# Waterwood Group

> Waterwood Group is a VC fund in Wan Chai backing Intelligent Systems, CRM and SMS. See 3 investments, round sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wan Chai, Hong Kong
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/waterwood-group/
- Website: http://www.waterwood.hk

Waterwood Group is a VC fund in Wan Chai focused on Intelligent Systems and CRM. Waterwood is a private equity firm that invests in growth stage, industry consolidation and M&A opportunities in the healthcare, technology and new economy sectors. It has established its headquarters in Hong Kong with office in Beijing. Its investment team comprises experienced executives and professionals from international investment banks,private equity and venture capital houses, and accounting and legal practices.Waterwood focuses on identifying Chinese and overseas leaders in its sectors of interest and assess their ability to tackle challenges and capture opportunities through economic cycles. It seeks to deploy significant amount of capital at the right time to enable its portfolio companies to accelerate capital efficiency. In its active investment practice, Waterwood engages its portfolio companies in exploring its critical resources in business network, domain knowledge, corporate management experience, and M&A expertise. They encourage their partner entrepreneurs to fully leverage their commitments to outperform competitors, redefine industry landscape, and disrupt vested interests to become the winners and open up new business horizon. When executing this investment strategy, Waterwood generally prefers growth stage investment opportunities that can effectively deploy at least US$50 million capital through single or multiple commitments from Waterwood. They normally require board seat that allows them to take proactive steps to contribute to the development of their portfolio companies and generate significant return in midterm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intelligent Systems | 2 | 67% |
| CRM | 1 | 33% |
| SMS | 1 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Energy | 1 | 33% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |
| Series D | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 1 | 33% |
| Australia | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| eCactus | eCactus is a battery storage system company for homes. |  | Series A | Dec 15, 2023 |  |
| Leanplum | Leanplum is the mobile marketing platform built for engagement. Brands rely on Leanplum to help them orchestrate multi-channel campaigns — from messaging to the in-app experience — all from a single, integrated platform. Global brands such as Tinder, Grab, Tesco, and Zynga turn to Leanplum to accelerate growth and build long-term customerrelationships. Founded in 2012, Leanplum is based in San Francisco, with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. Leanplum has received more than $93 million in funding from Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Shasta Ventures. Leanplum has been named to Business Insider's Most Valuable Enterprise Startups and SF Business Times’ Best Places to Work. Learn more at www.leanplum.com. | $5M | Series D | Apr 24, 2018 |  |
| Vion Technology | Vion Technology is a Chinese artificial intelligence firm specializing in machine vision. Vion Technology provides artificial intelligence products and solutions to sectors such as smart cities and business intelligence. Its products include a smart camera used to capture images of traffic violations, an intelligent video analysis terminal capableof face and age recognition for monitoring and counting people, and what it claims is the world’s smallest smart people counting camera. Vion Technology’s solutions allows traffic bureaus to automatically identify traffic violations, recognize the license plate numbers, and generate traffic violation tickets via screening surveillance camera footage. | $20M | Series B | Dec 08, 2017 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ABB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abb) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [China Industrial Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/china-industrial-asset-management-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Furong Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/furong-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Guolian Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guolian-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morning-road-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Samsung Electronics](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samsung-electronics) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Waterwood Group invest in?

Waterwood Group invests primarily in Intelligent Systems, CRM and SMS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Waterwood Group last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Waterwood Group closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 3 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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