# Estar Capital

> Estar Capital is a VC fund in Shanghai backing Automotive and Manufacturing. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, China
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.chentao-capital.com/

Estar Capital is an investment firm.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Estar Capital. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Estar Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/estar-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $992k–$7.7M |
| Angel | $425k–$7.1M |
| Series A | $14M–$70M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automotive | 6 | 18% |
| Manufacturing | 6 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 15% |
| Software | 4 | 12% |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 4 | 12% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 21% |
| Seed | 6 | 18% |
| Angel | 6 | 18% |
| Series B | 6 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zhiqiang Jiang | Chief Investment Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zhiqiang-jiang |
| Xiao Yiting | Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xiao-yiting |
| Yang Jichao | Investment Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yang-jichao |
| Zhang Jiaqi | Executive General Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zhang-jiaqi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Synapath | Synapath focuses on using embodied intelligence and robotics technology to create clever systems for making decisions for multi-domain applications that are intelligent. |  | Angel | Dec 12, 2025 |  |
| Zero One Auto | Zero One Auto is a new energy-efficient heavy-duty truck developer company.Zero One Auto creates new energy-efficient heavy-duty vehicles with advanced autonomous driving characteristics. The first batch of products is separated into two models, with an emphasis on the new energy heavy-duty truck short-distance freight market. | $69.8M | Series A | Jul 23, 2025 |  |
| Huashen Ruili | Huashen Ruili is a manufacturer and retailer of auto parts. It focuses on the advancement of drive motor systems' dry brake-by-wire technology. |  | Series A | Apr 21, 2025 |  |
| Huashen Ruili | Huashen Ruili is a manufacturer and retailer of auto parts. It focuses on the advancement of drive motor systems' dry brake-by-wire technology. |  | Seed | Jul 15, 2024 |  |
| Zero One Auto | Zero One Auto is a new energy-efficient heavy-duty truck developer company.Zero One Auto creates new energy-efficient heavy-duty vehicles with advanced autonomous driving characteristics. The first batch of products is separated into two models, with an emphasis on the new energy heavy-duty truck short-distance freight market. | $13.8M | Series A | Jun 24, 2024 |  |
| Lightwheel | Light Wheel Intelligence is offers automated, physically precise and controllable, real and generalizable synthetic data solutions to build AI data infrastructure, |  | Seed | May 31, 2024 |  |
| Huashen Ruili | Huashen Ruili is a manufacturer and retailer of auto parts. It focuses on the advancement of drive motor systems' dry brake-by-wire technology. |  | Seed | Dec 05, 2023 |  |
| Dongwei Vision | Dongwei Vision is a developer of bionic vision processing platforms that focuses on self-developed bionic vision processing modules and chips. |  | Angel | Dec 04, 2023 |  |
| Eacon Mining | EACON is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make transportation safer and easier in open-pit mines. With EACON's four-in-one autonomous haulage and operation system, which includes a Scheduling and Command Center, an Autonomous Truck Driving System, a Communication Network Solution, and a Coordination System, we canimprove the cost-efficiency of mining haulage while saving lives.EACON's autonomous-driving mining trucks have been used in two large surface coal mines with a productive capacity over 35Mtpa. Also, EACON owns a fleet with 53 autonomous-driving mining trucks. As of August 2022, these autonomous-driving trucks have hauled 5.07 million cubic meters of overburden and the trips accumulated to 1.14 million kilometers. | $55.5M | Series C | Nov 17, 2023 |  |
| Lightwheel | Light Wheel Intelligence is offers automated, physically precise and controllable, real and generalizable synthetic data solutions to build AI data infrastructure, |  | Angel | Jul 25, 2023 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Estar Capital invest in?

Estar Capital invests primarily in Automotive, Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Estar Capital's check size?

Estar Capital typically joins rounds of $992k–$7.7M at Seed, $425k–$7.1M at Angel and $14M–$70M 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 Estar Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Estar Capital?

Public channels for Estar Capital include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Estar Capital?

The team at Estar Capital includes Zhiqiang Jiang (Chief Investment Officer), Xiao Yiting (Partner) and Yang Jichao (Investment Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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