Recent investment activity

KANDO id: 411041

Corporate information

Also known as
真格基金
Zhen Fund

Overview

ZhenFund is a seed fund founded by former entrepreneurs to invest in the most promising innovators. New Oriental co-founders Bob Xiaoping Xu and Victor Qiang Wang established ZhenFund in 2011 in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. ZhenFund now has a network of over 700 portfolio companies, including over 10 unicorns based in China. ZhenFund is honored to have been ranked “#1 Early-Stage Investment Firm” by Zero2IPO six years in a row 2014-2019. We believe that great businesses start with exceptional founding teams. We are dedicated to helping our entrepreneurs build successful companies by providing them with mentorship and the best resources available. Some of our services include biannual demo days to top Chinese VCs, ZhenHR services, marketing and PR consulting, as well as fundraising. Our strong and large CEO network also facilitates entrepreneurs helping each other, especially via our wechat platform. We were voted “Best Portfolio Management Service of The Year” in 2016 and 2017 by China Renaissance.



Funding rounds

Investment preferences

Focus countries
China
Excluded countries
United Kingdom
Stage focus
Top investment portfolio themes

Actual initial investment stage
N/A (1)

Investment activity status
Active investor

Selected investments

Displaying 1 - 8 of 8
Profile Country Date Funding
Bolt Ltd End-to-end checkout, payments, and fraud prevention solutions. Series A Follow-on investment
Bolt Ltd End-to-end checkout, payments, and fraud prevention solutions. Seed
Hyperloop One Developer of ultra high speed transportation services. Series B Repeat investment.
Lino N/A
Momenta Developer of autonomous vehicle software. Series A
OpenDeal Inc (Republic) Retail investment platform. N/A
Origo Network Scalable privacy preserving platform for decentralized applications. N/A Initial investment
Vipkid Chinese education platform that connects kids with native English speakers for online language lessons. Series D Initial investment

Team

Employee Position
Xiaoping Xu

Past employees

Selected Products / Customers

Financials