As humanoid robot makers move from demos to deployment, investors are backing the component that turns robots into working machines.
For the past two years, China’s embodied AI boom has centered on full humanoid platforms. In 2026, capital is moving down the stack. Dexterous hands, once treated as a lab component, are now being priced as a standalone supply-chain category.
The logic is practical. Walking robots attract attention, but hands create utility. A humanoid can only work in factories, warehouses, and service environments if it can grasp, sort, press, plug, assemble, and handle objects with control. That makes the hand layer commercially important and repeatable across multiple robot makers.
The 108 dexterous-hand-related funding rounds reveal a clear shift in investor attention:
Before 2024, fundraising was sporadic, as dexterous hands remained a niche robotics component.
From 2024, investment activity rose steadily alongside China’s embodied AI boom and the shift of humanoid robots from concepts to prototypes and pilot deployments.
In 2025, the sector reached 46 funding rounds, with RMB 3.4 billion in disclosed investment.
In the first half of 2026, it recorded 32 rounds and RMB 5.6 billion in disclosed investment, already exceeding the full-year total for 2025. Average round size rose 135%, from RMB 74 million to RMB 174 million.
Dexterous hands are moving from a research component to a strategic supply-chain category. Investors increasingly view them as critical infrastructure for deploying humanoid robots in factories, warehouses, and service environments.
Capital Signals Across the Dexterous Hand Market
This article highlights five companies that illustrate how capital is flowing into China’s dexterous hand market. Rather than forming a ranking, they represent distinct investment signals: valuation, production capacity, strategic investment, supply-chain positioning, OEM incubation, and early-stage pipeline formation.
The market is forming in three layers
China’s dexterous hand market is not moving in one straight line. Three layers are forming at the same time: valuation leaders, strategic component suppliers, and younger companies linked to future OEM demand.
LinkerBot is the clearest valuation signal. Public reports indicate that the company completed a nearly RMB 1.5B Series B round, reached a RMB 10B post-Series B valuation, and later moved towards an even higher valuation after Series B+. The numbers still need publication-stage verification, but the direction is clear: investors are trying to identify default suppliers before large OEM procurement cycles fully accelerate.
This pricing is based on expectation, not only current revenue. If humanoid robot shipments scale, dexterous hands could become repeat-purchase hardware. Suppliers with stable performance, production capacity, and early OEM relationships may become hard to replace. This commercial potential is beginning to command a valuation premium from investors.
Strategic capital is treating the hand as a supply-chain asset
Tianji Robotics and Xynova show a different signal. They are not only raising money; they are attracting investors that care about the future structure of the robotics supply chain.
Tianji Robotics is reported to serve more than 45 humanoid robot OEM customers has with a backlog of more than 10,000 units. That customer base is a stronger signal than another demo video. It suggests that downstream demand has already started to form.
Xynova’s investor base points in the same direction. Investment platforms linked to CATL, Xiaomi, and Li Auto bring manufacturing experience, hardware supply-chain knowledge, and long-term exposure to intelligent machines. Their participation suggests that dexterous hands are being evaluated not only as a venture bet, but also as a potential control point in embodied AI hardware.
OEM spinoffs show the hand layer may become independent
AGILINK and Rysen Robotics should not be read through the same lens as LinkerBot. Their importance lies less in current valuation scale than in what they reveal about market structure.
AGILINK matters because it was incubated by AgiBot, one of China’s leading humanoid robot platforms. Its fourth funding round in five months shows that investors are willing to back dexterous-hand businesses as standalone component companies.
If a hand module can raise capital, sell to multiple customers, and build its own roadmap, it is no longer just an internal part of a robot stack. t is beginning to emerge as a standalone component category.
Rysen Robotics represents the commercialisation path. Proceeds from its latest funding round will be used to expand Apex Hand production capacity, support batch deliveries and develop overseas markets.
Investment Takeaways
The investment logic is shifting from platform hype to supply-chain pricing. Full humanoid robots still receive the most attention, but investors are now asking which component layers can capture durable value once OEMs begin to scale.
Dexterous hands are attractive because the revenue path may be shorter than full humanoid platforms. They are modular, upgradeable, and sellable across multiple robot makers. They may also enter industrial automation scenarios before full humanoid deployment becomes mature.
The market is still too early for a stable ranking. What matters is the role each company plays in the stack: leader, supplier, spinoff, or pipeline company.
Why It Matters
China’s humanoid robot race is no longer only about who can build the most impressive full-body machine. It is also about who controls the components that make the machine useful.
Dexterous hands sit at that intersection. They are technically difficult, commercially necessary, and increasingly investable. The companies attracting capital today are competing to become part of the default supply chain for embodied AI.
The next phase of China’s robotics market may therefore be less about demos and more about procurement. When OEMs begin to scale, the winners will not only be the robot brands on stage. They may also be the component suppliers hidden inside the machine.
Sources: IT Juzi database; Cyzone; 36Kr English; Gasgoo; Bloomberg; The Next Web; EqualOcean; Yicai Global; company announcements and public reporting reviewed by DayDayUp Research Team.
Eight Companies, Billions of RMB, and What It Means for the World
Something shifted in China’s robotics industry in 2025 — and it happened faster than most observers expected.
Embodied AI, the field that combines large language models with physical robot bodies, moved from research labs and trade show floors into factories, warehouses, and commercial contracts. Capital followed at an unprecedented pace: Chinese embodied AI companies raised ¥73.5 billion ($10.8 billion) across 744 deals in 2025 alone. In the first five months of 2026, another ¥30 billion-plus entered the sector — averaging roughly ¥330 million per day.
Eight companies have now crossed the RMB 10 billion valuation threshold. Two are valued above RMB 20 billion. The first IPO has been approved. A new industrial category is taking shape in real time.
This is no longer a story about China’s robotics ambitions. It is a story about a technology transition that is already underway — and one that will reshape manufacturing, logistics, and labour economics globally.
The Eight Companies Entering the Playoffs
China’s top eight embodied AI companies are not building the same thing. They are each competing to occupy — or control — a distinct layer of a technology stack that, in its mature form, will integrate AI foundation models, physical hardware, real-world training data, deployment infrastructure, and commercial go-to-market capacity. Understanding the stack is the prerequisite for understanding the race.
Embodied AI Brain: Galaxy General Robotics, Galaxea Dynamics, Spirit AI, and AI² Robotics
At the top of the stack are companies competing to build the intelligence layer of embodied AI.
Galaxy General Robotics, Galaxea Dynamics, Spirit AI, and AI² Robotics sit in this category.
Their strategic value is not limited to the robot body. It lies in the models, data systems, and intelligence infrastructure that allow robots to understand environments, interpret instructions, and execute physical tasks.
This is where vision-language-action systems become central.
A VLA system connects perception, language understanding, and physical execution. In simpler terms, it helps a robot understand what it sees, process what a human asks it to do, and decide what action to take next.
For overseas investors, this layer is particularly important because it looks less like traditional robotics manufacturing and more like AI infrastructure applied to the physical world.
Robot bodies may be replaced, upgraded, or produced by different hardware vendors. But a generalisable intelligence layer that can run across different platforms, task types, and deployment environments could become much more valuable.
In the long run, the “brain layer” may become the operating system of physical AI.
The key investment question is therefore not simply whether these companies can build advanced models.
It is whether their models can generalise, improve through real-world data, and translate intelligence into reliable physical action.
Robot Body: Unitree Robotics, AgiBot, and Robot Erae Robotics and AgiBot
The second layer is where embodied AI becomes visible to customers.
This is the layer of robot bodies, full-stack systems, motion control, hardware integration, supply chain execution, and commercial deployment.
Unitree Robotics, AgiBot, and Robot Era are positioned here.
Unitree Robotics is one of the most important companies to watch because it represents commercial discipline in a sector that is still highly experimental. The company has built strong global recognition through quadruped robots and is now moving further into humanoid systems. Its relevance is not only technological. It also reflects China’s strength in hardware iteration, cost control, and productisation.
AgiBot represents another important route. It is one of China’s most visible humanoid robotics companies, backed by strong technical narratives and strategic capital. The market expectation is clear: AgiBot needs to convert visibility into deployment volume, customer traction, and recurring commercial value.
Robot Era adds another dimension to this layer. Its relevance lies in connecting robot systems with industrial scenarios. In embodied AI, commercialisation is not just about building a robot that can move. It is about integrating robots into factories, warehouses, logistics workflows, and other operational environments where ROI can be measured.
This layer is difficult because it requires multiple capabilities at once.
A company needs hardware engineering, motion control, supply chain management, safety systems, software integration, field operations, and after-sales support. A robot that performs well in a controlled demo environment is very different from a robot that can operate repeatedly in a real commercial setting.
For investors, the core question is straightforward:
Can these companies build robots that work reliably, repeatedly, and economically in the real world?
If the answer is yes, they are no longer just robotics startups.
They become automation infrastructure companies.
Perception Infrastructure: PaXini Tech
The third layer is perception infrastructure.
PaXini Tech focuses on tactile sensing and multimodal perception, a critical but often under-discussed part of embodied AI.
For robots to operate in the physical world, vision is not enough. They also need to understand pressure, force, contact, and material interaction. This becomes especially important in tasks that require grasping, handling, assembling, or manipulating objects with precision.
From an investment perspective, PaXini Tech represents a focused infrastructure bet.
As robot bodies become increasingly standardised, specialised sensing capabilities may become an important source of differentiation. In that sense, PaXini is not simply a component company. It is addressing one of the key bottlenecks that will determine whether embodied AI can move from controlled demos to real-world work.
What Makes This Different from Previous Robotics Cycles?
China has invested in robotics before. Previous waves produced capable hardware in controlled environments but limited commercial adoption. The current cycle is different in four important ways.
Foundation models have changed what robots can do. The rapid improvement of large language models from 2022 onwards created, almost as a byproduct, the architectural foundation for vision-language-action systems. The ability to train robots on language instructions, visual inputs, and physical feedback simultaneously — and to generalise that training across task types and environments — compressed the timeline for commercially useful embodied AI from “decades away” to “under active deployment.” Companies that began serious research in 2022 or 2023 are running real pilots with real customers as of mid-2026.
Data loops are becoming the primary competitive moat. In previous robotics cycles, success was measured in lab performance metrics and trade show demonstrations. This cycle will be decided by data. Every hour a robot operates in a factory, warehouse, or logistics hub generates training signal that refines the models running all subsequent robots. Companies that achieve early deployment at scale compound a model advantage in ways that late entrants cannot replicate. This is the structural insight most coverage of Chinese robotics misses: the robot body is a distribution mechanism. The real product is the deployment data.
Real-world deployment — not demos — is the benchmark. Commercial contracts, production unit counts, and disclosed unit economics are now the metrics that matter. Unitree’s IPO application forces a public reckoning with what this sector is actually worth. Every other valuation in the cohort will ultimately be measured against what the public market decides Unitree is worth.
China’s manufacturing ecosystem provides structural cost advantages that are compounding. China’s precision electronics supply chain — motors, sensors, actuators, and structural components — is not merely cost-competitive; it is qualitatively superior in iteration velocity. A Chinese robotics startup can test, redesign, and remanufacture a motor assembly in weeks. This is the product of decades of sustained manufacturing investment, and it is why the cost curve is falling faster than most observers anticipated. IDTechEx projects average humanoid robot prices declining 68% by 2030 — from roughly $115,000 in 2024 to around $37,000. Goldman Sachs forecasts manufacturing costs reaching $15,000–$20,000 per unit at scale. Bank of America’s research projects commercial-grade units at $13,000–$17,000 by the same year. Unitree’s G1 already retails at $16,000 today.
Why Global Companies Should Pay Attention
The embodied AI transition carries structural implications for global manufacturers, supply chains, and labour markets — and the timeline is compressing faster than most corporate planning assumptions reflect.
The productivity impact is real, and deployment has already begun. Figure AI’s F.02 humanoid contributed to the production of more than 30,000 BMW vehicles at the Spartanburg plant in the United States. BMW announced its first European humanoid robot deployment at its Leipzig facility in February 2026. These are not pilots in controlled conditions; they are production-line deployments generating commercial output. For global manufacturers, the question is no longer whether embodied AI will reach commercial maturity — it is whether their organisations are prepared to evaluate and adopt it on a competitive timeline.
Supply chain implications are strategic, not just operational. Companies that depend on labour-intensive manufacturing in any geography need a forward view on how embodied AI changes their cost structures. As unit prices move toward the $20,000–$30,000 range projected by 2030, the economics of robot adoption become compelling in an expanding set of manufacturing environments. Procurement leaders and operations teams that begin evaluation now will have a meaningful advantage over those waiting for the technology to “fully mature.”
The standards race is underway. Whoever achieves early large-scale deployment sets the de facto performance benchmarks, data protocols, safety standards, and integration interfaces that subsequent adopters build around. In enterprise software, this is the standards lock-in dynamic. In physical AI, it will operate similarly — but intersecting with regulatory frameworks, workplace safety law, and national industrial policy in ways that software standards do not. Companies that achieve first-mover deployment will have significant influence over how global standards evolve.
What It Means for Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia occupies a specific position in the global embodied AI deployment sequence — one that requires both strategic realism and forward planning.
The first wave of large-scale commercial deployment is concentrating in high-labour-cost markets. Japan Airlines’ Unitree G1 trials at Haneda Airport, BMW’s humanoid deployments in the United States and Germany, and early logistics automation in South Korea all follow the same economic logic: where labour is expensive and hard to source, the payback economics of a $50,000–$100,000 robot are compelling today. Southeast Asia, with structurally lower labour costs, is more realistically positioned as a second-wave market — one that becomes commercially compelling as robot unit prices fall toward the $20,000–$30,000 range projected by 2030.
Manufacturing and warehousing are the most immediate verticals to watch. Southeast Asian factories in electronics, consumer goods, and automotive components represent the sector where cost curves will intersect with adoption thresholds earliest. Logistics and warehousing operations — particularly those serving the region’s fast-growing e-commerce sector — are a natural early deployment environment as unit prices decline and deployment tooling matures.
Singapore’s strategic role is as a hub, not just a market. The more immediate opportunity for Singapore-based investors, corporates, and professional services firms is not as end-market adopters of embodied AI hardware, but as the governance, financing, and IP structuring layer connecting Chinese technology supply with global demand. Companies building Singapore-domiciled holding structures, neutral IP jurisdictions, and transparent international governance frameworks will access a significantly wider global customer base. This is an underpriced source of competitive advantage — and one where Singapore has genuine structural advantages to offer.
Industrial services and supply chain transformation will follow. As embodied AI platforms mature beyond initial manufacturing applications, industrial services, inspection, maintenance, and logistics will represent the next adoption frontier in Southeast Asia. Companies managing cross-border supply chains that currently depend on labour-intensive processes should begin scenario planning that incorporates this transition now.
Conclusion
The winners of China’s embodied AI race will not necessarily build the most impressive robots.
They will build the strongest data loops — accumulating operational intelligence from real-world deployment at scale. They will build the deepest deployment networks — reaching factories, warehouses, and service environments across China and increasingly beyond. And they will build the clearest commercial discipline: unit economics that hold, governance structures that travel, and revenue models that compound.
Eight companies are in the playoffs. The next eighteen months will determine who advances — and what the rest of the world has left to work with.
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Wei Qun
Wei Qun
Co-Founder
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Zhao Shan
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Zhang Tao
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Angel Investor | Founder, Dianping
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Fu Sheng
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Dong Ming, is an alumnus of Zhejiang University’s Class of 2005 and a participant in the university’s Chu Kochen Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program (ITP). With a proven track record in ventures like Mogujie, Pinduoduo, Huiliang Tech, and Daily Interactive, Dong Ming co-founded Tiger Brokers, a company that quickly ascended into the capital market spotlight.
Under his astute leadership, Tiger Brokers achieved a stellar NASDAQ debut on March 20, witnessing an impressive first-day increase of 36%. As a co-founder, Dong Ming played a pivotal role in the company’s outstanding performance. Tiger Brokers, helmed by CEO Wu Tianhua, an alumnus of Tsinghua University, reported a total revenue of $33.56 million in 2018, boasting 1.58 million registered users, 502,000 active accounts, and 82,000 funded accounts as of December 31, 2018. The company’s IPO, managed by Deutsche Bank and Citigroup, trades under the ticker symbol “TIGR” on NASDAQ.
Prior to its IPO, Tiger Brokers garnered investments from prominent institutions, including Xiaomi Technology, Huachuang Capital, and ZhenFund, alongside notable individuals such as Wang Xing, the founder of Meituan-Dianping, and renowned Wall Street investor Jim Rogers, solidifying Dong Ming’s reputation as a visionary leader in the financial technology sector.
Liang Jianfeng
Liang Jianfeng
Founder, Beijing ZZNode Technologies
Liang Jianfeng, the visionary founder and CEO of Beijing ZZNode Technologies, revolutionized the e-commerce landscape with his innovative platform. He previously served as the Marketing Director of the Tablet Division at Aigo. After his tenure at Aigo, Liang Jianfeng embarked on three entrepreneurial ventures, spanning from e-commerce to intelligent hardware, securing 200 million RMB in Series B funding. Under his guidance, Beijing ZZNode Technologies has cultivated a dynamic community of global personal shoppers, merchants, and influencers, providing interactive shopping journeys for consumers worldwide.
Liang Jianfeng’s leadership has propelled Beijing ZZNode Technologies to remarkable heights. The platform’s unique blend of live video shopping and cross-border e-commerce has garnered widespread attention. With millions of engaged users and a successful series A listing on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, his brainchild stands as a testament to his entrepreneurial acumen and commitment to redefining online retail experiences
Da Shengwei
Dasheng Wei
Founder and CEO, Yunyi IoT
Da Shengwei, a visionary entrepreneur and Tsinghua University graduate, co-founded Panoramic Microelectronics and later Xiaoyi Technology. He gained global recognition with the best-selling Xiaoyi Smart Dash Camera on Amazon. Da Shengwei’s innovation prowess extended to establishing Yunyi IoT, the world’s first video-based IoT open platform.
Understanding that hardware is a conduit, his focus shifted to users, big data, and cloud computing, culminating in Yunyi IoT. Operating across 168 countries, the platform integrates AI visual terminal processing, innovative edge computing, and end-to-end solutions. Yunyi IoT ensures seamless data transmission and offers an unrivaled cloud experience, reaffirming Da Shengwei’s status as a trailblazer in technology. With 13 million global users and over 3 million daily active devices, Yunyi Technology continues to redefine IoT through AI-driven innovation.
He Jia
He Jia
CEO Shenzhen Sui Ni Technology
He Jia, CEO of Sui Ni Technology, boasts a robust background in the corporate world, having previously worked at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Tencent. Since its establishment in 2017, his company has become a hub for diverse services, ranging from software and hardware development to technology transfer and consultation. He Jia’s dedication to effective communication has positioned him as a prominent industry expert, evident in his role as the CEO speech coach and author of the book “Expression.”
Beyond his corporate roles, He Jia’s expertise shines in coaching TEDx speakers, including notable personalities like pianist Kong Xiangdong and the Vice Dean of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. These speakers have graced TEDxZhuhai events, drawing audiences from 29 cities and including high-ranking executives and major media outlets. He Jia has also provided TEDx speech training for Tencent executives and CEOs in the intelligent hardware sector in collaboration with Leiphone.com, showcasing his versatility and impact in the realm of effective communication strategies.
Chu Yongyan
Chu Yongyan
CEO, Chuhang Tech
Chu Yongyan, the founder and CEO of Chu Hang Technology, boasts a master’s degree in electronic information and a remarkable 13-year stint at Bosch Group in Germany, earning him a certification as a Functional Safety Expert.
After returning to China in 2018, he established Chu Hang Technology, focusing on automotive-grade millimeter-wave radar technology. Despite managing a 300+ member team, his youthful enthusiasm and charismatic leadership have made him a notable figure in the automotive technology sector. His engaging personality, coupled with a compelling 10-slide presentation, convinced renowned investor Wang Xiao to invest 5 million RMB in his venture, showcasing his entrepreneurial prowess and innovative vision.
Victoria Wei
Victoria Wei
Partner, Lucky Visionary Investment
Victoria Wei is a seasoned professional currently serving as a Senior Manager at Junlian Capital. Widely recognized as a prominent figure in the industry, Wei is characterized by her understated demeanor, unwavering enthusiasm for her work, and a penchant for delivering insightful speeches. With a wealth of experience and expertise, she has been invited to numerous conferences and events as a distinguished guest.
One notable occasion was on April 28, 2015, when Wei was an esteemed participant at the 2015 Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC 2015) hosted by the Great Wall Club (GWC) in Beijing, where she delivered a captivating speech. Throughout her career, Victoria Wei has demonstrated a profound commitment to her profession, making significant contributions to the field of finance and investment.
Lai Mingzhen
Lai Mingzhen
CEO, Foshan Chaoshang Steel Industry Co.
Lai Mingzhen, a distinguished entrepreneur hailing from Chaoshan, stands out as a leading industrial figure known for his continuous successful ventures and keen investment acumen. Holding a notable position in Zhongshan University’s Executive MBA program in Finance and serving as a member of the board at Zhenghe Island, he demonstrates his influential role in both education and business.
In 2017, Mingzhen founded Foshan Chaoshang Steel Industry Co., Ltd., based in Foshan City, specializing in metal product sales, research & development, machinery sales, and a range of technical services. The company operates independently with a registered capital of 2 million yuan, reflecting Mingzhen’s strategic expertise and entrepreneurial prowess in steering successful ventures and insightful investments.
Marco Lai
Marco Lai
Founder, LIZHI/TIYA
Marco Lai, the founder, CEO, and director of LIZHI INC., is a highly accomplished entrepreneur in China’s internet industry. Before founding LIZHI, he led companies such as Shanghai Labox Information Technology Limited and Guangzhou Mowang Information Technology Co., Ltd., showcasing his exceptional leadership from 2007 to 2010 and 2003 to 2007, respectively.
Marco Lai’s strategic vision, focusing on innovative product features and proprietary technologies, has been pivotal in LIZHI’s success, making him a revered figure in the business community. Under his guidance, LIZHI INC. achieved significant milestones, recording a remarkable net revenue of RMB631.0 million (US$91.9 million) in the first quarter of 2023, a 22% increase from the previous year. The company reached an average of 49.6 million total mobile MAUs and had 471.5 thousand monthly paying users during this period.
Yu Bing
Yu Bing
Former SVP, Lenovo Group | Chairman, Lenovo Image
Yu Bing joined Lenovo in 1990 and played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s market strategy and marketing systems. His expertise in marketing led to the establishment of a highly effective domestic-based channel system, contributing to Lenovo’s rapid and stable growth. Yu Bing also innovatively promoted Lenovo’s brand through large-scale nationwide tours, a first-of-its-kind initiative in China, solidifying Lenovo’s core competitiveness.
In 2001, Yu Bing spearheaded Lenovo’s transition into IT services, successfully expanding the company’s presence in consulting, application implementation, and integrated operations. This strategic move served diverse sectors, including government, finance, and telecommunications, and laid a solid foundation for Lenovo’s IT services growth. As Senior Vice President of the Group, Yu Bing accumulated extensive experience in strategic planning, capital operations, mergers and acquisitions, and team development, making significant contributions to Lenovo’s success.
Qian Jun
Qian Jun
CEO Chuang Jia Management Consulting
Qian Jun is a highly respected corporate leader, renowned for her contributions to the consulting industry. As the founder of Shenzhen Qianhai Chuang Jia Management Consulting Co., Ltd., she has steered the company into a position of prominence in Shenzhen’s business landscape since its establishment in 2018. Qian Jun’s visionary approach and strategic expertise have shaped the company’s diverse portfolio, offering services ranging from enterprise management consulting to blockchain technology development.
In addition, Qian Jun serves as the legal representative of Shanghai Chuanying Culture Communication Co., Ltd., Shanghai Jieqing Culture Media Co., Ltd., and Shenzhen Qianhai Chuangjia Management Consulting Co., Ltd. She also holds key positions as a shareholder and executive in these companies.
Qian Jun is also the driving force behind the Chuang Jia Women’s Alliance, advocating for gender equality and empowering female innovators in the corporate and social innovation spheres.
Arthur Chua
Arthur Chua
CEO Goldbell Group
Arthur Chua is the CEO of Goldbell Group in Singapore, the largest industrial vehicle distributor and leasing company in the region. During his time as CEO, the company’s earnings doubled from the 34th to the 37th fiscal year. He’s known for introducing the concept of Future Mobility, fostering innovation through divisions like Corporate Venture Capital, Venture Build, and Mobility Accelerator.
Arthur believes in balancing venture building and venture capital to create a robust ecosystem that not only strengthens core operations but also seeks sustainable growth opportunities.
Arthur’s career highlights include:
Winning the Singapore Business Times Outstanding Enterprise Award in 2023
Being named one of Tatler Asia’s Most Influential People in 2022 (Singapore)
Receiving the Ernst & Young Family Business Award in 2021 (Singapore)
Serving on the Singapore Land Transport Master Plan 2040 task force
Formerly being on the board of Singapore River One and leading the Business Improvement District pilot project
Becoming the youngest member of the Entrepreneurs Organization in 2008 and the Young President’s Organization in 2016
Yao Wenbin
Yao Wenbin (William)
Founder of Ourpalm Co., 掌趣科技
Mr. Yao Wenbin (William) graduated from Xidian University with a degree in telecommunication engineering in 1991 and later earned an EMBA from Tsinghua University. In 2000, he founded NSFocus Information Technology, a pioneer in the field of internet security technology in China, securing $3 million investment from Lenovo under his leadership.
In 2004, as Chairman of Ourpalm Co., Ltd., he transformed the company into a leading mobile game publisher and distributor in China, establishing strong partnerships with key industry players such as China Mobile, China Unicom, and Tencent. Under his guidance, the company went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in May 2012 and continued to grow. By June 2016, the company’s assets had reached $1.53 billion.
Mr. Yao has earned the 1227th position on the 2020 Hurun China Rich List, with a wealth of 4.5 billion RMB. Today, the Ourpalm’s market capitalization continues to stand at $1.76 billion, a testament to his outstanding leadership and vision.
Tony Qu
Tony Qu
Founding Partner of ATM Capital, BAT Capital
Tony was the Deputy Director of Strategic Investments of Alibaba Group. In 2014, he co-founded BAT Capital of which two portfolios successfully completed IPO in USA. In 2017, he co-founded ATM Capital, a VC fund focusing on Southeast Asia (SEA) with a AUM of US$1B. The notable portfolios of ATM Capital include J&T Express, one of the largest tech unicorn in SEA which has raised a total of US$4.7B in funding. ATM Capital has also invested in 4 companies headquartered in Singapore with a total investment of US$5.85M. Other notable investments such as Y.O.U, Indonesia’s leading emerging cosmetic brand, and Jet Commerce, one of the largest e-commerce platforms in SEA. ATM Capital currently manages four funds with over $1 billion under management.
Yiqun Bo
Yiqun Bo
Founder & CEO, DayDayUp
Yiqun Bo is the Founder and CEO of DayDayUp Tech Accelerator. Founded in 2015, DayDayUp is committed to connect Chinese and global innovators. Focusing on AI, IoT, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, 5G, and Mobile Internet, based on INNOEYE, which is global innovation discover engine, DayDayUp creates an ecosystem for corporates, startups and investors to connect with each other. So far, INNOEYE covers over 100,000 startups of 9 developed countries from North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Prior to founding DayDayUp, Bo Yiqun was one of the co-founders and President of the GWC from 2009 to 2015. He helped GWC to become a mobile internet business network which covers more than 20 countries with nearly 1,000 company members around the world and hold Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in 8 international cities.
Yiqun received his Master’s Degree in management from the University of Paris in France. He speaks Chinese, English and French. At the age of forty, Yiqun realized that “Life is uncertain, so we should live in the moment”. So he is committed to creating a positive and happy life and to influence people around him.
Founded in 1999, iFLYTEK is a well-known listed company in intelligent speech and artificial intelligence technologies in the Asia-Pacific region. Since its establishment, the company is devoted to cornerstone research in technologies including intelligent speech, natural language understanding and computer vision and has maintained a world-leading position in those domains. The company actively promotes the development of AI products and their sector-based applications, with visions of enabling machines to listen and speak, understand and think, and creating a better world with artificial intelligence. In 2008, iFLYTEK went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 002230).
iFLYTEK pursues a strategy of “ Open Platform + Diversification”. Based on its core technologies and intellectual property, the company launched in 2010 the iFLYTEK Open Platform centered on intelligent speech and human-computer interaction, providing developers with one-stop AI solutions. As of May 31, 2022, the iFLYTEK Open Platform has opened 493 AI products and capabilities, gathering more than 3.37 million developer teams and more than 1.5 million applications that have been installed on over 3.5 billion terminal devices. The iFLYTEK AI Academy has accepted a total of 699,000 registered members. An AI ecosystem with iFLYTEK at its core has brought together more than 4.2 million partners and it is continuing to grow.
Founded in 2008, Matrix Partners China is one of the leading venture capital firms focused on early stage and early growth deals in China, now managing over 60 billion RMB.
Matrix Partners China mainly invests in new economy, deep technology, industrial digitalization, healthcare, frontier technology and new consumer brands. The firm has invested in more than 700 companies, including XPeng, Li-Auto, Hthium, Guazi，Eleme, Youzan, Ronbaymat, Xgimi, Momo, PingCap, Peijia Medical, Beisen, ZiHaiGuo, ITcast, METAX, Simplelove, SemiDrive, MegaRobo, Akrostar Technology, X-EPIC, Bota Bio, Advaccine and so on.
Matrix Partners China has over 40 investment professionals with deep sector knowledge. The firm also established one of the largest portfolio management teams in the market. Over 80 professionals formed 10 different functions including strategy and operation consulting, recruiting, and healthcare services, etc., to provide value added services to entrepreneurs.
Founded in 2014, Source Code Capital has been devoted to investing in technology-driven innovation and also the creation of true value. The firm has invested in more than 300 companies, including Bytedance, Meituan (3690.HK), KE Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BEKE), and Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI, 2015.HK). The firm invests in companies at all stages (from seed to growth) across multiple sectors, spanning industrial digitization, intelligent manufacturing, retail tech, healthcare and biotech, green development, and Global+.
Source Code Capital highly values entrepreneurs and is devoted to providing a comprehensive support system that connects entrepreneurs via the Code Class ecosystem, enhances entrepreneurial insights via Code Brain courses, and drives entrepreneurial success via Code Power Professional Service.
Source Code Capital currently manages around RMB 35 billion across RMB and USD funds. Capitals under management come mainly from national government guidance funds, local science and innovation funds, financial institutions, public market fund of funds, industrial enterprises, world-renowned SWFs, leading endowments, foundations, and pensions. Source Code Capital is an investment company established by over 130 investors and professionals with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.
GSR United Capital focuses on early to middle stage investments in the high-tech industry. The firm focuses on investment and merger opportunities in the fields of deep technology (AI, robotics, advanced manufacturing, supply chain upgrading, etc.), industrial Internet, intelligent transportation and environmental protection.
Since its establishment in 2009, GSR United Capital has received strong support from China’s top market-oriented parent funds, government-guided funds, wealth management institutions, global top 500 enterprises, listed companies and other institutions. Its asset under management is around USD 1billion and has more than 100+ portfolio size and invests around 20-50 million RMB per deal.
Team members have rich experience in high-tech enterprise operation, investment and risk management. The fund also has a professional management team to provide value-added services for enterprises and help with the development of high-precision industries.
Meituan (3690.HK), officially known as Meituan Dianping, is a leading Chinese technology platform that provides a wide range of local services, including food delivery, travel bookings, movie ticketing, and more. Founded in 2010 by Wang Xing, Meituan initially started as a group-buying website similar to Groupon, offering discounts and deals for various products and services.
Over the years, the company has evolved into an all-in-one lifestyle services platform, becoming an integral part of daily life for millions of Chinese consumers.
In 2015, Meituan merged with Dianping, a leading restaurant review and local services platform in China, forming Meituan Dianping. The combined company expanded its services and reach, further solidifying its position in the market.
Meituan has become a dominant player in China’s online-to-offline (O2O) market, leveraging its vast user base, data-driven algorithms, and extensive merchant network to connect consumers with local businesses. The company went public in September 2018 on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and has continued to grow and diversify its offerings since then. Meituan’s market cap as of March 2023 is at around USD$101.07 billion.
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) is a leading Chinese multinational technology company specializing in internet-related products and services, as well as artificial intelligence (AI).
It is the largest internet search engine in China with 84% share of the search engine market in September 2021. The firm generated 62% of revenue from online marketing services from its search engine in 2020. Outside its search engine, Baidu is a technology-driven company and its other major growth initiatives are artificial intelligence cloud, video streaming services, voice recognition technology, and autonomous driving.
The company has been listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange since 2005 and is considered one of China’s top tech giants, alongside companies like Tencent, Alibaba, and Xiaomi. Baidu’s market cap as of March 2023 is at around USD$53.12 million.
Jian Wu
Partner, Source Code Capital
Mr. Jian Wu joined Source Code Capital in 2015. Mr. Wu has deep expertise in policy research, corporate strategy, capital markets, as well as the fintech industry. Previously, Mr. Wu served as Portfolio Manager at China Investment Corporation (CIC) Capital and CIC International, where he focused on global direct equity investments and fund investments. He also worked at the People’s Bank of China (China’s central bank).
Mr. Wu graduated from Tsinghua University with a Ph.D., Master’s, and Bachelor’s in Economics. He is a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Department of Statistics in the U.S.
Zheng Xiangyu
Co-founder & CEO, Midas Capital
Zheng Xiangyu is the Co-founder and CEO of Midas Capital, which is one of the leading Investment Companies in China in the field of new consumption sectyor. During the 8 years since its establishment in 2014, Midas Capital has 19 successful investment cases, including Mobvista (汇量科技, IPO in Hong Kong), GoLong (高浪), Microidea Technology (微念科技), Batmobi (至真信息), YunTu Credit (云图征信), Yowant (遥望科技), Laisj.com (来设计), BeautyQ (快美妆) ,Yi Animation (广州易动文化传播有限公司),Shiwulian (食务链), Beijing BoYi ChuangWei Digital Media Co., Ltd etc (博易创为).
Gordon Wang
Gordon Wang
Managing Partner GSR United Capital
Gordon Wang joined GSR United Capital (RMB6B, source: 36Kr) in 2013 as Managing Partner, mainly responsible for investment in environmental protection industry, high-end equipment and artificial intelligence. He used to be the Chairman of Sichuan Hongda (SH: 600331), and the executive of Asia Stahl Singapore Group. Gordon Wang was appointed as the General Manager of Sichuan Lisen Cement in 2004, and subsequently established Lisen Group as the President. Lisen Group was acquired by CNBM (HK: 03323) in 2011, creating rich returns for shareholders. At present, he is responsible for the post-investment management of Guochen Robot (Robot industry platform), Yteam (Design and develop robot applications), Huirui Photoelectric Technology (Metal 3D printing), Fairsense (Environment management solution based on IoT and big data), Yiwise.ai (Telephone robot based on NLP tech) and Ensa (Solid waste disposal and recycling of renewable resources).
Pierre Wong
Pierre Wong
Managing Director Integra Group China
Pierre Wong has over 25 years of experience in external auditing, financial advisory, and business consulting for foreign companies in China. Prior to joining the Firm, he served in management positions as Head of Shanghai in KCS (now TMF), China Finance Director of CB Richard Ellis, as well as the Senior Manager of KPMG Shanghai office. Pierre has provided practical accounting and business advisory to foreign companies over his past 17 years in China.
Pierre holds an MBA from Edinburgh Business School and a bachelor’s degree in Chartered Accountancy from the University of Waterloo. He is both a member of the Canadian Chartered Accountant and a Fellow Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA).
He started his career with Mackenzie Financial, a well-respected Mutual fund company in Toronto, Canada before moving to China in 2004.
Dr. Mi Lei
Dr. Mi Lei
Founding Partner and Co-CEO of CASSTAR
PhD in Optics from Xi’an Institute of Optics and Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Executive Dean of Shaanxi Institute of Optoelectronics Integrated Circuit Pilot Technology, Vice Chairman of Young Scientists Social Responsibility Alliance, Inventor of China’s “Key & Core Technology” concept. In recent years, Dr. Mi Lei and his team have focused on the national innovation-driven strategy, deeply promoted the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements in both theory and practice. They founded the 1st Key & Core Tech focused angel fund in China. So far they are managing RMB 5.3 Bn in total from 8 funds under CASSTAR, and invested in more than 290 companies. In 2019, CASSTAR was selected as Top 10 Angel Fund in China.
Zhou Hang
Zhou Hang
Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor Founder of YongChe Inc. (易到用车)
In 1994, Zhou Hang started his venture, where he co-founded TICO Digital Group (天创数码集团). In the following 10 years since it’s inception, TICO Digital Group has progressively grown to become China’s largest professional audio-visual product and service groups in China, with TICO’s audio products also becoming a leader of the professional audio-visual field in China.
In 2010, he started his 2nd venture and founded YongChe Inc., where he pioneered the domestic internet private car industry model and the concept of sharing economy. In the same year on October, Uber officially launched its first app in San Francisco, where there was a noticeable vacuum in the domestic private car market. It can be said that YongChe Inc. was a rare originality amidst China’s mobile internet wave.
In 2017, Zhou Hang’s entrepreneurial journey was officially concluded as he joined Shunwei Capital as an Venture Partner, where he now evaluates investment and entrepreneurship opportunities from the perspective of an investor.
In June 2021, Zhou Hang left Shunwei Capital and has adopted an Angel Investor role, where he has continued to identify and make early-stage investments.
Zhongjun Shen
Zhongjun Shen
Assistant Director Tsinghua Tongfang Innovation Research Facility
Zhongjun Shen currently holds a position as Assistant Director at Tsinghua Tongfang Innovation Research Facility. He has been extensively engaged in technological innovation, scientific & technological transformation and investment management, accumulating a rich history of investment and entrepreneurial experience. Currently, he’s been engaged on several governement science and technology projects for relevant government ministries and commissions, serving as an external evaluation expert. Not only does he serve as a part-time lecturer in reputable Chinese colleges and Universities, he has also been a judge for national innovation events and a mentor for national incubator programmes.
His core purview revolves around information security, AI, cloud computing, big data, blockchain, industrial internet and intelligent manufacturing. He has significant contribution in more than 30 national projects from the Ministry of Science & Technology, Ministry of Industry & Information, the National Development and Reform Commission and other relevant ministries. A project to be highlighted is the national “Nuclear High Base” Project, which concerns the accelerated development of core electronic devices, high-end general purpose chips and basic software products. He was previously a recipient of 4 Science & Technology awards, and he also had 6 nationally-recognized technical products under his name. Moreover, he has published more than 40 professional academic papers and 7 monographs.
Zhongjun Shen’s investment segments typically includes: civil nuclear technology, AI, intelligent manufacturing, energy and environmental protection, industrial internet, blockchain, new materials, aerospace, biotech etc.
Changhua Wu
Changhua Wu
CEO
Future Innovation Centre (Beijing
Changhua Wu is a seasoned analyst, capable advocate, social entrepreneur in the field of sustainability, and strategist for public and private engagement in clean energy transformation. Having worked with Tony Blair and other global leaders at the Climate Group as Greater China CEO for nearly a decade, she successfully led strategic engagement with public and private sectors in China to advance low carbon economy and clean energy revolution. Her leadership and contributions had won her various awards in China and beyond, including one of the 15 global women leaders fighting climate change recognized by the Time Magazine in 2019.
Changhua holds numerous positions including the CEO of Future Innovation Centre (Beijing), China/Asia Director of the Office of Jeremy Rifkin, Vice Chair of Governing Council of Asia-Pacific Water Forum, a board member of Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation, and Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Clean Electrification. A leading ESG expert, currently, she also sits on the sustainability advisory boards of some leading multinational corporations including Daimler/Mercedes Benz, Tetra Pak, Veolia, Dow, BHP and DPDHL.
Cavan Yu
Cavan Yu
Senior Director Haier HOPE
As a senior director in Haier’s HOPE (Haier Open Partnership Ecosystem) since 2017, Cavan has orchestrated the establishment of 5 innovation centers in Israel, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Japan and Shenzhen, and more to come.
With this strategically located innovation network, he works closely with his team to build global partnerships through technology scouting, PoC, joint project development and M&A.
HOPE’s list of global partners includes and is not limited to scientific research institutions, start-ups, SMEs, large enterprises, VCs and governments.
Prior to joining Haier, Mr. Cavan Yu has held multiple management roles in R&D, service and sales departments.
With more than 17 years of leadership experience working in high-tech American companies, he brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in product innovation.
Tong Shidao
Tong Shidao
General Manager, Carbon Neutralization Division. SinoChem Environment Holdings Co.
Tong shidao is a Civil Engineering & Regional Economics graduate from Hubei University of Technology & Fudan University respectively. Since 2015, his previous work experience with LongFor Group and China Jinmao has allowed him to accumulate extensive experience, connections and resources in investment consulting, real estate investing, industrial financing and in science park operations. His interest lies in education, health, smart technology, energy conservation and environmental protection.
In 2021, following the successful merger of SinoChem Group & ChemChina into SinoChem Holdings, SinoChem Holdings is a highly important state-owned enterprise that is supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. They are one of the most comprehensive chemical companies in the world, with 150 countires and regions worldwide housing their production and R&D facilities. SinoChem Holdings has pledged to orientate the busines towards a new strategic innovation direction – Carbon Neutral Business. The company’s extensive resources will be used to build a ” carbon neutrality pilot demonstration zone” . SinoChem Environment Holdings Co., a subsidiary company of SinoChem Holdings, will be an important business platform for SinoChem Holdings to develop their environmental science capabilities.
Tong Shidao is looking forward to building collaborative alliances within the carbon-neutral industical ecosystem, and jointly work towards the national goal of carbon-neutrality.
Xavier Chen
Xavier Chen
President of Beijing Energy Club
Xavier Chen is the Founder and President of the Beijing Energy Club (www.beijingenergyclub.org) – a Beijing-based high-level forum and think-tank on Chinese and global energy issues.
He is an expert on Chinese and global energy issues, with work experiences in the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok (1993-96), where he served as Assistant Professor then Associate Professor at the Energy Division under the secondment by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the International Energy Agency in Paris (1996-2003), where he worked in three different roles as India Program Manager (1996-97), Chief of Staff to the Executive Director (1997-2000) and China program manager (2000-2003).
He also had an extensive corporate career, having worked for BP in China as Vice President (2003-2013), for Statoil/Equinor as China President (2014-2018), and for ENN Group – a private Chinese energy conglomerate – as Chief Strategy Officer (2018-2019).
Since 2020, he is an independent advisor of a few Chinese and international energy companies, as well as senior consultant to the Asian Development Bank.
Dr. Chen graduated from Zhejiang University in electronic engineering, got masters degree in energy technology from the Asian Institute of Technology, and PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Grenoble in France.
Xavier is a French citizen, holding a Chinese permanent residence card. He is married with one daughter.
Wu Capital
Wu Capital
Founded in 2013,Wu Capital is a leading Chinese evergreen fund with offices in Beijing,Hong Kong and Silicon Valley.
Wu Capital partners with top fund managers and talented entrepreneurs worldwide.Wu Capital leverages our extensive industry experience and resources to support the growth of our portfolio companies.We seek to harness the power of innovation through all of our investments. As the LP of many top-tier investment funds based in the US and Europe,Wu Capital has developed a robust portfolio comprised of diverse asset classes, hedging against the risk of global market fluctuations.In addition to our fund-of-fund portfolio,Wu Capital has a portfolio direct equity investments across the technology, consumer, education and healthcare sectors.
Jessalynn Chen
Jessalynn Chen
Managing Director, Singapore LABBRAND
Jess is a dedicated relationship builder with more than a decade of branding and retail experience in Singapore and Asia. Prior to Labbrand, Jess was the Asia Business Director with Brandient, a brand strategy and design company with a proven track record in emergent Central and Eastern European markets. Before Brandient, she was Business Director at FITCH, a leading global retail and brand experience consultancy. One key project mention is her role as one of the retail
and F&B masterplanning consultants for the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City project between the Singapore and China governments.
Francis Chow
Francis Chow
Business Development Manager, Tmall Global
Launched in 2014, Tmall Global (www.tmall.hk) is Alibaba Group’s dedicated channel for cross border e-commerce. Tmall Global provides a premium shopping experience for the increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers
that are in search of top-quality branded products. Tmall Global is China’s largest cross border B2C online marketplace and allows brands and retailers without operations in mainland China to build virtual storefronts and ship products into China from their home countries. Today, there are more than 25,000 brands from 92 countries and regions across 5,100 categories on Tmall Global.
Dee Zheng
Dee Zheng
Principal at Bits x Bites
Dee Zheng is Principal at Bits x Bites, where she leads a team to identify high-potential investment targets, create and present investment cases to the GP team, and drive a thorough due diligence process required for each investment opportunity.
During her tenure at Bits x Bites, she has facilitated and led the evaluation process that resulted in investments in Alchemy Foodtech, Analytical Flavor Systems, Future Meat Technologies, InnovoPro, Water.IO, and Wild Earth. She also actively supports portfolio companies with their market intelligence and business development needs.
Dee came to Bits x Bites bringing her significant investment experience and network she accumulated as senior project lead at Leping Foundation, where she partnered with entrepreneurs tackling food transparency, sustainable agriculture and other systematic challenges in China. In her role, she led startup deal sourcing and performed due diligence by working with her network of international and domestic VCs, such as Sequoia Capital, BlueRun Ventures, and China Impact Ventures.
WANG Jieqi (Jay)
WANG Jieqi (Jay)
Founder & CEO, Winwin Network
Jieqi (Jay) Wang, a serial entrepreneur, has rich experience in data analysis, retail, market research, angel investment, etc. He has always had a passion for exploring new business opportunities.
Jay graduated from University of Washington(UW) at Seattle in 2008 with M.S. in Industrial Engineering. He got his first taste of the startup world when he was a graduate student at UW, then later in 2009 founded Ookong with Tsinghua classmate Wenbin Ye. In February 2011, he returned to Beijing to found his 2nd startup to focus on China’s market. Its main product Shopping Assistant, later renamed as Ruyitao(如意淘), was acquired by Taobao in August 2011. By the end of 2012, Ruyitao had grown into China’s most popular shopping tool with over 10 million daily users. Before being a full-time entrepreneur, Jay worked as a senior industrial engineer at UPS Supply Chain Solutions (North America), specializing in work flow optimization, process automation and growth strategy.
In 2012, Jay was named by Global Entrepreneur among “Top 100 Product Managers in China”.
In 2016, Jay founded Winwin Network, which is a leading big data company in FMCG industry in China. The company’s vision is to become data-driven Nielsen in China. It provides Wechat Mini-Program based real-time BI solution for 20,000 retailers including supermarkets, convenience stores, and brands stores. Based on the real-time full data of stores, it established a data base with 14 million bar codes, and provides FMCG manufacturers with data radar services such as competitive product monitoring, new product listing info and best sold cities on a weekly and monthly basis.
Hanson Hu
Hanson Hu
Senior Associate, 5Y Capital
Hanson Hu was selected by Forbes China in 2019 as 30 Under 30 best investors in China. He focuses on new consumption market in China and overseas opportunities. Prior to 5Y Capital, he worked for Baidu as product manager of map services.
5Y Capital (formerly known as Morningside Venture Capital), 1st tier VC in China, currently manages approximately USD 3bn in dual-currency funds in USD and RMB, backed by world-renowned sovereign wealth funds, family offices, fund of funds, university endowments, pensions and foundations. 5Y Capital’s portfolios include Ctrip (NASDAQ: TCOM, US$19 bn), Joyy (NASDAQ: YY, US$9 bn), Xiaomi (HKG: 1810, US$88 bn), Kuaishou (HKG: 1024, US$159 bn), Agora (NASDAQ: API, US$8 bn), WPS (SH: 688111, US$30 bn), Xpeng (NYSE: XPEV, US$ 38), etc.
LIANG Minjun
LIANG Minjun
Partner, ATM Capital
Minjun Liang is the Partner of ATM Capital. He participated investment in Lifepal, a leading InsurTech company in Indonesia. Minjun developed understanding in Fintech and SEA markets during his 10 year tenure at Alipay, during which he involved in multiple significant strategic decision-makings and execution projects. Minjun was previously Vice President of Alipay Overseas Team. He also established overseas office Alipay in HK, Taiwan, Singapore, Seoul and Silicon Valley and started the group’s overseas investment practice. In addition, Minjun was appointed for multiple core operation roles at Alibaba group and has developed strong insights to the mobile internet and O2O BUs. As Alipay representative, Minjun was involved in multiple 3rd party’s payment platform regulation establishment with central bank, foreign reserve authorities, from which he has gained practical insights in policy development of the mobile payment industry. Minjun Liang received his master degree in World Economics from Peking University and EMEA degree from CEIBS..
Vincent WENG
Founding Partner, Charisma Partner 弘章资本
Mr. Weng is an influential consumer sector investor well known for his keen industry insight and visions of future business trends and development. Mr. Weng has 20 years of consumer sector experience and is widely regarded as a visionary and pioneer in the industry. Before starting Charisma Partner, he was one of the founding members of the direct investment arm of CICC and served as Executive Director. Prior to CICC, Mr. Weng served as Director of MUS Roosevelt Asia Mitsubishi UFJ and headed China investment. Mr. Weng has strong investment track record with numerous IPO exits in US, HK, and China.
Authored The Future of New Retail 新零售的未来 (2017) and The Future of New Brand 新品牌的未来 (2020)
He Huafeng
Vice President, Kuaishou Technology 快手科技
Mr. He Huafeng is now Vice President of Kuaishou Technology, and President of Kuiashou Research Institute. He has been a senior journalist for 12 years, working for top medias like 21st Century Business Herald and Caixin Magazine. Before joining Kuaishou, he worked for Tencent as Public Relations Director. Kuaishou is one of the two largest short video and livestream e-commerce platforms in China along with Douyin (TikTok). Kuaishou filed for IPO on Hong Kong Stock Exchange last Nov.
Arie Schreier
Arie Schreier
General Manager
PTL Group- China
Arie Schreier has over 17 years of management experience in China.
From 1997-1999 he served as the Israeli consul at the Israeli Embassy in Beijing.
Since the year 2005 Arie fulfilled several roles at PTL Group such as COO, VP Sales and Marketing and since 2014 he has been nominated as the General Manager of PTL Group – China.
While working at PTL Group, Arie has worked with more than 300 international companies, in different stages of their China Market entry plan, managing and supporting their sales, logistics, administration, HR, recruiting, finance and manufacturing operations in the challenging China market.
As one of the founders of the China-Israel Industrial Incubator (CI3), Arie is actively involved in the establishment and management of several manufacturing facilities in the China.
Arie holds a MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia,
Another master degree in Public Administration from Tel Aviv University, as well as a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Li Wei
Dr. Li Wei
CEO, Transfong Ventures
Dr. Li Wei has more than 15 years of experience in R&D, IP management, technology commercialization, start-up incubation and investment. He is currently the CEO of Transfong Ventures, a venture builder that helps deep tech companies launch the overseas businesses in Singapore and in China. Prior to the current role, Dr. Li had worked 10 years at Agency of Science, Technology and Research, Singapore (A*STAR), the largest public R&D organization in Singapore, for IP management, technology commercialization and industry R&D partnership. Before that, Dr. Li also had years of engineering and project management experience with SSMC, A Joint Venture of TSMC and NXP.
Dr. Li was Adjunct professor of Singapore University of Technology and Design, and trainer of Intellectual Property Office of Singapore and Nanyang Technology Universities for government officials and company management on technology commercialization, startup and innovation. He is also the Deputy Secretary of Singapore-China Association for Advancement of Science & Technology, Executive Member of Jiangsu Association and Huayuan Association in Singapore.
Dr. Li holds a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy and a Degree of Bachelor of Engineering in Microelectronics from Nanyang Technological University and Master of Business Administration from INSEAD.
Tina Zhao
Tina Zhao
Vice President of ByteDance
Tina Zhao, the Vice President of ByteDance, is leading global development of enterprise business (BytePlus) in ByteDance. Tina joined ByteDance in 2015 as a member of senior management team. . During the last few years, she has been actively engaged with several different roles, including Content Operation Department, Marketing& branding Department, Public Relations Department, Business Development, and Cloud Photo Department.
BytePlus is an enterprise business unit in ByteDance. The popularity of applications of ByteDance is attributed to the usage of cutting-edge technologies, such as Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Speech & Audio, etc. From our perspective, the technologies generated from consumer side businesses, holds the key to a more prosperous and efficient business in future: empowering and accelerating the growth of other businesses.
Before joining ByteDance, Tina worked in Sina (Nasdaq: SINA) as the General Manager of Sina Mobile in 2015.
Ross Luo
Ross Luo
General Manager of Asia Pacific Region from Tuya Smart
Ross has years of experience in consumer electronics and smart hardware and software industry, with comprehensive understanding in global markets especially in Asia Pacific region from business expansion, product localization, and B2B services. He has successfully built key strategic partnerships with his team and managed to scale the AIoT smart home business in the Asia Pacific markets.
Pengcheng Zou
Pengcheng Zou
CTO of Thundersoft
Pengcheng Zou is the CTO of Thundersoft. Pengcheng hold bachelor degree of EE of Tsinghua University, and Master of Computer Science of University of Notre Dame. Pengcheng has involved in Open Source related business and technology development since his study in Univ. of Notre Dame, and works in NEC, Red Flag and currently Thundersoft on various Linux and Android related projects, including the 1st Mobile Linux platform (Midinux) on Intel Platform, Smartbook OS, Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD) and many Android and HTML5 related products.
Headquartered in Beijing and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (300496) with a market cap of RMB 40 Bn, ThunderSoft is a world leading provider of intelligent platform technology and solutions. The company’s global engineering team has built a deep understanding and expertise of hardware and software, with a focus on automotive, mobile, and IoT. ThunderSoft has 25 R&D centers and offices in China, and other 10 countries.
Li Feng
Li Feng
Founding Partner of FREES Fund
As TOP 10 early stage investment firm, FREES Fund focuses on sectors with unique technological innovation in China and globally.
Mr. Li has extensive experience in the venture capital and private equity investment industry and is well known in the investment community for his unique views on secular economic trends. He has made many successful investments in companies such as CreditEase (NYSE), LAIX (NYSE), 360 Finance (NASDAQ), Bilibili (NASDAQ), Three Squirrels (China SZSE), and Unity. Mr. Li has received numerous awards from authorized institutions and media such as China Venture, Zero2IPO Group, 36Kr, Forbes and etc.
Prior to FREES Fund, Mr. Li was general partner and member of the management committee at IDG Capital. He graduated from Peking University in China with a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and University of Rochester in the US with a MS in Chemistry Degree.
Xinhua Liu
Liu Xinhua Venture Partner of Gaorong Capital, Former Chief Growth Officer of Kuaishou Technology
Xinhua Liu is currently Venture Partner of Gaorong Capital Investment, focusing on investments in DTC (directly to consumer) brands, social networks and marketplaces, and advising porfolios on product and growth strategies.
Mr. Liu has over 22 years of experience with high-tech and internet companies, in strategy, growth and operations roles and has been involved in several super apps’ product building and operations with hundreds of millions of daily active users.
Prior to joining Gaorong Capital, Xinhua Liu served as the Chief Growth Officer of Kuaishou Technology, one of the fast growing short video-based community in the world, where he was responsible for user growth, monetization and global product growth.
Before joining in Kuaishou, Mr. Liu served as President of International Operations at ByteDance and oversaw the launch of products including TopBuzz and Buzzvideo in the United States, Japan and Brazil.
Before joining in Bytedance, Mr. Liu was responsible for overall business products and monetization, global product and partnership growth, investment and legal affairs at Cheetah Mobile as Chief Marketing Officer. At Cheetah Mobile, Mr. Liu led the product development of Clean Master, one of the most popular system utility app on Google Play and led the Pre-A round of investment in Musical.ly, which was acquired by ByteDance and re-named as TikTok.
Leo, Genping Liu
Liu Genping
Partner of Vertex Ventures
Genping joined Vertex in 2010. Based in Singapore, he covers Southeast Asia on industry sectors including internet/mobile and enabling technologies.
Genping has a diversified set of experience working with startups & multinational companies in various sectors including internet, electronics (batteries), telecom and investment banking. He started his career with a product manager role at Motorola Electronics Singapore.
Genping holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University Singapore, and MBA from University of California – Los Angeles.
Marco Lai
JINNAN (MARCO) LAI
Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Marco Lai has served as a director and the CEO of LIZHI (NASDAQ) since December 2010. Before founding LIZHI, Mr. Lai was a successful serial entrepreneur in China’s internet industry. He worked as the CEO for Shanghai Labox Information Technology from 2007 to 2010, and also founded Guangzhou Mowang Information Technology, and served as its president from 2003 to 2007. Before starting his business career, Mr. Lai was a radio host.
LIZHI is a leading online UGC audio community and interactive audio entertainment platform in China, with a mission to enable everyone to showcase their vocal talents.
Charles Sun
Charles Sun
Marketing and Partnership Director
Tencent Cloud APAC.
Marketing and Partnership Director, Tencent Cloud APAC
A seasoned marketing and sales expert in ICT industry, Cloud Computing and Telecom sectors with over 12 years of work experience in Tencent, Huawei and ZTE,
An active participant of cross border deals, international expansions, connecting China with APAC region and beyond.
Master’s Degree of Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Tencent recently surpassed Alibaba in terms of market cap (USD 694 Bn) as #1 internet company from China. In the global market, Tencent Cloud ranked TOP 5 vendors worldwide in 2019. Tencent Cloud reported revenue of over US$2.4 Bn with more than one million paid clients in 2019. Having infrastructure in 26 geographic areas on five continents and operates 53 availability zones, Tencent Cloud has an exabyte-level storage capacity and deployed 1300 acceleration nodes globally.
Yanchun Yan
Yanchun Yan
Partner of ShengJing Group, China’s leading Fund of Fund
Dean of New Economy +X Research Institute
CEO of eFuture, China’s 1st software company in Nasdaq
Author of The Third Retail Revolution
Oscar Ramos
Partner & Managing Director at Chinaccelerator
Oscar, Partner & Managing Director of Chinaccelerator, is a “Full stack Innovator” with expertise ranging from Product Development to corporate strategy. He has experience as an entrepreneur, Management consultant and early stage investor.
Telecom MEng and Biomedical PhD dropout, began his career 14 years ago as an R&D engineer working in Reseach Center for Ericsson and Telefonica and after discovering Business Model Innovation transitioned to the world of startups. After several years working for a MedTech Startup moved to China in early 2008. Since his arrival to China has been involved in Innovation: product launches, go-to market strategies, Venture Capital financing and M&As for startups and multinationals.
Regular speaker in conferences worldwide about Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Learning facilitator in MBA programs about entrepreneurial.
Leo Yang
Co-founder & CMO, WebEye
Leo Yang, co-founder and CMO of WebEye. Zhe started working at ACCESS in 2005; then he joined Opera ASA, responsible for its business development in China. With 16 years of work experience in the rapid developing mobile Internet industry, Zhe has greatly expanded his social network and accumulated client resources. In 2015, WebEye was established, and as a co-founder, Zhe became its Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). After three years, WebEye has built in-depth partnership with many mobile phone manufacturers / advertisers / advertising companies around the globe. It also expanded its business into related areas, including DSP, APP and game development, and has become Google’s top ten reseller. WebEye leverages AI technology and its self-designed data management platform to provide its partners with comprehensive digital marketing solutions. As a pioneer of China mobile internet industry, WebEye actively promotes China’s ‘The Belt and Road’ initiative and strives to become the best mobile advertising company in China.
Barrett Parkman
Director, Startup and VC Ecosystem, Samsung Catalyst
Barrett Parkman is the Director of Startup and VC Ecosystem at Samsung Catalyst Fund, Samsung Electronics’ evergreen multi-stage venture capital fund that invests in the new data economy and strategic ideas for Samsung’s mobile, device solutions and consumer electronics groups. Investment spans across Automotive, Robotics, Digital Health, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Infrastructure, and Device-Level Solutions.
Prior to Samsung, Barrett was managing partner of the GWC Innovator Fund, an early-stage venture fund that made over 30 investments in data and AI startups in Silicon Valley, China, India, and Israel. He also founded a global startup program called G-Startup Worldwide, where he helped hundreds of startups raised billions of dollars in capital and some get acquired by Amazon, Google, Alibaba, and Apple. In addition, Barrett co-founded the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC), where he led marketing and content to grow the event to become one of the largest tech conferences in the world.
William Bao Bean
General Partner at SOSV & Managing Director at Chinaccelerator & MOX
William Bao Bean is a General Partner at SOSV and the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator, China’s first startup accelerator based in Shanghai. A prominent practitioner, innovator and thought leader on tech investing in Asia, he founded MOX, SOSV’s Mobile-Only Accelerator, in partnership with GMobi, the largest mobile platform for Southest Asia and India. In addition to his work at SOSV, William is an active angel investor with 39 investments between 2004 and 2014.
William holds a BA from Bowdoin College and began his career as an equity research analyst, most recently with Deutsche Bank, where he was responsible for Internet and Telecom Equipment across Asia and China technology, media and telecom. In addition, he covered Digital Media & Telecom Equipment companies at Bank of America Securities in San Francisco and PCs & Enterprise Hardware at Bear Stearns in New York.
Prior to joining SOSV, William was the Managing Director at SingTel Innov8, where he led investments in Yodo1, Gmobi, Lekan, and Massive Impact, among others. Previously, William was a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, an early stage venture capital firm backed by Softbank of Japan and Cisco.
Jonathan Zhun Qiu
Managing Director & US/Europe head at Fosun RZ Capital
Mr Jonathan (Zhun) Qiu is Fosun RZ Capital’s Managing Director and US head. Previously, Jonathan helped found Sky9 Capital, and acted as its Managing Director. He focuses on Technology and Internet startups in both China and the US. Jonathan was Managing Director and Head of the Investment Committee of Decent Capital、 the co-founder of Circlemo（a professional mobile social network startup in China）. Prior to that, Jonathan was an early leader of Tencent’s Cloud Computing initiatives, and founded Tencent Networking Lab. Jonathan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Peking University and a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, USA. He was once also a Ph.D. candidate in USC’s Artificial Intelligence program.
Curt Shi
Founding Partner, Follow[the]Seed
Rainmaker, venture capitalist and entrepreneur, Curt leads investment in TMT, sports, entertainment and gaming startups.
With over 10 years in the industry, Curt is an experienced investor and entrepreneur who is focussed on crossover opportunities in China, the US, and the South Pacific.
He works with portfolio companies to set up, access and compete in the world’s largest yet complex market.
Achievements: Since 1999, Curt has been actively participating in China’s TMT entrepreneurial community and as a typical entrepreneur-turned-investor, Curt has been successfully managing venture funds in China and Australia for more than a decade, with successful exits both on American and Australian capital markets. One of his recent successful cross-border investments was Catapult Sports, which is a leader in wearable sports analytics technology and was listed on Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:CAT) Dec 2014 (15x return in 18 months). For his professional performance, Curt was the 2016 winner of “CPA Australia – Australia China Alumni Award for Banking and Finance” by Australia China Alumni Association and a finalist for the “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Alumni Award” by Western Sydney University for 2017.
Co-founder of Dianping，Founding Partner of Light-Up Capital
Edward Long, former Vice President of Operations and Vice President of Business Development for Linktone (Nasdaq: LTON), he has been with the company since its initial state as a startup to being listed on NASDAQ. In 2005, he joined as the Co-Founder of DianPing.com, and was in charge of Strategic Business Development, Public Relations, Legal and Government Relations, and is committed to promote the strategic cooperation of DianPing mobile application. In 2015, DianPing and Meituan officially merged to become the world’s largest lifestyle service platform, and was listed in Hong Kong in September 2018 (3690.HK).
In 2015, he and Li Jing, the other co-founder of DianPing founded Light-Up Capital to light up the dreams of entrepreneurs. Light-Up Capital is mainly focused on consumption upgrading and enterprise services, and its portfolios include Waterdrop, Coffee Box, DayDayUp, Tigerobo, etc. At the same time, he also serve as the Senior Consultant of MeituanDianping to provide strategic consulting services for the group.
Edward holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Science and Technology of China and MBA from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Other than being actively involved in the entrepreneurial scene, he also holds multiple social position. Edward is currently the Executive Committee of the Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce, the Standing Committee of the Changning District Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the Vice Chairman of the Changning District Federation of Industry and Commerce, mentor at Dark Horse, etc.
Zou Pengcheng graduated from the Department of Automation of Tsinghua University and studied in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame as a master student where he engaged in the research of parallel computing algorithms. In 1999, he worked as an intern at EPIC in the United States, where he worked on the design and development of medical information systems. In 2000, he returned to China to join NEC Software Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. As the main project leader, he designed and developed the Linux version of the system management software ESMPRO, and participated in the design and construction of internal IT systems of several NEC R&D centers. From 2002 to 2008, he entered Hongqi Software Company and was responsible for the server research and development department. In May 2008, he entered Zhongke Chuangda Software Technology Co., Ltd. and is responsible for their mobile operating system research and development, and now serves as their senior vice president.
Joe Wu
Founding Partner，MFund
Joe Wu is a serial entrepreneur and the founding partner of MFund.
Joe left Baidu 91 Wireless in 2014 after he successfully facilitated the merger of Baidu and 91 Wireless in 2013. He served as the CEO and Executive Director of 91 Wireless, China’s most influential smartphone service platform from 2010. In 2013, the company was sold to Baidu for USD 1.9 Billion, making it the largest M&A case in the acquisition history of China’s Internet sector. Before his legendary achievement in 91 Wireless, in 2004, Joe was the CFO of NetDragon, a leading company specializing in online games and mobile internet related projects. He took the company to IPO in 2007 in Hong Kong. He is also a member of fourth class of the China Fellowship Program from Aspen Global Leadership Network. Joe graduated in 1994 from UC Berkeley and later on earned his Masters degree from Duke University in 2004.
He founded MFund in 2015 in the hope of helping the next generation new entrepreneurs.
Sherrie Wang
Peakview Capital，Managing Partner
Peakview Capital together with their team of Investment Tutors and students have invested in more than 20 domestic top investment institutions, and have already gone abroad, to invest in the top growth fund IVP, top venture capital fund Menlo Venture, Silicon Valley’s most innovative incubator 500Startups, the largest angel investment and financing platform F50. They have also invested in Israel’s top investment institutions JVP, Viola, Vintage and so on.
Tony Gu
Founding Partner, NEO Global Capital
Tony Gu is the founding partner of NGC Ventures.
Previously Tony was a partner of Longstand Capital (a PE fund in China) and Rhodium Capital (a Buyout Fund in Singapore).
Tony has more than 10 years of experiences investing across Education, Technology, Financial Services and Health Care industries. He focused on North Asia countries and large cross-border buyout deals where strategic integration and effective market entry were instrumental for deal success. Tony has done deals amounting to more than 1B US$ so far.
Companies Tony has invested: Alibaba Group, Shanda Game, JD Finance, etc..
Companies Tony has advised: Haitong Bank (2nd largest bank in Portugal), Quantum Inventions(leading AI company in Asia), Paradise Group (largest F&B group in Singapore), etc..
Tony holds a dual-EMBA degree from INSEAD and Tsinghua University. Tony also holds a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University.
Kevin Zhang
Principal at Bain Capital Ventures
Kevin focuses on investments in business software, services and marketplaces. Additionally, he contributes to the fund’s emerging practices in autonomy, mobility, cryptocurrency, and gaming.
Kevin also supports the Bain Capital Ventures portfolio, with particular focus on industrial, autonomy, and intelligence/machine learning-enabled technology. He serves as a board member for Idelic, as well as a board observer for Ike, Vention and Homebase. Additionally, Kevin works closely with several seed-stage investments, including Lumina and Shelf Engine.
Originally from Edison, New Jersey, Kevin earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics-political science from Columbia University, where he led the Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs to win the Zvi Galil Award for positive impact on engineering student life. Kevin serves on the young alumni association, the Young Leaders Council, and is an advisor to student groups like Blockchain at Columbia.
Benjamin Joffe
Partner at HAX / SOSV, VC for 200+ deep tech startups. Speaker, Guest Writer at TC, VB & more. 18y in Asia
As Partner at HAX, Benjamin works with our startups on strategy, marketing, PR and fundraising. He is considered a global thought leader on hardware innovation and ecosystems, and represents HAX in many global events. He has been featured on Bloomberg TV, WSJ, The Economist, Nature, Wired and is a contributor to VentureBeat, TechCrunch and IEEE Spectrum.
Moving from France to Asia in 2000, Benjamin is a reformed mechanical engineer who turned to strategy and worked in Japan, South Korea and China. He now splits his time between Hong Kong, Shenzhen and the world. His experience covers several tech industries: telecom, mobile, gaming and hardware.
Prior to HAX, Benjamin was the founder of a strategy consultancy which researched Asia-based digital innovations, with clients such as Microsoft, Citi and Harvard Business School. He also founded Mobile Monday Beijing, a community of thousands of mobile industry professionals in China, running over 40 events.
Partner & Managing Director at Chinaccelerator
Co-founder & CMO, WebEye
Director, Startup and VC Ecosystem, Samsung Catalyst
General Partner at SOSV & Managing Director at Chinaccelerator & MOX
Managing Director & US/Europe head at Fosun RZ Capital
Founding Partner, Follow[the]Seed
Co-founder of Dianping，Founding Partner of Light-Up Capital
Founding Partner，MFund
Peakview Capital，Managing Partner
Founding Partner, NEO Global Capital
Principal at Bain Capital Ventures
Partner at HAX / SOSV, VC for 200+ deep tech startups. Speaker, Guest Writer at TC, VB & more. 18y in Asia