Tencent Holdings

Tencent Holdings Limited is a leading internet service provider based in Shenzhen, China, known for its extensive range of value-added services, including online games, social networking, financial technology, and online advertising. Founded in 1998, Tencent operates major platforms such as WeChat and QQ, which facilitate communication, entertainment, and e-commerce for millions of users. The company is recognized as the world's largest video game publisher, with popular titles like Honor of Kings in its portfolio. In addition to its core services, Tencent is involved in the production and distribution of films and television programs, as well as software development and digital content licensing. With a focus on user-oriented strategies, Tencent continues to adapt and expand its offerings, positioning itself as a vital part of daily life for many consumers in China and beyond.

Hongwei Chen

Executive Director of Investment

Ben Feder

President, International Partnerships (North America)

Martin Lau

President

Jeffrey Li

Managing Partner

Alvin Liu

Co-Founder

Steven Ma

SVP

Huateng Ma

Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO

Danying Ma

Managing Director

Bo Wang

Vice President, Tencent Games

Ye Wang

Associate Director, Global Data Intelligence and Data Service, IEG

Yao Xia

Executive Director

Levin Yao

Managing Director, Tencent Investment

Wenlei Zhuang

Vice President of Tencent Cloud and Head of Tencent Cloud Strategic Investment

phil mu

Chief Investment Officer

Dowson Tong

President of Social Network Group, Senior Executive Vice President

Past deals in API

Zhipu AI

Venture Round in 2024
Zhipu AI is a data company focused on developing an AI-based large model platform that offers API services tailored to various customer needs. The company provides a range of smart application products, including the scientific and technological information analysis engine "AMiner" and AI cognitive engines such as CodeGeeX and CogView. These tools are designed to help users automate and optimize digital tasks, thereby reducing the required manual labor. Zhipu AI's advanced applications are built on its General Language Model (GLM) series, capable of handling tasks in both Chinese and English, making its offerings versatile and applicable across different linguistic contexts.

TrueLayer

Series E in 2024
TrueLayer Limited is a London-based company that provides an open banking platform enabling the development of financial applications. Founded in 2016, TrueLayer offers a toolkit that allows businesses to securely connect to bank data, verify accounts, and access real-time transaction information. Its platform supports various applications in payments, online lending, personal finance management, investment services, insurance, and cryptocurrencies. TrueLayer's solutions are utilized by fintech startups, online lenders, and personal finance managers, facilitating smarter and faster online payments by combining real-time bank transactions with financial and identity data. The company operates across 21 countries and serves over 10 million users, aiming to transform the payment landscape for businesses of all sizes.

Zhipu AI

Series D in 2024
Zhipu AI is a data company focused on developing an AI-based large model platform that offers API services tailored to various customer needs. The company provides a range of smart application products, including the scientific and technological information analysis engine "AMiner" and AI cognitive engines such as CodeGeeX and CogView. These tools are designed to help users automate and optimize digital tasks, thereby reducing the required manual labor. Zhipu AI's advanced applications are built on its General Language Model (GLM) series, capable of handling tasks in both Chinese and English, making its offerings versatile and applicable across different linguistic contexts.

Chainbase

Series A in 2024
Chainbase operates a comprehensive data infrastructure designed for Web3, focusing on the indexing, transformation, and utilization of on-chain data at scale. The platform offers cloud-based API services that facilitate multi-chain, real-time interactions with blockchain technology. By automating the processes of indexing and querying blockchain data, Chainbase allows developers to work more efficiently while lowering the costs associated with remote access to blockchain resources. This infrastructure aims to enhance the availability and stability of cloud services, providing developers with a robust set of tools to accelerate the development of Web3 projects.

Zhipu AI

Series B in 2023
Zhipu AI is a data company focused on developing an AI-based large model platform that offers API services tailored to various customer needs. The company provides a range of smart application products, including the scientific and technological information analysis engine "AMiner" and AI cognitive engines such as CodeGeeX and CogView. These tools are designed to help users automate and optimize digital tasks, thereby reducing the required manual labor. Zhipu AI's advanced applications are built on its General Language Model (GLM) series, capable of handling tasks in both Chinese and English, making its offerings versatile and applicable across different linguistic contexts.

Airwallex

Series E in 2022
Airwallex is a global payment and financial platform designed to streamline international transactions and reduce the costs associated with traditional financial systems. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, including payment processing, treasury management, and spend management, all integrated into a single platform. By utilizing a network of local payment systems and application programming interfaces, Airwallex allows businesses to issue and pay invoices in their preferred currencies at competitive exchange rates. The company aims to empower entrepreneurs and businesses by providing them with the tools necessary to expand their operations and seize opportunities in markets worldwide.

Previse

Series B in 2022
Previse is a financial technology company that leverages artificial intelligence to facilitate instant payments for corporate buyers, ensuring that all suppliers are paid immediately. This system eliminates the need for suppliers to depend on costly short-term credit, reducing expenses for buyers and empowering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to reinvest in their growth, ultimately benefiting the economy. Suppliers can agree to instant payments with a simple click. Previse employs extensive data analysis and advanced algorithms to assess a corporate buyer's likelihood of settling invoices, allowing funders to quickly release funds to suppliers. The platform seamlessly integrates with existing payment technologies used by buyers and funders, requiring no alterations to their current processes or infrastructure, thus ensuring a frictionless adoption.

Immutable Systems

Series C in 2022
Immutable develops blockchain-based eSport games designed to familiarize users with blockchain technology in a fun and user-friendly environment. Its eSports games use ethereum blockchain to transform digital asset ownership in the video-gaming industry. Immutable provides scalable blockchain infrastructure for video games, enabling organizations to bring transparency in the opaque world of in-game economies.

Mod.io

Series A in 2021
Mod.io is a cross-platform service that facilitates mod support and user-generated content (UGC) for video games, established by the team behind ModDB. Launched in 2019, it allows game studios to enhance community engagement on PC, console, and mobile platforms. The service has been adopted by over 50 games, attracting around 400,000 daily users who have collectively produced 600,000 pieces of content, resulting in more than 100 million mods installed. Mod.io provides an automated and scalable solution for developers to integrate UGC, fostering long-term user engagement and supporting creator economies. Its platform features a clientless application programming interface that streamlines the creation and sharing of modifications across various platforms and stores, helping to maintain a continuous flow of fresh content.

TrueLayer

Series D in 2021
TrueLayer Limited is a London-based company that provides an open banking platform enabling the development of financial applications. Founded in 2016, TrueLayer offers a toolkit that allows businesses to securely connect to bank data, verify accounts, and access real-time transaction information. Its platform supports various applications in payments, online lending, personal finance management, investment services, insurance, and cryptocurrencies. TrueLayer's solutions are utilized by fintech startups, online lenders, and personal finance managers, facilitating smarter and faster online payments by combining real-time bank transactions with financial and identity data. The company operates across 21 countries and serves over 10 million users, aiming to transform the payment landscape for businesses of all sizes.

Ubitus

Venture Round in 2021
Ubitus Inc. is a technology company that specializes in cloud computing solutions, particularly for the gaming industry and digital media services. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Tokyo, with a research and development center in Taipei, Ubitus offers a software platform designed for fixed-mobile convergence applications. Its products include ubiLive, which enables users to access and share online content across devices, and commercial mobile cloud gaming services. The company's innovative GameCloud technology allows for the streaming of both gaming and metaverse content on multiple devices, catering to game developers, telecommunications service providers, and device manufacturers. Ubitus has established strategic partnerships, including collaborations with Alibaba Cloud and Kokusai Kogyo Co. Ltd., to enhance its service offerings and expand its market reach.

Pex

Series A in 2021
Pex is a company that specializes in digital rights technology, focusing on transparency and accuracy in content licensing and management. Its advanced technology operates at significant speed and scale, facilitating transactions that were previously challenging. By simplifying the licensing process on a global scale, Pex enables digital platforms to make real-time decisions regarding content use. This innovation allows creators to confidently utilize copyrighted material while ensuring that rightsholders receive proper credit and compensation for their work. Pex is committed to building inclusive and equitable solutions that benefit all stakeholders in the digital content ecosystem.

Waterdrop

Series E in 2020
Waterdrop is a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact. It's the largest independent third-party insurance platform in China in terms of life and health insurance first year premiums, distributed in 2020, according to iResearch. Through Waterdrop Insurance Marketplace and Medical Crowdfunding platforms, Waterdrop have built a massive social network of protection and support for people, raising awareness of insurance and ultimately providing insurance and healthcare service to consumers in China. It had listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “WDH” in May 2021.

TrueLayer

Series C in 2020
TrueLayer Limited is a London-based company that provides an open banking platform enabling the development of financial applications. Founded in 2016, TrueLayer offers a toolkit that allows businesses to securely connect to bank data, verify accounts, and access real-time transaction information. Its platform supports various applications in payments, online lending, personal finance management, investment services, insurance, and cryptocurrencies. TrueLayer's solutions are utilized by fintech startups, online lenders, and personal finance managers, facilitating smarter and faster online payments by combining real-time bank transactions with financial and identity data. The company operates across 21 countries and serves over 10 million users, aiming to transform the payment landscape for businesses of all sizes.

Waterdrop

Series D in 2020
Waterdrop is a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact. It's the largest independent third-party insurance platform in China in terms of life and health insurance first year premiums, distributed in 2020, according to iResearch. Through Waterdrop Insurance Marketplace and Medical Crowdfunding platforms, Waterdrop have built a massive social network of protection and support for people, raising awareness of insurance and ultimately providing insurance and healthcare service to consumers in China. It had listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “WDH” in May 2021.

Airwallex

Series D in 2020
Airwallex is a global payment and financial platform designed to streamline international transactions and reduce the costs associated with traditional financial systems. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, including payment processing, treasury management, and spend management, all integrated into a single platform. By utilizing a network of local payment systems and application programming interfaces, Airwallex allows businesses to issue and pay invoices in their preferred currencies at competitive exchange rates. The company aims to empower entrepreneurs and businesses by providing them with the tools necessary to expand their operations and seize opportunities in markets worldwide.

Waterdrop

Series C in 2019
Waterdrop is a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact. It's the largest independent third-party insurance platform in China in terms of life and health insurance first year premiums, distributed in 2020, according to iResearch. Through Waterdrop Insurance Marketplace and Medical Crowdfunding platforms, Waterdrop have built a massive social network of protection and support for people, raising awareness of insurance and ultimately providing insurance and healthcare service to consumers in China. It had listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “WDH” in May 2021.

TrueLayer

Series C in 2019
TrueLayer Limited is a London-based company that provides an open banking platform enabling the development of financial applications. Founded in 2016, TrueLayer offers a toolkit that allows businesses to securely connect to bank data, verify accounts, and access real-time transaction information. Its platform supports various applications in payments, online lending, personal finance management, investment services, insurance, and cryptocurrencies. TrueLayer's solutions are utilized by fintech startups, online lenders, and personal finance managers, facilitating smarter and faster online payments by combining real-time bank transactions with financial and identity data. The company operates across 21 countries and serves over 10 million users, aiming to transform the payment landscape for businesses of all sizes.

Waterdrop

Series B in 2019
Waterdrop is a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact. It's the largest independent third-party insurance platform in China in terms of life and health insurance first year premiums, distributed in 2020, according to iResearch. Through Waterdrop Insurance Marketplace and Medical Crowdfunding platforms, Waterdrop have built a massive social network of protection and support for people, raising awareness of insurance and ultimately providing insurance and healthcare service to consumers in China. It had listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “WDH” in May 2021.

Airwallex

Series C in 2019
Airwallex is a global payment and financial platform designed to streamline international transactions and reduce the costs associated with traditional financial systems. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, including payment processing, treasury management, and spend management, all integrated into a single platform. By utilizing a network of local payment systems and application programming interfaces, Airwallex allows businesses to issue and pay invoices in their preferred currencies at competitive exchange rates. The company aims to empower entrepreneurs and businesses by providing them with the tools necessary to expand their operations and seize opportunities in markets worldwide.

Infraspeak

Seed Round in 2018
Infraspeak is a technology company focused on transforming facilities management through its intelligent maintenance management platform. The platform integrates various operational aspects, automating recurring tasks and minimizing bureaucracy, risks, and costs. By leveraging innovative technologies, APIs, applications, and sensors, Infraspeak converts data into actionable insights, enabling facility owners, managers, and service providers to streamline their operations. This solution is designed for teams of all sizes across diverse industries, allowing them to deliver high-quality maintenance services efficiently and effectively. Infraspeak aims to alleviate the challenges faced by maintenance and facilities teams, enhancing their ability to manage operations with reduced stress and resources.

Airwallex

Series B in 2018
Airwallex is a global payment and financial platform designed to streamline international transactions and reduce the costs associated with traditional financial systems. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, including payment processing, treasury management, and spend management, all integrated into a single platform. By utilizing a network of local payment systems and application programming interfaces, Airwallex allows businesses to issue and pay invoices in their preferred currencies at competitive exchange rates. The company aims to empower entrepreneurs and businesses by providing them with the tools necessary to expand their operations and seize opportunities in markets worldwide.

Airwallex

Series A in 2017
Airwallex is a global payment and financial platform designed to streamline international transactions and reduce the costs associated with traditional financial systems. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, including payment processing, treasury management, and spend management, all integrated into a single platform. By utilizing a network of local payment systems and application programming interfaces, Airwallex allows businesses to issue and pay invoices in their preferred currencies at competitive exchange rates. The company aims to empower entrepreneurs and businesses by providing them with the tools necessary to expand their operations and seize opportunities in markets worldwide.

Waterdrop

Series A in 2017
Waterdrop is a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact. It's the largest independent third-party insurance platform in China in terms of life and health insurance first year premiums, distributed in 2020, according to iResearch. Through Waterdrop Insurance Marketplace and Medical Crowdfunding platforms, Waterdrop have built a massive social network of protection and support for people, raising awareness of insurance and ultimately providing insurance and healthcare service to consumers in China. It had listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “WDH” in May 2021.

Airwallex

Series A in 2017
Airwallex is a global payment and financial platform designed to streamline international transactions and reduce the costs associated with traditional financial systems. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, including payment processing, treasury management, and spend management, all integrated into a single platform. By utilizing a network of local payment systems and application programming interfaces, Airwallex allows businesses to issue and pay invoices in their preferred currencies at competitive exchange rates. The company aims to empower entrepreneurs and businesses by providing them with the tools necessary to expand their operations and seize opportunities in markets worldwide.

Waterdrop

Series A in 2016
Waterdrop is a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact. It's the largest independent third-party insurance platform in China in terms of life and health insurance first year premiums, distributed in 2020, according to iResearch. Through Waterdrop Insurance Marketplace and Medical Crowdfunding platforms, Waterdrop have built a massive social network of protection and support for people, raising awareness of insurance and ultimately providing insurance and healthcare service to consumers in China. It had listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “WDH” in May 2021.

Blockstream

Series A in 2016
Blockstream is a prominent blockchain technology supplier that focuses on enhancing Bitcoin and blockchain functionality through innovative products and services. The company develops interoperable blockchain technologies, particularly sidechains, which facilitate faster and more confidential transactions. Its notable offerings include Blockstream Satellite, a service that broadcasts the Bitcoin blockchain via satellite for users without internet access, and the Liquid Network, designed to improve transaction efficiency. Additionally, Blockstream provides the Green Wallet, a non-custodial Bitcoin wallet emphasizing security and user control. The company also offers blockchain APIs for developers, enabling the integration of blockchain capabilities into various applications, as well as solutions for efficient Bitcoin mining operations. By leveraging advanced cryptographic techniques, Blockstream aims to enhance privacy and security in transactions, ultimately contributing to the evolution of the financial infrastructure.

HomeHero

Series A in 2015
HomeHero, Inc. is a home care agency based in Santa Monica, California, specializing in non-medical services for families in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Orange County. Founded in 2013, the company provides a variety of services, including personal care, companionship, meal preparation, light housekeeping, and assistance with activities of daily living. HomeHero also offers transitional care and medication management, along with safe transition home programs that facilitate safe rides for patients returning home from the hospital. Additionally, the company features The HomeHero Collaborative, a care management platform designed to connect hospitals and health plans with patients in their homes. By integrating technology and compassionate care, HomeHero aims to enhance the home care experience and support individual families in their caregiving needs.

Outspark

Series B in 2008
Outspark is the Western leader in publishing premium micro-trans MMOs. Based in San Fransisco the company has published numerous successful MMOs, and is currently introducing Divine Souls and Fists of Fu for 2010. Outspark CEO & Founder, Susan Choe said the company's real strength will be its open Platform APIs, on which game developers or publisher can plug into, to self publish their online games, while leveraging the infrastructure, business intelligence data, existing users, portal and social network community features.
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