# Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in China in May 2026

## Charles Xue
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Retail

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.

## Gang Wang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Transportation, Last Mile Transportation

Gang Wang

## Minhong Yu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Education, Social Media, Mobile

Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was anEnglish instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.

## Bob Xiaoping Xu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile

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.

## Frank Li
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: B2B, Retail, Internet

Frank Li is a former at Ameba Capital. CEO of WaCai. Prior to founding Ameba Capital, Mr. Li worked for Alibaba Group, where he focused on website planning and construction. He developed Alibaba’s biggest paying client base and second biggest income product, 1688 CXT. Mr. Li founded Koubei.com in 2004 and acted as CEO. Alibaba Group acquiredKoubei.com for over 50 million US dollars in 2008. Koubei.com merged with Yahoo China before finally merging with Taobao.

## Xiaoguang Wu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Software, Service Industry, SaaS

Xiaoguang Wu was named Senior Management Adviser in June 2015. He joined Tencent in 1999 and was a member of the founding team. Xiaoguang Wu led the development and product planning for the Group’s core product, QQ, and served as project manager for the QQ research and development team. He also served as General Manager of the IM product divisionand General Manager of the internet business division. He was later promoted to Senior Executive Vice President of the internet services division and Chief Executive Officer of Tencent E-Commerce Holdings Limited. Xiaoguang Wu has extensive experience in product research and development, product planning, product operations and marketing internet businesses. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Weather Dynamics from Nanjing University in 1996 and an EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in 2008.

## Bingqiang Gao
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Hardware, Coffee, Gaming

Bingqiang Gao is the Independent Non-Executive Director of Q Tech.

## Wanqiang Li
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Art, Apps

Wanqiang Li is responsible for the marketing of Xiaomi. He was the General Manager of Kingsoft Dictionary and notable for being one of the earliest UI practitioners in China. Graduated from Xi'an Science & Engineering Institute with a degree in Industrial Design in 2000, he joined Kingsoft’s UI Department and played a key role indeveloping many famous software projects including Kingsoft Antivirus, Kingsoft Dictionary and WPS Office. Wanqiang Li served at Kingsoft in various positions as Chief Designer of UI department, Director of Design Center and Director of Internet Content. Wanqiang Li is also a Co-founder of Xiaomi.

## Ming Lei
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Finance

Ming Lei (雷鸣) is the chief executive officer of Kuwo Science and Technology, a Chinese company providing digital entertainment services. Prior to that, he was a senior engineer at Baidu, a Chinese web services company. Lei holds an MBA from Stanford University, United States and a master’s degree in computer from Peking University, China.

## Xiaolai Li
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Social Media, Cryptocurrency

BitFund was founded in the middle of 2013 by Xiaolai Li, started from as little as $3.5 Million, and within one year, BitFund became the most influential Venture Capital related to crypto-currency in China. Xiaolai Li, a middle-aged retired formal teacher, a life-long learner, an individual who has always been curious about innovations andenthusiastic on efficiency, Li is the first individual in China who has been publicly collecting bitcoins without trying to remain anonymous (everyone puts great emphasis on anonymity of bitcoin when they first know about bitcoin), therefore he is well-known in China, and became even more influential after the BitFund founded.

## Ron Zuckerman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Internet, Video, Marketplace

Ron Zuckerman is the Co-Founder and Director of TV Time.

## Wei Guo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

## Lei Ming
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Hardware

Lei Ming

## Victor Wang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Series B
- Focus: EdTech, Travel, FinTech

Wang Qiang (Victor Wang) is a Co-Founder of ZhenFund and New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE: EDU). He designed the oral and practical English and computer science courses. Prior to co-founding of ZhenFund and New Oriental, he was an engineer in the software division of Bell Communications Research and former lecturer of Englishlanguage and literature at Peking University.He received an M.S. in Computer Science from State University of New York, and a B.A. in English from Peking University. He is the Chairman of the Board of Juzi Entertainment.

## Chen Zhu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Real Estate

Chen Zhu is the Product - Head of Matching at Poshmark. Attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Jinbo Yao
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Marketing, Logistics, Automotive

Jinbo Yao is the President, Founder and CEO at 58.com.

## Yinan Li
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Tutoring, Education

Yinan Li is a partner at Plum Ventures and is known for being the founder of luxury electric bike maker Niu Technologies Group.

## Yao Song
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Yao Song

## Xiangyang Yang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Angel
- Focus: Aerospace, Industrial, Manufacturing

Xiangyang Yang

## Qi Lu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Technology

Dr. Qi Lu works for Microsoft as president of the Online Services Group. Dr. Lu leads Microsoft’s efforts in search and online advertising and all the company’s online information and communications services. Dr. Lu reports directly to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.Dr. Qi Lu has also served as executive vice president ofengineering for Search and Advertising Technology Group at Yahoo where he leads development efforts around Yahoo's Web search and monetization platforms. Prior to joining Yahoo in 1998, Dr. Lu was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. Before that, Dr. Lu worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a Research Associate, and at Fudan University in China as a faculty member. He holds 20 U.S. patents, and received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Fudan University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

## Tao Zhang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Internet, Education, Payments

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.

## Adrian Cheng
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Fashion

Adrian Cheng is the Executive Vice Chairman and General Manager of New World Development, Executive Director of Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group, founder of K11 Group and co-founder of C Ventures. Based in Hong Kong and Europe, he is heading the operation of the family company New World Development, a $55bn infrastructure-to-retail group with holdingsin China and worldwide. Cheng is reinventing the family business as a “cultural enterprise” and expanding ownership to new areas including AI, entertainment and e-commerce, with a focus on China’s millennial and Generation Z audience.

## George Godula
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile

Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments.
Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)

## O.D. Kobo
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Broadcasting, Video

O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.

## Jun Lei
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Financial Services

Jun Lei is the Co-Founder, Founding Partner, and Chairman at Shunwei.

## Mingming Zhu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Fashion, Robotics, Lifestyle

Mingming Zhu is the founder and CEO of Rokid. He previously worked at University of Louisville as an Instructor. Mingming Zhu attended Washington University in St. Louis.

## Anyi Shengyin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Marketing

Anyi Shengyin

## Wu Longbin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Cloud Computing, Service Industry

Wu Longbin is the founder and Chairman of Xiaoshan Capital.

## Lu Xiaochen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nankang, Jiangxi, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: PaaS, Hardware, Software

Xiaochen Lu is an investor in China.

## Andrew Andrew
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Hardware, Software, Manufacturing

Andrew is the founding partner of brizan.

## Li Jun
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Software, Internet Services

Li Jun is a Dean of Tsinghua School of Information.

## Wang Huiwen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1

Wang Huiwen

## Lin Hsi-Lei
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Education

Lin Hsi-Lei is a Taiwanese actress and model who has appeared mainly in Hong Kong films.

## Wang Caihong
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Industrial, Market Research, Industrial Automation

Wang Caihong is a well-known LP investor

## Kang Yi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Software, Internet Services

Kang Yi is a professor of Microelectronics of University of Science and Technology of China.

## Zhang Hailong
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Software, Internet Services

Former Oracle senior software engineer. has co-founded the open source Chinese community（oschina.net）in 2010.

## Zhikang Dai
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Big Data, Analytics, Marketing

Zhikang Dai

## Yong Wang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Big Data, Software, Analytics

Yong Wang is the Chairman of CrestValue.

## Xiaohua Cheng
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Hardware, Software, Manufacturing

Xiaohua Cheng is an angel investor.

## Anyi Youzan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Marketing

Anyi Youzan

## Lu Fan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Sales and Marketing, Information Technology, Community and Lifestyle

Lu Fan is the founder of Xiaopet Technology.

## Peter Li
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Software, Industrial, Manufacturing

Peter Li is an individual investor.

## Wei Tao
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Hardware, Software, Automotive

Wei Tao - Founder @ Z Ventures Group

## Jiangchuan Tian
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Marketing, Advertising, Content Creators

Tian Jiangchuan has rich experience in mid and late-stage projects. Before founding Chuxin capital, Tian Jiangchuan worked for UBS and CITIC Capital M & A fund and participated in many post-stage equity investment and M & A projects. As a deputy director of the investment bank of Swiss Bank of Hong Kong, she has participated in a number ofinitial public offerings of Chinese private enterprises in Hong Kong and the United States through the red chip or Sina framework, merger and acquisition projects, and a number of issues of foreign debts of private enterprises.
She graduated from the Department of economic statistics, University College London, UK.

## Kebin Dai
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: News, Social News, Social Media

Kebin Dai is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lietou.com, a high-end talent community-based recruitment site. He is an expert in recruitment marketing in China.Considered as an expert in recruitment marketing, Dai served at many established companies including P&G and was in charge of the branding operations for Ariel, whisper,Crest and Oral-B brand.Dai resigned P&G as Brand Manager of Greater China and founded Lietou.com in 2008.In 2010, Dai successfully entered the 2010 Asia America Multi-technology Association Cradle Plan. In 2012, Mr. Dai was acclaimed as one of top 10 most influential innovative entrepreneurs in human resources in China.Dai graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in Finance.

## Xin Deng
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Consumer, Photography, Information Technology

Xin Deng - CEO and Founder @ Xueda

## Kevin Diao
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Automotive, Cloud Management

Kevin Diao - Co-Founder @ Mx Federation

## Jui Tan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: TV, Digital Media, Digital Entertainment

Jui Tan is a General Partner with BlueRun China. He joined the firm in March 2001. He focuses on communications, software and semiconductor investments.Jui has 15 years of experience managing international investments and operations. Previous experience includes Director of Global Service Development at Singapore Telecom, responsible forSingTel’s managed data and voice services globally, and engineering management positions at IBM, focusing on computing and networking systems.Jui received his B.S. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and M.B.A. from the International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland.

## Amit Nanavati
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Local, Banking, Messaging

Amit Nanavati - Managing Director @ Bralco Advanced Materials

## Tony Sheng
- Type: Angel
- Location: Venice, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Tony Sheng is the Co-Founder at Cozy Finance.

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