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Top 15 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Hong Kong in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Hong kong. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Hong kong. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Hong Kong in September 2025

Investor	Retail Hong Kong investments
MindWorks Capital	3
Golden Gate Ventures	3
Bluebell Group	2
Andreessen Horowitz	2
IDG Capital	2
Decent Capital	2
New Heritage Investment Limited	1
Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund	1
Era	1
Gaorong Capital	1
Battery Road Digital Holdings	1
DST Global	1
Lightspeed Venture Partners	1
MSA Capital	1
Chuxin Capital	1

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MindWorks Capital invests in and empowers Asia's most promising entrepreneurs to establish transformative businesses. MindWorks manages capital for university endowments, global asset managers, fund of funds, family offices, and Asia's top new economy innovators.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Supply Chain Management
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
InsForge — InsForge is the Agent-Native Supabase Alternative. We are building the features of Supabase in an AI-native way, enabling AI agents to build and manage full-stack applications autonomously.
Gongbilin — Gongbilin is the operator of the travel agency, responsible for managing day-to-day operations, coordinating travel packages, and ensuring clients receive exceptional service throughout their journeys.

Golden Gate Ventures is a venture capital firm investing across Southeast Asia. Since 2011, the firm has launched four funds, managed US$250M AUM, and invested in 60+ companies in over 7 countries in Asia. The firm focuses on investing in technology companies driven by the rising consumer class in Southeast Asia.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Singapore, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

FDcare — FDcare provides comprehensive health care services to customers.
Nurture — Fun, science-backed learning games that build future-proof life skills like critical thinking, money smarts, healthy habits, and more. Free for now!
BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.

Bluebell Group is a distributor of luxury, premium, and lifestyle brands throughout Asia since 1954.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Grana — GRANA is a direct-to-consumer online fashion brand designing wardrobe essentials in-house, using the finest fabrics from around the world, available at honest prices.Strategically headquartered in Hong Kong, GRANA was founded by Luke Grana and Pieter Paul Wittgen in October 2014. GRANA ships globally to over 65 countries within 1-2 days.Countries include Australia, United States, Singapore, Hong Kong, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and United Kingdom.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Lead — Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank with a national client base recognized for its imaginative approach to community banking.
Databricks — Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data Intelligence Platform.
Allocate — Allocate is the operating system for private market alternatives investing

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector. Today they work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors, and business entities from around the world. Their limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds,pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices, and business luminaries.IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, they are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Their highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Minova Pharma — Minova Pharma focuses on the development of novel medications in the spiritual and medicinal beauty domains.
Hongxin Biology — Hongxin Bio is an mRNA drug developer, focusing on nucleic acid drug delivery and RNA drug development.
Rongguang Optics — Rongguang Optics is a company specializing in optical instrument manufacturing, along with vacuum coating processing, industrial design services, and plastic product manufacturing.

Decent Capital is a venture capital firm with a cross-border presence. It was founded in 2007 by Jason Zeng, co-founder of Tencent Holdings Limited. Decent Capital has two teams, venture investment and asset management, with offices in Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore and the United States. Decent’s investment team invests from Seed to SeriesA, primarily focusing on SaaS, Consumer Internet, and Frontier Tech. Decent has invested in over 200 companies globally, spanning across the United States, China, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. Decent upholds strong dedication to post-investment management, they continue to heavily support their portfolio companies’ business operations, supply chain and logistics, and future fundraising efforts. While Decent’s emphasis is on early-stage investments, they prioritize continuing to support portfolio companies throughout growth, for example, Decent invested in Lime from Seed to Series D.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Luojia Yiyun — Luojia Yiyun is a high-end laser scanning detection equipment developer company that specializes in lightweight, high-precision, high-performance, and independent intellectual property laser radar devices.
Hongde New Materials — Hongde New Materials produces thermoplastic composite materials with fiber reinforcement. It offers energy storage and auxiliary components for solar and automobile power and steering systems.
Shouxing Technology — AheadForm is pioneering the development of realistic humanoid robots designed to revolutionize human-robot interaction. Our current focus is on creating sophisticated humanoid robot heads that can express emotions, perceive their environment, and interact seamlessly with humans. By combining cutting-edge AI and advanced robotics, we aim to bring life to machines and transform the way humans engage with technology.

We are a Family investment company based in Hong Kong with a development history in China spanning 3 decades and two generations.

Investment focus

Retail, Software, Marketing
Angel
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

slowe — slowe is co-creating a sustainable future economy with our community of 10,000 impact businesses & 10 million conscious consumers by transformation. slowe is following the UNSDG Goal #12 - Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. For consumers, we are part of the goal (Target #12.8) of "By 2030, ensure that people everywherehave the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature". For the business side, slowe "Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle (Target #12.6).Our community app is the gateway to change by making a transformation to a sustainable life easy. In our community, you will discover slowe business in your neighbourhood, creative inspiration for sustainable living, passionate advocates and muses on the journey of transformation with you. With everyday small changes, like buying coffee from a shop sourcing Fair Trade coffee or shopping at "one-for-one" shoe retailers, it could result in great impact in future. With slowe index, you could easily sort out which business fit your values before making consumption. Add stamp after purchase to create your own conscious spending passport. Each step you take move the wheel of our virtuous cycle.Our community app is also a theatre for impact business to shine. By joining our community to embrace slowe value, we provide super easy-to-use yet powerful, affordable yet effective tools for targeted marketing and consumer relationship management. United, we are stronger. slowe encourage businesses to exchange resources and collaborate on our platform to better serve consumers.slowe is playing the infinite game because we should preserve our planet for generations to come. We hope to change the world bit by bit, person after person, community after community, and unite everyone to blossom and thrive in our far future.Support us by downloading our Community App today to join the consumer revolution.

The Entrepreneurs Fund is a not-for-profit initiative launched by Alibaba Group in 2015 to help entrepreneurs and young graduates realize their dreams and vision. Two separate funds have been set up in Hong Kong and Taiwan respectively to support specific programs in each place.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vpon Holdings — Vpon Holdings is an AI big data analysis and advertising company.
Ziwu Technology — Ziwu Technology offers the conversion of bio-based waste into sustainable new materials and provides environmentally friendly solutions.
Rice Robotics Limited — The friendliest robot at your service.

Founded by Jasper Lau, Era is a global investment firm backed by leading closely-held family enterprises across 19 countries and 25 industries. Era brings together the collective expertise, industry intel, and strategic capital of the firm’s families to invest in category-defining technology companies solving civilization’s biggest industrialchallenges.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Adro — Designed to work when you arrive Spend and save like a local. Easy to use. No unfair fees.
Harmonic — Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations.
Jericho Security — Train your team to defend against the latest cyber attacks with our complete cybersecurity platform.

Gaorong Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and growth stage investments in TMT, including AI and frontier technologies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Flexiv — Flexiv is a deep-tech company that is committed to developing and manufacturing general-purpose adaptive robots that redefine intelligent automation. Combining advanced robotics and artificial intelligence with human-centered design, Flexiv's robots empower businesses to flexibly automate complex tasks with intuitive and easy-to-use interfaces.
Nova Fusion — Nova Fusion is an innovative company that provides commercialization of small modular nuclear fusion reactors.
Tongxin Medical Equipment — Tongxin makes magnetically-suspended artificial blood pumps which are designed to replace the human heart. They are undergoing clinical trials in China after being fast-tracked through the approval process by the National Medical Products Administration, state-run Xinhua News Agency

Battery Road Digital Holdings is a venture capital and private equity firm that focuses on frontier and emerging markets.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Transportation, Payments
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, Egypt, India

Portfolio highlights

zypl.ai — We help financial institutions, government entities make more accurate decisions
AwanTunai — AwanTunai seek to reinforce Indonesian needs and productivity by providing digital loan for a better financial freedom and capability to micro-entrepreneurs
IMAN — One-stop shop for Halal investing

DST Global is an investment firm that funds late-stage ventures in the internet industry. Its investments include some of the world’s fastest-growing and most valuable companies. DST Global has offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong.The firm was founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner, Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta,and Tom Stafford.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Series C, Series B, Series D
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Loft — Loft is a transactional marketplace for residential real estate that helps manage the home buying and selling process.Founded by repeat entrepreneurs in 2018, Loft is Brazil’s first transactional marketplace for residential real estate, facilitating the purchase and sale of properties on behalf of individuals, brokers, and two publicly listedREITs managed by the company. By leveraging proprietary transaction data and an end-to-end digital workflow, Loft is bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce age while integrating a multitude of adjacent service offerings.Loft was founded in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Reka AI — Reka is an AI research and product company that develops models to benefit humanity and advance the state-of-the-art.
GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Sphinx — Sphinx is AI that thinks in statistics and patterns and generates artifacts and insights that an adult can reproduce and fully own.
Rocksalt — Rocksalt operates an AI marketing coach platform that provides machine learning solutions for businesses. The company focuses on developing innovative technologies that enhance data analysis and decision-making capabilities. Rocksalt offers a range of services, including predictive analytics, natural language processing, and custom AI modeldevelopment, tailored to meet the specific needs of various industries. The firm emphasizes collaboration with clients to create effective strategies that leverage AI for improved operational efficiency.It identifies high-value conversations, surfaces relevant discussions, and delivers personalized email digests and daily action suggestions to drive visibility and thought leadership. Plans range from a free tier that supports limited influencers and Slack channels to paid tiers with expanded engagement, analytics, team access, and CRM integration.
ASTRO — Situs Belanja Kebutuhan Harian Online dengan Harga Terjangkau dan Kualitas Terbaik. Pesan Kebutuhan Harian di ASTRO Pasti Sampai dalam Hitungan Menit

MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
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.

Chuxin Capital is an early-stage fund that actively deploys emerging formats centered on technology and consumption upgrades. It specializes in early-stage investments into companies within the enterprise services, technology, entertainment, and consumer products and services industries.Chuxin Capital was established in 2015 and is headquarteredin Beijing, China.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Vita Dynamics — Vita Dynamics involves learning through real-world interactions by developing robots that can physically engage with their environment, they can adapt more naturally and efficiently.
DreamTech — DreamTech is an AI startup company focusing on native 3D generation.
Xunlu Innovation — Xunlu Innovation is a cutting-edge bicycle manufacturer based in Shenzhen, China, specializing in intelligent electric cargo bikes designed to meet modern urban mobility needs.

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