Top 15 Local Startup Investors in China (August 2026)
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HSG
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States, Australia | Series B, Series A, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Software | $2M–$282M |
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Trupti Nanavati
Angel
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1 | China | Angel | Local, Messaging, Navigation | |
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Amit Nanavati
Angel
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1 | China, India | Seed, Angel, Series A | Local, Banking, Messaging | |
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Telescope Investment
VC Fund
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1 | China, Nigeria, Australia | Series A, Angel, Series B | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Fashion | $67k–$11M |
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Xiaomi
VC Fund
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1 | China, India, Indonesia | Series A, Series B, Series C | Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology | $1.4M–$220M |
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Beijing Yiming Education Investment Center
VC Fund
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1 | China | Series A | Local, Consumer, Home Services | |
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Decent Capital
VC Fund
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1 | China, United States, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Information Technology, Software | $425k–$25M |
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China Rundong Auto Group
VC Fund
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1 | China | Seed | Local, Automotive, Service Industry | |
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Lighthouse Capital Management
VC Fund
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1 | China, United States, Czech Republic | Series A, Seed, Angel | Hardware, Software, Apps | $425k–$50M |
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58.com
VC Fund
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1 | China, India, Hong Kong | Series A, Series B, Series C | Real Estate, Automotive, Retail | $1.4M–$300M |
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Tiger Global Management
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $9M–$284M |
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JC Capital
VC Fund
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1 | China, Vietnam, Philippines | Series A, Series B, Seed | Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology | $98k–$15M |
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Dongbu Ziben
VC Fund
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1 | China | Angel, Series A | Local, Retail, Catering | |
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Mitsui Global Investment
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, Israel | Series C, Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | |
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Huawei
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, United Kingdom | Angel, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing | |
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HSG is a leading venture capital and private equity firm investing globally in the technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: China, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 609
- Round size: Seed $2M–$60M; Series A $10M–$100M; Series B $14M–$282M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Z.ai — The AI Lab behind GLM models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity. https://t.co/7a5aSCUfnr https://t.co/x14hb3jO7O
- Full Truck Alliance — Full Truck Alliance is a platform that connects shippers with truckers to facilitate shipments across distance ranges and cargo weights. its revenues principally from shippers' and truckers' use of its platforms in connection with freight matching services.
- Suisheng Technology — Suisheng Technology is an innovative company specializing in AI-driven memory services, dedicated to developing intelligent solutions that help individuals and businesses capture, organize, and retrieve important information with greater efficiency and precision.
Telescope Investment is a private equity fund focusing on VC/PE investment projects in Chinese market. The office is located in Beijing. The founding team created its unique investment system out of their profound experience in consumer industry and advanced investment philosophy. Telescope Investment mainly focus on those top enterpriseswith high brand value in consumer goods, chain service, education, medical&health and culture industry. The investment stage covers both early stage and maturity stage and the investment scale varies from millions of dollars to tens of millions of dollars according to the specific circumstances of the projects.The investment team is composed of intelligent investment professionals with remarkable management ability and profound financial practical experience. As an emerging force in Chinese capital market, Telescope Investment spares no efforts to help Chinese enterprises achieve success with its advantages on intelligence, social resources and capital operation.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Fashion
- Stage:Series A, Angel, Series B
- Geography: China, Nigeria, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Angel $263k–$992k; Series A $67k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chuangkit — Chuangkit is a minimalist cloud online design platform based on cloud collaboration, intelligent assistance, image processing and other technologies. It allows users to easily create PPTs, posters, and infographics by simply dragging and dropping. New media pictures, e-commerce, roll-up and other designs.
- Starwhale — Star Whale Technology is an AI management and collaboration service provider that focuses on MLOps services, developing two functional data and model platforms and providing products and services such as MLOps platforms and tools.
- Lingyu Intelligence — Lingyu Intelligence engages in the manufacturing and sales of industrial robots, intelligent robots and service consumer robots.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: China, India, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 221
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$71M; Series B $2.8M–$63M; Series C $25M–$220M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Z.ai — The AI Lab behind GLM models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity. https://t.co/7a5aSCUfnr https://t.co/x14hb3jO7O
- RoboParty — RoboParty is a bipedal robot technology company that specializes in research, development, and engineering of humanoid robots.
- Hangzhou Xynova Technology Co. — Hangzhou Xynova Technology Co. develops robotic components, including dexterous hands, rotary actuators, and linear actuators.
Beijing Yiming Education Investment Center provides investment consulting, investment management, and asset management services.
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- Industry: Local, Consumer, Home Services
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zhuomuniao — Zhuomuniao is an appliance repair service platform.
Decent Capital is a venture capital firm with a cross-border presence. It was founded in 2007 by Jason Zeng, co-founder of Tencent Holdings Limited. Decent Capital has two teams, venture investment and asset management, with offices in Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore and the United States. Decent’s investment team invests from Seed to SeriesA, primarily focusing on SaaS, Consumer Internet, and Frontier Tech. Decent has invested in over 200 companies globally, spanning across the United States, China, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. Decent upholds strong dedication to post-investment management, they continue to heavily support their portfolio companies’ business operations, supply chain and logistics, and future fundraising efforts. While Decent’s emphasis is on early-stage investments, they prioritize continuing to support portfolio companies throughout growth, for example, Decent invested in Lime from Seed to Series D.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: China, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Seed $425k–$14M; Angel $425k–$2.3M; Series A $1.4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SigmaZ AI — SigmaZ, a pioneering AI lab aiming to redefine the interface between humans and information, has unveiled the product vision for Tap8, a platform designed to take AI interaction beyond today's text and voice interfaces and one-way video playback and into an interactive information interface that users can click, question, modify, and receivefeedback from in real time.
- Fuxi Quantum — Fuxi Quantum operates as an industrial research and development quantum application computing platform.The company integrates the workflow of industrial problem modeling, algorithm solving, hardware execution, and result verification into corporate research processes.
- Qingyu Technology — Qingyu Technology is a software development service company specializing in the research, development, and sales of intelligent robots.
China Rundong Auto Group Limited is an investment holding company which through its subsidiaries operates luxury automobile dealership stores and showrooms in the People’s Republic of China. It also provides after-sales services such as repair and maintenance services; sale of spare parts, and accessories and other automobile-related products. Inaddition, the company offers automobile-related value-added services such as consulting services for automobile purchase financing, automobile insurance agency services, facilitating the trading of pre-owned automobiles, and automobile financial lease and related consulting services. China Rundong Auto Group Limited was founded in 1998 and is based in Shanghai, China.
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- Industry: Local, Automotive, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Che Dada — Che Dada is a community-based aftermarket car service brand.
Lighthouse Capital Management is an early venture capital fund focusing on the Chinese and US markets. It has been focusing on angel/VC equity investment in excellent content and products and currently manages two RMB Fund and a dollar fund.The firm has invested in more than 40 growth projects in mainland China and overseas, focusing onhardware equipment and "Internet +" method empowerment and enterprise data services. It is managing billions of dollars in total assets, investing in the total market value of domestic and foreign companies over 100 Billion dollars.Lighthouse Capital was founded in 2011 and is based in Shanghai, China.
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- Industry: Hardware, Software, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: China, United States, Czech Republic
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Angel $425k–$850k; Series A $425k–$50M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $138M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Skysys — Skysys is a company that focuses on data acquisition and analysis services for drones. It provides customers with complete solutions for automatic charging, automatic scheduling, automatic acquisition and automatic analysis. It is committed to becoming the leading enterprise in data collection and analysis of Chinese civil rotary aircraft. From thedata and services to gold mining, the development of mature rotorcraft drone automatic driving artificial intelligence.
- Boshang — Boshang focuses on vertical industries, building low-cost and high-quality private LTE/5G private networks for enterprise customers, and providing slicing and in-depth customized services for different business needs.
- Foxdeli — Foxdeli helps online stores stay connected with customers from purchase to unboxing through transactional emails and easy shipment tracking.
58.com is a Chinese classified advertisements website enabling local merchants and consumers to publish information and advertise their service offerings in local communities. 58.com’s package includes target consumer group identification, services and products advertising, online marketing service, and customer relations management. Its aim isto provide a forum for the low income and jobless group. As the biggest online classifieds publisher, 58.com provides free, localized and credible information for voluntary users.Founded on December 12, 2005, and headquartered in Beijing, 58.com is China's for-profit version of Craigslist in the United States. It received $25 million in funding as investments from Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF) partners and DCM. It began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on October 31, 2013.As of November 2010, 58.com has set up branches in 32 cities, with 6,500 full-time staff serving over 50 million registered users. The site’s user base continues to grow, with more than 50,000 new users added per day. The average number of page views per unique visitor per day is 10, with 1 million posts per day. Due to its increasing website traffic volume and number of unique visitors and page views, 58.com is ranked the first among local life service websites. Its main competitors include Ganji.com and Baixing.com.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Automotive, Retail
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: China, India, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$16M; Series B $20M–$300M; Series C $25M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plum — Plum is an e-commerce platform for second-hand fashion products. It works as a one-stop consignment service platform that provides filming, sales, customer service, sale, and a full set of consignment services. Plum was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.
- Yidianling — Yidianling is a psychological counselling platform that provides free mental health services such as free questions and answers, psychological tests, expert services, and training lectures.
- Interhouse.cn — Don Quixote is a commercial digital platform that provides digital integration of design, construction, and operation delivery service. It uses BIM, cloud computing, big data, IoT, AI, and other information technologies to build a platform for chain commercial spaces.
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Browse database — It's Free!Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1234
- Round size: Series A $9M–$54M; Series B $20M–$130M; Series C $30M–$284M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.2B in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Kavak — KAVAK is an innovative company in the automotive industry that helps people acquire their own car, offering a wide range of guaranteed and certified cars.
- StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
- OfBusiness — Get latest raw materials prices, news and instant quotes for 500+ Categories across Steel, Aluminium, Agri and more
JC Capital is a venture capital institution specialized in early and mid-term technology investment.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: China, Vietnam, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $98k–$5.7M; Series A $1.4M–$15M; Series B $2.8M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ruishi Technology — Ruishi Technology develops Myopia prevention and control medical devices.
- Giant Microbiology — Giant Microbiology is a company that produces synthetic biological raw materials in an environmentally friendly manner for the fields of beauty and daily chemicals, functional foods, and medical beauty.. The business focuses on creating "high-gross-profit innovative products" that satisfy consumer demand and offer useful, cutting-edge rawmaterial solutions, with bioactive sugars serving as its starting point. Hyaluronic acid, oligosaccharides, and functional oligosaccharides are among the goods it primarily develops and produces.
- Guangna Development — Guangna Siwei is an optoelectronic device seller.
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- Industry: Local, Retail, Catering
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fanhaoyue — Fanhaoyue provides local catering life and new retail services.
- maidiyun.com — maidiyun.com is an online platform that displays comprehensive information for manufacturing equipment and peripheral products as component 3D model samples, helping industrial designers find the products and resources they need.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series C, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, China, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 125
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Stately Bio — Stately Bio is the trade-off between measuring cells and keeping them alive. Our patented ML technology measures cell identity, behavior, and maturation—all directly from live-cell, label-free imaging.
- Leash Biosciences — We're transforming drug design with a rich dataset built by screening millions of compounds against thousands of protein to generate billions of data points, ideal for training advanced machine learning models.
- Reunion Neuroscience — Reunion Neuroscience is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutic solutions for underserved mental health conditions. The Company’s lead asset, RE104, is a proprietary, novel serotonergic psychedelic compound being developed as a potential fast-acting and durable antidepressant for patients suffering from postpartum depressionand other mental health conditions. Reunion is also developing the RE200 series, which includes compounds with the potential for more selective serotonin receptor activity and reduced psychoactivity for application in more chronic treatment paradigms and indications.
Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Angel, Series B
- Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bagoai — Bagoai is an operator of smart shared coffee and tea rooms.
- nyxbyte — Made with Softr, the easiest way to turn your data into portals and internal tools.
- CRITOART — Critoart is a cutting-edge marketplace that has taken the burgeoning world of crypto_currencies and the Web 3.0 ecosystem by storm. Focused on the ever-evolving realm of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Critoart provides a seamless platform for creators and collectors alike to exhibit, sell, and purchase digital assets in a secure and decentralizedenvironment. With a commitment to fostering innovation and artistic expression, Critoart has quickly emerged as a go-to hub for the growing NFT community.
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