# Nick Yang

> Nick Yang is a seed investor at ePlanet Capital (Detroit) backing Robotics and Aerospace. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ePlanet Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dfj-eplanet-ventures)
- Location: Detroit, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Dec 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-yang-abb4201

Nick Yang is a Venture Partner with the Beijing office. Mr. Yang is a co-founder, president, Director and Chief Technology Officer of KongZhong, a successful ePlanet portfolio company.Prior to establishing KongZhong in 2002, Mr. Yang served as Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer of Sohu.com Inc., which merged with ChinaRenInc., a company co-founded by Mr. Yang in 1999.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Robotics | 1 | 50% |
| Aerospace | 1 | 50% |
| Transportation | 1 | 50% |
| Consumer Electronics | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ehang | Ehang is a technology enterprise focused on R&D and production in airplane and aircraft field. With the combination of software and hardware techniques, it self-developed the communication and real-time viewing hardware and a smartphone operation system. Its product, Ghost, is accepted as the first truly smartphone app operated intelligentrobot, which is widely used in geographical information surveying, professional television aerial filming, roadshow displaying, disaster rescuing and delivery, surveillance and monitoring, and even expected to play important role in the future logistics areas.Ehang was founded in 2014 by makers from China, America, and Singapore who are enthusiastic about drone flying. The enterprise’s core members graduated from Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Duke University in America. | $10M | Series A | Dec 30, 2014 |  |
| HeyPal | Makers of The Sharing Engine (http://TheSharingEngine.com), a white-label solution for building sharing economy sites.The Sharing Engine helps entrepreneurs and startups in the collaborative consumption and sharing economy space get their marketplaces online as quickly as possible. The Sharing Engine also helps to manage keyback-office functions like calendars, payment processing and payment support. | $445K | Seed | Aug 01, 2011 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GGV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ggv-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [PreAngel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/preangel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ZhenFund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zhenfund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About ePlanet Capital

VC Fund · San Jose, United States

EPlanet Capital is a growth investor that provides venture capital and investment for telecom, media, and technology companies.It is focused on companies that display considerably high growth and development in emerging and developing countries of the world.EPlanet Capital has invested in over 99 companies that span from Baidu in China toVirgin Mobile in Latin America.

5 contacts available at ePlanet Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nick Yang | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-yang |
| Yi Lin | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yi-lin |
| Yi Lin | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yi-lin-3 |
| Asad Jamal | Founder & Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asad-jamal |
| Fredrik Brag | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fredrik-brag |

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## FAQ

### What does Nick Yang invest in?

Nick Yang invests primarily in Robotics, Aerospace and Transportation startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Nick Yang last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nick Yang closed in Dec 2014. Shizune tracks 2 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?

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