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.
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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 Smart Cities
Cloudphysician
Series A in 2024
Cloudphysician is a prominent provider of Smart-ICU services, utilizing a cloud-based platform to enhance critical care delivery. The company employs advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and predictive analytics to facilitate real-time clinical decision-making. This innovative approach supports early-stage diagnosis of critical diseases in adults and monitors immunization schedules and growth profiles of newborns, aimed at reducing neonatal mortality rates. By combining medical expertise with technology, Cloudphysician improves patient outcomes and offers hospitals and healthcare providers enhanced monitoring, support, and training, ultimately transforming the landscape of critical care in the healthcare industry.
Attentive
Series A in 2024
Attentive AI specializes in the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems that analyze extensive geospatial imagery to deliver precise insights. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company caters to geospatial technology providers and end users by offering 2D and 3D vector data derived from various sources, including satellite, aerial, street, and drone imagery. Additionally, Attentive AI has created landscape management software aimed at enhancing operational efficiency for businesses in the landscaping, asphalt and paving, facilities maintenance, and snow removal sectors. This software leverages AI to optimize workflows, enabling clients to scale their operations effectively while providing access to up-to-date aerial imagery and blueprints.
Deep Intelligent Control
Series A in 2023
Deep Intelligent Control is a service provider for digital intelligence innovation and energy conservation. They conduct research and develop a new generation of products and technologies for energy efficiency and Internet of Things (IoT) intelligent control, empowering the building and industrial energy-saving industries, realizing significant energy savings in electromechanical energy systems, and assisting businesses in becoming digitally intelligent, resulting in a 2% reduction in carbon emissions.
Bounce
Venture Round in 2023
Bounce (formerly known as Metro Bikes) is a smart mobility solution, with a mission of making daily commute stress-free, time-saving, reliable, and convenient. With a breakthrough technology that lets users access the bike with just an OTP, the Keyless bikes, have not only done away with keys, but the whole process of renting a bike has just become devoid of any physical or human intervention. With Bounce's new One Way Rental service, users can now pick up and drop the bike anywhere they need to and be done with the ride. This is aimed at providing a seamless first mile and last-mile connectivity to metro users. Founded in 2014, Bounce aims at decongesting the roads by encouraging commuters to choose public transport by delivering convenient options to rent bikes and reach their destinations from metro stations. It is based in Bangalore, India.
Rox Motor
Series D in 2022
ROX Motor is a company dedicated to the development of off-road new energy vehicles, focusing on innovations in smart car technologies. The firm specializes in research and development in areas such as new energy power, intelligent cockpit systems, and autonomous driving. By providing advanced solutions in three-electric technology and intelligent driving, ROX Motor aims to enhance product quality within the new energy vehicle industry. The company's commitment to integrating cutting-edge technologies supports its mission to lead in the smart vehicle market.
Beam
Series B in 2022
Beam is a micro-mobility startup that encourages users to park their e-scooters in pre-determined parking spots via its app by offering incentives, instead of parking it anywhere randomly on the street.
MetaX
Seed Round in 2021
Muxi is dedicated to providing full-stack GPU chips and heterogeneous computing solutions that can be widely used in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, smart cities, data centers, cloud computing, autonomous driving, digital twins, metaverse, and so on. It builds full-stack GPU chip products, launching MXN series GPUs (Xi Si) for AI reasoning, MXC series GPUs (Xi Yun) for AI training and general computing, and MXG series GPUs (Xi Cai) for graphics rendering, Meet the computing power requirements of data centers for "high energy efficiency" and "high versatility". Mu Xi's products all use independently developed GPU IP, have instruction sets and architectures with completely independent intellectual property rights, and are outfitted with a complete software stack (MACAMACA) compatible with mainstream GPU ecosystems. In September 2020, the company was founded in Shanghai, and it has wholly-owned subsidiaries and R&D centers in Beijing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Wuhan.
Hive Box Technology
Series C in 2021
Founded in 2015 and based in Shenzhen, China, Hive Box Technology operates a network of self-service package drop-off and pick-up stations primarily aimed at enhancing the logistics of express delivery and e-commerce. The company has developed a 24-hour self-service platform that allows customers to conveniently store and retrieve packages at their leisure, thereby improving the efficiency of package handling in residential areas. By focusing on accessibility and user experience, Hive Box facilitates seamless interactions between consumers and logistics services, positioning itself as a key player in the evolving landscape of package delivery in China.
Jiangxing Intelligence
Series A in 2020
Jiangxing Intelligence Inc., founded in 2018 by Professor Liu Jiangchuan, specializes in the development and operation of artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing technologies tailored for the Internet of Things (IoT) in China. The company offers solutions such as EdgeBox, which enables real-time processing of big data for industrial clients across various sectors, including manufacturing, energy, transportation, and smart cities. Additionally, its Ubiquitous Wisdom Eye device provides intelligent monitoring for transmission lines by integrating data from various sensors, creating a cohesive supervision platform. Headquartered in Beijing, with offices in Shenzhen and Nanjing, Jiangxing Intelligence has secured significant venture capital funding, positioning itself as a leader in advanced edge computing applications for energy and industrial security.
Beam
Series A in 2020
Beam is a micro-mobility startup that encourages users to park their e-scooters in pre-determined parking spots via its app by offering incentives, instead of parking it anywhere randomly on the street.
Bounce
Series D in 2020
Bounce (formerly known as Metro Bikes) is a smart mobility solution, with a mission of making daily commute stress-free, time-saving, reliable, and convenient. With a breakthrough technology that lets users access the bike with just an OTP, the Keyless bikes, have not only done away with keys, but the whole process of renting a bike has just become devoid of any physical or human intervention. With Bounce's new One Way Rental service, users can now pick up and drop the bike anywhere they need to and be done with the ride. This is aimed at providing a seamless first mile and last-mile connectivity to metro users. Founded in 2014, Bounce aims at decongesting the roads by encouraging commuters to choose public transport by delivering convenient options to rent bikes and reach their destinations from metro stations. It is based in Bangalore, India.
StreamNative
Seed Round in 2019
StreamNative offers an event streaming platform based on Apache Pulsar that enables companies to access enterprise data as real-time streams. Apache Pulsar acts as a real-time, fault-time, highly scalable and unified event streaming platform. It is widely adopted by many companies globally, from internet giants, gaming companies, IoT companies, financial institutes to many other enterprises. Unliked other legacy pubsub messaging system, Pulsar was born and developed for Cloud. Its architectural advantages and cloud-native design principles make it able to make high volume data available as an infinite real-time stream for consumption. The infinite real-time stream provides a unified view for both historic and real-time data. The infrastructure lets you build around a single central nervous system transmitting, storing and processing messages for the different systems and applications within your organization. By leveraging the Apache Pulsar technology, StreamNative Platform enables the leaders in industries such as gaming, financial services, blockchain, retail, logistics, manufacturing, media and IoT, move data from isolated legacy systems into one real-time event streaming platform where they can act on immediately. StreamNative was started by a team of Apache Pulsar and Apache BookKeeper PMC members, committers and contributors, who believe in event streams are the right foundation for enterprise data. Many of the team members have been working on Apache Pulsar for years, and have helped the leading internet giants successfully run Pulsar at scale. StreamNative is based in San Francisco, California. It also have offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen in China.
Jiangxing Intelligence
Series A in 2019
Jiangxing Intelligence Inc., founded in 2018 by Professor Liu Jiangchuan, specializes in the development and operation of artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing technologies tailored for the Internet of Things (IoT) in China. The company offers solutions such as EdgeBox, which enables real-time processing of big data for industrial clients across various sectors, including manufacturing, energy, transportation, and smart cities. Additionally, its Ubiquitous Wisdom Eye device provides intelligent monitoring for transmission lines by integrating data from various sensors, creating a cohesive supervision platform. Headquartered in Beijing, with offices in Shenzhen and Nanjing, Jiangxing Intelligence has secured significant venture capital funding, positioning itself as a leader in advanced edge computing applications for energy and industrial security.
Bounce
Series C in 2019
Bounce (formerly known as Metro Bikes) is a smart mobility solution, with a mission of making daily commute stress-free, time-saving, reliable, and convenient. With a breakthrough technology that lets users access the bike with just an OTP, the Keyless bikes, have not only done away with keys, but the whole process of renting a bike has just become devoid of any physical or human intervention. With Bounce's new One Way Rental service, users can now pick up and drop the bike anywhere they need to and be done with the ride. This is aimed at providing a seamless first mile and last-mile connectivity to metro users. Founded in 2014, Bounce aims at decongesting the roads by encouraging commuters to choose public transport by delivering convenient options to rent bikes and reach their destinations from metro stations. It is based in Bangalore, India.
Bounce
Series B in 2019
Bounce (formerly known as Metro Bikes) is a smart mobility solution, with a mission of making daily commute stress-free, time-saving, reliable, and convenient. With a breakthrough technology that lets users access the bike with just an OTP, the Keyless bikes, have not only done away with keys, but the whole process of renting a bike has just become devoid of any physical or human intervention. With Bounce's new One Way Rental service, users can now pick up and drop the bike anywhere they need to and be done with the ride. This is aimed at providing a seamless first mile and last-mile connectivity to metro users. Founded in 2014, Bounce aims at decongesting the roads by encouraging commuters to choose public transport by delivering convenient options to rent bikes and reach their destinations from metro stations. It is based in Bangalore, India.
Leapmotor
Series A in 2018
Zhejiang Leapmotor Technology Co., Ltd. is a prominent electric vehicle manufacturer based in Hangzhou, China. Established in 2015, the company focuses on the design, research and development, and production of intelligent electric vehicles. Leapmotor is committed to advancing technologies related to intelligent driving, motor electronic control, battery systems, and cloud computing for vehicle networking solutions. The company benefits from significant investment by Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd., which provides robust financial support and expertise in technology research, development, and quality management. Leapmotor prioritizes technological innovation and industrial design, aiming to enhance process quality in its operations.
Beam
Seed Round in 2018
Beam is a micro-mobility startup that encourages users to park their e-scooters in pre-determined parking spots via its app by offering incentives, instead of parking it anywhere randomly on the street.
Bounce
Series A in 2018
Bounce (formerly known as Metro Bikes) is a smart mobility solution, with a mission of making daily commute stress-free, time-saving, reliable, and convenient. With a breakthrough technology that lets users access the bike with just an OTP, the Keyless bikes, have not only done away with keys, but the whole process of renting a bike has just become devoid of any physical or human intervention. With Bounce's new One Way Rental service, users can now pick up and drop the bike anywhere they need to and be done with the ride. This is aimed at providing a seamless first mile and last-mile connectivity to metro users. Founded in 2014, Bounce aims at decongesting the roads by encouraging commuters to choose public transport by delivering convenient options to rent bikes and reach their destinations from metro stations. It is based in Bangalore, India.
Leapmotor
Seed Round in 2018
Zhejiang Leapmotor Technology Co., Ltd. is a prominent electric vehicle manufacturer based in Hangzhou, China. Established in 2015, the company focuses on the design, research and development, and production of intelligent electric vehicles. Leapmotor is committed to advancing technologies related to intelligent driving, motor electronic control, battery systems, and cloud computing for vehicle networking solutions. The company benefits from significant investment by Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd., which provides robust financial support and expertise in technology research, development, and quality management. Leapmotor prioritizes technological innovation and industrial design, aiming to enhance process quality in its operations.
Meituan Bike
Series E in 2017
Meituan Bike (formerly Mobike) is a Chinese fully station-less bicycle-sharing system. It develops mobile apps for users to find and use bicycles to travel anywhere. Davis Wang Xiao Feng, Hu Wei Wei, and Xia Yi Ping founded Mobike on January 27, 2015, with its headquarters in Beijing, China. Mobike raised $600 million in Series E funding led by Tencent, bringing the firm's fundraising in 2017 alone to nearly US$1 billion in June 2017. It became worth US$3 billion in the same month. Chinese web company Meituan-Dianping acquired Mobike for US$2.7 billion in April 2018. Parent company Meituan-Dianping announced name change from Mobike to Meituan Bike on January 23, 2019 as part of an ongoing integration.
YITU
Series C in 2017
Yitu Limited is a Chinese company that specializes in the research and development of artificial intelligence solutions, focusing on machine vision, listening, and comprehension. Founded in 2012 and based in Shanghai, Yitu provides AI infrastructure and applications for intelligent city management, healthcare, and business sectors such as finance and retail. Their healthcare solutions include AI technologies for disease clinics, child development evaluations, and integrated medical platforms. Yitu's extensive research encompasses areas like computer vision, natural language understanding, and robotics, aiming to drive innovation across various industries, including security, transportation, and healthcare. The company is committed to advancing AI technology to create safer, faster, and healthier environments.
Xiaodian
Series B in 2017
Xiaodian Group, established in December 2016, is a technology-driven company specializing in small electric mobile charging services. Leveraging advanced Internet of Things technology, it has developed a comprehensive service network that spans over 2,700 cities across the country, catering to over 450 million users. Xiaodian offers various products, including large and small vending machines and mobile charging devices, strategically located in transportation hubs, urban shopping centers, hotels, cinemas, and high-speed rail stations, as well as in chain restaurants and entertainment venues. The company provides convenient smartphone charging services through a user-friendly QR code system, allowing individuals to charge their devices easily and intelligently in various consumer scenarios.
Meituan Bike
Series D in 2017
Meituan Bike (formerly Mobike) is a Chinese fully station-less bicycle-sharing system. It develops mobile apps for users to find and use bicycles to travel anywhere. Davis Wang Xiao Feng, Hu Wei Wei, and Xia Yi Ping founded Mobike on January 27, 2015, with its headquarters in Beijing, China. Mobike raised $600 million in Series E funding led by Tencent, bringing the firm's fundraising in 2017 alone to nearly US$1 billion in June 2017. It became worth US$3 billion in the same month. Chinese web company Meituan-Dianping acquired Mobike for US$2.7 billion in April 2018. Parent company Meituan-Dianping announced name change from Mobike to Meituan Bike on January 23, 2019 as part of an ongoing integration.
Meituan Bike
Series C in 2016
Meituan Bike (formerly Mobike) is a Chinese fully station-less bicycle-sharing system. It develops mobile apps for users to find and use bicycles to travel anywhere. Davis Wang Xiao Feng, Hu Wei Wei, and Xia Yi Ping founded Mobike on January 27, 2015, with its headquarters in Beijing, China. Mobike raised $600 million in Series E funding led by Tencent, bringing the firm's fundraising in 2017 alone to nearly US$1 billion in June 2017. It became worth US$3 billion in the same month. Chinese web company Meituan-Dianping acquired Mobike for US$2.7 billion in April 2018. Parent company Meituan-Dianping announced name change from Mobike to Meituan Bike on January 23, 2019 as part of an ongoing integration.
YITU
Series A in 2015
Yitu Limited is a Chinese company that specializes in the research and development of artificial intelligence solutions, focusing on machine vision, listening, and comprehension. Founded in 2012 and based in Shanghai, Yitu provides AI infrastructure and applications for intelligent city management, healthcare, and business sectors such as finance and retail. Their healthcare solutions include AI technologies for disease clinics, child development evaluations, and integrated medical platforms. Yitu's extensive research encompasses areas like computer vision, natural language understanding, and robotics, aiming to drive innovation across various industries, including security, transportation, and healthcare. The company is committed to advancing AI technology to create safer, faster, and healthier environments.
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