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Top 25 CleanTech Startup Investors in China in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cleantech startups based in China. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cleantech companies from China. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 CleanTech Startup Investors in China in December 2024

Investor	CleanTech China investments
Northern Light Venture Capital	2
Kleiner Perkins	2
Dingxin Maoye	1
Bin Ge	1
TDR Capital	1
PreIPO	1
Amperex Technology	1
Charisma Partners	1
Ant Group	1
Trustbridge Partners	1
China Renaissance Capital Investment	1
Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia	1
IDG Capital	1
Hillhouse Investment	1
Fresh Capital	1
Shanghai Yuanhan Energy	1
Source Code Capital	1
China Creation Ventures (CCV)	1
Qianhai Fund of Funds	1
Michael Diekmann	1
Jinqiu Fund	1
SAIF Partners	1
Ceyuan Ventures	1
Huixin Capital	1
Gaoge Investment	1

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Supporting the next generation of entpreneurs in enterprise, healthcare, and consumer with disruptive potential.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

RootData — RootData operates as a Web3 asset data platform that pioneers in encapsulating both on-chain and off-chain data of Web3 assets.
Tuliu.com — Tuliu.com is a comprehensive online platform for land transfers in China. The company integrates information like land area, prices, and development trends, forms an evaluation standard and provides farmers with free land value evaluation services.
weshare — Weshare is an IT company that specializes in big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence services. Weshare pursue the innovative and harmonious development of people, things, and the business ecosystem which creates maximum value with the trend. They are committed to providing scientific and technological services worldwide throughcontinuous exploration and technologies.

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on earlycomputer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in the digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

juna.ai — AI Agents to Run Your Factory
Enterpret — All customer feedback categorized automatically, combined with advanced analytics capabilities that ensure no customer pain goes unnoticed.
Browserbase — Browserbase is a comprehensive platform for developers to host, administer, and monitor headless browsers in the cloud.

Dingxin Maoye is an investment firm that offers investment management and consulting.

Investment focus

Robotics, CleanTech, Industrial
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Leatu Robot — Leatu Robot is an external cleaning robot developer company.

Bin Ge

Investment focus

CleanTech, Architecture, Environmental Engineering
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Zero Carbon System — Zero Carbon System specializes in global low-carbon building design and low-carbon urban planning solutions.

We are a committed and long-term investor focused on building strong, sustainable businesses.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Real Estate
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bud — Bud uses Open Banking to help financial companies to access and make sense of messy financial data.
CarNext.com — CarNext.com is a disruptive digital used car platform, that enables customers to buy, lease and subscribe to high-quality used cars. Its mission is to create the leading marketplace for flexible mobility solutions in Europe centered on trust, efficiency and transparency. CarNext.com offers customers fixed prices, full ownership and maintenancehistory and a ‘no-questions-asked’ 14-days period. Using a proprietary, data-driven model, CarNext.com can match supply and demand across Europe. CarNext.com is supported by a network of Delivery Stores, where customers can view the cars, receive consultation services before making a final purchase decision.
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen UK — Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen UK is a restaurant chain provides food services.

PreIPO is a private equity fund that provides investors with access to pre-IPO companies.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Advertising, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Angel
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

SVOLT — SVOLT manufacturer of electric batteries. They specialize in the manufacturing of automotive power batteries and energy storage systems. Their market applications include passenger cars, commercial vehicles, energy storage, and light power solutions. Their products include batteries and energy storage batterie. They provide users with energyvehicle charging piles, batteries recycling, and solutions.
Weimob — Weimob, a WeChat-based CRM solution provider. Weimob is a SAAS platform that primarily provides enterprises with WeChat-based development, operation, training, and promotional solutions, helping businesses that do not have software development experiences to build m-commerce platforms on WeChat at lower costs. Wemob also provides SCRM and trafficanalytic tools, allowing clients to optimize promotion procedure and improve marketing performance.
Nivriti Solutions Global Private Limited — 1. Sophisticated asset tracking system navigates the fleet on right paths and ensure speed limit compliance 2. SaaS model with enterprise software integrations provides precise reports that are user-friendly and adaptable 3. Custom IoT hardware predicts possible breakdowns and ensures preventive repairs 4. Regulatory approved standards reportingcompiled with requirements, allowing better investor attention and credit score 5. High quality devices capture live videos of ride, ensure driver soberness, and prevent fatigue state driving

ATL is the world's leading producer and innovator of lithium-ion batteries. They are known worldwide for their high-tech, high-volume prowess in developing, producing and packaging high quality rechargeable lithium-ion battery cells and packs. Their service, know-how, production capacity and system integration capability is second to none.Working closely with world-renowned branded smartphones, tablets and notebooks OEMs, drones, robots and power tools specialists, VR/AR vanguards and various wearable and smart home technology trailblazers, they are helping the world connect better, last longer, live easier and fly higher. Headquartered in Hong Kong, they operate factories in Dongguan and Ningde, in the People's Republic of China.

Investment focus

Energy, Chemical, CleanTech
Series A, Funding Round
China, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

GREENORE — Greenore US spun off from Columbia Engineering in 2016. Greenore Shanghai base has started its operation since 2017 which launched a JV with China Baotou Steel (Group) in 2018.
CarbonScape — CarbonScape technology produces high-quality, sustainable biographite from renewable materials for greener lithium-ion batteries.
Hydrogen Energy — Hydrogen Energy specializes in PEM electrolysis for hydrogen production, offering R&D, production, sales, and technical services.

Charisma comes from the translation of Hong Zhang. "Hong" represents the dissemination of value, to lead and inspire. "Zhang" means creed, pattern, and conviction. In tandem, the name of their firm reflects their belief and willingness to work with their partners to dream and excel. CHARISMA is defined as a personal magic thatinfluence, inspire, and confer special popular loyalty through value, belief, and virtue. Charisma is not built on power nor authority, but rather on leadership and the ability to constructively influence people's mentality and action, ultimately achieving a culture of harmony and unity. They believe key elements of charisma include: 1) clear goal; 2) vision and strong view on future developments; 3) personal charm, reliability, and confidence; 4) intellect and capability; and 5) passion and willingness to accept challenges and excel.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Food Processing
Series A, Funding Round, Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Biodep — Biodep produces probiotics and derivatives, which are used in meals, healthy foods, cosmetics, environmental remediation, contemporary agriculture, and other industries.
Guanzhan — Guanzhan is a nourishing technology company that provides users with a new generation of nourishing consumer products.
Zhongchuang Cultural Tourism — Zhongchuang Cultural Tourism offers IP operation and authorization, cultural and creative product design, production, and sales, global art exhibitions, and light and shadow theme exhibitions. They cover online and offline marketing and media channels.

Ant Group aims to create the infrastructure and platform to support the digital transformation of the service industry. They strive to enable all consumers and small businesses to have equal access to financial and other services that are inclusive, green, and sustainable.Formally established in October 2014, Ant Group’s origins date to 2004 whenAlipay was created in the nascent days of e-commerce to solve the trust issue between buyers and sellers in online transactions. Their innovative payment solution bridged the trust gap, facilitated online transactions, and underpinned the development of e-commerce in China. Having pioneered digital payments in China, Ant Group has since expanded its service offerings through technology and innovation to enable digital finance for consumers and businesses.Their technology enables participants in commercial activities, including consumers, businesses, and partners, to build and strengthen trust among each other. They believe their new technologies, including their blockchain solution that they call AntChain, will continue to strengthen the foundation of trust in this digital era.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
China, Thailand, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

AIsphere — AIsphere focuses on visual multimodal large models and empowering content producers in many sectors and scenarios with AIGC technology.
Ascend Money — Ascend Money is a fintech startup company that delivers e-payment and micro-lending products.
Jade Bird Display — Jade Bird Display (JBD) is the leading manufacturer of microLED microdisplays. Our active matrix microLED displays are extremely small (0.31" to 0.13" diagonal) with high pixel density (5000 - 10,000 PPI) and are capable of emitting upto 4 million Nits.

Trustbridge Partners is a mission-driven growth equity firm founded in 2006 with approximately $8 billion under management.

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cherre — Connect all your real estate data and make it available to the entire organization for better investment, management, and underwriting decisions.
Hystar — Hystar develops polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzers designed for large-scale green hydrogen production. Founded in 2020, Hystar's technology uses a unique cell design and process architecture that provides the ability to reduce electricity consumption and increase hydrogen output, enabling professionals to tackle various criticalenergy challenges and having the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Hope Medicine — Hope Medicine is committed to researching, developing and commercializing the first innovative drugs aimed at improving the quality of life for a wide range of popular male and female diseases.

China Renaissance Capital Investment, founded in June 2005, is a leading alternative investment management firm that focuses on investment opportunities across a broad range of industries in Greater China.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Car Sharing, Transportation
Series A, Series C, Series D
China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pharmcube — Medical Cube is a one-stop big data service platform providing data, media info, and consulting services for the pharmaceutical industry.
Dida Chuxing — Dida Chuxing specializes in taxi-hailing and carpooling.
BrandHouse Holding — We give large online and offline retailers as well as small specialist online shops and the end-consumers of all these platforms access to hundreds of thousands of high quality products and great brands, across borders, raise efficiency in logistics and financing and support SMEs to license their products, often results of over 100 years ofbusiness history, to the Asian markets. All of this is supported and enhanced by a suite of our proprietary technologies.

Established in Hong Kong in 2002, SCEA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation ("Sumitomo"), one of the biggest multinational conglomerates in Japan with business and investment covering metal products, transportation & construction systems, infrastructure, chemical & electronics, mineral resources & energy,media, network & lifestyle retail, general products, real estate and financial & logistics services. The entire Sumitomo Corporation Group consists of over 800 subsidiaries and associated companies with more than 65,000 employees all over the world.

Investment focus

Health Care, Logistics, B2B
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, Japan, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

AI-LINK — AILINK is committed to being a pioneer and leader in mobile network and edge computing infrastructure in the AI era. The company currently focuses on intelligent manufacturing and other digital transformation scenarios. Its products are built on OICT (Operational and Information Communications Technology) integration, with a focus on industrial environments. AILINK offers end-to-end, scenario-driven 5G-to-B products and solutions, providing seamless industrial adaptation, enhanced smart operations, and simplified management. This enables plug-and-play deployment of private 5G network, accelerating the growth of new productivity models.
Locad — Locad is a cloud-based solution for global e-commerce fulfillment. Access to an international warehousing network. Distributed fulfillment keeps products close to customers, reducing shipping time and cost.
clearing zero carbon — Clean Capture is an innovative company that uses artificial technology and provides low-cost carbon removal technology solutions through the research and development and commercialization of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology.

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector. Today they work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors, and business entities from around the world. Their limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds,pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices, and business luminaries.IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, they are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Their highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Xunlu AI — Xunlu AI is an innovative startup that focuses on the development of AI-powered customer service technologies. Xunlu AI provides AI intelligent customer service and sales robots to businesses in a variety of industries via highly tailored AI solutions, assisting businesses in achieving their goals of cost reduction and increased productivity.
Galaxy Bot — Galaxy Bot is an innovative robotics company that provides intelligent universal service robotic products.
Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.

Founded in 2005, Hillhouse is a leading global investment management firm, active across public equity, private equity, real estate and private credit. The firm invests over a long-term horizon and partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to deliver sustainable value creation for quality companies.Hillhouse is a full life-cycle private equityfirm, investing for the long term across opportunities in the healthcare, business services, consumer, and industrials sectors. The firm manages capital on behalf of global institutions such as non-profit foundations, endowments, and pensions.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

dinii — Dinii is a mobile order platform for take-out shops.
Ascentium — At Ascentium, we believe in the power of partnership to realise unlimited growth potential.
Xingmai Innovation — Xingmai Innovation creates, develops, and sells intelligent swimming pool cleaning robots.

Fresh capital is a growth fund focusing on consumer product and service companies. They focus on brand and invest in fast growth stage. fresh capital achieved outstanding historical return with successful investment experience and deep network in the consumer sector. Their industry focus include home&family, food &beverage, children &maternity, education, body&wellness and consumer finance. fresh capital strives to become founders' fund, providing comprehensive and thorough value-adding services for portfolio companies. almost all previous invested entrepreneurs turned out to be anchor LP

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Energy, Retail
Series B, Series A, Seed
China, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CarPro — CarPro is an automotive head-up display system developer company. The company's offerings include the rear-mounted CarPro Mini, the front W-HUD, the pre-installed AR-HUD, and the quasi-front W-HUD. The company enables travel by providing unique technology services.
Beike Yunhong — Beike Yunhong is a new materials company that offers full services for the disposal of hazardous waste and multi-source bulk industrial solid waste. It specializes in producing low-carbon cementitious materials from all solid waste.
Jifeng Technology — Jifeng Technology is a developer of industrial vertical AI large models, offering AI overall solutions for energy, equipment, and process scenarios in process industries in order to improve efficiency and minimize emissions.

Yuanhan Energy is an energy conservation and environmental protection service provider that specializes in solid waste treatment, oxygen-enriched combustion, energy conservation and environmental protection, cryogenic liquid device manufacturing and operation, and other environmental protection businesses.

Investment focus

CleanTech, Sustainability, Environmental Engineering
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

GREENORE — Greenore US spun off from Columbia Engineering in 2016. Greenore Shanghai base has started its operation since 2017 which launched a JV with China Baotou Steel (Group) in 2018.

Founded in 2014, Source Code Capital is a leading China VC focused on the broad TMT sectors and investing in both early stage start-ups and growth stage companies. With $1.5 billion and RMB 3.5 billion under management, Source Code Capital has been successfully partnering with close to 150 leading Chinese technology founders since inceptionincluding Bytedance, Meituan, Homelink, among many others. Source Code is focused on the “Big 3” fundamental drivers, which are Internet+, AI+, and Global+ , and invests along sectors such as media and entertainment, consumer services, enterprise, finance, retail, transportation, housing, education, and healthcare.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

LibLib AI — LibLib AI is an AI image generation platform that provides cutting-edge content creation through multi-scenario and multi-dimensional applications and interactions. It is a subsidiary of Beijing Singularity Star Technology Co., Ltd.
Zhihe Computing — Zhihe Computing is an AI intelligent computing company that develops high-performance, scalable AI intelligent computing CPUs and RISC-V processors.
Xingmai Innovation — Xingmai Innovation creates, develops, and sells intelligent swimming pool cleaning robots.

China Creation Ventures (CCV) was founded by the former KPCB China Managing Partner, Wei Zhou, and his TMT investment team of many years in KPCB China. With the majority of members from KPCB China, CCV has developed deep domain expertise and insight in the TMT industry. The companies they invested at early stage include JD.com (NASDAQ:JD),CreditEase (NYSE:YRD), Rong360 (NYSE:JT), ID5.com, Himalaya FM, Tan Tan Mobile Social (acquired by Momo, NASDAQ: MOMO), VenusTech (SZ:002439), Manzuo.com (acquired by SuNing), Miaopai Mobile Video (Yixia.com), ULUCU (NEEQ:837110), Miaozhen Systems, Asia Innovation Group, Meican.com, Scinor Water (acquired by TRCE:300332), KJY Water (NEEQ:835159), Arrail Dental, etc. Many of the CCV’s portfolio have seen significant business growth and closed a new round of financing, including JD Digit, Wanka Online (HKSE:1762), Perfect Corp, Perfect, Ice Kredit, Zuzuche, Veer VR, Menya, Bizvane, Joyrun, Cowa Robot, Lomotif, Dingdong Class, Shukun Technology, Yunhu Health, etc.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, Taiwan, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Aventurier — Aventurier offers cleaning robots that relieve workers of repetitive cleaning jobs while drastically increasing the efficiency and intelligence of cleaning operations.
Green Voltis — Green Voltis is an AI-powered virtual power plant aggregation operator. It offers intelligent, efficient, and flexible trading and operation solutions for power market participants such as energy storage and other new energy asset holders, industrial and commercial customers, and power sales agents using AI native technology for electricity spottrading and participation in grid ancillary services.
WeZhi Airlines — WeZhi Aviation focuses on medium and large general unmanned transport aircraft , and the company aspires to be a global provider of intelligent aviation-related technological goods and services.

Qianhai Fund of Funds is a fund management company that markets qualified investors in the private equity investment industry.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

VoiceAI — VoiceAI Technology is the industry's leading provider of voiceprint recognition and intelligent voice solutions. It is committed to the development of core algorithms in the field of AI voice. VoiceAI has original patented technology in voiceprint recognition, speech recognition and voice signal processing. In the past, the three majortechnical problems faced by voiceprint recognition technology
Arrayed Materials — Arrayed Materials specializes in the development of thin-film materials and the application of high-throughput material preparation systems.
Zhongrou New Materials — Zhongrou New Materials is a developer of fluorine-containing electronic new materials.

Michael Diekmann is Supervisory Board Member at Siemens.

Investment focus

mHealth, CleanTech, Smart Home
Series A, Series C
China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BERGLUF — BERGLUF develops and sells air purification system products.
Huma — Huma is a global health technology company that provides a modular platform to support digital 'hospitals at home' across different disease areas. Its platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers, and real-world data to advance proactive, predictive care and research.The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered inLondon, England.

Jinqiu Fund invests in biotechnology companies

Investment focus

Robotics, CleanTech, Manufacturing
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Aha Lab — Aha is a one-stop influencer marketing platform designed to deliver results-driven campaigns. We empower brands to reach a global audience by connecting them with talented content creators. Aha is designed to become advertiser's most reliable partner in the digital marketing landscape, regardless of the scale or history of your business, Ahais creating a level playing field where all advertisers can thrive in the era of AI and data-driven marketing.Aha's mission is to foster an ecosystem where brands and creators thrive together, creating transparent and effective content marketing solutions.
Aventurier — Aventurier offers cleaning robots that relieve workers of repetitive cleaning jobs while drastically increasing the efficiency and intelligence of cleaning operations.

SAIF Partners is a leading private equity firm that provides growth capital to companies in Asia.Our primary areas of focus include Information Technology, Internet, Mobile, Consumer Products and Services, Healthcare, Cleantech, Education, Modern Agriculture, Financial Services & Manufacturing.SAIF Partners was founded in 2001 andcurrently manages over $4 billion in capital. With over 100 investments since its inception, SAIF has become one of the largest and most active funds in the region. SAIF is a long-term investor with local teams in Hong Kong, China, and India.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Blue Wave — Blue Wave is a producer of Industrial IoT and Internet of Vehicles chips.
PRCXI Biotechnology — PRCXI Biotechnology is a biotech company that provides bioinformatics and automation solutions for life science and the manufacturing of analytical instruments.
Beijing Ansong Technology — Beijing Ansong Technology Co., Ltd. is an enterprise focusing on the research and development, production, and sales of orthopedic medical devices. The company cooperates with domestic and foreign universities, research institutes, and doctors in hospitals, and is committed to creating original orthopedic products with independent knowledgeproducts.Beijing Ansong Technology was founded on June 27, 2011 by Liang Tao in Fengtai, Beijing.

Ceyuan Ventures is a Beijing-based early stage venture capital firm focused on IT and emerging growth companies. They emphasize backing great teams, technology and business innovation. Their mission is to assist entrepreneurs in creating and building world-class businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ruidiwei — Ruidiwei is a tech enterprise that specializes in the design, development, production, sales, and service of antennas and components in microwave and millimeter-wave frequency bands.
Qinglei Technology — Qinglei Technology is a radar sensing technology startup.
Siyue Intelligence — Siyue Intelligence produces software and hardware for TFT-LCD semiconductor automation. It integrates R&D, design, production, and service, and is committed to providing fully automated warehousing robot systems, and intelligent detection.

Founded in 2008, Hong Kong Huixin Capital Co., Ltd. is located in the asset management platform for service financial institutions and ultra-high net worth individuals, and is particularly good at offshore asset-side products. The company is a licensed institution approved by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. It is engaged in thefourth category (advising on securities) and the ninth category (providing asset management) regulated activities. At the same time, its RMB funds and managers are also filed with the China Securities Investment Fund Association.

Investment focus

Aerospace, CleanTech, Lifestyle
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Baikuirui — Baikuirui is an antibiotic resistance biosynthesis developer.
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.
Qingxi Daojia — Qingxi Daojia is a home-to-home life service platform that provides housekeeping services and home cleaning.