# Jack Ma > Jack Ma is a Series C investor at Electronic World Trade Platform backing Software and Retail. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Electronic World Trade Platform](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/electronic-world-trade-platform) - Location: Hangzhou, China - Total investments: 14 - Last investment: Nov 2023 - Lead investor: 64% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-ma-99228aa4/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AliBabaJack Jack Ma is a Series C investor at Electronic World Trade Platform 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 aJapanese 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. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Software | 3 | 21% | | Retail | 2 | 14% | | Internet | 2 | 14% | | E-Commerce | 2 | 14% | | Information Technology | 2 | 14% | 36 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Series C | 3 | 21% | | Series B | 2 | 14% | | Series D | 2 | 14% | | Funding Round | 2 | 14% | | Seed | 1 | 7% | 8 stages tracked in total. ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | China | 7 | 50% | | United States | 2 | 14% | | Egypt | 1 | 7% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Hangzhou Ma’s Kitchen Food | Hangzhou Ma’s Kitchen Food operates as a food sales company. | $1.4M | Seed | Nov 26, 2023 | | | X-EPIC | 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 | | | Duobaoyu Insurance | Duobaoyu Insurance provides an online insurance service platform. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Hangzhou in China. | $27.7M | Series B | Sep 18, 2019 | | | VIPKID | 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 | | | Magic Leap | 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 | | | Kaishiba | 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 | 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 | 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 | | | Magic Leap | 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. | $793.5M | Series C | Feb 02, 2016 | | | Alibaba Group | Alibaba Group operates as an online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers. It provides various e-commerce activities, including retail and wholesale transactions. It also offers cloud computing and digital media services. Alibaba Group serves industries such as retail, logistics, and technology. | | Series B | Jan 18, 2000 | | 10 of 14 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Google](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Learn Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/learncapital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Gaorong Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banyan-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [BAI capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bertelsmann-asia-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Bryant Stibel Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryant-stibel-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Electronic World Trade Platform VC Fund 1 contacts available at Electronic World Trade Platform. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Jack Ma | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-ma | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund - [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund - [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### 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. ### When did Jack Ma last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Jack Ma closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 14 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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