Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in China in May 2025

Investor	Media (entertainment) China investments
Minhong Yu	4
Minhong Yu	4
Jinbo Yao	3
Jinbo Yao	3
O.D. Kobo	2
Ron Zuckerman	2
Ron Zuckerman	2
Xiaolai Li	2
Quanling Zhang	2
O.D. Kobo	2
Xiaolai Li	2
Wanqiang Li	2
Wanqiang Li	2
David Ling	1
Jun Lin	1
Liu Yangze	1
Yang Shoubin	1
Gang Wang	1
Jiang Wenyun	1
Min Ni	1
Mark Pincus	1
Mark Cuban	1
Yue Du	1
Xiaodong Cai	1
Peter Kellner	1
David Ling	1
Sicong Wang	1
Ron Cao	1
Mark Cuban	1
Guoxiong Cao	1
Jianqing Wang	1
Ming Lei	1
Jiangchuan Tian	1
Peter Kellner	1
Sheng Fu	1
Nat Turner	1
Zhengdong Ni	1
Eddie Wu	1
Jiangchuan Tian	1
Hu Zemin	1
Guoxiong Cao	1
Jing Qi	1
Jing Qi	1
William Bao Bean	1
Kebin Dai	1
Liu Xianmin	1
Eddie Wu	1
Lee Kai-Fu	1
Rongjie Dong	1
Shaw Wang	1

Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was anEnglish instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.

Investment focus

Education, Social Media, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Bottomsup — Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content.
Kuaipeilian — Kuaipeilian is an online piano training platform
Pingo Space — Pingo Space is a mobile platform that connects locals to expats through in-person experiences.

Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was anEnglish instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.

Investment focus

Education, Social Media, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Bottomsup — Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content.
Kuaipeilian — Kuaipeilian is an online piano training platform
Pingo Space — Pingo Space is a mobile platform that connects locals to expats through in-person experiences.

Jinbo Yao is the President, Founder and CEO at 58.com.

Investment focus

Marketing, Logistics, Automotive
Angel, Series A, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Chaboshi — Chaboshi offers vehicle conditions, vehicle inspection, car warranty and used car valuation services.
Xiongmao Kuaishou — Xiongmao Kuaishou is a provider of delivery, logistics and supply chain management services.
Cbeidou Supply Chain — Canbeidou is a food catering logistics service provider in China.

Jinbo Yao is the President, Founder and CEO at 58.com.

Investment focus

Marketing, Logistics, Automotive
Angel, Series A, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Chaboshi — Chaboshi offers vehicle conditions, vehicle inspection, car warranty and used car valuation services.
Xiongmao Kuaishou — Xiongmao Kuaishou is a provider of delivery, logistics and supply chain management services.
Cbeidou Supply Chain — Canbeidou is a food catering logistics service provider in China.

O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.

Investment focus

Internet, Broadcasting, Video
Seed, Series A, Series B
China, Israel, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
GiveHope —
Totally Bored —

Ron Zuckerman is the Co-Founder and Director of TV Time.

Investment focus

Internet, Video, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Israel, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Cymbio — Connect to hundreds of digital sales channels via Cymbio's automated multi channel e-commerce platform to increase sales & elevate revenue.
Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
Safeguard Applied Innovation — Safeguard Applied Innovation provides a mobile performance management platform for construction enterprises. It designs its solution to enable decision-making for successful project planning and execution, delivering effective control regardless of project complexity or national regulations.

Ron Zuckerman is the Co-Founder and Director of TV Time.

Investment focus

Internet, Video, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Israel, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Cymbio — Connect to hundreds of digital sales channels via Cymbio's automated multi channel e-commerce platform to increase sales & elevate revenue.
Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
Safeguard Applied Innovation — Safeguard Applied Innovation provides a mobile performance management platform for construction enterprises. It designs its solution to enable decision-making for successful project planning and execution, delivering effective control regardless of project complexity or national regulations.

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.

Quanling Zhang has been serving as independent non-executive director of Shougang Concord International Enterprises since January 6, 2018. She holds a bachelor degree in arts. She joined China Central Television in 1997 and has hosted the famous programmes such as “Oriental Horizon”, “Focus Interview”. She participated in numerous news livecoverage and was awarded the Golden Microphone Awards, the Golden Eagle Awards, the Fan Changjiang Journalism Award, the most prestigious journalism award in China, and the 19th top ten Outstanding Chinese Youths. She is the Founding Partner of Ziniu Fund. She has extensive experience in news media, brand building and strategic planning.

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Social
Seed, Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Bijixia — Bijixia is a digital media that provides business knowledge management services.
Walnut Live — Walnut Live is a video course and knowledge sharing service platform.

O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.

Investment focus

Internet, Broadcasting, Video
Seed, Series A, Series B
China, Israel, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
GiveHope —
Totally Bored —

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.

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.

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 — Founded in August 2022, Letianpai is a consumer brand specializing in AI + IoT hardware product development. Our products are designed around people and their homes, integrating AI technology into these scenarios. We firmly believe that future tech gadgets are not mere lifeless devices but are empowered by AI.

David Ling - Founding Partner @ Danen Capital

Investment focus

Video, Video Editing, Media and Entertainment
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Kuaitv — Kuaitv is a video application for making short videos specializes in short form video content for food.

Jun Lin is the Founder of Leiphone.com. Founder of Tianjiwang. Once served as the vice president of Duowan Youxiwang and an early investor in the mobile Internet.

Investment focus

Video, Advertising, Digital Media
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Leikeji.com — Lei Keji provides digital media products and short video content.

Liu Yangze is an Entrepreneur.

Investment focus

Metaverse, Cloud Data Services
Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

SUD Sudden Technology — SUD Sudden Technology is an interactive, gamified global cloud service provider. It assists clients in achieving a seamless and decentralized transition to Web 3.0.

Yang Shoubin is the Founding Partner of FH Capital.

Investment focus

Consumer, E-Commerce, Photography
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Hilookea — Hilookea is a supermarket for table cooked food.
Moments — Meishi Meike is a platform that connects parents who want to get portfolios of their kids clicked with photographers.

Gang Wangis the Founder, President & CEO of Anterra Energy.

Investment focus

Internet, Content, Training
Angel, Seed, Series A
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lishe —
Bottomsup — Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content.
Paixue Che — Pai Xueche is an Internet driving training platform. The school adopts a consultant tracking system throughout the process. The company will equip each student with an exclusive learning car consultant, from registration to the student's driver's license, the whole process of tracking.

Jiang Wenyun is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Software, Media and Entertainment
Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Miaochang — Miaochang is a developer of shared karaoke vending machines, integrating R&D, design, production, sales, software development and other services.

Min Ni

Investment focus

Video, Cloud Computing, Professional Services
Series B, Funding Round
China

Portfolio highlights

Arcvideo Tech — Arcvideo Tech is the provider of professional intelligent video solutions and video cloud service.

Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Internet, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Substack — Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.
Troveo AI — AI companies are scouring the internet for high-quality video. Troveo helps you capture the value and turn your video into revenue.
Echo Chunk AI — We build epic strategy games that generate themselves. Starting with Echo Chess: the daily chess puzzler where you are what you eat.

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ESAI — Join over 450,000 students crafting their story
Kind Designs — We specialize in Marine Construction and Seawall Repair using advanced 3D-printing technology. Get a free consultation today!
Campus Ink - NIL Store — Campus Ink Screen Printing & Embroidery, Champaign - Urbana, Custom T-Shirts, Fraternity & Sorority Apparel Simple

Yue Du - Partner @ Ivy Capital

Investment focus

Gaming, Online Games, Media and Entertainment
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

LEGEND POKER — LEGEND POKER is a Chinese mobile poker game operator.

Xiaodong Cai - Executive Vice President @ Alpha Animation

Investment focus

Automotive, Content Creators, Electric Vehicle
Series A, Series D
China

Portfolio highlights

LEADRIVE — LEADRIVE is a technology company that focuses on the research and development, production, and sales of new energy vehicle drive solutions and high-performance domestic power semiconductor modules. The company is developing a variety of high-performance motor controllers and self-developed power modules for new energy vehicles, which have wondomestic and foreign first-line passenger cars more than 10 models of OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers have been mass-produced and designated, and OEM certification progress for silicon carbide modules and electronic controls is in progress.LEADRIVE is also constantly investing and innovating in the field of new energy equipment such as wind energy, solar energy, and energy storage, and has taken the lead in realizing the localization of power semiconductor modules. LEADRIVE and Japan Rohm Semiconductor have established a joint laboratory to complete the iterative development of a variety of silicon carbide modules and realized simulation, testing, and efficiency from the device, and electronic control, to vehicle-level, promote.
Kuaizi Technology — Kuaizi Technology (筷子科技) provides an AI driven platform for designing and creating creative contents for marketers or marketing content agencies.

Peter Kellner is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Richmond Global. He previously worked at Richmond Global Compass as a Founder and CEO. Peter Kellner attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Analytics, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, China, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
Scout Finance — Scout Finance is the best mobile app for accessing company documents and fundamentals on your iPhone and iPad. A must-have for any serious investor.
OpenSponsorship — Join 19000+ brands connecting to 11000+ athletes, teams and events globally, on OpenSponsorship to drive marketing and sales using sports; proven to deliver 7x ROI.

David Ling - Founding Partner @ Danen Capital

Investment focus

Video, Video Editing, Media and Entertainment
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Kuaitv — Kuaitv is a video application for making short videos specializes in short form video content for food.

Sicong Wang is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Prometheus Capital. He is a Director of the Dalian Wanda Group. and Founder of Panda TV.

Investment focus

eSports, Software, Online Games
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Fenda —
Yingxiong Huyu — Yingxiong Huyu is a developer of mobile e-sports games and an organizer of e-sports competitions.

Mr. Ron Cao is a respected venture capitalist and the Founder and Partner of Sky9 capital. During his investment career across Silicon Valley and China, Ron has focused on investing in innovative and disruptive opportunities in consumer internet, industrial internet, enterprise services, deep tech and digital healthcare. He has invested in a numberof technology companies that have grown to become market leaders in their respective industries. Some of these investments include: Meituan/Dianping, PinDuoDuo, TuSimple, Energy Monster, Full Truck Alliance, FinVolution, QingCloud, FangDD, Innolight, Lianluo Interactive, MediaV (acquired by Qihoo), MetroWave (acquired by IPG Photonics), Opulan (acquired by Qualcomm), ShareWave (acquired by Cirrus Logic), Ainemo (acquired by Baidu), 51WORLD, ByteDance, eBroke, Tujia, Doctor Trust, YiAuto, Biren Technology, Starfield, NeoX and Xbiome. Ron has over 20 years of venture capital experience. He was the Managing Director of Lightspeed Venture Partners and started Lightspeed’s China operations from scratch. Prior to Lightspeed, Ron was Managing Director of KLM Capital, where he led the company’s early-stage cross-border investments in Silicon Valley and China. Before entering the investment field, Ron started his career in the US with Motorola, Goldman Sachs and Intel. Ron was named by Forbes China as one of the “Top Venture Capitalists of China” over multiple years. In 2013, Ron was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of its “Young Global Leaders” and served on the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and IT. Ron is actively involved with various philanthropic pursuits, especially in the areas of children’s education and impact investing. Ron has been involved on the boards of BEAM Alliance and Maitian Education Foundation. Ron holds bachelor’s and master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Dyad.com — Dyad is a mentorship platform that has helped students earn over $27 Million in university scholarships.
Cohuman Labs — Building the next generation NASDAQ and AI Religion to bring human beings together with social and financial AI Agents @ Cohuman Labs. Trillion Dollar Market Cap. Backed by a16z games (SPEEDRUN), and many other top investors. AI + Web3 + Infra + Consumer
Asia Innovations Group — Asia Innovations Group (AIG) owns a diverse portfolio of live social apps, including Uplive, which allows video social hosts to broadcast to the world, Lamour, the top dating app in global emerging markets, and SupreFans, a fan-centric live social app. AIG leverages cutting-edge technology, advanced streaming capabilities, and a scalable globalinfrastructure to deliver an optimal, seamless, and authentic live social experience. Focused on major emerging markets, AIG has twelve global offices, including in Casablanca, Cairo, Delhi, Tokyo, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Dallas.

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Allstar — Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports highlights.
DIRT Research Technologies — DIRT is an AI-powered content measurement engine enabling AI models to recognize, evaluate, and generate content that grabs attention and predicts engagement. Linking human attention to images and videos, we teach models to understand what people are most interested in engaging with, watching, and playing. At DIRT, what you make matters. We makesure it connects.
TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.

Guoxiong Cao is a partner at Matrix Partners China RMB Fund, where he leads the RMB fund investment activities and also heads up the partnership’s Hangzhou office. He has over 14 years of investment and financial advisory experience in both domestic and foreign capital markets, and has deep expertise in emerging consumer sectors in China.BeforeMatrix, Guoxiong Cao founded Puhua Capital in 2002, which is well known for its professionalism and excellent performance in both venture investments and investment banking activities. He also co-founded Puhua Group, a well-established CPA firm in Zhejiang. Prior to this, Guoxiong Cao was Chief Representative of UOI (HK) and before that leads the finance department at Start LongShine.Guoxiong Cao is currently leading Matrix Partners China’s RMB funds investments and oversees sectors including consumer, clean tech and health care.Guoxiong Cao was born in China and graduated from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law with Master’s Degree. He is qualified Senior Accountant, CPA and CTA. He is also author of the book "The WAL-MART Powerful Career”.Guoxiong Cao spends his free time travelling, reading and watching movies.

Investment focus

Wedding, Consumer, Product Design
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Halobear — Hangzhou is a wedding industry sales and supply chain service platform.

Wang Jianqing is one of the founding members of Legend Capital in 2001. Starting as a Senior Management Advisor, she is now the Managing Director and Chief Management Advisor of the firm, and also serves on the Management Committee and Human Resources Committee. Wang Jianqing is responsible for examining and evaluating CEO, the management team andbusiness operation of target companies during due diligence, and providing post-investment value added services.Wang Jianqing has in-depth understanding of corporate governance, human resources systems, corporate culture construction and team management. She had analyzed the major success and failure cases of Legend Group in history, and performed thorough studies on how to evaluate CEOs and management teams and how to provide value-added services to invested companies. After over 10 years working with entrepreneurs, she has gained resourceful experience in CEO coaching, core team building, corporate culture construction and governance structure improvement.Joining Legend Group in 1996, Wang Jianqing was Executive Vice President of Legend Management School and Deputy General Manager of Human Resources Department of Legend Group. She was also the Dean of the first “Legend Star CEO Training” class, in charge of building the course system, designing teaching plans, managing academic affairs, and serving as lecturer of one of the core courses.Wang Jianqing received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1982 and her EMBA’s degree from Peking University in 2006.

Investment focus

Video, Gaming, Sports
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Le Sports — Le Sports, the sports arm of China's leading online video provider.

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

Tian Jiangchuan has rich experience in mid and late-stage projects. Before founding Chuxin capital, Tian Jiangchuan worked for UBS and CITIC Capital M & A fund and participated in many post-stage equity investment and M & A projects. As a deputy director of the investment bank of Swiss Bank of Hong Kong, she has participated in a number ofinitial public offerings of Chinese private enterprises in Hong Kong and the United States through the red chip or Sina framework, merger and acquisition projects, and a number of issues of foreign debts of private enterprises. She graduated from the Department of economic statistics, University College London, UK.

Investment focus

Software, Marketing, Advertising
Angel, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

AutoMQ — AutoMQ is a S3 based serverless reinvented Kafka that is easily scalable,cost-effective: shared storage,100% compatible with Kafka,no partition data copy, 10x cheaper than Kafka.
Panda iMedia — Panda iMedia is a digital media company that helps content creators to market.

Peter Kellner is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Richmond Global. He previously worked at Richmond Global Compass as a Founder and CEO. Peter Kellner attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Analytics, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, China, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
Scout Finance — Scout Finance is the best mobile app for accessing company documents and fundamentals on your iPhone and iPad. A must-have for any serious investor.
OpenSponsorship — Join 19000+ brands connecting to 11000+ athletes, teams and events globally, on OpenSponsorship to drive marketing and sales using sports; proven to deliver 7x ROI.

Sheng Fu

Investment focus

SaaS, Developer APIs, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Bijixia — Bijixia is a digital media that provides business knowledge management services.
Markable Creators(Markable AI) — BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers canclick and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come.Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020.
Nanigans — Nanigans provides an advertising automation software that powers the in-house performance marketing teams. Offered as Software-as-a-Service, Nanigans software features programmatic media buying, predictive revenue optimization, and real-time business intelligence across today’s most valuable channels. Nanigans is headquartered in Boston, withoffices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Sydney, and Singapore.

Before co-founding Flatiron, Nat was Co-Founder and CEO of Invite Media, an advertising technology company based in NYC. Invite Media built the industry's first enterprise advertising platform for buying and optimizing online media in real-time. Invite Media was acquired by Google in 2010. Prior to Invite Media, Nat started numerousinternet companies and also worked at Say Media and First Round Capital. An active angel investor, Nat has invested in over 30 technology startups throughout the country, including Bell Biosystems, Breakthrough, Care at Hand, DocPhin, Doctor Evidence, Genomera, Meddik, Oscar, and Predilytics. Nat earned a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Economics with concentrations in Entrepreneurship and Marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In his spare time, Nat is an avid golfer and tries to trick trout with fake bugs.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, China, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

CollX — Snap photos of them and instantly get the current market price. Add them to your collection and track your overall portfolio value.
Collectors — Helping collectors to pursue their passion.
Iterative Scopes — Iterative Scopes provides gastroenterologists with machine learning-powered diagnostic tools that help them prevent colon cancer and improve patient outcomes

Zhengdong Ni is a joint partner at QianHai FoFs and the founder of Zero2IPO Group.

Investment focus

Gaming, Online Games, Customer Service
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

LEGEND POKER — LEGEND POKER is a Chinese mobile poker game operator.
Food From Hunan — Food From Hunan is a food and beverage company.

Eddie Wu is the Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group. He previously worked at Yahoo as a Heading of Technology Development. Eddie Wu attended Zhejiang University of Technology.

Investment focus

Events, Rental, Social
Angel, Series A, Series B
China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Teenker — Teenker is a platform that connects gifted talents with customers who want unique and high-quality service.
Tao Huichang — Tao Huichang is a venue short-term rental service platform for organizing events.
Thin Red Line — Thin Red Line dedicates the software and hardware opportunities of the AR track.

Tian Jiangchuan has rich experience in mid and late-stage projects. Before founding Chuxin capital, Tian Jiangchuan worked for UBS and CITIC Capital M & A fund and participated in many post-stage equity investment and M & A projects. As a deputy director of the investment bank of Swiss Bank of Hong Kong, she has participated in a number ofinitial public offerings of Chinese private enterprises in Hong Kong and the United States through the red chip or Sina framework, merger and acquisition projects, and a number of issues of foreign debts of private enterprises. She graduated from the Department of economic statistics, University College London, UK.

Investment focus

Software, Marketing, Advertising
Angel, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

AutoMQ — AutoMQ is a S3 based serverless reinvented Kafka that is easily scalable,cost-effective: shared storage,100% compatible with Kafka,no partition data copy, 10x cheaper than Kafka.
Panda iMedia — Panda iMedia is a digital media company that helps content creators to market.

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.
Wanche Jiaoshou — Wanche Jiaoshou is an automotive vertical media platform.
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.

Guoxiong Cao is a partner at Matrix Partners China RMB Fund, where he leads the RMB fund investment activities and also heads up the partnership’s Hangzhou office. He has over 14 years of investment and financial advisory experience in both domestic and foreign capital markets, and has deep expertise in emerging consumer sectors in China.BeforeMatrix, Guoxiong Cao founded Puhua Capital in 2002, which is well known for its professionalism and excellent performance in both venture investments and investment banking activities. He also co-founded Puhua Group, a well-established CPA firm in Zhejiang. Prior to this, Guoxiong Cao was Chief Representative of UOI (HK) and before that leads the finance department at Start LongShine.Guoxiong Cao is currently leading Matrix Partners China’s RMB funds investments and oversees sectors including consumer, clean tech and health care.Guoxiong Cao was born in China and graduated from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law with Master’s Degree. He is qualified Senior Accountant, CPA and CTA. He is also author of the book "The WAL-MART Powerful Career”.Guoxiong Cao spends his free time travelling, reading and watching movies.

Investment focus

Wedding, Consumer, Product Design
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Halobear — Hangzhou is a wedding industry sales and supply chain service platform.

Jing Qi

Investment focus

Wedding, Customer Service, Event Management
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Sunny — Sunny is a professional wedding company in China.

Jing Qi

Investment focus

Wedding, Customer Service, Event Management
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Sunny — Sunny is a professional wedding company in China.

William is a Partner at SOSV, a US$250m accelerator focused venture capital fund, and the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator, China's first startup accelerator as well as MOX, the mobile only accelerator. William joined SOSV from SingTel Innov8 where he was Managing Director supporting China investment activities. While at Innov8 he ledinvestments in Yodo1 (mobile games), Gmobi (Android platform), Lekan (online video platform), and Massive Impact (mobile advertising) among others. Previously, William was a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, an early stage venture capital firm backed by Softbank of Japan and Cisco. While at SoftBank he led investments in Silk Road Telecom (mobile enterprise cloud SaaS), Playspan (payment platform acquired by Visa), Punch Entertainment (mobile game developer acquired by DeNA) and Peacesoft (Vietnam eCommerce and payment platform backed by eBay and MOL). William began his career as an equity research analyst most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for Internet and Telecom Equipment across Asia and China technology, media and telecom. In addition he covered Digital Media and Telecom Equipment companies at Bank of America Securities in San Francisco and PCs and Enterprise Hardware at Bear Stearns in New York. William began his technology investment career 18 years ago as a technology analyst in Taiwan.In 2006 he was ranked #3 All-Asia analyst for Technology/Software and IT Services by Institutional Investor Magazine. In 2005, he was ranked #1 stock picker in Technology, Media and Telecom, and #3 overall for Hong Kong/China by Thomson Reuters Starmine as well as was a ranked analyst by Institutional Investor Magazine. He currently sits on the boards of directors/advisors for a number of companies including GMobi, Massive Impact, Silk Road Telecom, Socbay, iTalki, kineticONE as well as organizations including Angelvest (天使谷), the largest and most active angel investing group in Asia, and AAMA Shanghai and the Techyizu, Beijing Tech Hive, and Music Matters events. He holds a BA from Bowdoin College.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

HengZhi — HengZhi is a China-based, Invite-only Business Social Network.
neulink — At neulink, we are building a platform that streamlines operations, simplifies workflows, and automates essential tasks for pharmacists. It can seamlessly manage patients sales, inventory, and insurance claims through our interface.
Tokiva Technologies — Tokiva - Expat's Mobile Carriers. Low cost international calls - on both mobile and landline.

Kebin Dai is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lietou.com, a high-end talent community-based recruitment site. He is an expert in recruitment marketing in China.Considered as an expert in recruitment marketing, Dai served at many established companies including P&G and was in charge of the branding operations for Ariel, whisper,Crest and Oral-B brand.Dai resigned P&G as Brand Manager of Greater China and founded Lietou.com in 2008.In 2010, Dai successfully entered the 2010 Asia America Multi-technology Association Cradle Plan. In 2012, Mr. Dai was acclaimed as one of top 10 most influential innovative entrepreneurs in human resources in China.Dai graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in Finance.

Investment focus

News, Social News, Social Media
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

pencilnews — The authenticity and trustworthiness of China media have been challenged by foreign press for decades. Media or reporters are often paid (bribed) to write articles on “customers” behave. The truth is, the local people doubt about media as well and in the startup world, it is no exception. The founder of PencilNews, Fang Wang, has experienced itfirsthand and changing the immorality and the unprofessionalism becomes his passion. he mission of PencilNews is to provide the true information about early stage startup. PencilNews has no ads, no paid articles, no articles based on speculation and of course, reporters are restrictedly prohibited to receive money or any incentive for writing. As the slogan “The pencil never lies, the legend never dies”, PencilNews has been VC’s favorite media in China and has funded by SoftBank, Bertelsmann, K2VC, ZhenFund, InnoAngel and etc. for approximately 15M RMB in total.Every PencilNews article is written by our own reporters and interview founders directly through phone conversation or face-to-face meeting with voice recording to back up the authenticity of articles. Because of the diversity of startup and the flourishing ecosystem in China, PencilNews has covered startups from the agriculture, fish, livestock industry to the entertainment, gaming, education, manufacturing, smart devices and full of diverse industries. The trustworthy articles have caught investor’s needs to discover early stage startups and became the first choice for startups to understand the market situation and customer needs.

Liu Xianmin - Partner @ Meridian Capital

Investment focus

TV, Film, Digital Entertainment
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Seven Entertainment Picture — Seven Entertainment Picture is a film and television entertainment company that focuses on movies, dramas, entertainment programs and stars.

Eddie Wu is the Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group. He previously worked at Yahoo as a Heading of Technology Development. Eddie Wu attended Zhejiang University of Technology.

Investment focus

Events, Rental, Social
Angel, Series A, Series B
China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Teenker — Teenker is a platform that connects gifted talents with customers who want unique and high-quality service.
Tao Huichang — Tao Huichang is a venue short-term rental service platform for organizing events.
Thin Red Line — Thin Red Line dedicates the software and hardware opportunities of the AR track.

Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and President of Sinovation Venture’s Artificial Intelligence Institute. Sinovation Ventures, managing US$1.7 billion dual currency investment funds, is a leading technology investment firm focusing on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. Prior to foundingSinovation in 2009, Kai-Fu Lee was the President of Google China. Previously, he held executive positions at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Kai-Fu Lee received his Bachelor degree from Computer Science from Columbia University, Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Honorary Doctorate Degrees from both Carnegie Mellon and the City University of Hong Kong. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Kai-Fu Lee is the author of seven top selling books in Chinese and launching new book AI Superpowers (www.aisuperpowers.com/) internationally in fall 2018, and has over 50 million followers on social media.In the field of artificial intelligence, Kai-Fu Lee founded Microsoft Research China, which was named as the hottest research lab by MIT Technology Review. Later renamed Microsoft Research Asia, this institute trained the great majority of AI leaders in China, including CTOs or AI heads at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, Huawei, and Haier. While with Apple, Kai-Fu Lee led AI projects in speech and natural language, which have been featured on Good Morning America on ABC Television and the front page of Wall Street Journal. He has authored 10 U.S. patents, and more than 100 journal and conference papers. Altogether, Kai-Fu Lee has been in artificial intelligence research, development, and investment for more than 30 years.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
Series B, Series A, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

LEGEND POKER — LEGEND POKER is a Chinese mobile poker game operator.
Project AI 2.0 — Project AI 2.0 is a large language model platform, dedicated to building a brand new AI2.0 platform and AI-first productivity applications.
NationalChip — Hangzhou Guoxin focuses on chip design and system solution development in the fields of digital TV, home multimedia and artificial intelligence. The company has developed digital TV chip products all over the world and is one of the world's leading suppliers of set-top box chips.

Rongjie Dong - CEO @ Huya.com

Investment focus

Video Games, Broadcasting, Online Games
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Huya.com — Huya.com is China's interactive broadcast platform, enriched by the world's first communications service operators. The company's live products cover PC, Web, and mobile three-end, and have nearly 300 featured channels in 4 categories including online games, single-game hot games, mobile games, and entertainment variety, coveringe-sports, music, sports, beauty, outdoor, A wide range of popular content such as reality shows, variety shows, entertainment, and food.

Before the founding of Jiuhe Ventures, Wang Xiao was a member of the founding team of Baidu Seven Musketeers. In Baidu's first ten years, Wang Xiao built the underlying system of the first generation of search engines, served as the head of several Baidu star projects, and formed the wireless business unit in the last two years of leavingBaidu. In 2011, Wang Xiao founded Jiuhe Venture Capital and led the investment of 36 companies, the kitchen, Qingyun Qingcloud, Zepp, Fast Drug Delivery, Butter Camera, Eclipse, New Studio, and Good Residence. In the past five years, Wang Xiao has been pursuing the concept of “walking between technology and humanity” to find the top domestic startup companies, and at the same time making full use of the accumulated high-quality Internet resources of the past ten years to provide PR, market, HR and other aspects to the invested enterprises. Services; observe and promote the integration and innovation of the mobile Internet with e-commerce, healthcare, finance, education and the sharing economy.Wang Xiao holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and an MBA from China Europe International Business School. He is the Director of Oneflow.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Fashion, Consumer
Seed, Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Youbu — Youbu offers clothing supply chain services based on digital printing technology.
Tong Shi App — Tong Shi App is an employee communication platform.