Bob Xiaoping Xu
Founding Partner @ ZhenFund
Beijing, China
Bob Xiaoping Xu is a Series A investor at ZhenFund in Beijing focused on Internet and Mobile. Bob Xiaoping Xu is the founder of ZhenFund and one of China's most celebrated angel investors. Established in 2011 as a joint fund with Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund is China’s foremost angel fund. Managing USD 600 million, ZhenFund has 500 portfolio companies and offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Palo Alto. It has played a leading role inChina’s rise as a “startup nation”, and is widely considered a beacon of light in China’s vibrant startup environment. Prior to founding ZhenFund, Mr. Xu co-founded China's largest private English training and test preparation group, New Oriental Education, along with Michael Yu and Victor Wang. New Oriental became listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006 and currently has a market cap of USD 11 billion. The founders’ endeavors, which helped drive Chinese education toward a new global era, was featured in the box office hit “American Dreams in China”. The movie ranked as the #3 Chinese domestic box office hit in 2013. Mr. Xu’s success as an educator and an entrepreneur led him to angel investing, where he has pioneered a unique investment philosophy of investing in exceptional people. He became one of the most prolific patrons of entrepreneurship, as well as a leading mentor to young business leaders. Forbes Magazine has honored him on the Midas List as one of the World’s Top 100 Venture Capital Investors for two consecutive years (2016 and 2017). Mr. Xu currently serves as the Chairman of China Angel Investment Association. Mr. Xu has more than 11 million followers on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. He is also a prolific author who has published seven books on career growth and education. His writings, speeches and interviews on entrepreneurship, investment and education have had an immense impact on China’s emerging business leaders, and particularly on those who have studied abroad. He is the president of Committee 2005, an institution that gathers the most influential Chinese overseas returnees, including the likes of Robin Li, Neil Shen and Lee Kai-fu. Mr. Xu is deeply committed to philanthropy. He is a founding donor and the Committee Acting President of the Future Science Award, an annual award of USD 1 million for scientists who have made significant contributions to life sciences and physical sciences in Greater China. Mr. Xu graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, the Chinese equivalent of Julliard School of Music, with a bachelor’s degree in music. He received his master’s degree in music from the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to that he was a counsellor at Peking University for five years.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Bob Xiaoping Xu invests in
Stages Bob Xiaoping Xu invests in
Countries Bob Xiaoping Xu invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $300k–$1M
- Series A
- $38k–$11M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 4 (15%)
- Mobile 3 (12%)
- Education 3 (12%)
- E-Commerce 3 (12%)
- Transportation 3 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 8 (31%)
- Angel 5 (19%)
- Seed 3 (12%)
- Series B 3 (12%)
- Funding Round 2 (8%)
Country
- China 14 (54%)
- United States 2 (8%)
- Israel 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Rebbeca Med
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Rebecca is committed to the application of precision-controlled MEMS radio frequency technology in clinical disease control and rehabilitation. Its core technology comes from the core team's many years of experience and achievements in research and development and productization at the University of California, Fortune 500 medical equipment,and electronic equipment companies. The company cooperated with domestic university research institutes and many top three hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou to independently develop micro-radio frequency technology that surpassed similar products in Europe and America. It focuses on delivering innovative medical solutions to the hands of professional caregivers. Rebecca's team possesses technical expertise in micro-devices, RF, and device integration through years of field practice in micro-electronics and clinical innovation. | $2.1M / Series A / Mar 31, 2018 | |
Centennial Yucai Artificial Intelligence Technology Group
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Centennial Yucai Artificial Intelligence Technology Group is a college entrance examination guidance platform. It has more than 300 college entrance examination guidance centers across the country, serving more than 100,000 users every year. | Jan 01, 2018 | |
Lagou
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Lagou.com offers staffing services. The company’s clientele includes Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Group, SINA, JD.com, Beijing Xiaomi Tech, and Zhaopin.com. | $111.8M / Series D / Sep 25, 2017 | |
Mobvoi
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Mobvoi, also known as Chumenwenwen, operates as an artificial intelligence company that develops technologies in Chinese language speech recognition, natural language processing, and vertical mobile search. It offers Chinese Smart Watch Operating System that features mobile intelligence voice search for iOS, Android, Android Wear, Google Glass, andWechat. Mobvoi has a strategic agreement with The Volkswagen Group. Li Yuanyuan, Li Zhifei, and Zhu Yizhou founded it in 2012, with its headquarters in Beijing in China. | $60M / Series C / Oct 20, 2015 | |
Virgin Hyperloop
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Virgin Hyperloop is a developer of a transportation technology used to deliver fast, direct, and sustainable transportation at scale. Its technology is a first-generation vehicle system that makes trains go as fast as 760 miles per hour and utilizes a vacuum tube designed for transportation of people and cargo that enables companies to have directmovement of freight and people to travel quicker from origin to destination.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | Oct 09, 2015 | |
Crosswise
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Crosswise provides the world’s most authoritative consumer device map to ad tech vendors, consumer brands and premium publishers. Combining data science, Big Data and machine learning, Crosswise identifies which PCs, phones, tablets, digital TVs and other connected devices are being used by individual consumers. When leveraged for cross-devicetargeted advertising, content personalization and analytics, this data represents a huge source of untapped business potential. | $3M / Series A / Aug 30, 2015 | |
Ehang
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Ehang is a technology enterprise focused on R&D and production in airplane and aircraft field. With the combination of software and hardware techniques, it self-developed the communication and real-time viewing hardware and a smartphone operation system. Its product, Ghost, is accepted as the first truly smartphone app operated intelligentrobot, which is widely used in geographical information surveying, professional television aerial filming, roadshow displaying, disaster rescuing and delivery, surveillance and monitoring, and even expected to play important role in the future logistics areas.Ehang was founded in 2014 by makers from China, America, and Singapore who are enthusiastic about drone flying. The enterprise’s core members graduated from Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Duke University in America. | $42M / Series B / Aug 24, 2015 | |
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Virgin Hyperloop
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Virgin Hyperloop is a developer of a transportation technology used to deliver fast, direct, and sustainable transportation at scale. Its technology is a first-generation vehicle system that makes trains go as fast as 760 miles per hour and utilizes a vacuum tube designed for transportation of people and cargo that enables companies to have directmovement of freight and people to travel quicker from origin to destination.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $11.1M / Series A / Feb 12, 2015 | |
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Ehang
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Ehang is a technology enterprise focused on R&D and production in airplane and aircraft field. With the combination of software and hardware techniques, it self-developed the communication and real-time viewing hardware and a smartphone operation system. Its product, Ghost, is accepted as the first truly smartphone app operated intelligentrobot, which is widely used in geographical information surveying, professional television aerial filming, roadshow displaying, disaster rescuing and delivery, surveillance and monitoring, and even expected to play important role in the future logistics areas.Ehang was founded in 2014 by makers from China, America, and Singapore who are enthusiastic about drone flying. The enterprise’s core members graduated from Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Duke University in America. | $10M / Series A / Dec 30, 2014 | |
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Ehang
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Ehang is a technology enterprise focused on R&D and production in airplane and aircraft field. With the combination of software and hardware techniques, it self-developed the communication and real-time viewing hardware and a smartphone operation system. Its product, Ghost, is accepted as the first truly smartphone app operated intelligentrobot, which is widely used in geographical information surveying, professional television aerial filming, roadshow displaying, disaster rescuing and delivery, surveillance and monitoring, and even expected to play important role in the future logistics areas.Ehang was founded in 2014 by makers from China, America, and Singapore who are enthusiastic about drone flying. The enterprise’s core members graduated from Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Duke University in America. | $300K / Seed / Jun 08, 2014 | |
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Co-Investors
About ZhenFund
ZhenFund is a seed fund founded by former entrepreneurs to invest in the most promising innovators. New Oriental co-founders Bob Xiaoping Xu and Victor Qiang Wang established ZhenFund in 2011 in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. ZhenFund now has a network of over 800 portfolio companies, including over 30 unicorns based in China. Webelieve that great businesses start with exceptional founding teams. We are dedicated to helping our entrepreneurs build successful companies by providing them with mentorship and the best resources available. Some of our services include biannual demo days to top Chinese VCs, ZhenHR services, marketing and PR consulting, as well as fundraising. Our strong and large CEO network also facilitates entrepreneurs helping each other, especially via our WeChat platform. ZhenFund has been ranked as the “#1 Early-Stage Investment Firm” for six years. Bob Xiaoping Xu, Founder of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2016 and ranked #11 in 2019. Anna Fang, Founding Partner and CEO of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2019 and made her 4th appearance as #12, and #1 on Midas Seed List in 2022.
ZhenFund Contacts
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Bob Xiaoping Xu
Founding Partner
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Emma Yin
Partner
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Tianyi Qin
Principal
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Anna Fang
Founding Partner
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Cyriac Roeding
Limited Investor
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FAQ
What does Bob Xiaoping Xu invest in?
Bob Xiaoping Xu invests primarily in Internet, Mobile and Education startups, most often at Series A and Angel stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Bob Xiaoping Xu's check size?
Bob Xiaoping Xu typically joins rounds of $300k–$1M at Seed and $38k–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bob Xiaoping Xu participates in.
When did Bob Xiaoping Xu last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bob Xiaoping Xu closed in Mar 2018. Shizune tracks 26 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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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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