# Yao Zhiyuan

> Yao Zhiyuan is a seed investor at X Capital backing E-Commerce and Digital Marketing. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/x-capital)
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Yao Zhiyuan is a Executive Director of Xiyang Capital.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 100% |
| Digital Marketing | 1 | 100% |
| Media and Entertainment | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| YouMind | YouMind is an AI-native online office tool designed to help content creators efficiently manage multimodal content, aiming to be the "GitHub" for content creation and advance AI technology in this field. |  | Seed |  |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About X Capital

VC Fund · Shanghai, China

Founded in October 2015 by Mr. Yang Xi, a partner of Silicon Valley's famous fund, Defengjie China, the company is committed to becoming the top brand of China's high-tech venture capital. The core team comes from first-line investment and industrial institutions such as Defengjie, ARM and Chinese Academy of Sciences. With an average ofmore than 10 years of high-tech investment and industry experience. Yanyang Capital adheres to the values ​​of “scientific and technological development, rich and ethical” and adheres to the investment philosophy of “active”, “positive”, “growth” and “value”, focusing on technology-driven in the fields of Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and intelligent manufacturing. Investment in a start-up enterprise with a single project scale of RMB 10-40 million. So far, it has successfully invested in Hengshi Technology (Smart Grid, 300513), and Eagle Electric (Intelligent Manufacturing, Changyuan Group 600525 M&A), Shanghai Dajun (Electric Vehicle, Zhenghai Magnetic Materials 300224 M&A, Shanghai Junyi, Yinghantong, Zhongrun Optics and Weiner Star, etc., have built a systematic industrial ecological layout in the field of Internet of Things and artificial intelligence.

2 contacts available at X Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Xi Yang | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xi-yang-1aac |
| Yao Zhiyuan | Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yao-zhiyuan |

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## FAQ

### What does Yao Zhiyuan invest in?

Yao Zhiyuan invests primarily in E-Commerce, Digital Marketing and Media and Entertainment startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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