# CITIC Startup

> CITIC Startup is a VC fund in Beijing backing Biotechnology, Manufacturing and Product Research. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, China
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/信诚人寿保险有限公司
- Website: https://startup.citic.com

CITIC Startup is a VC fund in Beijing focused on Biotechnology and Manufacturing. CITIC Shuangchuang is a platform for CITIC Group to lay out its early venture capital investment. Through market operation, it coordinates internal and external entrepreneurial resources, and opens up the professional and technical capabilities of each subsidiary, resource sharing and business collaboration to promote the rapid growth of theproject and foster new development. The business model has occupied the commanding heights of the new economy and formed a sustainable development of the CITIC innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 1 | 100% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 100% |
| Product Research | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zeno Biotech | Zeno Technology is a technologically advanced business that concentrates on harnessing synthetic biology to produce natural products with added value. It has created items using fermentation engineering and synthetic biology. The company primarily targets Saccharomyces cerevisiae, E. coli, and other chassis microorganisms genetically usingnew-generation gene editing technology like CRSPR-Cas9, as well as industrializing the by-products of these strains through fermentation and isolation methods. | $1.4M | Angel | Mar 14, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Next Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next-capital-87a9) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does CITIC Startup invest in?

CITIC Startup invests primarily in Biotechnology, Manufacturing and Product Research startups, most often at Angel stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did CITIC Startup last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for CITIC Startup closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 1 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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