Top 50 Photography VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Asia in July 2025
A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Photography startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Photography companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Photography VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Asia in July 2025
MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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- LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
- OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.
- Rocket Link Technology — Rocket Link Technology is a product development company that specializes in designing LTP rockets for space travel.
We are Skystar Capital, an early-stage VC firm committed to supporting tech entrepreneurs to create a lasting and profound positive difference in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Mimin — Mimin adalah aplikasi gratis yang membantu seller online yang berbasis chat dalam mengatur bisnis dengan mudah. Proses Order. Cek Ongkir. Tagih pembayaran.
- bythen — bythen enables the production of autonomous 3D avatar bots powered by AI.
- Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a Climate-Tech Startup that offers waste management and recycling services to optimize the waste value chain.
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
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Investment focus
- Software, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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- Amoibe — Amoibe is a company providing engineer training services for the AI era called “amoibe OJT".
- hicrea — hicrea is an AI-powered SaaS platform for fashion companies.
- Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan
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- ZumVet — ZumVet provides access to affordable and convenient veterinary care through video calls and medication delivery. They are passionate about animals and want them to get the best possible care by offering video consults, referrals, home visits, and emergency services. It was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Singapore.
- Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.
- Smoothly — Mobile app helping working millennials sleep better, wake up refreshed and increase energy with science-backed breathing exercises
Chiratae Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management and a portfolio of over 220 companies built over the last 15 years. The Chiratae Ventures network is comprised of five independent partnerships managing funds in North America and Asia. Each partnership makes investments on behalf of itslimited partners, including International Data Group (IDG), the world's largest IT media company. By combining the IDG platform – an unparalleled combination of global publishing, market research (IDC), and conferences and exhibition resources – with years of hands-on experience in early-stage company building, each Chiratae Ventures fund helps companies understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competition.With partnerships in the USA, Korea and multiple locations throughout China, India and Vietnam, the IDG Ventures network offers the international perspective and the local market expertise to help companies grow from start-ups to global success stories.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, United States, China
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- ZILO — Your favourite fashion brands, now delivered under 60 mins!
- Expertia.AI — AI-powered screening and assessments: find and interview top candidates from 100+ platforms and hire in 24 hours, all at <10% of the cost.
- Frinks AI — Frinks AI is an AI Software Development firm offering Effective, Efficient and Reliable Quality Control.
Zhejiang Semir Garment is a Wenzhou-based local apparel company with two leading casual wear brands, Semir for young casual wear & Balabala for kidswear.Semir opened its first store in 1997 in Jiangsu Province, selling leisurewear. Semir is now one of China's largest clothing retailers, with more than 7,500 stores.Semir ownsBalabala, which is China's leading children's clothing brand.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Food and Beverage
- Series B, Series C, Seed
- China
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- Baman — Baman Hunan Rice Noodles is a restaurant chain that offers dine-in, takeout, retail, e-commerce, and unrestricted catering services.
- Novabiotx — Novabio is a multimodal Treg cell therapy developer that specializes in creating medications for the treatment of metabolic, autoimmune, and neurological disorders.
- Redcore Times — By 2013, more people will be using their mobile devices than PCs to get online. As your prospect customers are browsing the Internet on the go with their iPhone, Android, iPad, etc, are you getting ready to keep up with the mobile trend and give your customers a wonderful mobile experience? Now we are on the mission to help you create your customwebsite to perfect people's mobile browsing experience across platforms and locations.
BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has
invested in over 180 companies globally.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, Japan, Indonesia
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- Truely Travel eSIM — Stay connected everywhere with Truely eSIM.
- fleetx.io — Cloud connectivity for efficient fleet and logistics operations, optimizing performance and streamlining processes.
- Handpickd — Sorted operates as an omnichannel platform for fruits and vegetables. Sorted provides fruits and vegetables that come straight from the farms.
By adopting revolutionary mechanisms, FREES FUND is devoted to change the long-established rules in the venture capital. By leveraging the cutting-edge technologies and resources, FREES FUND aims at investing in great startups and helping them grow into great enterprises that are valuable to our society. We mainly invest in early-stagestartups, and hope to become their first-round institutional investor. Our primary interested areas are broad-sense TMT (Technology, Media, Telecom), B2B and deep technology.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- China, United States, Singapore
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- Boin Biotechnology — Boin Biotechnology is a cutting-edge biopharmaceutical company. The company is dedicated to the development of gene therapy drugs, with a particular focus on advancing the next generation of gene therapy.
- Interstellar Lightyear — Interstellar Lightyear Technology is a developer specializing in dexterous robotic hands, focusing on creating intelligent dexterous hands with advanced capabilities for precise manipulation.
- Dingou Biopharmaceuticals — Dingou Biotechnology is a developer of allergen diagnosis and treatment products, mainly engaged in allergen-specific diagnosis and treatment business
GDP Venture is a venture builder focusing on commerce, consumer product, media & entertainment and solution companies
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Indonesia, Singapore, United States
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- Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
- AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
- Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.
IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector. Today they work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors, and business entities from around the world. Their limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds,pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices, and business luminaries.IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, they are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Their highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, India
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- Sand.ai — Sand AI is an AI company that focuses on producing videos.
- Kaia — Kaia is a public blockchain that utilizes Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for enhanced reliability and performance.
- Wanhai Medical — Wanhai Medical is a prominent manufacturer specializing in the development and production of self-medication injection systems.
Seiko Electric has contributed to society with the best products and services. They have continued to develop technologies that usher in new eras based on sound management and human resource development. They will work to develop new products and businesses using original information and control technology and contribute to the construction ofenvironmentally friendly, safe, and comfortable social infrastructure.
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Investment focus
- Photography, Digital Media, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, China
Darwin Venture Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices in Hsinchu and the United States. Since our founding in 2009, we have managed eight funds, investing primarily in Series A/B, late-stage, and secondary funds. In 2022, we also launched an evergreen angel fund to enable more nimble bets onpromising early-stage teams, and especially those coming from Taiwan’s superb academic and research institutions. This exposure across stages and borders, coupled with the strong technical background of our team, is the source of Darwin’s differentiation. We recently launched our 8th fund Darjune.
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Taiwan, United States, Japan
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- KKday — KKday is an e-commerce travel platform that offers 10,000+ experiences around the world. It provides a wide breadth of experiences, including theme park tickets, cooking classes, multi-day tours, airport transfers, sim cards, and hidden sights off the beaten path. KKday was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in T'ai-pei, Taiwan.
- Instalimb — Instalimb is the world's first 3D printing prosthesis business.
- Findy — Findy is a Japanese company once surprised the world by sending out products such as cars and home appliances one after another
Grand Harvest is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Photography, Photo Editing
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Quanjing — Quanjing is a visual content provider that allows users to buy and edit stock photos.
Qianhai Hengji Jiahui is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Photography, Photo Editing
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Quanjing — Quanjing is a visual content provider that allows users to buy and edit stock photos.
DIGISEARCH & ADVERTISING is a financial service based company.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Marketing, E-Learning
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Fondi — fondi is a completely new English conversation communication service that allows you to live a virtual communal life with the world.
- CURBON — CURBON is a Japan's largest photo learning site for C2C,Provides learning content such as video lectures and photography classes, Lightroom presets, etc.
Founded in June 2012 by Liu Xiaosong, Dong Zhanbin, and Su Wei, three Internet and investment circle veterans, Qingsong Fund is an early venture capital firm specializing in investment in education, social networking, consumerism, innovation, technology and applications. It manages four RMB funds with a total value of about RMB 2 billion. So far,it has invested in more than 140 companies, including 1 to 1 head, 1 DaDa English, squirrel AI, onion mathematics, wedding calendar, werewolf killing, flystep technology, HomeFacial. Pro and other star projects - 50% exit project returns more than 60 times, multiple project valuation multiples increased nearly 200 times, and educational projects have an average annual value increase of 500%. Among them, the Qingsong Smart Fund, which was newly established in 2018, focuses on the underlying technologies of the underlying AI and Smart Connect, as well as investment in such areas as smart healthcare, enterprise services and intelligent transportation applications. Liu Xiaosong, founding partner of Qingsong Fund, is a Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University. He invested in Tencent in 1999 and has a return on investment of tens of thousands of times. In 2000, he founded A8 New Media Group, which was successfully listed on the main board in Hong Kong in 2008. In 2015, he hatched in November 2018. Listed in Hong Kong stocks in the year. As a leading early investment institution in China, Qingsong Fund and its founding partners have repeatedly won Top 10 of Zero2IPO China's early investment institutions/investors, Top10 of China's education sector, Top100 of Chinese investors, and China's best early venture capital investment. Institution/Investor Top10; 36氪 China's new entertainment sector investment institutions Top10, online education sector investment institutions/investors Top10 and other mainstream awards.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Education, Manufacturing
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China, United States, Canada
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- Volant Aerotech — Volant Aerotech is a company specializing in the R&D, manufacturing, and service of passenger eVTOL, an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
- Shufang New Energy — Shenzhen Sufang New Energy focuses on the research, development, and production of lithium-rich manganese-based cathode materials.
- Tongwei New Energy — Tongwei New Energy is a company that manufactures zero-carbon solid oxide fuel cells. Its major product is distributed zero-carbon power plants.
QTnet is a telecommunication and internet service provider.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Software
- Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
- Medmain — To create a world where medical services can be accessed with technology anywhere,anytime-As a supporting partner to medical practitioners throughout the world, Medmain develops and operates PidPort, an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that makes use of Deep Learning, as well as Medteria, a specialized cloud-based service for medical students.
Yanjiyou is a Chinese innovative bookstore operator, which combines bookstore with art gallery and cafe. It provides cultural lifestyle products for young people such as books, stationery, home accessories and drinks.
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Investment focus
- Art, Fashion, Photography
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Hui Art Space — Hui Art Space is a Beijing-based art gallery operator delicated to exhibiting accomplished Chinese and foreign artists and curator. It also provides a platform for showcasing and promotion of various events in fashion, art collection, photography and mixed media.
ECC Capital is an investment firm focused on investments in early stage and high growth stage venture capital fund.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Hardware
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- China, United States
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- Xin-Semi — Xin-Semi is a semiconductor company that specailizes in the manufacturing and development of semiconductor-specific equipment solutions.
- Moer New Materials — Moer New Materials provides filtering membranes for the biopharmaceutical and semiconductor sectors.
- Shengyang Huachuang — Shengyang Huachuang is a perovskite company that specializes in photovoltaic chemical materials, R&D and production.
Shanda Capital is the private equity and venture capital arm of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. specializing in start ups, early and mid-stage investments. The firm does not invest in online game developers and operators. It seeks to invest in the mobile internet, TMT (technology, media, and telecommunication), and culture sector. and alsofocuses on new media as well as applications based on the Android operating system of Google Inc. Shanda Capital was founded on February 17, 2011 and is based in China
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, Medical
- Angel, Series A, Seed
- China, United States, Hong Kong
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- NeuroXess — NeuroXess is an invasive brain-computer interface with high-density flexible brain electrodes aimed at brain research and disease diagnosis.
- Synchron — The endovascular brain computer interface.
- Reading Technology — Reading Technology is an R&D company that uses imaging, data, AI diagnosis, and treatment technology for heart and brain diseases.
HED is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Events, Electronics
- Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Drone Show Japan — Drone Show Japan company specializes in drone shows for events, aerial photography, and workshops.
Kyoto Capital Partners is an investment company affiliated with the Bank of Kyoto.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Medical, Elder Care
- Series C, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Cizucu — Cizucu is a stock photo community that helps creators and brands to create photos.
- Medigle — Medigle is a consulting firm that provides medical consulting and B2B services.
- Sunda Technology Global — Sunda Technology Global is a manufacturing company that designs and produces automatic hand-pump water charge collection systems.
Kyushin Social Capital is an Investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Drones
- Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Cizucu — Cizucu is a stock photo community that helps creators and brands to create photos.
- DeepForest Technologies — DeepForest Technologies is an IT firm that offers drone photography, forest information analysis, DF Scanner, and data processing services.
- Sunda Technology Global — Sunda Technology Global is a manufacturing company that designs and produces automatic hand-pump water charge collection systems.
Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, Travel, Content
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
- FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
- Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
Vision Knight Capital Fund I,L.P. (hereinafter referred to as“VKC”) is a private equity fund focusing mainland China’s retail/consumer, internet and e-commerce sectors.At VKC, we have successfully integrated operation experts and investment experts to form a unique team. Our team consists of China’s top corporate senior managements andinvestment professionals with years of operation and investment experience. They have specialized industrial expertise and outstanding operation performance in China’s internet, e-commerce and retail sectors. In addition to the capital investment to the portfolio company, VKC’s unique operation and investment team also provide real value added services such as operation enhancement and business model transformation/upgrade, with the vision to enhance the portfolio company’s core value and in return be recognized in the capital market.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, Malaysia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- Zhile Technology — Zhile Technology is primarily involved in the design, development, and marketing of intelligent fitness goods and content. Zhile Technology has developed an eco-chain of intelligent sports and fitness devices that integrates "hardware + software + content," guided by product categories. Its primary offerings include exercise bikes,walking and running machines, and more.
- Hicon Industry Technology — Hicon Industry Technology is a manufacturer in China, developing, manufacturing, and marketing household refrigeration appliances.
- Galaxy Pai Sports and Game Hall — Galaxy Pai Sports and Game Hall is a multidimensional entertainment space station. it provides peripheral content related to sports and entertainment. Galaxy Pai is an indoor integrated multi-dimensional entertainment space station built for young people.
Capital Nuts is a China-based, early stage fund, specializing in consumer-focused, online technology investments.Specialist areas include mobile internet, digital entertainment content, and e-commerce/e-business, with available funding ranging from $100,000-$5,000,000 per investment.Capital Nuts also offers market entry services tostartups approaching China, as well as an incubator to help startups develop within the market.The fund's partners have been active in China's online industry since the late 1990's, and provide its startup investments with funding, insight, and business development channels to the opportunities within the dynamic China market.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Service Industry, Marketing
- Series A, Angel, Series B
- China, United States
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- Ulanzi — Ulanzi offers a wide stock of the Best Camera Accessories ranging from Camera Tripod, Mini Flexible Tripod Stand with Hidden Phone Holder w Cold Shoe Mount & more at best prices.
- Bigverse — Bigverse is a digital art trading platform that aims to provide an "open, interesting, thoughtful, and soulful" creative sharing space.
- Dashi City Optics — Dashi City Optics provides a one-stop solution for the contact lens supply chain.
Leaguer Group engages in the business of technological innovation services that promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and assist in the incubation of innovative enterprises.Since its establishment, it has gradually gathered the four elements of technology, talents, carriers and capital of the science andtechnology innovation industry chain, and has formed a scientific and technological innovation incubation system with high integration of research and development platform, talent training, innovation base and investment incubation, and explored the close relationship between technological innovation and economic development. Combined development model and profit model.In 2015, together with the research institute of Shenzhen Tsinghua University, the Group won the “Guangdong Science and Technology Award Special Award” for the highest award in the field of science and technology system innovation in Guangdong Province due to the “Innovative Technology Innovation Incubation System Construction”.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Electronics, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- LeanPlans — LeanPlans is a manufacturing company that provides CNC machining, 3D printing, sheet metal processing, and integrated application of AI.
- Meet Feixiang — Meet Feixiang is a hardware designer and developer of outdoor portable water purifiers.
- Zhongke Fifth Era — Zhongke Fifth Era focuses on new technology that builds a material foundation for embodied worlds and multimodal end-to-end large models, as well as intelligent robots.
Openspace Ventures is a leading venture capital firm finding and backing Southeast Asian companies creating a transformative impact where tech meets life.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Rukita — Cari Kost Eksklusif, Co-living, Sewa Apartemen, dan Corporate Housing bisa di Rukita! Jadikan kami solusi hunian untuk setiap fase hidupmu.
- Thryve.Earth — Thryve Earth is a platform that unites multiple stakeholders to nature-based carbon projects in a scalable manner.
- AMP — We make life simpler for merchants navigating the exponential growth of eCommerce with our suite of powerful software, global community, and educational resources.
Sagin Capital & Consulting is the venture capital arm of The Bank of Saga.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan
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ByteDance is a technology company that operates a variety of content platforms that inform, educate, entertain, and inspire people. Its platforms aim to help users explore and discover the world's creativity, knowledge, and everyday moments that matter, while also empowering everyone to be a creator directly from their smartphones. It isdedicated to providing a safe, healthy, and positive online experience for all of its users.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- China, United States, India
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- Hi after school — Hi after school is an interactive entertainment and performance company.
- Hongyu Zhishang — Hongyu Zhishang is an IT enterprise that focuses on the development of network and information security software , information technology consulting services, artificial intelligence application software development, data processing and storage support services.
- Zhenqin Service — Zhenqin Service is an upscale housekeeping service company.
Sapphire Lake Investment is committed to providing investors with long-term stable performance returns. It aims to provide high-net-worth customers with suggestions for large-scale asset allocation and achieve long-term and stable investment returns for customers by building a full range of asset management products and practice the concept ofvalue investment with customers.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Medical, Big Data
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- HYPERS — HYPERS is a group of professionals from global Internet and IT enterprises including Google.
- Netjoy+ — Netjoy is a provider of short video marketing solutions. It offers integrated services that span the entire value chain, such as data analysis for a wide range of clients, programmatic cross-channel target marketing, short video content development, and real-time performance tracking. Short video marketing, short video trading, video production,event marketing, and other performance content businesses are all part of their business. With the revenue coming from the online marketing solutions company, their sectors are SaaS services, other businesses, and online marketing solutions business.
- Microfun — Microfun develops and produces family-friendly casual games.
Lenovo is one of the world's leading personal technology companies, producing innovative PCs and mobile internet devices. A global Fortune 500 company, Lenovo is the world's largest PC vendor and fourth largest smartphone company.While the Lenovo brand came into existence only in 2004, the company has a much longer history. In 1984,Legend Holdings was formed with 200,000 RMB (US$25,000) in a guard house in China. The company was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1988 and would grow to be the largest PC company in China. Legend Holdings changed its name to Lenovo in 2004 and, in 2005, acquired the former Personal Computer Division of IBM, the company that invented the PC industry in 1981.Today, Lenovo is a US$39billion personal technology company with more than 54,000 employees (including joint ventures) in more than 60 countries serving customers in more than 160 countries. Lenovo is a global company that is incorporated and headquartered in Hong Kong, with operational centers located strategically around the world , with the largest in Beijing and Morrisville, NC. These operational centers drive Lenovo’s global and local business approach.Lenovo has grown faster than the market for more than four years because our exceptionally engineered products are meant for those who do. Our customers use innovation to bring progress to the world, and we design and build our products with this in mind, taking inspiration from the drive and imagination of the people who make things happen. Our technology helps those who do, do better.Whether a PC, smartphone, tablet, smart TV, server, workstation or storage, Lenovo makes the products that customers need for what we call the "PC+ world." Lenovo is creating real differentiation from the competition thanks to its vertically integrated end-to-end business model. This model is unique among major PC makers and is a significant source of competitive advantage, helping us to bring more innovation to market, more efficiently, and aggressively attack the PC+ opportunity.And as Lenovo expands globally, we are establishing even deeper roots in each major market, investing not only in sales and distribution, but also in local domestic manufacturing, R&D and other high-value functions. This global reach with local excellence is enabling us to build a new kind of company - a "global-local" company - and positions us to more deeply implement our protect and attack strategy and build the foundation for long-term success.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, United States, Israel
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- Zanecon — Zhucheng Technology is a high-tech enterprise that develops smart construction solutions. Zhucheng Technology applies core technologies such as AI, environmental perception, deep learning, and servo control to the field of construction, and independently develops a variety of construction robot products.
- Direct Drive Technology — Direct Drive Technology provides direct drive solutions to replace the reduction gears in any machine. The company has a complete set of technologies for robot joints from sensors, drivers to motor bodies. Drive Tech uses a unique direct drive precise & powerful motion solution, thereby helping many other industries to boost different products.
- Zero Gravity Aircraft Industry — Zero Gravity Aircraft Industry is engaged in the R&D and manufacturing of eVTOL aircraft.
Suzhou Touareg Outdoor Media is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Photography, Film Production, Content Creators
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Ke image — Ke Image is a provider of event photography services with a focus on documenting outdoor sports. Its areas of expertise include content design, production, distribution, and other links.
Founded in 2014, YI Capital is a venture capital fund company focusing on TMT innovation. Moreover, it is also dedicated to the innovation in the field of industrial Internet and the investment opportunities in industrial upgrading, with the special attention paid to the innovative application and industrial upgrading of the Internet and ITtechnology in the fields including the living, finance, automotive, logistics, innovative e-commerce, living service, etc. YI Capital has invested in a number of outstanding enterprises in the industrial Internet upgrading fields such as Jiayoubao, 9Beike, Lianjia, Get, Mljr, Xiaoma and so on.
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Investment focus
- Security, Financial Services, Mobile
- Series A, Series B, Angel
- China, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- HUAUN — HUAUN is a security vendor that focuses on vulnerability management and AI offense and defense.
- Sunyur — Shangyue Technology is a digital procurement solution provider of enterprise self-service & non-catalogized agreement procurement.
- WorkAI — WorkAI provides human resources services with the help of artificial intelligence.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
- EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
- NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
SG Incubation was born as an investment company for the formation of corporate venture capital (CVC), which invests in Kyushu's first startup company.Regardless of the stage of growth, the startup company that will be the investor will first value the “human nature” of the manager, determine whether it is a company that should support thefuture, and provide capital and management back up. The Seibu Gas Group will continue to aim for new business areas.
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Investment focus
- Software, Logistics, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
- BI Brid — BI Brid provides IT solutions and services for the medical industry.
- Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Norinchukin Capital is a private equity fund management firm.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Agriculture, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Japan, Germany, United Kingdom
Zhejiang Provincial Financial Holdings isa financial investment management platform of the Zhejiang Provincial Government. Since the establishment of the company, in accordance with the strategic plan of the provincial party committee and the provincial government to build a "financial strong province", efforts have been made to createthree platforms: financial equity management, government industry funds, and financial innovation services.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Angel, Series A, Series C
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Chituo Technology — Chituo Technology is a new high-end memory chip developer that specializes in the design, manufacture, sales, and research and development of new high-end memory chips as well as related chips. Its target markets include industrial control, smart terminals, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, aerospace, and automotive electronics. offersapplication solutions and semiconductor chips.
- Yuansuan Technology — Yuansuan assists clients in improving the digital R&D of industrial goods as well as the digital management and maintenance of facilities and equipment using local simulation software.
- Horizon Continental Technology — Horizon Continental Technology is a joint venture between Continental Group and Horizon Robotics
VStar Capital is an investment firm based in China.
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- Manufacturing, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, Portugal
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- LANDBASE — LANDBASE is a food brand management company driven by the concept of innovation & fashion. Committed to integrating global R&D and production resources, LANDBASE utilizes frontier food processing technologies to redefine traditional foods and build fashionable foods for the future.
- Sensview — Sensview specializes in the development and production of solid-state imaging chips and detector modules.
- Surgerii Technology — Beijing Surrey is a technology company founded by an industry elite active in China's medical equipment. Relying on the core technology of the new generation of flexible continuum robotic arm, running through the implementation paradigm of many types of clinical minimally invasive surgery, and harnessing the powerful system design andintegration capabilities, Beijing Shurui is committed to becoming the first independent independent research and development, production and sales in China.
Ameba Capital is a Chinese venture capital firm that provides early and growth stage investments. Ameba Capital makes investments in the telecommunications, media, and technology industries, focusing on SaaS, AI, Digital Transformation and other disruptive technologies.
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- Software, Information Services, E-Commerce
- Angel, Series A, Series B
- China, United States, Hong Kong
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- Hina — Hina is a recruitment management system that helps to manage the recruitment process of candidates.
- Collov — Collov is a virtual interior design & shopping platform that offers interior design services stocked with shoppable goods from many brands.
- JKStack — Jingkun Technology is the first manufacturer to advocate Workflow in China. It builds "Enterprise IT ERP System" with automated data governance and workflow as the core, uses automation, low-code, faster and more flexible to open up application information islands, and redefines digital orchestration through Workflow. services, endow IToperations with automation capabilities, and deeply integrate with business. Jingkun benchmarks against the global Workflow leader.
Ventech Capital was founded in 1998 in France. Ventech is one of the most famous VC funds in Europe and manages four funds. In China, Ventech China manages three funds. Globally, this represents more than USD 1B total asset under management. Ventech China is based in Shanghai. Ventech China 3 is a USD 220 million venture capital fund focused oncommunities, M-commerce, Big Data and Fintech. Its current portfolio companies include Keep, the No.1 fitness training and community app in China, WonderFull, the emerging Japanese product M-commerce platform, Juzi, the leading entertainment news platform, Datawin, the leading big data company in sales leads generation, and Blued, the No.1 gay community app in China. Ventech China is dedicated to growing together with innovative startups and help them to become global leaders in their fields.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, Big Data
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, Japan, Austria
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- Reflaunt — Reflaunt empowers brands with the technology to embrace circular fashion. The allows brand's customers to put back on sale their past purchases without ever leaving the brand ecosystem rewards them with brand shopping credits
- Naive Blue — Naive Blue is a photography service provider company.
- Huamei Haolian — Huamei Haolian specializes in providing telemedicine and medical tourism services.
RiverHill Fund is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage of investment. The firm prefers to investment in wireless internet, wireless e-commerce, wireless online to offline, wireless community, and culture and entertainment sectors.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Internet
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- China
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- ZiYun Cloud — Founded in mid-2016, Jinyun IOT is composed of executives and technical experts from IBM, HP, BOSCH, COVISINT. The product line is mainly for discrete digital brain manufacturing solutions, firefighting internet of things, medical IoT applications. The entire life cycle of consulting, delivery, operation and maintenance, and the flexible deliveryof public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid clouds.
- Zhonghao Xinying — Zhonghao Xinying is an AI chip developer, mainly engaged in the research and development, design and sales of artificial intelligence core chips used in various cloud servers.
- Mcfly — Maifei Technology is an AI big data company with international technology background, Internet genes, and variable application of pesticides in the field of plant protection services. The core technology originated from the scientific research and accumulation of scientific research and innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Remote SensingInstitute for more than ten years. The company's founding members are from well-known teams at home and abroad such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
We believe the talent to build great companies comes from anywhere. A global venture capital firm that invests in local founders. As a multi-stage, sector-focused firm, GGV focuses on seed- to growth-stage investments across Social/Internet, Enterprise Tech, and Smart Tech sectors.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, Singapore
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- UXLINK — UXLINK is a social infrastructure comprised of social protocols and a collection of Dapps.UXLINk creates groundbreaking landing sceneries for web3 groups.
- Mind Network — The 1st Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Restaking Layer for AI and POS Networks. Mind Network is backed by Binance Labs, Hashkey, Big Brain, Chainlink, etc.
- Nozomi Networks — Nozomi Networks keeps operational technology cyber resilient with OT network and endpoint visibility, threat detection, and AI-powered analysis.
Since its establishment in 1990, JAFCO Asia has grown to become a leading brand in the venture capital industry in the Asia Pacific region. Currently, JAFCO Asia has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and Beijing.With more than US$1.2 billion funds under management in aggregate, JAFCO Asia's experienced investment team hasinvested in over 368 companies in 13 countries (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, India, Israel and Vietnam) and divested more than 260 companies of which at least 86 have been publicly listed.Since the new millennium, JAFCO Asia has shifted its focus entirely to technology related investments and is now one of the pre-eminent venture capital technology investors in the region. They believe that their existing portfolio in the Asia Pacific region and the worldwide business network offer their portfolio companies significant potential for synergistic partnerships.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, India
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- MFast (DigiPay J.S.C.) — MFast operates as a fintech platform. MFAST is a brand under Digital Payment Solution Joint Stock Company - DigiPay JSC.
- VenWiz — Find and connect with vendors matched to your requirements and manufacturing plant based on their capabilities and experience
- Savelots — Savelots is a membership-based discount chain brand that primarily operates in discount retail and department store related activities.
Gakken Plus is a publishing business offering a catalog of books and magazines.
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- Art, EdTech, Robotics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States
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- OurPhoto — OurPhoto is a service that matches clients and photographers. Professional and semi-professional shooting is surprisingly high quality and reasonable.
- MiRaY School — MiRaY School is an Education based company that service Gifte (! Kifte) is a service that offers a learning experience for the future of children and children.
- GranSky Studios — GranSky Studios makes good stories as well as animations which all ages can enjoy. GranSky Studios brings light of dream and hope to people worldwide through our production.
Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
- Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
- Kasagi Labo — Kasagi Labo is the leading anime venture studio that brings authentic Japanese craft to a global audience through licensing, distribution and merchandising.
lool Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage Israeli startups.
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, Indonesia
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- Beewise — Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey.
- Eleos Health — Automate documentation, alleviate provider burnout, and elevate care quality with the CareOps Automation platform from Eleos Health.
- Inner Cosmos — The Evolution of Medicine
NetEase Capital is the venture arm of NetEase and looks at early-stage VC investments in the technology sector around the world. The group, with a mandate to invest $500 million USD globally, has led venture investments throughout Asia and North America.NetEase is a leading Chinese Internet company listed on the Nasdaq with a marketcapitalization of over $10 billion, and a cash balance over $3 billion. The company has products including a top email service with over 700 million registered users, a top information and entertainment portal, mobile apps with hundreds of millions of downloads, and a top game platform in China.
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- Video Games, Gaming, PC Games
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Finland
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