# Ian Stone

> Ian Stone is a angel investor at Tencent backing Video and E-Commerce. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Tencent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tencent)
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianstone

Ian Stone is a angel investor at Tencent in Hong Kong focused on Video and E-Commerce. Ian Stone - Independent Non-Executive Director @ Tencent

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Video | 1 | 100% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 100% |
| Developer Tools | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Qoof | Qoof’s video commerce platform bridges the world of Online Shopping, Internet Video, and Direct Response TV to create a distributed, multi-channel, targeted, and personalized video commerce network. Qoof is Direct Response TV for the internet. | $1.7M | Angel |  |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Tencent

VC Fund · Shenzhen, China

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

5 contacts available at Tencent.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hongwei Chen | Executive Director of Investment | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hongwei-chen |
| Iain Bruce | Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iain-ferguson-bruce |
| James Mitchell | Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Executive Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-mitchell-1a2b |
| Jonathan Mailoa | Principal Researcher | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-mailoa |
| Levin Yao | Managing Director, Tencent Investment | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/levin-yao |

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## FAQ

### What does Ian Stone invest in?

Ian Stone invests primarily in Video, E-Commerce and Developer Tools startups, most often at Angel stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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