WI Harper Group
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and early expansion investments in Mainland China, Taiwan and Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1993. Made 300+ investments with 80+ exits. Manages 9 funds and over $1B in capital through 19 dedicated investment professionals located in Beijing, Taipei and San Francisco. The firm's focus is technology, clean technology and healthcare. Its track record includes [DivX](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/divx), Focus Media, Vizio, SiRF and Commerce One.
- Total investments:
- 162
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
- Fund size:
- $174M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries WI Harper Group invests in
Stages WI Harper Group invests in
Countries WI Harper Group invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 15 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$5M
- Series A
- $2M–$15M
- Series B
- $6M–$41M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 38 (23%)
- Health Care 19 (12%)
- Biotechnology 15 (9%)
- Internet 13 (8%)
- Information Technology 13 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 43 (27%)
- Seed 42 (26%)
- Series B 30 (19%)
- Series C 14 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (5%)
Country
- United States 57 (35%)
- Taiwan 20 (12%)
- China 19 (12%)
- Singapore 4 (2%)
- Hong Kong 3 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Edward Liu
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
James Lee
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Jimmy Lu
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Sean Peng
Managing Director and Senior Partner
|
Managing Director and Senior Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Wilson Wu
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 15 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xsensio develops the unique Lab-on-Skin™ sensing platform to sense in real-time biochemical information at the surface of the skin, providing unprecedented real-time information about our health and wellness, in a simple and non-invasive way.The Xsensio Lab-on-Skin™ sensing chip relies on a unique, highly-miniaturized sensing platform developedat the Nanolab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. By leveraging semiconductor properties, our sensing platform unleashes a whole new set of possibilities in continuous health monitoring. | $7M / Series A / Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| Developer of an open-source AI computing infrastructure designed for building composable, low power systems. The company's platform offers modular tools for inference, hardware integration, and deployment, enabling the AI development market to experiment with, contribute to, and adopt flexible alternatives to proprietary black-box systemsthrough a collaborative, community-driven ecosystem that supports transparency, customization, and long-term maintainability. | $3.7M / Seed / Sep 29, 2025 | ||
| AIM is a medical service provider that offers solutions to detect, diagnose, and monitor chronic bone and heart diseases in the elderly. | $4.1M / Seed / Sep 03, 2025 | ||
| Phase is a visual and intuitive digital design tool, reworked for the new age. | $13M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| Blackpanda is a cyber security firm focused on delivering world-class digital forensics and incident response services.The company enables collaborative evaluation and assessment of policies, planning, communication, documentation, tools, and training. offers cybersecurity investigative services to ensure swift response to unfavorable cyberoccurrences.Blackpanda was established in 2015 in Singapore, Central Region. | $6.7M / Series A / Sep 25, 2024 | ||
| GDMC is a pharmaceutical company that engages in manufacturing and designing genetic medicines. | $21M / Series A / Jan 24, 2024 | ||
| Blackpanda is a cyber security firm focused on delivering world-class digital forensics and incident response services.The company enables collaborative evaluation and assessment of policies, planning, communication, documentation, tools, and training. offers cybersecurity investigative services to ensure swift response to unfavorable cyberoccurrences.Blackpanda was established in 2015 in Singapore, Central Region. | $15M / Series A / Jan 18, 2023 | ||
| Bitmark restores trust in data. Our end-to-end Internet protocol secures the provenance of data. This makes it possible to have verifiable information, digital property rights, and safe sharing of personal data—without the need for trusted third parties. UC Berkeley, Pfizer, and KKBOX use Bitmark in healthcare, music, art, and more. #digitalrights | $5.6M / Series B / Jul 06, 2022 | ||
| Immunwork develops innovative drugs that combine targeting and effector functions to enhance efficacy and safety. The company focuses on creating ultralong-acting analogues, such as TE-8214, an octreotide derivative, and TE-8035, a modified human insulin. Immunwork's drug pipeline addresses immune system diseases and leverages a proprietarytechnology platform. The company is involved in clinical trials to validate its therapeutic solutions. | $23.7M / Series A / Mar 08, 2022 | ||
| Divinia provides natural language processing, lead generation, contextual targeting, and product promotion services. They serve consumers, marketers, and e-commerce sites. They fix e-commerce search across hotels, consumer goods, cars, restaurants, and more. | Seed / Jan 01, 2022 | ||
| See all 162 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does WI Harper Group invest in?
WI Harper Group invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 162 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does WI Harper Group invest in?
WI Harper Group typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$5M at Seed, $2M–$15M at Series A and $6M–$41M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not WI Harper Group's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds WI Harper Group took part in.
How do I contact WI Harper Group?
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Who are the partners at WI Harper Group?
The team at WI Harper Group includes Edward Liu (Managing Partner), James Lee (Venture Partner) and Jimmy Lu (Managing Director), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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