Top 50 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Asia in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sporting goods startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sporting goods companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Asia in November 2024
Investor | Sporting Goods Asia investments |
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Eagles Fund | 3 |
Edge Labs | 1 |
NextView Capital | 1 |
Ningbo Angel Capital Guiding Fund | 1 |
IPBridge | 1 |
Mekong Capital | 1 |
ZTE Venture Capital Fund Management | 1 |
RION | 1 |
Share Capital | 1 |
Henggu Touzi | 1 |
Decasonic | 1 |
Dahe Ventures | 1 |
Toread Holdings Group | 1 |
Kaga Electronics | 1 |
PreAngel | 1 |
Beiruan Angle | 1 |
GSR United Capital | 1 |
Ameba Capital | 1 |
ShareLink Capital | 1 |
Dark Horse Ventures | 1 |
Innovation Engine | 1 |
KAIYUNTOUZI | 1 |
1kx | 1 |
IDG Capital | 1 |
Cenova | 1 |
W ventures | 1 |
Prox Ventures | 1 |
Innoangel Fund | 1 |
China Equity | 1 |
Jinding Capital | 1 |
Adways | 1 |
BW Ventures | 1 |
Yield Guild Games | 1 |
Ricebank | 1 |
Wedo Capital | 1 |
Sfermion | 1 |
Zehou Touzi | 1 |
Thunderstorm VC | 1 |
Baozun Commerce | 1 |
Redstone Capital | 1 |
Metaorient | 1 |
Buhuo Ventures | 1 |
China Capital Investment Group | 1 |
Huading Touzi | 1 |
Hammer Capital Management | 1 |
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital | 1 |
Blackbirdsport | 1 |
Keio Innovation Initiative | 1 |
Ceyuan Ventures | 1 |
Plum Ventures | 1 |
Eagles Fund is a diversified angel fund and family fund.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Internet
- Angel, Series A, Seed
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cai Xiaomi — Cai Xiaobi provides Saas service for supply chain service in agri foods.
- Star Speed Store — Star Speed Store is a delivery robot provider. Star Speed Store provides hotels with delivery robots for delivering food, packages, and room service within eight minutes – a typical last-mile journey on the premises.
- Tianbing Technology — Tianbing Technology is an advanced aerospace propulsion system supplier and aerospace vehicle provider. Tianbing Technology independently develops the next-generation ambient temperature green HCP liquid propellant and minimalist aerospace propulsion system. As an upgraded product of traditional chemical propulsion system, it can meetcost-effective aerospace. Advance system supporting needs. The next-generation green HCP aerospace propulsion system, first tested by Tianbing Technology, can be used in the small-vehicle main power and launch vehicle upper-level propulsion system.
Edge Lab provides various support services for IP business.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Wearables, Sporting Goods
- Series A
- Japan
NextView Capital is an investment corporation following the philosophy of prudence,specialization and high efficiency. NextView Capital ("NextView") is an active investment fund based in Beijing and Shanghai, China. NextView Capital has available resources of c.RMB 30 billion and invests primarily in new energy, mineral resources, TMT,sports and consumption sectors. NextView's recent investments include a shareholding in Nanjing Yuebo Auto Electronics Co., Ltd., a leader in the field of electric vehicle systems in China.
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Investment focus
- Robotics, Education, E-Commerce
- Series A
- China
Ningbo Angel Capital Guiding Fund is a non-profit-oriented policy fund set up by the municipal government.
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Angel, Series A, Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Leiden Cryo — Leiden Cryo is an innovative technology company that specializes in the development of cryogenic technology and its cutting-edge market applications for creating low-temperature environments for storage and transportation of hydrogen energy.
- Xirun Medical — Xirun Medical empowers rehabilitation through breakthrough technologies.
- Weinan Technology — Weinan Technology is a reflective display component developer that focuses on the development of reflective display core components.
IPBridge is a company specializing in the management of intellectual property and funds.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Content, Education
- Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Bonx — GO MAKE NOISE
- KIYO Learning — KIYO Learning offers a commuting course, an online course to acquire qualifications for business people.
Mekong Capital is a Vietnam-focused Private Equity firm, specializing in consumer driven businesses. Mekong Capital’s investee companies are typically among the fastest growing and market leading companies in Vietnam’s consumer-driven sectors such as retail, restaurants, consumer products and distribution.Established in 2001, Mekong Capitalhas the most extensive private equity track record in Vietnam. Our funds have completed 30 private equity investments, of which 22 have been fully exited and 1 has been partially exited. Mekong Capital has managed 5 funds, one of which is currently making new investments. Mekong Capital has a team of 50+ full-time people in our offices in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, who have an average tenure at Mekong Capital of around 6 years. Three Partners with combined 31 years at Mekong Capital.Mekong Capital invests in fast-growing companies, with ambitious expansion plans, and a strong commitment to building management teams that will apply best practices and successfully execute on those expansion plans. These companies are typically well-established companies in their sectors, but which typically operate in fragmented and fast growing markets which present attractive growth opportunities.Mekong Capital is strongly committed to adding significant value at each of its investee companies – through operational improvements, building management teams, introduction of best practices and outside experts, and applying other elements of our Vision Driven Investing framework.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Retail, Service Industry
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
- Vietnam, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Rever.vn — Rever is a technology company operating in the field of Real Estate, officially launched in early 2016. With a team of senior personnel in many fields, Rever develops online real estate distribution system based on the map, providing the perfect brokerage service, creates a smart and high-performance process of buying, selling, renting real estate,based on a combination of modern technology and commodity consultants. head.
- Husk Ventures — Generate new revenue streams for rural communities by upcycling rice husk to create sustainable products that contribute to a circular economy.Husk Ventures aims to increase the incomes of rice farmers’ and rural communities with access to innovative technologies and capacity building to convert rice husk into valuable products for local andinternational markets.The unique characteristics of rice husk (high lignin and silica content) make it an ideal material that benefit from being strong, fireproof, mould, and insect resistant.Some innovations exist in the market to create alternatives to wood by mixing rice husk with plastic or natural resins to create furniture or construction materials using similar technologies to wood plastic composites (WPC).Creating products using Rice Husk Composites is an opportunity to reduce deforestation and plastic consumption.
- Gene Solutions — Gene Solutions is a genetic testing company in Vietnam and the market leader for reproductive health tests, which respond to critical healthcare needs, such as helping parents detect chromosomal disorders during pregnancy, or preventing genetic problems, and helping to conceive a child (in-vitro fertilization – IVF).
ZTE Venture Capital Fund Management is engaged in equity investment in non-listed companies in the TMT industry.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, B2B, Industrial
- Angel, Series A, Funding Round
- China
Portfolio highlights
- YKY — YKY is an online electronic components store.
- Xijie — Xijie is an e-commerce platform for sports products.
- Jutai Technology — Jutai Technology uses waste resources as raw materials and uses secondary resource recycling technology to produce high-value-added products of non-ferrous metals including nickel, cobalt, vanadium, molybdenum, copper, and aluminum.
Japanese hearing aid manufacturer
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Investment focus
- Sports, Wearables, Sporting Goods
- Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Bonx — GO MAKE NOISE
Henggu Touzi is an investment management firm.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Sporting Goods
- Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Shanmai.cn — Shanmai.cn is an e-commerce platform specialized in sleeping bags, backpacks, mats, jackets, fleece and trousers.
Decasonic is the venture and digital assets fund buidling blockchain innovation. We draw on our decades of experience as both tech investors and operators to help founders in blockchain accelerate product market fit & scale growth.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Japan, Singapore
Dahe Ventures is an investment management company focused on private equity investment.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Apps, E-Learning
- Angel, Series A, Series B
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Gsubo — Gsubo offers a high-speed cloud platform that provides solutions for various industries.
- AceGear — AceGear is a platform that brings together industry opinion leaders and car culture and car life clubs to enrich car playing life.
- Hudongba — Hudongba is an event publishing and ticketing platform.
Toread Holdings Group designs, manufactures, and retails camping and outdoor equipment.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Outdoors, E-Commerce
- Angel, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Yeoner — Yeoner is an outdoor sports company that provides video programs, evaluations, and other content for outdoor users via WeChat. They specialize in global outdoor sports and outdoor technology trends as well as smart wearables for outdoor enthusiasts.
- Yoger.com — Yoger.com is a sporting goods platform.
Kaga Electronics is a Japan based company engages in the sales of electronic components, electronic devices and other. It operates through following segments: Electronic Components, Information Equipment, Software and Other. The firm generates majority revenue from the Electronic Components.
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Investment focus
- Education, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Japan, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Bonx — GO MAKE NOISE
- 17LIVE — Flip action technology, connect the world together; integrate instant audio and video into life, and create a new generation of action audio and video. No matter where you are, in any corner of the world, you can connect with the world anytime, anywhere through the 17LIVE platform, show your talent and enthusiasm, realize your dreams, and createyour own wonderful life.
- Life is Tech — Life is Tech is a developer of education platform intended for elementary and junior high school students.The company's platform organizes coding and IT camps, collaborating with local governments and running several schemes such as Tech for Local, Be Startup, Code Girls and Tech for Teachers, enabling students to improve their coding skillsand creativity
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.
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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
Beiruan Angle is a professional angel investment institution.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China
GSR United Capital is a venture capital firm invests in early and middle stages companies.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Automotive
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- EasyYa — EasyYa is the leading data-driven platform for cross-border supply chains. By integrating high-quality factories in China and pioneering AI solutions, EasyYa provides e-commerce analytic tools, a supply chain procurement platform, and related financial products to e-commerce sellers all over the world.
- Rigerna — Rigerna develops unique small nucleic acid medicines and innovative nucleic acid therapies for nonliver tissues.
- Zhudian New Energy — Zhudian New Energy is a green energy logistics company that provide one-stop services in green and low-carbon logistics and complete operating solutions for new energy vehicles.
Ameba Capital is a Chinese venture capital firm that provides early and growth stage investments. Ameba Capital makes investments in the telecommunications, media, and technology industries, focusing on SaaS, AI, Digital Transformation and other disruptive technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Services, E-Commerce
- Angel, Series A, Series B
- China, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Collov — Collov is a virtual interior design & shopping platform that offers interior design services stocked with shoppable goods from many brands.
- Shexu Technology — Established in 2020, Shanghai Shexu Technology Co., Ltd. is an AI-driven industrial design software R&D technology enterprise and design service provider. The company has a professional scientific research and technical team, and has independently developed automatic industrial design software based on AI computing engine. The design softwarehas been widely used in the field of automotive industry equipment, significantly improving the design efficiency of industrial machinery designers.
- ExponTech — ExponTech is a provider of overall data infrastructure solutions based on a new generation of distributed architecture.
Dark Horse Venture is a venture capital firm that invests at early-stage startups in industrial internet and technology.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Education
- Angel, Series A, Seed
- China, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Sensedeal — Sensedeal is a data intelligence research and development service provider.
- Tuyun Space — Tuyun Space focuses on developing a common twin platform. For the universal twin platform, Tuyun Space builds technical barriers through four basic capabilities: 1. Spatial modeling; 2. Data coupling; 3. Rendering and visualization; 4. Simulation analysis.
- Maicong Software — Discover the top SQL editor to enhance database management and query efficiency. It supports poplular SQL databases like mysql, mariadb, postgresql, sql server, sqlite, hadoop and more.
Innovation Engine has been is promoting investment to create and grow promising business areas created from technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series C
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Asilla — Asilla develops and provides AI specialized in image and video analysis. Its services, the Vehicle recognition AI, recognizes the manufacturer and model from the image of the vehicle. It also has a censorship service that detects inappropriate images that can not be released, including copyrights and obscene expressionsAsilla was founded in 2015and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
- Ranimaru — Ranimaru is pet service providing company that offers pet sitting, care of your pet dog in events, professional course about pet sitting.
- Drone Show Japan — Drone Show Japan company specializes in drone shows for events, aerial photography, and workshops.
KAIYUNTOUZI specializes in private equity investment and entrusted asset management.
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Investment focus
- Sporting Goods, Event Management, Media and Entertainment
- Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- KOOSA — KOOSA offers sports events and sells sporting goods that include cross-country running, mountaineering, rock climbing, cliff downhill, camping in the wild, picnics, orienteering, and streams. They allow consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser or a mobile app. Their products serve consumers.
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
- Predicate — Predicate network simplifies transaction prerequisites.
- Layer — Ethereum is the settlement layer, build full stack decentralized apps on top with Web Assembly and the EVM.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Xunlu AI — Xunlu AI is an innovative startup that focuses on the development of AI-powered customer service technologies. Xunlu AI provides AI intelligent customer service and sales robots to businesses in a variety of industries via highly tailored AI solutions, assisting businesses in achieving their goals of cost reduction and increased productivity.
- 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.
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
Cenova Capital is one of the earliest healthcare dedicated funds in China founded in 2010 by Dr Jun WU and is one of the earliest investors in private healthcare services and digital health, with helps to facilitate the transformation of healthcare in China from an exclusively state-owned system to a more efficient, market-oriented system. CenovaCapital is healthcare funds dedicated to early and growth-stage investments in the life sciences and healthcare sector in China. Since inception in 2010, Cenova now has five funds under management with investments in over 50 companies in healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital heath. Cenova's investors are mainly large domestic and international institutional investors including Asian sovereign wealth funds, government institutions, insurance and financial institutions and multinational companies.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Phage Pharm — Phage Pharm is a professional enterprise in the industrialization of bacteriophages.
- Agile Medical — Agile Medical, a surgical robot company, focuses on research, development, and industrialization of intelligent surgical products. Agile Medical's technology innovation platform covers mechanics, electronics, optics, computing, and software.
- Jiangsu Jland Biotech — Jiangsu Jland Biotech is dedicated to the development and production of Biollagen™ collagen and is determined to be the biggest non-animal-sourced collagen supplier worldwide.
W ventures is a Japan-based venture capital firm investing in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds. They have been conducting investment to 25 companies in a total of about a year from the start of investment activities in April 2019. The company works not only with investment business but also with companies that provide services related to HR, PR,infrastructure, legal and accounting, etc., as incubation support after investment. It is also characteristic to provide support for the investor companies. In addition, in cooperation with other venture capital companies, Ar Rase TAGE startups regularly hold office hours that allow financing and business consultations to two companies at the same time and actively support startups are doing.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Uniam — Uniam is a manufacturing company that produces and sells pet food and other pet-related products.
- Edukita — Belajar Bahasa Inggris jadi menyenangkan, interaktif, dan memberi hasil yang nyata. Diajar oleh guru asing berpengalaman.
- Fogg Japan — Fogg is a platform that makes life styles more convenient without being affected by trends and deprecation like media and content
Proxima Ventures focuses in the healthcare industry, supporting outstanding enterprises with innovative technologies or service models that have tremendous potential.They manage multiple funds in RMB and US dollar, covering from seed to growth stages. Their team members with multidisciplinary backgrounds and resourceful networks, have many yearsof remarkable venture capital experience and achievements. They believe that active and effective collaboration with entrepreneurs will make substantial economic returns while bring meaningful improvements in public health.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- China, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zhenyi Yiliao — Zhenyi Yiliao is a medical enterprise focusing on structural heart disease.
- Rhino Medical — Rhino Medical develops advanced technologies with independent intellectual property rights. The founding team has rich experience in R&D, marketing, and clinical. On the basis of benchmarking imported phacoemulsification instruments and vitrectomy instruments
- Cytonus Therapeutics — Cytonus Therapeutics is a biotech company that develops a therapeutic platform designed to treat immune-related disorders. The Cargocyte platform at Cytonus has diverse applications as it can be engineered to target specific tissues and can deliver strategic therapeutic payloads.
Innoangel Fund is an investment firm that invests in early stage companies.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- China, Canada, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Rushen Robotics — Rushen Robotics focuses on the domains of rehabilitation and fitness, and is committed to building modular and human-machine integrated rehabilitation robots.
- Zhiyuan Shenlan — Zhiyuan Shenlan focuses on data-driven biomolecule design and manufacturing.
- Saiyun Biotechnology — Saiyun Biotechnology is committed to the development of cutting-edge delivery carrier technology and breakthrough medicinal therapies.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- 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.
Jinding Capital is a leading industrial equity investment institution in China.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China
Portfolio highlights
- OSMicro — OSMicro is an automotive millimeter-wave radar SoC and car-grade ultra-wideband (UWB) chip design firm. OsiMicro's other key product line, automotive-grade UWB chip devices, is undergoing rapid mass production development. The intelligence of autos has generated a lot of interest in UWB technology.
- Robot Era — Robot era is an emerging technology business creates embodied intelligence and generic humanoid robot technologies and products. Xingdong Era is committed to the development of universal humanoid robots that can adapt to a wide range of fields, multiple scenarios, and high intelligence, striving to realize the beautiful vision of intelligent robotsentering thousands of households and integrating into the lights of thousands of homes.
- Chenxin Semiconductor — Chenxin Semiconductor is a semiconductor manufacturer that designs, develops, and sells power management systems for communications, computers, consumer electronics, industries, and automotive applications.
Based in Tokyo, Adways is a mobile marketing solution provider mostly known for its Asia’s largest mobile CPI adnetwork “AppDriver” and mobile app measurement & tracking tool “PartyTrack” used by great number of major app developers around the world. Since 2004 when it opened the first overseas office in China, Adways has been aggressivelyexpanding its mobile app distribution network in Asian markets. Now with 1,000 employees in 11 countries (Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and the USA), Adways supports app developers worldwide to maximize their user acquisition and monetization and furthermore thrives to provide new value to the market. Haruhisa Okamura is Founder and CEO of Adways who has grown Adways from a small startup to an international corporation with over a thousand employees around the world. In 2006, Adways went public and Okamura was one of the youngest entrepreneurs to list a company in Japan at that time.You can read his story here: "How a high school dropout became a multi-millionaire entrepreneur" http://www.techinasia.com/high-school-dropout-multimillionaire-entrepreneur/
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Investment focus
- Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
- MiddleField — MiddleField is a team to make cars the best entertainment and to make the lives of everyone involved in cars into entertainment. They creates a society where a lot of people are involved as a middle point of all people's dreams. MiddleField owns and operates an e-commerce platform offering cars.
BW Ventures is an investment firm.
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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.
Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- LOScoin — LOScoin is a web3 gaming and social application based on telegram bot. LOScoin is committed to profoundly combining Web3's novel interactive experience with the passion of LOScoin's MEME community, creating a highly engaging, entertaining, and economically active DAO community, and providing users with a completely new gaming and socialexperience.
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
- Sapien — Sapien, established in 2023, is a data labeling company dedicated to enhancing AI model training through scalable, high-quality data labeling services. By combining advanced technology, blockchain rewards, human feedback, and domain expertise, Sapien enables AI model development across multiple industries, including healthcare, finance, andeducation technology, among many others. The company's approach to data labeling through gamification and positive reinforcement ensures superior data quality output and high retention rates from labelers, and cost-effectiveness for customers. Sapien's commitment to quality, scalability, and customer focus, along with its mission to foster ethical and impactful AI advancements, sets it apart as a leading trusted partner for businesses developing high-performance AI models.
Ricebank is a comprehensive investment management company.
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Investment focus
- Electric Vehicle, Travel, Hardware
- Angel, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Yunmake — Yunmake makes foldable electric bikes, like the X1 (pictured above), that are battery-powered and connected to an app.While a Xiaomi representative declined to comment on potential collaborations with Yunmake, Shunwei’s (and, by extension, Lei Jun’s) interest in the company is notable because Xiaomi is busy building a hardware ecosystem thatextends beyond its smartphones. Xiaomi hasn’t rolled out vehicles yet, but reports have surfaced that it wants to add electronic bikes and smart cars to its growing roster of consumer hardware.
- Uma — Uma is the provider of smart mobility solutions in China.
- Leke Dujiaoshou — Like Dujiaoshou creates an Internet community ecosystem for entrepreneurs, helping entrepreneurs to connect capital, link resources, and provide educational services.
Wedo Capital is an investment firm, focuses on the biomedical, energy, and intelligent manufacturing companies.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Legal
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- HemaCell — Xueji Bio is a new cell therapy company founded by returnee experts to regenerate hematopoietic lineages (including blood cells and immune cells) in vitro, with unique stem cell reprogramming, editing and differentiation technologies. The company's unique iPSC establishment technology and gene targeting technology can quickly establish aplatform using platelet cells as a drug delivery carrier.
- Rongsi Semiconductor — Rongsi Semiconductor is a design developer of wide-bandgap semiconductor silicon carbide power devices.
- Wenzhou Aerospace Power — Wenzhou Aerospace Power is a research and development manufacturer of satellite electric propulsion and engines.
Sfermion is a metaverse-native firm investing in esoteric digital assets.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, France
Portfolio highlights
- Loot Labs — Loot Labs builds ways to acquire digital collectibles.
- Skyfire Systems — Skyfire, a financial stack designed to enable autonomous agentic AI commerce, is to establish the first fully autonomous, open agentic AI economy in history.
- Autoverse Studios — Autoverse Studios offers Auto Legends, a competitive social auto racing game, focusing on car culture and player engagement, offering a multi-platform experience for real-time tuning and customization.
Zehou Touzi is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, E-Commerce, Apps
- Angel, Series A
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Wahool — Wahool promotes social selling and digital commerce using paid campaigns, sponsored streams, and influencer marketing channels.
- bimart.cn — bimart.cn is a financial technology company that focuses on commercial credit pricing and circulation.
- nahuo.com — nahuo.com is an online portal for fashion and apparel.
Founded in June 2012, Thunderstorm VC is a well-known professional organization for angel investment / venture investment in South China.
Thunderstorm Capital focuses on investment in the field of TMT, focusing on areas such as culture and education, entertainment media, consumer sharing, AI, robotics, Internet of Things, etc.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Online Games, Housekeeping Service
- Angel, Series A
- China
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- iGPSPORT — iGPSPORT is one of the leading manufacturers for bike computers, heart rate monitors, and cycling sensors.
- Bangongyi — Bangongyi is a human resource management and solution company.
- Leyi Biology — Leyi Biology is a biotechnology company that focuses on research and innovation in breath molecular diagnostic technology and achieves rapid diagnosis for the digestive system through human breath detection.
Baozun Commerce is a provider of brand management solutions in China. It is an e-commerce service partner founded in 2007.It focuses to help brands and retailers to become successful in China. Baozun provides end-to-end services, including web site design, development and hosting, IT infrastructure, customer service, warehousing and logisticsservices as well as digital marketing solutions.Baozun Commerce connects brands and consumers in China using their local know-how and robust e-commerce supply chain technology and services. It strives to protect and enhance brands’ images online while enabling increased engagement with Chinese consumers to drive sales and profit.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Sales
- Series A, Angel, Post-IPO Equity
- China
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- Nobaday — NOBADAY is snow sports brand creating high quality snowboard gear, including snowboards,snowboard jackets,snowboard pants,snowboard hoodies,goggles,accessories...
- ZHONGZHIHUI — ZHONGZHIHUI is a supply chain empowerment platform.
- Lanvin Group — Lanvin group is a fashion industry that oversees the labels lanvin, caruso, wolford, sergio rossi, and st. John knits. It is offering this assistance along with in-depth information about and connection to the fashion markets.
Redstone Capital is an equity investment and asset management company.
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- Mobile, Medical, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B
- China
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- Shanmai.cn — Shanmai.cn is an e-commerce platform specialized in sleeping bags, backpacks, mats, jackets, fleece and trousers.
- ICE Bioscience — ICE Bioscience was founded in 2010, an Innovative CRO+ Explorer company focusing in early drug discovery services from target validation to pre-clinical candidate identification, with strong capabilities and technologies in Immunology and Oncology, Cardiovascular and CNS diseases areas. ICE Bioscience provides high professional communication andflexible collaboration models, to speed up drug discovery process better and faster.ICE Bioscience has wide target-based panel screening platform ready-to-use, we keep trying to expand diverse techniques related to Biology and Pharmacology, to support various drug discovery purpose for different indications and clinical needs, we do have quite a lot of new assays development experience and passion, to accomplish target identification and assay validation, compounds screening from hit to lead, to pre-clinical drug candidate selection.
- Zhaoliangji.com — Zhaoliangji.com is a Chinese second-hand mobile phone trading platform.
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- Software, Blockchain, Sporting Goods
- Seed
- Singapore
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- Storygrounds — Strider is a Web 3 platform based on the transparent and secure digital ledger of blockchain that lets creators use DAOs, the DAO spreads membership and ownership of the project across both creators and the users.
- Strider Bike — The sole authorized distributor of Strider Balance Bikes in Singapore.
Buhuo Ventures invests in early and growing TMT and innovative consumer sectors.
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- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, B2B
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China
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- Tustin — Tustin focuses on "hand-rolled and grilled" items such as spicy chicken drumsticks and grilled pineapple burgers.
- Shala Shike — Shala Shike is a supply chain technology company that focuses on catering, dining, salad carving service, cold chain distribution, and smart machine unmanned sales services.
- China Model Group — China Model Group is a network of systems for material management. By maximizing the mismatch of assets and enhancing industrial productivity, it enables the standardization, digitization, and financialization of the commercial formwork sector at the level of formwork practitioners. General contracting services are provided by a platform thatbrings together industry resources to guarantee that industry practices are followed during project construction. This platform also uses digital innovation capabilities to enhance industrial efficiency and lower construction costs.
Founded in 1995 with approval granted by the State Administration for Industry, the China Capital Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. (‘CCIG’) is registered in Shanghai with a registered capital of CNY300 million.CCIG seeks to optimize its investment structure as well as enhance its economic growth and competitive edge by fully harnessing theopportunities unleashed by changes in the global economic structure and China’s economic transformation. To this end, CCIG focuses on industry investments and capital operations and manages its assets in a professional and investment-centered manner that is at the same time grounded in industry experience.Currently, CCIG involves a number of areas, including mining, healthcare, real estate, cultural tourism, Information Technology, energy, and finance and securities. With a strong asset structure and abundant operational cash flow, CCIG is slated to grow its financial strength, establish more quality investment programs, implement excellent management and tap on a strong pool of professional talents as its assets take more a more international profile.
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- Health Care, Education, E-Commerce
- Angel, Series C, Series A
- China, Thailand, Hong Kong
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- Kenweiting — Kenweiting is a Chinese-style burger chain brand.
- Lihe Weiwei — Lihe Weiwei is a food processing firm that produces and supplies condiments and prefabricated vegetables.
- Binhui Biotech — Wuhan Binhui Biotechnology Co., Ltd. was established in 2010. The company is located in the Optics Valley Bio City of Donghu National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone. The company is committed to providing innovative products and services for the field of oncology integration (including diagnosis and treatment), and developing products andservices that have independent intellectual property rights and can compete with other manufacturers on the international stage.
Huading Touzi is an investment management, investment consulting, and equity investment firm.
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- Big Data, Software, E-Commerce
- Angel, Series C
- China
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- Youhualin — Youhualin provides intelligent decision-making solutions, data strategy consulting, and software implementation services.
- Shanmai.cn — Shanmai.cn is an e-commerce platform specialized in sleeping bags, backpacks, mats, jackets, fleece and trousers.
Hammer Capital Management is a Santa Barbara based investment adviser specializing in technology sector growth investing. Despite the downturn in the technology sector, they believe that technology represents the future of their country, not the past. Accordingly, they believe that long term growth investors are well advised to considerestablishing portfolios in key leadership technology companies for the economic upturn that lies ahead.
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- Mobile, Big Data, Hardware
- Series A, Series B
- China
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- XQIAO — XQIAO is a smart treadmill developer based in China.
- TalkingData — TalkingData’s advanced data statistics and analytic software have reached nearly 1.5 billion mobile devices in China, providing the most data-rich, reliable and profound market reports from benchmark KPIs, to user behavior studies, to industry movements, trends, and forecasts. Our insightful reports can provide you powerful insights into theChinese Mobile Internet market.TalkingData offers the best-in-class Big Data products varying from highly-scalable data mining, deep data analytics, DMP (Data Management Platform), analytical reports, industry benchmarking, and deep-dive market insight reports. Today, 80% of the Top 50 developers in China rely on us to track their app metrics, analyze user data points, and monetization.Talkingdata was established in Sep. 2011 in Beijing. The Company finished Series A/B funding rounds of over tens of millions of dollars in 2013 and 2014 respectively. After nearly 4 years of rapid development, we now have close collaboration with 90% of the Top 10 distribution channels (Mobile app stores) and Top 10 Ad Networks in China. We are also developing cross-border cooperation with financial and other traditional industries.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan, United States, China
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Blackbirdsport is an application for recording and sharing riding.
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- Sports, Hardware, Sporting Goods
- Series A
- China
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- iGPSPORT — iGPSPORT is one of the leading manufacturers for bike computers, heart rate monitors, and cycling sensors.
Keio Innovation Initiative (KII) is a venture capital established by Keio University. In order to make more effective use of the research results of Keio University, we aim to contribute to the development of society by creating investment for venture companies that utilize research results and creating new industries.The key to thinking aboutJapan's future growth strategy is to utilize advanced research results of the university. In addition to GDP, in addition to GDP, Japan is the world's third largest R & D exporter in R & D expenses, but as the low growth rate shows, it has a problem in investment efficiency in research and development. There are also reports on the entrepreneurial spirit that is indispensable for creating new industries, with the lowest entrepreneurial activity rate among developed countries.
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- Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan
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- elleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
- NIHON AGRI — Exportation of Japanese agricultural products is currently small in volume. While Japanese farmers aspire to export their products to foreign countries for more people to enjoy and local consumers universally share the positive perception of the quality of Japanese agricultural products, issues such as price, communication, and logistics hinder theexpansion of exportation.They aim to solve these issues and satisfy the needs of both Japanese farmers and global consumers which are so clearly evident but devastatingly unmet.
- Japan Carbon Cycle Lab — Japan Carbon Cycle Lab is a technology company that focuses on the research and development of CO2 capture and recycling techniques.
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.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Angel
- China, United States, Singapore
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- 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.
Plum Ventures is a venture capital company that aims to encourage young people to become entrepreneurs. It specializes ins providing seed and early-stage investments in the technology, new media, and telecommunications industry.
The firm was founded in May 2014 and is based in Changzhou, China.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China, United States, Japan
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- Huimaiche — Huimaiche is a company that provides full-chain solutions for new retail in the automotive industry. It is an Internet-based high-tech company that combines online system development, brand management, full-brand automobile sales, aftermarket integration, and new retail in life.
- Jingyu Sake — Jingyu Sake is a sake brewing provider that specializes on the research, development, and application of strains and rice grinding technologies, with a commitment to the resuscitation of Chinese sake brands.
- Titanium Robotics Technology — Titanium Robotics Technology specializing in the development and production of advanced robot hardware and solutions. It focuses on customized services, R&D, and production of robot hardware, aiming to create high-performance, industry standard products, develops lightweight, collaborative robots, humanoid robots, and exoskeletons, leading thesupply chain towards lightweight, miniaturization, and ease of use.
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