# Top 50 Publishing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Asia in October 2023

## Trustbridge Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Education, Medical

Trustbridge Partners is a mission-driven growth equity firm founded in 2006 with approximately $8 billion under management.

## Ceyuan Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

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.

## Geekhouse Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Publishing, Gaming, Sports

Geekhouse Capital is an investment firm.

## Guojin Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Education

Guojin Capital Group is a venture capital firm specializing in early to middle stage investments. The firm also makes late stage investments minorly. It seeks to invest mainly in the internet, pan-entertainment and education sectors. The firm also prefers to invest minorly in consumer upgrade and industry upgrade. It also invests in interneteducation, industry services, artificial intelligence and health care sectors.

## Frees Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Health Care

By adopting revolutionary mechanisms, FREES FUND is devoted to change the long-established rules in the venture capital. By leveraging the cutting-edge technologies and resources, FREES FUND aims at investing in great startups and helping them grow into great enterprises that are valuable to our society. We mainly invest in early-stagestartups, and hope to become their first-round institutional investor. Our primary interested areas are broad-sense TMT (Technology, Media, Telecom), B2B and deep technology.

## Infinity Ventures Crypto
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Who we are We are investors and entrepreneurs helping define the next generation of Blockchain startups. Our Focus Passionate founders. Disruptive models. Borderless markets. Exponential effects. Our Geography Starting from...

## North Base Media
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing

NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

## East Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

## IT-Farm
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

## ChineseAll Digital Publishing
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Learning, Education, Mobile

Chinese Online (中文在线) is a company focused on digital publishing. It provides digital reading products to mobile phones, hand-held terminals, and the internet as well as other media. Chinese Online takes copyright organizations and authors as the genuine digital content source, and collaborates with them to manage the content.It also offersvalue-added services of digital content such as copyright derivatives and more.As a leading enterprise of digital publishing domestically, Chinese Online has established a complete media publishing model of unique content, variety in media and synchronized publishing.

## Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS

MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.

## Drone Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Drones, Robotics, Aerospace

Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.

## SDIC Fund Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing

SDIC Fund Management is a private equity that manages funds and raises nearly 60 billion yuan at present. The management funds cover financial institutions, social security funds, state-owned and private capital, and it is one of the largest professional private equity management institutions in China.

## Genertec Investment Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Internet, Publishing

Genertec Investment Management is specialized in securities investment, private equity investment, asset management, and equity management.

## iDreamsky Technology
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Series C
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Mobile

iDreamsky is a Shenzhen, China based company founded in 2009. Even since it has established to be one of the leading smartphone application developers in China. With major clients such as Lenovo, China Telecom, Chung Hwa Telecom, HTC and many more. At 2011, iDreamsky have successfully secure a 2 million USD seed investment from Hwa XiuInvestment Group to create a new business operation: Skynet a one stop solution for game developer to expand and establish their business in China.

## NOW Japan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Content, Marketing, Information Technology

Next One for the World.

## Link VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Online Games

LinkVC committed to serving outstanding companies and developers in the field of blockchain with global commercial resources and professional financial services.

## Gansu Guotou
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: News, Internet, Publishing

Gansu Guotou engaged in investment management and investment consulting.

## Gepic Energy Development
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lanzhou, Gansu, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Internet, Publishing

GEPIC Energy Development engaged in the electricity production and sales business.

## Chongqing Cultural Investment Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beibei, Chongqing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Publishing, Information Services

Chongqing Cultural Investment Group is an investment firm.

## DWF Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

DWF Labs Global digital asset market maker and multi-stage web3 investment firm

## Saison Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

They invest in Seed to Series A companies across South East Asia and India. Although they have a sector agnostic fund mandate, they particularly like to work with founders that are building ecosystems with the potential to distribute financial services to the unbanked.

## Circle Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Software

Circle Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York, New York. The company prefers to invest in the field of technology.

## Chain Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Chain Capital was established in April 2015. The teams covered in Silicon Valley, Toronto, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Moscow, London and Shanghai. The core members are the industry experts from Franklin Templeton Sealand Fund Mangament, Facebook, Qudian, Ogilvy, ShopEx and others. Chain Capital specializes in investing blockchain projects, discoverand help the outstanding teams to better use blockchain technology in order to make the world better.

## Initiate capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Publishing, Digital Media

Fire Phoenix Capital focuses on youth subculture content, community economy and consumption, and next-generation social networks.

## Ucap Cloud
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dongguang, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Publishing, Information Services, Information Technology

Ucap Cloud is an IT company that has developed platforms such as digital intelligence government affairs, digital intelligence content, digital intelligence security, and digital intelligence justice.

## Vickers Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Mobile

Funding a Better World: We invest in deep tech sectors globally to help solve real world problems.

## The Arena Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: Sports, Food and Beverage, Tea

The Arena Capital has been jointly established by Guiren Bird (603555), Tigers Sports and Jinglin Capital Management Co., Ltd., focusing on sports industry investment. The mobile domain believes that the sports industry is becoming the core driving force for China's economic growth. It is believed that the people's consumption power isimproving, and Internet technology and reform dividends constitute an opportunity for the outbreak of the sports industry. The dynamic team relies on deepening the accumulation of resources in the sports industry for more than 10 years, and is committed to working with entrepreneurs to promote the brilliant future of Chinese sports.

## Simile Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

Simile Venture Partners is an early-stage investment firm focusing on internet, mobile and technology startups across the world. It was founded by a team with domain expertise in entrepreneurship and venture capital investments. Its priority markets are in Europe, South-East Asia, India, Brazil, Turkey and Russia.For more information, visit:www.simileventure.com (http://www.simileventure.com/)

## Greenwoods Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Series C
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

Greenwoods Asset Management is an investment management company specializing in managing funds investing into mainland China companies, including but not limited to A shares, B shares, H shares, Red Chips, and ADRs. Greenwoods funds include both international funds investing in Greater China equities for global investors and A-share trusts forqualified Chinese domestic investors.Investors of funds and accounts managed by Greenwoods include reputable institutional investors from around the globe, such as sovereign wealth funds, pensions, endowments, banks, insurers, investment banks, family offices, and high net worth individuals.

## Ourpalm
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Post-IPO Equity, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Information Technology, Digital Entertainment

Beijing Zhangqu Technology Company of Limited Liability is engaged in the development, issue, and operation of moving target games.Founded in August 2004, the company is national high-tech and double soft certified company, with a registered capital of 164 million Yuan. Zhangqu Technology has its own game platform with self developedtechnologies for mobile game distribution channels. It partners with over 900 game promotion channels and over 100 local and international game developers, whose products have entered the Southeast Asian, American, and European markets. After several years of business development as a merger and restructurer, the company has developed into a domestic mobile game developer, publisher, and operator, which ranks third in the evaluation of Chinese mobile game businesses.

## Creation Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chaoyang, Liaoning, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Hardware, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence

Creation Venture Partners is a venture capital firm.

## IRENA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Publishing, Console Games

Founded in 2001, IRENA window of sport is China's leading sports industry platform company and after 10 years of operation, it aims to tap into the whole industry chain of ecological system, the venues and copyright event resources integration, mobile Internet, making innovation model sports operating platform; From the venue, fieldoperations, up to entertainment assets operation now based on sports resource of copyright; window of Sports is using mobile Internet to change the window of the sports industry and realize value restructuring of all sports, the entertainment and the whole industry ecosystem .iRENA is the long-term partner of top sports events in China, including China's national football team | Beijing Guo’an | Shanghai Greenland and Shenhua | Evergrande Taobao Guangzhou | CBA Shougang | NBA Chinese international series @ China | women's volleyball team | I love football, and its service includes event sponsorship, ticket agent, game holding, VIP, box and fan club, etc.
Based on the profound understanding of facility operation, outstanding creative and strong resource strength in operating practice, Window of the sports made a systematic summary of solution suitable for China - IRENA, and they solved the worldwide problem of the sports venues in the long-term.
[China's top sports marketing platform] [China’s Almighty city venues operating platform] [Chinese vanguard of the body entertainment fans aggregation platform] [Chinese forefront of the industry chain operating platform]

## Animoca Brands
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

## ChemChina
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Internet, Publishing

China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) is a large State-owned enterprise under the administration of SASAC and established in May 2004 with the approval of the State Council.ChemChina is in the list of Fortune 500 and China's largest chemical company and ranks 19th among the world's top 100 chemical corporations.Since itsestablishment in 2004, ChemChina has adhered to its development orientation – "traditional chemicals, advanced materials" and achieved an "extraordinary leaps and bounds". In 2013, its annual total assets reached 272.5 billion yuan, and its sales revenue reached 244billion yuan.The main business of ChemChina is made up of six sectors: new chemical materials; basic chemical materials; oil processing; agrochemicals; rubber products; chemical equipment.ChemChina has opened production and R&D bases in 140 countries and regions around the world with a sound marketing system. It controls 9 A-share listed companies and has a total of 118 enterprises, 6 overseas divisions, 4 subordinate units and 24 research and design institutes. It is a national innovative enterprise.ChemChina is implementing the 12th Five-year Plan and accelerating industrial restructuring. In the future, it will form a business layout of "3+1", namely: materials science, environmental science and life science plus basic chemical, and strive to become a world-class chemical company with international competitiveness.

## Everbright Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Post-IPO Equity, Angel
- Focus: Marketing, Manufacturing, Media and Entertainment

Everbright Capital is a direct investment company that engages in equity investment. Its business scope includes investment management, asset management, equity investment, and investment consulting. Everbright Capital focuses on TMT, sports, education, environmental protection, logistics, intelligent manufacturing, medical care, culture, andentertainment.The company was founded in November 2008 and was approved by the Securities Regulatory Commission.

## Huarong Securities
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Post-IPO Equity, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Education, Virtual Reality, News

Huarong Securities provides securities brokerage and trading services.

## Funcity Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency

Funcity Capital is an asset management company specializing in Internet finance, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and smart travel.

## ZONGHENG
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Publishing, Console Games

ZONGHENG is a company engaged in film & television, star, sports copyright operation, game development and distribution services.

## Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Internet, Publishing

Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press is the leading comprehensive cultural and educational publishing organization in China.

## Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Mobile, Software, B2B

Leading Malaysia's People Forward in Digital Economy

## Presto Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We're a Prague-based VC firm investing in fast growing tech companies and empowering talented startup founders from Central and Eastern Europe.

## Yufu Assets
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chongqing Shi, Chongqing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Publishing, Information Services

Yufu Assets engaged in asset management and financial consultant.

## Showa Leasing
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Printing, Publishing, Photography

Showa Leasing engages in the leasing of machine tools, construction machinery, medical equipment, and commercial equipment. The company was founded on April 2, 1969 and its headquarters are located in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.

## Nippon Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.

## Zayn Venture Capital (Formally Zayn Capital)
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech

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## JISCO
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Internet, Publishing

JISCO is a manufacturer and distributor of steel products, marketing its products both domestic and international.
The company was founded in 1958 and is based in Jiayuguan.

## Huayi Brothers Media Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series D
- Focus: Video, Film, Gaming

Huayi Bros. Media Group is a Chinese comprehensive entertainment group.The company entered the film industry by investing in Feng Xiaogang and Jiang Wen's films, and gained a reputation by investing in the New Year blockbuster directed by Feng Xiaogang. After that it entirely focused on the media industry, investing and operating in moviesand TV drama programs, artist management, records releasing, entertainment marketing, etc.Huayi Bros. Media Group achieved good results in its focused fields and founded Huayi Brothers Media Corporation in 2005. On October 30, 2009, it was formally listed in the GEM of Shenzhen.Huayi Bros. Media Group was founded by Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei in 1994.

## Longtu Game
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Haidian, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Computer, Publishing

Longtu Game is a mobile game development company.

## AltoPartners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cornelia, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1

AltoPartners is an international alliance of independent executive search firms.

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