Elwin Yuan
Partner @ 5Y Capital
Elwin Yuan is a Series C investor at 5Y Capital focused on Internet and Apps. Mr. YUAN joined Morningside Venture Capital in 2011 and over the years, he has been promoted from an associate all the way to be a partner, leading the consumer internet related investments. He led successful investments in Kuaishou, MaiMai, Snowball, Musical.ly, Keep and so on.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Elwin Yuan invests in
Stages Elwin Yuan invests in
Countries Elwin Yuan invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 5 (22%)
- Apps 3 (13%)
- Mobile Apps 2 (9%)
- Social Network 2 (9%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (9%)
Stage
- Series C 6 (26%)
- Series A 4 (17%)
- Series B 4 (17%)
- Series D 4 (17%)
- Series E 2 (9%)
Country
- China 9 (39%)
- United States 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Sensors was founded in 2015 by Sang Wenfeng, former technology manager at Baidu Inc's big data department. It currently provides big data analysis services for over 300 companies, including bike sharing company ofo, Chinese workout mobile app Keep, and video sharing and live streaming app Miaopai. | $200M / Series D / May 06, 2022 | ||
| Keep is a young team that loves sports and is also a group of Geeks who pursue the ultimate experience. They focus on application development in the field of mobile sports, advocate the spirit of open sharing, do not imitate, do not follow suit, and only do cool products.In the age of their lives, the fitness culture is awakening, there should bemore professional tools, a more pure community, and make the body easier. This is what Keep is doing. They hope that through technology-driven, more people will love fitness and enjoy sports. | $360M / Series F / Jan 10, 2021 | ||
| Kuaidian Yuedu offers a story reading app. | $100M / Series C / Jul 08, 2020 | ||
| Sensors was founded in 2015 by Sang Wenfeng, former technology manager at Baidu Inc's big data department. It currently provides big data analysis services for over 300 companies, including bike sharing company ofo, Chinese workout mobile app Keep, and video sharing and live streaming app Miaopai. | $30M / Series C / May 20, 2020 | ||
| Keep is a young team that loves sports and is also a group of Geeks who pursue the ultimate experience. They focus on application development in the field of mobile sports, advocate the spirit of open sharing, do not imitate, do not follow suit, and only do cool products.In the age of their lives, the fitness culture is awakening, there should bemore professional tools, a more pure community, and make the body easier. This is what Keep is doing. They hope that through technology-driven, more people will love fitness and enjoy sports. | $80M / Series E / May 19, 2020 | ||
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Lvuzhou VR
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Lvuzhou VR is a VR game developer | Series A / Feb 20, 2020 | |
| Whales belong to Shanghai Hejin Information Technology Co., Ltd., founded in Shanghai in 2015, and is China's leading collaborative platform for data science innovation. The company has a professional third-party data science community (formerly “Kosai Network”) with more than 60,000 data intelligence talents, international leading dataanalysis and AI development collaboration tool kescilab (“K-Lab”) and enterprise data intelligence. Development Development Alliance data business. | Series A / Nov 08, 2019 | ||
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Lvuzhou VR
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Lvuzhou VR is a VR game developer | $9.9M / Series A / Sep 26, 2019 | |
| Kuaidian Yuedu offers a story reading app. | $14.1M / Series B / Oct 30, 2018 | ||
| Maimai is a China-based career and social-networking platform founded in 2013 by Lin Fan. It now has tens of millions of users and surpasses LinkedIn in China for most used professional social networking site. | $200M / Series D / Aug 21, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About 5Y Capital
5Y Capital is a firm engaged in providing early-stage venture investments. It was formerly known as Morningside Venture Capital. The investment firm manages USD 5bn in dual-currency funds in USD and RMB, backed by world-renowned sovereign wealth funds, family offices, fund of funds, university endowments, pensions, and foundations. It is an investment firm of Morningside Group. It was headquartered in Xuhui, Shanghai, China in 2008 by Ken Shi and Richard Liu.
5Y Capital Contacts
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Elwin Yuan
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Fisher Zhang
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He Kaiyan
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Ken Shi
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Levi Liu
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What does Elwin Yuan invest in?
Elwin Yuan invests primarily in Internet, Apps and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Series C and Series A stage. Most of the 23 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 Elwin Yuan closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 23 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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