Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in China

Investor	Social Media China investments
NewMargin Ventures	5
Sinovation Ventures	4
GGV Capital	4
Sky9 Capital	3
Qingsong Fund	3
Crystal Stream Capital	3
CBC Capital	3
SBCVC	3
Tengxun Touzi	2
Zhonglu Capital	2
Qiming Venture Partners	2
Inke	2
IDG Capital	2
DT Capital Partners	2
Minhong Yu	2
PreAngel	2
SkyChee Ventures	2
Ping An Ventures	2
Atom Ventures	2
Shenzhen Capital Group	2
Source Code Capital	2
Frees Fund	2
Kinzon Capital	2
K2VC	2
Sinowisdom	2
CITIC Capital Holdings	2
Meridian Capital Asia	2
Ceyuan Ventures	2
Wuhan Optics Valley Elite Investment Management	2
8 Decimal Capital	2
ZSVC	2
Tencent	2
BW Ventures	2
China Equity	2
Xinweiyang Equity Investment Management	1
V1.cn	1
Ballpark Ventures	1
Tiantian Tou	1
Yuzhu Venture Capital Management	1
Weiyou Asset Management	1
UMC Capital	1
Bertelsmann India Investments	1
Kebin Dai	1
ZhenFund	1
South China Venture Capital	1
Bertelsmann	1
Hailong Xiang	1
Olympus Capital Holdings Asia	1
Youzu Interactive	1
FutureCap	1

NewMargin Ventures is a Chinese venture capital management company that supports emerging entrepreneurs.Founded in July 1999, NewMargin Ventures offers a unique and compelling combination of strong local and national government support within an organizational culture defined by independent decision-making, professionalism, and teamwork.NewMargin currently has about $520 million under management.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Internet
Series A, Angel, Series B
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

ZS Robotics — ZS Robotics specializes in technological innovation and the provision of dependable intelligent storage products and solutions.
Guorun Energy Storage — Guorun Energy Storage is an enterprise focusing on the manufacture of all-vanadium flow battery equipment and the production of core diaphragm materials for flow batteries, electrolyzed water for hydrogen production and hydrogen fuel cells. The two core products are all-vanadium flow energy storage battery products and perfluorinated ion membrane.
Powernice Intelligent Technology — Powernice is a high-tech company that specializes in the development and production of high-precision intelligent actuators and equipment.

Sinovation Ventures is a full-service venture capital firm that actively invests in the Chinese technology market.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Hope Medicine — Hope Medicine is committed to researching, developing and commercializing the first innovative drugs aimed at improving the quality of life for a wide range of popular male and female diseases.
Magair Chemical — Magair Chemical is a chemical synthesis CRO that was founded by Magera Technology. It is committed to using automated and intelligent platforms to provide new drug R&D customers with a new generation of chemical synthesis CRO services, significantly shortening the delivery of chemical synthesis links in the new drug R&D cycle, andsignificantly reducing the costs associated with chemical synthesis, removing pharmaceutical synthesis's current reliance on manual operations.
Heranova Lifesciences — Hekaiwei is a provider of innovative solutions for women's health.

We believe the talent to build great companies comes from anywhere. A global venture capital firm that invests in local founders. As a multi-stage, sector-focused firm, GGV focuses on seed- to growth-stage investments across Social/Internet, Enterprise Tech, and Smart Tech sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, 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.
Jam — Report bugs in seconds, and get back to what you were doing. It's as easy as taking a screenshot. Fast for you, and perfect for the engineers.
Nozomi Networks — Nozomi Networks keeps operational technology cyber resilient with OT network and endpoint visibility, threat detection, and AI-powered analysis.

Sky9 Capital is a leading venture capital fund dedicated to supporting disruptive technologies and outstanding innovators to drive change and create positive impact for society, the environment and individual lives. Sky9 Capital team includes senior experts, entrepreneurs, and experienced investors from diverse backgrounds. Since 2011, the team hasmanaged a number of USD and RMB funds, whose total assets under management of nearly USD 2 billion.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Wiseetec — Suzhou Xinrui Technology is a semiconductor equipment research and development company.
Riffusion — Riffusion allows users to make short music clips with AI-generated vocals.
Babel AI — Babel AI offers users full-process AI services for software development, operation, and maintenance. Its objective is to increase software development efficiency by recreating automated and visible AI-generated software workflows and software operating environments.

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.

Investment focus

Education, Internet, Health Care
Series A, Angel, Series B
China, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Suzhou Meichuang — Meichuang Medical is an innovative medical device company that focuses on the R&D, manufacturing and commercialization of high-end medical devices in the fields of peripheral vascular intervention, tumor intervention, and hemodialysis access maintenance
Dingtai Jiachuang — Dingtai Jiachuang is a high-tech enterprise that focuses on R&D, manufacturing, and sales of pan-power electronic product testing.
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.

Crystal Stream Capital specializes in making early-stage investments in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Qiutian Manman — Qiutian Manman is a professional brand engaged in developing nutritious food for babies and children, sets a “daily dietary nutrition clock” for babies and children, and assists parents to establish a new concept of nutritious meals for their offspring. The brand offers nutritious products designed for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well asnutritional supplements for the morning and afternoon, in a bid to guarantee babies and children aged 3-12 can have a reasonable intake of nutrition 24 hours a day to ensure their healthy growth every day.
Powernice Intelligent Technology — Powernice is a high-tech company that specializes in the development and production of high-precision intelligent actuators and equipment.
Physcience Golden Silicon New Material Technology — Physcience Golden Silicon New Material Technology is a technology-driven company that develops and manufactures silicon-based anode materials for lithium batteries.

CBC, founded by Dr. Edward Suning Tian in 2006, is a China-based private equity firm focusing on TMT investments. With its extensive industry expertise , CBC has been regarded as one of the most influential investors in the Internet and technology space in China, leading many exceptional investments in both the Enterprise and the Consumer Internetsectors. CBC leverages its operational background to create significant value for its portfolio companies. CBC currently manages multiple USD and RMB funds with a total AUM of over USD 2 billion and has built a strong portfolio consisting of leading industry companies such as 21Vianet, AsiaInfo, Longshine, Qiniu, Fraudmetrix, Dianping, Focus Media, Oriental Pearl, Babytree, Ximalaya, and Wacai.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

G7 — G7 has an installation base of 800,000 cargo vehicles throughout China. Through its proprietary hardware devices, the company is able to compile data for logistics companies and drivers on location, route optimization, fuel consumption, and cargo status (temperature, humidity, etc).
Robotphoenix — An industrial robot manufacturer in China
Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

Established in 2000, SB China Capital (SBCVC) is a leading venture capital and private equity firm that manages both USD and RMB funds. Their investment focuses on high-tech, high growth companies in TMT, clean technology, healthcare, consumer/retail, and advanced manufacturing sectors; and they invest across all stages of companies.Withextensive entrepreneurial and operating experiences, their professional and seasoned deal team members recognize the vision and champion the ideas of start-up companies. In addition to providing capital support, they help their portfolio companies realize their strategic and commercial potential by giving value-adding services and advices including planning, business development, recruiting and resources deployment.They have a proven track record and solid reputation in identifying high potential start-ups and creating successful industry-leading companies. Some of their spotlight portfolio companies are Alibaba, Taobao, Focus Media, GDS, BGI, Ankon, Di’an, and Edan.With their operational headquarters located in Shanghai and regional offices spread in Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Hangzhou and Taiwan, they have an extensive coverage of the greater China region and access to potential investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

HaploX Biotechnology — HaploX Biotechnology is a Shenzhen-based genetic sequencing company.
Shengyin Optoelectronics — Shengyin Optoelectronics is a platform-based micro-nano manufacturing firm that creates ornamental films for electrical appliances and portable electronics.
Xindi Digital Engineering System — Xindi Digital Engineering System specializes in the development of 3D CAD software for manufacturing enterprises.

Tengxun Touzi is a investment firm.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Education
Series A, Funding Round, Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

S-Game — S-Game is a game content production company.
Xiaoduo — Founded in 2014, Xiaoduo Technology is mainly engaged in artificial intelligence voice customer service. Its business scope covers e-commerce, government affairs, finance and other fields. China Telecom, Meituan, Haidilao and other enterprises are its customers.
WT Microtech Medical — WT Microtech Medical mainly engaged in the R&D, production, sales and maintenance of the third category of medical devices.

Zhonglu Capital is a China-based private investment firm founded in 2015.The firm is specializing in technology, media, and technology, local lifestyle, social network, internet finance, and e-commerce sectors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Social Media, LGBT
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Huodull — Huodull is a logistics platform that helps people improve shipping efficiency.
Invispower — Invispower provides wireless charging solutions and products.
New Cloud Medical — New Cloud Medical is the leading pain specialist medical association in China. It relies on the national key specialists, the Sino-Japanese Hospital Pain Specialist Medical Association, the national telemedicine platform, the top hospital brand and the expert resource library, making full use of the advantages of international pain disciplines.Construction of national, provincial, municipal, and county pain cloud platform grading clinics. Providing pain-specific specialty treatments to city-level and county-level public secondary hospitals, creating city-level and characteristic pain departments, improving the level of pain specialist treatment, and building a professional and comprehensive network of consultation consultations and a long-term scientific operation system.

Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners is a leading China venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong in China, and Singapore.Currently, Qiming Venture Partners manages eleven US Dollar funds and seven RMB funds with $9.5 billion in capital raised. Since our establishment, we have invested in outstanding companiesin the Technology and Consumer (T&C) and Healthcare industries at the early and growth stages.Since our debut, we have backed over 530 fast-growing and innovative companies. Over 200 of our portfolio companies have achieved exits through IPOs at the NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEX, Shanghai Stock Exchange, or Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or through M&A or other means. There are also over 70 portfolio companies that have achieved unicorn or super unicorn status.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Ruining Bio — Ruining Bio provides clinical medical solutions such as tumor radiotherapy protection, wound repair, tumor embolization, and anti-tumor drugs. Ruining Bio brings together various professionals in materials, chemistry, biomedical engineering, and clinical medicine.
Hope Medicine — Hope Medicine is committed to researching, developing and commercializing the first innovative drugs aimed at improving the quality of life for a wide range of popular male and female diseases.
Silicon Yi Technology — Silicon Yi Technology is an RNA nano-pesticide research and development firm.

Inke is a Chinese mobile app allowing users to watch live video broadcast on smartphones.

Investment focus

Social, Content, Hardware
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Miaoa — Miaoa is a trading platform where the user wants to meet with celebrities, can be obtained by purchasing the issuer.
Mozhe — Mozhe is a content-based social interaction platform.
Dream Glass — Dream Glass is a research and development manufacturer of AR smart glasses.

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

Ultiverse — Ultiverse builds the social gaming metaverse, connecting the Web3 to an immersive, fully VR compatible virtual world, and finally creates a unique MetaFi.
B² Network — B² Network is a Bitcoin Layer 2 network that utilizes ZK rollup and on-chain logical gate commitment verification mechanisms. It is a supplementary network that runs on top of the Bitcoin Network. It also introduces smart contracts to Bitcoin, which could open up new possibilities for DeFi, NFTs, and derivatives.
Novaserene Entertainment — Yuanyi Entertainment is an AI open-world game company dedicated on incorporating AI into game development. It is creating an AI-powered open world shooting game with the UE5 engine.

DT Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides growth capital to early and expansion stage companies. They invest in dynamic businesses that have high growth potential, strong management teams, and demonstrated revenue models in both technology-based and traditional industries. DT Capital Partners currently manages overUSD$500 Million in capital across multiple US dollar and RMB funds, and also has a close affiliation with Madrone Capital in the US, the investment entity for members of the Walton family.In addition to funds, the invested company also benefits from their extensive experience in operating capital markets across the country, close relationships with local governments and companies, and synergies with other investment companies.DT Capital Partners was awarded the “Top 10 China's Best Return Venture Capital Institution” in 2016, and the founding partners of Detong Capital, Shao Jun and Tian Lixin. DT Capital Partner was founded in 2006 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Parylene — Parylene is a provider of protective coating application solutions
Drug Farm — Drug Farm is a China and US-based biotech developing innovative treatments targeting innate immunity for HBV, cancer, and autoimmune diseases. Drug Farm's unique IDInVivo platform combines breakthrough technologies in genetics and AI to discover new treatments.
Next Generation Gene Therapeutics — Next Generation Gene Therapeutics is a healthcare company that engages in the research and development of gene therapy. Its unique propriety technology of "one target and two bullets" can provide effective treatment for a variety of genetic diseases that currently have few therapeutic methods in the world.NGGT was founded in March 2020by senior scientists and entrepreneurs in the field of gene therapy. It is committed to becoming the world's leading gene therapy company with international influence. The company has successful experience in the whole industry chain, concerning the early development of gene therapy products, the large-scale production of viral vectors, the construction of quality standards, international multi-center clinical research, and the application for the marketing of gene therapy products.

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.

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.

PreAngel is a 30M RMB investment fund focused on early stage internet startups. Investment on each project range from 100K to 1M RMB. In addition to investment, PreAngel plays a key role as "co-founder", providing guidance in startup operation, business model refinement and industry resources.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Blockchain
Angel, Seed, Series A
China, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
X World Games — Founded in 2018, X World Games (“XWG”) aims to build the next-gen decentralized gaming metaverse.X World Games' vision is to build a diversified gaming ecosystem that connects traditional gamers with the blockchain world and invite more game developers into the crypto space by creating and providing the underlying blockchain framework.Withits gaming innovation, crypto game - Dream Card, NFT Marketplace and DeFi Pool, X World Games now serves over 2 million registered gamers, and has quickly become the fastest-growing crypto gaming platform in the ecosystem.X World Games is headquartered in Singapore with a 100+ dynamic team located worldwide.
Feiba Business Travel — Feiba Business Travel is a business trip ticket service platform

SkyChee Ventures focuses on Hardware as a Service investments that combine highly competitive Asian manufacturing capabilities with global software and talent to enable new business models and revenue opportunities. They create value by combining global markets with technology innovation and value-add services. They focus on early stage technologyenabled investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

TouchELX — TouchELX develops software and hardware design solutions for IoT consumer devices. It focuses on developing embedded software on the MCU to create small-screen touch screen products. TouchELX 's core technologies feature microprocessor optimization, MCU offload, create controls, rendering algorithms, and graphics objects. The company wasfounded in 2017 and is headquartered in
autowise.ai — autowise.ai is an autonomous driving technology developer.
Gongdadi Innovation Technology — Gongdadi is an artificial intelligence automation development and training platform and technical service provider. Through the self-developed AI development and training platform, it provides enterprises with 0 codes and 1 hour to build independent AI capabilities, helping enterprises to reduce the cost, cycle and time of AI development. Thethreshold of use is widely used in fields such as smart cities, industrial testing, communities, electricity, and energy.

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."

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.

Atom Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in start-up and early stage of investments. It prefers to invest in smart hardware, smart manufacturing, healthcare, internet, mobile internet, pan-entertainment, online to offline, B2B and consumption upgrade sectors.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Electronics, Enterprise
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Forsense — Forsense is a technology company that provides software and hardware products for MEMS inertial sensors and integrated navigation systems and comprehensive in-depth, all-weather technical support to help customers solve a series of problems such as selection, integration, and data fusion.
New Saier Technology — New Saier Technology is a manufacturer of efficient semiconductor thermoelectric TEC materials. It provides customers with semiconductor materials, devices and system solutions.
Libei Electro-hydraulic Technology — Libei Electro-Hydraulics is a high-end hydraulic valve product R&D and manufacturer. It is a corporation that combines research and development, manufacturing, sales, and service for high-end hydraulic valves, hydraulic electronic control components, and electro-hydraulic control systems.

Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd (“SCGC”) is a limited venture capital company established by Shenzhen Government in 1999. Since its establishment, SCGC has focused on cultivating national industries, shaping national brands, promoting economic transformation and emerging industriesdeveloping. SCGC has registered capital of 5.42 billion RMB, andtotal AUM of 338.99 billion RMB. SCGC primarily invests in SMEs, innovative high-tech enterprises, enterprises in emerging industries, and enterprises in start-up period, growth period and in transformation, covering industries supported by national policies, including IT, internet, new media, biopharma, new energy, environmental protection, chemical engineering, new material, high-end equipment manufacturing, consumption goods, modern service, etc. By the end of April 2019, SCGC ranked the first based of the number of portfolio companies and the number of listed portfolio companies: 994 portfolio companies, investments totaling 43.9 billion RMB, 145 of which have been listed in 16 capital markets worldwide.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Petlibro — We believe that pets deserve responsible, high-quality care--and that their humans deserve an easier way to offer this to them. We offer seamless designs that allow human and animal habits to perfectly meld into one co-existing routine, creating a little more happiness for owners & pets every day.
Salus BioMed — Salus BioMed is an innovative biomedical company that specializes in developing genetic sequencing technology and spatial omics products.
Sanegene Bio — Sanegene Bio is currently operating in stealth mode.

Founded in 2014, Source Code Capital is a leading China VC focused on the broad TMT sectors and investing in both early stage start-ups and growth stage companies. With $1.5 billion and RMB 3.5 billion under management, Source Code Capital has been successfully partnering with close to 150 leading Chinese technology founders since inceptionincluding Bytedance, Meituan, Homelink, among many others. Source Code is focused on the “Big 3” fundamental drivers, which are Internet+, AI+, and Global+ , and invests along sectors such as media and entertainment, consumer services, enterprise, finance, retail, transportation, housing, education, and healthcare.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Powerlaw AI — Powerlaw Ai is a developer of artificial intelligence technology designed to improve the efficiency of legal processes.
Unitree Robotics — Unitree focus on the development of four-legged robot mobile platform and related power system components
Erui Micro Semiconductor — Erui Micro Semiconductor is a semiconductor company that specializes in the development of semiconductor overlay front-end measurement equipment.

By adopting revolutionary mechanisms, FREES FUND is devoted to change the long-established rules in the venture capital. By leveraging the cutting-edge technologies and resources, FREES FUND aims at investing in great startups and helping them grow into great enterprises that are valuable to our society. We mainly invest in early-stagestartups, and hope to become their first-round institutional investor. Our primary interested areas are broad-sense TMT (Technology, Media, Telecom), B2B and deep technology.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Aeroband — Aeroband is a manufacturer of air paddles and other musical instruments.
Brix — Brix is an AI-based platform that offers online recruiting services and solutions.
Babel AI — Babel AI offers users full-process AI services for software development, operation, and maintenance. Its objective is to increase software development efficiency by recreating automated and visible AI-generated software workflows and software operating environments.

Kinzon Capital is a Chinese venture capital firm specialized in early- and expansion-stage, and growth capital investments. It is also demonstrated business model or technological innovation and focused on innovation in the post-mobile internet, innovative business models targeting consumers and enterprise / B2B services.Kunzhong Capital wasnamed TOP 20 Best New Generation VC Firms & Best Chinese Artificial Intelligence VC Firms and Newly Developing VC Investment Firm of the year 2018. It is based in Beijing, China.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics
Series A, Series B, Seed
China

Portfolio highlights

Fontan Robot — Fontan Robot is a construction robot company and a professional provider of intelligent construction products and solutions.
Daimeng Robot — Daimeng Robot is dedicated to creating multi-series general-purpose humanoid robot products that are actually commercially available and concentrate on their research and production. It offers a comprehensive selection of goods and cutting-edge answers for situations including intelligent manufacturing, logistics, and commercial services.
Borui Dingneng — Borui Dingneng offers technical services and project building for carbon dioxide energy storage systems.

K2VC (Xianfeng Evergreen) was founded in 2010, focused on early stage investment in technology start-ups in China, focus on promoting change and technological progress, innovative business models and lifestyles.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Kewoke Technology — Kewo Ke Technology is a developer of diaphragms for hydrogen production via alkaline water electrolysis. It primarily develops diaphragms for alkaline water electrolysis, which are the building blocks of machines that produce hydrogen by alkaline water electrolysis. It is mostly used for site rental and employee pay, production line construction,laboratory construction, material purchasing, technology upgrading and transformation, and new product research and development.
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.
Erui Micro Semiconductor — Erui Micro Semiconductor is a semiconductor company that specializes in the development of semiconductor overlay front-end measurement equipment.

Zhe Jiang Huarui Investment Management Limited, founded in 2002, is a Chinese domestic private investment venture capital management agency.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Software
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, Philippines, United States

Portfolio highlights

Biosun Pharma — Biosun Pharma is an innovative biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the production of drugs for tumors, self-immune diseases, and inflammatory diseases.
Noah Fluorochemical — Noah Fluorochemical is a technology-based firm that specializes in the R&D production, and sale of fluorine-containing electronic chemicals. It primarily manufactures high-efficiency and ecologically friendly perfluorohexanone fire extinguishing agent, mid-to-high-end electronic cleaning products, and other fluorine-containing electronicchemicals.
Lingyun Microelectronics — Lingyun Microelectronics is a manufacturer of high-speed digital-analog hybrid interfaces and control processors.

CITIC Capital Holdings is an alternative investment management and advisory company headquartered in China.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Sunman — Sunman Energy is a technology company founded by a group of industry veterans delivering the future of Solar. Through the research and development of composite materials, Sunman has successfully commercialized the world’s first glass-free, lightweight and flexible Panel – eArc. Replacing glass completely, eArc brings solar power to markets andapplication scenarios that were previously impossible.
Autoroad — Autoroad specializes in the core sensors for intelligent driving.
Veminsyn — Veminsyn is a biotech manufacturing firm that conducts research and produces healthcare and agricultural products.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Angel, Series B
China, Latvia, Seychelles

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.
Yuanlian Technology — Yuanlian Technology is an industrial internet platform that provides integrated infrastructure for localized intelligent manufacturing.
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.

Ceyuan Ventures is a Beijing-based early stage venture capital firm focused on IT and emerging growth companies. They emphasize backing great teams, technology and business innovation. Their mission is to assist entrepreneurs in creating and building world-class businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ruidiwei — Ruidiwei is a tech enterprise that specializes in the design, development, production, sales, and service of antennas and components in microwave and millimeter-wave frequency bands.
Qinglei Technology — Qinglei Technology is a radar sensing technology startup.
Siyue Intelligence — Siyue Intelligence produces software and hardware for TFT-LCD semiconductor automation. It integrates R&D, design, production, and service, and is committed to providing fully automated warehousing robot systems, and intelligent detection.

Wuhan Optics Valley Elite Investment Management is a specialized fund management company that supports talent entrepreneurship innovation and start-up enterprises based on the “3551 Optical Valley Talent Program” of Donghu Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone. Established in August 2015, Hubei Science and Technology Investment Group Co., Ltd.,an investment and financing platform affiliated to Wuhan East Lake New Technology Development Zone, is jointly invested by Hubei Taizhen Investment Management Co., Ltd. under the Pacific Securities and Hubei Hanjiang Investment Management Co., Ltd. under Camel Group Co., Ltd. Companies and other social capital funds were established. At present, the company manages two funds with a total scale of 1.1 billion yuan.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Angel, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

Jiahe — Jiahe Info provides objective and professional data information, and business consulting services.It is a high technology enterprise that is committed to the satellite remote sensing technique and application. Against the background of the rapid development of the aerospace industry, Jiahe builds an expert team relying on the State KeyLaboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing of Wuhan University. Headed by Gong Jianya, the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the key technical personnel at Jiahe all hold Ph.D. or master’s degrees. So far, Jiahe has won several core patents.
Yesense — Yesense is a manufacturer of motion sensing, positioning, and navigation products and solutions. Yesense develops, manufactures, and sells inertial sensors and integrated navigation systems such as the inertial measurement unit (IMU), the attitude and heading reference system (AHRS), and the inertial/GNSS integrated navigation system. Yesensecreates long-term value for customers by developing competitive and dependable products and solutions in smart cars, industrial vehicles, unmanned robots, and consumer electronics in open collaboration with ecosystem partners.
JIMU Intelligent — JIMU Intelligent, founded in 2011, is a leading AI company that dedicated to vision-based intelligent driving technology. Based on its self-developed computer vision technology, JIMU is always in pursuit of the development and popularization of intelligent driving. At present, JIMU has established cooperations with many car manufacturers to bringabout future smart driving and transportation, and forged partnership with insurance, fleets, and intelligent transportation firms to release cost-efficient ADAS-based industry solutions.

8 Decimal Capital is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on both token and equity investment. We currently have more than 30 portfolio companies, and an AUM of 60M USD. Our investment team consists of more than 10 venture capital veterans, researchers, and trading professionals. We thematically invest in core infrastructure layer projects thataddress security, scalability, and privacy, provide a full suite of post-investment value-add to our portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Polkadot — Polkadot empowers blockchain networks to work together under the protection of shared security.
Parallel Finance — Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services.
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ZSVC is a Chinese venture capital firm specialized in seed and early stage investments.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fusionride — Fusionride offers smart mobility solutions, using sensor FUSION at the center of its perception technology. It focuses on independent research and development in smart driving technologies, including HPC hardware platforms, sensing, 4D-imaging radar, and fusion.
Hengding Materials — Hengding Materials is a manufacturer of hot isostatic pressing equipment for civilian usage. It offers cost-effective solutions for essential metal wear components in numerous industrial fields.
Aoshi Environmental — Aoshi Environmental specializes in high-performance reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membrane separation, the company offers products for various industries, including drinking water, food, and pharmaceuticals.

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
Sinovent — Founded in 2016, Sinovent is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on innovation. Sinovent is centered around global standard excellence through its advanced biotechnology platform, decades of management experience, as well as financial support. Sinovent uniquely combines its expertise in science, management and finance, to develop and promoteadvanced treatment methods to solve worldwide healthcare problems. Currently, the company has 12 products in development, primarily in oncology, auto-immune diseases, and infectious diseases.
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BW Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Angel, Seed, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Fuulea — Fuulea is a high school tablet teaching system provider.
Lalu Shijia — Lalu Shijia is a processed food brand.
Mitu Huan Teng Technology — Mitu is a social platform for entertainment games, focusing on offline multiplayer entertainment games. With KOS (Key Opinion Sales) as the core, it provides consumers with online group buying and offline shopping. Play and other services.

ChinaEquity is China's private merchant bank engaging in VC, PE, Direct investments as well as investment management. It provides one-stop cross-border VC PE and direct investments to high-tech enterprises throughout the Greater-China Region.The company uniquely positions itself to the booming Chinese technology, media, telecommunications,biotechnology and environmental technology, sports, medicine and the natural resource industries, and aims to equilibrate the demand and the supply in the capital market and provide total solutions to all parties on the capital flow chain.Clear development strategy and innovative business model has helped ChinaEquity to achieve outstanding performances. Its resources and networks extend all over the Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Europe and Greater China. International strategic alliance and partnerships allow the company to be able to cover all stages of investment and financing. Since inception, ChinaEquity has achieved a promising portfolio of investments and has established a high-quality customer base.ChinaEquity fully understands the political, economic and cultural environment in Greater-China, is well experienced in international capital market operations, and familiar with development trend. The company maintains long-term and favorable communications with Chinese governmental bodies, international financial institutions and high-tech enterprises.ChinaEquity was founded in 1999 by Mr. Chao Y. Wang, formerly the Vice President and Beijing Chief Representative of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. The senior partners and executives joined ChinaEquity from international and domestic renowned financial institutions and high-tech enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Education
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

iSMARTWAYS — iSMARTWAYS provides core equipment and solutions for V2X connected vehicles and intelligent transportation.
Cadena — Looking to expand to the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE etc.)? Cadena has a Local Sales Team in every GCC country and proprietary technology: Discovery Portal, BuyBeacon & IntelliContact for Low-Cost growth across the region.
iSmartWays — iSmartWays Technology is a technology company, engages in connected vehicle (V2X) and transportation technology. iSmartWays Technology specializes in research, development and manufacturing of connected vehicle hardware and software solutions.

Equity Investment Management

Investment focus

Internet, Consulting, Mobile Apps
Angel, Series B
China

Portfolio highlights

Anlaiye — Anlaiye is a campus university mobile network O2O service platform for students.
Yingyujiao — Yingyujiao is an internet C2C consulting platform.

V1 is new media enterprises in China which principally engage in the production and broadcasting of internet video news.

Investment focus

Video, Internet, Broadcasting
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Laihua.com — Laihua is an intelligent creation and trading platform for animation and IP digital humans. They provide 3D digital humans, virtual space, virtual materials, and other metaverse content creation software.

Ballpark Ventures is a small, boutique fund investing in early stage technology startups. Their partners are all successful entrepreneurs and at this stage, investing their own money.

Investment focus

Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Silverback.ai — eRated (http://erated.co) creates a single identity for e-commerce sites, allowing online buyers and sellers to utilize their already existing reputation everywhere they go. By using a universal identity, sellers are able to operate in more marketplaces, reach more customers and increase their conversion rates and sales as they nolonger need to re-build their reputation (ratings, reviews and comments) in each site. eRated uses a widget displayed in partner sites that aggregates and summarizes the sellers ratings and feedback earned across various marketplace, increasing user trust.The founders are all veterans of elite Israeli army tech units and alumni of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program (Israel's most prominent student accelerator program).
Adludio — Adludio is the AI-powered platform that delivers interactive mobile advertising. By using data to design your ad creative, and algorithms to optimize your campaigns, Adludio makes sure you win the battle for brand attention.
Pronto Technology — Pronto, we care deeply about the meals we deliver to you. We want them to be very good; for you, the community and the environment. All our healthy meals are freshly cooked from scratch, just like at home - they won’t see the inside of a freezer.

Tiantian Tou is an investment management and consulting firm.

Investment focus

Leisure, Marketing, Advertising
Angel, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

DiYiDan — DiYiDan is an online platform for discussion, make friends, and improve skills.
Panda iMedia — Panda iMedia is a digital media company that helps content creators to market.

Yuzhu Venture Capital Management is engaged in entrusted management of venture capital funds.

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile Apps, Social Media
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Simi — Simi is a social media application for making friends and fans.

Weiyou Asset Management is engaged in asset management.

Investment focus

Social, Content, Software
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Daily Shakes — Daily Shakes is a block chain social service platform that provides users with interactive content sharing.

UMC Capital was established in February 2001 as the direct investment arm of world leading semiconductor foundry UMC. By leveraging the resources of UMC and its affiliates, UMC Capital is well positioned to deliver significant strategic values to startup companies.The mission/objectives of UMC Capital are: identifying innovativetechnologies, forming mutually productive relationships with entrepreneurs, exploring and expanding emerging and applications, and earning financial returns for the parent company UMC.

Investment focus

Software, Semiconductor, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Ramon.Space — Ramon.Space builds space-resilient super-computer systems that bring cloud computing to space. The New Space market is driven by privatization and commercial goals that give birth to new space services and applications. The demand for significant processing power, storage and better intelligence creates a huge market potential. Yet, the scale ofcomputing capabilities required for New Space applications is not available today due to environmental challenges such as radiation and extreme temperatures. Powered by its unique AI/ML processors, Ramon.space’s software-defined systems enable the realizations of earth-like computing capabilities in space. The company's proven technology is already deployed in space, and is used in many satellites and in more than 50 space missions across the solar system - with zero failures. With its innovative technology and an enthusiastic team that constantly pushes the boundaries of technology, Ramon.Space is set to lead the digital transformation of space.
Silicon Box — We are an advanced chiplet interconnection company specialising in cutting-edge semiconductor integration services. Learn more about our proprietary integration technology.
SiLC Technologies — Empowering machines with LiDAR to see like humans. SiLC brings AI and Robotics together with Drone, Robotic and Long Range LiDAR solutions.

Bertelsmann India Investments (BII) is the strategic investment arm of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA in India. We focus on investing in pioneering companies in digital, education, media and services sectors. We focus on early stage, as well as growth stage investments.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Education
Series B, Series C, Series D
India, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Shiprocket — Shiprocket is India's most-used eCommerce logistics and shipping software solution for the best courier services. Avail features like COD (Cash on Delivery), prepaid delivery, automated shipping, etc.
LetsTransport — Lets transport is a “Last mile” logistics solution provider. Their solutions are reliable, professional, economical and structured to serve businesses as well as consumers. They currently provide Tata Ace on demand as well as on attachment basis.
Awign — Awign is a work fulfillment platform specializing in gig workforce and provider of last-mile delivery services. It operates in sectors of education-technology, hospitality, e-commerce, mobility, information technology, and financial technology.The startup also fulfills on-the-ground work such as auditing, diligence, assessments, proctoring, newbusiness development, and digital gigs for clients, including Swiggy, ITC, Bigbasket, Britannia, and Aditya Birla Capital, among others. Awign also provides work opportunities to college students, graduates, and women wanting to come back to work, and is solving unemployment, under-employment, and skilling problems.IIT-alumni Annanya Sarthak, Gurpreet Singh, and Praveen Sah founded Awign in Bangalore, Karnataka, India in 2016.

Kebin Dai is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lietou.com, a high-end talent community-based recruitment site. He is an expert in recruitment marketing in China.Considered as an expert in recruitment marketing, Dai served at many established companies including P&G and was in charge of the branding operations for Ariel, whisper,Crest and Oral-B brand.Dai resigned P&G as Brand Manager of Greater China and founded Lietou.com in 2008.In 2010, Dai successfully entered the 2010 Asia America Multi-technology Association Cradle Plan. In 2012, Mr. Dai was acclaimed as one of top 10 most influential innovative entrepreneurs in human resources in China.Dai graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in Finance.

Investment focus

News, Social News, Social Media
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

pencilnews — The authenticity and trustworthiness of China media have been challenged by foreign press for decades. Media or reporters are often paid (bribed) to write articles on “customers” behave. The truth is, the local people doubt about media as well and in the startup world, it is no exception. The founder of PencilNews, Fang Wang, has experienced itfirsthand and changing the immorality and the unprofessionalism becomes his passion. he mission of PencilNews is to provide the true information about early stage startup. PencilNews has no ads, no paid articles, no articles based on speculation and of course, reporters are restrictedly prohibited to receive money or any incentive for writing. As the slogan “The pencil never lies, the legend never dies”, PencilNews has been VC’s favorite media in China and has funded by SoftBank, Bertelsmann, K2VC, ZhenFund, InnoAngel and etc. for approximately 15M RMB in total.Every PencilNews article is written by our own reporters and interview founders directly through phone conversation or face-to-face meeting with voice recording to back up the authenticity of articles. Because of the diversity of startup and the flourishing ecosystem in China, PencilNews has covered startups from the agriculture, fish, livestock industry to the entertainment, gaming, education, manufacturing, smart devices and full of diverse industries. The trustworthy articles have caught investor’s needs to discover early stage startups and became the first choice for startups to understand the market situation and customer needs.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mogic AI — Mogic AI is an advertising technology platform that provides tools to create and launch campaigns by pulling product images into ads using AI.
Levinthal — Levinthal is an AI-driven protein design platform. They offer services for artificial intelligence in food safety and medical care. They offer synthetic biology, food, feed, and environmental protection.
Altos Radar — Altos Radar accelerate the development and implementation of 4D Imaging Radar technology in driver-assisted and fully autonomous driving systems.

South China Venture Capital is a private equity investment fund management as the main business of professional investment management organization. Under the jurisdiction of the three branch of the fund management company: Shenzhen South China Invsetment Management Co.Ltd, South China (Tianjin) Equity Investment Fund Management Co. Ltd., ShenzhenZhongnan Hongyuan Invsetment Management Co. Ltd.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Angel, Series B
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Presheng — Presheng New Materials is a high-end semiconductor polishing solution provider. The company has extensive technical knowledge of high-end abrasives. Prisheng focuses on the research and development of high-end alumina polishing fluids, polishing abrasives, and other goods. Provider of cost-effective local solutions for third-generation compoundsemiconductor polishing.
IDT Micro — IDT Micro is a microelectronics technology company that specializes in manufacturing and developing automotive-grade analog chips and power switching devices.
Yuewei Medical — Yuewei Medical is a developer of cardiac surgery interventional medical devices.

Information about the international media enterprise and it's corporate divisions RTL Group, Penguin Random House, Gruner + Jahr, Arvato; detailed information for journalists in the Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA's Press Center as well as everything about Corporate Responsibility activities at Bertelsmann.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rupeek — Rupeek is a financial services company that features an online lending platform that specializes in credit risk, gold loans, and personal loans. It offers lending solutions for lenders and borrowers. The company is driven by its mission is to bring financial inclusion for the masses and introduce products that are transparent and people-friendly.Rupeek was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
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LighthouseAI — Discover how LighthouseAI provides expert solutions for pharmaceutical regulatory compliance. Explore and optimize your compliance journey.

Hailong Xiang joined Baidu in February 2005. He serves as Vice President in charge of Baidu’s commercial operations.Xiang served as Vice President of Baidu’s direct sales for its search marketing business, from April 2007 to July 2011.Mr. Xiang graduated from East China Normal University in 2000 with a degree in computer science.In 2001, Mr.Xiang established Shanghai Qilang, an Internet services firm, and served as its general manager.He joined Baidu with the acquisition of Shanghai Qilang in February 2005. Since joining, Mr. Xiang has led his team in completing the transformation of Baidu’s direct sales organization, effectively improving its structure, business processes, incentive systems, and marketing methods.He now oversees commercial product development, service management, and the Baidu Union.

Investment focus

Apps, Parenting, Mobile Apps
Angel
China

Portfolio highlights

Dooluu — Duolu is a social app that allows parents, relatives, and friends to record and share adolescent’s growth moments from thousands of miles away. It is also an interactive tool for homeschooling in the field of early childhood development. Family members can see the class dynamics posted by the teacher every day, and always understand the progress ofthe adolescent’s learning and growth.

Olympus Capital Holdings Asia is a leading middle market private equity firm. Since its establishment in 1997, Olympus Capital has invested approximately US$1.3 billion on behalf of funds and co-investors in approximately 30 portfolio companies throughout Asia, including China, India, Japan and Korea. Target industries include manufacturing,agribusiness, business services, environmental services and financial services. Recent investments include Sichuan Emeishan Special Cement Co. Ltd. (China), Quatrro BPO Solutions (India), Kyoto Kimono Yuzen (Japan), China Zhongwang Holdings Limited (China) and Zhaoheng Hydropower Holdings (China). Olympus Capital has a team of experienced investment professionals located in offices in Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo and New Delhi. This extensive regional infrastructure gives the firm a decided advantage in identifying, structuring, monitoring and adding value to its investments. Olympus Capital's global investor base includes leading pension funds, financial institutions, endowments and family offices from North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Investment focus

Logistics, Manufacturing, Energy
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series C
China, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

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Enact — Enact is a leading solar energy and solar software company serving homeowners, businesses, and installers. Get a free quote or request a demo today!
Utkarsh Small Finance Bank — Utkarsh Small Finance Bank (USFB) designed to fulfil your everyday needs with our financial services. We provide a range of banking services - loans, accounts, deposits and investments across India.

YOOZOO GAMES Co., Ltd. (SZ.002174) is a world-leading provider of interactive entertainment. YOOZOO Games implements the strategies of big data, globalization, and quality products to achieve integrated development across four major arenas: globalized game R&D and publishing, IP management, big data and intelligent technology, andpan-entertainment industry investment

Investment focus

Mobile, Gaming, Software
Angel, Series B, Series C
China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

idatag — idatag offers big data-oriented enterprise precision marketing solutions.
DiYiDan — DiYiDan is an online platform for discussion, make friends, and improve skills.
Monte Carlo — Monte Carlo is an AI-based blockchain technology company that provides users with high-simulation agents and intelligent credit data products.

Future Capital Discovery Ventures | The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Investment focus

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, United States, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Zhuji Dynamics — Zhuji Dynamics is a general-purpose footed robot company that focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of sports intelligence and footed robots
Lanxin Computing — Lanxin Computing is a high-performance chip design company that focuses on the research and development of CPUs with RISC-V ecosystems.
Rongsu Technology — Rongsu Technology is a provider of metal wire feeding additive equipment and services.