# Yu Chen

> Yu Chen is a seed investor at Yunqi Partners backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Yunqi Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yunqi-partners)
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Yu Chen is a seed investor at Yunqi Partners focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Chen Yu joined Yunqi Partners in June 2014, focusing himself on investment in the fields of Big Data, cloud computing, autonomous and robotics. He also has rich experience in product development and technology. Mr. Chen Yu has played a leading role in investments of a series of projects, including PingCAP, TigerGraph, Zilliz, Jina AI, Keenon,Neolix, Sobot, DPI and 17Xie.com.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 29% |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| Database | 2 | 14% |
| Apps | 1 | 7% |
| Energy | 1 | 7% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Angel | 2 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 21% |
| China | 2 | 14% |
| Japan | 1 | 7% |
| Singapore | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Creao AI | Creao AI is a leading provider of AI-powered agent automation and virtual environments, specializing in the development of intelligent systems that streamline business operations, enhance user interactions, and simulate realistic digital experiences. | $10M | Seed | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| Creao AI | Creao AI is a leading provider of AI-powered agent automation and virtual environments, specializing in the development of intelligent systems that streamline business operations, enhance user interactions, and simulate realistic digital experiences. |  | Seed | Jul 31, 2025 |  |
| Creao AI | Creao AI is a leading provider of AI-powered agent automation and virtual environments, specializing in the development of intelligent systems that streamline business operations, enhance user interactions, and simulate realistic digital experiences. |  | Angel | Jul 31, 2025 |  |
| Benzhi Activation | Benzhi Activation is a company that specializes in the research and development of native artificial intelligence technology. |  | Seed | Jul 24, 2025 |  |
| HelloBoss | HelloBoss is an AI-based recruitment platform that promotes the mobility of human resources services for job seekers through an application. | $4.1M | Seed | Dec 12, 2023 |  |
| Endless Watts | Endless Watts focuses on the research and development of optical storage and charging. It is committed to promoting green energy digitalization and intelligence. | $21M | Angel | Dec 07, 2023 |  |
| RisingWave Labs | RisingWave Labs develops database systems designed to reduce the complexity and cost of building real-time applications. The company develops real-time apps and gets real-time and in-depth information from continuously updated business data with the help of a cloud-native SQL streaming database that consumes streaming data, executes continuousqueries, and updates results dynamically.RisingWave Labs was established in 2021 in San Francisco, California. | $36M | Series A | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| Safeheron | Safeheron is a platform that enables open and transparent self-custody of digital assets. | $7M | Seed | Aug 19, 2022 |  |
| PingCAP | PingCAP is an open-source distributed (HTAP) database software developer used to serve as a one-stop service for online transactions. The company is dedicated to building an open-source distributed NewSQL hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) database The flagship product, TiDB, features infinite horizontal scalability, strongconsistency, and high availability. The goal of TiDB is to serve as a one-stop solution for both OLTP (Online Transactional Processing) and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing). | $270M | Series D | Nov 16, 2020 |  |
| PingCAP | PingCAP is an open-source distributed (HTAP) database software developer used to serve as a one-stop service for online transactions. The company is dedicated to building an open-source distributed NewSQL hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) database The flagship product, TiDB, features infinite horizontal scalability, strongconsistency, and high availability. The goal of TiDB is to serve as a one-stop solution for both OLTP (Online Transactional Processing) and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing). | $50M | Series C | Sep 11, 2018 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GGV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ggv-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GOLDEN EGG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-egg-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HSG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hsg-cap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Huaye Tiancheng Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/huaye-tiancheng-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Matrix Partners China](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners-china) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Monolith Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/monolith-management-95ee) — VC Fund, 2 deals 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 Yu Chen invest in?

Yu Chen invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Database startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Yu Chen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yu Chen closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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