# Brad Bao

> Brad Bao is a seed investor at Lime backing Information Technology and Software. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/limebike)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradbao

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$22M |
| Series A | $7.2M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 6 | 35% |
| Software | 4 | 24% |
| Professional Services | 3 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 18% |
| SaaS | 2 | 12% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 59% |
| Series A | 3 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 12% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 82% |
| China | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Generative Alpha | 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 | 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 |  |
| Velotric | Vilego is a manufacturer of shared motorcycles. | $7.2M | Series A | Feb 23, 2023 |  |
| Shackle | 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 |  |
| Titan | 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 | 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 |  |
| Channel AI | Building the truly open AI messaging platform | $20M | Series A | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| Swimply | 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 |  |
| KiwiDrop | Enabling each individual to curate for the many |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 30, 2021 |  |
| Doublefin | 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 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ensemble VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ensemble-7d23) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Frontline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frontline-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GGV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ggv-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Lime

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Lime aims to provide a sustainable solution to the first and last mile transportation problem by helping people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint. The company empowers future generations to change their behavior so we can save this planet together. From the electric scooter to thee-assist and pedal bike, experience the excitement of Lime’s smart mobility fleet.

5 contacts available at Lime.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Emily Warren | Senior Director of Policy & Public Affairs | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-warren-ae88 |
| Emily Warren | Senior Director of Policy & Public Affairs | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-castor |
| Joe Kraus | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-kraus |
| Toby Sun | Co-Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/toby-sun |
| Adam Zhang | Co-founder & General Manager of China Office | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-zhang |

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## FAQ

### 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.

### 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.

### 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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