Cathay Innovation
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Cathay Innovation is a multistage venture capital firm affiliated with Cathay Capital, investing in founders building transformative businesses across Europe, North America, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Its platform connects founders with investors and its ecosystem of leading Fortune 500 corporations to help startups scale and transformindustries with consumer-to-enterprise and AI solutions in commerce, fintech, digital health, and mobility/energy. Cathay Innovation now manages over €2.5B AUM with offices in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, San Francisco, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Singapore and has invested in over 150 startups, including Chime, Pinduoduo (NASDAQ: PDD), Glovo, Wallbox (NYSE: WBX), Owkin, Ledger, ZenBusiness, Alma, Descartes Underwriting, and more.
- Total investments:
- 171
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 46%
- Fund size:
- $1B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Cathay Innovation invests in
Stages Cathay Innovation invests in
Countries Cathay Innovation invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $6.2M–$30M
- Series B
- $15M–$60M
- Series C
- $30M–$176M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 26 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 26 (15%)
- Financial Services 21 (12%)
- FinTech 20 (12%)
- Information Technology 15 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 61 (36%)
- Series A 37 (22%)
- Series C 20 (12%)
- Seed 10 (6%)
- Series D 5 (3%)
Country
- United States 27 (16%)
- France 25 (15%)
- China 18 (11%)
- Spain 12 (7%)
- United Kingdom 4 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Rajive Keshup
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Costanza Carissimo
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Denis Barrier
Co-founder and CEO
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Co-founder and CEO | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
Jacky Abitbol
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 35 | Find email | |
John Li
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skan.ai uses cognitive technologies to map, model, and manage business processes by creating digital twins of human/digital interactions. Skan.ai replaces human interviews and observation, which are not accurate, by cognitive tooling that learns based on observation of human/digital work. Skan does this at scale and learns /reconstructs business processes grounds up. This approach is significantly faster, more accurate, and has much greater depth and coverage. | $63M / Series C / Aug 12, 2026 | ||
| Embat develops cloud-based treasury management software designed to help finance teams manage cash flow, banking operations, and financial forecasting in real time. The company provides a platform that connects bank accounts, enterprise resource planning systems, and payment systems to centralize visibility of cash positions across multipleentities and currencies. Its software supports automated reconciliation, payment execution, liquidity forecasting, and financial reporting through a unified interface. The platform also includes AI-driven features that assist with transaction matching, anomaly detection, and cash flow prediction to reduce manual finance operations. Embat works with mid-sized and large enterprises to streamline treasury workflows, improve liquidity management, and support financial decision-making. The company integrates with a wide network of financial institutions and enterprise systems to enable continuous financial data synchronization and operational control.The platform uses automation and AI features to reduce manual treasury tasks, including transaction matching, accounting entries, and financial reporting workflows. It integrates with a wide range of banking systems and corporate ERPs to synchronize financial data continuously. Embat also enables centralized payment management, allowing finance teams to initiate, approve, and track transactions across multiple banking relationships. Its tools support cash visibility, debt monitoring, and financial scenario planning for operational decision-making. | $35.3M / Series B / May 12, 2026 | ||
| Qualified Health is a reliable partner for safely utilizing generative AI in medicine. Qualified Health's infrastructure solution offers safeguards for ongoing algorithm performance monitoring, active AI governance, and developing agents tailored to the healthcare industry. Qualified Health are revolutionizing healthcare in America with tophealth system partners. | $125M / Series B / Mar 25, 2026 | ||
| Cryptio is a financial data analysis tool for cryptocurrencies. It helps crypto CFOs & CPAs easily automate accounting, bookkeeping and tax reporting for their digital assets. The tool consolidates all cryptocurrency transaction data from multiple wallet & exchange sources, and translates it into data usable for accounting and financialanalysis. We take away the headache of regulations, audits, taxes and accounting for crypto firms so that they can focus on what they do best. | $45M / Series B / Mar 04, 2026 | ||
| GenLogs is a freight intelligence company that offers truck carrier mapping services via AI-driven roadside sensors. | $60M / Series B / Feb 02, 2026 | ||
| Tucuvi is a health technology company unlocking efficient and high-quality healthcare at scale with a CE-marked platform for Phone Consultation Automation. We develop safe and clinically validated Conversational AI for any care pathway, enabling clinical teams to augment their capacities, improve processes’ efficiency and efficacy, and achievebetter patient outcomes and satisfaction through continuous and personalized care. | $20M / Series A / Jan 08, 2026 | ||
| Vambe is a multi-channel AI sales representative who handles customer interactions at all stages of the sales process. Vambe interfaces with sales tools and CRMs, generates extensive customer profiles from chat habits, and recommends items based on customer requirements. | $14M / Series A / Dec 03, 2025 | ||
| Range is a personal finance platform providing online access to financial planners and tools to tracks, plan, and share your finances. | $62.3M / Series C / Nov 25, 2025 | ||
| Nabla develops AI-powered tools focused on healthcare, particularly in medical imaging and diagnostics. The company creates solutions that assist medical professionals in detecting and analyzing conditions through advanced machine learning algorithms. Nabla's technology aims to enhance diagnostic accuracy and streamline clinical workflows byintegrating with existing healthcare systems. The company collaborates with medical institutions to improve patient outcomes using AI-driven insights. Its offerings include software platforms designed for radiology and pathology applications. | $70M / Series C / Jun 17, 2025 | ||
| Abacum is a SaaS that helps finance teams deliver business insights. Abacum is the first collaborative workflow and planning platform for SMB's finance teams to boost productivity and strategic impact. The company believes in empowering people with the best collaborative tools for them to multiply their strategic impact in the organization andbe more fulfilled. | $60M / Series B / Jun 11, 2025 | ||
| See all 171 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Cathay Innovation invest in?
Cathay Innovation invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 171 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 Cathay Innovation's check size?
Cathay Innovation typically joins rounds of $6.2M–$30M at Series A, $15M–$60M at Series B and $30M–$176M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Cathay Innovation participates in.
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Who are the partners at Cathay Innovation?
The team at Cathay Innovation includes Rajive Keshup (Partner), Costanza Carissimo (Director) and Denis Barrier (Co-founder and CEO), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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