Top 15 Local Startup Investors in China
A list of 15 angel investors and VC 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
Investor | Local China investments |
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Sequoia Capital China | 2 |
Tiger Global Management | 1 |
58.com | 1 |
Xiaomi | 1 |
Telescope Investment | 1 |
Amit Nanavati | 1 |
JC Capital | 1 |
Decent Capital | 1 |
Dongbu Ziben | 1 |
Trupti Nanavati | 1 |
Lighthouse Capital Management | 1 |
Shunwei Capital | 1 |
Neoteny Labs | 1 |
Huawei Technologies | 1 |
China Rundong Auto Group | 1 |
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Xingkeyuan — Star Science is a high-performance lithium battery silicon-carbon negative electrode material research and development company. It has achieved small-scale mass manufacture of nano-silicon as well as the experimental development of high-efficiency silicon-carbon composite materials.
- Huaxuan Sensing — Huaxuan Sensing is a sensor technology company that focuses on the development of resolver sensors for the new energy automobile industry.
- Martial Arts Awakening — Martial Arts Awakening is a blockchain game developer focused on the long-term development of blockchain, Web3.0, Metaverse, and NFT ecosystems.
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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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
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- Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
- Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.
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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- Real Estate, Automotive, Software
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- China, India, Hong Kong
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- UUPaotui — UUPaotui is a mobile internet errand service platform based on the concept of crowdsourcing to share labor and time.
- 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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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Software, Hardware
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, India, United Kingdom
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- Ruiweishi — Ruiweishi specializes in offering modern AR display technology, enabling the deep integration of actual sceneries and intelligent vision, and developing the next generation of human-computer interaction technologies.
- 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.
- BMSer Technoogy — Hangzhou Xieneng Technology Co., Ltd. (stock code: 836506) , having the core technology of independent intellectual property rights ,is a high-tech enterprise that specialized in new energy battery management technology research and development, production and management. The company was founded in May 2012, and the registered capital is13 million 500 thousand yuan RMB. It is located in Xihu District Zhejiang science and technology industry building in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and is subordinate to the national high and new development zone. It has been founded by several overseas returnees, and has been invested by well-known investment institutions in China. The company adheres to the management concept of "first-class technology, quality first, green energy and benefit human", and is committed to providing battery management and maintenance solutions for customers. Relying on independent intellectual property rights and innovation mechanism, it has applied for invention patents 19, utility model patents 22 and software copyright 24. The company is based on self developed power integration chip and consistency. The battery active balance management system has the characteristics of reasonable design, novel structure, excellent performance and convenient installation and maintenance, and has reached the leading and international advanced level in China. By adhering to the spirit of "innovation, concentration, openness and tolerance", coeng technology has condensed a number of excellent R & D personnel and market management elite, and established an overseas R & D institution in the Silicon Valley of the United States. With innovative technology and advanced project management experience, the company provides customers with first class and most valuable products and services. At present, the company has more than 10 models of three series battery management systems, such as electric vehicles, scenery and storage, backup power supply, and many large professional battery manufacturers and electric vehicle manufacturers in China. Home, micro grid photovoltaic enterprises and national appliance network companies and other enterprises have formed extensive market cooperation relationship.
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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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Online Portals
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China, Australia
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- Sucheon — Sucheon is an artificial intelligence high-tech enterprise that focuses on machine noise recognition and non-contact production process monitoring and equipment failure prediction.The main solution for the company's product machine auscultation master is to collect machine noise from the SC Box, which is placed in an industrial environment, toextract sound feature values, and to use machine learning to identify the real-time operating status of industrial equipment and the various components. Health indicators .
- Starwhale — Starwhale is an MLOps platform to manage machine learning projects, models and datasets.
- Beacon Education — Beacon Education their marketing, recruitment, support, and analytics technology services platform is a single-point solution for outstanding teaching and learning.
JC Capital is a venture capital institution specialized in early and mid-term technology investment.
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- Health Care, Software, Internet
- Series A, Angel, Series B
- China, Vietnam, Philippines
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- Sietium — Sietium is a high-tech company that independently designs and develops GPU chips and GPU solutions.
- Zhizhen Precision — Zhizhen Precision is a high-end integrated circuit test equipment developer.
- Dragonfly Automation Software — Dragonfly Automation Software provides management and control system product solutions for customers in aerospace, machinery manufacturing, factory automation, and high-end precision instruments.
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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- Internet, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- China, United States, Singapore
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- Xingchenhai — Xingchenhai is a technology company that focuses on technology research and development of drone scenario applications for the field of low-altitude security, and major scientific research projects in military and government-related fields.
- 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.
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- Local, Retail, Catering
- Angel, Series A
- China
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- 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.
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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- Software, Hardware, Retail
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China, United States
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- 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.
- DEEPEXI — Beijing Dip Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Drip Technology”) is a leader and builder of digital transformation of enterprises, providing enterprise-level business consulting, solutions, products and technology research and development based on leading Internet architecture. The company was incorporated in May 2018 with aregistered capital of 20 million. At present, the company has 160 employees and its headquarters is located in Beijing. It has branches in major cities including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing and Chengdu. The R&D team is over 80%, mainly in Guangzhou, Nanjing and Chengdu. People, masters dozens of people, have the top domestic AI team and open source team to join.
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.Shunwei Capital is a China-based company that was founded in 2011 by Tuck Lye Koh and Lei Jun.
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- Manufacturing, Internet, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, India, United States
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- XISOFT — is a professional manufacturer of informatization and data services in the field of health economic management.
- Yunshan Power — Yunshan Power focus on the research, development, production, and sales of large cylindrical batteries.
- Hooke Instruments — Hooke Instruments is a manufacturer of high-end optical life science instruments. It is committed to applying optical technology to solve biological and medical challenges, as well as creating and producing high-quality biomedical devices.
Neoteny Labs is an early stage fund focused on consumer Internet startups in Asia and the Middle East.
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- TV, Messaging, Video Streaming
- Series A, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, Singapore, China
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- TripVillas — Largest holiday home rental portal in Asia. Browse your ideal vacation home from over 100,000 holiday homes spread across destinations.
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- littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
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- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Angel, Series B
- United States, China, United Kingdom
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- Bagoai — Bagoai is an operator of smart shared coffee and tea rooms.
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- 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.
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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- Local, Automotive, Service Industry
- Seed
- China
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- Che Dada — Che Dada is a community-based aftermarket car service brand.
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