# Elwin Yuan

> Elwin Yuan is a Series A investor at 5Y Capital backing Apps, Internet and Gaming. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [5Y Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morningsidevc)
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elwinyuan

Elwin Yuan is a Series A investor at 5Y Capital focused on Apps and Internet. 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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 17% |
| Internet | 2 | 17% |
| Gaming | 1 | 8% |
| Fitness | 1 | 8% |
| Big Data | 1 | 8% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 25% |
| Series C | 2 | 17% |
| Series D | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Series E | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sensors Data | 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 | 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 | Kuaidian Yuedu offers a story reading app. | $100M | Series C | Jul 08, 2020 |  |
| Sensors Data | 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 | 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 |  |
| Lvuzhou VR | Lvuzhou VR is a VR game developer |  | Series A | Feb 20, 2020 |  |
| HeyWhale | 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 |  |
| Lvuzhou VR | Lvuzhou VR is a VR game developer | $10M | Series A | Sep 26, 2019 |  |
| Kuaidian Yuedu | Kuaidian Yuedu offers a story reading app. | $14.1M | Series B | Oct 30, 2018 |  |
| Keep | 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. | $127M | Series D | Jul 10, 2018 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GGV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ggv-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [BAI capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bertelsmann-asia-investments) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [DCM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dcm) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Linear Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/linear-venture) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HSG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital-china) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tencent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tencent) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About 5Y Capital

VC Fund · Xuhui, China

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 aninvestment firm of Morningside Group.It was headquartered in Xuhui, Shanghai, China in 2008 by Ken Shi and Richard Liu.

5 contacts available at 5Y Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Elwin Yuan | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-shi-55dc |
| Fisher Zhang | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fisher-zhang |
| He Kaiyan | investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/he-kaiyan |
| Ken Shi | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-shi |
| Levi Liu | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/levi-liu |

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## FAQ

### What does Elwin Yuan invest in?

Elwin Yuan invests primarily in Apps, Internet and Gaming startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Elwin Yuan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Elwin Yuan closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 12 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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