# FAW Group

> FAW Group is a VC fund in Changchun backing Automotive and Manufacturing. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Changchun, China
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 47%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.faw.com/

FAW Group is a Chinese state-owned automotive manufacturing company.China FAW Group is a global leader in the vehicle manufacturing industry with a 50-year history of innovation. Founded in 1953, FAW employs 118,000 people around the world and sells products in over 70 countries. FAW is a diversified maker of quality light, medium, andheavy-duty trucks, automobiles, municipal buses and luxury tourist coaches, custom bus chassis, and mini-vehicles with total sales in excess of 7 million vehicles worldwide. FAW maintains the lead market position within China while continuing to expand into new international markets, executing a carefully planned strategy to build a comprehensive global organization.FAW produced China's first Jiefang commercial truck in 1956, and in the year 1958, China's first Dongfeng car and first Hongqi luxury sedan rolled off the production. Since then, FAW has been at the forefront of promoting China's automotive industry. FAW has 16 wholly owned subsidiaries and controlling interest in 15 partially owned subsidiaries including FAW Foundry, with headquarter in Changchun, Jilin Province. FAW's domestic production facilities, subsidiaries, and engineering development and test centers are located in 18 locations throughout China.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $500M–$507M |
| Series C | $267M–$500M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automotive | 7 | 41% |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 29% |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 5 | 29% |
| Energy | 2 | 12% |
| Electronics | 2 | 12% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 4 | 24% |
| Series B | 3 | 18% |
| Corporate Round | 3 | 18% |
| Series A | 2 | 12% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 2 | 12% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 13 | 76% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 6% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Liuping Xu | Chairman & Party Secretary | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liuping-xu |
| Qiu Xiandong | Chairman and Party Secretary | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qiu-xiandong |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Linkcharging Technology | LINCHR specializes in the research and development of energy vehicle charging equipment, on-board charging, new energy microgrid, and intelligent detection, providing one-stop solutions for new energy vehicle applications. |  | Series C | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| MetaSilicon | MetaSilicon’s focus on edge computing could make a significant impact in various industries by enabling faster data processing closer to where it’s generated. | $43.2M | Series A | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| Leapmotor | Zhejiang Zero Run Technology Co., Ltd. (LEAPMOTOR) is an innovative intelligent electric vehicle enterprise jointly invested by Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd. and its main founders. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Hangzhou Binjiang High-tech Development Zone. The company's business scope covers intelligent electricvehicle design, R&D, intelligent driving, motor electronic control, battery system development, and cloud computing-based car networking solutions. Relying on the strong financial strength of Dahua and its mature experience in technology research and development, process system and quality management, the company emphasizes the culture of engineers and has the ultimate pursuit of technological innovation, industrial design, and process quality. | $533.8M | Post-IPO Equity | Dec 28, 2025 |  |
| Zhilian Technology | Zhilian Technology is a research and development company of intelligent and connected automotive electronic products. |  | Series B | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| Zhuoyu Technology | Zhuoyu Technology is a high-end intelligent driving solution provider that specialises in the research and development of intelligent driving systems as well as self-developed core components. It has given flexible and diverse high-end intelligent driving solutions for passenger cars of various price points and power types, assisting partners inlowering the threshold for mass manufacturing of intelligent driving. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Runpeng Semiconductor | Runpeng Semiconductor is a chip and integrated circuit producer and developer. | $1.7B | Private Equity | Aug 14, 2023 |  |
| ChipON | Xinwang Microelectronics is a high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of highly reliable and high-quality 8-bit MCU and 32-bit MCU&DSP based on the independent IP KungFu core architecture. So far, it has successfully delivered KF8F, KF8L, KF8A, KF8TS, KF8S, KF32A, KF32F, KF32L, KF32LS and other products to the professionalchip application market, as well as ChipON IDE integrated development environment, ChipON PRO programming software, KungFu Minipro simulation programmer, and real realization From chip core design to tool development, the entire ecological chain has its own IP. |  | Series C | Sep 20, 2022 |  |
| Horizon Robotics | Horizon Robotics is a leading provider of ADAS and AD solutions for passenger vehicles with proprietary software and hardware. Our solutions combine cutting-edge algorithms, purpose-built software and state-of-the-art processing hardware, providing the core technologies for assisted and autonomous driving that enhance the safety and experience ofdrivers and passengers. |  | Corporate Round | Jun 27, 2022 |  |
| SiEngine Technology | SiEngine technology creates vehicle electronic chips. |  | Corporate Round | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| China Mobile | China Mobile provides mobile telecommunications and related services in Mainland China and Hong Kong.Its portfolio of services comprises of local calls, domestic long distance calls, international long distance calls, intra-provincial roaming, inter-provincial roaming, and international roaming, caller identity display, caller restrictions, callwaiting, call forwarding, call holding, voice mail, conference calls, and others.In addition, the company offers data services, wireless data traffic services, telecommunications network planning design and consulting services, mobile data solutions, network planning and optimizing construction testing and supervising activities, technology support, designing and selling electronic communication products, and more.It was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Central, Hong Kong. China Mobile Limited is a subsidiary of China Mobile Hong Kong (BVI) Limited. | $3.8B | Post-IPO Equity | Dec 28, 2021 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (CICF)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/china-integrated-circuit-industry-investment-fund-cicf) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [China Structural Reform Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/china-structural-reform-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Guangzhou Automobile Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guangzhou-automobile-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AISpeech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aispeech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alibaba Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alibaba) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anji Liangshan State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anji-liangshan-state-owned-assets-supervision-and-administration-commission) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does FAW Group invest in?

FAW Group invests primarily in Automotive, Manufacturing and Autonomous Vehicles startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is FAW Group's check size?

FAW Group typically joins rounds of $500M–$507M at Series B and $267M–$500M 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 FAW Group participates in.

### How do I contact FAW Group?

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### Who are the partners at FAW Group?

The team at FAW Group includes Liuping Xu (Chairman & Party Secretary) and Qiu Xiandong (Chairman and Party Secretary). 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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