Feng Deng
Founding General Partner @ Northern Light Venture Capital
Feng Deng is a Series A investor at Northern Light Venture Capital focused on Internet and Health Care. Feng co-founded Northern Light Venture Capital in 2005, a China focused fund. He has more than 15 years of technical and managerial experience in the computer, communication and data networking industries. In 1997, Feng co-founded NetScreen Technologies, and served as the Vice President of Engineering, Chief Strategy Officer and Board member.NetScreen went public on NASDAQ in 2001 and was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004 for $4 billion. From 2004 to 2005, Feng served as VP of Corp. Strategy at Juniper Networks. Feng was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2002 and the Innovator of the Year award in 2003. Prior to founding NetScreen, Feng worked at Intel Corp. Now he also serves on the Board of Directors of Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA) and is a board member of the Tsinghua University Foundation. Feng holds a MBA from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, a MS degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California and a MS degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University. He also holds five U.S. patents in computer system architecture and IC design.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
Last updated:
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Industries Feng Deng invests in
Stages Feng Deng invests in
Countries Feng Deng invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 6 (22%)
- Health Care 5 (19%)
- Biotechnology 5 (19%)
- Medical 3 (11%)
- Pharmaceutical 3 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (26%)
- Series D 5 (19%)
- Series B 4 (15%)
- Series C 4 (15%)
- Seed 2 (7%)
Country
- China 13 (48%)
- United States 6 (22%)
Investments
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Yingke Materials
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Yingke Materials is a provider of high-performance electronic paste and powder. | Angel / Jan 09, 2023 | |
Becoming
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Becoming takes continuous improvement of the oral health of the Chinese people as its own responsibility. | Series A / Aug 02, 2022 | |
Xmov
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Xmov is an AI company focusing on computer vision and computer graphics. | $110M / Series C / Apr 06, 2022 | |
Ucello Therapeutics
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Ucello Therapeutics is engaged in development of allogeneic cell therapies using its proprietary CAR-T cell technology platform CBT-X20. | $25M / Series A / Feb 10, 2022 | |
Wancheng Gene
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Wancheng Gene is a single-cell gene detection platform, which is mainly used to serve the scientific research, clinical and industrial markets with a self-developed high-throughput single-cell sequencing technology platform. The existing services of Wancheng Gene include sample preparation, database sequencing, analysis, and sample processing. Theycan be freely combined according to customer needs, and provide peripheral services such as sample preparation training and biometric analysis. | $15.7M / Series A / Dec 30, 2021 | |
Stellar Cyber
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Stellar Cyber greatly reduces enterprise risk by the early and precise identification and remediation of all attack activities while slashing costs, retaining investments in existing tools and accelerating analyst productivity. The platform also provides effortless deployment of sensors to fill any gap on premise or in the cloud. | $38M / Series B / Nov 16, 2021 | |
Teon Therapeutics
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Teon Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of cancer patients by developing a focused portfolio of small molecules that inhibit the immunosuppressive and cancer-promoting signaling pathways in the tumor microenvironment. Teon's lead program is an A2BR-specific antagonist that will enterPhase1b trials in 2021. | $30M / Series A / Feb 23, 2021 | |
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Stellar Cyber
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Stellar Cyber greatly reduces enterprise risk by the early and precise identification and remediation of all attack activities while slashing costs, retaining investments in existing tools and accelerating analyst productivity. The platform also provides effortless deployment of sensors to fill any gap on premise or in the cloud. | $7.1M / Series A / Oct 01, 2019 | |
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Stellar Cyber
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Stellar Cyber greatly reduces enterprise risk by the early and precise identification and remediation of all attack activities while slashing costs, retaining investments in existing tools and accelerating analyst productivity. The platform also provides effortless deployment of sensors to fill any gap on premise or in the cloud. | $13.2M / Series A / Feb 26, 2019 | |
Cytek Biosciences
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Cytek Biosciences is a manufacturer and supplier of flow cytometry products and services. | Series C / Sep 24, 2018 | |
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Co-Investors
Northern Light Venture Capital was founded by general partners Feng Deng and Yan Ke on January 1, 2005. Currently it is managed by five Managing Directors. It manages approximately US$ 1.5 billion in committed capital with 4 US$ funds and 4 RMB funds, investing in more than 180 portfolio companies and seed investments to date.NLVC is led by apartnership of accomplished local Chinese and ""returnee"" executives (""returnees"" are those who grew up in mainland China but studied or worked abroad before returning) with significant investing and entrepreneurial accomplishments. Its management team includes Feng Deng, former member of the board at NetScreen (a pioneering IT security firm), Yan Ke, vice President of Netscreen, and Lei Yang, chairman of Vantage Point Venture Partners.NLVC is a China concept venture capital firm focused on early and growth stage opportunities which targets businesses that leverage China’s industrial, economic, or human resources to build exceptional, lasting enterprises in the global economy.NLVC focuses on early and growth stage opportunities in information technology, new media, TMT, clean technologies, consumer service and healthcare. Portfolio companies include Meituan.com, Kaixin001.com, Gogo.com, redbaby.com, MasaMaso.com, and Velo City.
Northern Light Venture Capital Contacts
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Figo Zhang
Partner
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Feng Deng
Founding General Partner
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Lixin Li
Managing Director
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Lu Lin
Executive Director
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Pandy Song
Associate
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What does Feng Deng invest in?
Feng Deng invests primarily in Internet, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Series D stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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