# Youku Global Media Fund

> Youku Global Media Fund is a VC fund backing Software and Virtual Reality. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Dec 2017
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last fund: Apr 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Youku Global Media Fund is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Virtual Reality. A joint early stage venture fund between CRCM and Youku focused on frontier technologies - Media, VR, AR, AI, Drones, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, eSports. Please contact us at vc@crcm.com

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$3.9M |
| Series B | $25M–$53M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 67% |
| Virtual Reality | 8 | 67% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 33% |
| Video | 3 | 25% |
| Gaming | 3 | 25% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 75% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 75% |
| China | 1 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Australia | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caitlin Cai | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caitlin-cai |
| Cici Yang | Investment Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cici-yang |
| Matthew Lee | Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-lee-6 |
| TB Zh | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/toby-zhang |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sturfee | We are building the largest Spatial Content Delivery Platform to power applications see and access 3D content directly anchored over physical surroundings and products.Sturfee’s platform is designed to power next-gen 5G/AI applications, augmented reality, smart glasses, visual search, robotics, and smart cities. Just like creating a webpageyou can now augment a physical location or product with content anchored at right spots. What used to be science fiction is now possible with Sturfee’s platform. | $2M | Seed | Dec 01, 2017 |  |
| Vivid Vision | Vivid Vision uses the virtual reality to help people with lazy eye (amblyopia and strabismus) improve their vision. James Blaha, the creator of Diplopia, gained 3D vision and use of his lazy eye with the alpha version of the software. | $2.2M | Seed | May 11, 2017 |  |
| Arraiy | Headquartered in Palo Alto, Arraiy is building the premier AI-driven production platform for the motion picture and television industry. Arraiy is collaborating with major studios, industry veterans, and award-winning artists to re-invent the filmmaking process with machine learning at its foundation. With its products, Arraiy seeks to enhance thecreative freedom of storytellers and unlock the next generation of visual storytelling. | $3.9M | Seed | Jan 17, 2017 |  |
| Tactical Haptics | Tactical Haptics commercializes haptic game controllers to provide touch feedback for VR Training and Video Games. The company has developed a handle-based touch feedback motion controller for portraying advanced haptic feedback. The device utilizes sliding contactor plates on the surface of the device handle for applying the shear and frictionforces that are commonly felt when interacting with real-world objects. Coordinating these in-hand shear forces with the user's hand motions can be used to create powerful haptic illusions of elasticity, inertia, and impacts.This technology is compatible with motion-based controller interfaces such as the Sony Move, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality and other motion and virtual reality gaming environments. | $1.5M | Seed | Nov 16, 2016 |  |
| Agent IQ | Agent IQ empowers community banks and credit unions to deepen their customer relationships, improve customer satisfaction, and boost service efficiencies leading to an increase in profitability while reducing the cost of serving. The Agent IQ digital customer engagement platform provides a unique high-touch, high-tech, omni-channel experience thatuses AI to support financial institutions in being more proactive with their customers and automating mundane tasks.Financial institutions can get real-time insights into what their customers are talking about and use the platform to provide proactive assistance and strengthen the relationship between banker and customer. Deployed in a little as 4 weeks with a light resource lift, Agent IQ is the tool that allows your bankers to better connect, engage, and support customers and create relationships in the digital world that are just as personal as in the real world, but even more enhanced. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $2.2M | Seed | Nov 10, 2016 |  |
| Baobab Studios | Baobab Studios, headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., is a virtual reality company that creates story and character-driven cinematic experiences. The company was founded by Maureen Fan, who was most recently VP of Games at Zynga; and Eric Darnell, the director of such DreamWorks animated features as the four "Madagascar” franchise films and“Antz.” Baobab is funded by Comcast Ventures, HTC, Samsung, Advancit Capital, The Chernin Group and Freelands Ventures, along with individuals including Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. | $25M | Series B | Oct 18, 2016 |  |
| Zuiyou | Zuiyou is a social networking mobile application for sharing and discovering content such as recommendations, topics and videos. | $53M | Series B | Sep 30, 2016 |  |
| Vreal | Vreal’s mission is to revolutionize gaming content by making fans part of the action, delivering a fun, immersive experience inside the games and content that audiences want to watch. Exploring new games with your favorite creators is now a social experience without limits, on any screen or VR headset. Find out more at http://vreal.net. |  | Seed | Sep 16, 2016 |  |
| Humense | Humense is a software company that creates high quality reality capture of people and places for Augmented Reality. Our cloud-based network solution overcomes the two largest hurdles for AR VR to become mainstream a) capturing and displaying human form in true space/light and b) making it social, scalable and efficient for maximum storytellingand sharing capabilities.Its lead product is volumetric video. Whereas 360 video positions the audience in one 3D position, with minimal impact and no body, volumetric video/holographic presence enables you to walk around "inside" the video and be in the scene and "with" other people in a spatially and neuropsychologically true sense. Humense enables you to experience embodiment and shared impact. |  | Seed | Jun 28, 2016 |  |
| Felix & Paul Studios | Félix & Paul studios is focused on the creation of cinematic virtual reality experiences. Led by directors and visual artists Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël, the Montreal-based studio has developed an industry-leading technology platform for virtual reality filming and a unique, pioneering and in-depth approach to the new art of virtualreality storytelling. The studio’s creations set the highest quality standards in the field and offer viewers a fully immersive sense of presence, time and space yet to be achieved on any other media platform.In 2006, the two directors first joined creative forces to produce award-winning stereoscopic 3D films, multimedia installations and commercials across the globe. Today, Félix and Paul, alongside a fully-operating team of artists, software developers and engineers, have developed a proprietary 3D 360º camera with accompanying software, which set the industry standard for the highest-quality VR filmmaking. As producers of both original content or in collaboration with existing intellectual properties—audiences are invited into intimate, visceral and emotive cinematic experiences. This new kind of storytelling offers viewers a fully immersive sense of presence, time and space yet to be achieved on any other media platform.Recently, the studio announced a content creation partnership with Oculus, and directed and co-produced Jurassic World: Apatosaurus with Universal Studios and Inside the Box of Kurios alongside Cirque du Soleil Media.Félix & Paul Studios launched in 2013as a two-person venture and has since grown into a fully-operating team of twenty artisans. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2016 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CRCM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/CRCM) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SIG China (SIG Asia Investments)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sig-china) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SV Tech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-tech-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [The Venture Reality Fund/VRF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-reality-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Anorak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anorak-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Asahi Media Lab Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asahi-medialab-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Youku Global Media Fund invest in?

Youku Global Media Fund invests primarily in Software, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 12 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 Youku Global Media Fund's check size?

Youku Global Media Fund typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$3.9M at Seed and $25M–$53M 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 Youku Global Media Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Youku Global Media Fund?

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### Who are the partners at Youku Global Media Fund?

The team at Youku Global Media Fund includes Caitlin Cai (Investor), Cici Yang (Investment Analyst) and Matthew Lee (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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