Top 5 Sports Angel Investors in China (August 2026)

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

Industry: Aerospace, Manufacturing, Big Data
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 21
Round size: Seed $300k–$8.3M; Angel $300k–$300k; Pre-Seed $150k–$500k
Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

Dowsure — Dowsure - Cross-border e-commerce loan, cross-border e-commerce seller's exclusive cross-border e-commerce one-stop funding solution (Amazon seller loan Program partner)
Origin Protocol — Origin Protocol is bringing NFTs and DeFi to the masses
Particle Fever — Particle Fever is a “sportswear test field” and a designer of high-end sports brand China. Particle Fever's products emphasize the double breakthrough in aesthetics and craftsmanship, substituting the concept of haute couture into the design of sportswear, and trying to explore the possibilities of sportswear from a multi-dimensionalperspective of technology, culture, and art.

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Jianqing Wang is based out of Beijing and is the Chief management advisor of Legend Capital.

Investment focus

Industry: Video, Gaming, Sports
Stage:Series A
Geography: China

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Mobile, Education
Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
Geography: China, United States, Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 26
Round size: Seed $300k–$1M; Series A $38k–$11M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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Gang Wang

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Transportation, Medical
Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Round size: Seed $600k–$2.9M; Angel $425k–$3M; Series A $1.4M–$8.5M
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

Wozaijia.com — Wozaijia is a social e-commerce platform for home furniture."I am at home" is a trustworthy home to share direct purchase platform. Here, people can discover, experience, buy, share their favorite home products, we change the home to share economic practice of buying methods. "I am at home" believes that the world will bee better if we can always get a better life with less cost.
Qianyu Islands — Qianyu Islands is the flagship brand of Beijing Beike Youjia Technology Co., Ltd., which is positioned in the “Urban Shared Accommodation Space”. It is committed to providing users with different traditional hotels and B&Bs, younger, more free, more possibilities and higher value for money accommodation options.Since its inception in 2017,Qianyu Islands is based on a sense of quality, experience and freshness for a new generation of consumer groups. It is transforming the traditional accommodation industry with a more Internet-based way to fill the market for urban mid-end accommodation.
Huidu Environmental — Huidu Environmental is a recyclable packing material developer.

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