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Top 23 Venture backed startups based in China
RevenueBase identified 241 venture backed startups headquartered in China as of September 2026 and tracks 3,164 professional contacts across them, including 254 with verified work emails. Shanghai is the largest hub.
This list covers venture backed startups headquartered in China, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 23 largest venture backed startups based in China
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 181 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Source Code Capital, we devote ourselves to becoming the partner of choice for world-class entrepreneurs leading today’s business transformations and technological developments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2010, K2VC is a leading venture capital firm focusing on investments in technology upgrade, business model innovation and consumer lifestyle revolution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “XVC is a $1.2 billion research-driven venture-growth fund backed by institutions like top university endowments and sovereign wealth funds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “6 Dimensions Capital is a leading global healthcare investment firm with offices in Boston, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Shanghai.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lightspeed China Partners is a leading Chinese venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “M31 Capital, a growth equity firm backed by world class investors, seeks to invest in next generation growth leaders and create tangible value by taking a proactive role.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Quan Capital is a life sciences venture capital firm with extensive global access and unique cross-border expertise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Jiangmen is an open innovation service provider and a venture capital firm focuses on finding, incubating and accelerating technology-driven innovative startups who can create…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Runwise Ventures® passionately works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and scientists to build new digital, intelligent business by providing capital investment and hacking…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tai Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to investing in disruptive technology companies with a desire to enter the Chinese market or build the supply chain in China.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We invest in new industries of the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “China's pioneer food tech VC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “2011TOP50TOP30 “”“” ()Timing80” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Skyview is a dual-currency early stage venture capital firm focused on the Internet and technology sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in Redpoint is a leading ventures capital firm from Silicon Valley.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “2016“” G7Linkedme” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded by Nan Fung Group (Hong Kong), Pivotal bioVenture Partners is an international venture captial focused on the global life-science sector, managing more than USD 3 billion…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Haitao Capital is a founder-focused, early stage cross-border investor driven by the #GlobalChinaMacro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Xcel, our core objective is to help entrepreneurs build a truly great company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “/ “” StarRock Ventures, a venture capital investment platform of GLP, is focused on early-stage and growth-stage investments in consumer, enterprise, and cutting-edge technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At NPC, we back innovative founders that address global challenges in the transition towards a more sustainable global economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: venture backed startups. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names venture backed startups.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of venture backed startups, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name venture backed startups. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Venture backed startups based in China at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for China, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for China, over 241 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among venture backed startups, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in China whose own description of what they do matches “venture backed startups”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names venture backed startups), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among venture backed startups, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside China are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 254 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Venture backed startups by metro
- Venture backed startups in Shanghai44
- Venture backed startups in Beijing40
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names venture backed startups, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many venture backed startups are there based in China?
RevenueBase identified 241 venture backed startups headquartered in China as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Sinovation Ventures 创新工场, headquartered in Beijing, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most venture backed startups?
Shanghai leads with 44 headquartered companies, followed by Beijing (40) and Shenzhen (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 254 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 241 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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