# Kuaishou Technology

> Kuaishou Technology is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, China
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/%E5%BF%AB%E6%89%8B
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kuaishouvideo
- Website: http://www.kuaishou.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lingling.kuaishou

Kuaishou Technology is a VC fund in Beijing focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Kuaishou is an online video platform that allows its users to broadcast daily activities, habits, and more online.The company is on a mission to increase every individual’s happiness through big data and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Through the sharing of short videos, photos, and live streams, Kuaishou Technology's equalopportunity’ algorithms and ethical corporate values infuse life into the technology platform. By highlighting a side that’s not often seen, Kuaishou empowers the commoners of China to virtually experience the world by enabling them to engage with fans from all walks of life around the globe while inviting the world into their homes. While Kuaishou is Kuaishou Technology’s short video platform for the Chinese market, the international version of its app, Kwai, parallels Kuaishou with similar features, but offers localized functions tailored to users from outside of China. It has an average of 275.9 million daily active users. While access to Kuaishou is free, the company makes money through selling virtual items that users gift to the creators of the videos, online marketing, and commissions from e-commerce sales on the platform.It was launched in 2011 by Su Hua in Beijing, Beijing, China.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Kuaishou Technology. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Kuaishou Technology. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/kuaishou?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Angel | $425k–$425k |
| Series A | $1.4M–$50M |
| Series B | $2.8M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 44% |
| Software | 6 | 33% |
| Gaming | 3 | 17% |
| Education | 3 | 17% |
| EBooks | 2 | 11% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 39% |
| Series B | 4 | 22% |
| Angel | 2 | 11% |
| Series D | 2 | 11% |
| Series E | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 16 | 89% |
| Singapore | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alberto Nicolas Casado | Head of Content Growth South Latam | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberto-nicolas-casado |
| Cheng Yixiao | Co-Founder & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cheng-yixiao |
| Haoran Zhu | Head of Overseas Investment & Investment Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haoran-zhu |
| Hongbin Ma | Head of Strategy | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hongbin-ma-2 |
| Hua Su | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hua-xu |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lingchuan Technology | Lingchuan Technology is a leading provider of software development services, offering innovative and customized solutions to meet the diverse needs of clients across various industries. | $14M | Series A | Jul 02, 2025 |  |
| Lingchuan Technology | Lingchuan Technology is a high-tech enterprise focusing on transcoding/AI chip research and development. |  | Series A | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Xreal | Nreal is the developer of ready-to-wear mixed reality glasses. Its flagship product, Nreal light, is the first lightweight and comfortable mixed reality glasses, sporting a vivid display combined with spatial computing algorithms for an immersive experience. The company aims to make mixed reality available and accessible to everyone. They strive torealize the full potential of mixed reality by empowering developers to create applications that can ultimately propel a new era of entertainment, productivity, and more.Nreal was founded in 2017 and is based in Beijing, China. | $60M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 29, 2024 |  |
| Vastai Technologies | Vastai Technologies is focused on developing AI chips for the optimization of computer vision and video processing. | $50M | Series A | Nov 30, 2020 |  |
| VSPN | VSPN is an internet sports and cultural media company that focuses its business on e-sports. It provides core marketing and entertainment content operations as its core business, providing brand marketing, artist brokerage, e-sports TV, and e-sports venues.Founded in 2015, Quantum Sports VSPN (Versus Programming Network) and is based in Shanghai,China. | $100M | Series B | Oct 26, 2020 |  |
| Xreal | Nreal is the developer of ready-to-wear mixed reality glasses. Its flagship product, Nreal light, is the first lightweight and comfortable mixed reality glasses, sporting a vivid display combined with spatial computing algorithms for an immersive experience. The company aims to make mixed reality available and accessible to everyone. They strive torealize the full potential of mixed reality by empowering developers to create applications that can ultimately propel a new era of entertainment, productivity, and more.Nreal was founded in 2017 and is based in Beijing, China. | $40M | Series B | Sep 04, 2020 |  |
| Huohua Siwei | Huohua Siwei is an online education platform for K-12 children that specializes in Mathematics and Science. It offers a one-to-many online interactive live small class and strong interactive game links to develop students' core ability of thinking, concentration, and other core skills. It is focused on the young mathematics thinking training,which is divided into three modules: spatial thinking and graphics, computing power, and logical reasoning.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Beijing, China. | $30M | Series D | Apr 24, 2020 |  |
| Spark Education Group | Spark Education Group is a fast-growing global online education company specializing in interactive live-instruction with small-group classes for children. Our mission is to Spark passion for learning, ignite lifelong growth. Since 2018, we have attracted over half a million users worldwide and its portfolio companies are backed by top globalinvestors including KKR, IDG Capital, GGV Capital, Sequoia China, Carlyle, Northern Light Venture Capital, and GSR Ventures. Spark Education Group's portfolio includes: - VISPARK, featuring Spark Math (mathematics curriculum combining Singapore Math with Common Core State Standards), and Spark Chinese (Chinese language learning curriculum) - Huohua Siwei (a Chinese-language online learning service) - Allschool (an online marketplace connecting teachers and learners) - ClassPod (an education platform enabling interactive live-instruction for small-group classes) | $30M | Series D | Apr 24, 2020 |  |
| Wangpai Huyu | Ace Interactive Entertainment is a mobile game developer, formerly known as Beijing Pan-Arab Network Technology Co., Ltd. The company’s business mainly covers two aspects: the development and distribution of mobile games, and its products include casual tower defense games "D-MEN: The Defenders ( The hero returns)" etc. | $424.5K | Angel | Apr 15, 2020 |  |
| MiningLamp | MiningLamp (Chinese: 明略数据) is a fast-growing startup aiming to provide enterprises with big data solutions. It is committed to exploring the next generation of artificial intelligence technology in the industry with high knowledge and management complexity. The company helps clients to build their own knowledge graphs, then apply ArtificialIntelligence to their business, and finally transform data into insights.It connects perceptual and cognitive intelligence, and connect the wisdom of people, machines, and organizations through multi-modal artificial intelligence and big data technologies, and finally realize high-level artificial intelligence applications with analysis and decision-making capabilities, allowing the organization to operate efficiently and allow more People and resources are invested in innovative work to help companies build an industry brain for human-machine collaboration and accelerate their digital transformation.It was founded in 2014 and based in Beijing, China. The company successfully delivered solutions to customers including China UnionPay, CCTV, China Postal Savings Bank, etc. | $300M | Series E | Mar 27, 2020 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tencent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tencent) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beijing-artificial-intelligence-industry-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HSG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hsg-cap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [IDG Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idg-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [iQiyi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iqiyi) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Jiuzhi Ziben](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jiuzhi-ziben) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## Similar investors

### Similar industry
- [BITKRAFT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitkraft-ventures) — VC Fund
- [Makers Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/makers-fund) — VC Fund
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund

### Similar country
- [IDG Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idg-capital-partners) — VC Fund
- [Qiming Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qiming-venture-partners) — VC Fund
- [HSG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital-china) — VC Fund

## Featured in investor lists
- [Mobile Apps Investors in China](https://shizune.co/investors/mobile-apps-investors-china)
- [Mobile Apps VC Funds in China](https://shizune.co/investors/mobile-apps-vc-funds-china)
- [Video Games Investors in Asia](https://shizune.co/investors/video-games-investors-asia)
- [Video Games Investors in China](https://shizune.co/investors/video-games-investors-china)
- [Video Games VC Funds in China](https://shizune.co/investors/video-games-vc-funds-china)

## FAQ

### What does Kuaishou Technology invest in?

Kuaishou Technology invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Gaming startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kuaishou Technology's check size?

Kuaishou Technology typically joins rounds of $425k–$425k at Angel, $1.4M–$50M at Series A and $2.8M–$100M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kuaishou Technology participates in.

### How do I contact Kuaishou Technology?

Public channels for Kuaishou Technology include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Kuaishou Technology?

The team at Kuaishou Technology includes Alberto Nicolas Casado (Head of Content Growth South Latam), Cheng Yixiao (Co-Founder & CEO) and Haoran Zhu (Head of Overseas Investment & Investment Director), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co