Top 5 B2B Angel Investors in China in May 2025
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in B2b startups based in China. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in B2b companies from China. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 B2B Angel Investors in China in May 2025
Investor | B2B China investments |
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Bob Xiaoping Xu | 1 |
Jiahu Li | 1 |
Zhang Yun | 1 |
Charles Xue | 1 |
Frank Li | 1 |
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, Artificial Intelligence, 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.
- Centennial Yucai Artificial Intelligence Technology Group — Centennial Yucai Artificial Intelligence Technology Group is a college entrance examination guidance platform. It has more than 300 college entrance examination guidance centers across the country, serving more than 100,000 users every year.
Jiahu Li - CEO @ Tunlan Investment
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Investment focus
- B2B, Retail, Information Technology
- Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Dianjia — Dianjia is an IT company specialized in developing retail service platform to provide O2O solutions.
Zhang Yun is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- B2B
- Funding Round
- China
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- WOOK — WOOK is dedicated in linking quality brands in China and the market in Indonesia. WOOK currently has 17 branch offices in Indonesia, more than 10,000 3C digital product retailers and a energetic marketing team which has more than 300 salesmen across Indonesia. The A round financing of WOOK is jointly invested by former Tencent senior executive vicepresident and co-founder Wu Xiaoguang, well-known investors Ling Daihong, Yang Xiangyang in Shenzhen and Dark Horse Fund. Now we are the distributor of DJI drone, Inmotion balanced car, Airwheel balanced car, Huntkey, ORICO and TENDA router in Indonesia. What's more, WOOK owns the brand VIVAN and ROBOT which occupy the largest and most comprehensive coverage of 3C digital accessories in Indonesia.
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
- DeLink (DELC) —
- Huaqin Zhilian — Huaqin Zhilian is a manufacturer of smart robot convenience devices in the field of smart retail.
- YEUNGS SAGE E-COMMERCE —
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.
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