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Top 15 Automotive Angel Investors in China in July 2025

A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Automotive startups based in China. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from China. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Automotive Angel Investors in China in July 2025

Investor Automotive China investments
Frank Li 2
Jinbo Yao 2
Yang Jichao 1
Fangyi Chen 1
Amnon Shashua 1
Qiyu Chuangying 1
Yuan Yongfeng 1
Hu Zemin 1
Hu Yu 1
Shen Peng 1
Padmasree Warrior 1
Kevin Diao 1
Wei Tao 1
Wenwen Niu 1
Xiaopeng He 1
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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.
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.
Yang Jichao Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Yang Jichao is working as an investment director of Chentao Capital.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Recruiting, Staffing Agency
  • Series A, Series B
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • QIANLIMA — QIANLIMA engages in the field of domestic recruitment and selection.
  • Ecar Tech — Eka is a digital transportation platform, manufactures unmanned cars and aims to be the leading intelligent transportation service.
Fangyi Chen Angel
Fangyi Chen (陈方毅) is the founder of Fanhuan.com, a shopping platform for major e-shops. He is also the chief executive officer of Lingganfangzhou and Upin.  Chen set up the Inspirational Ark Information Technology Ltd in Xiamen. Besides, he has founded websites such as See You Menstruation Helper, ruguoyun.com, and upin.com.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Automotive, Cloud Management
  • Seed, Angel
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Caryu — Caryu is an intelligent service platform for the automotive industry through mobile Internet and cloud technology.
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Amnon Shashua Angel · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
Amnon Shashua is the Chairman and Co Founder of Mentee Robotics. He previously worked at Intel Corporation as a Senior Vice President. Amnon Shashua attended Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Natural Language Processing
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Israel, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • AI21 Labs — AI21 Labs is an AI lab & product company whose mission is to reimagine the way we read and write by making the machine a thought partner to humans.
  • Zeekr — Explore the premium, intelligent, pure electric vehicles brand, Zeekr. Check out the Zeekr electric vehicles with cutting-edge design and world-leading technology.
  • ONE ZERO — FDB is Israel's first digital bank to incorporate artificial intelligence.
Qiyu Chuangying Angel
Qiyu Chuangying is a individual investor.
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Investment focus
  • Robotics, Security, Automotive
  • Series A
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Ruizhu Technology — Ruizhu Technology is focused on 3D ranging technology in the field of lidar. It is a Sino-foreign joint venture founded by foreign A-class experts and jointly invested by leading listed companies in the industry, government-industry funds, and venture capital. The company's workplace is in Zhongguancun, Haidian District. The founding team hasworked closely with two Nobel Prizes.
Yuan Yongfeng Angel · Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Yuan Yongfeng is the Chairman of Dongshan Precision.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Information Technology
  • Angel
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Coordinate System Intelligence — Coordinate System Intelligence is a provider of automotive brake-by-wire system solutions. It focuses on providing core technology solutions.
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.
  • Wanche Jiaoshou — Wanche Jiaoshou is an automotive vertical media platform.
  • Sunmi Technology — Shanghai Sunmi Technology Co., Ltd is a technological innovation-based enterprise that has been focusing on providing O2O internet platforms, software developers, and traditional businesses with professional intelligent commercial hardware equipment that featuring high level of cost performance.Sunmi Tech “Born to intelligent commercialequipment”, helps O2O platforms and software developers on better serving entities and merchants through intelligent hardware products researched and developed by itself, and provides offline merchants with intelligent commercial hardware solutions of the mobile internet age. “Sunmi , stand by you” is our brand concept, which means they will make the business more intelligent together with our partners.Sunmi Tech is the first internet enterprise in the commercial application sector that has received 2 successive rounds of financing from Xiaomi Tech. They also received the strategic investment from outstanding internet enterprises such as Dianping.com and YouShop during Round B. Based on several years of experiences on the R&D of commercial hardware, the Sunmi group hopes to integrate the upstream and downstream supply chains, cooperate with resources on the internet platform, and bring values to the partners as well as the new commercial civilization through ultimate hardware product experiences.
Hu Yu Angel
Hu Yu is the co-founder of iFlytek.
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Investment focus
  • Robotics, Automotive, Manufacturing
  • Seed
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Yinghansi Power Technology — Yinghansi Power Technology provides research, development, and manufacturing of robotics technology solutions for the automotive industry.
Shen Peng Angel
Shen Peng was a co-founder of Meituan meal-delivery unit. In April 2016, he left Meituan and set up Waterdrop Inc., aiming to provide medical funds efficiently to the general public. The company has four major businesses: Waterdrop Mutual Aid, Waterdrop Fundraising, Waterdrop Insurance and Waterdrop Health, and had served more than 20 millionpaying users within one year of its establishment. Based on the different needs of users, Waterdrop Mutual Aid, Waterdrop Fundraising and Waterdrop Insurance provide an effective channel for users to gain access to medical funds, while Waterdrop Health connects the upstream and downstream of the health industry to form an ecological closed loop covering health management, prevention and screening, consultation, treatment, and rehabilitation, so as to provide comprehensive health security services for users.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Automotive, Cloud Management
  • Seed
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Caryu — Caryu is an intelligent service platform for the automotive industry through mobile Internet and cloud technology.
Padmasree Warrior Angel · San Jose, California, United States
Padmasree Warrior is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Fable. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of NextEV, U.S. She also serves as the Chief Development Officer of NextEV, as well as a member of its Board of Directors. In these capacities, she is responsible for the brains of NextEV's autonomous, electric vehiclesand the overall user experience. She is based in San Jose, CA where NextEV US is headquartered.Previously, Warrior served as the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer (CTSO) for Cisco until September 2015. In this capacity she was charged with aligning the company's technology and business strategy to business results. She was in charge of corporate strategy, mergers, acquisitions, venture investments, and strategic partnerships. Previous to that she was the GM for Cisco Enterprise segment and co-led Cisco's worldwide engineering organization. Prior to joining Cisco, she was executive vice president and CTO at Motorola. Under her leadership, Motorola was awarded the 2004 U.S. National Medal of Technology.Padmasree Warrior has been widely recognized for her creative, visionary leadership. Forbes has named her one of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" for three years running. In 2013, The International Alliance for Women gave her the World of Difference Award. In 2012, Business Insider called her one of the "25 Most Influential Women in Wireless". The Aspen Institute gave her the first Leadership in Science and Technology Award. India's National Association of Software & Service Companies (NASSCOM) named her the Global CTO Award winner. The Wall Street Journal has called her one of "50 Women to Watch." Fast Company included her among the "100 Most Creative People in Business." The Economic Times listed her as "the 11th Most Influential Global Indian."Warrior holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi and a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University. In addition to NextEV's board, Warrior serves on the board of Microsoft. She previously served on the board of Gap and Box.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Genetics, Automotive
  • Series A
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • NIO — NIO Inc. is a pioneer in China’s premium smart electric vehicle market. NIO’s mission is to shape a joyful lifestyle by offering premium smart electric vehicles and being the best user enterprise. NIO designs, jointly manufactures, and sells smart and connected premium electric vehicles, driving innovations in next generation technologies inconnectivity, autonomous driving and artificial intelligence. Redefining the user experience, NIO provides users with comprehensive, convenient and innovative charging solutions and other user-centric services. NIO began deliveries of the ES8, a 7-seater high-performance premium electric SUV in China in June 2018, and its variant, the six-seater ES8, in March 2019. NIO officially launched the ES6, a 5-seater high-performance premium electric SUV, in December 2018 and began deliveries in June 2019. NIO officially launched the EC6, a 5-seater smart premium electric Coupe SUV, in December 2019 and plans to commence deliveries in 2020.
  • Color — Color is a population health technology company that focuses on providing large-scale health care programs and clinical testing. It improves the key health infrastructure systems to make health accessible, convenient, and cost-effective, serving health systems, employers, research institutions, and individual consumers.Its Population GenomicsPlatform offers modular and end-to-end solutions that enable organizations to effectively build and scale population health programs. It provides technology, software, and clinical services to help population programs launch and scale quickly. By combining innovative technology, specialized laboratory infrastructure, and clinical health services, Color creates complete and effective programs that include: Program strategy, planning, and implementation; Participant outreach and engagement; participant education and consent about testing and results; sample (blood or saliva) collection and genetic sequencing; data management and clinical reporting; HIPAA compliance and data security; return of results; clinical services, like genetic counseling and clinical pharmacy; personalized care routine; and ongoing population health management. Color’s partners include NorthShore University Health System, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Ochsner Health System, Verily, Visa, Levi Strauss, and Salesforce.Elad Gil, Nish Bhat, Taylor Sittler, and Othman Laraki launched Color in 2015 and is based in Burlingame, California.
Kevin Diao Angel
Kevin Diao - Co-Founder @ Mx Federation
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Automotive, Cloud Management
  • Seed
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Caryu — Caryu is an intelligent service platform for the automotive industry through mobile Internet and cloud technology.
Wei Tao Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Wei Tao - Founder @ Z Ventures Group
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Investment focus
  • Hardware, Software, Automotive
  • Angel
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • JDO Auto — JDO Auto is a full-service software and hardware company for internet of vehicles.
Wenwen Niu Angel
Wenwen Niu - Founding Partner @ Dark Horse Ventures
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Investment focus
  • Fuel, Automotive, Customer Service
  • Seed
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Hengdache Shidai — Hengdache Shidai is an automotive fuel O2O platform service provider.
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.
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