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Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in China (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in China Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in China Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Bingqiang Gao
Angel
9 China, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Robotics, Electronics, Manufacturing $1.4M–$43M
Lijie Wang
Angel
4 China, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Aerospace, Manufacturing, Big Data $150k–$5M
Jan Hammer
Angel
3 China, United States, France Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $2.5M–$250M
Wei Guo
Angel
3 United States, China, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $200k–$19M
Wanqiang Li
Angel
3 China Angel, Seed Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Art $2.7M–$50M
Gan Jie
Angel
3 China Angel Retail, Electronics
Bob Xiaoping Xu
Angel
2 China, United States, Israel Series A, Angel, Seed Internet, Mobile, Education $38k–$11M
Lei Ming
Angel
2 China Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Hardware
HP Jin
Angel
2 China, United States Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Robotics, Furniture $14M–$14M
Tony Zhao
Angel
1 United States, China Seed, Angel, Series B Computer, Software, E-Commerce
Amit Nanavati
Angel
1 China, India Seed, Angel, Series A Local, Banking, Messaging
Ming Lei
Angel
1 China, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Information Technology, FinTech, Finance $415k–$50M
Wang Tianmiao
Angel
1 China Seed, Angel Robotics, Manufacturing, Product Research
Qi Lu
Angel
1 United States, China, Canada Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Robotics $350k–$12M
Jerry Chih Yuan Yang
Angel
1 United States, China Seed, Series A, Series B Computer, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$40M
Duan Liping
Angel
1 China Angel PaaS, Hardware, Software
Hu Yu
Angel
1 China, United States Seed, Series A Coffee, Hardware, Robotics
Nick Yang
Angel
1 China Seed, Series A Robotics, Aerospace, Transportation
Andrew Andrew
Angel
1 China Angel Robotics, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Michael Diekmann
Angel
1 China, United Kingdom Series A, Series C mHealth, CleanTech, Smart Home
Yuri Milner
Angel
1 United States, China, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $650k–$65M
Mingming Zhu
Angel
1 China, Singapore Angel, Seed Fashion, Robotics, Lifestyle $425k–$425k
Kingsley Advani
Angel
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Biotechnology, Financial Services $120k–$183M
Xiangyang Yang
Angel
1 China Series A, Angel Aerospace, Industrial, Manufacturing
Padmasree Warrior
Angel
1 China, United States Series A Apps, Genetics, Automotive
Ratan Tata
Angel
1 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
Peng Zhang
Angel
1 China Angel Hardware, Blockchain
Xiaohua Cheng
Angel
1 China Angel Robotics, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Hao Chen
Angel
1 China Seed Wearables, Manufacturing, Virtual Reality
Fei Gesheng
Angel
1 China Seed Semiconductor, Artificial Intelligence
Mark Yang
Angel
1 China Series A, Series E E-Commerce, Automotive, Electronics
Trupti Nanavati
Angel
1 China Angel Local, Messaging, Navigation
Xiaopeng He
Angel
1 China Series A, Series B, Series C Autonomous Vehicles, Computer, Software
Shen Qin
Angel
1 China Series C Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
Jui Tan
Angel
1 China, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Search Engine, Artificial Intelligence $1.8M–$60M
Wei Tao
Angel
1 China Angel Hardware, Software, Automotive
Ms. Zhu Xinai
Angel
1 China Seed Electronics, Manufacturing, Packaging Services
Tang Kaijian
Angel
1 China Seed Robotics, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
Li Zexiang
Angel
1 China Seed, Series A, Series C Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Robotics
Gong Hongjia
Angel
1 China Angel, Seed, Series B Biotechnology, Medical, Life Science $1.4M–$14M
Zhi Tan
Angel
1 China Series A Gaming, Computer, Language Learning
Xiaolai Li
Angel
1 China, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Blockchain, Computer, Internet $425k–$16M
Chen Zhongping
Angel
1 China Angel Robotics, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
Adrian Cheng
Angel
1 United States, China, Hong Kong Series A, Series B Fashion, Blockchain, Health Care $2.8M–$102M
Amnon Shashua
Angel
1 Israel, United States, China Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Internet $1.3M–$750M
Lu Xiaochen
Angel
1 China Angel PaaS, Hardware, Software
Chen Weixing
Angel
1 China Series A, Series B, Series C SaaS, Logistics, Enterprise
Lu Feng
Angel
1 China Angel Robotics, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Hu Zemin
Angel
1 China Seed, Series A Catering, Computer, Internet
Charles Xue
Angel
1 China Angel, Series A, Seed Internet, Retail, Information Technology $134k–$11M
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Bingqiang Gao
Angel · 9 investments in China Hardware startups

Bingqiang Gao is the Independent Non-Executive Director of Q Tech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Electronics, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$43M; Angel $1.4M–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shanmu SHANMU — Shanmu SHANMU is a micro medical robot specialist who uses self-developed digital microfluidic chipsets and artificial intelligence algorithms. The robot can continuously check the metabolic components in urine, establishing a link between the user's health status and disease and intelligently establishing multiple disease management cycles.
  • Guangfan Technology — Guangfan Technology is a technology innovation company focusing on next-generation human-computer interaction, dedicated to the innovation of interaction paradigms for multimodal direct intent expression.
  • Qingxian Intelligence — Qingxian Intelligence is a smart office and home office technology company. The company focuses on smart, comfortable, and healthy office scenarios.
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Lijie Wang
Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 4 investments in China Hardware startups

Leo Wang is recognized as an active angel investor and leading proponent of Mobile Internet, Blockchain, and Angel Investment in China. Boasting over twenty years in mobile internet and tech, he has invested in 300 startups, spanning healthcare to fintech and blockchain, including 2 NASDAQ-listed companies and 5 unicorns.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Aerospace, Manufacturing, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Angel $300k–$300k; Pre-Seed $150k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hesai Technology — Hesai Technology is a global leader in lidar solutions for ADAS and autonomous mobility. As an expert in lidar technology, we empower the next generation of robotics with reliable, high-performance lidar sensors. Our solutions improve reliability for ADAS, autonomous vehicles, trucking, robotics, and industrial applications. We strive to improve safety and performance for the future of the automotive industry with advanced lidar technology that delivers high-resolution 3D perception. Learn more about the work Hesai does as a leading lidar manufacturer by visiting our website or contacting our team today.
  • Huma Finance — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
  • Huojianpai — Huojianpai is a commercial aerospace company providing earth-moon space economy and future-oriented deep space exploration.
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Jan Hammer
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in China Hardware startups

Jan Hammer is the partner at Index and the Board observer of Harmonic. Jan attended Oxford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: China, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$15M; Series A $2.8M–$50M; Series B $14M–$250M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sofía — Improving the way millions of people take care of their health
  • Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
  • Yuetong Eye Clinic — Yuetong Eye Clinic is a medical institution that provides myopia surgery for adults and myopia prevention and control for adolescents. It is a medical institution focusing on adult myopia surgery and adolescent myopia prevention and control.
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Wei Guo
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in China Hardware 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: 153
  • 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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Wanqiang Li
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 3 investments in China Hardware 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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Gan Jie
Angel · 3 investments in China Hardware startups

Gan Jie, is the vice dean of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, professor of finance, and director of the Center for Finance and Economic Development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Electronics
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Z·Pilot — ZPilot is a stylish electronic new retail brand that combines contemporary toys and digital art to present viewers with a deeper visual.
  • BOTINKIT — Taking the most advanced robotics technology and data-based algorithms, we are enabling possible an easier, smarter and healthier cooking.
  • Ai Sensing Technology — Ai Sensing Technology is a national high-tech enterprise that focus on the research, development and production of bionic olfactory chips.
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Bob Xiaoping Xu
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 2 investments in China Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Internet, Mobile, Education
  • Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
  • Geography: China, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$1M; Series A $38k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Lei Ming
Angel · 2 investments in China Hardware startups

Lei Ming

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Seengene — Seengene Inc. is an AI company that focuses on Mix Reality technology. The mission of Seengene is to digitize their 3D world and implement interaction between virtual content and the real world by its spatial intelligent engine and high definition visual map for both indoor and outdoor environment.The product system of Seengene consists ofsoftware, hardware and cloud service. In software product line, they customize AR solutions for clients, they also have SDK for user terminals, such as mobile phones, tablets and smart glasses. The hardware product line is consisting of untethered smart glasses with free form curve optics, industrial monocular eyewear and environment 3D visual information scanning device. By scanning device, one can scan both interior and exterior large space very efficiently, such as shopping malls, airports, factories, hospitals and other various buildings. The scanned and processed 3D information can be used for reconstruction and localization. The cloud service hosts all the 3D data and AR interaction content data and provides computing services for SDK on user devices.Seengene has founded a co-research laboratory with renowned Peking University to tackle the hardest computer vision problems relied by most intuitive mixed reality user interactions. The vision of Seengene is to help many clients from various industries such as cultural tourism, marketing, security and industry with its AI technology to improve their efficiency and experience.Since established, Seengene has served many clients from various industries and received plenty of praise from them.
  • Changmugu Medical — Changmugu Medicalis an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered healthcare start-up providing AI-powered surgical robot solutions.
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HP Jin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in China Hardware startups

HP co-founded Telenav in 1999 and has led the company to become a global leader in location-based services (LBS), automotive navigation and location-targeted mobile advertising. Telenav was the first company to launch GPS navigation services for mobile phones to the world, and today its product reaches more than 100 countries on mobile phones andwithin vehicles. Telenav was also the first LBS company in the USA to IPO when it began publicly trading on NASDAQ in May 2010. Telenav has subsidiaries in US, China, Europe and South America.Prior to starting Telenav, HP served as a Senior Strategy Consultant for the McKenna Group and a Business Strategy and Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company. HP has also served as a Technical Director at LINCSS/Loral Space Communication. HP holds a Ph.D. in Guidance, Navigation and Control (Aeronautics and Astronautics department), a Ph.D. minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Robotics, Furniture
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $14M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ronbow — Ronbow is a commercial company that distributes, designs, and manufactures a diverse selection of decorative bathing products, including sinks, vanities, medicine cabinets, and more. The company selects the highest-quality hardwood and puts them through a rigorous 10-step finishing process that is finalized with a comprehensive assembly process.Ronbow offers a dynamic and diverse design spectrum to fit any style home, from ultra contemporary to old world traditional. Their versatile designs allow for interchangeable sinks and countertops in wood, glass, stone & ceramic to match any home decor. The company provides options for interchangeable sizes and materials to inspire a truly unique customizable experience.Ronbow was founded by Jason Chen in 2002 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA, USA.
  • Hanyang Technology — Hanyang Technologies is a company that specialises in the design, research, development, manufacturing, sales, and servicing of garden intelligent robot products.
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Tony Zhao
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Tony Zhao - Founder & CEO @ Agora.io

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Computer, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Alluxio — Accelerate AI workloads, increase GPU utilization, and reduce infrastructure costs with Alluxio's AI-optimized, highly-distributed cache.
  • Social Chat — Loup is an intelligent marketing platform that lets you turn your website into a personal shopping experience with interactive video.
  • Tuyun Space — Tuyun Space focuses on developing a common twin platform. For the universal twin platform, Tuyun Space builds technical barriers through four basic capabilities: 1. Spatial modeling; 2. Data coupling; 3. Rendering and visualization; 4. Simulation analysis.
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Amit Nanavati
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Amit Nanavati - Managing Director @ Bralco Advanced Materials

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Local, Banking, Messaging
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chalkboard — Chalkboard is a daily marketing solution for EVERY small business enabling businesses to communicate instantly, locally, and socially over mobile and web. Business owners can communicate today’s special, real-time updates and business information to people nearby their location with the simplicity of a real chalkboard. Chalkboard works withthousands of local businesses and reaches millions of consumers thru 3-party mobile apps, websites, and navigation systems.
  • AssetPlus — AssetPlus focuses on offering digital-first solutions to financial advisors and mutual fund distributors.
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Ming Lei
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Ming Lei (雷鸣) is the chief executive officer of Kuwo Science and Technology, a Chinese company providing digital entertainment services. Prior to that, he was a senior engineer at Baidu, a Chinese web services company. Lei holds an MBA from Stanford University, United States and a master’s degree in computer from Peking University, China.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: China, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$50M; Angel $415k–$595k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Collov Labs — Collov is a virtual interior design & shopping platform that offers interior design services stocked with shoppable goods from many brands.
  • Bailian.AI — Bailian.ai is an artificial intelligence company that specializes in providing intelligent customer service. It aims to apply AI technology to deepen unstructured business information on the Internet into structured sales leads to help improve customers. Efficiency, reducing the cost of getting customers.Bailian Smart is committed to thedevelopment of automated knowledge generation technology based on deep learning, collecting, cleaning, extracting, screening and rewriting business information, refining it into precise and trustworthy knowledge and enhancing business awareness.
  • FundedHere — FundedHere Crowdfunding Platform
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Wang Tianmiao
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Wang Tianmiao

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Manufacturing, Product Research
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Xiaoyu Zhizao — Xiaoyu Zhizao is an industrial robot manufacturer, focusing on industrial robot manufacturing, intelligent robot research and development.
  • Xiangke Intelligence — Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, computer and robotics professionals, and industrial serial entrepreneurs founded Xiangke Intelligence. It was established by the former founder of "Speed Technology" and the general manager of SharkNinja China Robot R&D Centre.
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Qi Lu
Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Dr. Qi Lu works for Microsoft as president of the Online Services Group. Dr. Lu leads Microsoft’s efforts in search and online advertising and all the company’s online information and communications services. Dr. Lu reports directly to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.Dr. Qi Lu has also served as executive vice president ofengineering for Search and Advertising Technology Group at Yahoo where he leads development efforts around Yahoo's Web search and monetization platforms. Prior to joining Yahoo in 1998, Dr. Lu was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. Before that, Dr. Lu worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a Research Associate, and at Fudan University in China as a faculty member. He holds 20 U.S. patents, and received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Fudan University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Robotics
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $350k–$1.1M; Series A $5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AiMall — AiMall develops artificial intelligence technology designed to transform the traditional mall experience.
  • HydroX AI — HydroX AI empowers secure, scalable, and responsible AI adoption with cutting-edge safety, compliance, and red-teaming solutions. Discover how to protect your models, data, and users in an evolving AI landscape.
  • Jacobi Robot — Jacobi Robot creates generic artificial intelligence and cross-embodiment control methods for robots. It applies AI/AGI to the physical environment, allowing intelligent robots to assist a variety of sectors and households.
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Jerry Chih Yuan Yang
Angel · Los Altos, California, United States · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Jerry co-founded Yahoo! in 1995 and served on its Board and as a member of its executive team until 2012. Jerry was instrumental in building Yahoo!’s relationships with Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba and continues to be a thought leader in China and Asia. Jerry currently sits on Board of Directors for Workday, Alibaba, and Lenovo. He is now a foundingmember of AME Cloud Ventures. He started AME Cloud Ventures with the belief that data, cloud, and hardware advances will create unprecedented opportunities for great companies to be built. Jerry enjoys meeting and learning from entrepreneurs with big ideas and deep tech.

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  • Industry: Computer, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $12M–$25M; Series A $1M–$40M; Series B $26M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
  • Astrocade — The ultimate Social Gaming Universe where anyone can create, share, and play casual games. No coding or downloads required.
  • Mandolin — Mandolin replaces fragmented workflows with AI agents that execute the end-to-end lifecycle, including intake, benefits, prior authorizations, and revenue cycle management. Increase throughput without increasing headcount.
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Duan Liping
Angel · Nankang, Jiangxi, China · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Liping Duan is an individual investor in China.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: PaaS, Hardware, Software
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Dudu Power — Dudu IoT is an innovative enterprise integrating IoT software and hardware R&D, design and brand operation. A convenient and fashionable way of exchanging batteries for electric bicycles.
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Hu Yu
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Hu Yu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Coffee, Hardware, Robotics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • xBloom — Discover the art of specialty coffee at home with xBloom. Crafted by global experts, experience the exquisite complexity in every cup. Elevate your coffee journey today.
  • Robosen — Robosen sells programmable robots. The robot can be controlled by voice and by mobile applications found on Apple Store and Google Play. There are 4 programming methods for the toy robot. Toy robots are great for STEM learning. Learn through play with robotic toys. Great for kids.
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Nick Yang
Angel · Detroit, Michigan, United States · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Nick Yang is a Venture Partner with the Beijing office. Mr. Yang is a co-founder, president, Director and Chief Technology Officer of KongZhong, a successful ePlanet portfolio company.Prior to establishing KongZhong in 2002, Mr. Yang served as Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer of Sohu.com Inc., which merged with ChinaRenInc., a company co-founded by Mr. Yang in 1999.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Aerospace, Transportation
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ehang — Ehang is a technology enterprise focused on R&D and production in airplane and aircraft field. With the combination of software and hardware techniques, it self-developed the communication and real-time viewing hardware and a smartphone operation system. Its product, Ghost, is accepted as the first truly smartphone app operated intelligentrobot, which is widely used in geographical information surveying, professional television aerial filming, roadshow displaying, disaster rescuing and delivery, surveillance and monitoring, and even expected to play important role in the future logistics areas.Ehang was founded in 2014 by makers from China, America, and Singapore who are enthusiastic about drone flying. The enterprise’s core members graduated from Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Duke University in America.
  • HeyPal
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Andrew Andrew
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Andrew is the founding partner of brizan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Changyao Innovation — Changyao Innovation is a cutting-edge technological company. It provides intelligent robots to families. The current first-generation devices emphasize automating the entire grass management process. The main focus is on robotic lawnmowers with a vision-based full process.
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Michael Diekmann
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Michael Diekmann is Supervisory Board Member at Siemens.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: mHealth, CleanTech, Smart Home
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: China, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BERGLUF — BERGLUF develops and sells air purification system products.
  • Huma — AI health infrastructure powering modern health systems
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Yuri Milner
Angel · Los Altos Hills, California, United States · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Yuri Milner started investing in Internet in 1999 and in 2009 founded DST Global, one of the leading Internet investment firms globally with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, and London. Yuri has a degree in theoretical physics and attended the Wharton MBA program. Foundations that he established are celebrating outstanding achievements inscience and supporting fundamental research in physics, mathematics and life sciences.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $2.5M–$30M; Series B $10M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Perk (formerly TravelPerk) — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
  • HiNOTE — HiNOTE: modern messaging for any occasion. Customize & send your best text, card, invite, social post with individuality, high-touch humor & style.
  • XiaoBangGuiHua — XiaoBangGuiHua is an intelligent investment advisory service platform. Through intelligent robot algorithm and advanced asset allocation model, it provides investors with scientific and systematic financial management solutions, including small help investment app, Bin Xu said investment series, love said finance and economics
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Mingming Zhu
Angel · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · 1 investments in China Hardware 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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Kingsley Advani
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Kingsley Advani (born October 24, 1993, in London, United Kingdom) is a British tech entrepreneur, investor, and author based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is the Founder and CEO of Allo, an exchange for tokenized stocks managing over $2 billion in tokenized real-world assets, and the founder of Allocations, a fintech platform that has grownto administer more than $2 billion in assets across 30,000+ high-net-worth clients.Advani began his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 13, launching a digital commerce business on eBay, before discovering Bitcoin in 2011 while studying finance and economics. In 2013, he allocated his IBM internship savings into Bitcoin and other emerging cryptocurrencies, becoming an early investor in what later became a multi-billion-dollar asset class. By his mid-twenties, he had invested in more than 200 companies, including unicorns such as SpaceX, Solana, Coinbase, Robinhood, and eToro.In 2017, he co-founded a global investor syndicate that collectively managed more than $4 billion in assets. Two years later, he launched Allocations, a platform providing infrastructure for fund administration, SPVs, and private market investments. CNBC recognized him as the “Blockchain Oracle” for his early insights into cryptocurrency adoption and market trends.Through his ventures, Advani has become a leading voice in fintech, blockchain, tokenization, private markets, and Web3, with frequent speaking engagements at global conferences including the SF Blockchain Summit, Beyond Blocks, Coinfest Asia, and the Ritossa Summit in Dubai. His commentary emphasizes how blockchain and emerging technologies can democratize access to alternative assets and reduce the barriers to launching micro-funds.Advani is also the author of The Blockchain Oracle: How Technology, Finance, and Vision Shape the Future of Global Investing (2025), a book that explores the intersection of blockchain, fintech, and global finance.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Biotechnology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $120k–$4.5M; Series A $4M–$183M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Orbit Fab — Orbit Fab is creating the future of on-orbit satellite refueling. We maximize your operational assets by enabling mission flexibility and freedom of action in space.
  • Juvenescence — We extend healthy lifespan through developing innovative medicines that target core aging mechanisms to not only treat but prevent age-related diseases.
  • Volumetric — Advanced materials and 3D biofabrication.
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Xiangyang Yang
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Xiangyang Yang

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Aerospace, Industrial, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Eyemore — Eyemore provides AI vision imaging solutions.
  • Sington — Sington is a manufacturer of high-performance composite materials. Sington focuses on high-performance alloy material design, vehicle lightweight design, aluminum alloy integrated hot stamping technology, etc.
  • 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.
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Padmasree Warrior
Angel · San Jose, California, United States · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Padmasree Warrior is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Fable. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of NextEV, U.S. She also serves as the Chief Development Officer of NextEV, as well as a member of its Board of Directors. In these capacities, she is responsible for the brains of NextEV's autonomous, electric vehiclesand the overall user experience. She is based in San Jose, CA where NextEV US is headquartered.Previously, Warrior served as the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer (CTSO) for Cisco until September 2015. In this capacity she was charged with aligning the company's technology and business strategy to business results. She was in charge of corporate strategy, mergers, acquisitions, venture investments, and strategic partnerships. Previous to that she was the GM for Cisco Enterprise segment and co-led Cisco's worldwide engineering organization. Prior to joining Cisco, she was executive vice president and CTO at Motorola. Under her leadership, Motorola was awarded the 2004 U.S. National Medal of Technology.Padmasree Warrior has been widely recognized for her creative, visionary leadership. Forbes has named her one of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" for three years running. In 2013, The International Alliance for Women gave her the World of Difference Award. In 2012, Business Insider called her one of the "25 Most Influential Women in Wireless". The Aspen Institute gave her the first Leadership in Science and Technology Award. India's National Association of Software & Service Companies (NASSCOM) named her the Global CTO Award winner. The Wall Street Journal has called her one of "50 Women to Watch." Fast Company included her among the "100 Most Creative People in Business." The Economic Times listed her as "the 11th Most Influential Global Indian."Warrior holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi and a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University. In addition to NextEV's board, Warrior serves on the board of Microsoft. She previously served on the board of Gap and Box.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Genetics, Automotive
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NIO — NIO Inc. is a pioneer in China’s premium smart electric vehicle market. NIO’s mission is to shape a joyful lifestyle by offering premium smart electric vehicles and being the best user enterprise. NIO designs, jointly manufactures, and sells smart and connected premium electric vehicles, driving innovations in next generation technologies inconnectivity, autonomous driving and artificial intelligence. Redefining the user experience, NIO provides users with comprehensive, convenient and innovative charging solutions and other user-centric services. NIO began deliveries of the ES8, a 7-seater high-performance premium electric SUV in China in June 2018, and its variant, the six-seater ES8, in March 2019. NIO officially launched the ES6, a 5-seater high-performance premium electric SUV, in December 2018 and began deliveries in June 2019. NIO officially launched the EC6, a 5-seater smart premium electric Coupe SUV, in December 2019 and plans to commence deliveries in 2020.
  • Color — Color is a population health technology company that focuses on providing large-scale health care programs and clinical testing. It improves the key health infrastructure systems to make health accessible, convenient, and cost-effective, serving health systems, employers, research institutions, and individual consumers.Its Population GenomicsPlatform offers modular and end-to-end solutions that enable organizations to effectively build and scale population health programs. It provides technology, software, and clinical services to help population programs launch and scale quickly. By combining innovative technology, specialized laboratory infrastructure, and clinical health services, Color creates complete and effective programs that include: Program strategy, planning, and implementation; Participant outreach and engagement; participant education and consent about testing and results; sample (blood or saliva) collection and genetic sequencing; data management and clinical reporting; HIPAA compliance and data security; return of results; clinical services, like genetic counseling and clinical pharmacy; personalized care routine; and ongoing population health management. Color’s partners include NorthShore University Health System, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Ochsner Health System, Verily, Visa, Levi Strauss, and Salesforce.Elad Gil, Nish Bhat, Taylor Sittler, and Othman Laraki launched Color in 2015 and is based in Burlingame, California.
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Ratan Tata
Angel · Houston, Texas, United States · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Ratan Tata is the Founder and Managing Director of RNT Associates.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GOQii — GOQii is headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. It is dedicated to enabling a permanent shift to a healthier lifestyle with the combination of advanced wearable technology, the world's leading experts, coaches and karma. GOQii focuses on sustained engagement & goal reinforcement and offers a complete ecosystem asa single integrated solution, which is a powerful combination of technology and human connection. GOQii is a collaboration of some of the world's leading experts and an amazing management team who are driven by a passion for healthy sustainable living, and who believe that all of us contain boundless potential. GOQii's goal is to enable millions of people across the world to "be the force" by helping them unleash their untapped potential.
  • Repos energy — Repos energy is a e-commerce of Fuel to move towards a carbon neutral future.
  • Goodfellows — Goodfellows aims to offer companionship to lonely senior citizens.
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Peng Zhang
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Peng Zhang

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hardware, Blockchain
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Star Mine Technology — Star Mine Technology launched the world's first truly intelligent device with distributed data structure technology and business model - "Fans" with "Hardware + System" to establish a win-win community between star IP and fan users With a permanent and intelligent contract mechanism, through the deep interaction of real,trustworthy and continuous, realize the IP value and change the ecological future!
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Xiaohua Cheng
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Xiaohua Cheng is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Changyao Innovation — Changyao Innovation is a cutting-edge technological company. It provides intelligent robots to families. The current first-generation devices emphasize automating the entire grass management process. The main focus is on robotic lawnmowers with a vision-based full process.
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Hao Chen
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Hao Chen is an founder of Shokz.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wearables, Manufacturing, Virtual Reality
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Xianshun Technology — Xianshun Technology develops near-eye display optical systems and integrates them with ultra-low-power hardware architecture to give consumers with AR smart glasses.
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Fei Gesheng
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Fei Gesheng is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Semiconductor, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hanxu Technology — Hanxu Technology is a computing chip research and development business that focuses on the new paradigm of magnetic computing.
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Mark Yang
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Haoyong Yang is the founder and CEO of Ganji.com and Chehaoduo (Parent company of Guazi and Maodou).Prior to founding Ganji, Yang worked in Silicon Valley for various technology companies such as Juniper Networks and was also the co-founder of Triomphe Networks. Yang is the President and Chairman of Google China joint venture.Markgraduated from Yale University with a Master Degree in Computer Science and University of Science and Technology with a Master’s Degree in Engineering.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Automotive, Electronics
  • Stage:Series A, Series E
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chehaoduo — Chehaoduo designs an online car trading platform that sells used cars. Its online car trading platform directly links individual car sellers and buyers, which help buyers remove the middlemen as well as purchase used cars easily. Haoyong Yang founded Chehaoduo in 2014, with its headquarters in Beijing in China, with branches in Chinese citiessuch as Hangzhou and Chongqing.
  • Qiezi Zhimai Wang — Qiezi Zhimai Wang offers AI-based consumer electronic products.
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Trupti Nanavati
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Trupti Nanavati

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Local, Messaging, Navigation
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Chalkboard — Chalkboard is a daily marketing solution for EVERY small business enabling businesses to communicate instantly, locally, and socially over mobile and web. Business owners can communicate today’s special, real-time updates and business information to people nearby their location with the simplicity of a real chalkboard. Chalkboard works withthousands of local businesses and reaches millions of consumers thru 3-party mobile apps, websites, and navigation systems.
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Xiaopeng He
Angel · Guangzhou, Guangdong, China · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

He Xiaopeng is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of UCWeb Inc. and is in charge of the overall product design and R&D of the company. He has extensive working experience in foreign owned enterprises and as an entrepreneur. He and Liang Jie jointly founded UCWeb in 2004. Under their leadership, UCWeb’s product and technology hasgained significant market share in China. In 2011, He and his team developed proprietary U3 engine, being the first proprietary technology developed in the mobile browser industry in China.Before joining UCWeb, He worked as Technology Manager, Testing Manager, and Project Manager at AsiaInfo Technologies (China) Co., Ltd.He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from South China University of Technology in 1999.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Autonomous Vehicles, Computer, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WeRide — WeRide, A Smart Mobility Company With Leading L4 AD Technologies.
  • Xpeng Motors — Xiaopeng Motors is an electric vehicle and technology company that designs and manufactures intelligent mobility solutions.
  • Zhishan Weixin Biotechnology — Zhishan Weixin Biotechnology integrates gene-drug research and development to treat genetic and neurodegenerative diseases. The company focuses on the research and development and subversive production of rAAV gene drugs. Zhishan Weixin's therapeutic areas cover blood diseases, rare diseases, and other disease areas.
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Shen Qin
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

He is a partner at Shengyu Investment / Sharewin Investment, and a follow-up investor for them as well.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series C
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Longsailing — Longsailing is a semiconductor manufacturing firm that works on smart connectivity and wireless sectors.
  • Yizhun Intelligent — Yizhun Intelligent is an AI & Robotics company.
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Jui Tan
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Jui has 10 years of industry experience and 20 years of early-stage technology investment experience in Asia and the United States. He joined Bluerun Ventures (Silicon Valley) in 2000, and founded Lanchi Ventures in 2005. He focuses on early-stage investment in enterprise services and hard technology. Jui led the early-stage investments in manyhigh potential projects such as Ganji.com, PPTV, QingCloud(600316.SH), Yi Auto, and iKingtech, and participated in several major strategic mergers and acquisitions in the industry, including Ganji.com/58.com. Before joining Lanchi Ventures, Jui held various management positions within Singapore Telecom. Prior to this, he held engineering management positions at IBM, focusing on computing and networking systems. Jui holds a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and an MBA degree from IMD Lausanne, Switzerland. He was recognized by the Forbes’ Midas List as the world’s top 50 venture capitalists.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Search Engine, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$60M; Series A $4.2M–$50M; Series B $14M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KEYi Tech — ClicBot let you build robot like toy blocks, super easy to use, much fun to play.
  • Availink — Availink (中天联科) is a company focused on designing chips using semiconductors for digital TV and multimedia areas, and developing application systems. Its product line extends to every specified market ranging from satellite television demodulator chips, to the fields of digital TV. The satellite television demodulator chip, covers all digitaltelevision technology standards such as satellites, ground surfaces, and wired. Availink provides many kinds of demodulation and decoding chips. The chip-based system platform schemes and multimedia solutions can mainly be applied to the rapidly developing digital TV field while providing products and services for global enterprise clients.Established in 2005, Availink was founded by a team of scientists. Currently It has a professional core management team with years of R&D experience. Availinks' accumulated chips shipped more than one hundred million pieces.
  • MainFunc — MainFunc is a technology company building AI‑driven productivity tools, with a focus on enabling users, including knowledge workers and teams, to get real work done via autonomous AI agents. The company’s flagship product is Genspark, an AI workspace that automates tasks by collecting information from web searches, emails, meetings, and calls,processing it through a “Super Agent” that orchestrates many specialized AI sub‑agents, and generating outputs like full reports, slide decks, spreadsheets, or even prototype applications.In addition to productivity automation, MainFunc markets Genspark as an enhanced search and research tool: when users query the web, Genspark generates consolidated, bias‑reduced summaries using multiple underlying large‑language or multimodal models rather than relying on traditional keyword‑based ranking.
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Wei Tao
Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Wei Tao - Founder @ Z Ventures Group

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hardware, Software, Automotive
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • JDO Auto — JDO Auto is a full-service software and hardware company for internet of vehicles.
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Ms. Zhu Xinai
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Ms. Zhu Xinai, Chairman of Shanghai Laimu Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Electronics, Manufacturing, Packaging Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Jiejiazhi — Jiejiazhi is a manufacturer and developer of intelligent controller PCBAs, offering comprehensive services for manufacturing, component procurement, testing, assembly, quality inspection, and packaging. The company's business covers industrial controllers, medical products, new energy car electronics and smart home in many fields, offeringprofessional PCBA manufacturing services including SMT stickers, DIP plugins, assembly, testing, and combining innovative R&D capabilities, to provide a one-stop solution for customers from concept to finished product.
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Tang Kaijian
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Tang Kaijian

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Stial — Stial is a manufacturer of adaptable polishing robots.
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Li Zexiang
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Li was born in Hunan, China and received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Economics (with honors) from Carnegie-Mellon University, his MA degree in Mathematics and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Li worked as a research scientist in the Artificial IntelligenceLaboratory of MIT and as an assistant professor in the Robotics and Manufacturing Laboratory of New York University. He received the National Natural Science Award (3rd class) from China, the University Scholar Award from Carnegie-Mellon University, the E.I. Jury Award from UC Berkeley, the Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation, the ALCOA Fellowship from the ALCOA Foundation and the E. Anthony Fellowship from UC Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Robotics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sengine — Sengine is an AIGC company that provides automatic design systems for human living spaces, home improvement, and industrial supply chains.
  • BOTINKIT — Taking the most advanced robotics technology and data-based algorithms, we are enabling possible an easier, smarter and healthier cooking.
  • Homerun Smart — Shenzhen Qianhai Homa Technology Co., Ltd. is an independent research and development enterprise dedicated to artificial intelligence technology products. Headquartered in Guangzhou, the company has gathered high-tech talents from German technology R&D team and domestic well-known technology R&D team to provide independent research anddevelopment for the company. A solid technical guarantee. The development and production of smart pet feeders, smart pet companion robots and a variety of pet smart hardware are on the strategic agenda, and soon our smart hardware products will truly enter the family life and redefine the smart family lifestyle.
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Gong Hongjia
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Gong Hongjia is the the founder of Jiadao Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Life Science
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Angel $1.4M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KMAX — KMAX specializes in AR and VR content research and development. It has independently developed core technologies such as real-time 3D modeling, 3D generalized cloud connection, cloud VR resource rendering, and an editing engine.
  • CapitalBio Pharma — CapitalBio Pharma is a biotechnology company that specializes in innovative medicines to empower precise diagnosis and treatment. It is a subsidiary of CapitalBio Corporation.
  • Jiansheng Medicine — Jianersheng Pharmaceutical is a manufacturer of heavy metal detoxification drugs. It company is primarily involved in the research, development, and sale of special heavy metal detoxification drugs, such as special heavy metal detoxifiers and heavy metal diagnostic rapid detection kits.
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Zhi Tan
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Computer, Language Learning
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Yodo1 — Game developers of all sizes leverage Yodo1 tools to better market, manage and monetize their games, turning their titles into successful businesses.
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Xiaolai Li
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

BitFund was founded in the middle of 2013 by Xiaolai Li, started from as little as $3.5 Million, and within one year, BitFund became the most influential Venture Capital related to crypto-currency in China. Xiaolai Li, a middle-aged retired formal teacher, a life-long learner, an individual who has always been curious about innovations andenthusiastic on efficiency, Li is the first individual in China who has been publicly collecting bitcoins without trying to remain anonymous (everyone puts great emphasis on anonymity of bitcoin when they first know about bitcoin), therefore he is well-known in China, and became even more influential after the BitFund founded.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Computer, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: China, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$1.5M; Angel $425k–$425k; Series A $5.7M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WYAN — WYAN develops a stranger red social app that provides social services for users.
  • Zhongmei Group — A Media & Entertainment Company based in Hangzhou,China.
  • MASS MEDIA HOLDING GROUP — MASS MEDIA HOLDING GROUP integrates media operations, reputation management, media advertising, and integrated marketing.
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Chen Zhongping
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Chen Zhongping, chairman of Hongyang Home Decoration Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Gugong Robot — Gongong Robot is a manufacturer of intelligent construction equipment. Intelligent construction equipment, such as line-setting robots, precision leveling robots, and upper limb support exoskeletons, are among its key offerings, as are intelligent manufacturing equipment for construction parts, such as steel cage flexible manufacturing productionlines.
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Adrian Cheng
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Adrian Cheng is based out of Hong Kong and served as the Non-executive Director and Non-executive Vice-chairman of New World Development. Adrian attended the Harvard University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Blockchain, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, China, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$102M; Series B $60M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
  • 1017 ALYX 9SM — The brand was created by Matthew Williams, based on the idea of using premium materials combined with subversive culture.
  • Story Protocol — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
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Amnon Shashua
Angel · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Amnon Shashua is the Chairman and Co Founder of Mentee Robotics. He previously worked at Intel Corporation as a Senior Vice President. Amnon Shashua attended Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.5M; Series A $5M–$750M; Series B $62M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AI21 Labs — AI21 Labs is an AI lab & product company whose mission is to reimagine the way we read and write by making the machine a thought partner to humans.
  • Zeekr — Explore the premium, intelligent, pure electric vehicles brand, Zeekr. Check out the Zeekr electric vehicles with cutting-edge design and world-leading technology.
  • ONE ZERO — FDB is Israel's first digital bank to incorporate artificial intelligence.
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Lu Xiaochen
Angel · Nankang, Jiangxi, China · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Xiaochen Lu is an investor in China.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: PaaS, Hardware, Software
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Dudu Power — Dudu IoT is an innovative enterprise integrating IoT software and hardware R&D, design and brand operation. A convenient and fashionable way of exchanging batteries for electric bicycles.
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Chen Weixing
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Chen Weixing

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Logistics, Enterprise
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • oTMS — oTMS is the leading one-stop transportation platform. oTMS aims to build the first successful business community based transport management & e-sourcing platform in China. With cloud computing and mobile internet technology, oTMS provides SaaS (software as a service) to users in order to seamlessly connect the shippers, logistics and transportproviders, drivers and consignees to tender, execute, track and bill for transport services in an entirely digitalized, real time workflow to boost customer service experience at a much better cost.
  • FangCloud Technology — FangCloud Technology core founding team has assisted Box, the world's largest enterprise cloud storage service provider, to land on the New York Stock Exchange successfully.the company is committed to providing the most professional file management services, that is to achieve a seamless connection between employers, employees and data througha secure and convenient file access, sharing and collaboration, and to help enterprises maximize their value in "core digital assets".
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Lu Feng
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Lu Feng is the Executive Director/Partner at Guangyuan Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Changyao Innovation — Changyao Innovation is a cutting-edge technological company. It provides intelligent robots to families. The current first-generation devices emphasize automating the entire grass management process. The main focus is on robotic lawnmowers with a vision-based full process.
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Hu Zemin
Angel · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Hu Zemin is a Chinese investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Catering, Computer, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zhichang Daren — Zhichang Daren is a brand of instant fresh stewed porridge.
  • Wanche Jiaoshou — Wanche Jiaoshou is an automotive vertical media platform.
  • Sunmi Technology — Shanghai Sunmi Technology Co., Ltd is a technological innovation-based enterprise that has been focusing on providing O2O internet platforms, software developers, and traditional businesses with professional intelligent commercial hardware equipment that featuring high level of cost performance.Sunmi Tech “Born to intelligent commercialequipment”, helps O2O platforms and software developers on better serving entities and merchants through intelligent hardware products researched and developed by itself, and provides offline merchants with intelligent commercial hardware solutions of the mobile internet age. “Sunmi , stand by you” is our brand concept, which means they will make the business more intelligent together with our partners.Sunmi Tech is the first internet enterprise in the commercial application sector that has received 2 successive rounds of financing from Xiaomi Tech. They also received the strategic investment from outstanding internet enterprises such as Dianping.com and YouShop during Round B. Based on several years of experiences on the R&D of commercial hardware, the Sunmi group hopes to integrate the upstream and downstream supply chains, cooperate with resources on the internet platform, and bring values to the partners as well as the new commercial civilization through ultimate hardware product experiences.
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Charles Xue
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in China Hardware startups

Charles Xue, also known as Xue Manzi, is a Chinese-American angel investor and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of UT Starcom and has invested in Chinese internet startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Retail, Information Technology
  • Stage:Angel, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Angel $134k–$850k; Series A $425k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DeLink (DELC)
  • Huaqin Zhilian — Huaqin Zhilian is a manufacturer of smart robot convenience devices in the field of smart retail.
  • YEUNGS SAGE E-COMMERCE
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Hardware Angel investor funding in China at a glance

Stats across 11 deals from 12 investors.

12
investors
in China Hardware startups
11
deals
in China Hardware startups
$4.8M
median round
in China Hardware startups
33%
lead investors
lead at least one round
36%
Angel
most common funding stage

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