# Allan Kwan

> Allan Kwan is a Series C investor at Oak Investment Partners backing Electronics and Manufacturing. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Oak Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oak-investment-partners)
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Oct 2013
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Allan Kwan is a Series C investor at Oak Investment Partners focused on Electronics and Manufacturing. In addition to being Chairman of Protean Electric, Allan Kwan has served as a member of NeoPhotonics’ board of directors since November 2008. Since April 2007, Mr. Kwan has been a Venture Partner of Oak Investment Partners, a venture capital firm. From July 2001 until April 2007, Mr. Kwan served first as Managing Director of North Asia,then as Vice President International of Yahoo! Inc. Mr. Kwan holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in Canada, a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Electronics | 2 | 22% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 22% |
| Battery | 1 | 11% |
| Internet | 1 | 11% |
| Shopping | 1 | 11% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 2 | 22% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Series D | 1 | 11% |
| Series E | 1 | 11% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 22% |
| China | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| B5M.COM | B5M, “help me buy” in Chinese, is the most comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased Chinese shopping search portal across multiple vertical categories. It offers hundreds of millions of business-to-consumer products, product and merchant reviews, group-buy deals, discount products, and shopping-related web articles, and it’s innovative shoppingcommunity features help Chinese consumers make informed purchasing decisions. B5M, founded in 2007, is headquartered in Shanghai with offices in Beijing, Hangzhou, and Seoul. The company also provides e-commerce search and recommendation engines to e-commerce sites to create a better user experience and higher conversion rates. B5M operates its own advertisement network to deliver hundreds of millions of clicks daily from hundreds of premier media sites as well as B5M.com to thousands of E-commerce websites and other advertisers.The company has raised Series A round of $7M, led by Oak Investment Partners, in Feb 2012, and Series B round of $16M, led by ClearVue Partners, in Apr 2013. The company has over 8M UV a day and 60M PV a day through the company’s website, browser plugin, and mobile apps, and the traffic continues to rapidly increase. | $16M | Series B | Oct 08, 2013 |  |
| B5M.COM | B5M, “help me buy” in Chinese, is the most comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased Chinese shopping search portal across multiple vertical categories. It offers hundreds of millions of business-to-consumer products, product and merchant reviews, group-buy deals, discount products, and shopping-related web articles, and it’s innovative shoppingcommunity features help Chinese consumers make informed purchasing decisions. B5M, founded in 2007, is headquartered in Shanghai with offices in Beijing, Hangzhou, and Seoul. The company also provides e-commerce search and recommendation engines to e-commerce sites to create a better user experience and higher conversion rates. B5M operates its own advertisement network to deliver hundreds of millions of clicks daily from hundreds of premier media sites as well as B5M.com to thousands of E-commerce websites and other advertisers.The company has raised Series A round of $7M, led by Oak Investment Partners, in Feb 2012, and Series B round of $16M, led by ClearVue Partners, in Apr 2013. The company has over 8M UV a day and 60M PV a day through the company’s website, browser plugin, and mobile apps, and the traffic continues to rapidly increase. | $7.1M | Series A | Feb 23, 2012 |  |
| Boston Power | Boston-Power has developed the Sonata technology platform, which is a battery they say charges faster, lasts longer, performs better and is safer than what's currently on the market. The technology will be used in many consumer electronic devices including laptops, PDAs and mobile phones.In January of 2008, Boston-Power announced a newpartnership with Chinese battery manufacturer GP Batteries to step up production of Sonata batteries. | $30M | Private Equity | Dec 22, 2011 |  |
| Boston Power | Boston-Power has developed the Sonata technology platform, which is a battery they say charges faster, lasts longer, performs better and is safer than what's currently on the market. The technology will be used in many consumer electronic devices including laptops, PDAs and mobile phones.In January of 2008, Boston-Power announced a newpartnership with Chinese battery manufacturer GP Batteries to step up production of Sonata batteries. | $125M | Private Equity | Sep 20, 2011 |  |
| Boston Power | Boston-Power has developed the Sonata technology platform, which is a battery they say charges faster, lasts longer, performs better and is safer than what's currently on the market. The technology will be used in many consumer electronic devices including laptops, PDAs and mobile phones.In January of 2008, Boston-Power announced a newpartnership with Chinese battery manufacturer GP Batteries to step up production of Sonata batteries. | $60M | Series E | Jun 25, 2010 |  |
| Boston Power | Boston-Power has developed the Sonata technology platform, which is a battery they say charges faster, lasts longer, performs better and is safer than what's currently on the market. The technology will be used in many consumer electronic devices including laptops, PDAs and mobile phones.In January of 2008, Boston-Power announced a newpartnership with Chinese battery manufacturer GP Batteries to step up production of Sonata batteries. | $55M | Series D | Jan 01, 2009 |  |
| NeoPhotonics | NeoPhotonics offers a complete line of both active and passive optical components for every network market segment: FTTH/Access, Datacom, Storage Area Networks, Metro and Long Haul networks. NeoPhotonics' transceivers are compliant with industry standard MSAs, are available in GBIC, SFF, SFP, XFP and other configurations, and serve avariety of reaches, applications and data-rates from 155MBps to 10GBps. NeoPhotonics' advanced silica Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) integrated optical modules and subsystems are critical parts in access FTTH networks and in metro and long-haul DWDM networks. For FTTH, NeoPhotonics manufactures integrated splitters in high volume and FTTH BiDi and TriPlexer transceivers, Other products include AWGs, Athermal AWGs, VOA Multiplexers, EDFAs and ROADM Modules. NeoPhotonics' manufactures MEMS-based Variable Optical Attenuators and Dynamic Channel Equalizers | $30M |  | Sep 09, 2008 |  |
| Boston Power | Boston-Power has developed the Sonata technology platform, which is a battery they say charges faster, lasts longer, performs better and is safer than what's currently on the market. The technology will be used in many consumer electronic devices including laptops, PDAs and mobile phones.In January of 2008, Boston-Power announced a newpartnership with Chinese battery manufacturer GP Batteries to step up production of Sonata batteries. | $45M | Series C | Jan 01, 2008 |  |
| NeoPhotonics | NeoPhotonics offers a complete line of both active and passive optical components for every network market segment: FTTH/Access, Datacom, Storage Area Networks, Metro and Long Haul networks. NeoPhotonics' transceivers are compliant with industry standard MSAs, are available in GBIC, SFF, SFP, XFP and other configurations, and serve avariety of reaches, applications and data-rates from 155MBps to 10GBps. NeoPhotonics' advanced silica Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) integrated optical modules and subsystems are critical parts in access FTTH networks and in metro and long-haul DWDM networks. For FTTH, NeoPhotonics manufactures integrated splitters in high volume and FTTH BiDi and TriPlexer transceivers, Other products include AWGs, Athermal AWGs, VOA Multiplexers, EDFAs and ROADM Modules. NeoPhotonics' manufactures MEMS-based Variable Optical Attenuators and Dynamic Channel Equalizers | $75M | Series C | Jun 19, 2006 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Foundation Asset Management (FAM)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-asset-management-fam) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [GGV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ggv-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Notable Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/notable-capital-e2dd) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ATA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ata-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gabriel Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GSR Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsr-ventures-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Oak Investment Partners

VC Fund · Greenwich, United States

Oak Investment Partners is a multi-stage venture capital and private equity firm. Oak focuses on high-growth opportunities in the Information Technology, Internet and Consumer, Financial Services Technology, Healthcare Information and Services, and Clean Energy sectors. It is specialized in investments in buyouts, spinouts, growth equity,mid-to-late stage financings to private businesses, and PIPE investments to public companies. It generally, targets investments between $10 million and $150 million.Since 1978, the firm has invested $9 billion in over 525 companies around the world, earning the trust of entrepreneurs with a senior team that delivers steady guidance, deep domain expertise and a consistent investment philosophy.The firm also specializes in startup investments, emerging growth, recapitalization, industry consolidation. It invests in wireless communications, information technology, enterprise software and services, software outsourced services, broadband and consumer Internet, digital media and new media, semiconductors, financial services information technology, healthcare services, clean energy, and consumer retail and restaurants sectors.The firm primarily invests in the United States with selected investments in Europe, Israel, India, South Korea, and China. Oak Investment Partners was founded in 1978 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut with additional offices in Norwalk, Connecticut, Palo Alto, California, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.

5 contacts available at Oak Investment Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Allan Kwan | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allan-kwan |
| Ed Glassmeyer | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-glassmeyer |
| Fred Harman | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fred-harman |
| Scot Jarvis | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scot-jarvis |
| Brian Dunefsky | Chief Compliance Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-dunefsky-e8a6 |

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## FAQ

### What does Allan Kwan invest in?

Allan Kwan invests primarily in Electronics, Manufacturing and Battery startups, most often at Series C and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Allan Kwan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Allan Kwan closed in Oct 2013. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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