# WI Harper Group

> WI Harper Group is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 155 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 155
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 23%
- Fund size: $174M
- Last fund: May 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wi-harper-group
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/WIHarperGroup
- Website: http://www.wiharper.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/6366954021

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.Thefirm's focus is technology, clean technology and healthcare. Its track record includes

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$5M |
| Series A | $2M–$21M |
| Series B | $6M–$41M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 36 | 23% |
| Health Care | 19 | 12% |
| Biotechnology | 15 | 10% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 8% |
| Internet | 12 | 8% |

175 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 42 | 27% |
| Seed | 40 | 26% |
| Series B | 30 | 19% |
| Series C | 14 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 5% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 57 | 37% |
| Taiwan | 20 | 13% |
| China | 18 | 12% |
| Singapore | 4 | 3% |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 2% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Edward Liu | Managing Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edward-liu-2 |
| James Lee | Venture Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-lee-10 |
| Sean Peng | Managing Director and Senior Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sean-peng-2 |
| Wilson Wu | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wilson-wu-99f7 |
| Calvin Liao | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calvin-liao-40b1 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xsensio | 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 |  |
| Ainekko | 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 | 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 | Phase is a visual and intuitive digital design tool, reworked for the new age. | $13M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 13, 2025 |  |
| Blackpanda | 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 | GDMC is a pharmaceutical company that engages in manufacturing and designing genetic medicines. | $21M | Series A | Jan 24, 2024 |  |
| Blackpanda | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 155 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alibaba-entrepreneurs-fund) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Sinovation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sinovation-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Frontline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frontline-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [IDG Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idg-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [VTF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vegastechfund) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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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 155 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is WI Harper Group's check size?

WI Harper Group typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$5M at Seed, $2M–$21M at Series A and $6M–$41M 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 WI Harper Group participates 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 Sean Peng (Managing Director and Senior Partner), 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 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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