# SINA

> SINA is a VC fund in Beijing backing Film, E-Commerce and Financial Services. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, China
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Dec 2021
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sina-corporation
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sinasportschina
- Website: http://www.sina.com.cn
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sinasportschina

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). Throughthese 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 are intended to enhance the attractiveness of its portal and microblogging properties and strengthen its reach in the Chinese online community.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $103M–$241M |
| Series B | $9.5M–$12M |
| Series C | $50M–$93M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Film | 2 | 22% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 22% |
| TV | 1 | 11% |
| Apps | 1 | 11% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Series C | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 2 | 22% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 7 | 78% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Tsiang | Co-founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-tsiang |
| Charles Chao | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-chao |
| Songbo Li | Consultant - Technology & Product | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/songbo-li |
| Yanqing Jiang | CRO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yanqing-jiang |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fangcun Doctor | Fangcun Doctor is an internet medical company that specializes in the management of patients with vertical diseases. |  | Corporate Round | Dec 03, 2021 |  |
| PINTEC | 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 |  |
| Xiaoniujh.com | 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 |  |
| Taobao Movie | 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. | $241M | Series A | May 16, 2016 |  |
| Travelzen.com | Travelzen.com is an international online travel product integration platform.Travelzen.com was launched in 2007 with its company headquarters in Hong Kong, China. In 2011, travelzen.com successfully merged Shanghai Ever Bright Town Intl Travel Service Co., Ltd., China's biggest agency for air tickets business.By comprehensivelyintegrating both sides' resources and advantages, travelzen.com has become the only supplier for traveling products, which owns multiple distribution channels, diverse combination products, and an entire supply chain with many global departures. | $93M | Series C | Mar 22, 2016 |  |
| GWC | GWC exists to enable innovation that improves the world.The GWC Membership is an invitation-only, private network for innovators and executives from leading mobile companies worldwide to build trusted relationships, share insights, explore collaboration and develop international growth strategy.GWC produce’s the Global Mobile InternetConference (GMIC) in Beijing, Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Tokyo, Jakarta, Sao Paulo, New York and Shenzhen. GMIC draws tens of thousands of mobile industry executives, entrepreneurs, developers, and investors to build partnerships, to learn from industry thought leaders, to better understand mobile technology trends, and to highlight how mobile is positively changing the world.GWC actively invests in innovative startups who have the potential for global growth.GWC has offices in Beijing, Mountain View and Tokyo. |  | Series C | Jan 01, 2015 |  |
| Miaopai | 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. | $50M | Series C | Sep 25, 2014 |  |
| InMyShow | InMyShow is the first professional company that focuses on social marketing in China, providing one-stop social marketing solutions.It owns a social marketing analysis system and enterprise-level social marketing engine with independent intellectual property rights, which help users convert conventional network marketing into social marketingso that the marketing effect is largely improved. | $12M | Series B | Jun 10, 2013 |  |
| Bona Film Group | Bona Film Group Limited is a film distributor in China, with an integrated business model encompassing film distribution, production, exhibition and talent representation. Bona distributes films to Greater China, Korea, Southeast Asia, the United States and Europe, invests in and produces movies in a variety of genres, owns and operates twentymovie theaters and manages a range of talented and popular Chinese artists. | $9.5M | Series B | Jul 01, 2009 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does SINA invest in?

SINA invests primarily in Film, E-Commerce and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is SINA's check size?

SINA typically joins rounds of $103M–$241M at Series A, $9.5M–$12M at Series B and $50M–$93M 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 SINA participates in.

### How do I contact SINA?

Public channels for SINA 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 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.

### 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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