Tao Zhang
Angel Investor
Shanghai, China
Tao Zhang is a Series A investor in Shanghai focused on Consumer and Internet. Tao Zhang (张滔) is the Founder and CEO of Dianping.com, MBA from the Wharton School. Tao was consultant in an American IT company. After coming back to China in 2003, he founded Dianping.com, the world’s pioneer in offering consumer reviews for restaurant. After 5 years of development, dianping has over 460,000 registered companies in over 340cities across China. More than 10 million regular visitors and 160 million page views per month make it the most popular city life website in China. Dianping has established branches in 5 cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou and is still expanding. Currently its service involves various consumption areas in city life, such as restaurant, shopping, reaction and living service, etc. With a favorable business model, Dianping has more than once been considered one of the companies with the most investment value in China by Zero2IPO and China Venture. It also raised funding from global leading venture capital firms, for example, Sequoia Capital. Dianping recorded profit in November 2008 and become the first profitable Web 2.0 Company and a search website centered on city life.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Tao Zhang invests in
Stages Tao Zhang invests in
Countries Tao Zhang invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Series A
- $1.5M–$145M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.5M–$15M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Consumer 2 (15%)
- Internet 2 (15%)
- Payments 2 (15%)
- Education 2 (15%)
- ISP 1 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (31%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (23%)
- Seed 2 (15%)
- Grant 1 (8%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
Country
- China 7 (54%)
- United States 3 (23%)
- India 1 (8%)
- Singapore 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Z-Trip is a company that provides travel management services for large and medium-sized enterprises. On the basis of integration of upstream supply chain resources, Z-Trip provides a one-stop SaaS service platform covering scenarios such as travel reservations, conference organization, fee settlement, payment and reimbursement to enterprises,including front-end PC terminals, mobile terminals and back-end service systems. | Series A / Jul 19, 2021 | ||
| Lumous is a leading brand of smart hotel solutions, providing integrated solutions to help hotels streamline the operational processes, optimize service quality and curate personalized guest experiences. Lumous Intelligence was founded in 2018 and was headquartered in Shanghai, China. | Series A / Dec 24, 2020 | ||
| PalFish provides an education platform for teachers to teach English in an open market. You can simply imagine PalFish as eBay, but the merchandise being sold are English Classes. They provide people who are fluent in English the opportunity to teach people who want to learn English in their free time, and thus, create a virtuous Englisheducation cycle. | $120M / Series C / Aug 17, 2020 | ||
| Z-Trip is a company that provides travel management services for large and medium-sized enterprises. On the basis of integration of upstream supply chain resources, Z-Trip provides a one-stop SaaS service platform covering scenarios such as travel reservations, conference organization, fee settlement, payment and reimbursement to enterprises,including front-end PC terminals, mobile terminals and back-end service systems. | $14.4M / Series A / Aug 10, 2020 | ||
| Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. With a broad global community and one of the most published business school faculties, Wharton creates economicand social value around the world. The School has 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students; more than 9,000 participants in executive education programs annually and a powerful alumni network of 93,000 graduates. | $5M / Grant / May 18, 2020 | ||
| SHIELD helps world-leading enterprises build trust and safety by stopping fraud and abuse. Our products span fraud prevention, network security, credit intelligence, and identity verification. Trusted across all continents by enterprises such as Razer, Alibaba, and BEAT, we protect over seven billion devices and 500 million user accounts everyyear. | $20M / Series B / Jun 26, 2018 | ||
| CarBlock is the world's first intelligent transportation solution based on blockchain technology and combined with intelligent hardware data collection. It solves the biggest pain points in the development of the car networking industry by chaining car data blocks. | Venture - Series Unknown / May 30, 2018 | ||
| Black Fish develops and operates an Internet finance platform. It provides consumer finance services such as, credit, money management, loans, and installment payment plans. Black Fish also offers financial services like consumer loans, installment, and wealth management facilities. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Nanjing inChina. | $145M / Series A / Jan 10, 2018 | ||
| Xingbianli is a checkout-free convenience store operator engaged on placing snack bars in offices. The company focuses in developing checkout-free convenience stores and snack bars. Its snack bars provide drinks, biscuits, and instant noodle to office workers, and allows customers to pay via mobile payment options like WeChat Pay and Alipay. | $15.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 04, 2017 | ||
| U Jewelry is a young jewelry and life aesthetic brand. | $1.5M / Series A / Sep 01, 2017 | ||
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FAQ
What does Tao Zhang invest in?
Tao Zhang invests primarily in Consumer, Internet and Payments startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Tao Zhang's check size?
Tao Zhang typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$145M at Series A and $1.5M–$15M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Tao Zhang participates in.
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When did Tao Zhang last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Tao Zhang closed in Jul 2021. Shizune tracks 13 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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