# Jason Zeng

> Jason Zeng is a seed investor at Decent Capital (Shenzhen) backing Internet and Social Media. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Decent Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/decent-capital)
- Location: Shenzhen, China
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Aug 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Liqing-Zeng/100009434806784

Jason Zeng is a seed investor at Decent Capital in Shenzhen focused on Internet and Social Media. Jason Zeng, one of the Core Founders and Advisor Emeritus of Tencent Group. Jason founded the Group in 1999. As the Chief Operating Officer during 1999 and 2007, Jason was responsible for overseeing the Company's business lines and product portfolios and the managing the Company’s sales and marketing activities across China. Prior toTencent, Jason worked in the Shenzhen Data Telecommunications Bureau and was familiar with the Internet and telecommunications industries in China. Since June 2007, Jason has been the Advisor Emeritus of the Company.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$3.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |
| Social Media | 2 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 20% |
| Dating | 1 | 10% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 70% |
| Angel | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 40% |
| China | 3 | 30% |
| France | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Quivr | A new way to date. Let matchmakers do the work for you or play Cupid yourself. | $3.6M | Seed | Aug 23, 2022 |  |
| Quivr | Quivr is a platform that uses multiple AI agents to manage customer support tasks. It drafts replies, routes tickets, handles refunds, and analyzes customer data. It integrates with helpdesk and business tools to automate support workflows. | $3.6M | Seed | Aug 23, 2022 |  |
| Locale | We create organic high-protein meals with high standards, backed by leading longevity research.Our standards: - 40-60g protein per meal - Nutrient-dense meat (grass-fed, pasture-raised, wild-caught) - No seed oils (cooked in extra virgin olive oil) - 8g+ fiber per meal - Organic, pesticide-free produce - No processed ingredients. No refinedsugars - Microplastic-free, reusable glass jars - High in Anti-inflammatories, and Omega-3sSince starting in 2020, we’ve delivered 100K+ orders and are backed by a16z, Y-Combinator, Goodwater, Decent Capital, and other top investors. | $2M | Seed | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| Esperanto Technologies | Esperanto delivers high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions, the compelling choice for the most demanding AI / ML / DL applications. Their founding team, with many decades of processor design and architecture experience, is dedicated to delivering solutions to help drive future computing innovation. The changing,computationally intensive, workloads of the machine learning era mandate a new clean-sheet solution, without the baggage of existing legacy architectures. Esperanto leverages the simple, elegant, open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) to deliver flexibility, scalability, performance and energy-efficiency advantages. | $58M | Series B | Nov 01, 2018 |  |
| Little Spoonful | Little Spoonful 小勺满满 provides fresh, safe, and nutritious foods for children in China. | $2M |  | Mar 06, 2017 |  |
| Hommily | Hommily is a new peer to peer social travel network helping connect travelers to locals from around the globe. Hommily makes it easy to connect with locals for tours, events, drivers, and activities during your trip. | $1.5M | Angel | Aug 20, 2015 |  |
| Oculii | Oculii is creating a next-generation AI software platform for radars that’s exponentially higher resolution, longer range, more accurate, and less expensive than conventional solutions – increasing safety and reliability. The promise of autonomous vehicles depends on high-performance, all-weather, low-cost and scalable perception technology, andOculii is bringing it to the world. Oculii's AI software amplifies the resolution of any radar platform, enabling high performance perception for the next generation of autonomous systems. Traditional phased array radars have been used for decades and follow a strict size for performance tradeoff - the larger the sensor aperture, the higher the angular resolution. Oculii’s Virtual Aperture Imaging radar technology fundamentally breaks this tradeoff - enabling its sensors to trade increased compute/processing for angular resolution enhancement with the same physical aperture. Leveraging this technique enables Oculii sensors to extract unprecedented accuracy, range, and 4D positioning information from commodity off the shelf low-cost radar elements, bringing high resolution radar imaging to the next frontier. Oculii is backed by some of the top investors and corporations from Silicon Valley, and is working with the leaders in Self Driving Vehicles, Robotics, and Drones - helping them deliver on an autonomous future with an advanced, robust, affordable perception platform. | $3.4M | Seed | Jan 08, 2015 |  |
| FangDD | FangDD is the an O2O real estate platform in China. It facilitates transactions between property sellers and home buyers through real estate brokers. FangDD works on a "pay-for-performance" business model instead of charging fees for every listings different from other domestic online estate services that charge customers for listingproperty information on the platforms, like SouFun and Anjuke.Currently, FangDD is in cooperation with over 100,000+ brokers, has offices in more than 30 cities and employs around 2500 people."In the first six months of this year(2014), Fangdd’s platform has seen more than 50 billion yuan ($8 billion) worth of real-estate transactions, and is aiming for 150 billion yuan worth of transactions for all of 2014" - Mr. Cao (Lightspeed China Partner). | $1M | Seed | Jul 14, 2012 |  |
| Hommily | Hommily is a new peer to peer social travel network helping connect travelers to locals from around the globe. Hommily makes it easy to connect with locals for tours, events, drivers, and activities during your trip. | $500K | Seed |  |  |
| Lyxia China | Lyxia is a biotechnology corporation founded in the State of Delaware at 2012, providing a pioneer technology platform to harness the prolific biofuel yield from microalgae. Lyxia:registered: homes in the desired breakthrough for the current bottleneck of large scale fuel and protein production, and further turns these renewable resource intocommercial oil. | $1.6M | Seed |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Decent Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/decent-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [C2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c2-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Comet Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comet-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FBG Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fbg-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [IVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/infinity-ventures-crypto) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sfermion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sfermion) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Decent Capital

VC Fund · Shenzhen, China

Decent Capital is a venture capital firm with a cross-border presence. It was founded in 2007 by Jason Zeng, co-founder of Tencent Holdings Limited. Decent Capital has two teams, venture investment and asset management, with offices in Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore and the United States. Decent’s investment team invests from Seed to SeriesA, primarily focusing on SaaS, Consumer Internet, and Frontier Tech. Decent has invested in over 200 companies globally, spanning across the United States, China, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. Decent upholds strong dedication to post-investment management, they continue to heavily support their portfolio companies’ business operations, supply chain and logistics, and future fundraising efforts. While Decent’s emphasis is on early-stage investments, they prioritize continuing to support portfolio companies throughout growth, for example, Decent invested in Lime from Seed to Series D.

5 contacts available at Decent Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Yang | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-yang-3 |
| Keyan Li | Head of US, Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keyan-li-bfc5 |
| Fu Hao | Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fu-hao |
| Jason Zeng | Founder, President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-zeng-li-qing |
| Tong Xie | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tong-xie-436e |

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## FAQ

### What does Jason Zeng invest in?

Jason Zeng invests primarily in Internet, Social Media and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jason Zeng's check size?

Jason Zeng typically joins rounds of $500k–$3.6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jason Zeng participates in.

### When did Jason Zeng last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jason Zeng closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 10 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.

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