# Gene Capital

> Gene Capital is a VC fund in Beijing backing Education and Internet. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, China
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jan 2021
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.genecapital.cn/

Gene Capital is a venture capital fund founded by Cao Yundong, co-founder of TAL Education Group, in 2014. Their management team consists of successful entrepreneurs and highly experienced investors. They are committed to seeking excellent genes to assist the education industry and startups in the TMT sector to make great dreams come true. GeneCapital aims to help entrepreneurs who are passionate about entrepreneurship, have a deep understanding and acute awareness of the industry’s development trends, and utilize their investment concept to make their dreams come true.Their investment philosophy is to focus on entrepreneurial genes: Excellent entrepreneurial teams have excellent entrepreneurial genes, which are the core factors for long-term business development.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.4M–$30M |
| Series B | $2.8M–$24M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 10 | 50% |
| Internet | 6 | 30% |
| E-Learning | 5 | 25% |
| EdTech | 3 | 15% |
| Energy Management | 2 | 10% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 45% |
| Series B | 6 | 30% |
| Seed | 2 | 10% |
| Angel | 2 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 15 | 75% |
| France | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Li Hao | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/li-hao |
| Yundong Cao | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yundong-cao |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Delta Service Location | Delta Service Location is a provider of pumping and temporary energy equipment. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 25, 2021 |  |
| Sunmnet | Sunmnet specializes in providing smart education technology and solutions. It utilizes big data, artificial intelligence, facial recognition, and IoT that enables clients to develop efficient education systems and infrastructure. | $14.6M | Series B | Sep 04, 2020 |  |
| Fengbao ASO | Fengbao ASO is a data analysis platform that provide mobile application developers with marketing services. | $1.4M | Series A | Dec 18, 2019 |  |
| Ke Hou Sandianban | Ke Hou Sandianban develops K12-quality course content and provides after-school services to kindergartens, elementary schools, junior high schools, and training institutions in order to help children grow in a way that is unique to them. They offer a variety of courses. | $1.4M | Series A | Nov 29, 2019 |  |
| Xizi Education | Xizhi Education (Beijing Xizi Education Technology Co., Ltd.) is a leading enterprise in artificial intelligence empowerment education. The headquarters is located in Zhizhi Street, Zhongguancun, which is known as the “China Silicon Valley”. As one of the key incubators of Tsinghua University, from the aspects of policy, capital and talents, it hasbeen strongly supported by Tsinghua's three innovation and entrepreneurship platforms iCenter, Chuang+ and xlab, and won the honor of Zhongguancun High-tech Enterprise. |  | Seed | Mar 20, 2019 |  |
| AI Conservatory | The AI ​​Conservatory of Music is affiliated to Beijing Yinyue Poet Technology Co., Ltd., and is born to a group of people who love music and dream of music! Innovative applications dedicated to intelligent interactive, digital online music teaching. |  | Seed | Feb 21, 2019 |  |
| OnlyHi | Online one-to-one education platform targeting K12 students based in Shanghai. | $2.9M | Series B | Nov 14, 2018 |  |
| shuxuebang.com | shuxuebang.com is a mathematics education, technology and culture enterprise. | $2.8M | Series B | Nov 12, 2018 |  |
| Chengzhangbao | Chengzhangbao is a Shanghai-based online quality-oriented education platform targeting K12 students. It provides online courses for children to improve language logic, mathematical logic, memory and attentiveness. | $24M | Series B | Mar 06, 2018 |  |
| OnlyHi | Online one-to-one education platform targeting K12 students based in Shanghai. | $9.5M | Series A | Jan 31, 2018 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Gene Capital invest in?

Gene Capital invests primarily in Education, Internet and E-Learning startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Gene Capital typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$30M at Series A and $2.8M–$24M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gene Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Gene Capital?

Public channels for Gene 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 Gene Capital?

The team at Gene Capital includes Li Hao (CFO) and Yundong Cao (Managing Partner). 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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