# Guofang Innovation

> Guofang Innovation is a VC fund in Shanghai backing Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, China
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://gf-dsai.com

Guofang Innovation is an individual investment firm.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $7.4M–$60M |
| Series A | $14M–$146M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 28% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 22% |
| Medical | 3 | 17% |
| Biopharma | 3 | 17% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 11% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 28% |
| Series A | 4 | 22% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 17% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Valhalla Technology | Valhalla Tech develops full-modal molecular world models to engineer novel proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules from scratch. The platform integrates generative artificial intelligence with automated high-throughput experimental testing to accelerate molecular and biomolecular design. Its core technology operates across multiple molecularmodalities to simulate complex physical and chemical interactions. The enterprise applies these computational frameworks to solve challenges in drug discovery, therapeutics, and broader scientific research. | $7.4M | Seed | Jul 28, 2026 |  |
| Approaching.AI | Approaching.AI is an AI Infra company focusing on the important large model application scenarios such as RAG. |  | Series A | Jul 12, 2026 |  |
| Lightwheel | Light Wheel Intelligence is offers automated, physically precise and controllable, real and generalizable synthetic data solutions to build AI data infrastructure, |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 26, 2026 |  |
| Light Future | Light Future is a complete metal additive manufacturing solutions provider for the industrial market. It is dedicated to speeding up the global industrialization of metal additive manufacturing technology and focuses on all-inclusive solutions for industrial-grade metal additive manufacturing. This will enable additive manufacturing technology tobecome truly inclusive for industrial use. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 30, 2026 |  |
| Lightwheel | Light Wheel Intelligence is offers automated, physically precise and controllable, real and generalizable synthetic data solutions to build AI data infrastructure, | $145.6M | Series A | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Chaitin Tech | Beijing Chaitin Tech Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Chaitin Tech) is a technology-oriented security company specialized in addressing Internet security problems.Boasting highly skilled security research team and technological R&D team, Chaitin Tech is committed to develop new network security technologies, so as to improve domesticsecurity levels and keeping up with world-class technologies.The Company is currently mainly engaged in highly customized security services and security products, aiming at providing enterprises with effective custom security solutions through developing new technologies and methods, so as to thoroughly improve enterprises’ security defense capability. | $71.9M | Series B | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Phrontline Biopharma | Phrontline Biopharma specializes in the development of ADC to address unmet medical needs in the field of oncology. | $60M | Seed | Nov 21, 2025 |  |
| Ling Universe | Lingyuzhou is a company focused on artificial intelligence.This innovative technology company focuses on human-computer interaction, aiming to create "partner-like" AI robot products for families and individuals worldwide , reshaping the way humans interact with computers. | $28.1M | Seed | Nov 17, 2025 |  |
| Null Hypothesis | Null Hypothesis is an AI medical SaaS company that focuses on the development of intelligent medical products using AIGC. | $14.1M |  | Oct 30, 2025 |  |
| Infrawaves | Infrawaves is a next Generation High-Performance Network System. | $13.9M | Series A | Jul 21, 2025 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AstraZeneca CICC Medical Industry Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/astrazeneca-cicc-medical-industry-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CDH Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdh-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Henan CICC Huirong Fund Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henan-cicc-huirong-fund-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hongtai Keystone](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hongtai-keystone) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pan-Lin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pan-lin-asset-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Shanghai Daohe Long-term Investment Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shanghai-daohe-long-term-investment-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Guofang Innovation invest in?

Guofang Innovation invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing and Medical startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Guofang Innovation's check size?

Guofang Innovation typically joins rounds of $7.4M–$60M at Seed and $14M–$146M 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 Guofang Innovation participates in.

### When did Guofang Innovation last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Guofang Innovation closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 18 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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