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Top 40 Hardware Angel Investors in China

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 40 angel investors that invest in Hardware startups based in China. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from China. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Hardware Angel Investors in China

Investor	Hardware China investments
Bingqiang Gao	4
Wei Guo	3
Bob Xiaoping Xu	2
Lei Ming	2
Amnon Shashua	1
Wei Tao	1
Tony Zhao	1
Xiaohua Cheng	1
Hu Zemin	1
Chen Weixing	1
Wanqiang Li	1
HP Jin	1
Qi Lu	1
Li Zexiang	1
Zhi Tan	1
Jui Tan	1
Mingming Zhu	1
Lu Xiaochen	1
Adrian Cheng	1
Michael Diekmann	1
Tang Kaijian	1
Qiyu Chuangying	1
Gan Jie	1
Lu Feng	1
Yuri Milner	1
Padmasree Warrior	1
Peng Zhang	1
Charles Xue	1
Hu Yu	1
Amit Nanavati	1
Kingsley Advani	1
Mark Yang	1
Xiaolai Li	1
Ming Lei	1
Nick Yang	1
Xiangyang Yang	1
Trupti Nanavati	1
Xiaopeng He	1
Gong Hongjia	1
Duan Liping	1

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

Investment focus

Hardware, Robotics, Electronics
Seed, Angel
China, United States

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.
Insep Technology — Insep Technology is an insect protein technology and product developer.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.

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.

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.

Lei Ming

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Hardware
Seed, Series A
China

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.

Professor Shashua is the President & CEO of Mobileye and a Senior Vice President at Intel Corporation. He also holds the Sachs Chair in computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Widely regarded as a global expert in computer vision and machine learning, Shashua has published over 120 papers in the field of machine learning andcomputational vision, holds more than 90 patents, and has founded three startups in the fields of computer vision and machine learning.In 1999, he founded Mobileye, which is a widely recognized leader in automated driving and advanced driving assistance systems. Intel acquired Mobileye in 2017 for $15.3B. Today, more than 80 million cars rely on Mobileye technology to make their vehicles safer. Mobileye has revealed a production ready robotaxi, and offers a variety of autonomous mobility solutions.In 2019, Shashua was recognized as the Electronic Imaging (EI) Scientist of the Year by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) for his pivotal contributions to computer vision and machine learning, and for advancing autonomous driving and wearable assistive devices for the blind and visually impaired. Shashua and his team were also finalists in the European Inventor Awards of 2019, awarded by the European Patent Office, for their advanced driver assistance technology which is making roads safer worldwide. In 2020, Shashua was awarded the prestigious Dan David Prize (Future Category) for his ground-breaking work in artificial intelligence.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Natural Language Processing
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States, China

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 — Zeekr develops and manufactures premium electric vehicles and automobiles. It specializes in the fields of electronics, automotive and electric vehicles.
ONE ZERO — FDB is Israel's first digital bank to incorporate artificial intelligence.

Wei Tao - Founder @ Z Ventures Group

Investment focus

Hardware, Software, Automotive
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

JDO Auto — JDO Auto is a full-service software and hardware company for internet of vehicles.

Tony Zhao - Founder & CEO @ Agora.io

Investment focus

Computer, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series B
United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Alluxio — Alluxio is an open source data orchestration layer that brings data close to compute for big data and AI/ML workloads in the cloud.
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.

Xiaohua Cheng is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Robotics, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Angel
China

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.

Hu Zemin is a Chinese investor.

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.

Chen Weixing

Investment focus

SaaS, Logistics, Enterprise
Series A, Series B, Series C
China

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".

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Art, Apps
Angel, Series A, Funding Round
China

Portfolio highlights

Dayou — Dayou is a metaverse digital space service provider.
reddoon.ai — reddoon.ai creates professional-quality product images.
Optimist — Optimist is a private consumer brand that creates gear for artificial intelligence. It manufactures AI hardware products.

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.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Robotics, Furniture
Seed, Series A
China, United States

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.

Dr. Qi Lu works for Microsoft as president of the Online Services Group. Dr. Lu leads Microsoftâ€™s efforts in search and online advertising and all the companyâ€™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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Technology
Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
China, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AiMall — AiMall develops artificial intelligence technology designed to transform the traditional mall experience.
Cloudera — Cloudera delivers a hybrid cloud platform for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Big Data, Robotics, 3D Printing
Series A, Seed, Series C
China

Portfolio highlights

BOTINKIT — Taking the most advanced robotics technology and data-based algorithms, we are enabling possible an easier, smarter and healthier cooking.
INTAMSYS — INTAMSYS offers a range of Fused Filament Fabrication technology 3D printers. Discover tomorrow' all-in-one 3D printing solutions.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Gaming, Computer, Language Learning
Series A
China

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.

Jui Tan is a General Partner with BlueRun China. He joined the firm in March 2001. He focuses on communications, software and semiconductor investments.Jui has 15 years of experience managing international investments and operations. Previous experience includes Director of Global Service Development at Singapore Telecom, responsible forSingTel’s managed data and voice services globally, and engineering management positions at IBM, focusing on computing and networking systems.Jui received his B.S. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and M.B.A. from the International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland.

Investment focus

TV, Digital Media, Digital Entertainment
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

KEYi Tech — ClicBot let you build robot like toy blocks, super easy to use, much fun to play.
PPIO — PPIO is a distributed cloud computing project initiated by PPTV founders Bill YAO and Wayne Wang in 2018. The goal is to build a decentralized distributed cloud service platform. The mission is to gather global computing resources and serve all mankind. PPIO is based on the business model of sharing economy, combined with big data, cloud native anddistributed computing technology, and gathers professional server resources at the edge of network to build the first distributed cloud service covering all provinces, cities, districts and counties in China to serve the next generation edge computing scenarios with low-latency, high-bandwidth, reliability and security. At present, it has become the main provider of distributed cloud services for many first-line audio and video internet giants, cloud computing companies and unicorn startups at home and abroad.At present, there are micro data centers and distributed computing resources in more than 1000 cities and regions in China, which can provide eBareMetal, and eContainer at the edge of network nationwide, as well as edge computing services such as CDN, audio and video live streaming and transcoding, application performance monitoring, AI computing reasoning and cloud game rendering based on distributed cloud native architecture.
Ganji — Ganji.com is a Chinese domestic classified website.As a web portal in China where users publish and exchange information, Ganji.com has been providing a variety of local information, such as estates for rent or sale, jobs, second hand products, used cars, pets, tickets, education, training, group purchase, and more. Targeting the untapped localbusiness market, Ganji.com is building a massive user- and content-focused online community platform where both the users' and local merchants' needs are met.The website aggregates a large amount of real-time information because by the end of June 2011, there were around 890,000 users posting per day.Launched in 2005, the website has reached users in over 343 cities in China with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.The company completed a $70 million Series C round from Capital Today and Sequoia on May 6, 2011. China Renaissance acted as the exclusive financial advisor for Ganji.com.

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.

Investment focus

Fashion, Robotics, Lifestyle
Angel, Seed
China, Singapore

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 is a platform that enables open and transparent self-custody of digital assets.

Xiaochen Lu is an investor in China.

Investment focus

PaaS, Hardware, Software
Angel
China

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.

Adrian Cheng is the Executive Vice Chairman and General Manager of New World Development, Executive Director of Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group, founder of K11 Group and co-founder of C Ventures. Based in Hong Kong and Europe, he is heading the operation of the family company New World Development, a $55bn infrastructure-to-retail group with holdingsin China and worldwide. Cheng is reinventing the family business as a “cultural enterprise” and expanding ownership to new areas including AI, entertainment and e-commerce, with a focus on China’s millennial and Generation Z audience.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Fashion
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, China, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Hex Trust — Access custody, DeFi, brokerage, and financing services built on regulated infrastructure with Hex Trust, fully-licensed and insured digital asset custodian in Asia.
Micro Connect — Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
NaaS Technology — NaaS Technology is a provider of electric vehicle charging services for operators and owners. The company also offers one-stop services to charging pile manufacturers and operators, OEMs, companies with their own delivery fleets, and fleet operators, covering the entire value chain across the EV sector with online, offline, and non-electricservices. It had linked 290,000 chargers, with an annual charging capacity of more than 1,200 gigatonnes.NaaS Technology aims to make charging facilities more efficient and to incorporate this into structural changes to China's energy infrastructure, achieving an important step toward carbon neutrality.

Michael Diekmann is Supervisory Board Member at Siemens.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Tang Kaijian

Investment focus

Robotics, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Stial — Stial is a manufacturer of adaptable polishing robots.

Qiyu Chuangying is a individual investor.

Investment focus

Robotics, Security, Automotive
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Ruizhu Technology — Ruizhu Technology is focused on 3D ranging technology in the field of lidar. It is a Sino-foreign joint venture founded by foreign A-class experts and jointly invested by leading listed companies in the industry, government-industry funds, and venture capital. The company's workplace is in Zhongguancun, Haidian District. The founding team hasworked closely with two Nobel Prizes.

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.

Investment focus

Retail, Electronics
Angel
China

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.

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

Investment focus

Robotics, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Angel
China

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.

Yuri Milner is the Founder of the Breakthrough Prize. He attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Moscow State University.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HiNOTE — HiNOTE: modern messaging for any occasion. Customize & send your best text, card, invite, social post with individuality, high-touch humor & style.
Lori Systems — Lori is a venture-backed start-up building the cutting-edge logistics infrastructure for trucking in Africa. The start-up is tackling a massive issue - $180 billion is spent annually on haulage across Africa, which means that up to 75% of a product’s cost is due to logistics (compared to 6% in the US).Lori’s tech-enabled and operations-drivenmarketplace efficiently connects transport to cargo. The supply chain management system brings transparency and has pushed significantly improved flexibility, reliability, and cost savings (savings upwards of 18%).The company has experienced 30% month-over-month compounded growth since product launch in May 2017. The market demand for Lori’s platform is increasing exponentially. To continue this pace of growth, Lori recently closed a landmark raise from globally leading institutional and strategic investors. The company won Techcrunch Battlefield Africa.
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

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Genetics, Automotive
Series A
China, United States

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.

Peng Zhang

Investment focus

Hardware, Blockchain
Angel
China

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!

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Retail
Series A, Angel, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

DeLink (DELC) —
Huaqin Zhilian — Huaqin Zhilian is a manufacturer of smart robot convenience devices in the field of smart retail.
YEUNGS SAGE E-COMMERCE —

Hu Yu

Investment focus

Coffee, Hardware, Robotics
Seed, Series A
China, United States

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.

Amit Nanavati - Managing Director @ Bralco Advanced Materials

Investment focus

Local, Banking, Messaging
Seed, Angel, Series A
China, India

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.

Kingsley Advani is a British investor. He started investing in 2013, funding 50 companies, 4 funds and donating to non-profits including: SENS Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Stanford University, National University of Singapore. He is particularly interested in regenerative medicine for age-related disease. Investments: Oisin, Turn Bio,Oncosenx, Monzo, Robinhood, Abra, Coinbase, Momentus, Demonpores, 64-x, Nectome. Investment areas: biotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity, space, fintech.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
Allocations — 10,000+ investors and fund managers build, onboard and close funds on Allocations - the fastest and most advanced fund platform in the world
Ashvattha Therapeutics — Ashvattha Therapeutics creates products that selectively target and treat human diseases. Ashvattha enables precision targeting for therapeutics eliminating off-target toxicity, systemic side effects, and immunogenicity seen in other platforms. Ashvattha has a pipeline of nine therapeutics in neurology, oncology, and ophthalmology.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Automotive, Electronics
Series A, Series E
China

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.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Social Media, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Angel, Series A
China, Singapore, United States

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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Angel
China, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Collov — 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

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.

Investment focus

Robotics, Aerospace, Transportation
Seed, Series A
China

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 —

Xiangyang Yang

Investment focus

Aerospace, Industrial, Manufacturing
Series A, Angel
China

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.

Trupti Nanavati

Investment focus

Local, Messaging, Navigation
Angel
China

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.

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.

Investment focus

Autonomous Vehicles, Computer, Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
China

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 smart cars.

Gong Hongjia

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Computer
Seed, Angel, Series C
China

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.
POROSVOC — POROSVOC is an audio processing technology company that offers chip-level core services for intelligent voice enhancement and intelligent voice interaction solutions for financial equipment, communication equipment, robots, smart home products, small household appliances, and other industries.
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.

Liping Duan is an individual investor in China.

Investment focus

PaaS, Hardware, Software
Angel
China

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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