Minhong Yu
Co-Founder @ Hongtai Capital Holdings
Beijing, China
Minhong Yu is a seed investor at Hongtai Capital Holdings in Beijing focused on Education and Social Media. Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was anEnglish instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Minhong Yu invests in
Stages Minhong Yu invests in
Countries Minhong Yu invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $425k–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 3 (50%)
- Social Media 3 (50%)
- Apps 2 (33%)
- Mobile 2 (33%)
- Internet 2 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (50%)
- Angel 1 (17%)
- Series A 1 (17%)
- Series C 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Kuaipeilian
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Kuaipeilian is an online piano training platform | $10M / Seed / Apr 04, 2019 | |
Bottomsup
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Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content. | $1.4M / Series A / Jan 01, 2016 | |
Pingo Space
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Pingo Space is a mobile platform that connects locals to expats through in-person experiences. | $425K / Seed / Sep 01, 2015 | |
Pengyou Yinxiang
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Pengyou Yinxiang is a social networking application. | $709K / Angel / Jan 09, 2015 | |
Squirrel Ai Learning
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Found in 2014, headquartered in Shanghai, with an AI Research Team in Seattle and a Curriculum Development Team in the LA area, Squirrel Ai Learning is the first K-12 EdTech company specializing in AI adaptive education in China. We are the market leader and currently focusing on aspects such as the analysis of student learning data, multimodaldata analysis, and the interaction between students and the system. Our products are predominantly software-based, although our smart learning tablets have been successfully implemented in the Chinese market for the past nine years.Powered by the world's first all-discipline Large Adaptive Model (LAM), the Squirrel Ai engine works in conjunction with our smart learning tablets to provide students with a personalized learning experience that has been proven to improve both efficacy and engagement. Leveraging the capabilities of LLMs as a foundation, Squirrel Ai uses multi-modal intelligent agents as the primary interaction mode, creating a new adaptive learning model. This innovative L5 adaptive learning system represents a significant breakthrough: it operates independently of human intervention, with AI entirely managing the learning process and possessing the ability for autonomous evolution.Squirrel Ai stands for "agility, diligence, and management." We seek to provide agility in offering the best products and services to our students and customers; diligence in helping students master knowledge points through our real-time Large Adaptive Model; and management in cultivating good study habits through practice.Squirrel Ai offers high-quality courses in subjects like Chinese, Math, English, Physics, and Chemistry. Currently, we have 2000+ distributors, 24 million+ registered students, and learning behavior data from 10 billion students in China.We partnered with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) from 2019-2020 and established the CMU-Squirrel Ai Research Lab on Personalized Education at Scale in Pittsburgh. We also partnered with the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) from 2018-2020 and established the Joint Lab of AI Adaptive Learning. Since 2017, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) has been our primary research partner in our technology research projects, further cementing our position as a front-runner in the field of AI education. | $4.5M / Seed / Jan 01, 2015 | |
VIVA
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Beijing Viva Information Technology Co., Ltd. is a media company specializing in mobile TV, mobile magazines, and mobile radio. The firm was founded in January 2007 and is based in Beijing, China. | $20M / Series C / Oct 30, 2013 |
Co-Investors
About Hongtai Capital Holdings
Hongtai Capital Holdings is a private equity and venture capital firm that specializes direct and fund of funds investments through Aplus Fund and Aplus Capital. It specializes in direct investments covering angel and growth capital stage investments in big data, artificial intelligence, financial technology, consumer upgrade, culturalentertainment, internet, internet of things, and intelligent manufacturing sectors for Aplus FundHongtai Capital specializes in direct and fund of funds investments through mature stage investments, acquisitions, and industry consolidation in healthcare, new healthcare, health, medical treatment, biotechnology, healthcare education, next generation health diagnostics, alternative energy, advanced manufacturing in Shandong Province in China for Aplus Capital. It prefers to invest in companies with IPO potential for Aplus Capital. Hongtai Capital typically makes joint acquisitions and acquire majority stakes in portfolio companies for acquisitions. It seeks to exit though selling or injecting into listed companies for acquisition of majority stakes. Hongtai Capital acquires minority stakes and prefers to exit through reorganization and listing. It also specializes in incubation, seed, start-up, early, middle, expansion, late stage, mergers and acquisitions investments for industry consolidation. Hongtai Capital typically invests in relaxation entertainment, media, culture, education, cultural sports, technology, mobile internet, network security, smart hardware, telecommunication, consumer, online consumer, food, beverage, leisure, environmental protection, mobile agriculture, environment-friendly new materials, creativity, chain-style business, retail, , and sensor technology, finance, internet finance, mobile internet products overturning industry models, new consumer, new technology, new finance, and new education sectors. It invests in non-listed companies and in companies listed in the new third board. It seeks to invest in Silicon Valley and Boston, U.S.A. Hongtai Capital typically invests CNY 0.5 million (USD 74,903.00) to CNY 500 million (USD 81.61 million) per portfolio company. It prefers to invest in companies with a maximum valuation of USD 100 million. Sheng Taisheng and Yu Minhong founded Hongtai Capital on November 26, 2014. It has its headquarters in Beijing in China.
Hongtai Capital Holdings Contacts
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Minhong Yu
Co-Founder
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Xitai Sheng
Founder & Chairman
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Yang Qing
Managing Director
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Yang Xing
investor
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FAQ
What does Minhong Yu invest in?
Minhong Yu invests primarily in Education, Social Media and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Minhong Yu's check size?
Minhong Yu typically joins rounds of $425k–$10M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Minhong Yu participates in.
When did Minhong Yu last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Minhong Yu closed in Apr 2019. Shizune tracks 6 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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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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