# Zhang Gaonan > Zhang Gaonan is a Series A investor at Meridian Capital Asia backing Manufacturing and Hardware. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Meridian Capital Asia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/singaporean-meridian-capital) - Location: Shenzhen, China - Total investments: 13 - Last investment: Mar 2024 - Lead investor: 77% - Last updated: Aug 2026 Zhang Gaonan is a Series A investor at Meridian Capital Asia in Shenzhen focused on Manufacturing and Hardware. Zhang Gaonan is working as a partner of Huaying Capital (Meridian Capital). ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Manufacturing | 3 | 23% | | Hardware | 2 | 15% | | Information Technology | 2 | 15% | | Big Data | 1 | 8% | | Chemical | 1 | 8% | 21 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Series A | 5 | 38% | | Series C | 1 | 8% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | China | 5 | 38% | | United States | 1 | 8% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Zhongke Guosheng | Zhongke Guosheng is a bio-based materials R&D firm that designs and develops furan-based bio-based materials. | $13.9M | Series A | Mar 12, 2024 | | | Bibost Automotive Electronics | Bibst Automotive Electronics is a provider of automotive electronic products. Bibst provides intelligent chassis core components, chassis domain controllers, and autonomous driving-related technical services. | $27.8M | Series A | Jan 22, 2024 | | | Bibost Automotive Electronics | Bibst Automotive Electronics is a provider of automotive electronic products. Bibst provides intelligent chassis core components, chassis domain controllers, and autonomous driving-related technical services. | $27.8M | Series A | Jan 22, 2024 | | | Yuanlian Technology | Yuanlian Technology is an industrial internet platform that provides integrated infrastructure for localized intelligent manufacturing. | | Series A | Aug 07, 2023 | | | Yuanlian Technology | Yuanlian Technology is an industrial internet platform that provides integrated infrastructure for localized intelligent manufacturing. | | Series A | Aug 07, 2023 | | | Stardust AI | StardustAI provides data annotation and data management services to global artificial intelligence companies. Our data services cover computer vision data, speech data, and text data. We have data expertise in the autonomous driving and large language model domains. Our data annotation platform, Rosetta, and data management platform, MorningStar,are powered by cutting-edge software technology. With over 200,000,000 pieces of data processed on our Rosetta platform, we boast an impressive 70%+ automatic processing rate and a 99.9% data delivery quality and provide 100% protection for all data entrusted to us. | $7M | Series A | Dec 29, 2022 | | | ELS Technology | ELS Technology focuses on supply chain management and supply chain financial product development. | | Series C | Dec 05, 2022 | | | ELS Technology | ELS Technology focuses on supply chain management and supply chain financial product development. | | Series C | Dec 05, 2022 | | | ELS Technology | ELS Technology focuses on supply chain management and supply chain financial product development. | | Series C | Dec 05, 2022 | | | ELS Technology | ELS Technology focuses on supply chain management and supply chain financial product development. | $15.8M | Series C | Mar 17, 2022 | | 10 of 13 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Meridian Capital Asia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/singaporean-meridian-capital) — VC Fund, 11 deals together - [Huaying Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/huaying-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together - [Huaying](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/huaying) — VC Fund, 5 deals together - [Huaying](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/huaying-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together - [V Fund Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/china-v-fund-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Baolong Technology](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baolong-automotive) — VC Fund, 2 deals together ## About Meridian Capital Asia VC Fund · Shanghai, China Meridian Capital Asia was founded in Singapore in 2008 and has launched nine funds with a total of over 1.5 billion US dollars raised since. It has invested in more than 280 startups, with many notable exits, and has focused on areas such as deep tech, artificial intelligence, robotics, cloud, SaaS, enterprise, advanced manufacturing, renewableenergy, new material, semiconductors, agri-tech, education, internet, and new media, etc. All its partners are from either Singapore, Australia, the US or UK, with extensive experience and knowhow in all technology sectors. Meridian has offices in Singapore, Silicon Valley, Shanghai and Beijing and its investments cover geographies such as SEA, China, US, Mid-east, Japan, and Europe. 4 contacts available at Meridian Capital Asia. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Zhang Gaonan | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zhang-gaonan | | David Shong | Founding Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-shong | | Jonathan Qiu | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-qiu-31ef | | Wang Sirui | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wang-sirui | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Zhang Gaonan invest in? Zhang Gaonan invests primarily in Manufacturing, Hardware and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### When did Zhang Gaonan last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Zhang Gaonan closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 13 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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