# Bo Shao

> Bo Shao is a Series A investor at Evolve Ventures (San Francisco) backing FinTech and Finance. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Evolve Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolve-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boshao/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bshao

Bo Shao is a Series A investor at Evolve Ventures in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Finance. Bo Shao is the Founder and Chairman of Evolve Ventures and Foundation. He previously worked at Ten Percent Happier as a Board Member. Bo Shao attended Harvard University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 13% |
| Finance | 2 | 13% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 13% |
| Social Media | 2 | 13% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 31% |
| Seed | 3 | 19% |
| Series B | 3 | 19% |
| Series C | 2 | 13% |
| Series D | 2 | 13% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 5 | 31% |
| United States | 4 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Shift Network | The Shift Network, Inc. empowers a growing global movement of people who are creating an evolutionary shift of consciousness that in turn leads to a more enlightened society, one built on principles of sustainability, peace, health, and prosperity. Through our online Summits and Courses we have already served more than 200,000 worldwide who arecommitted to shifting our world’s operating system. Please join us as we create events, programs, and activities that help us evolve! The Shift Network was founded and launched its first event in February of 2010. | $8.7M | Series A | Oct 12, 2021 |  |
| Syndicate | Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. | $800K | Seed | Jun 30, 2021 |  |
| Nuance Biotech | Nuance Biotech is a pharmaceutical company Based In China. | $181M | Series D | Dec 07, 2020 |  |
| Vivo Fitness | Vivo is on a mission to make you love cardio and healthy food. The company's high energy workout classes are created by elite personal trainers and will keep you motivated till the end of every workout. Their recipes are crafted by chefs and nutritionists to be delicious as well as healthy. Vivo was founded in 2016 and is headquartered inSan Francisco, California. |  | Angel | Nov 10, 2016 |  |
| Babytree | Babytree is the largest parenting website in China, aimed at the fast-growing 60 million Chinese parents and 54-billion-dollar maternity and baby industry. Babytree aims to establish a platform where parents can share valuable experience, obtain positive and meaningful experiences about parenting and growth, and solve their multi-level andmulti-sided parenting issues at the same time. | $425.2M | Series D | Jul 20, 2016 |  |
| Remark | Remark is a mobile application that allows users to share their day with close friends. The company believes that a social app that makes people happy should let the users have genuine friends and relationships with other people on line and let them be who they really are by sharing what they feel without hesitations. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 20, 2015 |  |
| Lexin | LexinFintech Holdings is an online consumer finance platform for educated young adults in China. As one of China's leading financial technology companies, Lexin integrates its e-commerce-driven installment finance platform, Fenqile, with advanced risk management technologies, the Company's Dingsheng online investment platform, and theCompany's Juzi Licai online investment platform for individual investors, to create a comprehensive consumer finance ecosystem. The Company utilizes technologies including big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence to enable the near-instantaneous matching of user funding requests with offers from the Company's more than 30 funding partners, which include commercial banks, consumer finance companies, and other licensed financial institutions. By serving the credit needs of China's educated young adults, Lexin helps its more than 20 million registered users to enjoy a better quality of life through the use of better credit. | $100M | Series B | Dec 02, 2014 |  |
| Liepin | Liepin is the largest and most professional high-end talent community-based recruitment site, with its innovative products and unique service model model for create an interactive high-end talent recruitment platform between business, headhunting and workplace. Tens of thousands of professional executive search consultant for businesses and jobseekers set up communication between the bridge and accelerate corporate recruitment process, recommended paying jobs in the workplace, career development planning. 16 job seekers to avoid the risk of privacy protection, millions of high-end elite member libraries, help enterprises development needs. | $70M | Series C | Apr 15, 2014 |  |
| Liepin | Liepin is the largest and most professional high-end talent community-based recruitment site, with its innovative products and unique service model model for create an interactive high-end talent recruitment platform between business, headhunting and workplace. Tens of thousands of professional executive search consultant for businesses and jobseekers set up communication between the bridge and accelerate corporate recruitment process, recommended paying jobs in the workplace, career development planning. 16 job seekers to avoid the risk of privacy protection, millions of high-end elite member libraries, help enterprises development needs. |  | Series A | Apr 01, 2011 |  |
| Babytree | Babytree is the largest parenting website in China, aimed at the fast-growing 60 million Chinese parents and 54-billion-dollar maternity and baby industry. Babytree aims to establish a platform where parents can share valuable experience, obtain positive and meaningful experiences about parenting and growth, and solve their multi-level andmulti-sided parenting issues at the same time. | $10M | Series B | Mar 01, 2008 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Beijing Konruns Pharmaceutical](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beijing-konruns-pharmaceutical) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bertelsmann](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bertelsmann) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bridge Builders Collaborative](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bridge-builder-collaborative) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [C-Bridge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c-bridge-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CMW Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/china-merchants-wealth) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [China Renaissance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/china-renaissance) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Evolve Ventures

VC Fund · San Anselmo, United States

Evolve Ventures is an early stage venture firm whose mission is to reduce inner suffering and to facilitate inner transformation at scale.

4 contacts available at Evolve Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bo Shao | Co-Founder and Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bo-shao |
| Jason Pyle | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-pyle |
| Julius Mokrauer | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julius-mokrauer |
| Oleg Gorelik | Team Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oleg-gorelik |

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## FAQ

### What does Bo Shao invest in?

Bo Shao invests primarily in FinTech, Finance and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Bo Shao last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bo Shao closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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