Brad Bao
General Manager - US Branch @ Tencent
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Brad Bao is a Co-Founder and Chairman at Lime (formerly LimeBike), the global leader in micromobility. Prior to Lime, he cofounded Kinzon Capital, a cross-border fund that investing in early-stage technology companies in both US and China, focusing on mobile and internet-related investments. Prior to that, Brad established Tencent'sinternational footprint, led its internationalization over the course of 8 years, served as GM for Tencent America, and VP-BD for Tencent Games. Brad holds MBA degree from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries Brad Bao invests in
Stages Brad Bao invests in
Countries Brad Bao invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $600k–$22M
- Series A
- $7.2M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 6 (35%)
- Software 4 (24%)
- Professional Services 3 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (18%)
- SaaS 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (59%)
- Series A 3 (18%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (12%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 14 (82%)
- China 1 (6%)
- United Kingdom 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Generative Alpha is a financial investment AI agent and vertical AI foundation model company that builds financial investment-focused AI. | Pre-Seed / Nov 18, 2025 | ||
| Shackle is an app uses by hotels to provides and maintain hassel free hospitality services in a digital way to guests and travelers. | $14.7M / Series A / Sep 22, 2023 | ||
| Vilego is a manufacturer of shared motorcycles. | $7.2M / Series A / Feb 23, 2023 | ||
| Shackle is an app uses by hotels to provides and maintain hassel free hospitality services in a digital way to guests and travelers. | $5.5M / Seed / Jul 16, 2022 | ||
| Top 1% coaches for top 1% performers.Titan matches VC-backed founders with world-leading executive coaches and performance psychologists to maximize their performance - and the performance of their business.We have raised $5.7mm from top executives at Google, PayPal, Lyft, and AirBnB and investors who previously funded Square, Instacart,Twilio, GrubHub, StitchFix, OpenDoor, and SpaceX.You can learn more about Titan here: https://www.withtitan.com/ | $4.2M / Seed / Jun 09, 2022 | ||
| Jupiter is Shopify for the 30k+ food creators on TikTok & Instagram. Jupiter is a YC company founded out of Stanford. Jupiter helps food creators launch their own grocery powered recipe stores. These stores are integrated with the social shopping tools so followers can shop directly from their social feeds. Orders are processed through deliveryAPIs. Jupiter has acquired some of the largest food creators in the world including Half Baked Harvest, Carolina Gelen and Molly Baz. Creators monetize by running brand sponsorships on their store. | $5.3M / Seed / Mar 08, 2022 | ||
| Building the truly open AI messaging platform | $20M / Series A / Mar 03, 2022 | ||
| Swimply is an online marketplace that allows owners of underutilized swimming pools to monetize their pools’ downtime by sharing them locally by the hour. Think Airbnb, but for swimming pools. | $40M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 15, 2021 | ||
| Enabling each individual to curate for the many | Pre-Seed / Aug 30, 2021 | ||
| Doublefin offers a range of solutions such as headcount management, budget management, business planning, finance process automation, headcount analytics, and marketing performance management solutions. | Seed / Jul 01, 2021 | ||
| See all 17 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Tencent
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
Tencent Contacts
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Hongwei Chen
Executive Director of Investment
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Iain Bruce
Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors
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James Mitchell
Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Executive Vice President
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Jonathan Mailoa
Principal Researcher
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Levin Yao
Managing Director, Tencent Investment
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What does Brad Bao invest in?
Brad Bao invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Professional Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Brad Bao's check size?
Brad Bao typically joins rounds of $600k–$22M at Seed and $7.2M–$20M 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 Brad Bao participates in.
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When did Brad Bao last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brad Bao closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 17 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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