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Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Shenzhen Capital Group | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia | ||
Fortune Venture Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia | ||
Cowin Capital | Early Stage Venture | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia | ||
China Merchants Capital | Early Stage Venture | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia | ||
Qingsong Fund | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital Early Stage Venture investors in Shenzhen. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Shenzhen)
Shenzhen Capital Group
Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd (“SCGC”) is a limited venture capital company established by Shenzhen Government in 1999. Since its establishment, SCGC has focused on cultivating national industries, shaping national brands, promoting economic transformation and emerging industriesdeveloping. SCGC has registered capital of 5.42 billion RMB, and total AUM of 338.99 billion RMB. SCGC primarily invests in SMEs, innovative high-tech enterprises, enterprises in emerging industries, and enterprises in start-up period, growth period and in transformation, covering industries supported by national policies, including IT, internet, new media, biopharma, new energy, environmental protection, chemical engineering, new material, high-end equipment manufacturing, consumption goods, modern service, etc. By the end of April 2019, SCGC ranked the first based of the number of portfolio companies and the number of listed portfolio companies: 994 portfolio companies, investments totaling 43.9 billion RMB, 145 of which have been listed in 16 capital markets worldwide.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Fortune Venture Capital
Fortune Capital, established in April, 2000, is one of the earliest market-oriented venture capital firms in China. For the past 14 years, Fortune Capital focus its investments on leading companies in four key sectors: TMT (Media oriented), Consumer Goods/Services, Modern Agriculture and Clean Tech. Fortune Capital is ranked among the highest performing VC/PE firms in China and selected as “Vice President of Venture Capital Committee of IAC,” “Vice President of Shenzhen VC Association,” “Vice President of Shenzhen Chamber of International Investment & Funding,” etc. In addition to providing capitals, Fortune Capital provides its investee companies with personalized value-added services.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Venture Capital
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Cowin Capital
Cowin Capital is a private placement equity investment company focusing on investing in a pioneering enterprise on a long-term basis. It has 18 years of experience in capital management, whose capital management scale was among the front rank, which invested more than 300 companies, of which 60 more became public companies, and 150 more successfully exit. The company was successfully listed on NEEQ, with code 832793, as the third listed famous domestic venture capital institution in NEEQ. It is committed to supporting the growth of small and medium enterprises, continue to launch high-quality listed companies in China Capital Market. Cowin Capital was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, China.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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China Merchants Capital
Headquatered in both Shenzhen and Hong Kong, China Merchants Capital Management Co., Ltd (“CMC”) was founded in 2012 with registered capital of $160 Million (USD, hereinafter). As the subsidiary of China Merchants Group (“CM Group”), CMC is the investment management platform of it, specializing in alternative investments and management. CMC actively explores opportunities in capital markets to cultivate new industries. At the same time, CMC also integrates internal recourses within in CM Group, seeking synergies between financial sector and other sectors. As of the end of 2014, total AUM of CMC is about $3 Billion. CMC predominantly invests in opportunities within Chinese SOEs restructuring, industrial upgrading, and new urbanization, seeking cooperation opportunities in the following sectors: infrastructure, medical & pharmaceutical, financial services, real estate, high-tech, agriculture & foods, media, equipment machinery, mining, energy, etc.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Qingsong Fund
Founded in June 2012 by Liu Xiaosong, Dong Zhanbin, and Su Wei, three Internet and investment circle veterans, Qingsong Fund is an early venture capital firm specializing in investment in education, social networking, consumerism, innovation, technology and applications. It manages four RMB funds with a total value of about RMB 2 billion. So far, it has invested in more than 140 companies, including 1 to 1 head, 1 DaDa English, squirrel AI, onion mathematics, wedding calendar, werewolf killing, flystep technology, HomeFacial. Pro and other star projects – 50% exit project returns more than 60 times, multiple project valuation multiples increased nearly 200 times, and educational projects have an average annual value increase of 500%. Among them, the Qingsong Smart Fund, which was newly established in 2018, focuses on the underlying technologies of the underlying AI and Smart Connect, as well as investment in such areas as smart healthcare, enterprise services and intelligent transportation applications. Liu Xiaosong, founding partner of Qingsong Fund, is a Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University. He invested in Tencent in 1999 and has a return on investment of tens of thousands of times. In 2000, he founded A8 New Media Group, which was successfully listed on the main board in Hong Kong in 2008. In 2015, he hatched in November 2018. Listed in Hong Kong stocks in the year. As a leading early investment institution in China, Qingsong Fund and its founding partners have repeatedly won Top 10 of Zero2IPO China’s early investment institutions/investors, Top10 of China’s education sector, Top100 of Chinese investors, and China’s best early venture capital investment. Institution/Investor Top10; 36氪 China’s new entertainment sector investment institutions Top10, online education sector investment institutions/investors Top10 and other mainstream awards.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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CDF-Capital
CDF-Capital is a private equity firm invests in growth and early-stage companies and its business covers 3+1 investment, including equity investment (start-up investment, M&A investment, industrial investment) and incubation investment (Chuangzhan Incubator). Since its establishment, it has received funding and recognition from the State Ministry (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Science and Technology), government guidance funds, parent funds, banks, and insurance companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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EFung Capital
Shenzhen EFUNG Investment Management Enterprise L. P. is one of China’s earliest institutions investing in professional biomedical industries. Their strong research team and great investment returns made us won ‘The Most Pioneering VC Institution” ‘The Most Dynamic Pharmaceutical VC Institution in China’ and ‘The Top Ten VC Institutions in Shenzhen’. With this influence, EFUNG has drawn a lot of attention from the medical and life science industry. And it is interviewed by Nature, which is the most authoritative science magazine in the world. Over a decade of years, they have been focusing on the medical and health industry, especially the VC and PE investment business of novel drugs and high-end medical devices. The mission of EFUNG is to drive the industrialization of medical researches by capital and to gain rich returns to investors. EFUNG has deeply screened and invested in more than 20 domestic and international premium enterprises, such as Chipscreen Biosciences, Frontier Biotechnologies, Ascentage Pharma, Lifotronic, Aridis Pharmaceuticals, and Centrexion.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Tencent Industry Win-Win Fund
In 2011, Tencent Industry Win-win Fund was established with an initial funding of 5 billion yuan. Presently, it has invested in 24 projects. Tencent Industry Win-Win Fund has assembled a team of professionals with extensive experience in investment, entrepreneurship and management, including Haiyang Yu, Chaohui Li, Shaohui Chen, who are senior investment managers for Tencent. Tencent industry win-win fund invests primarily in high-quality companies on the chain around online games, social games, wireless Internet, e-commerce and new media, to serve Tencent open platform. So far, Tencent industry win-win fund has played an active part in direct investments in such projects as Kaixin001.com, GroupNet, Innovation Works, Jinshan Network, Meilishuo, Roseonly, Didi Dache, Gaopeng.com, Shuame and 1jiajie.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Qianhai Wutong Mergers and Acquisitions Funds
QHMA is a fast growing firm featuring in Mergers and Acquisitions, Equity Exchange, and Fund Management. QHMA leverages on QIANHAI Equity Exchange’s (one of its solid shareholders) strong support, its own professional administrative team and foresighted investment concept, to carry out comprehensive cooperation with listed companies and provide them with a variety of financial services.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Co-Power Capital Management
Co-Power Capital Management is a financial and capital management firm that provides comprehensive asset management services. It is a registered private equity fund manager of China Securities Investment Fund Association. Co-Power has won the second place in Shenzhen and Guangzhou in “Top Ten Private Equity Management Institutions in China”, “Best PE Investors in China”, “Best Private Equity Manager in China in 2009”, and “Best Private Equity Manager in China in Personal Financing” in 2014. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Shenzhen.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Asset Management, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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GreatWall Fund
Qianhai Great Wall Fund Management (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. was established in July 2015 with a registered capital of 124.356 million yuan. It was initiated by Mr. Chang Jinyong, Weng Xianding, He Xianbo, Xue Liang, Wang Yong, etc. They are all leaders in the PE industry, per capita. With more than 20 years of investment experience, he has a brilliant experience in their respective fields and projects. Qianhai Great Wall Fund investment areas include medical health, smart industry, IT , new energy, new materials, culture, and modern logistics. The fund upholds the concept of value investment and puts the interests of investors first. It strives to achieve market value management of the projects it invests in while achieving sustained and stable excess returns, and to achieve continuous improvement of its own and social values, and strive to jointly target the enterprises and investors. growing up.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Finance, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Dingxin Capital
Dingxin Capital is an investment management agency that specializes in equity investments. The partners are mainly from domestic first-line investment institutions such as CDH, Jiuding and Zhongjin. They have deep accumulation and rich experience in the equity investment field, paying attention to the construction of the whole organization and trying to build a truly sustainable competition. Investment institutions.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Management Consulting, Venture Capital
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Topsailing Capital
Founded in 2013, Topsailing Capital is headquartered in Shenzhen, located in Nanshan High-tech Industrial Park. It is a professional investment management company with team holding and market operation. It has rich strategic alliance partners, listed enterprise resources and strong resource integration capabilities. Currently established funds are VC (A round or early 10 million standard) and PE two stages, mainly focusing on science and technology innovation and consumption upgrading related industries, focusing on cultural entertainment, big data, consumption upgrade, smart manufacturing, agricultural upgrading and Environmental protection medical field. Representative projects include Xinnongbao, Youbao Online, Baode Bio, Shenjie Environmental Protection, Hongding Auto Parts, Xinlixun and Guoyun.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Management Consulting, Venture Capital
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Sino Pacific Capital
Sino Pacific Capital is an investment firm specializing in startup, preIPO, early, middle and late venture investments.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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SUVC
SUVC focuses on making investments in sectors like high-tech and high-growth companies such as the Internet, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, aerospace, and life sciences. They accompany the growth of the whole life cycle of enterprises.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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nTheta
Based in Shenzhen, the technology center of China’s Greater Bay Area, nTheta possess the expertise, network and insight developed from our years of experience building the country’s 1st truly global unicorn. Unlike traditional accelerators/incubators, we maintain a fully-staffed operations capability all at your disposal. Our mission is to serve as your China landing team, allowing you to quickly launch your China business without ever surrendering control of your company’s management or its technology.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Asia
Industries: Aerospace, Big Data, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Computer Vision, Enterprise Applications, Incubators, Internet of Things, Robotics, Semiconductor, Telecommunications, Venture Capital
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