Top 45 Gaming Angel Investors in China in October 2024
A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Gaming startups based in China. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from China. We update this investor list every month.Top 45 Gaming Angel Investors in China in October 2024
Investor | Gaming China investments |
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James Robertson | 3 |
Hayden Zou | 3 |
Zhengdong Ni | 2 |
Boon Hwee Koh | 2 |
Li Kanglin | 2 |
Jeff Olyniec | 2 |
Xin Xu | 2 |
Hsien Yang Lee | 2 |
Wang Rui | 2 |
Boquan He | 2 |
Simon Szewach | 2 |
Thibault Villet | 2 |
Lucas Driggers | 2 |
Weixing Chen | 1 |
Yang Shoubin | 1 |
Yu Fangbiao | 1 |
Jinbo Yao | 1 |
Yue Du | 1 |
Zhou Hongbiao | 1 |
Zhan Wang | 1 |
Hu Zemin | 1 |
Rongjie Dong | 1 |
Max Keiser | 1 |
Jacob Hsu | 1 |
Alexander Yu | 1 |
Karl Knoflach | 1 |
Jianqing Wang | 1 |
Lee Kai-Fu | 1 |
Ms. Zhu Jingfang | 1 |
Sicong Wang | 1 |
Zhengyao Lu | 1 |
Bob Xiaoping Xu | 1 |
Henry Soesanto | 1 |
Charlie Lee | 1 |
Ethan Hao | 1 |
Shuai Wang | 1 |
Adam Lang | 1 |
Fabrice Grinda | 1 |
Jason Zeng | 1 |
Jun Lei | 1 |
Xu Hanjie | 1 |
Zhi Tan | 1 |
Gang Wang | 1 |
Adam Back | 1 |
Richard Liu | 1 |
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.
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.
Zhengdong Ni is a joint partner at QianHai FoFs and the founder of Zero2IPO Group.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Online Games, Customer Service
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- LEGEND POKER — LEGEND POKER is a Chinese mobile poker game operator.
- Food From Hunan — Food From Hunan is a food and beverage company.
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.
Li Kanglin
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Investment focus
- Retail, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Deyanshe —
- SoupMaster — SoupMaster is a Chinese restaurant chain and retail brand. It provides various nutritious soups for pregnant women, patients with a demand for health recuperation, and other people pursuing high-quality life.
- Lancet Barbecue —
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.
Xin Xu
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Investment focus
- Video, Mobile Apps, Food Delivery
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Weixing Chen (陈伟星) is the founder and CEO of Kuaidi Dache, a Chinese taxi-hailing application for mobiles. He is also the CEO of Hangzhou Fun City, a Chinese company that develops and operates web games and mobile internet applications.In December 2004, Chen launched the Journal of Scientific Innovation and served as its operation director.Chen obtained his bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, iOS, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Limburg — Limburg is an egg burger chain brand that aims to provide customers with Chinese-style fast food.They provide consumers with rolled-out meat and egg burgers and other similar Chinese-style burger products, as well as Chinese fast food.
- Spot — LBS social app
- Xinchao Media — Xinchao Media targets household consumption by placing advertisements in elevators. It provides customers with more accurate and cheaper community media traffic with smart hardware and software.The company is currently covering 95 cities, nearly 610,000 elevators, covering an average of more than 100 million middle-class people. The trendy mediaelevator TVs are distributed in the elevators of the middle and high-end residential communities across the country. The TV screen is installed 1.5 meters away from the elevator floor. The sound is clear and the people are not disturbed so that the audience can watch it comfortably in the elevator and let the advertising information spread effectively.Xinchao Media was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Chengdu, China.
Yang Shoubin is the Founding Partner of FH Capital.
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Investment focus
- Consumer, E-Commerce, Photography
- Angel
- China
Yu Fangbiao is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Cofe+ — Cofe+ is an AI technology company with core R&D capabilities, cutting-edge operating technologies, and a robust sales network.
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.
Yue Du - Partner @ Ivy Capital
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Online Games, Media and Entertainment
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- LEGEND POKER — LEGEND POKER is a Chinese mobile poker game operator.
Zhou Hongbiao is the founder of Zhou Mapo
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Beer Halo Man — Beerbitt Man is a new catering chain brand, which combines the national supply chain of Tsingtao Brewery's craft beer.
Zhan Wang
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, Food and Beverage, Supply Chain Management
- Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Dshifu — Dshifu is a supplier of frozen beef and mutton ingredients.
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.
Rongjie Dong
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Investment focus
- Video Games, Broadcasting, Online Games
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Huya.com — Huya.com is China's interactive broadcast platform, enriched by the world's first communications service operators. The company's live products cover PC, Web, and mobile three-end, and have nearly 300 featured channels in 4 categories including online games, single-game hot games, mobile games, and entertainment variety, coveringe-sports, music, sports, beauty, outdoor, A wide range of popular content such as reality shows, variety shows, entertainment, and food.
Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT, an English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news; presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London’s Resonance FM; and writes for Keiser is the CEO and co-founder ofMax Keiser invented “Virtual Specialist Technology,” a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
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Investment focus
- Video Games, Gaming, Mobile
- Private Equity, Initial Coin Offering
- China, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Pixelmatic — We connect people from around the world and spark their imaginations through games.
- Infinite Fleet — Customize and take command of your fleet in this epic MMO space strategy game. Coming soon from Pixelmatic.
Jacob Hsu is the CEO Catalyte. He attended University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- PC Games, Marketing, Gamification
- Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Kwestr — Kwestr enables people and companies to accomplish goals, solve problems and get stuff done by breaking large problems into a gamified and manageable step by step tasks that can be shared with friends and contacts via social networks and media in a fun and engaging way.Kwestr can also help companies and brands to unify their online and offlinemarketing campaigns, engage their customer communities, push customers down the CRM funnel of conversion hurdles and receive metrics and analysis of the activities of their users and prospects.Kwestr acts as a digital sandbox for constructing social experiences for groups and individuals both online and offline.
Alexander Yu
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Investment focus
- PC Games, Marketing, Gamification
- Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Kwestr — Kwestr enables people and companies to accomplish goals, solve problems and get stuff done by breaking large problems into a gamified and manageable step by step tasks that can be shared with friends and contacts via social networks and media in a fun and engaging way.Kwestr can also help companies and brands to unify their online and offlinemarketing campaigns, engage their customer communities, push customers down the CRM funnel of conversion hurdles and receive metrics and analysis of the activities of their users and prospects.Kwestr acts as a digital sandbox for constructing social experiences for groups and individuals both online and offline.
Karl Knoflach - Chairman, Co-Founder, Head of Marketing and Product @ C88 Financial Technologies
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Internet, Insurance
- Seed, Private Equity
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Kwestr — Kwestr enables people and companies to accomplish goals, solve problems and get stuff done by breaking large problems into a gamified and manageable step by step tasks that can be shared with friends and contacts via social networks and media in a fun and engaging way.Kwestr can also help companies and brands to unify their online and offlinemarketing campaigns, engage their customer communities, push customers down the CRM funnel of conversion hurdles and receive metrics and analysis of the activities of their users and prospects.Kwestr acts as a digital sandbox for constructing social experiences for groups and individuals both online and offline.
- Versichern24 — Versichern24 is an online comparison platform that compares different insurances in motor vehicles, household, and legal expenses sectors. It overviews the insurance market in Austria on a daily basis. The company supports its users as the policyholder in case of damage in the termination of contracts, the login and logout of vehicles. It offersservices such as premium comparisons, personal advice, and secure processing.Versichern24 was founded by Ivo Radulovski in 2007 and is headquartered in Graz, Austria.
Wang Jianqing is one of the founding members of Legend Capital in 2001. Starting as a Senior Management Advisor, she is now the Managing Director and Chief Management Advisor of the firm, and also serves on the Management Committee and Human Resources Committee. Wang Jianqing is responsible for examining and evaluating CEO, the management team andbusiness operation of target companies during due diligence, and providing post-investment value added services.Wang Jianqing has in-depth understanding of corporate governance, human resources systems, corporate culture construction and team management. She had analyzed the major success and failure cases of Legend Group in history, and performed thorough studies on how to evaluate CEOs and management teams and how to provide value-added services to invested companies. After over 10 years working with entrepreneurs, she has gained resourceful experience in CEO coaching, core team building, corporate culture construction and governance structure improvement.Joining Legend Group in 1996, Wang Jianqing was Executive Vice President of Legend Management School and Deputy General Manager of Human Resources Department of Legend Group. She was also the Dean of the first “Legend Star CEO Training” class, in charge of building the course system, designing teaching plans, managing academic affairs, and serving as lecturer of one of the core courses.Wang Jianqing received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1982 and her EMBA’s degree from Peking University in 2006.
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Investment focus
- Video, Gaming, Sports
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Le Sports — Le Sports, the sports arm of China's leading online video provider.
Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and President of Sinovation Venture’s Artificial Intelligence Institute. Sinovation Ventures, managing US$1.7 billion dual currency investment funds, is a leading technology investment firm focusing on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. Prior to foundingSinovation in 2009, Kai-Fu Lee was the President of Google China. Previously, he held executive positions at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Kai-Fu Lee received his Bachelor degree from Computer Science from Columbia University, Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Honorary Doctorate Degrees from both Carnegie Mellon and the City University of Hong Kong. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Kai-Fu Lee is the author of seven top selling books in Chinese and launching new book AI Superpowers (www.aisuperpowers.com/) internationally in fall 2018, and has over 50 million followers on social media.In the field of artificial intelligence, Kai-Fu Lee founded Microsoft Research China, which was named as the hottest research lab by MIT Technology Review. Later renamed Microsoft Research Asia, this institute trained the great majority of AI leaders in China, including CTOs or AI heads at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, Huawei, and Haier. While with Apple, Kai-Fu Lee led AI projects in speech and natural language, which have been featured on Good Morning America on ABC Television and the front page of Wall Street Journal. He has authored 10 U.S. patents, and more than 100 journal and conference papers. Altogether, Kai-Fu Lee has been in artificial intelligence research, development, and investment for more than 30 years.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- LEGEND POKER — LEGEND POKER is a Chinese mobile poker game operator.
- Project AI 2.0 — Project AI 2.0 is a large language model platform, dedicated to building a brand new AI2.0 platform and AI-first productivity applications.
- NationalChip — Hangzhou Guoxin focuses on chip design and system solution development in the fields of digital TV, home multimedia and artificial intelligence. The company has developed digital TV chip products all over the world and is one of the world's leading suppliers of set-top box chips.
Ms. Zhu Jingfang is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Snack Food, Food and Beverage
- Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Leg boss — Leg boss is a snack brand under the company that represents the national trend of Chinese specialties.
Sicong Wang is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Prometheus Capital. He is a Director of the Dalian Wanda Group. and Founder of Panda TV.
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Investment focus
- eSports, Software, Online Games
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Fenda —
- Yingxiong Huyu — Yingxiong Huyu is a developer of mobile e-sports games and an organizer of e-sports competitions.
Zhengyao Lu is the president and CEO of China Auto Rental Holdings Limited, a Chinese car rental business that offers sedans, sports utility vehicles, and multi-purpose vehicles for short- and long- term rentals, and leasing. Zhengyao founded the company in 2007, before which he founded a joint LuZhengyao Automobile Club in 2005. Lu holds abachelor’s degree in engineering from University of Science and Technology, Beijing, and an EMBA from Peking University.
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Investment focus
- Coffee, Retail, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Luckin Coffee — Luckin coffee, a representative of China's new retail coffee, is committed to becoming a leading high-quality coffee brand and professional coffee service provider in the country.Luckin coffee, with preferred raw materials, exquisite coffee technology, innovative business models and leading mobile internet technologies, is striving to bringa higher quality coffee consumer experience to consumers and promote the popularization and development of coffee culture in 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.
Henry Soesanto serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Monde Nissin Corporation.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Singapore, China, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Haofood — The popularity of plant-based meat is rapidly growing in China; in 2020, 39% of the population were attempting to reduce their meat consumption, and 65% of them were willing to try plant-based meat to help them in this. However, many are dissatisfied with the plant-based meat options in China; Haofood’s founders discovered that this was because ofthe tofu-like quality of products currently available in the market. On top of that, often flexitarians and vegetarians struggle with craving comfort foods. Being the most consumed meat in the world, chicken products, such as fried chicken, are a comfort food to and missed by countless first-time vegetarians.Haofood offers a solution to these problems with its realistically textured and healthy plant-based chicken. They are the first company in the world to use peanut protein as their base, taking advantage of its potential for a strong and elastic texture. Led by a founding team of senior professionals from the food industry, who, together, hold a well-rounded skill set ranging from entrepreneurship to food technology, Haofood uses its own proprietary extrusion technology and formulation to create affordable, delicious plant-based chicken made from sustainable, non-GMO peanuts.
- WTH Foods — WTH Foods is a plant-based alternative protein company based in Manila, Philippines. Using local and sustainable ingredients, we create plant-based versions of processed meat products that Southeast Asian love
- Shiok Meats — Delicious, healthy & cell-based seafood from Shiok Meats. Get variety of cultivated meat, cultivated seafood, cell cultured meat & Lab Meats in Singapore.
Charlie Lee is the Founder at Litecoin Foundation. Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternative currency to Bitcoin. He is an engineer manager at Coinbase. Charlie earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, China
Portfolio highlights
- Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
- Monochrome — Monochrome Corporation is a multi-investment, financial services group specialising in infrastructure projects within the bitcoin and crypto-asset landscape.
- Flare Network — Flare is the blockchain for data: an EVM-based layer 1 that gives developers secure decentralized access to high-integrity data from other chains and the internet.
Ethan Hao is an director at Tradeweb.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Dancing Lion — Dancing Lion is a health and fashion industry focusing on the research and development of functional foods.
Shuai Wang - Chairman of Marketing and Public Relations Committee @ Alibaba Group
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Investment focus
- Winery, Brand Marketing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Guxiaojiu — Guxiaojiu is a Chinese liquor brand specializing in wine.
Adam Lang is Founder at Spicy Horse Games.
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Investment focus
- PC Games, Marketing, Gamification
- Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Kwestr — Kwestr enables people and companies to accomplish goals, solve problems and get stuff done by breaking large problems into a gamified and manageable step by step tasks that can be shared with friends and contacts via social networks and media in a fun and engaging way.Kwestr can also help companies and brands to unify their online and offlinemarketing campaigns, engage their customer communities, push customers down the CRM funnel of conversion hurdles and receive metrics and analysis of the activities of their users and prospects.Kwestr acts as a digital sandbox for constructing social experiences for groups and individuals both online and offline.
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
- PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
- Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.
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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- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- China, United States
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- 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.
Jun Lei is the Chairman, CEO and Founder of Xiaomi Technology. He attended Wuhan University.
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- E-Commerce, Mobile, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States
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- 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.
Xu Hanjie
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- Gaming
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- China
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- Xiaojingku —
- ZBT Community — Play Games, Get Rewards!
- TimeChain —
Zhi Tan joined NLVC in 2009. He brings extensive management and operational experience to the team. Starting from 2004, Dr. Tan was the President of Shanghai Framedia Advertising Development Ltd (Framedia) one of the largest community advertising networks in China. Under his leadership, revenues grew from RMB 36 million to RMB 1.2 billion in 3years. The company was later acquired by Focus Media for US$ 183 million. Prior to Framedia, Dr. Tan served as senior advisor to Chinese media company Tom Group Limited on strategic development as well as mergers and acquisitions. From 1999 to 2002, Dr. Tan served as the CEO of 8848.net, notably the largest online e-commerce company at the time in China. Before joining 8848.net, Dr. Tan was the vice president of Microsoft China and oversaw sales channels and business partnerships. He also served as the senior vice president of UTStarcom, China. In the early 1990s, Dr. Tan joined Chipcom as its General Manager of China Chipcom, a leading manufacturer of networking products, was later became part of Nortel Networks.Dr. Tan graduated from the Computer Science and Technology Department of Jilin University in China in 1980, and received his Ph.D in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute of Massachusetts in 1987.
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- Gaming, Computer, Language Learning
- Series A
- China
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- Yodo1 — Game developers of all sizes leverage Yodo1 tools to better market, manage and monetize their games, turning their titles into successful businesses.
Gang Wang
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- E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China, United States
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- 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.
Having worked on e-cash protocols since 1995, Adam is an applied cryptographer and inventor of the hashcash proof-of-work and decentralized mining used in Bitcoin.In addition to implementing credlib, he was an e-cash consultant to Nokia and later to Credentica (acquired by Microsoft). Adam was an architect and cryptographer at Zero-KnowledgeSystems working on its Freedom network, a precursor to Tor. He has also consulted for leading security companies, including oneID, Vmware and QWcap. Most recently, Adam co-founded Picorp, which was acquired by EMC and where he was CSO of the company’s consumer division, Decho. Adam holds a Ph.D. in distributed systems and computer science from the University of Exeter.
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- Bitcoin, Video Games, Cryptocurrency
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Initial Coin Offering
- China, Hong Kong, United States
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- Portal — Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Pixelmatic — We connect people from around the world and spark their imaginations through games.
- Infinite Fleet — Customize and take command of your fleet in this epic MMO space strategy game. Coming soon from Pixelmatic.
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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- Tea, Apps, EdTech
- Series A
- China
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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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