# Yi Pin Ng

> Yi Pin Ng is a seed investor at Yunqi Partners backing Software, Fitness and Database. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Yunqi Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yunqi-partners)
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Aug 2022
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yng01/

Yi Pin Ng is a seed investor at Yunqi Partners focused on Software and Fitness. Yi Pin joined GGV Capital in April 2004. Prior to GGV, Yi Pin served most recently at the venture group at Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC). As a venture capitalist, Yi Pin leads investments in Xfire (acquired by Viacom), Placeware (acquired by Microsoft), Arbortext (acquired by Parametric Technology Corp, PTC), G-Log (acquiredby Oracle), Ageia, Lumension Security, Teranetics, Inside Contactless and Wayport.Before joining GIC SI in 2000, Yi Pin held operations planning and operational management positions at Sun Microsystems covering the Asia Pacific region. He is also a commissioned officer in the Republic of Singapore Navy. Yi Pin holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering & Math from University of San Francisco, an M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Nanyang Business School, Singapore. Yi Pin is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| Fitness | 1 | 20% |
| Database | 1 | 20% |
| Hardware | 1 | 20% |
| Wellness | 1 | 20% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 1 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zilliz | Zilliz was founded in 2017 and operates as a distributed team with offices in both the U.S. and China. The company specializes in the development of open-source, AI-powered unstructured data analysis software, and is the initiator and primary contributor to the vector similarity search project Milvus. Milvus was released under an open-sourcelicense in October 2019. It has been “starred” over 4,400 times on GitHub and engaged 120+ contributors. Milvus has been adopted by 400+ enterprise users, with applications spanning image processing, computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition, recommendation engines, search engines, new drug development, gene analysis, and more. In April 2020, Milvus became an incubation-stage project at the LF AI & Data Foundation, and currently has more commits than any other project in the incubator. | $60M | Series B | Aug 24, 2022 |  |
| Zilliz | Zilliz was founded in 2017 and operates as a distributed team with offices in both the U.S. and China. The company specializes in the development of open-source, AI-powered unstructured data analysis software, and is the initiator and primary contributor to the vector similarity search project Milvus. Milvus was released under an open-sourcelicense in October 2019. It has been “starred” over 4,400 times on GitHub and engaged 120+ contributors. Milvus has been adopted by 400+ enterprise users, with applications spanning image processing, computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition, recommendation engines, search engines, new drug development, gene analysis, and more. In April 2020, Milvus became an incubation-stage project at the LF AI & Data Foundation, and currently has more commits than any other project in the incubator. | $43M | Series B | Nov 16, 2020 |  |
| Zilliz | Zilliz was founded in 2017 and operates as a distributed team with offices in both the U.S. and China. The company specializes in the development of open-source, AI-powered unstructured data analysis software, and is the initiator and primary contributor to the vector similarity search project Milvus. Milvus was released under an open-sourcelicense in October 2019. It has been “starred” over 4,400 times on GitHub and engaged 120+ contributors. Milvus has been adopted by 400+ enterprise users, with applications spanning image processing, computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition, recommendation engines, search engines, new drug development, gene analysis, and more. In April 2020, Milvus became an incubation-stage project at the LF AI & Data Foundation, and currently has more commits than any other project in the incubator. | $10M | Series A | Jan 01, 2018 |  |
| Zilliz | Zilliz was founded in 2017 and operates as a distributed team with offices in both the U.S. and China. The company specializes in the development of open-source, AI-powered unstructured data analysis software, and is the initiator and primary contributor to the vector similarity search project Milvus. Milvus was released under an open-sourcelicense in October 2019. It has been “starred” over 4,400 times on GitHub and engaged 120+ contributors. Milvus has been adopted by 400+ enterprise users, with applications spanning image processing, computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition, recommendation engines, search engines, new drug development, gene analysis, and more. In April 2020, Milvus became an incubation-stage project at the LF AI & Data Foundation, and currently has more commits than any other project in the incubator. |  | Seed | Sep 05, 2017 |  |
| Bellabeat | Bellabeat, top5 Y-COMBINATOR company in the W14 class, creates beautiful, innovative products that help women easily track their overall health and wellness, and get connected to their body and mind throughout different stages in life. Bellabeat helps create a better, healthier lifestyle by bringing intuitive wellness tools to women,encouraging them to take care of their health and to be informed. Bellabeat has always been inspired by the beauty and power of nature, which is incorporated into all of their products. | $4.5M | Seed | May 23, 2014 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [5Y Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morningsidevc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hillhouse Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hillhouse-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hillhouse Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hillhouse-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Prosperity7 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prosperity7-ventures-d527) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eminence Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eminence-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Pavilion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pavilion-capital-57b7) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Yunqi Partners

VC Fund · Shanghai, China

Yunqi Partners sharpen its focus on technology empowered industries. Yunqi is systematically investing in digital transformation of industries and industrialisation of technologies covering areas such as cutting-edge technology, advanced manufacturing, IoT, SaaS and B2B supply chain.

5 contacts available at Yunqi Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Emily Jiang | VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-jiang-e255 |
| Feng Yao | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/feng-yao-7adb |
| Michael Mao | Co-founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-mao |
| Yi Pin Ng | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yi-pin-ng |
| Yu Chen | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yu-chen-b2af |

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## FAQ

### What does Yi Pin Ng invest in?

Yi Pin Ng invests primarily in Software, Fitness and Database startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Yi Pin Ng last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yi Pin Ng closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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