Top 5 Sports Angel Investors in China in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Sports startups based in China. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from China. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Sports Angel Investors in China in January 2025

Investor	Sports China investments
Lijie Wang	2
Bob Xiaoping Xu	1
Sicong Wang	1
Jianqing Wang	1
Hongyi Zhou	1

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Leo Wang is recognized as an active angel investor and leading proponent of Mobile Internet, Blockchain, and Angel Investment in China. Boasting over twenty years in mobile internet and tech, he has invested in 300 startups, spanning healthcare to fintech and blockchain, including 2 NASDAQ-listed companies and 5 unicorns.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Aerospace, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Huojianpai — Huojianpai is a commercial aerospace company providing earth-moon space economy and future-oriented deep space exploration.
Reserve — Reserve is a universal currency company. Reserve provides people with hyperinflation protected savings accounts to protect and use their money globally. They offer rtokens, collateral baskets, and over collateralization.

Bob Xiaoping Xu is the founder of ZhenFund and one of China's most celebrated angel investors. Established in 2011 as a joint fund with Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund is China’s foremost angel fund. Managing USD 600 million, ZhenFund has 500 portfolio companies and offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Palo Alto. It has played a leading role inChina’s rise as a “startup nation”, and is widely considered a beacon of light in China’s vibrant startup environment. Prior to founding ZhenFund, Mr. Xu co-founded China's largest private English training and test preparation group, New Oriental Education, along with Michael Yu and Victor Wang. New Oriental became listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006 and currently has a market cap of USD 11 billion. The founders’ endeavors, which helped drive Chinese education toward a new global era, was featured in the box office hit “American Dreams in China”. The movie ranked as the #3 Chinese domestic box office hit in 2013. Mr. Xu’s success as an educator and an entrepreneur led him to angel investing, where he has pioneered a unique investment philosophy of investing in exceptional people. He became one of the most prolific patrons of entrepreneurship, as well as a leading mentor to young business leaders. Forbes Magazine has honored him on the Midas List as one of the World’s Top 100 Venture Capital Investors for two consecutive years (2016 and 2017). Mr. Xu currently serves as the Chairman of China Angel Investment Association. Mr. Xu has more than 11 million followers on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. He is also a prolific author who has published seven books on career growth and education. His writings, speeches and interviews on entrepreneurship, investment and education have had an immense impact on China’s emerging business leaders, and particularly on those who have studied abroad. He is the president of Committee 2005, an institution that gathers the most influential Chinese overseas returnees, including the likes of Robin Li, Neil Shen and Lee Kai-fu. Mr. Xu is deeply committed to philanthropy. He is a founding donor and the Committee Acting President of the Future Science Award, an annual award of USD 1 million for scientists who have made significant contributions to life sciences and physical sciences in Greater China. Mr. Xu graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, the Chinese equivalent of Julliard School of Music, with a bachelor’s degree in music. He received his master’s degree in music from the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to that he was a counsellor at Peking University for five years.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

YOTA — YOTA provides a healthy and diet food delivery service.
Lagou — Lagou.com offers staffing services. The company’s clientele includes Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Group, SINA, JD.com, Beijing Xiaomi Tech, and Zhaopin.com.
Omni Prime — Omni Prime provides Lending as a Service solution to retailers.

Sicong Wang is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Prometheus Capital. He is a Director of the Dalian Wanda Group. and Founder of Panda TV.

Investment focus

eSports, Software, Online Games
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Fenda —
Yingxiong Huyu — Yingxiong Huyu is a developer of mobile e-sports games and an organizer of e-sports competitions.

Wang Jianqing is one of the founding members of Legend Capital in 2001. Starting as a Senior Management Advisor, she is now the Managing Director and Chief Management Advisor of the firm, and also serves on the Management Committee and Human Resources Committee. Wang Jianqing is responsible for examining and evaluating CEO, the management team andbusiness operation of target companies during due diligence, and providing post-investment value added services.Wang Jianqing has in-depth understanding of corporate governance, human resources systems, corporate culture construction and team management. She had analyzed the major success and failure cases of Legend Group in history, and performed thorough studies on how to evaluate CEOs and management teams and how to provide value-added services to invested companies. After over 10 years working with entrepreneurs, she has gained resourceful experience in CEO coaching, core team building, corporate culture construction and governance structure improvement.Joining Legend Group in 1996, Wang Jianqing was Executive Vice President of Legend Management School and Deputy General Manager of Human Resources Department of Legend Group. She was also the Dean of the first “Legend Star CEO Training” class, in charge of building the course system, designing teaching plans, managing academic affairs, and serving as lecturer of one of the core courses.Wang Jianqing received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1982 and her EMBA’s degree from Peking University in 2006.

Investment focus

Video, Gaming, Sports
Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Le Sports — Le Sports, the sports arm of China's leading online video provider.

Hongyi Zhou is the co-founder of Qihoo 360 Technology. He previously worked at IDG Capital as a Partner. Hongyi Zhou attended Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.