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Top 50 Photography VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Asia in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 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 December 2024

Investor	Photography Asia investments
BEENEXT	2
Skystar Capital	2
Quest Ventures	2
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)	2
IDG Capital	2
Chiratae Ventures	2
Seiko Electric	2
Frees Fund	2
GDP Venture	2
Semir Garment	2
ANOBAKA	2
Share Capital	2
Ventech China	1
Evershine Capital	1
RiverHill Fund	1
FGN ABBA Lab	1
Zhejiang Provincial Financial Holdings	1
VStar Capital	1
Dark Horse Ventures	1
Jungle Ventures	1
Mercari	1
Mizuho Capital	1
Qingsong Fund	1
GGV Capital	1
JAFCO Asia	1
ByteDance	1
Rongsheng Chuangfu	1
Tianxing Capital	1
Farallon Capital Management	1
Gakken Plus Japan	1
Regional Economy Revitalization Support Organization	1
Burda Principal Investments	1
QTnet	1
Sapphire Lake Investment	1
lool ventures	1
Yi Capital	1
Innovation Engine	1
SHiP	1
Cenova	1
Yanjiyou	1
Monex Ventures	1
QR Investment	1
SMBC Venture Capital	1
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	1
Darwin Venture Management	1
Ceyuan Ventures	1
East Ventures	1
Zhongtou Guoyin	1
Lenovo	1
ECC Capital	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Budy — Budy is your AI Powered Sidekick for SaaS Professional Services
NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Flywheel Dynamix — Flywheel Dynamix is a cloud meta-marketplace transforming how enterprises buy and sell cloud software with unmatched trust, visibility, and efficiency.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Komunal — Komunal is a financial technology-based company that provides Peer-to-Peer Lending services in Indonesia which helps create relationships between potential SME and funders to support economic growth in Indonesia.
Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a climate-tech startup that provides waste management and recycling services to optimise the waste value chain.
Klinik Pintar — Klinik Pintar membantu pasien mendapatkan layanan kesehatan primer terbaik di klinik, rumah, dan kantor.

Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Xunlu AI — Xunlu AI is an innovative startup that focuses on the development of AI-powered customer service technologies. Xunlu AI provides AI intelligent customer service and sales robots to businesses in a variety of industries via highly tailored AI solutions, assisting businesses in achieving their goals of cost reduction and increased productivity.
Galaxy Bot — Galaxy Bot is an innovative robotics company that provides intelligent universal service robotic products.
Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Blitzscale Technologies — WMall hai khaas ladies ke liye ek online mall. WMall pe aap Kapde, Jewelery, Cosmetics, Ghar ka samaan, kitchen ka samaan, baccho ke liye kapde, toys etc ki shopping MRP se 30-70% discount pe kar sakte hai. Blockbuster Deals: WMall har din kuch products pe deta hai extra discount.
ShopDeck — ShopDeck helps sellers to create their ecommerce store/website, manage logistics, payment and everything for a business to sell stuffs online.
Dezy — Smiles.ai is India's leading dental clinic with 100+ expert dentists and has 300+ dental care centers in major cities like Bangalore, Bhopal, Chennai, Delhi, Indore, Lucknow, and Kolkata. Find the best dentist nearby.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

XellSmart — Xellsmart develops stem cell treatment solutions for a variety of degenerative diseases for which there are now no clinical treatments. Xellsmart is located in Minhang District, Shanghai, China.
Dezao Technology — Dezao Technology is an e-commerce transaction provider, mostly involved in the sales of electronic products, mobile phones, and mobile phone accessories.
Molar Intelligence — Molar Intelligence is a professional artificial intelligence data service provider.

GDP Venture is a venture builder focusing on commerce, consumer product, media & entertainment and solution companies

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Food and Beverage
Series B, Series C, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

JOYCLE — JOYCLE is a waste management company that specializes in trash recycling, disposal, and environmental consulting services.
Aimytech — Aimytech is a developer of buyer enablement tools that provides business negotiation and sales support cloud services.
AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Big Data
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, Japan, Austria

Portfolio highlights

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.

Evershine Capital is a private Investment Firm.

Investment focus

B2B, ISP, Wireless
Series A, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

exands — Exands is a business-to-business wireless service provider that aims to enable interactions and engagements between brands and their consumers. It spearheaded a series of innovative moves in China's fast-growing information technology market. It is committed to providing both chain enterprises and consumers with simple, reliable and securedintranet and internet service by leveraging wireless technology.
Naive Blue — Naive Blue is a photography service provider company.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Internet
Series B, Series A, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

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.

FGN ABBA Lab is an investment fund that mainly supports pre-seed to series A early stage startups. In this FGN ABBA Lab fund, they will support startups with the idea of creating “things and things” that make the world exciting without limiting the genre, investment, training, and social implementation.

Investment focus

Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Japan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

neuet — neuet develops and operates a smartphone application that offers bike-sharing services.
HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
Sorano Me — Sorano Me is a content creation and media company that provides space related content, space data and consulting services.

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.

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.
Starshine Semiconductor — Starlight Semiconductor is a developer of RF filter chips.

VStar Capital is an investment firm based in China.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

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.

Dark Horse Venture is a venture capital firm that invests at early-stage startups in industrial internet and technology.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Education
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Sensedeal — Sensedeal is a data intelligence research and development service provider.
Tuyun Space — Tuyun Space focuses on developing a common twin platform. For the universal twin platform, Tuyun Space builds technical barriers through four basic capabilities: 1. Spatial modeling; 2. Data coupling; 3. Rendering and visualization; 4. Simulation analysis.
Maicong Software — Discover the top SQL editor to enhance database management and query efficiency. It supports poplular SQL databases like mysql, mariadb, postgresql, sql server, sqlite, hadoop and more.

Jungle Ventures is one of Southeast Asia's largest independent venture capital firms based in Singapore. We invest in early and growth-stage startups in Southeast Asia and India, focused on building category-defining businesses that stand the test of time.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Singapore, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Distil — Your trusted partner for speciality chemicals
Infinity Fincorp Solutions — Founded in 2016, Infinity Fincorp Solutions is a non-banking financial corporation offering integrated commodity & collateral management services in India, with prime expertise in handling agricultural products with utmost finesse.The modern entrepreneurs are using cutting-edge inventions that serve as accelerators for businesses and industriestoday. Such progressive, rapid growth requires a financial partner who can be trusted and collaborated
International Payments Identity(IPiD) — International Payments Identity(IPiD) is a international payments addressing platform that provide solutions to validate bank account of the payee and fetch his banking information by mapping proxies with bank account details.

Mercari is your marketplace. It's the perfect place to declutter and discover items that are uniquely you. Say 'goodbye' to your old go-tos and 'hello' to one-of-a-kind treasures.

Investment focus

Internet, Online Portals, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

aMi Inc. — aMi Inc. is a Booking platform for photographers.
Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
Infradigital — IDN is the fastest growing B2B school platform in Indonesia, providing data & financial services to thousands of schools and hundreds of thousands of students across the country.

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Education, Manufacturing
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

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.

Rongsheng Chuangfu is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Coffee, Medical, Software
Angel, Series A, Post-IPO Equity
China

Portfolio highlights

Quanjing — Quanjing is a visual content provider that allows users to buy and edit stock photos.
WING CAFE — Wing Cafe is a coffee restaurant chain brand in China.
YUNNAN QIDAN PHARMACEUTICAL Co., Ltd. — YUNNAN QIDAN PHARMACEUTICAL Co., Ltd. manufactures Chinese herbal medicine, health food, and daily chemical products.

Tianxing Capital is a capital management company.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Information Services
Post-IPO Equity, Series C, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

ShopEx — ShopEx is an e-commerce software and service provider in China. It focuses on the research and development of e-commerce software and provision of related solutions and services. ShopEx has become the largest and most experienced professional team and develops e-commerce software with independent core technology and intellectual property rights andservices.
Senyint — Senyint is a medical cloud application solution provider.
Chaoqun Testing Technology — Chaoqun Testing Technology is an X-ray equipment manufacturer that focuses on the design and manufacturing of industrial and medical X-ray tubes, sources, and systems.

We pursue multiple investment strategies on an opportunistic basis.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series C, Series B, Series D
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tectonic Therapeutic — Tectonic and AVROBIO have completed their anticipated merger.Please follow this link to our press release for additional information.
Savara Pharmaceuticals — Savara is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on rare respiratory diseases
Cardurion Pharmaceuticals — A Boston-based cardiovascular biotechnology company developing next-generation therapeutics for the treatment of heart failure and cardiovascular diseases.

Gakken Plus is a publishing business offering a catalog of books and magazines.

Investment focus

Art, EdTech, Robotics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

The Regional Economy Revitalization Support Organization supports small and medium-sized companies.

Investment focus

Photography, Digital Media, Artificial Intelligence
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

QTnet is a telecommunication and internet service provider.

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.

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.

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.
Quanjing — Quanjing is a visual content provider that allows users to buy and edit stock photos.
Microfun — Microfun develops and produces family-friendly casual games.

lool Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage Israeli startups.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

Innovation Engine has been is promoting investment to create and grow promising business areas created from technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Asilla — Asilla develops and provides AI specialized in image and video analysis. Its services, the Vehicle recognition AI, recognizes the manufacturer and model from the image of the vehicle. It also has a censorship service that detects inappropriate images that can not be released, including copyrights and obscene expressionsAsilla was founded in 2015and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Ranimaru — Ranimaru is pet service providing company that offers pet sitting, care of your pet dog in events, professional course about pet sitting.
Drone Show Japan — Drone Show Japan company specializes in drone shows for events, aerial photography, and workshops.

SHiP provides management and services for demonstration areas.

Investment focus

Software, Hardware, Manufacturing
Series A, Angel, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

Welbell — Welbell is a computer software company providing intelligent system integration and intelligent community cloud platform services.
Broadcare Robot — Broadcare Robot is an industrial manufacturing company specialized in medical robot and medical automation.
Shenzhen 3D Dreamwork Co.Ltd — Shenzhen 3D Dreamwork Co.Ltd provides 3D printing, 3D photography, and building design solutions.

Cenova Capital is one of the earliest healthcare dedicated funds in China founded in 2010 by Dr Jun WU and is one of the earliest investors in private healthcare services and digital health, with helps to facilitate the transformation of healthcare in China from an exclusively state-owned system to a more efficient, market-oriented system. CenovaCapital is healthcare funds dedicated to early and growth-stage investments in the life sciences and healthcare sector in China. Since inception in 2010, Cenova now has five funds under management with investments in over 50 companies in healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital heath. Cenova's investors are mainly large domestic and international institutional investors including Asian sovereign wealth funds, government institutions, insurance and financial institutions and multinational companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Phage Pharm — Phage Pharm is a professional enterprise in the industrialization of bacteriophages.
Jiangsu Jland Biotech — Jiangsu Jland Biotech is dedicated to the development and production of Biollagen™ collagen and is determined to be the biggest non-animal-sourced collagen supplier worldwide.
Hunan Yiyi Pharmaceutical Technology — Hunan Yiyi Pharmaceutical Technology

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.

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.

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision

QR Investment Operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Pet
Series B, Seed, Series E
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Crowd Chem — Crowd Chem is an IT company that specializes in software development, data services, and consulting services.
Gojo & Company — We are enabling financial inclusion for everyone by partnering with financial service providers.
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS

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.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Taiwan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
Camlann — We're Camlann Games, an indie game publisher that performs. We back passionate developers, vibrant worlds, and the most unforgettable stories ever told.

Ceyuan Ventures is a Beijing-based early stage venture capital firm focused on IT and emerging growth companies. They emphasize backing great teams, technology and business innovation. Their mission is to assist entrepreneurs in creating and building world-class businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ruidiwei — Ruidiwei is a tech enterprise that specializes in the design, development, production, sales, and service of antennas and components in microwave and millimeter-wave frequency bands.
Qinglei Technology — Qinglei Technology is a radar sensing technology startup.
Siyue Intelligence — Siyue Intelligence produces software and hardware for TFT-LCD semiconductor automation. It integrates R&D, design, production, and service, and is committed to providing fully automated warehousing robot systems, and intelligent detection.

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

Zhongtou Guoyin is an investment firm.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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.

ECC Capital is an investment firm focused on investments in early stage and high growth stage venture capital fund.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Hardware
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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