# Meituan

> Meituan is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage and Artificial Intelligence. See 99 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, China
- Total investments: 99
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 52%
- Fund size: $410M
- Last fund: Feb 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/meituan/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/meituan
- Website: https://about.meituan.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100075836006126

Meituan is a VC fund in Beijing focused on Food and Beverage and Artificial Intelligence. Meituan develops and operates a platform providing retail and online group buying services. It retails and delivers Chinese food from local restaurants online. It operates a social commerce website that offers online group discounts for movie tickets, groceries, food, restaurants, entertainment, and health/fitness sectors.Wang Xing foundedMeituan Group in 2010 that became Meituan-Dianping in December 2015, with its headquarters in Beijing in China. Meituan-Dianping officially changed its name to Meituan in September 2020.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.4M–$157M |
| Series B | $2.9M–$188M |
| Series C | $71M–$188M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 13 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 12% |
| Robotics | 10 | 10% |
| Software | 7 | 7% |
| Manufacturing | 7 | 7% |

86 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 24 | 24% |
| Series A | 16 | 16% |
| Series C | 10 | 10% |
| Series D | 5 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 4% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 52 | 53% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Liang Chen | Senior Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liang-chen-8592 |
| Shaohui Chen | Vice President, Corporate Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chen-shaohui |
| Cathryn Chen | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cathryn-chen |
| Edward Long | SVP, Board Director, Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edward-long |
| Huaxia Xia | VP and Chief Scientist | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/huaxia-xia |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hangzhou Xynova Technology Co. | Hangzhou Xynova Technology Co. develops robotic components, including dexterous hands, rotary actuators, and linear actuators. | $73.8M | Series A | Jul 17, 2026 |  |
| Even Realities | We explore human experiences where digital and physical realities merge. | $150M | Series B | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| X Square | X Square is a company focused on developing universal embodied large models for robots, aiming to create a universal brain-cerebellum system that offers comprehensive capabilities from perception to action. |  | Series C | Jun 29, 2026 |  |
| Infinite Workshop | Infinite Workshop is focuses on desktop CNC machining and then-popular embody robots. | $14.7M | Seed | May 15, 2026 |  |
| Elegoo | Elegoo offers practical kits of electronic and structural tools for students, enthusiasts, and veteran geeks could find needed at their stages. They provide saturn series Lcd printers, mars series Lcd printers, neptune series fdm printers, 3D parts and accessories, plant-based rasin, water washable resin, robot kits, electronic component kits. |  | Series B | Apr 20, 2026 |  |
| TARS | Zhihang Zhong is a prominent researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly known for his work on integrating spatial perception and reasoning into AI systems. | $513.1M | Seed | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| TARS | TARS (Trusted AI and Robotics Solution) is creating humanoid robots. The AI-driven company specializes in embodied intelligence, integrating large-scale model development, hardware R&D, and the mass production of unified software and hardware solutions. | $513.1M | Seed | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Snapmaker | Snapmaker is dedicated to providing an integrated platform empowering everyone to create things with ease that just wasn’t there before. |  | Series B | Oct 30, 2025 |  |
| X Square | X Square is a company focused on developing universal embodied large models for robots, aiming to create a universal brain-cerebellum system that offers comprehensive capabilities from perception to action. | $140.3M | Series A | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| Galaxea AI | Xinghaitu is an intelligent robot technology company that specializes in the development of humanoid robots with embodied intelligence. | $100M | Series A | Jul 09, 2025 |  |

10 of 99 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [HSG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital-china) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [HSG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hsg-cap) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [IDG Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idg-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [Source Code Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/source-code-capital) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Tencent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tencent) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [Qiming Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qiming-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 11 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Meituan invest in?

Meituan invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 99 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Meituan's check size?

Meituan typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$157M at Series A, $2.9M–$188M at Series B and $71M–$188M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Meituan participates in.

### How do I contact Meituan?

Public channels for Meituan 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 Meituan?

The team at Meituan includes Liang Chen (Senior Vice President), Shaohui Chen (Vice President, Corporate Development) and Cathryn Chen (Investor), among 13 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.

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