GGV Capital IX

GGV Capital IX is a venture capital fund managed by GGV Capital, a global firm founded in 2000 that focuses on investing in local founders across various sectors. The firm specializes in seed-to-growth stage investments, targeting industries such as Consumer/New Retail, Social/Digital & Internet, Enterprise/Cloud, and Frontier Tech. GGV Capital manages a total of $6.2 billion across 13 funds and has a diversified portfolio that includes notable companies like Airbnb, Alibaba, and Peloton. With offices in key locations such as Beijing, San Francisco, and Shanghai, GGV Capital aims to provide expansion capital ranging from $5 to $25 million for initial investments in both the United States and China. The firm's approach is to support innovative entrepreneurs and emerging technologies that can shape the future of their respective industries.

Jixun Foo

Global Managing Partner

Jenny Lee

Managing Partner

Haojun Li

Partner

Joshua Wu

Partner

Eric Xu

Managing Partner

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Booming

Series D in 2022
Booming is specializes in search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO).

NowCoder

Series B in 2022
NOWCODER develops a written test and interview database platform for IT programmers.

Handshake

Series F in 2022
Handshake is a college career network established in 2014, aimed at transforming the recruiting experience for students, career centers, and employers. It connects 17 million students and young alumni from over 1,000 colleges and universities—including many minority-serving institutions—with nearly 500,000 employers, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and nonprofits. The platform democratizes access to job opportunities, providing students with valuable insights and a wider array of career options, while enabling employers to efficiently access diverse talent. Additionally, it offers colleges tools to enhance student engagement and boost employment outcomes. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Denver and London, Handshake has raised a total of $155 million from various investors, including prominent venture capital and social impact firms.

Moka

Series C in 2021
Moka is a SaaS software that helps companies optimize their recruiting services and find the right talent for their business. MokaHR is designed to summarize and analyze the resume information characteristics of a large number of job seekers using resume analysis techniques and machine learning algorithms. Through the local semantic analysis and pattern matching of important information in resumes, MokaHR learns a large number of enterprises' recruitment behavior data and conducts big data Statistics and analysis, so as to help enterprises to better understand the industry trends, to better identify the right candidates, and hiring key points to give guidance, to bring more accurate data analysis, the formation of data network effects.

Workstream

Series B in 2021
Workstream Technologies, Inc. operates an automated online hiring platform designed specifically for companies that employ hourly workers. The platform allows employers to post job openings, track applicants, schedule interviews, and manage the onboarding process for new hires. Workstream serves a variety of industries, including healthcare, hospitality, retail, and transportation, facilitating the hiring process for businesses in sectors that require efficient workforce management. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and aims to streamline the recruitment process for both job seekers and employers.

Handshake

Series E in 2021
Handshake is a college career network established in 2014, aimed at transforming the recruiting experience for students, career centers, and employers. It connects 17 million students and young alumni from over 1,000 colleges and universities—including many minority-serving institutions—with nearly 500,000 employers, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and nonprofits. The platform democratizes access to job opportunities, providing students with valuable insights and a wider array of career options, while enabling employers to efficiently access diverse talent. Additionally, it offers colleges tools to enhance student engagement and boost employment outcomes. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Denver and London, Handshake has raised a total of $155 million from various investors, including prominent venture capital and social impact firms.

Crosschq

Series A in 2021
Crosschq, Inc. is a technology company that has developed a talent acquisition platform designed to enhance employee recruitment across various industries, including technology, healthcare, and financial services. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Danville, California, Crosschq offers a cloud-based software solution known as Human Intelligence Hiring. This platform collects insights from job seekers and their references, converting this information into predictive data that aids companies in making informed hiring decisions. By prioritizing trust, transparency, and privacy, Crosschq aims to minimize bias in the hiring process while ensuring a strong fit between candidates and organizations. The company serves a diverse array of sectors, helping businesses to effectively screen, onboard, and source talent for long-term success.

Handshake

Series D in 2020
Handshake is a college career network established in 2014, aimed at transforming the recruiting experience for students, career centers, and employers. It connects 17 million students and young alumni from over 1,000 colleges and universities—including many minority-serving institutions—with nearly 500,000 employers, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and nonprofits. The platform democratizes access to job opportunities, providing students with valuable insights and a wider array of career options, while enabling employers to efficiently access diverse talent. Additionally, it offers colleges tools to enhance student engagement and boost employment outcomes. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Denver and London, Handshake has raised a total of $155 million from various investors, including prominent venture capital and social impact firms.

Workstream

Series A in 2020
Workstream Technologies, Inc. operates an automated online hiring platform designed specifically for companies that employ hourly workers. The platform allows employers to post job openings, track applicants, schedule interviews, and manage the onboarding process for new hires. Workstream serves a variety of industries, including healthcare, hospitality, retail, and transportation, facilitating the hiring process for businesses in sectors that require efficient workforce management. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and aims to streamline the recruitment process for both job seekers and employers.

Crosschq

Seed Round in 2019
Crosschq, Inc. is a technology company that has developed a talent acquisition platform designed to enhance employee recruitment across various industries, including technology, healthcare, and financial services. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Danville, California, Crosschq offers a cloud-based software solution known as Human Intelligence Hiring. This platform collects insights from job seekers and their references, converting this information into predictive data that aids companies in making informed hiring decisions. By prioritizing trust, transparency, and privacy, Crosschq aims to minimize bias in the hiring process while ensuring a strong fit between candidates and organizations. The company serves a diverse array of sectors, helping businesses to effectively screen, onboard, and source talent for long-term success.

WonderCV

Venture Round in 2019
WonderCV owns and operates an artificial intelligence based recruitment platform. The company’s platform assists job seekers to modify their curriculum vitae (CVs), enabling them to match jobs being sought. It also allows human resources professionals to post job recruitments. WonderCV was founded in 2017 and is based in Beijing, China.

People.ai

Series C in 2019
People.ai is an artificial intelligence platform based in San Francisco, California, designed to enhance revenue operations for enterprise teams. The platform automates processes related to sales, marketing, and customer success, enabling organizations to identify and capitalize on revenue opportunities. By capturing comprehensive data on customer contacts, activities, and engagements, People.ai provides actionable insights that help sales leaders manage their teams effectively and drive revenue growth. The platform offers tools for personalized coaching, sales performance analytics, and pipeline reviews, allowing users to visualize interactions with potential buyers and assess the success of marketing campaigns. Customer success teams utilize People.ai to ensure effective engagement with clients post-sale, aligning their efforts with the right opportunities and tracking the costs associated with customer support. Overall, People.ai aims to transform business activities by leveraging AI technology to deliver insights that foster predictable growth and improved sales productivity.

Karat

Series B in 2019
Karat Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Seattle, Washington, specializes in technical interviewing methodologies and software. The company has pioneered the concept of Interview Engineering, conducting technical interviews for organizations seeking software engineers. Utilizing a community of Interview Engineers, Karat employs a proprietary interviewing infrastructure, standardized questions, and data-informed best practices to ensure fair and predictive interviews at scale. Their flagship product allows companies to record interviews, capture candidates' coding performances, structure feedback, and generate recommendations for hiring teams. By building a robust dataset of structured interview intelligence, Karat provides valuable hiring analytics to enhance the recruitment process for its clients.

Moka

Series B in 2019
Moka is a SaaS software that helps companies optimize their recruiting services and find the right talent for their business. MokaHR is designed to summarize and analyze the resume information characteristics of a large number of job seekers using resume analysis techniques and machine learning algorithms. Through the local semantic analysis and pattern matching of important information in resumes, MokaHR learns a large number of enterprises' recruitment behavior data and conducts big data Statistics and analysis, so as to help enterprises to better understand the industry trends, to better identify the right candidates, and hiring key points to give guidance, to bring more accurate data analysis, the formation of data network effects.

BOSS Zhipin

Series E in 2018
Bosszhipin is a recruitment mobile app.

People.ai

Series B in 2018
People.ai is an artificial intelligence platform based in San Francisco, California, designed to enhance revenue operations for enterprise teams. The platform automates processes related to sales, marketing, and customer success, enabling organizations to identify and capitalize on revenue opportunities. By capturing comprehensive data on customer contacts, activities, and engagements, People.ai provides actionable insights that help sales leaders manage their teams effectively and drive revenue growth. The platform offers tools for personalized coaching, sales performance analytics, and pipeline reviews, allowing users to visualize interactions with potential buyers and assess the success of marketing campaigns. Customer success teams utilize People.ai to ensure effective engagement with clients post-sale, aligning their efforts with the right opportunities and tracking the costs associated with customer support. Overall, People.ai aims to transform business activities by leveraging AI technology to deliver insights that foster predictable growth and improved sales productivity.

Namely

Series E in 2018
Namely, Inc. operates an online human resource software platform tailored for small and mid-sized organizations. Founded in 2011 and based in New York, the company provides a comprehensive suite of services, including an employee database, payroll solutions, and benefits management, covering medical, dental, and life insurance, among others. Namely's platform also features tools for time-off tracking, reporting, and talent management, along with a mobile application and social news feeds to enhance employee engagement. By streamlining administration and compliance across various HR functions, Namely allows HR teams to concentrate on developing talent and improving the overall employee experience, catering to industries such as technology, professional services, and commerce worldwide.

Moka

Series B in 2018
Moka is a SaaS software that helps companies optimize their recruiting services and find the right talent for their business. MokaHR is designed to summarize and analyze the resume information characteristics of a large number of job seekers using resume analysis techniques and machine learning algorithms. Through the local semantic analysis and pattern matching of important information in resumes, MokaHR learns a large number of enterprises' recruitment behavior data and conducts big data Statistics and analysis, so as to help enterprises to better understand the industry trends, to better identify the right candidates, and hiring key points to give guidance, to bring more accurate data analysis, the formation of data network effects.

Moka

Series A in 2018
Smart recruitment system developer based in Beijing.

Moka

Series A in 2017
Moka is a SaaS software that helps companies optimize their recruiting services and find the right talent for their business. MokaHR is designed to summarize and analyze the resume information characteristics of a large number of job seekers using resume analysis techniques and machine learning algorithms. Through the local semantic analysis and pattern matching of important information in resumes, MokaHR learns a large number of enterprises' recruitment behavior data and conducts big data Statistics and analysis, so as to help enterprises to better understand the industry trends, to better identify the right candidates, and hiring key points to give guidance, to bring more accurate data analysis, the formation of data network effects.

Shiftgig

Series C in 2017
Shiftgig, Inc. is a technology company that operates a mobile platform connecting businesses in need of temporary staffing with individuals seeking short-term work. The platform facilitates on-demand job opportunities across various sectors, including food service, hospitality, retail, and experiential marketing. By aggregating hiring requirements and worker skills, Shiftgig enables timely and efficient matches between employers and qualified candidates. The company also offers an application for both Android and iPhone, allowing businesses to post job openings that skilled workers can claim. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Shiftgig has expanded its presence with additional offices in cities such as Milwaukee, Atlanta, Dallas, and New York. The company's services assist staffing agencies in managing their workforce more effectively, providing insights that help streamline operations and support strategic growth.

Shiftgig

Series B in 2015
Shiftgig, Inc. is a technology company that operates a mobile platform connecting businesses in need of temporary staffing with individuals seeking short-term work. The platform facilitates on-demand job opportunities across various sectors, including food service, hospitality, retail, and experiential marketing. By aggregating hiring requirements and worker skills, Shiftgig enables timely and efficient matches between employers and qualified candidates. The company also offers an application for both Android and iPhone, allowing businesses to post job openings that skilled workers can claim. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Shiftgig has expanded its presence with additional offices in cities such as Milwaukee, Atlanta, Dallas, and New York. The company's services assist staffing agencies in managing their workforce more effectively, providing insights that help streamline operations and support strategic growth.

Shiftgig

Series A in 2014
Shiftgig, Inc. is a technology company that operates a mobile platform connecting businesses in need of temporary staffing with individuals seeking short-term work. The platform facilitates on-demand job opportunities across various sectors, including food service, hospitality, retail, and experiential marketing. By aggregating hiring requirements and worker skills, Shiftgig enables timely and efficient matches between employers and qualified candidates. The company also offers an application for both Android and iPhone, allowing businesses to post job openings that skilled workers can claim. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Shiftgig has expanded its presence with additional offices in cities such as Milwaukee, Atlanta, Dallas, and New York. The company's services assist staffing agencies in managing their workforce more effectively, providing insights that help streamline operations and support strategic growth.

Evolv

Series D in 2013
Evolv is a data-driven company that addresses workforce performance challenges through its cloud-based platform. By integrating and enhancing existing data from various systems, Evolv's technology platform provides actionable insights into workforce dynamics. This enables executives to understand the underlying factors affecting employee performance, leading to informed operational decisions. The company offers on-demand talent matching and intelligence services, utilizing a web-based selection and assessment process. Its algorithms are calibrated using real-world employee data, which helps employers find better matches for their available positions. Evolv's approach aims to reduce employee turnover, boost productivity, and enhance operating margins, ultimately delivering significant financial value to organizations.

Evolv

Series C in 2011
Evolv is a data-driven company that addresses workforce performance challenges through its cloud-based platform. By integrating and enhancing existing data from various systems, Evolv's technology platform provides actionable insights into workforce dynamics. This enables executives to understand the underlying factors affecting employee performance, leading to informed operational decisions. The company offers on-demand talent matching and intelligence services, utilizing a web-based selection and assessment process. Its algorithms are calibrated using real-world employee data, which helps employers find better matches for their available positions. Evolv's approach aims to reduce employee turnover, boost productivity, and enhance operating margins, ultimately delivering significant financial value to organizations.

SuccessFactors

Venture Round in 2007
People are the heartbeat of every organization and great business results start with great people. When people are all-in, feeling supported, trained, rewarded and motivated, they do what it takes to win. As the leading cloud-based HCM Suite, SAP SuccessFactors helps more than 6,000+ customers, and 45+ million cloud application subscribers, across more than 60 industries in over 177 countries, tap into this heartbeat. Supported by a global partner ecosystem and the experience and commitment of SAP, our solutions are innovative yet delivered according to your specific business needs. Through a balanced focus on both standardization and flexibility, we deliver business process expertise and best practice guidance aligned to our customers’ unique transformation journeys. Aligning business strategy to business outcomes through people is what we focus on day in and day out, what we have been helping our customers do for over 10 years and where we will be focused in the future. We believe Success is Simply Human.

China Talent Group

Series B in 2007
China Talent Group (易才) is an international provider of human resources and related process outsourcing solutions. It focuses on the areas of labor dispatch, lease, talent recruitment, welfare and insurance, management of labor relations, wage and salary service, consulting, training, and more. China Talent Group was founded in 2003, and by 2013, it has set up offices and branches in more than 300 cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Nanjing, Lhasa, as well as overseas, Hong Kong and America. CTG is the biggest global service network supplier for human resources service in China and it is also the only one in China which gains the international recognition at present.

China Talent Group

Series A in 2006
China Talent Group (易才) is an international provider of human resources and related process outsourcing solutions. It focuses on the areas of labor dispatch, lease, talent recruitment, welfare and insurance, management of labor relations, wage and salary service, consulting, training, and more. China Talent Group was founded in 2003, and by 2013, it has set up offices and branches in more than 300 cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Nanjing, Lhasa, as well as overseas, Hong Kong and America. CTG is the biggest global service network supplier for human resources service in China and it is also the only one in China which gains the international recognition at present.

SuccessFactors

Venture Round in 2006
People are the heartbeat of every organization and great business results start with great people. When people are all-in, feeling supported, trained, rewarded and motivated, they do what it takes to win. As the leading cloud-based HCM Suite, SAP SuccessFactors helps more than 6,000+ customers, and 45+ million cloud application subscribers, across more than 60 industries in over 177 countries, tap into this heartbeat. Supported by a global partner ecosystem and the experience and commitment of SAP, our solutions are innovative yet delivered according to your specific business needs. Through a balanced focus on both standardization and flexibility, we deliver business process expertise and best practice guidance aligned to our customers’ unique transformation journeys. Aligning business strategy to business outcomes through people is what we focus on day in and day out, what we have been helping our customers do for over 10 years and where we will be focused in the future. We believe Success is Simply Human.
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