Ironfire Ventures
VC Fund
Central, Hong Kong
Ironfire Ventures is a cross-border fund with in-house design and research services for our portfolio companies. We invest in startups from seed to series B in AI/ML, Lifestyle (consumption upgrades), Marketplaces, and Enterprise Software categories.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
Last updated:
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Industries Ironfire Ventures invests in
Stages Ironfire Ventures invests in
Countries Ironfire Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$3.8M
- Series A
- $4M–$15M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2.8M–$42M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (27%)
- Information Technology 7 (23%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (20%)
- Machine Learning 5 (17%)
- Biotechnology 4 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 16 (53%)
- Series A 6 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (10%)
- Series B 2 (7%)
- Angel 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 23 (77%)
- Hong Kong 4 (13%)
- China 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Francis Ng
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Dylan Chiu
Associate
|
Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jacky Chan
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Reed Shaffner
Associate Partner
|
Associate Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Richard Chan
Founder & Managing Partner
|
Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neurona Therapeutics is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company that was founded by four neuroscientists and stem cell pioneers at The University of California, San Francisco. They are focused on the discovery and development of cell-based therapies to treat intractable neurological disease. Its initial aim is to generate therapeuticcompositions of a specific type of nerve cell (or neuron) for targeted delivery into the injured nervous system. Based on nearly two decades of research, they believe that particular subpopulations of neurons have the unique ability to integrate and repair dysregulated neural circuits. Its talented team of scientists, scientific advisors, and board directors is working to accelerate breakthrough treatments for patients with significant unmet medical needs. | $41.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 22, 2021 | ||
| DayDayCook was founded in December, 2012. They are Hong Kong’s largest cooking multimedia platform and have community with monthly users totaly more than 400,000. Today, as more and more users aspire to a higher quality of life, food safety, and health, DayDayCook has become a platform for original recipes and cooking advice, helping their users tomaintain a healthy lifestyle.DayDayCook inspires a young generation to cook and enjoy both traditional and modern Asian recipes through a variety of distribution channels including digital and traditional publishing with high quality and easy-to-follow recipes.DayDayCook has millions of monthly viewers over its broad reach including website, mobile apps, videos, and books. With a strong and dedicated fan base including over 275,000 Facebook fans, DayDayCook also brings goods to the consumer through its e-commerce store 'The DayDayCook Shop' | $20M / Series B / Aug 18, 2020 | ||
| Defined.ai is enabling AI creators of the future, from those building their first boot-strapped models, to those fine-tuning complex AI projects. Defined.ai hosts the leading online marketplace where it's possible to buy, sell or commission off-the-shelf or custom-ordered AI data, tools and models, and offers professional services to helpdeliver success in complex machine learning projects. Defined.ai is a community of AI professionals working together to build fair, accessible, inclusive and ethical AI of the future. | $50.5M / Series B / May 26, 2020 | ||
| MOJO Sports trains kids to be good athletes and their parents as their coach. | Series A / Feb 01, 2020 | ||
| While interface designers have embraced collaborative tools like Figma to enrich their design workflows, developing games and 3D interactive experiences remains a tedious process where each designer and developer works on their tasks in separate silos. Area28 is developing a tool-agnostic cloud collaboration service, enabling game teams to worktogether on projects in real-time, radically improving current interactive entertainment production workflows. | $2.2M / Seed / Dec 02, 2019 | ||
| Iota Biosciences is a Biotech Company. | $15M / Series A / Dec 27, 2018 | ||
| ImpriMed is a company that creates individualized drug response prediction technology to help veterinarians fight lymphoma. The company's technology provides precision medicine techniques that allow veterinary oncologists to find appropriate anticancer drugs by developing a patient-derived database for pet cancer treatment that can eventuallybe translated into human cancer care, allowing doctors to decide on a final treatment regimen based on a data-driven prediction of response success in each individual patient's body. | $3.7M / Seed / Dec 18, 2018 | ||
| Genomelink is a platform where people discover more with their DNA data and help businesses build, market and do research with it. The best founders in consumer genomics with real experience in the industry for many years, including M3, Inc. ($13B valued Meditech in Japan), a founding member of the Japanese version of 23andMe, and leadbioinformatician and software engineer at a joint-venture between Illumina and Sony. Raised $4M for Seed Round from Berkeley SkyDeck, SONY, and top-tier Japanese VCs. Supported by Illumina Accelerator, Carlos Bustamante Lab at Stanford University among others. | $3.8M / Seed / Dec 01, 2018 | ||
| CTAccel Ltd. is founded in March 2016. The core team of CTAccel comes from the FPGA team of Clustertech Ltd. The team has been involved in the development of FPGA based heterogeneous computing solution for Datacenter since 2013.They have a 20-strong R&D team, with most its members holding an advance degree in science and engineering from topuniversities in the world and have extensive experience in algorithm design, FPGA design, hardware/ software codesign, system optimization and software engineering. Their team focus on accelerating image processing in Internet Data Center. Their patented CTAccel Image Processor (CIP) improves the performance and efficiency of image processing in datacenters. | Series A / Nov 28, 2018 | ||
| Chain of Demand specializes in predictive analytics in retail & supply chain related industries.Their proprietary AI distills hundreds of millions of structured and unstructured data points into actionable insights and recommendations for retail, supply chain and financial industries to improve profitability and sustainability.#fintech#retailtech #ML #predictiveanalytics | Seed / Oct 18, 2018 | ||
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FAQ
What does Ironfire Ventures invest in?
Ironfire Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ironfire Ventures invest in?
Ironfire Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$3.8M at Seed, $4M–$15M at Series A and $2.8M–$42M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ironfire Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ironfire Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Ironfire Ventures?
The team at Ironfire Ventures includes Francis Ng (Venture Partner), Dylan Chiu (Associate) and Jacky Chan (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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