Top 5 Travel Angel Investors in China in September 2025
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Travel startups based in China. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from China. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Travel Angel Investors in China in September 2025
Investor | Travel China investments |
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Tao Zhang | 2 |
Aaron Zhenggang | 1 |
Sanjay Shah | 1 |
Charles Xue | 1 |
Vishal Shah | 1 |
Tao Zhang (张滔) is the Founder and CEO of Dianping.com, MBA from the Wharton School. Tao was consultant in an American IT company. After coming back to China in 2003, he founded Dianping.com, the world’s pioneer in offering consumer reviews for restaurant. After 5 years of development, dianping has over 460,000 registered companies in over 340cities across China. More than 10 million regular visitors and 160 million page views per month make it the most popular city life website in China. Dianping has established branches in 5 cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou and is still expanding. Currently its service involves various consumption areas in city life, such as restaurant, shopping, reaction and living service, etc. With a favorable business model, Dianping has more than once been considered one of the companies with the most investment value in China by Zero2IPO and China Venture. It also raised funding from global leading venture capital firms, for example, Sequoia Capital. Dianping recorded profit in November 2008 and become the first profitable Web 2.0 Company and a search website centered on city life.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Education, Payments
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- China, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Z-Trip — Z-Trip is a company that provides travel management services for large and medium-sized enterprises. On the basis of integration of upstream supply chain resources, Z-Trip provides a one-stop SaaS service platform covering scenarios such as travel reservations, conference organization, fee settlement, payment and reimbursement to enterprises,including front-end PC terminals, mobile terminals and back-end service systems.
- PalFish — PalFish provides an education platform for teachers to teach English in an open market. You can simply imagine PalFish as eBay, but the merchandise being sold are English Classes. They provide people who are fluent in English the opportunity to teach people who want to learn English in their free time, and thus, create a virtuous Englisheducation cycle.
- Lumous Intelligence — Lumous is a leading brand of smart hotel solutions, providing integrated solutions to help hotels streamline the operational processes, optimize service quality and curate personalized guest experiences. Lumous Intelligence was founded in 2018 and was headquartered in Shanghai, China.
Aaron Zhenggang is a famous Musician.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Tourism, Tour Operator
- Angel
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Guohui Culture and Tourism — Guohui Culture and Tourism is a provider of destination-customized travel services. In order to promote a new comprehensive tourism platform, it combines Internet thinking with "destination customized travel" as its primary development direction.
Sanjay Shah is the Chief Operating Officer at Wadhwani Foundation. He attended Virginia Tech.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Mobile, Travel
- Seed
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Guiddoo World — Guiddoo World provides unique, experiential and customized travel packages for Chinese & Indian travel agencies to target the growing number of Chinese independent travellers. Our platform uses intelligent data points from over 4000+ travel agents as well as analyses 1Mn+ Trend Points on Internet and Social media to build smart itineraries. Upto now, Guiddoo has negotiated great deals with 5,000+ excursions from 14 destinations across Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
- LogiNext — LogiNext designs logistics management software that tracks the workforce in real-time on a single map interface. Its logistics management software offers logistics data analytics, warehouse management, and asset tracking services, enabling companies to plan and manage their dispatch schedule, delivery routes, and capacity in a cost-optimized way.The company specializes in the fields of data virtualization, enterprise software, logistics, and SaaS.LogiNext was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York Metropolitan Area.
Charles Xue, also known as Xue Manzi, is a Chinese-American angel investor and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of UT Starcom and has invested in Chinese internet startups.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology, Retail
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- China
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- Huaqin Zhilian — Huaqin Zhilian is a manufacturer of smart robot convenience devices in the field of smart retail.
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Vishal Shah
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Travel, Tourism
- Seed
- China, India
Portfolio highlights
- Grexter — Grexter simplifies the whole process of your house hunting by customizing from start to finish! Rent a house now .Life is way too complicated. House hunting shouldn’t be. By standardising the entire process and allowing for customisation, Grexter keeps things fair and simple – from start to finish! #MakeHouseHuntingGreatAgain.
- Guiddoo World — Guiddoo World provides unique, experiential and customized travel packages for Chinese & Indian travel agencies to target the growing number of Chinese independent travellers. Our platform uses intelligent data points from over 4000+ travel agents as well as analyses 1Mn+ Trend Points on Internet and Social media to build smart itineraries. Upto now, Guiddoo has negotiated great deals with 5,000+ excursions from 14 destinations across Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
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