HSG

HSG, formerly known as Sequoia Capital China, is a prominent venture capital and private equity firm with a global focus on technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors. Established in 2005, HSG operates offices in key international cities including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, London, Tokyo, and Singapore, managing over $55 billion in assets for leading institutional investors. The firm has supported over 1,500 companies, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship through investments in transformative technologies and high-growth business models. HSG has a track record of success, with more than 160 portfolio companies having gone public and over 140 achieving unicorn status. It has developed a comprehensive investment platform that encompasses seed, venture, growth, buyout, and infrastructure investing, as well as public equities. HSG is dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs and companies to create enduring enterprises while delivering strong returns to its limited partners. Through its extensive resources and industry expertise, HSG provides significant advantages to the companies it partners with.

Wang Chenyu

Vice President

Sakshi Chopra

Managing Director

Amit Jain

Managing Director

Cherry Lu

Partner

Ishaan Mittal

Managing Director

Enita Pu

Partner

Harshjit Sethi

Managing Director

Tejeshwi Sharma

Managing Director

Pavel Vyhnalek

Operating Partner

Fu Xin

Partner

Past deals in Messaging

Meesho

Secondary Market in 2025
Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho connects manufacturers, wholesalers, and suppliers with resellers who use social media platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook to sell products to their network of friends and family. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Meesho

Venture Round in 2024
Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho connects manufacturers, wholesalers, and suppliers with resellers who use social media platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook to sell products to their network of friends and family. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Aampe

Seed Round in 2023
Aampe is a technology company based in Singapore that specializes in personal messaging software designed to enhance customer engagement through SMS, email, and push notifications. Founded in 2020, Aampe's platform utilizes machine learning to tailor message content and timing to individual users, thereby transforming customer communication into a powerful tool for retention growth. The software integrates seamlessly with existing messaging and communication systems, allowing businesses to implement custom personalization strategies while continuing to use their current technology stack. Through ongoing experimentation and iteration, Aampe aims to help companies increase customer engagement effectively.

Mercu

Seed Round in 2023
Mercu helps businesses boost workforce productivity and retention by automating communication, development, and engagement at scale. All via the chat apps deskless workers already use, such as Whatsapp or iMessage. This means no additional app or login, making it super easy to use Mercu.

Saas Labs

Series B in 2022
Saas Labs develops software products that revolve around productivity and business process automation. It develops communication workflow and productivity tools (web & mobile based) for over 16 million sales and support agents around the world. The company was founded in 2016 by Gaurav Sharma.

WATI

Series A in 2021
WATI is an early-stage, fast-growing SaaS platform that is revolutionizing how businesses communicate with their customers. We believe customer relationships are built through conversations, one message at a time. Through our cutting-edge customer engagement software built on WhatsApp’s Business API, businesses are now able to have personalized conversations, be easily accessible and engage with their customers in real-time - at scale! We live in the on-demand economy, where customers expect fast, simple and easy service and that’s exactly what our platform empowers companies to do. This is made possible through WATI’s easy-to-use platform that can be made up and running in no time. As a result, small and medium businesses have embraced the platform rapidly, and thousands of customers across 54 countries are now using WATI within just a year of launch.

Mercu

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Mercu helps businesses boost workforce productivity and retention by automating communication, development, and engagement at scale. All via the chat apps deskless workers already use, such as Whatsapp or iMessage. This means no additional app or login, making it super easy to use Mercu.

Attentive

Series D in 2020
Attentive is a leader in conversational commerce, offering a personalized mobile messaging platform that facilitates communication between businesses and consumers. The platform leverages behavioral data to enable brands to send automated, tailored messages throughout the customer lifecycle, including product recommendations, promotions, and real-time customer support. By focusing on SMS communication, Attentive helps entrepreneurs and enterprises engage more effectively with their customers, enhancing relationships and driving sales in the e-commerce and retail sectors.

Attentive

Series C in 2020
Attentive is a leader in conversational commerce, offering a personalized mobile messaging platform that facilitates communication between businesses and consumers. The platform leverages behavioral data to enable brands to send automated, tailored messages throughout the customer lifecycle, including product recommendations, promotions, and real-time customer support. By focusing on SMS communication, Attentive helps entrepreneurs and enterprises engage more effectively with their customers, enhancing relationships and driving sales in the e-commerce and retail sectors.

Meesho

Series D in 2019
Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho connects manufacturers, wholesalers, and suppliers with resellers who use social media platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook to sell products to their network of friends and family. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Meesho

Series C in 2018
Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho connects manufacturers, wholesalers, and suppliers with resellers who use social media platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook to sell products to their network of friends and family. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Meesho

Series B in 2018
Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho connects manufacturers, wholesalers, and suppliers with resellers who use social media platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook to sell products to their network of friends and family. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Jiatui

Series A in 2018
Jiatui Technology specializes in developing mobile sales management systems aimed at enhancing sales processes for users. The company has introduced the B2S2C (boss to sales to customer) concept, focusing on integrating sales management tools with WeChat and AI technology to improve data flow and communication between enterprises and customers. Their product offerings include innovative solutions such as WeChat AI business cards and WeChat AI radar, which facilitate client networking, customer data analysis, and transaction management. By streamlining these functions, Jiatui's applications assist sales personnel and managers in efficiently accessing client information and managing sales activities, thereby simplifying the overall sales management experience.

Snow Corporation

Series A in 2018
Snow is the developer and operator of the selfie pic and video app SNOW, featuring face recognition-enabled stickers and GIF-enabled chat functionality. With SNOW, users pick from over 700 stickers and 30 types of filters to liven up their photos and videos, then send the finished product to their friends or post them within the SNOW app to give their friends a peek into what they are up to now. User numbers have been growing steadily since the app first launched in Korea, with service being expanded to Japan and China in November 2015 and February 2016, respectively. In Japan, the number of users has been growing rapidly, and the app has been ranked as No.1 in both iOS App Store’s free app Photo & Video category and Google Play’s Photography category.

Fenda

Series A in 2016
Fenda is an app where users can set their own price for answering questions in a field they are good at, and others can ask questions and pay for answers. Additionally, users can pay to listen to other questions and answers in the app

Momo

Series D in 2014
Momo is a free location-based services instant messaging application that enables smartphone users to chat with people nearby. It allows users to connect with others in the same location and share free texts, audio notes, and photographs over the internet. The app helps users find like-minded people around them anywhere and anytime. Since its launch in August, 2011, Momo has since registered 80 million users after two years and three months. The number of daily active users is 13 million and the number of monthly active users is 39 million. An average of 500 million messages are generated daily during one-on-one conversations or group chatting.

HuixunWiseUC

Series A in 2012
HuixunWiseUC is an enterprise-level communication and collaboration platform based on intra-organizational communication that integrates office collaboration and IT system integration, helping enterprises reduce operating costs and improve organizational efficiency. They offer various communication methods, such as online status, instant message, SMS, telephone, fax, email, voice, and video, file transfer, and virtual office.

Beijing Gecko Technology

Series A in 2008
Beijing Gecko Technology Co. is a provider of in-game advertising, in-game value added services and instant messaging services.

Comviva Technologies

Series A in 2005
Comviva, formerly known as Bharti Telesoft, specializes in providing integrated value-added services (VAS) for mobile operators in emerging markets. The company has successfully deployed its solutions to over 100 mobile operator clients across more than 80 countries, reaching approximately one in three mobile users in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Comviva's extensive portfolio includes offerings such as mobile finance, content and infotainment services, messaging, and customer value management, allowing telecom companies to enhance customer experience and drive revenue growth. The company is backed by prominent investors including the Bharti Group, Sequoia Capital, and Cisco, positioning it as a key player in transforming how mobile operators engage with their users.

Followap

Series C in 2005
Followap was the leading provider and pioneer of mobile Messenger - Instant Messaging and Presence solutions to the mobile industry. It was founded and managed by Dan Volach and Ben Volach when mobile Internet was just born. By the time it was acquired, it had over 20 mobile operators many of them tier-ones, serving a combined user base of over 200 million subscribers. Followap’s products enabled operators to establish advanced, interoperable mobile Messenger and presence-enhanced services, which were key for next-generation networks. Followap held numerous patents and was actively contributing to industry standardization efforts in forums including OMA, XMPP, IETF, 3GPP and the GSM Association. Followap cooperated with device manufacturers including Samsung, Nokia and LG. Followap has launched the first commercial mobile Messenger service in the year 2000 in partnership with Eircell, Ireland's largest mobile network. Other key customers of Followap included the Vodafone Group, Hutchison 3G Group, BT Group, Turkcell, Telecom Italia, Wind and Vimpelcom. The mobile Messenger which Followap pioneered evolved into extremely popular services following the introduction of the iPhone and App stores for wide-market distribution. These include Whatsapp, Line, QQ, WeChat and KakaoTalk. Its interconnect products included Interconnectivity, an important GSMA initiative for mobile operators, for the global adoption of instant messaging, across networks, and mobile phones. The company was founded in 1999 and was headquartered in London, the United Kingdom with offices in Europe, the United States and Asia.

Followap

Series C in 2005
Followap was the leading provider and pioneer of mobile Messenger - Instant Messaging and Presence solutions to the mobile industry. It was founded and managed by Dan Volach and Ben Volach when mobile Internet was just born. By the time it was acquired, it had over 20 mobile operators many of them tier-ones, serving a combined user base of over 200 million subscribers. Followap’s products enabled operators to establish advanced, interoperable mobile Messenger and presence-enhanced services, which were key for next-generation networks. Followap held numerous patents and was actively contributing to industry standardization efforts in forums including OMA, XMPP, IETF, 3GPP and the GSM Association. Followap cooperated with device manufacturers including Samsung, Nokia and LG. Followap has launched the first commercial mobile Messenger service in the year 2000 in partnership with Eircell, Ireland's largest mobile network. Other key customers of Followap included the Vodafone Group, Hutchison 3G Group, BT Group, Turkcell, Telecom Italia, Wind and Vimpelcom. The mobile Messenger which Followap pioneered evolved into extremely popular services following the introduction of the iPhone and App stores for wide-market distribution. These include Whatsapp, Line, QQ, WeChat and KakaoTalk. Its interconnect products included Interconnectivity, an important GSMA initiative for mobile operators, for the global adoption of instant messaging, across networks, and mobile phones. The company was founded in 1999 and was headquartered in London, the United Kingdom with offices in Europe, the United States and Asia.
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