# John Li

> John Li is a seed investor at Cathay Innovation backing Energy, Software and Logistics. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cathay Innovation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cathay-innovation-fund)
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnli1/?locale=de_DE

John Li is a seed investor at Cathay Innovation focused on Energy and Software. John Li is the Partner at Cathay CarTech Fund.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Logistics | 1 | 33% |
| Oil and Gas | 1 | 33% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 33% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zhiwei Xingyi | Zhiwei Xingyi provides enterprises with digital project management, delivery, and operation. |  | Seed | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Baoying Gases | Baoying Gas is a national gas company that focuses on the production, exploration, and development of industrial gas solutions. |  | Series B | Mar 22, 2023 |  |
| Waytous | Waytous is a driving technology company that offers a mining truck unmanned driving and excavator collaborative operation management system. The company was established in November 2014 and is headquartered in Qingdao, China. | $14.3M | Series A | Mar 13, 2020 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cathay Innovation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c-entrepreneurs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FOF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fof-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sigma Square Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sigma-square-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [The Hina Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-hina-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cathay Innovation

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Cathay Innovation is a multistage venture capital firm affiliated with Cathay Capital, investing in founders building transformative businesses across Europe, North America, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Its platform connects founders with investors and its ecosystem of leading Fortune 500 corporations to help startups scale and transformindustries with consumer-to-enterprise and AI solutions in commerce, fintech, digital health, and mobility/energy. Cathay Innovation now manages over €2.5B AUM with offices in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, San Francisco, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Singapore and has invested in over 150 startups, including Chime, Pinduoduo (NASDAQ: PDD), Glovo, Wallbox (NYSE: WBX), Owkin, Ledger, ZenBusiness, Alma, Descartes Underwriting, and more.

5 contacts available at Cathay Innovation.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rajive Keshup | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rajive-keshup |
| Costanza Carissimo | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/costanza-carissimo |
| Denis Barrier | Co-founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denis-barrier |
| Jacky Abitbol | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacky-abitbol |
| John Li | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-li-1c00 |

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## FAQ

### What does John Li invest in?

John Li invests primarily in Energy, Software and Logistics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did John Li last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Li closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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