Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in China in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Saas startups based in China. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Saas companies from China. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in China in November 2024
Investor | SaaS China investments |
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Lijie Wang | 9 |
Charles Xue | 6 |
Bob Xiaoping Xu | 5 |
Gang Wang | 5 |
Minhong Yu | 4 |
Frank Li | 4 |
Bingqiang Gao | 4 |
Wanqiang Li | 3 |
Xiaolai Li | 3 |
Ming Lei | 3 |
Wei Guo | 3 |
Xiaoguang Wu | 3 |
Su Hua | 2 |
Anatoly Yakovenko | 2 |
Anyi Shengyin | 2 |
Li Zexiang | 2 |
Tao Zhang | 2 |
Xiaochuan Wang | 2 |
Yinan Li | 2 |
Ron Zuckerman | 2 |
Jaggie (Chen) Zhu | 2 |
Lei Ming | 2 |
Yao Song | 2 |
George Godula | 2 |
O.D. Kobo | 2 |
Jun Zhang | 2 |
Mingming Zhu | 2 |
Qi Lu | 2 |
Wang Huiwen | 2 |
Victor Wang | 2 |
Jinbo Yao | 2 |
Xiangyang Yang | 2 |
Adrian Cheng | 2 |
Jun Lei | 2 |
Lu Fan | 1 |
Jacob Feng | 1 |
Peter Li | 1 |
Yuling Lin | 1 |
Amit Nanavati | 1 |
Qiyu Chuangying | 1 |
Yu Fangbiao | 1 |
Mr. Gu Junhui | 1 |
Zhang Lei | 1 |
Dongqing Cai | 1 |
Lu Feng | 1 |
Wei Tao | 1 |
Wu Jie | 1 |
Zhang Aizhi | 1 |
Mark Yang | 1 |
Fangyi Chen | 1 |
Leo Wang is recognized as an active angel investor and leading proponent of Mobile Internet, Blockchain, and Angel Investment in China. Boasting over twenty years in mobile internet and tech, he has invested in 300 startups, spanning healthcare to fintech and blockchain, including 2 NASDAQ-listed companies and 5 unicorns.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Aerospace, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
- Huojianpai — Huojianpai is a commercial aerospace company providing earth-moon space economy and future-oriented deep space exploration.
- Reserve — Reserve is a universal currency company. Reserve provides people with hyperinflation protected savings accounts to protect and use their money globally. They offer rtokens, collateral baskets, and over collateralization.
Charles Xue, also known as Xue Manzi, is a Chinese-American angel investor and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of UT Starcom and has invested in Chinese internet startups.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology, Retail
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
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- Huaqin Zhilian — Huaqin Zhilian is a manufacturer of smart robot convenience devices in the field of smart retail.
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Bob Xiaoping Xu is the founder of ZhenFund and one of China's most celebrated angel investors. Established in 2011 as a joint fund with Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund is China’s foremost angel fund. Managing USD 600 million, ZhenFund has 500 portfolio companies and offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Palo Alto. It has played a leading role inChina’s rise as a “startup nation”, and is widely considered a beacon of light in China’s vibrant startup environment. Prior to founding ZhenFund, Mr. Xu co-founded China's largest private English training and test preparation group, New Oriental Education, along with Michael Yu and Victor Wang. New Oriental became listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006 and currently has a market cap of USD 11 billion. The founders’ endeavors, which helped drive Chinese education toward a new global era, was featured in the box office hit “American Dreams in China”. The movie ranked as the #3 Chinese domestic box office hit in 2013. Mr. Xu’s success as an educator and an entrepreneur led him to angel investing, where he has pioneered a unique investment philosophy of investing in exceptional people. He became one of the most prolific patrons of entrepreneurship, as well as a leading mentor to young business leaders. Forbes Magazine has honored him on the Midas List as one of the World’s Top 100 Venture Capital Investors for two consecutive years (2016 and 2017). Mr. Xu currently serves as the Chairman of China Angel Investment Association. Mr. Xu has more than 11 million followers on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. He is also a prolific author who has published seven books on career growth and education. His writings, speeches and interviews on entrepreneurship, investment and education have had an immense impact on China’s emerging business leaders, and particularly on those who have studied abroad. He is the president of Committee 2005, an institution that gathers the most influential Chinese overseas returnees, including the likes of Robin Li, Neil Shen and Lee Kai-fu. Mr. Xu is deeply committed to philanthropy. He is a founding donor and the Committee Acting President of the Future Science Award, an annual award of USD 1 million for scientists who have made significant contributions to life sciences and physical sciences in Greater China. Mr. Xu graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, the Chinese equivalent of Julliard School of Music, with a bachelor’s degree in music. He received his master’s degree in music from the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to that he was a counsellor at Peking University for five years.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- YOTA — YOTA provides a healthy and diet food delivery service.
- Lagou — Lagou.com offers staffing services. The company’s clientele includes Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Group, SINA, JD.com, Beijing Xiaomi Tech, and Zhaopin.com.
- Omni Prime — Omni Prime provides Lending as a Service solution to retailers.
Gang Wang
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wozaijia.com — Wozaijia is a social e-commerce platform for home furniture."I am at home" is a trustworthy home to share direct purchase platform. Here, people can discover, experience, buy, share their favorite home products, we change the home to share economic practice of buying methods. "I am at home" believes that the world will bee better if we can always get a better life with less cost.
- Qianyu Islands — Qianyu Islands is the flagship brand of Beijing Beike Youjia Technology Co., Ltd., which is positioned in the “Urban Shared Accommodation Space”. It is committed to providing users with different traditional hotels and B&Bs, younger, more free, more possibilities and higher value for money accommodation options.Since its inception in 2017,Qianyu Islands is based on a sense of quality, experience and freshness for a new generation of consumer groups. It is transforming the traditional accommodation industry with a more Internet-based way to fill the market for urban mid-end accommodation.
- Huidu Environmental — Huidu Environmental is a recyclable packing material developer.
Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was anEnglish instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.
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Investment focus
- Education, Social Media, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Bottomsup — Bottomsup engages in the production of online education content.
- Kuaipeilian — Kuaipeilian is an online piano training platform
- Pingo Space — Pingo Space is a mobile platform that connects locals to expats through in-person experiences.
Frank Li is a former at Ameba Capital. CEO of WaCai. Prior to founding Ameba Capital, Mr. Li worked for Alibaba Group, where he focused on website planning and construction. He developed Alibaba’s biggest paying client base and second biggest income product, 1688 CXT. Mr. Li founded Koubei.com in 2004 and acted as CEO. Alibaba Group acquiredKoubei.com for over 50 million US dollars in 2008. Koubei.com merged with Yahoo China before finally merging with Taobao.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Retail, Internet
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- ROM — ROM provides fire safety, health security, management security, and personal safety services.
- Dianjia — Dianjia is an IT company specialized in developing retail service platform to provide O2O solutions.
- Pumpkin Coach — Pumpkin Coach is an O2O platform that helps users to make online appointments with hairstylists at Pumpkin Coach locations in Shanghai and Hangzhou. The company directly connects hairdressers to customers, facilitating communications, payment, and CRM while maximizing revenues for each hairdresser. Each Pumpkin Coach location features all necessarymachinery, equipment, and supplies.
Bingqiang Gao is the Independent Non-Executive Director of Q Tech.
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Robotics, Electronics
- Seed, Angel
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Z·Pilot — ZPilot is a stylish electronic new retail brand that combines contemporary toys and digital art to present viewers with a deeper visual.
- Xingmai Innovation — Xingmai Innovation creates, develops, and sells intelligent swimming pool cleaning robots.
- Ai Sensing Technology — Ai Sensing Technology is a national high-tech enterprise that focus on the research, development and production of bionic olfactory chips.
Wanqiang Li is responsible for the marketing of Xiaomi. He was the General Manager of Kingsoft Dictionary and notable for being one of the earliest UI practitioners in China. Graduated from Xi'an Science & Engineering Institute with a degree in Industrial Design in 2000, he joined Kingsoft’s UI Department and played a key role indeveloping many famous software projects including Kingsoft Antivirus, Kingsoft Dictionary and WPS Office. Wanqiang Li served at Kingsoft in various positions as Chief Designer of UI department, Director of Design Center and Director of Internet Content. Wanqiang Li is also a Co-founder of Xiaomi.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Art, Apps
- Angel, Series A, Funding Round
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Dayou — Dayou is a metaverse digital space service provider.
- reddoon.ai — reddoon.ai creates professional-quality product images.
- Optimist — Founded in August 2022, Letianpai is a consumer brand specializing in AI + IoT hardware product development. Our products are designed around people and their homes, integrating AI technology into these scenarios. We firmly believe that future tech gadgets are not mere lifeless devices but are empowered by AI.
BitFund was founded in the middle of 2013 by Xiaolai Li, started from as little as $3.5 Million, and within one year, BitFund became the most influential Venture Capital related to crypto-currency in China. Xiaolai Li, a middle-aged retired formal teacher, a life-long learner, an individual who has always been curious about innovations andenthusiastic on efficiency, Li is the first individual in China who has been publicly collecting bitcoins without trying to remain anonymous (everyone puts great emphasis on anonymity of bitcoin when they first know about bitcoin), therefore he is well-known in China, and became even more influential after the BitFund founded.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Social Media, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- China, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- WYAN — WYAN develops a stranger red social app that provides social services for users.
- Zhongmei Group — A Media & Entertainment Company based in Hangzhou,China.
- MASS MEDIA HOLDING GROUP — MASS MEDIA HOLDING GROUP integrates media operations, reputation management, media advertising, and integrated marketing.
Ming Lei (雷鸣) is the chief executive officer of Kuwo Science and Technology, a Chinese company providing digital entertainment services. Prior to that, he was a senior engineer at Baidu, a Chinese web services company. Lei holds an MBA from Stanford University, United States and a master’s degree in computer from Peking University, China.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Angel
- China, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Collov — Collov is a virtual interior design & shopping platform that offers interior design services stocked with shoppable goods from many brands.
- Bailian.AI — Bailian.ai is an artificial intelligence company that specializes in providing intelligent customer service. It aims to apply AI technology to deepen unstructured business information on the Internet into structured sales leads to help improve customers. Efficiency, reducing the cost of getting customers.Bailian Smart is committed to thedevelopment of automated knowledge generation technology based on deep learning, collecting, cleaning, extracting, screening and rewriting business information, refining it into precise and trustworthy knowledge and enhancing business awareness.
- FundedHere — FundedHere Crowdfunding Platform
Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
- Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
- Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Xiaoguang Wu was named Senior Management Adviser in June 2015. He joined Tencent in 1999 and was a member of the founding team. Xiaoguang Wu led the development and product planning for the Group’s core product, QQ, and served as project manager for the QQ research and development team. He also served as General Manager of the IM product divisionand General Manager of the internet business division. He was later promoted to Senior Executive Vice President of the internet services division and Chief Executive Officer of Tencent E-Commerce Holdings Limited. Xiaoguang Wu has extensive experience in product research and development, product planning, product operations and marketing internet businesses. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Weather Dynamics from Nanjing University in 1996 and an EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in 2008.
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Investment focus
- Software, Service Industry, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- China
Portfolio highlights
- DayDayUp — DayDayUp is a business community that connects Chinese and global innovators.
- Feipotong — Feipotong is a nationwide service company that focuses on airport parking.
- Waterdrop — Waterdrop is an insurance platform that plans to solve the problem of high medical fees faced by most patients, especially those with a critical illness. Shuidihuzhu offers three products: mutual insurance, crowdfunding and commercial insurance. All their services are conducted through the platform’s official WeChat account, where users could postcrowdfunding campaigns, buy insurances, or claim indemnities according to their policies.
Su Hua
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Wen Xiaobai — Wen Xiaobai is an artificial intelligence tool for providing query-answering services.
- Light Years Beyond — Light Years Beyond operates as an AI start-up company. Light Years Beyond provides generative AI technologies to companies that enable domestic users to get access to AI technology and products.
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
- Blockcast — Blockcast is a next-generation content delivery network that utilizes one-to-many distribution to save costs. It is an open content delivery network (CDN) with a distinct caching architecture that offers large, flexible capacity.
Anyi Shengyin
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Marketing
- Seed, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- The order is coming — The order is coming provides PMS system services. It helps hotels and homestays exert commercial value. They provide homestay management system supports hotels, apartments, access to ctrip, fliggy order data management, and wechat services.
- Molar Intelligence — Molar Intelligence is a professional artificial intelligence data service provider.
Li was born in Hunan, China and received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Economics (with honors) from Carnegie-Mellon University, his MA degree in Mathematics and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Li worked as a research scientist in the Artificial IntelligenceLaboratory of MIT and as an assistant professor in the Robotics and Manufacturing Laboratory of New York University. He received the National Natural Science Award (3rd class) from China, the University Scholar Award from Carnegie-Mellon University, the E.I. Jury Award from UC Berkeley, the Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation, the ALCOA Fellowship from the ALCOA Foundation and the E. Anthony Fellowship from UC Berkeley.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Robotics, 3D Printing
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- China
Portfolio highlights
- BOTINKIT — Taking the most advanced robotics technology and data-based algorithms, we are enabling possible an easier, smarter and healthier cooking.
- INTAMSYS — INTAMSYS offers a range of Fused Filament Fabrication technology 3D printers. Discover tomorrow' all-in-one 3D printing solutions.
- Homerun Smart — Shenzhen Qianhai Homa Technology Co., Ltd. is an independent research and development enterprise dedicated to artificial intelligence technology products. Headquartered in Guangzhou, the company has gathered high-tech talents from German technology R&D team and domestic well-known technology R&D team to provide independent research anddevelopment for the company. A solid technical guarantee. The development and production of smart pet feeders, smart pet companion robots and a variety of pet smart hardware are on the strategic agenda, and soon our smart hardware products will truly enter the family life and redefine the smart family lifestyle.
Tao Zhang (张滔) is the Founder and CEO of Dianping.com, MBA from the Wharton School. Tao was consultant in an American IT company. After coming back to China in 2003, he founded Dianping.com, the world’s pioneer in offering consumer reviews for restaurant. After 5 years of development, dianping has over 460,000 registered companies in over 340cities across China. More than 10 million regular visitors and 160 million page views per month make it the most popular city life website in China. Dianping has established branches in 5 cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou and is still expanding. Currently its service involves various consumption areas in city life, such as restaurant, shopping, reaction and living service, etc. With a favorable business model, Dianping has more than once been considered one of the companies with the most investment value in China by Zero2IPO and China Venture. It also raised funding from global leading venture capital firms, for example, Sequoia Capital. Dianping recorded profit in November 2008 and become the first profitable Web 2.0 Company and a search website centered on city life.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Education, Payments
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- China, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Z-Trip — Z-Trip is a company that provides travel management services for large and medium-sized enterprises. On the basis of integration of upstream supply chain resources, Z-Trip provides a one-stop SaaS service platform covering scenarios such as travel reservations, conference organization, fee settlement, payment and reimbursement to enterprises,including front-end PC terminals, mobile terminals and back-end service systems.
- PalFish — PalFish provides an education platform for teachers to teach English in an open market. You can simply imagine PalFish as eBay, but the merchandise being sold are English Classes. They provide people who are fluent in English the opportunity to teach people who want to learn English in their free time, and thus, create a virtuous Englisheducation cycle.
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania — Welcome to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Xiaochuan Wang has been Chief Executive Officer of Sogou since 2010. Under his leadership, Sogou has developed many strategic products, including the Sogou Search Engine, Sogou Pinyin Input Method and Sogou Browser. From 2010 to 2013, he also served as the Chief Technology Officer of Sohu. Wang joined Sohu in October 2000, when we acquired theonline alumni website Chinaren.com, and has played an integral role in establishing a technology-driven culture through a focus on team building and product innovation. Prior to Sohu, Wang worked as a technology manager at Chinaren.com. Wang received a Gold Medal in the 11th International Olympiad in Informatics ("IOI"). Wang received his bachelor and master degrees in Computer Science from Tsinghua University.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Angel, Seed
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Klarity — Klarity provides nurse practitioners and physician assistants with the marketing, software, and human resources they need to succeed in offering profitable telehealth services online.
- Baichuan Intelligent — Baichuan Intelligent is a developer of rail transit rolling stock inspection and testing equipment.
- Baichuan Intelligence — Baichuan Intelligence objective is to make it simple and universal for people to access professional services and knowledge. It is also dedicated to developing China's finest large model base through advancements in language AI.
Yinan Li is a partner at Plum Ventures and is known for being the founder of luxury electric bike maker Niu Technologies Group.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Tutoring, Education
- Seed, Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- EHello Online Education — EHello Online Education company is located in Nanjing, China. We are dedicated to connecting foreign people from all over the world with Chinese people through SKYPE and QQ.
Ron Zuckerman is the Co-Founder and Director of TV Time.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Video, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Israel, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Cymbio — Connect to hundreds of digital sales channels via Cymbio's automated multi channel e-commerce platform to increase sales & elevate revenue.
- Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
- Safeguard Applied Innovation — Safeguard Applied Innovation provides a mobile performance management platform for construction enterprises. It designs its solution to enable decision-making for successful project planning and execution, delivering effective control regardless of project complexity or national regulations.
Chen Zhu, Jaggie is the founder and CEO of KiwiDrop. Stanford Alum. Prev. Bytedance, Poshmark and P&G
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Synyi — The Senyi team is composed of elites from well-known universities and well-known companies at home and abroad. It integrates experts in areas such as artificial intelligence, medicine, medical informatics, and medical informationization. The core team's technical achievements have been applied to a number of national and municipal projects. Hehas published more than 20 papers in international top journals and has spoken at top international medical conferences.
- Run The World — Run The World helps you host virtual conferences, talks and happy hours. Create engaging online events to teach, network and build community. Get started for free!
- Hui'an Jinke (Ahi Fintech) — Hui'an Jinke designs and develops software for enterprises using artificial intelligence technology.
Lei Ming
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Hardware
- Seed, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Seengene — Seengene Inc. is an AI company that focuses on Mix Reality technology. The mission of Seengene is to digitize their 3D world and implement interaction between virtual content and the real world by its spatial intelligent engine and high definition visual map for both indoor and outdoor environment.The product system of Seengene consists ofsoftware, hardware and cloud service. In software product line, they customize AR solutions for clients, they also have SDK for user terminals, such as mobile phones, tablets and smart glasses. The hardware product line is consisting of untethered smart glasses with free form curve optics, industrial monocular eyewear and environment 3D visual information scanning device. By scanning device, one can scan both interior and exterior large space very efficiently, such as shopping malls, airports, factories, hospitals and other various buildings. The scanned and processed 3D information can be used for reconstruction and localization. The cloud service hosts all the 3D data and AR interaction content data and provides computing services for SDK on user devices.Seengene has founded a co-research laboratory with renowned Peking University to tackle the hardest computer vision problems relied by most intuitive mixed reality user interactions. The vision of Seengene is to help many clients from various industries such as cultural tourism, marketing, security and industry with its AI technology to improve their efficiency and experience.Since established, Seengene has served many clients from various industries and received plenty of praise from them.
- Changmugu Medical — Changmugu Medicalis an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered healthcare start-up providing AI-powered surgical robot solutions.
Yao Song
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- VirtAI Tech — VirtAI Tech’s Orion AI computing platform helps customers build datacenter class AI accelerator resource pools so that user applications can transparently share and use AI accelerators on any server in the data center without modification, which can not only help customers improve resource utilization and can greatly facilitate the deployment ofuser applications. A bunch of artificial intelligence, Internet and public cloud companies have begun to use the Orion AI computing platform.
Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments.
Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, China, Algeria
Portfolio highlights
- Mila Cares — Air breathers, rejoice. Meet Mila, the first air purifier designed with real, air-breathing humans in mind.
- Yassir — Access on-demand daily services like ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments with Yassir, your super app.
- Truck It In — is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential
O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Broadcasting, Video
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- China, Israel, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
- GiveHope —
- Totally Bored —
Jun Zhang - Partner @ PreAngel
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Investment focus
- Military, Aerospace, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- ZIYAN UAV — ZIYAN UAV is a manufacturer of electric unmanned helicopter platforms.
- Westwell Lab — Westwell Lab is a commercial lab specializing in neuromorphic circuits and systems. Through innovative algorithms, custom silicon, and a biology-inspired approach, the company aims to bring neuromorphic systems to big data, embedded systems, and industry. The company was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.
Mingming Zhu is the founder and CEO of Rokid. He previously worked at University of Louisville as an Instructor. Mingming Zhu attended Washington University in St. Louis.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Robotics, Lifestyle
- Angel, Seed
- China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- NOTHING — NOTHING is a mobile application platform for fashion bloggers.
- Art Robot — Art Robot specializes in the development and promotion of bipedal humanoid robots.
- Safeheron — Safeheron offers institutional-grade, comprehensive digital asset self-custody services and MPC privatization solutions, enabling enterprises to securely and efficiently manage their digital assets.
Dr. Qi Lu works for Microsoft as president of the Online Services Group. Dr. Lu leads Microsoft’s efforts in search and online advertising and all the company’s online information and communications services. Dr. Lu reports directly to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.Dr. Qi Lu has also served as executive vice president ofengineering for Search and Advertising Technology Group at Yahoo where he leads development efforts around Yahoo's Web search and monetization platforms. Prior to joining Yahoo in 1998, Dr. Lu was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. Before that, Dr. Lu worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a Research Associate, and at Fudan University in China as a faculty member. He holds 20 U.S. patents, and received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Fudan University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Technology
- Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
- China, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AiMall — AiMall develops artificial intelligence technology designed to transform the traditional mall experience.
- Cloudera — Cloudera delivers a hybrid cloud platform for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI.
- Jacobi Robot — Jacobi Robot creates generic artificial intelligence and cross-embodiment control methods for robots. It applies AI/AGI to the physical environment, allowing intelligent robots to assist a variety of sectors and households.
Wang Huiwen is the VP of Product and Marketing at Meituan.com. He attended the China Academy of Science.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
- Angel, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Silicon Mobile Technology — Silicon Mobile Technology is an AI infrastructure company that specilaizes in large models inference and deployment system to reduce the cost in the AIGC and LLM industries.
- Light Years Beyond — Light Years Beyond operates as an AI start-up company. Light Years Beyond provides generative AI technologies to companies that enable domestic users to get access to AI technology and products.
Wang Qiang (Victor Wang) is a Co-Founder of ZhenFund and New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE: EDU). He designed the oral and practical English and computer science courses. Prior to co-founding of ZhenFund and New Oriental, he was an engineer in the software division of Bell Communications Research and former lecturer of Englishlanguage and literature at Peking University.He received an M.S. in Computer Science from State University of New York, and a B.A. in English from Peking University. He is the Chairman of the Board of Juzi Entertainment.
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- EdTech, Travel, FinTech
- Angel, Seed, Series B
- China, United States
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- 17zuoye — 17zuoye is an online learning platform for students K-12, as well as teachers and parents. The name means “homework together” in Chinese, and the site aims to serve as a nexus for all three groups to facilitate the educational experience, focusing on English and Math classes.17zuoye offers a multi-platform homework solution that is in sync withthe textbook curriculum and enhanced by big data analytics. 17zuoye provides the teachers with good teaching tools and comprehensive statistics, the students with interesting learning apps and individualized adaptive learning content, and the parents with immediate study reports. 17zuoye also acts as a social network for these users, having the largest real-name based online teachers’ forum and Wechat parent’s community in the country.
- Blueseed — Blueseed is the upcoming startup community on a cruise ship stationed in Silicon Valley's The location, half an hour by ferry from the coast of Silicon Valley, enables entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world to start or scale companies on the ship without requiring U.S. work visas. They can travel to the mainland forbusiness or recreation using easier-to-obtain business/tourism (B1/B2) visas.As of 2014, Blueseed had received interest from The company has reserved $9M from an
- Omni Prime — Omni Prime provides Lending as a Service solution to retailers.
Jinbo Yao is the President, Founder and CEO at 58.com.
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- Marketing, Logistics, Automotive
- Angel, Series A, Seed
- China
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- Chaboshi — Chaboshi offers vehicle conditions, vehicle inspection, car warranty and used car valuation services.
- Xiongmao Kuaishou — Xiongmao Kuaishou is a provider of delivery, logistics and supply chain management services.
- Cbeidou Supply Chain — Canbeidou is a food catering logistics service provider in China.
Xiangyang Yang
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- Aerospace, Industrial, Manufacturing
- Series A, Angel
- China
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- Eyemore — Eyemore provides AI vision imaging solutions.
- Sington — Sington is a manufacturer of high-performance composite materials. Sington focuses on high-performance alloy material design, vehicle lightweight design, aluminum alloy integrated hot stamping technology, etc.
- EllipSpace — Elliptical Space-Time has the leading core technology and invention patents for integrated satellite communication, navigation and remote control, and will provide real-time wide-area comprehensive perception services to the global market.
Adrian Cheng is the Executive Vice Chairman and General Manager of New World Development, Executive Director of Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group, founder of K11 Group and co-founder of C Ventures. Based in Hong Kong and Europe, he is heading the operation of the family company New World Development, a $55bn infrastructure-to-retail group with holdingsin China and worldwide. Cheng is reinventing the family business as a “cultural enterprise” and expanding ownership to new areas including AI, entertainment and e-commerce, with a focus on China’s millennial and Generation Z audience.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Fashion
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, China, Hong Kong
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- 1017 ALYX 9SM — 1017 ALYX 9SM a foundation built on the undercurrent. Designed by Matthew Williams, the brand is built on the concept of high quality materials mixed with subversive culture and modern craftsmanship.
- Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos
- NaaS Technology — NaaS Technology is a provider of electric vehicle charging services for operators and owners. The company also offers one-stop services to charging pile manufacturers and operators, OEMs, companies with their own delivery fleets, and fleet operators, covering the entire value chain across the EV sector with online, offline, and non-electricservices. It had linked 290,000 chargers, with an annual charging capacity of more than 1,200 gigatonnes.NaaS Technology aims to make charging facilities more efficient and to incorporate this into structural changes to China's energy infrastructure, achieving an important step toward carbon neutrality.
Jun Lei is the Chairman, CEO and Founder of Xiaomi Technology. He attended Wuhan University.
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- E-Commerce, Mobile, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States
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- MarketX Ventures — MarketX is a one-stop shop for over 300 family offices, funds, and high net worth individuals to access high growth investment opportunities. Investment Management Platform Access to investment opportunities in high-growth companies all over the world from your smartphone.
- WITHWHEAT — WITHWHEAT is a bread baking brand in China that provides healthy and tasty bread.
- Dongpin Zaixian — Dongpin Zaixian is a B2B e-commerce platform focusing on the frozen food supply chain. By adopting mobile internet technology and innovative business model, the company relies on the feedback of user terminal's demand, establishes a data model, and re-creates the effective flow of information flow, capital flow and logistics generated in thetraditional circulation process of frozen products, improves circulation efficiency, and creates “ The Internet innovation platform of light platform, short process and fast mode, the company innovatively established the Frozen Fruit Research Institute, integrates the supply chain resources of brand manufacturers according to big data and research results, and provides platform Saas services for traditional wholesalers in more cities. Supply chain services, financial services.
Lu Fan is the founder of Xiaopet Technology.
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- Sales and Marketing, Information Technology, Community and Lifestyle
- Angel
- China
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- Xiaochong — Xiaochong is a digital marketing company that uses big data via network to provide credit technology, risk investment, credit counseling, and non-performing assets. Products include:
Jacob Feng - CEO and Founder @ ArtPlay
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- Consumer, Internet, Education
- Angel
- China
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- AiBook Digital Technology — AiBook Digital Technology is a book lending Internet O2O platform.
Peter Li is an individual investor.
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- Software, Industrial, Manufacturing
- Angel
- China
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- xinsuanyiti — xinsuanyiti is a visual system integration solution provider.
Yuling Lin
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- Publishing, Content Creators, Media and Entertainment
- Seed
- China
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- Yun Yue Wenxue — Yun Yue Wenxue is a novel creation platform.
Qiyu Chuangying is a individual investor.
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- Robotics, Security, Automotive
- Series A
- China
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- Ruizhu Technology — Ruizhu Technology is focused on 3D ranging technology in the field of lidar. It is a Sino-foreign joint venture founded by foreign A-class experts and jointly invested by leading listed companies in the industry, government-industry funds, and venture capital. The company's workplace is in Zhongguancun, Haidian District. The founding team hasworked closely with two Nobel Prizes.
Yu Fangbiao is an individual investor.
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- Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A
- China
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- Cofe+ — Cofe+ is an AI technology company with core R&D capabilities, cutting-edge operating technologies, and a robust sales network.
Mr. Gu Junhui is an individual investor.
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- Apps, Online Auctions
- Series A
- China
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- Yishi Online Bidding — Yishi Online Bidding offers online art auction services, famous tea, antiques, historical jade carvings, Western cutlery, paintings, calligraphy, correspondence, and other items are all covered, other services including transaction guarantee.
Zhang Lei is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Hillhouse Capital Group. Zhang Lei attended the Renmin University of China.
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- Big Data, Software, Nutrition
- Private Equity, Pre-Seed
- United States, China
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- Yimian Data — Yimian Data provides artificial intelligence, data analysis, and business consulting services. They have developed the methodology and successful experience of solving typical problems into several sets of service packages that can be implemented quickly. Yimian was acquired by Ascential plc in 2020, and now is part of Flywheel, an Omnicom company.
- Ancient Nutrition — With health products that include Certified USDA Organic, raw, sprouted, or fermented options, Ancient Nutrition by Dr. Axe is a leading source of nutritional supplements.
- Vets First Choice — Vets First Choice provides veterinary practices with an online pharmacy and home delivery services. It partners with veterinarians to create insight into gaps in patient care and offer professionalized pro-active prescription management to drive client engagement and improve compliance. The company was founded by Ben Shaw in 2010 and is based inPortland, Maine.
Dongqing Cai
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- Finance, Big Data, Automotive
- Angel, Series B
- China
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- LEADRIVE — LEADRIVE is a technology company that focuses on the research and development, production, and sales of new energy vehicle drive solutions and high-performance domestic power semiconductor modules. The company is developing a variety of high-performance motor controllers and self-developed power modules for new energy vehicles, which have wondomestic and foreign first-line passenger cars more than 10 models of OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers have been mass-produced and designated, and OEM certification progress for silicon carbide modules and electronic controls is in progress.LEADRIVE is also constantly investing and innovating in the field of new energy equipment such as wind energy, solar energy, and energy storage, and has taken the lead in realizing the localization of power semiconductor modules. LEADRIVE and Japan Rohm Semiconductor have established a joint laboratory to complete the iterative development of a variety of silicon carbide modules and realized simulation, testing, and efficiency from the device, and electronic control, to vehicle-level, promote.
- Chance — Chance is a natural language processing technology startup company.
Lu Feng is the Executive Director/Partner at Guangyuan Capital.
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- Hardware, Software, Manufacturing
- Angel
- China
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- Changyao Innovation — Changyao Innovation is a cutting-edge technological company. It provides intelligent robots to families. The current first-generation devices emphasize automating the entire grass management process. The main focus is on robotic lawnmowers with a vision-based full process.
Wei Tao - Founder @ Z Ventures Group
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- Hardware, Software, Automotive
- Angel
- China
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- JDO Auto — JDO Auto is a full-service software and hardware company for internet of vehicles.
Wu Jie is an individual investor.
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- Battery, Electric Vehicle, Internet of Things
- Seed
- China
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- Phoenicia — Phoenicia is the lithium battery internet platform that provides digital platform services and battery intelligent management solutions.
Zhang Aizhi is the founding partner of Taoli Capital.
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- Education, E-Learning, Language Learning
- Series A
- China
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- Orange Education — Orange La is an exam learning software for college students.
Haoyong Yang is the founder and CEO of Ganji.com and Chehaoduo (Parent company of Guazi and Maodou).Prior to founding Ganji, Yang worked in Silicon Valley for various technology companies such as Juniper Networks and was also the co-founder of Triomphe Networks. Yang is the President and Chairman of Google China joint venture.Markgraduated from Yale University with a Master Degree in Computer Science and University of Science and Technology with a Master’s Degree in Engineering.
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- E-Commerce, Automotive, Electronics
- Series A, Series E
- China
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- Chehaoduo — Chehaoduo designs an online car trading platform that sells used cars. Its online car trading platform directly links individual car sellers and buyers, which help buyers remove the middlemen as well as purchase used cars easily. Haoyong Yang founded Chehaoduo in 2014, with its headquarters in Beijing in China, with branches in Chinese citiessuch as Hangzhou and Chongqing.
- Qiezi Zhimai Wang — Qiezi Zhimai Wang offers AI-based consumer electronic products.
Fangyi Chen (陈方毅) is the founder of Fanhuan.com, a shopping platform for major e-shops. He is also the chief executive officer of Lingganfangzhou and Upin. Chen set up the Inspirational Ark Information Technology Ltd in Xiamen. Besides, he has founded websites such as See You Menstruation Helper, ruguoyun.com, and upin.com.
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- Internet, Automotive, Cloud Management
- Seed, Angel
- China
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