Jack Ma
Founder @ YF Capital
Hangzhou, China
Jack Ma is a Series C investor at YF Capital in Hangzhou focused on Software and Retail. Jack Ma is our lead founder and, since May 2013, has served as our executive chairman. From our founding in 1999 until May 2013, Jack served as our chairman and chief executive officer. He is also the founder of the Zhejiang-based Jack Ma Foundation. Jack currently serves on the board of SoftBank Group Corp., one of our major shareholders and a Japanese corporation listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He is also a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, chairman of the Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, as well as chairman of the China Entrepreneur Club. In January 2016, he was named a Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) advocate by the United Nations. Jack graduated from Hangzhou Teacher's Institute with a major in English language education.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 64%
Last updated:
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Industries Jack Ma invests in
Stages Jack Ma invests in
Countries Jack Ma invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (21%)
- Retail 2 (14%)
- Internet 2 (14%)
- E-Commerce 2 (14%)
- Food Delivery 2 (14%)
Stage
- Series C 3 (21%)
- Series B 2 (14%)
- Series D 2 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (14%)
- Seed 1 (7%)
Country
- China 7 (50%)
- United States 2 (14%)
- Egypt 1 (7%)
Investments
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Hangzhou Ma’s Kitchen Food
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Hangzhou Ma’s Kitchen Food operates as a food sales company. | $1.4M / Seed / Nov 26, 2023 | |
| X-EPIC is a Nanjing city-based startup aimed at building up China’s own EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industrial software technology. | $62M / Series A / May 13, 2021 | ||
| Mumm is an online marketplace and delivery service for homemade food on demand. | $65K / Grant / Nov 16, 2019 | ||
| Duobaoyu Insurance provides an online insurance service platform. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Hangzhou in China. | $28.2M / Series B / Sep 18, 2019 | ||
| VIPKid is a global education technology company that connects children with the world’s best teachers for real-time online English immersion learning.VIPKid’s mission is to inspire and empower every child for the future. VIPKid envisions a global classroom that empowers students and teachers through personalized learning, connection of culturesacross the world and the passion for lifelong learning. It believes that education is not one-size-fits-all, rather, all students are unique and the world is within their reach when connected with great teachers capable of personalizing learning and sparking curiosity.Founded in 2013 and formally launched in 2014, VIPKid has become China’s market-leading online education startup, attracting investment from Tencent, Coatue Management, Sequoia Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Yunfeng Capital, Matrix Partners, Learn Capital, Northern Light VC and Bryant Stibel, among others. The VIPKid platform currently connects over 500,000 paying students with over 60,000 teachers in the US and Canada. | $500M / Series D / Apr 27, 2018 | ||
| Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories. It is transforming the way modern women get dressed - and in turn, disrupting the $1.7 trillion fashion industry - through the concept of renting over buying clothing.Founded in 2009 by Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss, RTR pioneered the‘closet in the cloud’ and believes that women everywhere will soon have a subscription to fashion, making renting an indispensable utility while also empowering them to feel like their best selves every day. RTR carries hundreds of thousands of pieces of apparel and accessories by 550+ designer partners with options for work, weekends, and special occasions.The company has built proprietary technology, one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation, and retail stores of the future that bring the dream closet to life. RTR has raised more than $200M from top-tier investors, has more than eight million users, and prides itself on the entrepreneurial, dream-big culture at the company which employs 1,200 people -- 70% of whom are women and 71% are minority/non-white.In 2015, the co-founders launched the Rent the Runway Foundation, supporting tens of thousands of female entrepreneurs in building and scaling their businesses. | $20M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 09, 2018 | ||
| Magic Leap is a proprietary wearable technology that enables users to interact with digital devices in a completely visually cinematic way.Magic Leap is an Augmented Reality US-based startup that is innovating in the AR space to create new hardware and software that will give its users a never-before-seen AR experience and redefine how theyaccess screens and visualize data. The headset combines a user's inherent visual ability with mobile computing – giving visual output equivalent to real-world experience but powered by mobile tech. Using their Dynamic Digitized Lightfield Signal, they generate images indistinguishable from real objects and place those images seamlessly into the real world. | $502M / Series D / Oct 17, 2017 | ||
| The Hangzhou-headquartered Kaishiba, formerly "Kaistart", was officially launched in March 2015. In the early stage, Kaishiba gathered together users sensitive to consumption upgrading with content and entered the non-standard accommodation, personalized catering, new agriculture, new leisure and other industries by crowd-funding. | $29M / Series C / Aug 30, 2017 | ||
| VIPKid is a global education technology company that connects children with the world’s best teachers for real-time online English immersion learning.VIPKid’s mission is to inspire and empower every child for the future. VIPKid envisions a global classroom that empowers students and teachers through personalized learning, connection of culturesacross the world and the passion for lifelong learning. It believes that education is not one-size-fits-all, rather, all students are unique and the world is within their reach when connected with great teachers capable of personalizing learning and sparking curiosity.Founded in 2013 and formally launched in 2014, VIPKid has become China’s market-leading online education startup, attracting investment from Tencent, Coatue Management, Sequoia Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Yunfeng Capital, Matrix Partners, Learn Capital, Northern Light VC and Bryant Stibel, among others. The VIPKid platform currently connects over 500,000 paying students with over 60,000 teachers in the US and Canada. | $200M / Series D / Aug 23, 2017 | ||
| VIPKid is a global education technology company that connects children with the world’s best teachers for real-time online English immersion learning.VIPKid’s mission is to inspire and empower every child for the future. VIPKid envisions a global classroom that empowers students and teachers through personalized learning, connection of culturesacross the world and the passion for lifelong learning. It believes that education is not one-size-fits-all, rather, all students are unique and the world is within their reach when connected with great teachers capable of personalizing learning and sparking curiosity.Founded in 2013 and formally launched in 2014, VIPKid has become China’s market-leading online education startup, attracting investment from Tencent, Coatue Management, Sequoia Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Yunfeng Capital, Matrix Partners, Learn Capital, Northern Light VC and Bryant Stibel, among others. The VIPKid platform currently connects over 500,000 paying students with over 60,000 teachers in the US and Canada. | $100M / Series C / Aug 03, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
About YF Capital
Yunfeng Capital was established in January 2010. It is the only private equity firm in China set up by successful entrepreneurs, pioneers and industry leaders. Its goal is not merely to be a financial investor, but also to share the entrepreneurial experience with companies, helping them refine their development, organizational management and brand building strategies. Yunfeng Capital places a special emphasis on young entrepreneurs, grooming future leaders to lead world-class enterprises. Yunfeng is the result of combining the Chinese first names of Mr. Jack MA (Yun), Chairman of Alibaba, and Mr. David YU (Feng), Founder of Target Media. In addition, there are more than 10 other co-founders, including Mr. Yu Zhu SHI, Chairman of Giant interactive group, Mr. Yong Hao LIU, Chairman of New Hope Group, Mr. Guo Jun SHEN, Chairman of Intime Investment, Mr. Yu Suo WANG, Chairman of ENN Group, Mr. Jason JIANG, Chairman of Focusmedia, Mr. Hang XU, Chairman of Shenzhen Mindray Medical, Mr. Yi Hong CHEN, Chairman of China Dongxiang(Group), Mr. Xin ZHOU, Chairman of E-House (China), Mr. Jian Guo WANG, Founder of Fivestar, Mr. Shao Xiong ZHOU, Chairman of Septwolves, Mr. Xu Ning WANG, Chairman of Joyong Holdings, Mr. You Cai ZHANG, President of Unifront Holdings. Yunfeng Capital is headquartered in Shanghai. Branch offices are located in Hong Kong, Beijing, Hangzhou, and other mainland cities.
YF Capital Contacts
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Jack Ma
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Li Na
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Xia Xiaoyan
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What does Jack Ma invest in?
Jack Ma invests primarily in Software, Retail and Internet startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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