# BAIC Group

> BAIC Group is a VC fund in Beijing backing Automotive and Rental. See 5 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, China
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jul 2020
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/1195787/
- Website: http://en.baicgroup.com.cn/index.php
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/baicglobal/

BAIC Group is an automobile group that engages in automobile R&D and manufacturing, general aviation, automotive parts manufacturing, automotive service and trade, investment and financing, and other businesses.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automotive | 3 | 60% |
| Rental | 1 | 20% |
| Finance | 1 | 20% |
| Robotics | 1 | 20% |
| Marketing | 1 | 20% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 2 | 40% |
| Angel | 1 | 20% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 20% |
| Post-IPO Secondary | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 4 | 80% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xu Heyi | Chairman | 0 | — |
| Zhang Xiyong | General Manager | 0 | — |
| Yang Haijun | Director | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CAR | CAR Inc. is a car rental service provider, CAR is dedicated to providing customers across China with superior car rental services including short-term rental, long-term rental and financial leasing, as well as assorted value-added services as roadside assistance, one-way rentals, etc. As of June 2014, they operated in 70 major cities, at 52airports across China with over 717 service locations, serving more than 1 million individual customers and nearly 10,000 corporate clients. Their nationwide service network covers major cities and tourist destinations in mainland China. Alongside with their well-developed website and 24/7 call centers, they provide 24-hour customer service delivering convenience, flexibility and value to their customers, serving to satisfy diversified customer needs as well as to support and ensure customers' safe driving. Since establishment they have well received encouraging customer and social reviews nationwide. In 2008, CAR acted as the official car rental service provider of the 29th Summer Olympic Games, and was awarded the 21th Century Future Star by China Entrepreneur magazine. In 2009, CAR was listed one of Forbes China's Potential Enterprises. In 2010, CAR was named New Fortune's Highest Potential Business Model and China.com's Annual Best Car Rental Service. In 2011, CAR received the Best Service Award given by China Brand Festival, Best Car Rental Company by National Geographic Traveler and Harvard Business Review’s 5th Management Action Gold Award. | $180.6M | Post-IPO Secondary | Jul 21, 2020 |  |
| Mercedes-Benz Group AG | The Mercedes-Benz Group AG (former Daimler AG) is one of the world's most successful automotive companies. With Mercedes-Benz AG, we are one of the leading global suppliers of high-end passenger cars and premium vans. Mercedes-Benz Mobility AG offers financing, leasing, car subscription and car rental, fleet management, digital services forcharging and payment, insurance brokerage, as well as innovative mobility services.The company founders, Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, made history by inventing the automobile in 1886. As a pioneer of automotive engineering, Mercedes-Benz sees shaping the future of mobility in a safe and sustainable way as both a motivation and obligation. The company's focus therefore remains on innovative and green technologies as well as on safe and superior vehicles that both captivate and inspire.Mercedes-Benz continues to invest systematically in the development of efficient powertrains and sets the course for an all-electric future: Mercedes-Benz Cars intends to go all-electric by the end of this decade wherever market conditions allow. Mercedes-Benz Vans targets an EV share of more than 50% by 2023. Shifting from electric-first to electric-only, the company is accelerating toward a fully electric and software-driven future. The company's efforts are also focused on the intelligent connectivity of its vehicles, autonomous driving and new mobility concepts as Mercedes-Benz regards it as its aspiration and obligation to live up to its responsibility to society and the environment.Mercedes-Benz sells its vehicles and services in nearly every country of the world and has production facilities in Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Africa. |  | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 22, 2019 |  |
| Robosense | RoboSense (Suteng Innovation Technology Co., Ltd.) is the world leading environment perception solutions provider of autonomous driving LiDAR. The company is striving to deliver the world with cutting-edge robotic perception solutions which can perfectly integrate premium LiDAR hardware, 3D data processing algorithms, and deep learning technology.Through constant technology innovation, the company has made possible for robots to “see” the world with excellent environment perception capability.Registered in 2014, RoboSense is founded by a group of PhDs from Harbin Institute of Technology who have been working on LiDAR technology for more than 7 years. Over the past 4 years of commercialization, RoboSense, centered around LiDAR environment Perception technology has set up a complete operation system integrating R&D, Production, and Marketing.Besides an R&D center with Operation team headquartered in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China, the company has an R&D center in Beijing and Silicon Valley. Until April 2017, the employee base of the company has exceeded 200 people(production employee excluded) with more than 60% are Postgraduates and PhDs. For a long time, the company has maintained cooperation with world-class educational and research institutes including MIT, HKUST, Tsinghua, and HIT on talent sourcing and academic exchanges. | $45M |  | Oct 11, 2018 |  |
| Tikin Media | Tikin Media is a forward-looking advertising company that innovates building elevator media. The shareholders are composed of the world's top 500 and well-known media groups. They were successively invested by Baidu Venture Capital, Sequoia China and IDG within one year. Since its inception, the company has positioned itself to be a “high-endcommercial building effect media operator”. The company's self-developed and possessed intellectual property elevator projection equipment is a new media form that subverts existing planar communication media, realizes mobile interconnection, and has programmatic ordering and big data analysis functions. | $3.8M | Angel | Nov 17, 2017 |  |
| Cheyipai | Cheyipai is a private company engaged in e-commerce. It provides sells used vehicles online and online-to-offline (O2O) e-commerce model for the complete transaction process. Wang Tiezhong and Yang Xuejian founded Cheyipai in 2009, with its headquarters in Beijing in China. It operates as a subsidiary of Souche.com as of April 3, 2018. | $45M |  | Sep 06, 2016 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Baidu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baidu-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Beijing Shiji Beiguang Advertising Co](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beijing-shiji-beiguang-advertising-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Cainiao Logistics — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ping An](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ping-an) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SAIC Motor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saic-motor) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does BAIC Group invest in?

BAIC Group invests primarily in Automotive, Rental and Finance startups, most often at Funding Round and Angel stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact BAIC Group?

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### Who are the partners at BAIC Group?

The team at BAIC Group includes Xu Heyi (Chairman), Zhang Xiyong (General Manager) and Yang Haijun (Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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