# Gao Tianyao

> Gao Tianyao is a seed investor at Legend Star (Beijing) backing Manufacturing and Chemical. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Legend Star](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/legendstar)
- Location: Beijing, China
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Gao Tianyao is a seed investor at Legend Star in Beijing focused on Manufacturing and Chemical. Gao Tianyao working as a partner for Legend Star.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 33% |
| Chemical | 1 | 17% |
| Robotics | 1 | 17% |
| Software | 1 | 17% |
| Industrial | 1 | 17% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Angel | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zhizai Wujie | Zhizai Wujie is a robotics company that specializes in research, development, and application of humanoid robots. |  | Seed | Jun 16, 2025 |  |
| Deepin Technology | Deepin Technology is a company that utilizes artificial intelligence, quantum chemistry, and high-throughput experiment technologies to enhance the efficiency and workflow of chemical material innovation. it offers efficient R&D solutions for chemical materials, aiming to solve lab bottlenecks, promote innovative research, and enhance customervalue. | $13.8M | Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| BlueSky Aviation | BlueSky Aviation focuses on the research and development of electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. |  | Angel | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Tensor Security | Tensor Security is a cloud-native security company focused on providing AI-based and full-stack cloud-native security solutions. |  | Seed | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| Blue Elephant Zhilian | Blue Elephant Zhilian is a developer of a financial privacy computing platform. The company's platform are licensed under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Ministry of Public Security of China. | $31.4M | Series A | Feb 09, 2022 |  |
| TuringQ | Established in February 2021, TuringQ is committed to the research of quantum information. Through the R&D of lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) photonic chips and femtosecond laser direct writing technology, the photon chips that enable large-scale photonic circuits integration can be prepared and an optical quantum system with a whole newlevel of scale and complexity can be built. At present, TuringQ has achieved leading advantages in photonic quantum chips, scientific research-grade photonic quantum computers, photonic quantum measurement and control systems, photonic quantum EDA software, and photonic quantum cloud platforms. | $15.5M | Angel | May 07, 2021 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Linear Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/linear-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Baidu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baidu-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Binfu Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/binfu-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FountainBridge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fountainbridge-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gobi China](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gobi-china) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Haiyi Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haiyi-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Legend Star

VC Fund · Beijing, China

Legend Star helps entrepreneurs create great businesses through investments, CEO training sessions and an entrepreneurs alliance.Since 2008, Legend Star has incubated and invested in nearly 600 companies and is deeply integrated in the Chinese entrepreneurial ecosystem.Legend Star is the independent early-stage investment arm of LegendHoldings. Legend Holdings is the parent company of Lenovo, Raycom Real Estate, Joyvio Agribusiness and a large range of fast-growing Chinese companies.

5 contacts available at Legend Star.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| BingJian Wu | Team Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bingjian-wu |
| DongDong Li | Team Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dongdong-li |
| Gang Lu | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gang-lu-2 |
| Gao Tianyao | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gao-tianyao |
| Ming Li | Team Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ming-li |

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## FAQ

### What does Gao Tianyao invest in?

Gao Tianyao invests primarily in Manufacturing, Chemical and Robotics startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Gao Tianyao last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gao Tianyao closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 6 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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