# kaoputou.com

> kaoputou.com is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage, Restaurants and Catering. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.kaoputou.com

kaoputou.com is a fund that focuses on an early investment in the catering industry.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.6M–$16M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $16M–$77M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 10 | 71% |
| Restaurants | 6 | 43% |
| Catering | 5 | 36% |
| Food Processing | 3 | 21% |
| Retail | 2 | 14% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 64% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 14% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ma Zhua Zhua | Ma Zhua Zhua is a cold-salted catering chain and a brand that makes chicken dishes with signature spicy and hot and sour chicken feet. |  | Series A | May 09, 2022 |  |
| Ji Xiang | Ji Xiang is a catering retail brand and an enterprise that manufactures, distributes, and sells different types of Wontons. | $15.8M | Series A | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Tangqi Shengtai Enterprise Management | Tangqi Shengtai Enterprise Management provides food from all over the world, and it also provides customers with various brands of beer, foreign wine, and red wine. Their technicians prepare many wines and cocktails. |  | Series A | Jan 30, 2022 |  |
| Banu Hotpot | Banu Hotpot is a food and beverage company specialized in stripe and mushroom soup. | $16M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 14, 2021 |  |
| Yuni Together | Yuyou Together is a pickled cabbage fish fast food brand. At present, the product structure of Yuyou Together has been upgraded from the original 6+6+5 to an 8+8+6 model, of which 8 main products are 4 of the top four in sales. Pickled fish products, such as hot pickled fish, old altar pickled fish, green pepper pickled fish and tomato fish. Theother 4 types are two new pickled cabbage fish products, and two large opening products, such as spicy and boiled beef. In terms of main ingredients, we also added small crispy meat series products on the basis of the existing black fish and pangasius. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 09, 2021 |  |
| Guifenghuang | Guifenghuang is a chain of snack stores that promotes Guizhou rice noodles pre-packaged products, and agricultural specialty products. | $1.6M | Series A | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Metameat | Mitega is a plant-based meat brand that offers safe and sustainable products. | $1.6M | Angel | Sep 28, 2021 |  |
| Uncle Bear | Uncle Bear is a catering firm specializing in fresh, hand-made dumplings and wontons sold through direct stores franchisees. |  | Series A | Aug 11, 2021 |  |
| Baman | Baman Hunan Rice Noodles is a restaurant chain that offers dine-in, takeout, retail, e-commerce, and unrestricted catering services. | $15.5M | Series C | Jun 28, 2021 |  |
| Banu Hotpot | Banu Hotpot is a food and beverage company specialized in stripe and mushroom soup. | $77.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 24, 2021 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dayone Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dayone-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gaorong Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banyan-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CPE](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citic-pe) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FinTrek Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fintrek-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fosun International](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fosun-international) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hillhouse Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hillhouse-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does kaoputou.com invest in?

kaoputou.com invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Restaurants and Catering startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown 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.

### What is kaoputou.com's check size?

kaoputou.com typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$16M at Series A and $16M–$77M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds kaoputou.com participates in.

### When did kaoputou.com last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for kaoputou.com closed in May 2022. 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.

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