SINA
VC Fund
Beijing, China
SINA is an online media company and MVAS provider in the People’s Republic of China and for the global Chinese communities. With a branded network of localized websites targeting Greater China and overseas Chinese, the Company provides services mainly through SINA.com (online news and content), Weibo.com (microblog), and SINA Mobile (MVAS). Through these businesses and properties and other business lines, SINA offers an array of services including region-focused online portals, MVAS, microblog, blog, video, and music streaming, photo sharing, online games, email, search, classified listings, fee-based services, e-commerce, and enterprise e-solutions. The Company generates the majority of its revenues from online advertising and MVAS offerings and, to a lesser extent, from fee-based services. SINA offers distinct and targeted content on each of its region-specific websites and a range of complementary offerings designed to broaden its user base and increase user traffic. The Company aims to become the media platform of choice for Internet users to research and retrieve information, share opinions and build social networks and for businesses to market and promote their products and services. SINA offers a range of complementary offerings, all centered on its core online media business, that is intended to enhance the attractiveness of its portal and microblogging properties and strengthen its reach in the Chinese online community.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 63%
Last updated:
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Industries SINA invests in
Stages SINA invests in
Countries SINA invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $1.4M–$260M
- Series B
- $9.5M–$30M
- Series C
- $50M–$93M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 3 (16%)
- Financial Services 3 (16%)
- Film 2 (11%)
- Software 2 (11%)
- Advertising 2 (11%)
Stage
- Series B 5 (26%)
- Series C 5 (26%)
- Series A 4 (21%)
- Seed 1 (5%)
- Angel 1 (5%)
Country
- China 11 (58%)
- United States 2 (11%)
- Hong Kong 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ben Tsiang
Co-founder
|
Co-founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Charles Chao
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Songbo Li
Consultant - Technology & Product
|
Consultant - Technology & Product | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Yanqing Jiang
CRO
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CRO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fangcun Doctor is an internet medical company that specializes in the management of patients with vertical diseases. | Corporate Round / Dec 03, 2021 | ||
| Developer and operator of an e-commerce group buying platform. The company's platform recommends various products worldwide with low price and high cost performance, enabling users to receive extremely cost-effective goods and services. The product positioning is centered on China's landmark food, supplemented by multiple attributes suchas social e-commerce and brand group purchase. It selects more than 1,000 skus in more than 100 regions across the country, providing domestic users with extremely cost-effective goods and services. The A+ brand direct purchase group explores hidden business opportunities between private domain traffic aggregations, grouping customers and aggregating fans. In fact, social e-commerce can not only integrate with micro-business, but also integrate with e-commerce, physical stores and even community group buying institutions to form a higher-level business model. | $1.4M / Series A / May 20, 2019 | ||
| Shuhe Technology is a professional technology and data service provider, providing users with safe and stable technology and data solutions.It has continuous technological innovation and professional rigorous data mining and analysis capabilities to meet the needs of companies and individual participants in business, finance, and more. Itprovides smart services that are easier, more accessible, and more efficient.Shuhe Technology was established in August 2015. | $30M / Series B / Mar 01, 2019 | ||
| TuSimple is a self-driving truck company developing a technology that allows driving from depot-to-depot without human intervention.The company's trucks are capable of self-driving from depot-to-depot and do so every day for its customers. It develops a commercial-ready Level 4 (SAE) fully autonomous driving solution for the logisticsindustry. The company is driven by a mission to increase safety, decrease transportation costs, and reduce carbon emissions. In 2015, Jianan Hao, Mo Chen, and Xiaodi Hou headquartered the company in San Diego, California. | $95M / Series D / Feb 13, 2019 | ||
| PINTEC is a independent technology platform enabling financial services in China. Founded in 2016, the company aims to leverage technology to advance financial services and level the playing field. The name “PINTEC” derives from the “pin” on a processor chip, and “technology”, representing the way the company connects finance with digitaltechnologies. The company provides customizable modular fintech solutions to institutions and their customers. Used in fields such as finance, online travel, e-commerce, offline retail payment and business lending, these include solutions for consumer finance, SME loans, wealth management and robo-advisory, and online insurance. PINTEC’s digital lending engine Dumiao and the robo-advisory engine Polaris use technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Big Data. PINTEC's clients include Xiaomi, Qunar, Ctrip, VIPSHOP, China Telecom’s BestPay unit, XWBank, Industrial Consumer Finance, Minsheng Securities etc. PINTEC has launched two joint ventures in Singapore to serve the Southeast Asia market: Avatec, announced in 2018, provides digital lending technology, while Pivot, announced in 2017, offers wealth management technology. | $103M / Series A / Jun 05, 2018 | ||
| Mavericks plan, is a child education service platform, under the Beijing curiosity Technology Co., Ltd., from the former Baidu, 360, Microsoft, Netease, Ping An Bank and other education, finance, Internet industry veteran co-founder, 18-year-old children's quality education (early childhood education, interest classes, English, study,kindergarten), to provide tuition services, curriculum, LBS institutional inquiries, audition appointment, parent-child activities and other integrated services, to solve the child's parents "education" Institutions "difficult education" problem, for the Chinese children better quality education refueling!Corporate vision: committed to become a trusted and respected, in the field of children's education has a leading position in the enterprise.Corporate mission: to help parents and institutions, for the Chinese children better education refueling.Corporate culture concept: innovation, technology, trust, care. | Series A / Apr 10, 2018 | ||
| TuSimple is a self-driving truck company developing a technology that allows driving from depot-to-depot without human intervention.The company's trucks are capable of self-driving from depot-to-depot and do so every day for its customers. It develops a commercial-ready Level 4 (SAE) fully autonomous driving solution for the logisticsindustry. The company is driven by a mission to increase safety, decrease transportation costs, and reduce carbon emissions. In 2015, Jianan Hao, Mo Chen, and Xiaodi Hou headquartered the company in San Diego, California. | $55M / Series C / Nov 21, 2017 | ||
| TuSimple is a self-driving truck company developing a technology that allows driving from depot-to-depot without human intervention.The company's trucks are capable of self-driving from depot-to-depot and do so every day for its customers. It develops a commercial-ready Level 4 (SAE) fully autonomous driving solution for the logisticsindustry. The company is driven by a mission to increase safety, decrease transportation costs, and reduce carbon emissions. In 2015, Jianan Hao, Mo Chen, and Xiaodi Hou headquartered the company in San Diego, California. | $20M / Series B / Aug 04, 2017 | ||
| Miaopai develops a mobile based application for sharing short videos. Its service now has 70 million daily active users. Miaopai produces mobile device applications. It offers software products that allow users to customize videos and pictures.Chan Sheng and Han Kun founded Xuanyixia Technology in 2011 that later became Yixia Tech and thenMiaopai. Its headquarters is in Beijing in China. | $500M / Series E / Nov 22, 2016 | ||
| Taobao Movie is an online ticketing platform owned by Alibaba Pictures Group. It was launched in 2014 by Alibaba Group and subsequently purchased by Alibaba Pictures Group in 2015. | $260.5M / Series A / May 16, 2016 | ||
| See all 19 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does SINA invest in?
SINA invests primarily in E-Commerce, Financial Services and Film startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does SINA invest in?
SINA typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$260M at Series A, $9.5M–$30M at Series B and $50M–$93M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not SINA's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds SINA took part in.
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Who are the partners at SINA?
The team at SINA includes Ben Tsiang (Co-founder), Charles Chao (CEO) and Songbo Li (Consultant - Technology & Product). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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