Top 10 Social Startup Investors in Hong Kong (May 2026)

Ventech Capital was founded in 1998 in France. Ventech is one of the most famous VC funds in Europe and manages four funds. In China, Ventech China manages three funds. Globally, this represents more than USD 1B total asset under management. Ventech China is based in Shanghai. Ventech China 3 is a USD 220 million venture capital fund focused oncommunities, M-commerce, Big Data and Fintech. Its current portfolio companies include Keep, the No.1 fitness training and community app in China, WonderFull, the emerging Japanese product M-commerce platform, Juzi, the leading entertainment news platform, Datawin, the leading big data company in sales leads generation, and Blued, the No.1 gay community app in China. Ventech China is dedicated to growing together with innovative startups and help them to become global leaders in their fields.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Big Data
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: China, Japan, Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 50
Round size: Seed $2M–$50M; Series A $3M–$14M; Series B $6.9M–$37M
Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $150M in 2011

Portfolio highlights

Reflaunt — Reflaunt empowers brands with the technology to embrace circular fashion. The allows brand's customers to put back on sale their past purchases without ever leaving the brand ecosystem rewards them with brand shopping credits
Naive Blue — Naive Blue is a photography service provider company.
Huamei Haolian — Huamei Haolian specializes in providing telemedicine and medical tourism services.

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Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 966
Round size: Series A $4.1M–$30M; Series B $10M–$50M; Series C $10M–$100M
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
Flagship — Flagship develops a SaaS data science solution that brings predictive machine-learning intelligence to retail. Its centralized platform helps businesses make timely, data-driven decisions across internal stakeholders and channels. Flagship enriches retail brands' first-party data with machine learning algorithms to optimize customer retention,inventory sell-through, and revenue.
Lightforce Orthodontics — LightForce Orthodontics, founded in 2015, makes the world’s first and only fully customized 3D-printed bracket system that is based on the anatomy and tooth morphology of each patient. The company’s mission is to apply modern technology and mass-customization to improve the orthodontic experience for both patients and doctors. LightForce’s platformunites the latest in digital treatment capabilities with cutting-edge, on-demand, 3D manufacturing to offer clinicians the first significant advancement in bracket-based treatment protocol in the past 50 years. A first-of-its-kind in the orthodontic space, Lightforce offers an unparalleled platform for orthodontists and LightForce technicians to collaborate on treatment plans for each individual patient. The company’s solution significantly reduces patient visits to the orthodontist and time spent wearing braces by providing 100 percent fully-customized solutions that improve both convenience and quality, ensuring patients receive the gold standard of care.

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Shakil Khan is currently Head of Special Projects at Spotify, where he is also personal advisor to founder and CEO Daniel Ek. He has had a number of online businesses in the UK since 2000, was part of the founding team at buy.at, which was acquired by AOL, and he recently founded CoinDesk, a bitcoin news site.Shak has done extensive volunteerwork as an ambassador for charity: water, having helped raise millions of dollars for clean and safe drinking water. He is also a keen supporter and friend of Pencils of Promise, who build schools for those most in need.Having lived in China, Shak speaks Chinese (as well as English, Urdu, Punjabi, and Danish) and currently divides his time between London, San Francisco, New York and airport lounges.Shak is an investor in BitPay, Spotify, Top10, Duedil and YPlan. Shak was also an investor and mentor to Nick D'Aloisio who built and sold Summly, a news curation app that was sold to Yahoo in March 2013.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 13
Round size: Seed $510k–$1.8M; Series A $5M–$12M
Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.
Founders Pledge — Home | Founders Pledge

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Dan Schryer was formerly CEO of DCI Data Centers, a Blackstone backed technology real estate company. Together with Guru Gowrappan, formerly CEO of Verizon Media, he co-founded Bali Venture Partners, LLC to invest in seed and growth stage debt and equity opportunities.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
Geography: United States, India, Panama

Investor stats

Total investments: 31
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
SOS Hydration — Rescue yourself from dehydration with SOS, doctor formulated rapid hydration with 80x less sugar than sports drinks and only 3g carbs and 10 calories.
Evry Health — Evry Health makes healthcare affordable and high quality again by providing expanded benefits at an affordable price. The company is responding to the need to make healthcare affordable and accessible again. Evry Health is based in Mountain View, California and was founded in 2017.

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Mr. Ron Cao is a respected venture capitalist and the Founder and Partner of Sky9 capital. During his investment career across Silicon Valley and China, Ron has focused on investing in innovative and disruptive opportunities in consumer internet, industrial internet, enterprise services, deep tech and digital healthcare. He has invested in a numberof technology companies that have grown to become market leaders in their respective industries. Some of these investments include: Meituan/Dianping, PinDuoDuo, TuSimple, Energy Monster, Full Truck Alliance, FinVolution, QingCloud, FangDD, Innolight, Lianluo Interactive, MediaV (acquired by Qihoo), MetroWave (acquired by IPG Photonics), Opulan (acquired by Qualcomm), ShareWave (acquired by Cirrus Logic), Ainemo (acquired by Baidu), 51WORLD, ByteDance, eBroke, Tujia, Doctor Trust, YiAuto, Biren Technology, Starfield, NeoX and Xbiome. Ron has over 20 years of venture capital experience. He was the Managing Director of Lightspeed Venture Partners and started Lightspeed’s China operations from scratch. Prior to Lightspeed, Ron was Managing Director of KLM Capital, where he led the company’s early-stage cross-border investments in Silicon Valley and China. Before entering the investment field, Ron started his career in the US with Motorola, Goldman Sachs and Intel. Ron was named by Forbes China as one of the “Top Venture Capitalists of China” over multiple years. In 2013, Ron was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of its “Young Global Leaders” and served on the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and IT. Ron is actively involved with various philanthropic pursuits, especially in the areas of children’s education and impact investing. Ron has been involved on the boards of BEAM Alliance and Maitian Education Foundation. Ron holds bachelor’s and master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
Geography: China, Hong Kong, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 20
Round size: Series B $30M–$40M; Series C $69M–$100M
Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

NodeReal — NodeReal empowers developers and investors to explore blockchain with most reliable solutions, and enable enterprises to generate business opportunities.
Chen Xianggui — Chen Xianggui is a catering brand and servicer that makes Lanzhou ramen and snacks, braised beef skewers, mutton, and other products.
Asia Innovations Group — Asia Innovations Group (AIG) owns a diverse portfolio of live social apps, including Uplive, which allows video social hosts to broadcast to the world, Lamour, the top dating app in global emerging markets, and SupreFans, a fan-centric live social app. AIG leverages cutting-edge technology, advanced streaming capabilities, and a scalable globalinfrastructure to deliver an optimal, seamless, and authentic live social experience. Focused on major emerging markets, AIG has twelve global offices, including in Casablanca, Cairo, Delhi, Tokyo, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Dallas.

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MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Biotechnology
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: China, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

Total investments: 127
Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9M; Series A $3.5M–$32M; Series B $7.9M–$100M
Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

Shenji Changhua — Shenji Changhua is a biotechnology company focusing on neurological diseases such as ALS.
Yanming Biology — Pyrotech pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that focuses om development for drugs for the treatment of inflammation and tumors.
Life Biosciences — Lingfu Bio is a service provider of the whole industry chain of experimental animals and animal models.

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Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 866
Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.8M; Series A $3.1M–$22M; Series B $6.7M–$50M
Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
Worldover — Cosmetic compliance made simple
Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.

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Fritz Demopoulos has been an entrepreneur and investor within the media and internet industries for over 10 years. He co-founded Qunar.com, China's largest travel internet company; and Shawei.com, China's largest sports internet company. Fritz also had senior positions at Netease and The News Corporation.

Investment focus

Industry: Travel, Hospitality, Tourism
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: Germany, Spain, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Round size: Series A $4.5M–$8.5M
Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

Tourlane — Discover the world's most enchanting destinations and exciting hideaways on your perfect vacation. At Tourlane, our Travel Experts make planning your trip of a lifetime easy and worry-free.
BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.
TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy the world's largest travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.

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Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 143
Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $5M–$36M; Series B $18M–$60M
Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

BoomFi — All-in-one solution to send, accept and convert crypto payments. Fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement. Get started today.
Eyeball Games — Eyeball Games operates as a gaming studio set up by the original creators of 8 Ball Pool, serial entrepreneurs and degens.
Trident Digital — Trident Digital is restoring market liquidity by providing the next-generation digital asset platform that addresses issues with access, security, and capital efficiency. It allows lenders and borrowers to connect transparently and not rely on a central counterparty.

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