Cenova
VC Fund
Shanghai, China
Cenova is a VC fund in Shanghai focused on Medical and Health Care. Cenova Capital is one of the earliest healthcare dedicated funds in China founded in 2010 by Dr Jun WU and is one of the earliest investors in private healthcare services and digital health, with helps to facilitate the transformation of healthcare in China from an exclusively state-owned system to a more efficient, market-oriented system. CenovaCapital is healthcare funds dedicated to early and growth-stage investments in the life sciences and healthcare sector in China. Since inception in 2010, Cenova now has five funds under management with investments in over 50 companies in healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital heath. Cenova's investors are mainly large domestic and international institutional investors including Asian sovereign wealth funds, government institutions, insurance and financial institutions and multinational companies.
- Total investments:
- 58
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 48%
Last updated:
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Industries Cenova invests in
Stages Cenova invests in
Countries Cenova invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $2.8M–$45M
- Series B
- $13M–$61M
- Series C
- $15M–$100M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Medical 23 (40%)
- Health Care 22 (38%)
- Biotechnology 12 (21%)
- Medical Device 8 (14%)
- Pharmaceutical 7 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 18 (31%)
- Series B 18 (31%)
- Series C 8 (14%)
- Series D 4 (7%)
- Seed 2 (3%)
Country
- China 42 (72%)
- United States 2 (3%)
- Hong Kong 1 (2%)
- Singapore 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun Wu
Founder and Chairman
|
Founder and Chairman | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Kai Zhao
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Lehman Gu
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Leo Li
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Melissa Zhang
Vice President
|
Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Accro Bioscience
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Accro Bioscience research centers on the molecular mechanism of regulated cell death such as necroptosis, pyroptosis, and ferroptosis. | $50M / Series C / May 18, 2026 | |
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Ruize Health
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Ruize Health is a commercial insurance company that focuses on health consumption and commercial insurance. | Series A / Mar 05, 2026 | |
Aires
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Aires is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research, development, manufacturing, and sales of contact lenses, dedicated to delivering high-quality vision care products through advanced lens technology, strict quality standards, and innovative designs that ensure comfort, safety, and clear vision for consumers. | $14.5M / Series C / Mar 02, 2026 | |
BRC Biotechnology
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BRC Biotechnology specializes in quality testing services for biopharmaceutical compliance. BRC Biotechnology supports biological agents, quality evaluation of biopharmaceutical goods such as cell gene therapy, nucleic acid medications, and vaccines. | $14.3M / Series A / Dec 29, 2025 | |
Aipuqiang
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Shanghai Aipuqiang Particle Equipment is committed to providing customers with independently developed advanced proton therapy systems, based on independent innovation and with the mission of creating domestically produced high-end particle therapy technology to benefit cancer patients and contribute to the Healthy China strategy. | $142.7M / Series B / Dec 27, 2025 | |
Fine Vision
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Fine Vision is a company with R&D facilities in Nanjing and Wuhan that focuses on femtosecond laser application research in the fields of ocular surgery and biomaterial processing. The entire femtosecond laser corneal refractive surgery equipment, its first commercially available item, was developed by the university's WuhanOptoelectronics National Research Center under the Huazhong Technology Technology transition. | Series A / Nov 19, 2025 | |
Agile Medical
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Agile Medical, a surgical robot company, focuses on research, development, and industrialization of intelligent surgical products. Agile Medical's technology innovation platform covers mechanics, electronics, optics, computing, and software. | Series B / Nov 03, 2025 | |
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Sieran Medical
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Sieran Medical is a medical device company that provides precise and intelligent minimally invasive surgical treatment solutions for ophthalmology. | $14M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 02, 2025 | |
Vivace Therapeutics
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Vivace Therapeutics is a venture-backed start-up dedicated to discovering and developing cancer therapeutics by targeting a novel pathway. At Vivace Therapeutics, they pursue their work with passion, driven by a conviction to help people fight cancer and live life to the fullest. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Vivace Therapeutics is anoncology-focused portfolio-based drug discovery and development company adopting a capital-efficient and modality-indifferent approach to bring novel therapies to patients in need. Their experienced management team and world-class scientists work to advance promising drugs and therapeutic technologies that they believe can help conquer cancer. | $35M / Series D / Mar 12, 2025 | |
Weimai
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Weimai is a developer of a health application platform intended to provide medical and health services. The company's health application platform offers an Internet-based appointment, distribution, maternal and child disease management, grading diagnosis and treatment as well as remote diagnosis, and medical records management, providing userswith a family doctor application in every home. | $27.3M / Series D / Jan 07, 2025 | |
| See all 58 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Cenova invest in?
Cenova invests primarily in Medical, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 58 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Cenova's check size?
Cenova typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$45M at Series A, $13M–$61M at Series B and $15M–$100M 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 Cenova participates in.
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Who are the partners at Cenova?
The team at Cenova includes Jun Wu (Founder and Chairman), Kai Zhao (Managing Partner) and Lehman Gu (Venture Partner), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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