Top 15 Local Startup Investors in China (May 2026)
For AI agents: Short investor table (Markdown), Detailed investor list (Markdown)
| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Sequoia Capital China
VC Fund
|
2 | China, United States, Australia | Series A, Series B, Series C | Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence | $4M–$200M |
|
Trupti Nanavati
Angel
|
1 | China | Angel | Local, Messaging, Navigation | |
|
Beijing Yiming Education Investment Center
VC Fund
|
1 | China | Series A | Local, Consumer, Home Services | |
|
58.com
VC Fund
|
1 | China, India, Hong Kong | Series A, Series B | Real Estate, Automotive, Software | $1.4M–$300M |
|
Telescope Investment
VC Fund
|
1 | China, Australia | Series A, Angel, Seed | E-Commerce, Fashion, Online Portals | $412k–$11M |
|
Amit Nanavati
Angel
|
1 | China, India | Seed, Angel, Series A | Local, Banking, Messaging | |
|
Neoteny Labs
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, Singapore, China | Series A, Angel | TV, Messaging, Video Streaming | $1.5M–$11M |
|
Shunwei Capital
VC Fund
|
1 | China, India, United States | Series A, Series B, Series C | Internet, E-Commerce, Software | $1.4M–$99M |
|
Lighthouse Capital Management
VC Fund
|
1 | China, United States | Series A, Angel, Seed | Software, Hardware, Retail | $412k–$50M |
|
JC Capital
VC Fund
|
1 | China, Vietnam, Philippines | Series A, Angel, Series B | Health Care, Software, Medical | $412k–$14M |
|
Tiger Global Management
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, India, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $5M–$298M |
|
Decent Capital
VC Fund
|
1 | China, United States, Singapore | Angel, Seed, Series A | Internet, Information Technology, Mobile | $250k–$14M |
|
Xiaomi
VC Fund
|
1 | China, India, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Series C | Manufacturing, Software, Hardware | $1.4M–$400M |
|
Dongbu Ziben
VC Fund
|
1 | China | Angel | Local, Retail, Catering | |
|
China Rundong Auto Group
VC Fund
|
1 | China | Seed | Local, Automotive, Service Industry | |
| Access all 18 investors in China Local startups. | |||||
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Investor list
We help founders build enduring companies.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: China, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 643
- Round size: Series A $4M–$90M; Series B $11M–$172M; Series C $25M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- FUE Bioscience — FUE Bioscience is a medical robot R&D business that specializes in microsurgery above the head and neck. It continues to develop a product matrix of fully intelligent, high-precision, and anthropomorphic surgical robots based on the platform of macro-micro-controlled humanoid dual-arm robots.
- Life Wilderness — Life Wilderness reimagines human-computer interaction and is linked to the transportation and travel industries.
- Xintu Heterogeneous — Xintu Heterogeneous offers data storage solutions for heterogeneous computing.
Beijing Yiming Education Investment Center provides investment consulting, investment management, and asset management services.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Local, Consumer, Home Services
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Zhuomuniao — Zhuomuniao is an appliance repair service platform.
58.com is a Chinese classified advertisements website enabling local merchants and consumers to publish information and advertise their service offerings in local communities. 58.com’s package includes target consumer group identification, services and products advertising, online marketing service, and customer relations management. Its aim isto provide a forum for the low income and jobless group. As the biggest online classifieds publisher, 58.com provides free, localized and credible information for voluntary users.Founded on December 12, 2005, and headquartered in Beijing, 58.com is China's for-profit version of Craigslist in the United States. It received $25 million in funding as investments from Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF) partners and DCM. It began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on October 31, 2013.As of November 2010, 58.com has set up branches in 32 cities, with 6,500 full-time staff serving over 50 million registered users. The site’s user base continues to grow, with more than 50,000 new users added per day. The average number of page views per unique visitor per day is 10, with 1 million posts per day. Due to its increasing website traffic volume and number of unique visitors and page views, 58.com is ranked the first among local life service websites. Its main competitors include Ganji.com and Baixing.com.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Real Estate, Automotive, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: China, India, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$7.6M; Series B $20M–$300M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UUPaotui — UUPaotui is a mobile internet errand service platform based on the concept of crowdsourcing to share labor and time.
- Yidianling — Yidianling is a psychological counselling platform that provides free mental health services such as free questions and answers, psychological tests, expert services, and training lectures.
- Interhouse.cn — Don Quixote is a commercial digital platform that provides digital integration of design, construction, and operation delivery service. It uses BIM, cloud computing, big data, IoT, AI, and other information technologies to build a platform for chain commercial spaces.
Telescope Investment is a private equity fund focusing on VC/PE investment projects in Chinese market. The office is located in Beijing. The founding team created its unique investment system out of their profound experience in consumer industry and advanced investment philosophy. Telescope Investment mainly focus on those top enterpriseswith high brand value in consumer goods, chain service, education, medical&health and culture industry. The investment stage covers both early stage and maturity stage and the investment scale varies from millions of dollars to tens of millions of dollars according to the specific circumstances of the projects.The investment team is composed of intelligent investment professionals with remarkable management ability and profound financial practical experience. As an emerging force in Chinese capital market, Telescope Investment spares no efforts to help Chinese enterprises achieve success with its advantages on intelligence, social resources and capital operation.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Online Portals
- Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
- Geography: China, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Angel $412k–$961k; Series A $1.4M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sucheon — Sucheon is an artificial intelligence high-tech enterprise that focuses on machine noise recognition and non-contact production process monitoring and equipment failure prediction.The main solution for the company's product machine auscultation master is to collect machine noise from the SC Box, which is placed in an industrial environment, toextract sound feature values, and to use machine learning to identify the real-time operating status of industrial equipment and the various components. Health indicators .
- Starwhale — Starwhale is an MLOps platform to manage machine learning projects, models and datasets.
- Beacon Education — Beacon Education their marketing, recruitment, support, and analytics technology services platform is a single-point solution for outstanding teaching and learning.
Neoteny Labs is an early stage fund focused on consumer Internet startups in Asia and the Middle East.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: TV, Messaging, Video Streaming
- Stage:Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Singapore, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TripVillas — Largest holiday home rental portal in Asia. Browse your ideal vacation home from over 100,000 holiday homes spread across destinations.
- Twine Health — Fitbit Health Solutions' wellness and health solutions can help keep your population healthy and drive meaningful employee engagement. Learn more.
- littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
Shunwei Capital is a venture capital fund that focuses on early to mid-stage investments in local internet industry. It specializes in incubation, startups, early to mid-stage, and growth capital investments. It seeks to invest in the technology, media, telecommunications, high technology, new media, games, internet finance, and rural area internetsectors. Their investors include sovereign wealth funds, fund of funds, university endowment funds, and family offices.Shunwei Capital is a China-based company that was founded in 2011 by Tuck Lye Koh and Lei Jun.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: China, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 301
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$30M; Series B $10M–$50M; Series C $20M–$99M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Xinsu Technology — Xinsu Technology develops, designs, and sells industrial machine vision sensor devices. It is specialized in new energy battery and automobile manufacturing industries. It engaged in intellectual property rights of decoding and reading algorithms and has launched a series of industrial high-performance fixed code readers such as R275-A.
- Ant Workshop — Ant Works is an e-commerce platform integrating industrial automation products, the Internet, and supply chain services.It aims to build a new industrial product marketing method with "industrial cloud components + Internet + supply chain SAAS services" as the main body. An integrated platform for online and offline transactions,services, and support. It has the characteristics of high cost performance, authentic guarantee, fast shipping, free 3D download, and so on. Through diversified product categories and sufficient inventory, customers can efficiently search for and purchase suitable products.
- Yixin Technology — Yixin Technology focuses on R&D of image software, with the goal of flattening image processing technology to promote the design revolution.
Lighthouse Capital Management is an early venture capital fund focusing on the Chinese and US markets. It has been focusing on angel/VC equity investment in excellent content and products and currently manages two RMB Fund and a dollar fund.The firm has invested in more than 40 growth projects in mainland China and overseas, focusing onhardware equipment and "Internet +" method empowerment and enterprise data services. It is managing billions of dollars in total assets, investing in the total market value of domestic and foreign companies over 100 Billion dollars.Lighthouse Capital was founded in 2011 and is based in Shanghai, China.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Hardware, Retail
- Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
- Geography: China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Angel $412k–$824k; Series A $412k–$50M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $138M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Skysys — Skysys is a company that focuses on data acquisition and analysis services for drones. It provides customers with complete solutions for automatic charging, automatic scheduling, automatic acquisition and automatic analysis. It is committed to becoming the leading enterprise in data collection and analysis of Chinese civil rotary aircraft. From thedata and services to gold mining, the development of mature rotorcraft drone automatic driving artificial intelligence.
- Boshang — Boshang focuses on vertical industries, building low-cost and high-quality private LTE/5G private networks for enterprise customers, and providing slicing and in-depth customized services for different business needs.
- DEEPEXI — Beijing Dip Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Drip Technology”) is a leader and builder of digital transformation of enterprises, providing enterprise-level business consulting, solutions, products and technology research and development based on leading Internet architecture. The company was incorporated in May 2018 with aregistered capital of 20 million. At present, the company has 160 employees and its headquarters is located in Beijing. It has branches in major cities including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing and Chengdu. The R&D team is over 80%, mainly in Guangzhou, Nanjing and Chengdu. People, masters dozens of people, have the top domestic AI team and open source team to join.
JC Capital is a venture capital institution specialized in early and mid-term technology investment.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Angel, Series B
- Geography: China, Vietnam, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Angel $412k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$14M; Series B $2.7M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sietium — Sietium is a high-tech company that independently designs and develops GPU chips and GPU solutions.
- Jingda Bio — Jingda Bio is a biological cell drug developer dedicated to the research and development of general-purpose NK/CAR-NK cell drugs.
- Dragonfly Automation Software — Dragonfly Automation Software provides management and control system product solutions for customers in aerospace, machinery manufacturing, factory automation, and high-end precision instruments.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally.Tiger Global seeks to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors over the long term. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer, and industrial sectors. The private equity strategyhas a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 767
- Round size: Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $15M–$100M; Series C $20M–$298M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $13B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
- Databricks — Databricks combines data warehouses & data lakes into a lakehouse architecture. Collaborate on all of your data, analytics & AI workloads using one platform.
- Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.
Decent Capital is a venture capital firm with a cross-border presence. It was founded in 2007 by Jason Zeng, co-founder of Tencent Holdings Limited. Decent Capital has two teams, venture investment and asset management, with offices in Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore and the United States. Decent’s investment team invests from Seed to SeriesA, primarily focusing on SaaS, Consumer Internet, and Frontier Tech. Decent has invested in over 200 companies globally, spanning across the United States, China, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. Decent upholds strong dedication to post-investment management, they continue to heavily support their portfolio companies’ business operations, supply chain and logistics, and future fundraising efforts. While Decent’s emphasis is on early-stage investments, they prioritize continuing to support portfolio companies throughout growth, for example, Decent invested in Lime from Seed to Series D.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Mobile
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: China, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $250k–$14M; Angel $412k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Xingchenhai — Xingchenhai is a technology company that focuses on technology research and development of drone scenario applications for the field of low-altitude security, and major scientific research projects in military and government-related fields.
- Xiangke Intelligence — Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, computer and robotics professionals, and industrial serial entrepreneurs founded Xiangke Intelligence. It was established by the former founder of "Speed Technology" and the general manager of SharkNinja China Robot R&D Centre.
- Extreme shell technology — Extreme shell technology helps in creation and development of exoskeleton equipment for consumers. It uses data to drive exoskeleton innovation.
Play to win vouchers and get up to 50% discounts!
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Hardware
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: China, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 155
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$31M; Series B $2.7M–$55M; Series C $14M–$400M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Robosense — RoboSense (Suteng Innovation Technology Co., Ltd.) is the world leading environment perception solutions provider of autonomous driving LiDAR. The company is striving to deliver the world with cutting-edge robotic perception solutions which can perfectly integrate premium LiDAR hardware, 3D data processing algorithms, and deep learning technology.Through constant technology innovation, the company has made possible for robots to “see” the world with excellent environment perception capability.Registered in 2014, RoboSense is founded by a group of PhDs from Harbin Institute of Technology who have been working on LiDAR technology for more than 7 years. Over the past 4 years of commercialization, RoboSense, centered around LiDAR environment Perception technology has set up a complete operation system integrating R&D, Production, and Marketing.Besides an R&D center with Operation team headquartered in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China, the company has an R&D center in Beijing and Silicon Valley. Until April 2017, the employee base of the company has exceeded 200 people(production employee excluded) with more than 60% are Postgraduates and PhDs. For a long time, the company has maintained cooperation with world-class educational and research institutes including MIT, HKUST, Tsinghua, and HIT on talent sourcing and academic exchanges.
- GrandeurRF — GrandeurRF is a new technology company that combines RF device design, R&D, manufacturing, and sales. It supplies microelectronic devices.
- Yuantong Technology — Yuantong Technology is a company that specializes in superior photoelectric sensors and intelligent optical perception systems. It provides superior optical perception solutions for businesses such as smartphones, medical devices, machine vision, and self-driving cars.
Dongbu Ziben offer investment management service.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Local, Retail, Catering
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Fanhaoyue — Fanhaoyue provides local catering life and new retail services.
- maidiyun.com — maidiyun.com is an online platform that displays comprehensive information for manufacturing equipment and peripheral products as component 3D model samples, helping industrial designers find the products and resources they need.
China Rundong Auto Group Limited is an investment holding company which through its subsidiaries operates luxury automobile dealership stores and showrooms in the People’s Republic of China. It also provides after-sales services such as repair and maintenance services; sale of spare parts, and accessories and other automobile-related products. Inaddition, the company offers automobile-related value-added services such as consulting services for automobile purchase financing, automobile insurance agency services, facilitating the trading of pre-owned automobiles, and automobile financial lease and related consulting services. China Rundong Auto Group Limited was founded in 1998 and is based in Shanghai, China.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Local, Automotive, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Che Dada — Che Dada is a community-based aftermarket car service brand.
Local Investor funding in China at a glance
Stats across 9 deals from 18 investors.
Access all 18 investors in China Local startups.
Open ListFAQ
Is Shizune data fresh/accurate?
Shizune has monitored hundreds of funding sources since 2020.
Our investor database is updated every day, so investor data is always fresh.
All metrics are calculated from confirmed public rounds, so the data is accurate.
Can I download investor list?
To download the Local Investors in China investor list, create a Shizune account. This investor list will be added to your saved investors and available for download in the export section.
You can also enrich the investor list with investor emails, phones, LinkedIns, and other contact data.
Can I access investor database?
To access all 18 investors investing in China Local startups and 48,091+ more investors, create a Shizune account.
Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.
The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.
You can enrich with email and download the data.
Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?
Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.
To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.
To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.
You can enrich your investor list with Shizune. Download it too.
What is Shizune?
Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.
With Shizune you can:
- browse the database
- use smart matching
- enrich with emails
- download
All you need to find investors for your startup.
Who is Shizune for?
Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.
If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.
Is Shizune free?
Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.
Email search and export are paid features.
For full info, visit our pricing.
Who built Shizune?
Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.
Contact 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!