Top 15 Local Startup Investors in China in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Local startups based in China. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Local companies from China. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Local Startup Investors in China in September 2025

Investor	Local China investments
HSG	2
Tiger Global Management	1
Trupti Nanavati	1
Beijing Yiming Education Investment Center	1
Mitsui Global Investment	1
Decent Capital	1
Shunwei Capital	1
Amit Nanavati	1
Lighthouse Capital Management	1
Telescope Investment	1
JC Capital	1
Huawei	1
Xiaomi	1
Neoteny Labs	1
Dongbu Ziben	1

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Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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Yunzhou Zhiwei — Yunzhou Zhiwei is a high-tech startup focused on serving large-scale equipment maintenance industries such as aviation, aerospace, shipbuilding, and rail transit. It leverages smart maintenance concepts and advanced digital technologies to make complex equipment maintenance more efficient and lean. The company drives industrial transformationtoward intelligent maintenance, helping enterprises enhance growth, efficiency, and operational excellence.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

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SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
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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.

Beijing Yiming Education Investment Center provides investment consulting, investment management, and asset management services.

Investment focus

Local, Consumer, Home Services
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Zhuomuniao — Zhuomuniao is an appliance repair service platform.

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Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series C, Series B, Series A
United States, China, Israel

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.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Luojia Yiyun — Luojia Yiyun is a high-end laser scanning detection equipment developer company that specializes in lightweight, high-precision, high-performance, and independent intellectual property laser radar devices.
Hongde New Materials — Hongde New Materials produces thermoplastic composite materials with fiber reinforcement. It offers energy storage and auxiliary components for solar and automobile power and steering systems.
Shouxing Technology — AheadForm is pioneering the development of realistic humanoid robots designed to revolutionize human-robot interaction. Our current focus is on creating sophisticated humanoid robot heads that can express emotions, perceive their environment, and interact seamlessly with humans. By combining cutting-edge AI and advanced robotics, we aim to bring life to machines and transform the way humans engage with technology.

Shunwei Capital is a venture capital fund that focuses on early to mid-stage investments in local internet industry. It specializes in incubation, startups, early to mid-stage, and growth capital investments. It seeks to invest in the technology, media, telecommunications, high technology, new media, games, internet finance, and rural area internetsectors. Their investors include sovereign wealth funds, fund of funds, university endowment funds, and family offices.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

LibLib AI — LibLib AI is an AI image generation platform that provides cutting-edge content creation through multi-scenario and multi-dimensional applications and interactions. It is a subsidiary of Beijing Singularity Star Technology Co., Ltd.
Huashen Ruili — Huashen Ruili is a manufacturer and retailer of auto parts. It focuses on the advancement of drive motor systems' dry brake-by-wire technology.
Fanding International Group — Fanding International Group offers supply chain services by reducing logistics costs.

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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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Hardware, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, United States, Czech Republic

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.

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.