Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in China in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Restaurants startups based in China. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from China. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in China in December 2024
kaoputou.com is a fund that focuses on an early investment in the catering industry.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Catering, Restaurants
- Series A, Funding Round, Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Banu Hotpot — Banu Hotpot is a food and beverage company specialized in stripe and mushroom soup.
- Ma Zhua Zhua — Ma Zhua Zhua is a cold-salted catering chain and a brand that makes chicken dishes with signature spicy and hot and sour chicken feet.
- Ji Xiang — Ji Xiang is a catering retail brand and an enterprise that manufactures, distributes, and sells different types of Wontons.
Buhuo Ventures invests in early and growing TMT and innovative consumer sectors.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, B2B
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China
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- Tustin — Tustin focuses on "hand-rolled and grilled" items such as spicy chicken drumsticks and grilled pineapple burgers.
- Shala Shike — Shala Shike is a supply chain technology company that focuses on catering, dining, salad carving service, cold chain distribution, and smart machine unmanned sales services.
- China Model Group — China Model Group is a network of systems for material management. By maximizing the mismatch of assets and enhancing industrial productivity, it enables the standardization, digitization, and financialization of the commercial formwork sector at the level of formwork practitioners. General contracting services are provided by a platform thatbrings together industry resources to guarantee that industry practices are followed during project construction. This platform also uses digital innovation capabilities to enhance industrial efficiency and lower construction costs.
ZhenFund is a seed fund founded by former entrepreneurs to invest in the most promising innovators. New Oriental co-founders Bob Xiaoping Xu and Victor Qiang Wang established ZhenFund in 2011 in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. ZhenFund now has a network of over 800 portfolio companies, including over 30 unicorns based in China. Webelieve that great businesses start with exceptional founding teams. We are dedicated to helping our entrepreneurs build successful companies by providing them with mentorship and the best resources available. Some of our services include biannual demo days to top Chinese VCs, ZhenHR services, marketing and PR consulting, as well as fundraising. Our strong and large CEO network also facilitates entrepreneurs helping each other, especially via our WeChat platform. ZhenFund has been ranked as the “#1 Early-Stage Investment Firm” for six years. Bob Xiaoping Xu, Founder of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2016 and ranked #11 in 2019. Anna Fang, Founding Partner and CEO of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2019 and made her 4th appearance as #12, and #1 on Midas Seed List in 2022.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- UXLINK — UXLINK is a social infrastructure comprised of social protocols and a collection of Dapps.UXLINk creates groundbreaking landing sceneries for web3 groups.
- MioTech — MioTech is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers investment managers to better serve their clients in a world of complex data. By integrating and analyzing data from all types of sources, MioTech streamlines the entire investment process, creating an ultimate data-driven investing experience. MioTech has offices in Shanghai and HongKong.MioTech is backed by Horizons Ventures, ZhenFund, and prestigious individual investors around the world.
- Yi'an Holdings — Yi'an Holdings is a financial services company that provides one-stop investment banking services to small and medium-sized companies.
Lightspeed China Partners is a leading Chinese venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments. We are the Chinese partners to Lightspeed Venture Partners. Our expertise is in mobile, Internet, technology-enabled services, and enterprise solution companies. We currently manage three USD funds and one RMB fund.Lightspeed China Partners isalso a young team.
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Our culture reflects our focus, drive for excellence, and our win-win approach to business.We are dedicated to identifying the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders. To accomplish this ,
we analyze trends, work with creative teams, and undertake joint efforts to pursue early-stage investments.
We are honored to help entrepreneurs because your dream is the greatest thing in the world.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Manufacturing, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Enjosim — Enjosim specializes in the R&D, manufacturing, and sales of self-delivery systems, particularly those for biomacromolecule pharmaceuticals. It currently sells a variety of high-precision pen injectors designed for biologics such as insulin, growth hormone, and GLP-1.
- Gmee Biotech — Gmee Biotech offers clients skin care experience and unique solutions for dull skin restoration.
- Feynman Dynamics — Feynman Dynamics is a developer of fuel cell catalysts for the energy sector.
Zhenshun Jijin is an early-stage investment fund.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Internet, E-Commerce
- Angel, Series A, Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Yeting — Yeting is a media company that specializes in the production of audio content.
- Xiansu Song — Xiansu Song enables the operation analysis of catering businesses in a unified system through data permissions and customized account settings, abstractly producing the comparable data analysis needs of large catering outlets, executingvisual data analysis, ad hoc analysis, data queries, and real-time consumption data analysis. In order to reach arefined operation, the operation is directed to adopt comparable tactics in each connection.
- Kuai Xing Fang — Just for health provides doctors with clinical drug decision-making services. Their products include clinical pharmacy management software, prescription risk monitoring software, and regional rational drug use software.
Jinding Capital is a leading industrial equity investment institution in China.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Robot Era — Robot era is an emerging technology business creates embodied intelligence and generic humanoid robot technologies and products. Xingdong Era is committed to the development of universal humanoid robots that can adapt to a wide range of fields, multiple scenarios, and high intelligence, striving to realize the beautiful vision of intelligent robotsentering thousands of households and integrating into the lights of thousands of homes.
- Daimon Robotics — Daimon Robotics is a robotics company that specializes in the development and production of commercially viable general-purpose humanoid robot products with innovative intelligence.
- Moyang Biotechnology — Moyang Biotechnology specializes in the development and consulting services of medical biomaterials for beauty sector.
Vision Knight Capital Fund I,L.P. (hereinafter referred to as“VKC”) is a private equity fund focusing mainland China’s retail/consumer, internet and e-commerce sectors.At VKC, we have successfully integrated operation experts and investment experts to form a unique team. Our team consists of China’s top corporate senior managements andinvestment professionals with years of operation and investment experience. They have specialized industrial expertise and outstanding operation performance in China’s internet, e-commerce and retail sectors. In addition to the capital investment to the portfolio company, VKC’s unique operation and investment team also provide real value added services such as operation enhancement and business model transformation/upgrade, with the vision to enhance the portfolio company’s core value and in return be recognized in the capital market.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, Malaysia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- Zhile Technology — Zhile Technology is primarily involved in the design, development, and marketing of intelligent fitness goods and content. Zhile Technology has developed an eco-chain of intelligent sports and fitness devices that integrates "hardware + software + content," guided by product categories. Its primary offerings include exercise bikes,walking and running machines, and more.
- Hicon Industry Technology — Hicon Industry Technology is a manufacturer in China, developing, manufacturing, and marketing household refrigeration appliances.
- Galaxy Pai Sports and Game Hall — Galaxy Pai Sports and Game Hall is a multidimensional entertainment space station. it provides peripheral content related to sports and entertainment. Galaxy Pai is an indoor integrated multi-dimensional entertainment space station built for young people.
Meridian Capital is the leading TMT field of venture capital institution in China. They have a wide range of investment layout in the mobile Internet and media entertainment field and they have a vibrant and experienced investment team.Meridian Capital’s investment area is relatively concentrated, and its investment can be regarded as investmentwithin the industry. They have a wide range of layout-oriented investments in the core areas of industry such as culture and entertainment, consumption upgrades, Internet finance, and enterprise services, with the flow of inputs and realization methods. It has a clear view of development in the industry and sub-industries. Social, online-business, education, health care, real-estate, car business, digital reading, digital marketing, music, film and television, games, entertainment community and etc, industrial cluster effect is obvious.Since its inception in 2008, Meridian Capital is committed to focusing on investment in culture new media fields, currently it is mainly concerned with culture entertainment, consumption upgrading, Internet finance, and corporate service fields, it has issued 5 RMB funds, and 2 Singapore currency funds, whose total management size topped RMB 5 billion yuan, more than 100 Internet startup enterprises are its beneficiaries. Meridian Capital’s concern for culture new media field is consistently prominent.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Angel, Series B
- China, Latvia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Tenways — TENWAYS Electric Bikes with multi-scenario applications for superior value, light weight, quick charge and instant assistance. For commuting, lifestyle, exercising and more.
- Hanhai Energy — Hanhai Energy is dedicated to explore the science and technology to accelerate the commercialization of fusion energy.
- 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.
Founded in June 2012 by Liu Xiaosong, Dong Zhanbin, and Su Wei, three Internet and investment circle veterans, Qingsong Fund is an early venture capital firm specializing in investment in education, social networking, consumerism, innovation, technology and applications. It manages four RMB funds with a total value of about RMB 2 billion. So far,it has invested in more than 140 companies, including 1 to 1 head, 1 DaDa English, squirrel AI, onion mathematics, wedding calendar, werewolf killing, flystep technology, HomeFacial. Pro and other star projects - 50% exit project returns more than 60 times, multiple project valuation multiples increased nearly 200 times, and educational projects have an average annual value increase of 500%. Among them, the Qingsong Smart Fund, which was newly established in 2018, focuses on the underlying technologies of the underlying AI and Smart Connect, as well as investment in such areas as smart healthcare, enterprise services and intelligent transportation applications. Liu Xiaosong, founding partner of Qingsong Fund, is a Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University. He invested in Tencent in 1999 and has a return on investment of tens of thousands of times. In 2000, he founded A8 New Media Group, which was successfully listed on the main board in Hong Kong in 2008. In 2015, he hatched in November 2018. Listed in Hong Kong stocks in the year. As a leading early investment institution in China, Qingsong Fund and its founding partners have repeatedly won Top 10 of Zero2IPO China's early investment institutions/investors, Top10 of China's education sector, Top100 of Chinese investors, and China's best early venture capital investment. Institution/Investor Top10; 36氪 China's new entertainment sector investment institutions Top10, online education sector investment institutions/investors Top10 and other mainstream awards.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Education, Manufacturing
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Volant Aerotech — Volant Aerotech is a company specializing in the R&D, manufacturing, and service of passenger eVTOL, an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
- Shufang New Energy — Shenzhen Sufang New Energy focuses on the research, development, and production of lithium-rich manganese-based cathode materials.
- Tongwei New Energy — Tongwei New Energy is a company that manufactures zero-carbon solid oxide fuel cells. Its major product is distributed zero-carbon power plants.
Tiantu Capital is a venture capital association.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Leman Biotech — Leman Biotech is a biotech company that is engaged in development of cancer immunotherapies.
- Xellar Biosystems — Xellar Biosystems is a wet artificial intelligence biotechnology company that provides analysis of drug testing and treatment.
- Insight Technology — Insight Technology is an instrument manufacturer and seller company that specializes in instrument sales, intelligent instrument sales, mechanical equipment research and development, and more.
Zhencheng Capital invests in early/early-growth stage, including Advanced Technology/ AI.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Shuyun — Shuyun is a provider of digital marketing software products and services.
- Xiaoge — Xiaoge Smart is a cutting-edge technology company that combines R&D, manufacturing, sales, and online and offline after-sales support for smart kitchen equipment for restaurants. It employs Internet of Things technology to enable the intelligent update of restaurant kitchens and to provide intelligent restaurant kitchen solutions.
- HISINGY — Xingqi World HISINGY is a trendy drone brand. The company has three brands, "Xingqi World HISINGY" (UAV entertainment trendy play), "Xingqi Lab SGLRT" (Maker Education), "TCKFILMS" (Special drone video shooting/product). The goal of Xingqi World is to create an "entertainment ecology that spans virtual andreality", and uses technical elements such as drones, games, mixed reality, and metaverse to create a future technology trendy brand.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Deyanshe —
- SoupMaster — SoupMaster is a Chinese restaurant chain and retail brand. It provides various nutritious soups for pregnant women, patients with a demand for health recuperation, and other people pursuing high-quality life.
- Lancet Barbecue —
Pros Partners is an investment fund that focuses on the new economy and mobile internet.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Mobile
- Seed, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- DARE ONE — DARE ONE is an online marketplace that provides casual women's lingerie products.
- Aige Chibaole — Aige Chibaole is an food review and recommendation platform.
- Silicon Intelligence — Guiji Zhineng is a high-tech company focused on in-depth R&D and commercial scenario application for interactive technologies such as intelligent voice and machine vision.
Jiaxing Yuanhuan Equity Investment Partnership operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Oddington Burger — Oddington Burger is a restaurant chain brand mainly engaged in Chinese-style burgers.
SR Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in the start-up and growth stages of technological innovation enterprises.
The firm was founded in Suzhou, Jiangsu in 2013.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Electronics
- Series A, Angel, Series B
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cell Probio — Cell Probio is a manufacturer of cell culture consumables, positioned in the R&D, production and sales of high-end biological consumables.
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- Shitong Microelectronics — Shitong Microelectronics specializes in the design and development of machine vision-detecting sensors, particularly 3D sensors. It seeks to create 3D sensors with high precision, low power consumption, and competitive prices.
YiMei Capital has been serving established global and local institutional clients in China
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Investment focus
- Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Great Robotics — Great Robotics is a surgical robotics company that provides medical diagnosis and treatment technologies and services. It is based on the core technology platform of precise image-guided robotic surgery, aiming at clinical needs and pain points.
- Shanghai Auntie — Shanghai Auntie is a tea company dedicated to providing young people with healthy, delicious, and affordable Wugu tea.
- Kuixin Technology — Kuixin Technology is a supplier of integrated circuits to solving the problem of computing power scaling and interconnection.They engegad on data centers, artificial intelligence, consumer electronics, automotive and IoT.
Ping An Ventures is a professional VC under Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. with focused interest in start-ups of emerging innovation. It is committed to growing with the partners and driving success by provision of both funds and managerial expertise, resources and a platform."
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Angel
- China, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Xiaoqule — Xiaoqule (Happy Community) is a Chinese community-focused e-commerce platform. It is a subsidiary of Gejia.Xiaoqule helps local businesses provide cost-effective products and services to the local community. On the platform, the consumer can order food such as seasonal fruits and vegetables from local businesses. Xiaoqule connects localbusinesses with local consumers, which shortens transportation time and maintains quality of goods. Xiaoqule also serves as a logistical company, providing transportation, technology, marketing and customer support.
- Zhangshang Tangyi — Zhangshang Tangyi is a health management platform with a focus on diabetes. It allows patients to upload their own health data to their mobile app and receive treatment guidance from doctors. Zhangshang Tangyi was founded in 2014 and is based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
- Xgene Pharmaceutical — Xgene Pharmaceutical is a pharmaceutical company.
Gaw Capital Partners is a positioned private equity fund management company that focuses in real estate markets in greater China and other high barrier-to-entry markets globally. Their services includes gateway real estate funds, separate account investments, venture capital, private equity investment and credit investments.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Hotel, Property Management
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Blackpanda — Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.
- Mol Breeding — Mol Breeding is a biotech firm that focuses on animal and plants molecular breeding technology R&D and services.
- Gusto Collective — First brandtech group using the latest technology to help brands create content and experiences across the physical and virtual worlds.
Zhongmi Capital is a venture capital firm, focuses on investments in the fields of big data, pan-entertainment, digital marketing, and sports.
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Investment focus
- Music, Information Technology, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Oat Planet — Oat Planet is a healthy plant-based beverages company.
- Shenzhen Jijia — Shenzhen Jijia is a professional SaaS service provider focusing on Amazon cross-border e-commerce.
- Quantitative Advertising — Quantitative Advertising is an advertising delivery tool.
Intelligent Capital is a private equity investment fund.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Restaurants
- Angel, Series B, Post-IPO Equity
- China
Portfolio highlights
- INCAKE — INCAKE is an online platform to buy cake and dessert.
- Huasheng Intelligent — Huasheng Intelligent offers overall intelligent manufacturing solutions to customers. Its operations include system integration and intelligent equipment research and development, design, manufacturing, sales, and service.
- Niu Shuang Shuang Beef Hotpot — Niu Shuangshuang is positioned as a community hot pot, aiming at the hot pot track in China's huge sinking market. Niu Shuangshuang's products are mainly based on unique hot pot bases and high-quality wagyu beef. It integrates the advantages of the supply chain and accurately locates community stores with high repurchase, high viscosityand multiple scenes. Model, single store monthly sales and excellent performance. The Niu Shuangshuang brand can not only meet the consumption upgrade of third- and fourth-tier cities, but also meet the trend of first- and second-tier cities, aiming to become the main consumption at present.
THG Ventures Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “THG Ventures”) is a venture capital management organization co-funded by Tsinghua Holdings Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as “Tsinghua Holdings”) and the fund management team, and controlled by the latter. The team of THG Ventures started in scientific and technologicalinvestment in 1999 as the first team that focused on RMB investment in China. This team successively established the “TusPark Incubator” and “TusPark Ventures” and set up a highly stable and experienced team of partners which raised and managed more than 10 venture capital funds in a professional and market-oriented way and invested in about 100 medium, small and micro-sized enterprises. They created a group of star pioneering enterprises, developed an investment concept and team culture with obvious Tsinghua characteristics, realized excellent and stable fund income and gained the recognition and continuous support of various types of contributors like government-guided funds, private capital, financial institutions and donation funds while making a continuous contribution to the development of the Tsinghua industry system. In 2016, THG Ventures became the management organization of a sub-fund of the National SME Development Fund, and raised a total of RMB 4.5 billion for the SME Development Fund (Jiangsu Nantong Limited Partnership). The team and core members of THG Ventures have won many influential awards in the industry, and have become a representative in RMB venture capital and a leader in domestic university industry equity investment.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- HiScene — HiScene focuses on researching and developing core technologies and products for augmented reality. The company is committed to be an artificial intelligence company which provides the most natural human-computer interaction and explores the deepest data value.
- Robotphoenix — An industrial robot manufacturer in China
- XiaoZao Tech — XiaoZao Tech is a farming processor dedicated to the R&D, cultivation, and production of microalgae EPA.
Beyond Ventures is a venture capital and content production firm focused on responsible innovation.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Hotel, Retail
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Candao — Founded in 2014, the restaurant is a registered brand of Guangzhou Restaurant Information Technology Co., Ltd., headquartered in Guangzhou, with branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and other places. The brand service covers the omni-channel management SaaS platform + data operation in the middle platform. It mainly provides O2O solutions fordomestic catering and retail enterprises, such as take-out management system, distribution system, data center station, BI data analysis and system hosting. Serving more than 200 domestic and foreign chain brands, including services for many well-known chain catering groups such as McDonald's, Haagen-Dazs, Burger King, John John, Yoshinoya, Xibei, Laoxiang Chicken, Zhou Hei, a little bit, and real Kung Fu. The largest B-side food and beverage takeaway management Saas platform in China.
Telescope Investment is a private equity fund focusing on VC/PE investment projects in Chinese market. The office is located in Beijing. The founding team created its unique investment system out of their profound experience in consumer industry and advanced investment philosophy. Telescope Investment mainly focus on those top enterpriseswith high brand value in consumer goods, chain service, education, medical&health and culture industry. The investment stage covers both early stage and maturity stage and the investment scale varies from millions of dollars to tens of millions of dollars according to the specific circumstances of the projects.The investment team is composed of intelligent investment professionals with remarkable management ability and profound financial practical experience. As an emerging force in Chinese capital market, Telescope Investment spares no efforts to help Chinese enterprises achieve success with its advantages on intelligence, social resources and capital operation.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Online Portals
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Sucheon — Sucheon is an artificial intelligence high-tech enterprise that focuses on machine noise recognition and non-contact production process monitoring and equipment failure prediction.The main solution for the company's product machine auscultation master is to collect machine noise from the SC Box, which is placed in an industrial environment, toextract sound feature values, and to use machine learning to identify the real-time operating status of industrial equipment and the various components. Health indicators .
- Starwhale — Starwhale is an MLOps platform to manage machine learning projects, models and datasets.
- Beacon Education — Beacon Education their marketing, recruitment, support, and analytics technology services platform is a single-point solution for outstanding teaching and learning.
Wanxing Fund is an investment fund.
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Manufacturing
- Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Xiaoge — Xiaoge Smart is a cutting-edge technology company that combines R&D, manufacturing, sales, and online and offline after-sales support for smart kitchen equipment for restaurants. It employs Internet of Things technology to enable the intelligent update of restaurant kitchens and to provide intelligent restaurant kitchen solutions.
Shixinronghe Investment Management is engaged in project investment; investment consulting; investment management.
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- China
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- Modou (Beijing) — Modou (Beijing) operates chain soybean product business.
Baidu is a search engine that enables individuals to obtain information and finds what they need. Baidu offers functional online search, Tieba community search, industry-based vertical search, mp3 search, portal channels, and instant messaging services. Its products include Baidu Webpage, Baidu Video, Baidu Map, hao123.com, BaiduPedia, Baidu Input,Baidu Toolbar, TTPlayer, Iqiyi, and Sky Software.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- StarFive Technology — StarFive Technology offers RISC-V-based CPU IP, SoC, development board, and other series of products.
- Wavarts Technologies — Wavarts Technologies provides software and hardware solutions for audio industry.
- ZVISION — Zvision provides automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR solution for autonomous driving applications. The company's first-generation laser radar products use MEMS technology, and plan to achieve scale-up in the L3-class autonomous driving and unmanned logistics fields in the next five years, and layout the next generation optical-based phasedarray (OPA) through its integrated chip research and development capabilities. The technical laser radar is aimed at the L4/L5 level autopilot market after 5-10 years.
Founded in 2003, Hony Capital is a pioneer in China’s home grown private equity industry. Sponsored by Legend Holdings, a leading Chinese conglomerate, Hony has blazed the trail in formulating private equity investment strategies suitable for Chinese conditions by combining a deep understanding of local environment and people with global resourcesand international best practices. Today, with over USD 6.8 billion in assets under management across 7 funds and investments in over 60 companies, Hony is a leading China-focused private equity firm.Adhering to the “value creation” investment philosophy, Hony partners with managers and entrepreneurs to build their businesses into sustainable leaders in respective industries. Hony focuses on sectors where it has developed expertise: pharmaceuticals and healthcare, consumer & retail, media & entertainment, financial services, construction materials, machinery, and alternative energy & resources
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- China, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- CVA Chip — Xihua has a multi-modal Sparrow architecture platform similar to CortexM. The research and planning projects based on the Sparrow platform include 3D face recognition vision chips, binocular vision chips, intelligent decoding Scaler chips, MCU+ perception/driver series chips, etc.
- Veminsyn — Veminsyn is a biotech manufacturing firm that conducts research and produces healthcare and agricultural products.
- Guangyu Mingdao — Guangyu Mingdao is an industrial internet platform.
Meituan develops and operates a platform providing retail and online group buying services. It retails and delivers Chinese food from local restaurants online. It operates a social commerce website that offers online group discounts for movie tickets, groceries, food, restaurants, entertainment, and health/fitness sectors.Zhang Tao foundedMeituan Group in 2010 that became Meituan-Dianping in December 2015, with its headquarters in Beijing in China. Meituan-Dianping officially changed its name to Meituan in September 2020.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, India, Nigeria
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- Zelos — Zelos is an AI-driven startup is the way in autonomous driving technology. Its primary focus is on developing software and hardware that is centered around AI. Zelos offers intra-city autonomous transportation technologies, infrastructure, and optimal business models.
- Unitree Robotics — Unitree focus on the development of four-legged robot mobile platform and related power system components
- Moonshot AI — Dark Side of the Moon is an AI large-scale model company.
Loyal Valley Capital is a thematic, research-driven private equity firm.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Series C, Series B, Series A
- China, United States, Hong Kong
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- Chabaidao — Chabaidao is a tea drink brand that aims to create surprises through product development and trendy gameplay.
- DP Technology — DP Technology is a global leader in the "AI for Science" research paradigm, where AI learns scientific principles and data, then tackles key challenges in scientific research and industrial R&D.DP's commitment to interdisciplinary research has led to the creation of the DP "Particle Universe", an array of pre-trainedlarge science models designed to bridge foundational research with practical industrial applications. DP's software suite includes the Bohrium® Scientific Research Space, Hermite® Computational Drug Design Platform, RiDYMO® Dynamics Platform, and Piloteye® Battery Design Automation Platform. Together, these platforms form a robust foundation for industrial innovation and an open ecosystem for AI in science, fostering advancements in key areas such as drug discovery, energy, material science, and information technology.
- DP Technology — Deep Technology uses a new generation of molecular simulation technology to tackle micro-scale industrial design difficulties. Founded in 2018 and is based in Beijing China.
Yiyi focuses on the investment in the internet, IoT, enterprises services, consumption upgrading industry and so on.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- China
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- MBTECH.CN — MBTECH.CN develops an omnichannel big data integrated marketing solution. MBTECH.CN provides enterprises with a SaaS platform that helps customers to effectively evaluate the real ROI of each marketing channel and optimize cross-channel marketing funds, and in-channel effects.
- Huiyangche — Huiyangche is online-to-offline car maintenance service provider based in China.
- Robotphoenix — An industrial robot manufacturer in China
Magic Capital is an investment firm focused on supporting Chinese Internet companies.
The company's founders are working cross a broad range of sectors, from education to media to healthcare to SaaS to AI to e-commerce to game to social networking service.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Education, Internet
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Noematrix — Noematrix is an embodied intelligence company that specializes in innovative general robotic intelligence solutions and services.
- Weiming Smart — Weiming Smart is a technology company focused on machining intelligent manufacturing.The company is deeply involved in the precision processing industry, creatively integrating production management software and Internet platform technology into production management, building a comprehensive data information system on the production sitethrough equipment networking and data collection, and combining sensors, edge computing, cloud computing, and other technologies.
- Grand Voyage Holdings — A Globe Online Shopping Marketplace/ Known as Frissonlife
Daocin Capital is an early equity investment firm that focuses on early projects on new retail, internet of things, financial technology, new entertainment, Artificial intelligence, blockchain ecology and other fields.The company, Daosheng Capital, won the 2016 Top 20 China Equity Investing Institutions and the 2017 China Equity InvestingAgency. Qiang, 2018 China's top 30 investment institutions; won the 2017 "Golden Man Award" Hangzhou's top ten investment institutions, 2018 "Golden Mang Award" Hangzhou's top ten investment institutions.Daosheng Capital was registered as a private equity fund manager in China.
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Investment focus
- Enterprise, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
- Angel, Series A, Seed
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Rhino Go — Rhino Go is the provider of professional social media network services.
- Bowu Youdao — Bowu Youdao is a private domain operation service provider of cultural and artistic artworks. It aims to promote national culture through activities, improve the appreciation of artworks, and provide collectors and groups at home and abroad with a high level of free flow and full use of materials. High-level, high-quality cultural exchange space.
- Gosion Robot — Guoxun Robot is a developer of industrial safety inspection robots.
Zhuhai Hengqin Shijing Touzi Hehuoqiye (Limited Partnership) is an investment firm.
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- Tea, Consumer, Health Care
- Series B, Funding Round
- China
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- 51 Home service — 51 Home service is a housekeeping service provider company.
- Shanghai Auntie — Shanghai Auntie is a tea company dedicated to providing young people with healthy, delicious, and affordable Wugu tea.
Liuyi Touzi is an angel investment firm that engages in early investment in the fields of internet, smart equipment and new materials.
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- Energy, Restaurants, Manufacturing
- Seed
- China
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- Xiaoge — Xiaoge Smart is a cutting-edge technology company that combines R&D, manufacturing, sales, and online and offline after-sales support for smart kitchen equipment for restaurants. It employs Internet of Things technology to enable the intelligent update of restaurant kitchens and to provide intelligent restaurant kitchen solutions.
- Lingdong Technology — Lingdong Technology is a provider of new energy thermal management systems, specializing in the development of thermal management systems for energy-efficient vehicles, as well as the production and manufacturing of controllers for thermal management systems and other related products.
Liepin is the largest and most professional high-end talent community-based recruitment site, with its innovative products and unique service model model for create an interactive high-end talent recruitment platform between business, headhunting and workplace. Tens of thousands of professional executive search consultant for businesses and jobseekers set up communication between the bridge and accelerate corporate recruitment process, recommended paying jobs in the workplace, career development planning. 16 job seekers to avoid the risk of privacy protection, millions of high-end elite member libraries, help enterprises development needs.
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- Retail, Employment, Recruiting
- Seed, Angel
- China
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- COOOOK — COOOOK is a exotic cuisine brand.
- HAPPYJOB.COM — HAPPYJOB.COM is a part-time job platform that provides part-time job opportunities for college students.
Yisan Capital
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- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- China
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- Öarmilk — Öarmilk is a dairy product manufacturer providing the low temperature and short shelf life for fresh dairy products.
- Peijie Hotpot — Peijie Hotpot provides catering management services. They also provide a catering chain, fast moving food, culture management and entertainment supervision, and hotel management services.
- Yuanfang Youguang — Stoke Voltaics is an outdoor 3C hardware design and development company that develops and sells outdoor 3C hardware products globally.
Bofu Fund Management is an investment firm.
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- E-Commerce, Solar, Retail
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- China
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- Cofoe — Cofoe specializes in the research & development, production and sales of medical equipment.
- SolarSpace — SolarSpace engages in the development, production and sales of high-efficiency solar cells.
- Jingkong Energy — Jingkong Energy is an energy system research and development platform. They offer services for the development of smart power supply, electric power and energy storage, and fuel cell fields.
Shenzhen Guozhong Venture Capital Management CO. LTD.(GZVCM) was founded on 21st of December 2015, currently being entrusted to manage the first entity fund of Small Medium Enterprises Development Fund(SHENZHEN)LLP with a size of 6 Billion Yuan.Guozhong Venture Capital with a registered size of 100million Yuan, partners consisting Shenzhenventure capital group (49%) and the management team of Small Medium Enterprise Development Fund (SHENZHEN) (51%).
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Electronics
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China
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- Sinsegye — Sinsegye operates as a product-driven enterprise company. Sinsegye is an industrial control supercomputing infrastructure supplier.
- Daimon Robotics — Daimon Robotics is a robotics company that specializes in the development and production of commercially viable general-purpose humanoid robot products with innovative intelligence.
- Hydrogen Energy — Hydrogen Energy is an analyst and developer of organic liquid hydrogen storage technology. Its objective is to advance and commercialize organic liquid hydrogen storage technology.
Joyvio Group is a Legend Holdings portfolio company whose primary business is investment and operations in the modern agriculture and food industries.Joyvio Group is the largest end-to-end fruit company of its kind in China. They havelarge-scale farming operations in China and abroad, industry-leading breeding programs, engineering andtechnology offices, sorting and processing facilities, cold chain and logistics hubs and arobust branding and marketing network. At the same time, They are investing and building Their business in the tea and wine industries.The Joyvio Group now includes Joyvio (Qingdao) Fruits Company Ltd., Joyvio (Qingdao) Modern Agribusiness Company Ltd., Qingdao Wallen Blueberry Co Ltd., Wallen Agriculture Company Ltd., Wallen (Qingdao) Food Company Ltd., Sichuan Zhongxin Agricultural Technology Company Ltd., Hangzhou Longguan Company Ltd., Joyvio (Anhui) Modern Agribusiness Company Ltd., Beijing HuaxiaLiancheng Fruit Company, ZhouzhiLiancheng Company Ltd., YanglingHuaxiaLiancheng Company Ltd., and XixiaHuaxiaLiancheng Fruit Company Ltd.
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- Food Processing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Angel
- China
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- CellX — Creating a sustainable and humane future through cellular agriculture
- Jimo Bio — Jimo Bio is a research and development company of cell-cultured meat.
- Ma Zhua Zhua — Ma Zhua Zhua is a cold-salted catering chain and a brand that makes chicken dishes with signature spicy and hot and sour chicken feet.
TL Data
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- Catering, Payments, Restaurants
- Series A
- China
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- Dajialai — Dajialai is a Shanghai-based intelligent catering management solution provider. Its system can manage ordering, payment, membership, inventories and invoices for medium and large or chain restaurants.
Innohub Capital accelerates global blockchain innovations by leveraging China opportunities.
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- Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Children
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- China, Australia, Hong Kong
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- InnoChain Data — InnoChain Data is committed to using blockchain technology to help the upgrading and transformation of China's real economy.
- F5 Future Store — F5 Future Store is a 24-hour smart unmanned convenience store that uses a combination of machine automation and artificial algorithms instead of labor. All cooking, brewing drinks, picking, clearing, inventory, cleaning work are done by the machine automatically.
- Cosmic Singularity — Cosmic Singularity is a digital platform for anchors and live broadcast rooms.
Future Value Capital specializes in equity investment and investment management services.
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- Hardware, Software, Automotive
- Angel, Seed
- China
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- Kelai — Kelai offers a business performance management system and network traffic analysis services.
- NationSky — NationSky develops big data and cloud computing software products for enterprise & government.
- Beer Halo Man — Beerbitt Man is a new catering chain brand, which combines the national supply chain of Tsingtao Brewery's craft beer.
Legend Capital, a subsidiary of Legend Holdings Ltd., started its vintage year in April, 2001 with a mission to become a top-notch and the most respected venture capital investment manager in China.Managing up to US$700 million across four funds, Legend Capital focuses on driving high-growth ventures with operations substantially based in Chinaor on markets related to China.Legend Capital mainly invests in early stage IT companies, specifically, in sectors of network applications and services, outsourcing and professional services, Infrastructure (IC design/key components), and mid-market growth stage companies in the fields of consumer goods, clean technology, health care, equipment manufacturing and modern services.Among over 60 portfolio companies are Joyo.com (acquired by Amazon.com), SinoCom (0299.HK), Solarfun Power (Nasdaq: SOLF), Spreadtrum Communications (Nasdaq: SPRD), China Sunshine Paper (2002.HK), and VanceInfo (NYSE:VIT), Eyang (0117.HK), etc.As an active investor, Legend Capital provides its portfolio companies extensive business resources and tailored services to assist with business development, company image building, and other critical company building activities on Chinese market so as to add value and maximize returns. Legend Capital is proud and thankful that it has the opportunity to blaze a trail with its innovative practice for China's venture capital industry.
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- Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, South Korea
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- Nuwacell — Nuwacell focuses on the research and development, production and clinical transformation application of iPSC-derived cell therapy products.
- Zhipu AI — Zhipu AI combines large-scale knowledge map built by itself to form a two-wheel-driven artificial intelligence framework through R&D.
- Allink Biotherapeutics — Allink Biotherapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on oncology and immunological treatment.
D1M is a digital retail service provider for global brand owners. They provide digital retail services that include go-to-market consulting, e-commerce IT setup, digital marketing, multi-platform e-store operation, omni-channel CRM integration, logistic planning, and warehouse operation. The company's qualified and multilingual workforce worksto enable brand owners to complete their worldwide digital retail footprints.
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- Catering, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Angel
- China
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- Tagsiu — Tagsiu is a restaurant and tavern brand specializes in high-quality brewing.
Harvest Capital is a private equity investment firm focused on the entire consumption and service sector. The firm aims to invest in and partner with industry-leading enterprises and assisting them with the listing process and becoming industry leaders.Harvest Capital's total assets have amounted to 10.8 billion RMB, and all are guaranteedby State Development Planning Commission and Asset Management Association of China.
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- Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Tea
- Series B, Series A, Angel
- China
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- Wenheyou — Wenheyou operates a range of food and beverage brands.
- Xiao Guan Tea — Xiao Guan Tea is a modern tea merchant who came into being under the Internet thinking and experience economy. Small pot of teaUsing innovative ideas, we will integrate the superior resources of China's tea industry with a very creative approach, and unite the eight tea masters of the six major teas.Inheritance of raw materials, mastercraftsmanship, master production, original small tank preservation technology, together to create master-class Chinese tea, with innovative technology,Set a standard for China's good tea; with innovative products, it is the benchmark for high-end tea trees in China.
- Small Vegetable Garden — Xiaocaiyuan is the operator of a chain of restaurants. It offers customers green, healthy, and nourishing dishes. They provide customers with the opportunity to experience Anhui cuisine that combines tradition and innovation.
Cyanhill Capital is an early stage investment firm focusing on consumer sector. We aim to discover quality seed-stage startups in the consumer sector. Portfolio companies include Zhaoliangji, pidan, REFLOWER, bosie, LANDBASE, UCOMMUNE, Benlai, X Financial (NYSE: XYF), UISEE, etc.
By adopting scientific approach to investing and focusing on consumersector, we uphold the vision of being an “investor in better life” and will partner with the entrepreneurs of China’s new economy.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- China, Germany
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- cheespirit — cheespirit is a cheese and dairy product brand that focuses on R&D and cheese production.
- Slow Sugar Home — Slow Sugar Home is a health technology service provider.
- Red-crowned crane study abroad — Red-crowned crane study abroad is a full-chain study abroad product and service provider.
Volcanics Venture was founded in May 2016. They identify, invest in, and serve the most promising companies and outstanding entrepreneurs in Internet Innovation, Intelligent Technology and Healthcare industry. Managing Partners Suyang Zhang, Yeshun Dong and Ying Wu have been working closely for years as first-class USD/RMB fund managers.They have more than 60 years of aggregated VC investment and corporate management experience, as well as in-depth understanding of three focused fields. Volcanics Venture brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management, striving to provide sustainable value-added service to their portfolio companies and bring superior return to their limited partners.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, United States
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- Fabrie — Fabrie develops collaboration tool for designers that has functions such as multi-person collaboration, table and diagram association, cloud storage and sharing.
- Aiagain — Aiagain is the provider of an online WeChat management platform for WeChat sellers.
- Fengtai Technology — Focusing on industrial information security, Fujian and Taiwan technology mainly provides professional, standard chemical control safety consulting and evaluation services to ensure information security of key industrial information infrastructure and improve security protection solutions. It mainly serves the government, industry customers, designinstitutes, research institutes, institutes, integrators and hardware and software manufacturers. Through visual, process and customized tools and methods, it helps users to carry out effective risk management and reliable operational support. .
Fortune Capital, established in April, 2000, is one of the earliest market-oriented venture capital firms in China. For the past 14 years, Fortune Capital focus its investments on leading companies in four key sectors: TMT (Media oriented), Consumer Goods/Services, Modern Agriculture and Clean Tech.Fortune Capital is ranked among thehighest performing VC/PE firms in China and selected as "Vice President of Venture Capital Committee of IAC," "Vice President of Shenzhen VC Association," "Vice President of Shenzhen Chamber of International Investment & Funding," etc.In addition to providing capitals, Fortune Capital provides its investee companies with personalized value-added services.
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- Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, Japan, United States
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- Saibo Kunlun — Saibo Kunlun is a cyber security service provider that focuses on software, system security, and cloud security.
- Dongde Industry — Dongde Industry focuses on the development and manufacturing of hydrogen energy equipment, which is widely utilized in fuel cell logistics.
- Bright Point Optoelectronics — Bright Point Optoelectronics is a research and development manufacturer of semiconductor laser devices and laser application systems.
QF Capital is a fund management company that focuses on private equity investments.
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- E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China, Hong Kong, United States
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- X Square — X Square is a company focused on developing universal embodied large models for robots, aiming to create a universal brain-cerebellum system that offers comprehensive capabilities from perception to action.
- Index Technology — Index Technology is a company that specializes in applying artificial intelligence technology to electronic design and production. Index Technology uses generative AI technology to optimize the traditional R&D process for electrical devices, and it offers automated generation services ranging from product requirements to PCBA manufacturingdesigns and supporting embedded programs.
- Maiju Microelectronics — Maiju Microelectronics manufactures core chips for lithium batteries and solutions to management system applications.
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