Whales Capital
VC Fund
Shanghai, China
Whales Capital is a VC fund in Shanghai focused on Education and Internet. Founded in 2009, Whale Capital officially entered the venture capital business in 2015. It is an industrial VC founded by the cultural industry veterans, growing rapidly and evolving.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Whales Capital invests in
Stages Whales Capital invests in
Countries Whales Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Angel
- $162k–$1.5M
- Series A
- $1.1M–$16M
- Series B
- $3M–$15M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 6 (29%)
- Internet 4 (19%)
- E-Learning 4 (19%)
- Content 3 (14%)
- Art 2 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (33%)
- Angel 4 (19%)
- Series B 3 (14%)
- Seed 2 (10%)
- Series C 2 (10%)
Country
- China 19 (90%)
- United States 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Wei Huang
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Zhongyan Huo
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fourier is a semiconductor company. They design a complex structure digital-analog hybrid chip. They provide products that include car audio amplifiers, mid and high-power audio amplifiers, smart audio amplifiers, SPC audio amplifiers, haptic drivers, power management, and more. | Series C / Aug 31, 2022 | ||
|
Ma Xiangyuan
|
Ma Xiangyuan is a food company that focuses on beef noodles in beef bone clear soup, braised mutton skewers, kimchi, and apricot skin water. | $1.4M / Angel / Mar 18, 2022 | |
| Heartdub is a software startup that provides cloth simulation fashion design solutions to clients in the clothing industry. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 26, 2021 | ||
| 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 | ||
| GJS Robot is an AI & Robotics company. | $14.6M / Series B / Sep 19, 2018 | ||
| Zhont focuses on the development of mobile internet games. | $3M / Series B / Jul 09, 2018 | ||
| CCtalk offers comprehensive online education tools and platform capabilities for independent information imparters and sharers, as well as rich knowledge content and a community learning environment for knowledge searchers. They refer to both information exchange and online education. | $1.5M / Angel / Jan 01, 2018 | ||
| Misspao is a Chinese start-up developing fully-automated mini fitness room. Users can find and make reservations for nearby Misspao fitness room via mobile app, and enter the room by scanning their smartphones. Each of the fitness rooms is equipped with one treadmill, air cleaner, solar power supply system and Internet-connected TV forentertainment. | $11M / Series A / Oct 11, 2017 | ||
| Ximalaya (喜马拉雅) is a service website that enables users to share voices and personal radio stations. It is a product of Beijing Nali Huiju Network Science and Technology Co., Ltd. It was founded in August, 2012 and is committed to the construction and operation of online audio sharing platform.It launched ""Ximalaya APP"" inMarch 2013, and in just half a year, it achieved the target of ten million subscribers. In early May of 2014, the number of activated users of Himalaya exceeded 50 million, making Ximalaya the biggest online audio sharing platform in China. On May 22, 2014, Himalayan announced that it has successfully received an A series venture capital investment of 11.5 million US dollars. As of May 2014, the Ximalaya certified audio show creators were more than 6000. Its established columns were 240000 with audio volume reaching nearly 3 million and average daily new upload audio hitting more than 10000. | Series D / Sep 01, 2017 | ||
| On the Road Store is a media e-commerce platform | $3.8M / Series A / Jul 24, 2017 | ||
| See all 21 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Whales Capital invest in?
Whales Capital invests primarily in Education, Internet and E-Learning startups, most often at Series A and Angel stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Whales Capital's check size?
Whales Capital typically joins rounds of $162k–$1.5M at Angel, $1.1M–$16M at Series A and $3M–$15M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Whales Capital participates in.
How do I contact Whales Capital?
Public channels for Whales Capital include 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 Whales Capital?
The team at Whales Capital includes Wei Huang (Founding Partner) and Zhongyan Huo (Founding Partner). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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