James Mi
Founding Partner @ Luminous Ventures (former Lightspeed China Partners)
Shanghai, China
James Mi is a Series A investor at Luminous Ventures (former Lightspeed China Partners) in Shanghai focused on Transportation and Artificial Intelligence. James Mi - Founding Partner @ Luminous Ventures (former Lightspeed China Partners)
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries James Mi invests in
Stages James Mi invests in
Countries James Mi invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Transportation 3 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (14%)
- Apps 2 (10%)
- Robotics 2 (10%)
- Mobile Apps 2 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (24%)
- Series B 5 (24%)
- Series C 4 (19%)
- Seed 2 (10%)
- Series D 2 (10%)
Country
- China 11 (52%)
- United States 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Laiye is a digital workforce platform that empowers organizations by integrating AI Agents to boost employee productivity and creativity. The platform combines various intelligent automation capabilities, including RPA and IDP, to streamline operations and enhance business outcomes. | $70M / Series C / Apr 18, 2022 | ||
| MKSEMI is a low-power ultra-wideband (UWB) company, provides a complete high precision location solution for device OEMs and ODMs. | $12.8M / Series A / Jan 05, 2022 | ||
| Hesai Technology designs a laser radar that facilitates autonomous driving. It uses smart sensing technology to develop laser radar for autonomous cars and natural gas leak detection systems, enabling car companies to monitor mixed gas composition, control industrial processes, and detect hazardous gas leaks. Hesai Technology was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China. | $300M / Series D / Jun 08, 2021 | ||
| Laiye is a digital workforce platform that empowers organizations by integrating AI Agents to boost employee productivity and creativity. The platform combines various intelligent automation capabilities, including RPA and IDP, to streamline operations and enhance business outcomes. | $50M / Series C / Apr 21, 2021 | ||
| MingMed is a Chinese cancer therapy and vision care firm. | $60M / Series A / Mar 17, 2021 | ||
| Laiye is a digital workforce platform that empowers organizations by integrating AI Agents to boost employee productivity and creativity. The platform combines various intelligent automation capabilities, including RPA and IDP, to streamline operations and enhance business outcomes. | $42M / Series C / Feb 23, 2020 | ||
| Hesai Technology designs a laser radar that facilitates autonomous driving. It uses smart sensing technology to develop laser radar for autonomous cars and natural gas leak detection systems, enabling car companies to monitor mixed gas composition, control industrial processes, and detect hazardous gas leaks. Hesai Technology was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China. | $134.9M / Series C / Jan 07, 2020 | ||
| Laiye is a digital workforce platform that empowers organizations by integrating AI Agents to boost employee productivity and creativity. The platform combines various intelligent automation capabilities, including RPA and IDP, to streamline operations and enhance business outcomes. | $35M / Series B / Jun 27, 2019 | ||
| Plus.ai develops self-driving trucks to enable large-scale commercialization of autonomous transport. Based in Silicon Valley, Plus.ai was founded in 2016 by a group of Stanford PhD classmates who saw the strong potential of artificial intelligence to make a big impact on business and society. With trucking being the primary means of shipping inAmerica, the founders decided to focus on self-driving technology to transform the trillion-dollar commercial trucking industry. Plus.ai specializes in developing full-stack self-driving technology to enable large scale autonomous commercial fleets. We are one of the most advanced autonomous trucking companies today in terms of technological progress and were the first to obtain California’s Autonomous Testing License. The company has since been working on improving the robustness and safety of its fully functional Level-4 autonomous trucks. Plus.ai closely collaborates with the largest OEMs to build self-driving trucks that are safer than human-operated vehicles. The company operates a fleet of autonomous trucks in pilot programs with the top freight shipping companies. | $101.7M / Series A / Jun 11, 2018 | ||
| Airburg builds air purifiers that brings purified outdoor air into a house, while pumping our dirty interior air. Unlike traditional air purifiers, which require customers to close windows and doors, Airburg’s product can be used with doors and windows open, which the company says can lower carbon dioxide levels.The start-up also produces an airquality monitor enabling users to monitor fine particulate matter levels via a mobile app on their smartphone.The company was founded in 2014. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 11, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
Lightspeed China Partners was founded in 2011 as an independent venture capital group and began operating as Luminous Ventures in November 2025. Luminous Ventures is a leading venture capital firm serving entrepreneurs as a lead investor in early stage and emerging growth companies. It has offices in Shanghai,Beijing and Hong Kong.
Luminous Ventures (former Lightspeed China Partners) Contacts
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Stella Zhao
Investment Manager
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Guo Bin
Executive Director
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Herry Han
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Hu Peipei
Investment Manager
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James Mi
Founding Partner
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What does James Mi invest in?
James Mi invests primarily in Transportation, Artificial Intelligence and Apps startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 21 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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The most recent investment recorded for James Mi closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 21 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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