Wattpad, Leyan Technologies, etc. Patrick is the alumni of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) Global CEO Program (class 2010) and the alumni of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) China CEO Program (class 2009). Also conducts academic researches as a visiting scholar at Stanford University (2017 – Current).
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • China, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • RootCloud — ROOTCLOUD is an IIoT platform provider, which has created IIoT platforms that have satisfied the needs of customers worldwide.
  • 58 Finance — 58 Finance is a Fintech company.
  • Shuhe Technology — Shuhe Technology is a professional technology and data service provider, providing users with safe and stable technology and data solutions.It has continuous technological innovation and professional rigorous data mining and analysis capabilities to meet the needs of companies and individual participants in business, finance, and more. Itprovides smart services that are easier, more accessible, and more efficient.Shuhe Technology was established in August 2015.
Xiangyang Yang Angel
Xiangyang Yang
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Investment focus
  • Aerospace, Industrial, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Angel
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Eyemore — Eyemore provides AI vision imaging solutions.
  • Sington — Sington is a manufacturer of high-performance composite materials. Sington focuses on high-performance alloy material design, vehicle lightweight design, aluminum alloy integrated hot stamping technology, etc.
  • EllipSpace — Elliptical Space-Time has the leading core technology and invention patents for integrated satellite communication, navigation and remote control, and will provide real-time wide-area comprehensive perception services to the global market.
Ming Lei Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Ming Lei (雷鸣) is the chief executive officer of Kuwo Science and Technology, a Chinese company providing digital entertainment services. Prior to that, he was a senior engineer at Baidu, a Chinese web services company. Lei holds an MBA from Stanford University, United States and a master’s degree in computer from Peking University, China.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Angel
  • China, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Collov — Collov is a virtual interior design & shopping platform that offers interior design services stocked with shoppable goods from many brands.
  • Bailian.AI — Bailian.ai is an artificial intelligence company that specializes in providing intelligent customer service. It aims to apply AI technology to deepen unstructured business information on the Internet into structured sales leads to help improve customers. Efficiency, reducing the cost of getting customers.Bailian Smart is committed to thedevelopment of automated knowledge generation technology based on deep learning, collecting, cleaning, extracting, screening and rewriting business information, refining it into precise and trustworthy knowledge and enhancing business awareness.
  • FundedHere — FundedHere Crowdfunding Platform
Eddie Wu Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Eddie Wu is the Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group. He previously worked at Yahoo as a Heading of Technology Development. Eddie Wu attended Zhejiang University of Technology.
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Investment focus
  • Events, Rental, Social
  • Angel, Series A, Series B
  • China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Teenker — Teenker is a platform that connects gifted talents with customers who want unique and high-quality service.
  • Tao Huichang — Tao Huichang is a venue short-term rental service platform for organizing events.
  • Thin Red Line — Thin Red Line dedicates the software and hardware opportunities of the AR track.
James Robertson Angel · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
James Robertson
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Investment focus
  • Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.
Wei Guo Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
  • Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
  • Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Jason Zeng Angel · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Jason Zeng, one of the Core Founders and Advisor Emeritus of Tencent Group. Jason founded the Group in 1999. As the Chief Operating Officer during 1999 and 2007, Jason was responsible for overseeing the Company's business lines and product portfolios and the managing the Company’s sales and marketing activities across China. Prior toTencent, Jason worked in the Shenzhen Data Telecommunications Bureau and was familiar with the Internet and telecommunications industries in China. Since June 2007, Jason has been the Advisor Emeritus of the Company.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel, Series B
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Quivr — A new way to date. Let matchmakers do the work for you or play Cupid yourself.
  • Quivr — Quivr empowers you to take control of your digital identity, making it easier to connect with a community that truly shares your passions and values.
  • Little Spoonful — Little Spoonful 小勺满满 provides fresh, safe, and nutritious foods for children in China.
Thibault Villet Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Thibault Villet
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Investment focus
  • Organic, Organic Food, Sustainability
  • Series A
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Zrou — Zrou provides consumers with delicious, healthy, and sustainable meat substitutes, and brings consumers new cooking options.
  • Youkuai — Youkuai is a plant-based protein producer focused on creating innovative plant-based superfoods. Youkuai’s main product is Z-Rou, a plant-based pork alternative that is tasty, and healthier and more sustainable than traditional pork. Z-Rou currently comes in minced and ground formats and is being sold across China.The company is headquartered inShanghai, China and aims to become a global food brand that champions plant-based diets and a brighter future of food.
Li Zexiang Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Li was born in Hunan, China and received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Economics (with honors) from Carnegie-Mellon University, his MA degree in Mathematics and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Li worked as a research scientist in the Artificial IntelligenceLaboratory of MIT and as an assistant professor in the Robotics and Manufacturing Laboratory of New York University. He received the National Natural Science Award (3rd class) from China, the University Scholar Award from Carnegie-Mellon University, the E.I. Jury Award from UC Berkeley, the Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation, the ALCOA Fellowship from the ALCOA Foundation and the E. Anthony Fellowship from UC Berkeley.
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Investment focus
  • Big Data, Robotics, 3D Printing
  • Series A, Seed, Series C
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • BOTINKIT — Taking the most advanced robotics technology and data-based algorithms, we are enabling possible an easier, smarter and healthier cooking.
  • INTAMSYS — INTAMSYS offers a range of Fused Filament Fabrication technology 3D printers. Discover tomorrow' all-in-one 3D printing solutions.
  • Homerun Smart — Shenzhen Qianhai Homa Technology Co., Ltd. is an independent research and development enterprise dedicated to artificial intelligence technology products. Headquartered in Guangzhou, the company has gathered high-tech talents from German technology R&D team and domestic well-known technology R&D team to provide independent research anddevelopment for the company. A solid technical guarantee. The development and production of smart pet feeders, smart pet companion robots and a variety of pet smart hardware are on the strategic agenda, and soon our smart hardware products will truly enter the family life and redefine the smart family lifestyle.
Anatoly Yakovenko Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Ellipsis Labs — Ellipsis Labs is building Phoenix, a decentralized limit order book on Solana that is fully on-chain, non-custodial, and crankless.
  • Parallel — Parallel is a Sci-Fi Card Game based on the Ethereum blockchain. Parallel is an application that provides users with the opportunity to purchase, collect, and showcase digital blockchain collectibles.
  • Zeus Network — Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.
Qi Lu Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
Dr. Qi Lu works for Microsoft as president of the Online Services Group. Dr. Lu leads Microsoft’s efforts in search and online advertising and all the company’s online information and communications services. Dr. Lu reports directly to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.Dr. Qi Lu has also served as executive vice president ofengineering for Search and Advertising Technology Group at Yahoo where he leads development efforts around Yahoo's Web search and monetization platforms. Prior to joining Yahoo in 1998, Dr. Lu was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. Before that, Dr. Lu worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a Research Associate, and at Fudan University in China as a faculty member. He holds 20 U.S. patents, and received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Fudan University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Technology
  • Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • China, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • AiMall — AiMall develops artificial intelligence technology designed to transform the traditional mall experience.
  • Cloudera — Cloudera delivers a hybrid cloud platform for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI.
  • Jacobi Robot — Jacobi Robot creates generic artificial intelligence and cross-embodiment control methods for robots. It applies AI/AGI to the physical environment, allowing intelligent robots to assist a variety of sectors and households.
Bo Feng Angel · Chaoyang, Liaoning, China
Bo Feng is the Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital Partners.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, China, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Yiigoo — Yiigoo is a baby clothing brand that creates natural materials products that are comfortable for children.
  • DeHorizon — With the rapid growth of crypto space, recent developments have greatly facilitated GameFi in going mainstream. "Play to earn" is no longer a mere slogan, but has fully come into reality. Regardless of exponential growth, a common defect in GameFi marketplace is lack of a Metaverse Game Ecosystem to develop, connect and support more andmore blockchain-based games even built on different chains. We are still in the early stages of the evolution of GameFi. For the next stage, a Metaverse Game Ecosystem is essential to make GameFi go further. That is why DeHorizon comes.
  • Forge — Accelerate your future with Forge's private market solutions. Get access to pre-IPO investment opportunities and liquidity for your private company shares.
Mingming Zhu Angel · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Mingming Zhu is the founder and CEO of Rokid. He previously worked at University of Louisville as an Instructor. Mingming Zhu attended Washington University in St. Louis.
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Investment focus
  • Fashion, Robotics, Lifestyle
  • Angel, Seed
  • China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • NOTHING — NOTHING is a mobile application platform for fashion bloggers.
  • Art Robot — Art Robot specializes in the development and promotion of bipedal humanoid robots.
  • Safeheron — Safeheron is a platform that enables open and transparent self-custody of digital assets.
Lucas Driggers Angel
Lucas Driggers
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Investment focus
  • Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.
Hsien Yang Lee Angel
Hsien Yang Lee provides strategic counsel to GA and its portfolio companies in SE Asia.Mr. Lee served as Chairman and non-executive Director of Fraser and Neave, Limited, an Asia Pacific consumer group with core expertise and leading marketing positions in the food & beverage, properties, and publishing & printing industries fromOctober 2007 until February 2013. Prior to joining Fraser and Neave, Limited, Mr. Lee was the Group Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) from May 1995 until March 2007. Mr. Lee is currently Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, and Chairman of the Islamic Bank of Asia Private Limited (a DBS Bank subsidiary). Mr. Lee is also a director of the Singapore Exchange Limited, the Australian & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (ANZ) and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He serves on the International Advisory Boards of The Capital Group and Rolls Royce PLC, and is also President of the INSEAD South East Asia Council.Mr. Lee graduated with a double first in Engineering Science from Cambridge University, UK and has a Master of Science (Management) from Stanford University, USA.
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Investment focus
  • Consumer Goods, Food Processing, Service Industry
  • Seed
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • NOD inc — NOD is a healthy beverage solutions company based in Shanghai. It is a brand born in China with global ambitions, driven by a team with a proven blend of in-depth China and international expertise in the beverage sector.
Jaggie (Chen) Zhu Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
Chen Zhu, Jaggie is the founder and CEO of KiwiDrop. Stanford Alum. Prev. Bytedance, Poshmark and P&G
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Synyi — The Senyi team is composed of elites from well-known universities and well-known companies at home and abroad. It integrates experts in areas such as artificial intelligence, medicine, medical informatics, and medical informationization. The core team's technical achievements have been applied to a number of national and municipal projects. Hehas published more than 20 papers in international top journals and has spoken at top international medical conferences.
  • Run The World — Run The World helps you host virtual conferences, talks and happy hours. Create engaging online events to teach, network and build community. Get started for free!
  • Hui'an Jinke (Ahi Fintech) — Hui'an Jinke designs and develops software for enterprises using artificial intelligence technology.
Adrian Cheng Angel
Adrian Cheng is the Executive Vice Chairman and General Manager of New World Development, Executive Director of Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group, founder of K11 Group and co-founder of C Ventures. Based in Hong Kong and Europe, he is heading the operation of the family company New World Development, a $55bn infrastructure-to-retail group with holdingsin China and worldwide. Cheng is reinventing the family business as a “cultural enterprise” and expanding ownership to new areas including AI, entertainment and e-commerce, with a focus on China’s millennial and Generation Z audience.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Fashion
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, China, 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.
  • Micro Connect — Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
  • NaaS Technology — NaaS Technology is a provider of electric vehicle charging services for operators and owners. The company also offers one-stop services to charging pile manufacturers and operators, OEMs, companies with their own delivery fleets, and fleet operators, covering the entire value chain across the EV sector with online, offline, and non-electricservices. It had linked 290,000 chargers, with an annual charging capacity of more than 1,200 gigatonnes.NaaS Technology aims to make charging facilities more efficient and to incorporate this into structural changes to China's energy infrastructure, achieving an important step toward carbon neutrality.
Xiaopeng He Angel · Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
He Xiaopeng is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of UCWeb Inc. and is in charge of the overall product design and R&D of the company. He has extensive working experience in foreign owned enterprises and as an entrepreneur. He and Liang Jie jointly founded UCWeb in 2004. Under their leadership, UCWeb’s product and technology hasgained significant market share in China. In 2011, He and his team developed proprietary U3 engine, being the first proprietary technology developed in the mobile browser industry in China.Before joining UCWeb, He worked as Technology Manager, Testing Manager, and Project Manager at AsiaInfo Technologies (China) Co., Ltd.He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from South China University of Technology in 1999.
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Investment focus
  • Autonomous Vehicles, Computer, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • WeRide — WeRide, A Smart Mobility Company With Leading L4 AD Technologies.
  • Xpeng Motors — Xiaopeng Motors is an electric vehicle and technology company that designs and manufactures smart cars.
Jack Xu Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States
Jack is a pioneer in the Internet industry. As a Managing Partner of Seven Seas Venture Capital, Jack brought with him extensive experience and know-how in running start-ups and global companies to help entrepreneurs accelerate the growth of their business. Jack has served as the President and Chief Technology Officer of SINA Corporation, orSINA, a Nasdaq-listed company, from February 2013 to February 2015. He was responsible for Weibo, the most influential social network in China.Prior to joining SINA, Jack worked at Cisco as the Corporate Vice President of the Communications and Collaboration business unit. Previously, Jack served as Vice President of Engineering and Research at eBay from October 2002 to April 2008 and Chief Technology Officer at NetEase from May 2000 to July 2002. Jack led Excite's search engine development in 1996, while pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of California in Berkeley. He received a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in Information Management from Sun Yat-Sen University. Jack is actively involved in entrepreneur organizations, he served as the Vice Chairman of HYSTA from 2007 to 2008.Jack Xu has served as Tuniu's board member since the listing of the Company in 2014.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Angel, Series A, Series B
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AdChina — AdChina operates the leading technology-driven integrated internet advertising platform in China. The platform comprises software and related services that effectively integrates advertisers with publishers and delivers advertisements across different ads formats and different internet access devices. The core component of the platform, the AdChinaAdManager system, tracks available advertising space from publishers, processes orders from advertisers, analyzes audience data and matches advertisements to their target audience almost instantaneously across the entire range of AdChina’s publisher base. AdChina extended the reach of AdManager system by providing AdChina Demand Platform (ADP), a demand-side platform for advertising agencies and advertisers and AdChina Supply Platform (ASP), a supply-side platform for publishers that operate in online or mobile channels. AdChina’s platform has access to over 30 billion[1] page views and reaches over 486 million[2] online unique visitors and 249 million[3] mobile internet users per month. AdChina was founded in April 2007 in Silicon Valley, USA.[1] AdChina platform data, Dec. 2011, including the traffic that ASP has access to[2] Third-party data, Dec. 2011[3] AdChina platform data, Dec. 2011
  • Alluxio — Alluxio is an open source data orchestration layer that brings data close to compute for big data and AI/ML workloads in the cloud.
  • Guangzhou CK1 — Guangzhou CK1 (出口易) provides M2C supply and marketing platform and logistics solutions for transnational business. It is focused on providing customers with the whole logistic services of small package, special line, expressage, overseas warehousing, order management, goods source distribution, and pre-sales and after-sales service.GuangzhouCK1 has built five overseas warehouses in Britain, America, Australia, Germany, and Hong Kong, and 7 processing centers have been set up in 7 domestic cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Shanghai.
Boon Hwee Koh Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
  • Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
  • Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.
George Godula Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments. Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, China, Algeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Mila Cares — Air breathers, rejoice. Meet Mila, the first air purifier designed with real, air-breathing humans in mind.
  • Yassir — Yassir is a transportation service that utilizes a mobile app to enable users to book drivers and travel safely.The company's app locates local drivers that provide on-demand convenience and food delivery, allowing Algerians to travel anywhere they want and get food delivered on-demand.Founded in 2016 by Amel Delli, El Mahdi Yettou,Mustapha Baha, and Noureddine Tayebi and is based in Algiers, Alger, Algeria.
  • Truck It In — is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential
Jeff Olyniec Angel · Roseville, California, United States
Jeff Olyniec has been the CEO of New Vision Display since the company formed in 2012. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration- Marketing from Mississippi State University.Jeff previously worked at International Display Works (which was later acquired by Flextronics and is now the current NVD) in senior management roles includingsales and supply chain. He then moved on to Solar Power Inc, a worldwide leader in the design and construction of solar power generating facilities, overseeing all of the company’s operations in Asia as the EVP of the company.Jeff has lived and worked in China since 1996 and speaks fluent Chinese.
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Investment focus
  • Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.
Cui Xinxin Angel
Cui Xinxin - Partner and Co-Founder @ Share Capital
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Investment focus
  • Consumer, Photography, Home Services
  • Angel
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Home Media — Home Media is an innovative service platform for the home industry. Based on rich resources in technology, industry and capital, it explores the innovation power of the empowerment home industry, dynamically tracks the transformation of the traditional home industry, and promotes the integration of innovation power and industry power. The industryentered the era of industrial internet.
  • Moments — Meishi Meike is a platform that connects parents who want to get portfolios of their kids clicked with photographers.
O.D. Kobo Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Broadcasting, Video
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • China, Israel, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
  • GiveHope
  • Totally Bored
Yang Shoubin Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Yang Shoubin is the Founding Partner of FH Capital.
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Investment focus
  • Consumer, E-Commerce, Photography
  • Angel
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Hilookea — Hilookea is a supermarket for table cooked food.
  • Moments — Meishi Meike is a platform that connects parents who want to get portfolios of their kids clicked with photographers.
Yinan Li Angel
Yinan Li is a partner at Plum Ventures and is known for being the founder of luxury electric bike maker Niu Technologies Group.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Tutoring, Education
  • Seed, Angel
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • EHello Online Education — EHello Online Education company is located in Nanjing, China. We are dedicated to connecting foreign people from all over the world with Chinese people through SKYPE and QQ.
Yao Song Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Yao Song
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Investment focus
  • Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • VirtAI Tech — VirtAI Tech’s Orion AI computing platform helps customers build datacenter class AI accelerator resource pools so that user applications can transparently share and use AI accelerators on any server in the data center without modification, which can not only help customers improve resource utilization and can greatly facilitate the deployment ofuser applications. A bunch of artificial intelligence, Internet and public cloud companies have begun to use the Orion AI computing platform.
Boquan He Angel
Boquan He
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Investment focus
  • Tea, Bakery, Retail
  • Series A, Angel, Series D
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • HeyTea — HeyTea is a Chinese tea shop that specializes in cheese-topped tea and fruit tea. In 2012, HEYTEA originated from an alley in the riverside. Originally known as ROYALTEA , the royal tea was completely upgraded to the registered brand HEYTEA.
  • MarketX Ventures — MarketX is a one-stop shop for over 300 family offices, funds, and high net worth individuals to access high growth investment opportunities. Investment Management Platform Access to investment opportunities in high-growth companies all over the world from your smartphone.
  • Zetian Benjia — Zetian Benjia operates as a bakery snack brand.
Xin Xu Angel
Xin Xu
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Investment focus
  • Video, Mobile Apps, Media and Entertainment
  • Angel, Series A, Series B
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Easy Foods — Easy Foods engages in the food packaging equipment and food production business.
  • Ren Ren TV — Ren Ren TV is an oversea cultural video streaming platform.
Simon Szewach Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Simon Szewach - Managing Partner @ The Legats Group
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Investment focus
  • Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.
Wang Rui Angel
Wang Rui
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Sales, AgTech
  • Series A
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Longmi Agro — Longmi Agro is a private company engaged in the agricultural products industry chain. It began operation on October 25, 2015, with its headquarters in Guangzhou in China.
  • Putian Cool Drink — Putian Cool Drink focuses on the sales and promotion of plum wine, and has a full industrial chain from picking, brewing, filling, and sales.
Anyi Shengyin Angel
Anyi Shengyin
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Marketing
  • Seed, Series A
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • The order is coming — The order is coming provides PMS system services. It helps hotels and homestays exert commercial value. They provide homestay management system supports hotels, apartments, access to ctrip, fliggy order data management, and wechat services.
  • Molar Intelligence — Molar Intelligence is a professional artificial intelligence data service provider.
Richard Liu Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Richard Qiangdong Liu is the founder of JD.com (NASDAQ: JD) and has been their chairman and chief executive officer since the company’s inception. Born in a small rural village and raised in relative poverty, Liu’s commitment to operating his business with honesty and integrity has seen it grow from a tiny stall in a shopping bazaar to the thirdlargest retail company globally by revenue. The company reported an annual revenue of $82.9 billion for 2019, and while Liu’s net worth himself is estimated to be upwards of $12.7 billion he remains humble -- when Fortune magazine identified him as one of their “World’s Greatest Leaders” they singled him out as having “few of the trappings of a celebrity CEO.” With heavy investments in technology such as AI, big data, and drones, Liu’s vision for the future of his company is one that continues to break the mold of traditional retail and ecommerce businesses while staying true to its roots in customer loyalty and trust.Liu was born and raised in a village called Chang’an in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu, China. A part of the Suqian prefecture-level city system in the northern area of the province, Liu’s family had been forcibly resettled there after the rise of communism in the late 1940’s. In fact, prior to the revolution his family had been wealthy shipowners who transported goods along the Yangtze river and the ancient imperial canal from Beijing in the north to Hangzhou in the south. However, by the time Liu was born his parents were poor farmers, struggling to make ends meet and support both him and his grandparents who lived with them. Although Liu was born in the 1970’s, his village still lacked the modern day conveniences that were readily available in other parts of the country such as running water, electricity, and even paved roads. Nutritious food was also scarce, and from June to September they had access to corn which they would stretch to make meals such as cornmeal porridge, corn pancakes, and dry cornbread, all of which were so tough that Liu has said they could make your throat bleed. The rest of the year the family would eat sweet potato, either boiled, formed into pancakes, or dried. In his final year of secondary school, Liu applied to universities located in Shanghai and Beijing, believing only large cities would give him the platform he needed to do more and see more. He excelled in the rigorous college entrance exams he took, and was accepted to Renmin University -- then known as the People’s University of China -- in Beijing. However, the trip to Beijing was going to cost him around $75, an exorbitant sum to rural farmers at the time. His family was unable to afford the train ticket on their own, but thankfully his friends and neighbors had full faith in his ability to achieve and contributed whatever they could spare towards his education.At Renmin University, Liu studied sociology with the thought that he may enter politics, but he soon found that even with his classes and homework he had a considerable amount of free time in Beijing. He got a job at a small business who couldn’t afford a photocopier hand-copying letters, and also began to teach himself computer programming. The latter endeavor turned out to not only be a fun way to pass the time for Liu, but also one of his very first entrepreneurial ventures. The recent policy shift in China toward market reforms and embracing some aspects of capitalism created an influx of businesses that needed computer programmers. With Liu’s calm demeanor and trustworthy nature, he quickly became a popular choice and had soon made more money than he had ever dreamed of in the lucrative business. With the funds, he purchased a personal computer and cell phone -- two very expensive items at the time -- and was even able to have a new house built for his parents in the village. On June 18th, 1998, Liu took his 12,000 yuan (about $1,760) he had saved during his two years at Japan Life and used it to purchase inventory and rent a 4-square-meter booth in one of the many technological bazaars in Zhongguancun. Calling the company Jingdong, this was the start of what would eventually become JD.com, and the date on which he opened up shop has become known as “618” day and accompanies a promotional blitz that has become a nationwide phenomenon rivaling the United States’ Black Friday. Before all that though, he was simply a one-man booth selling magneto-optical drives, a type of optical disc drive similar in appearance to a floppy disk capable of having data written and rewritten upon it. In 2003, Liu’s business hit a snag when the SARS epidemic caused widespread fear and panic, with most consumers electing to stay home in order to avoid catching or spreading the virus. This had a devastating effect on China’s economy, and many retail stores including Liu’s were forced to temporarily shutter. In an effort to continue generating revenue and keep himself in business, Liu began posting his products to online bulletin boards, and after one of his customers happened to find him and vouch for his decency and honorableness he was able to keep his business alive by selling his electronic goods online. After Liu was able to re-open his stores, he also designated one employee to work full-time posting his products on the internet. By the time the year was over, it was clear to Liu that the burgeoning e-commerce industry was the perfect match for his business aspirations, and began plans to move his company entirely online. At the time, the internet was still a place people were wary of purchasing items from, but Liu’s work building a trustworthy brand enabled him to get a head start in gaining the trust of the consumers. Nonetheless, he worked extremely hard to build JD.com into a premiere e-commerce service, launching JD.com in early 2004. He elected to live in his office in order to save money on rent, and wrote the initial code for the website himself. He wanted to get to know his customers and their needs as closely as possible, and so he alone answered all of the customer inquiries that came through. In order to make sure no questions went very long unanswered, Liu would set an alarm clock for himself to go off every two hours during the night so that he could wake up and answer any questions that had been asked. He even handled much of the deliveries himself. For Liu, having control over the quality of his service was one of the key differentiators between his business and his competitors. Liu extended this idea in 2007, when he made the decision to take his entire logistics network for the e-commerce site completely in-house. For Liu it was an imperative step towards not only being able to curate his e-commerce service to tailor-fit his customers, but also open up previously untapped markets such as third and fourth-tier cities whose consumers previously had to travel miles in order to purchase the goods they needed. This strategy has proven to be a key to the company’s atmospheric rise, with 90% of its deliveries now arriving either the same or next day. Liu has frequently been recognized for his work on JD.com and the Chinese online ecommerce industry as a whole. China’s largest television network CCTV awarded him the “2011 China Economic Person of the Year” and he has also been named the “2011 Chinese Business Leader” and was noted as one of Fortune China’s “2012 Chinese Businessmen.” According to Forbes, Liu is currently #165 on the list of 2020 billionaires, #40 on China’s Rich List of 2020, and #25 on the Richest in Tech 2017 list, and was also ranked #48 on Fortune’s “World’s Greatest Leaders” list. In reference to Liu’s ranking, Fortune remarked that Liu had “few of the trappings of a celebrity CEO” and little corporate ego. Liu is often invited to speak at some of the largest forums in the world such as the World Economic Forum in Davos on topics such as the ecommerce industry, technological advancements, and to share his business development story as a means to inspire others, but even with this and working 16 hour days, he still spends one day a year working as a delivery person for JD.com.
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Investment focus
  • Tea, Apps, EdTech
  • Series A
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • InWE — InWE is a tea brand that provides the healthiest beverage, rich in vitamins and minerals.
  • Knowbox — Established in 2014, Knowbox targets the K12 education field with two mobile apps currently helping students get the most from doing homework by providing personalized exercises.Teachers can use the mobile apps to better manage student homework by avoiding repetitive labor and securing more time to help each student's unique challenges.The company claims the two mobile apps currently have nearly one million daily active users, and plans to use the proceeds on building its own homework database.
Victor Wang Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Wang Qiang (Victor Wang) is a Co-Founder of ZhenFund and New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE: EDU). He designed the oral and practical English and computer science courses. Prior to co-founding of ZhenFund and New Oriental, he was an engineer in the software division of Bell Communications Research and former lecturer of Englishlanguage and literature at Peking University.He received an M.S. in Computer Science from State University of New York, and a B.A. in English from Peking University. He is the Chairman of the Board of Juzi Entertainment.
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Investment focus
  • EdTech, Travel, FinTech
  • Angel, Seed, Series B
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 17zuoye — 17zuoye is an online learning platform for students K-12, as well as teachers and parents. The name means “homework together” in Chinese, and the site aims to serve as a nexus for all three groups to facilitate the educational experience, focusing on English and Math classes.17zuoye offers a multi-platform homework solution that is in sync withthe textbook curriculum and enhanced by big data analytics. 17zuoye provides the teachers with good teaching tools and comprehensive statistics, the students with interesting learning apps and individualized adaptive learning content, and the parents with immediate study reports. 17zuoye also acts as a social network for these users, having the largest real-name based online teachers’ forum and Wechat parent’s community in the country.
  • Blueseed — Blueseed is the upcoming startup community on a cruise ship stationed in Silicon Valley's The location, half an hour by ferry from the coast of Silicon Valley, enables entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world to start or scale companies on the ship without requiring U.S. work visas. They can travel to the mainland forbusiness or recreation using easier-to-obtain business/tourism (B1/B2) visas.As of 2014, Blueseed had received interest from The company has reserved $9M from an
  • Omni Prime — Omni Prime provides Lending as a Service solution to retailers.
Hu Zemin Angel
Hu Zemin is a Chinese investor.
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Investment focus
  • Catering, Computer, Internet
  • Seed, Series A
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Zhichang Daren — Zhichang Daren is a brand of instant fresh stewed porridge.
  • Sunmi Technology — SUNMI, with its core value "altruism", is an IoT company that globally leads the innovation of intelligent hardware for business. We are dedicated to provide intelligent IoT devices and integrated solutions combining software and hardware to empower business owners and build an interconnected business world to finally achieve business 4.0.
Xiaochuan Wang Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China
Xiaochuan Wang has been Chief Executive Officer of Sogou since 2010. Under his leadership, Sogou has developed many strategic products, including the Sogou Search Engine, Sogou Pinyin Input Method and Sogou Browser. From 2010 to 2013, he also served as the Chief Technology Officer of Sohu. Wang joined Sohu in October 2000, when we acquired theonline alumni website Chinaren.com, and has played an integral role in establishing a technology-driven culture through a focus on team building and product innovation. Prior to Sohu, Wang worked as a technology manager at Chinaren.com. Wang received a Gold Medal in the 11th International Olympiad in Informatics ("IOI"). Wang received his bachelor and master degrees in Computer Science from Tsinghua University.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Angel, Seed
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Klarity — Klarity provides nurse practitioners and physician assistants with the marketing, software, and human resources they need to succeed in offering profitable telehealth services online.
  • Baichuan Intelligent — Baichuan Intelligent is a developer of rail transit rolling stock inspection and testing equipment.
  • Baichuan Intelligence — Baichuan Intelligence objective is to make it simple and universal for people to access professional services and knowledge. It is also dedicated to developing China's finest large model base through advancements in language AI.
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