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Top 20 Community Angel Investors in China (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in China Community startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in China Community startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Wei Guo
Angel
3 United States, China, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $200k–$19M
Eddie Wu
Angel
2 China, Canada Angel, Series A, Series B Events, Rental, Social $2.8M–$12M
Gang Wang
Angel
1 China, United States Series A, Angel, Seed E-Commerce, Transportation, Medical $425k–$8.5M
Mingming Zhu
Angel
1 China, Singapore Angel, Seed Fashion, Robotics, Lifestyle $425k–$425k
Cheng Li
Angel
1 China, United States Series A, Private Equity Pet, SaaS, Software
Xuan Zhili
Angel
1 China Seed Pet
William Bao Bean
Angel
1 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $30k–$20M
John Wu
Angel
1 China, United States, Singapore Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Men's, EdTech, Fashion
Wu Dekan
Angel
1 China Angel Lifestyle, Communities, Social Network
Bo Feng
Angel
1 United States, China, Hong Kong Series A, Seed, Angel Blockchain, FinTech, Finance $100k–$40M
Lu Fan
Angel
1 China Angel Pet, Marketing, Information Technology
Peter Kellner
Angel
1 United States, China, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Analytics, SaaS $1M–$19M
Sheng Fu
Angel
1 United States, China Seed, Series B SaaS, Social, Internet
Wanqiang Li
Angel
1 China Angel, Seed Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Art $2.7M–$50M
Minhong Yu
Angel
1 China Seed, Angel, Series A Education, Social Media, Apps $425k–$10M
Jinbo Yao
Angel
1 China Angel, Series A, Seed Logistics, Marketing, Automotive $415k–$7M
Hongyu Zhang
Angel
1 China Series A Art, Apps, Music
Quanling Zhang
Angel
1 China Seed, Angel Apps, Video, Social
Richard Liu
Angel
1 China Series A Tea, Apps, EdTech $10M–$71M
Jing Qi
Angel
1 China Series A Wedding, Customer Service, Event Management
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Wei Guo
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in China Community startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.3M; Angel $375k–$10M; Series A $7M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
  • Bungalow — Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States.Bungalow offersprivate bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members.Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.
  • Raydiant — Raydiant empowers brick-and-mortar organizations to deliver engaging, personalized, and measurable on-screen digital experiences to delight in-store customers and engage back-of-house employees.
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Eddie Wu
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 2 investments in China Community startups

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

  • Industry: Events, Rental, Social
  • Stage:Angel, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

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.
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Gang Wang
Angel · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · 1 investments in China Community startups

Gang Wang

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Transportation, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
  • Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$2.9M; Angel $425k–$3M; Series A $1.4M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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.
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Mingming Zhu
Angel · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · 1 investments in China Community startups

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

  • Industry: Fashion, Robotics, Lifestyle
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: China, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $425k–$425k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 offers institutional-grade, comprehensive digital asset self-custody services and MPC privatization solutions, enabling enterprises to securely and efficiently manage their digital assets.
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Cheng Li
Angel · 1 investments in China Community startups

Cheng Li is the Principal at LLR Partners. He attended The Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WizeHive — The most flexible full lifecycle software for grants, scholarships, awards, and more. Helping foundations, nonprofits, and mission-based programs.
  • Wang Zifan — Wang Zifan is a natural dog food manufacturing company.
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Xuan Zhili
Angel · 1 investments in China Community startups

Xuan Zhili

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Huayan Youke — Huayan Youke specializes in pet diagnostics and drug development. It focuses on integrating pet diagnostic technology and integrates various tests.
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William Bao Bean
Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in China Community startups

William is a Partner at SOSV, a US$250m accelerator focused venture capital fund, and the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator, China's first startup accelerator as well as MOX, the mobile only accelerator. William joined SOSV from SingTel Innov8 where he was Managing Director supporting China investment activities. While at Innov8 he ledinvestments in Yodo1 (mobile games), Gmobi (Android platform), Lekan (online video platform), and Massive Impact (mobile advertising) among others. Previously, William was a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, an early stage venture capital firm backed by Softbank of Japan and Cisco. While at SoftBank he led investments in Silk Road Telecom (mobile enterprise cloud SaaS), Playspan (payment platform acquired by Visa), Punch Entertainment (mobile game developer acquired by DeNA) and Peacesoft (Vietnam eCommerce and payment platform backed by eBay and MOL). William began his career as an equity research analyst most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for Internet and Telecom Equipment across Asia and China technology, media and telecom. In addition he covered Digital Media and Telecom Equipment companies at Bank of America Securities in San Francisco and PCs and Enterprise Hardware at Bear Stearns in New York. William began his technology investment career 18 years ago as a technology analyst in Taiwan.In 2006 he was ranked #3 All-Asia analyst for Technology/Software and IT Services by Institutional Investor Magazine. In 2005, he was ranked #1 stock picker in Technology, Media and Telecom, and #3 overall for Hong Kong/China by Thomson Reuters Starmine as well as was a ranked analyst by Institutional Investor Magazine. He currently sits on the boards of directors/advisors for a number of companies including GMobi, Massive Impact, Silk Road Telecom, Socbay, iTalki, kineticONE as well as organizations including Angelvest (天使谷), the largest and most active angel investing group in Asia, and AAMA Shanghai and the Techyizu, Beijing Tech Hive, and Music Matters events. He holds a BA from Bowdoin College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 381
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Convertible Note $30k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dyad.com — Dyad is a mentorship platform that has helped students earn over $27 Million in university scholarships.
  • HengZhi — HengZhi is a China-based, Invite-only Business Social Network.
  • Tokiva Technologies — Tokiva - Expat's Mobile Carriers. Low cost international calls - on both mobile and landline.
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John Wu
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in China Community startups

John Wu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Men's, EdTech, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: China, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • temi — temi robots - Service robots for Healthcare, Hospitality, Retail, Enterprise and Delivery. Cost effective, 24/7 autonomous staff members for everyday tasks with focus on engagement efficiency.
  • Chope — Book via Chope at Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing's top restaurants. With instant confirmation 24/7, it's the smarter way to dine!
  • Theta One — We build the world's tools to solve "English speaking" in non-English speaking countries.
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Wu Dekan
Angel · 1 investments in China Community startups

Wu Dekan is the CEO of Ningbo Mizhi Game Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Lifestyle, Communities, Social Network
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tianju — Tianju is a script-killing grass community, focusing on the offline socialization of the script-killing industry for the C-end.
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Bo Feng
Angel · Chaoyang, Liaoning, China · 1 investments in China Community startups

Bo Feng is the Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, China, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$8.5M; Series A $1.4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medlinker — Medical Alliance is a post of physician social service platform. Users are certified doctors working in the Medical Alliance, they can share knowledge, experience and insights with the other industry elite, to continue to provide high quality content for each other. Application provides a medical quiz, map that case, the anonymous social circlesand doctors and other functions, is committed to helping physicians groups, more convenient access to high-quality information from the industry
  • Tabi — Tabi’s consumer chain will act as an incubator, helping dApps build their brand and culture while providing the support and liquidity they need. Our vision for L1 3.0 is that, like Google and Amazon today, our users won’t need to understand Tabi’s inner workings; they’ll simply enjoy using it.
  • Forge — Accelerate your future with Forge's private market solutions. Get access to pre-IPO investment opportunities and liquidity for your private company shares.
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Lu Fan
Angel · 1 investments in China Community startups

Lu Fan is the founder of Xiaopet Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, Marketing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Xiaochong — Xiaochong is a digital marketing company that uses big data via network to provide credit technology, risk investment, credit counseling, and non-performing assets. Products include:
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Peter Kellner
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in China Community startups

Peter Kellner is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Richmond Global. He previously worked at Richmond Global Compass as a Founder and CEO. Peter Kellner attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, China, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $6M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
  • Scout Finance — Scout Finance is the best mobile app for accessing company documents and fundamentals on your iPhone and iPad. A must-have for any serious investor.
  • OpenSponsorship — Join 19000+ brands connecting to 11000+ athletes, teams and events globally, on OpenSponsorship to drive marketing and sales using sports; proven to deliver 7x ROI.
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Sheng Fu
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in China Community startups

Sheng Fu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Social, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bijixia — Bijixia is a digital media that provides business knowledge management services.
  • Markable Creators(Markable AI) — Boost commissions by 600% and save 2+ hours each day with an AI powered all-in-one app for affiliate monetization, follower growth, and social commerce
  • Nanigans — Nanigans provides an advertising automation software that powers the in-house performance marketing teams. Offered as Software-as-a-Service, Nanigans software features programmatic media buying, predictive revenue optimization, and real-time business intelligence across today’s most valuable channels. Nanigans is headquartered in Boston, withoffices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Sydney, and Singapore.
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Wanqiang Li
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in China Community startups

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

  • Industry: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Art
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Angel $2.7M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Artand — Artand is a community business platform and an online gallery for artists.
  • Optimist — Optimist is a private consumer brand that creates gear for artificial intelligence. It manufactures AI hardware products.
  • Thin Red Line — Thin Red Line dedicates the software and hardware opportunities of the AR track.
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Minhong Yu
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in China Community startups

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

  • Industry: Education, Social Media, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $425k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

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.
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Jinbo Yao
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in China Community startups

Jinbo Yao is the President, Founder and CEO at 58.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Marketing, Automotive
  • Stage:Angel, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Angel $415k–$709k; Series A $780k–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

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.
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Hongyu Zhang
Angel · 1 investments in China Community startups

The founder of PPS, the leading peer-to-peer streaming video network software in China. After PPS was purchased by Baidu for USD 370m, Mr. Zhang served as the co-CEO of Iqiyi, one of the largest online video platform. Hongyu has extensive knowledge in the fields of internet and content streaming in China.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Apps, Music
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Artand — Artand is a community business platform and an online gallery for artists.
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Quanling Zhang
Angel · 1 investments in China Community startups

Quanling Zhang has been serving as independent non-executive director of Shougang Concord International Enterprises since January 6, 2018. She holds a bachelor degree in arts. She joined China Central Television in 1997 and has hosted the famous programmes such as “Oriental Horizon”, “Focus Interview”. She participated in numerous news livecoverage and was awarded the Golden Microphone Awards, the Golden Eagle Awards, the Fan Changjiang Journalism Award, the most prestigious journalism award in China, and the 19th top ten Outstanding Chinese Youths. She is the Founding Partner of Ziniu Fund. She has extensive experience in news media, brand building and strategic planning.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Video, Social
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bijixia — Bijixia is a digital media that provides business knowledge management services.
  • Walnut Live — Walnut Live is a video course and knowledge sharing service platform.
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Richard Liu
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in China Community startups

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

  • Industry: Tea, Apps, EdTech
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Series A $10M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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  • 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.
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Jing Qi
Angel · 1 investments in China Community startups

Jing Qi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wedding, Customer Service, Event Management
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sunny — Sunny is a professional wedding company in China.
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Community Angel investor funding in China at a glance

Stats across 32 deals from 32 investors.

32
investors
in China Community startups
32
deals
in China Community startups
$1.4M
median round
in China Community startups
22%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Series A
most common funding stage

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