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About ECC

ECC focuses on early-to-early-growth stage investments in the Smart Technology space

Founded by one of the earliest returnee venture capitalists in China, ECC has over the years successfully built a solid team of investment professionals with significant knowledge and practical experience in technology, venture investment, finance and company operation. Combining western-learned best practice with deep insights on the local ground, ECC strives to back ambitious entrepreneurs, regardless of their background and ethnicity, who aspire to use technologies and innovations to make the world a better place.

The core team of ECC has had, collectively, over 40+ years of venture capital investment experience in China and the U.S., and produced over 10 very successful exits thus far, some of which are still sector leaders after their IPOs. ECC currently has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Silicon Valley in the U.S., and has assembled some of the best LPs in the country, including FoFs, public-listed companies, financial institutions, national science and technology development fund, as well as municipality technology and industry guidance fund.

ECC currently focuses more on technology startups in the Smart Technology space, which include semiconductors, smart manufacturing, robotics, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

We believe in the power of technology and are committed to helping those who see the future achieve it.

Mission

Be a strong backer of those entrepreneurs who aspire to use technologies and innovations to make the world a better place

Vision

Be an ace catcher ofsmart unicorns

Values

Maintain High Integrity,Do No Evil,Respect Differences, Be Diligent,Be Hopeful

Investment Focus

Artificial
Intelligence
Robotics
IoT
Big Data &
Cloud Computing
Semiconductor
Smart
Manufacturing

Awards

The 2019 China’s Top 10 Semiconductor Venture Capital Fund
by Zero2IPO Group

The 2019 China’s Top 10 Venture Capital Fund of Greatest Growth Potential
by 36kr Media Group

The 2019 China’s Top 10 Venture Capital Fund in Hard Technology
by Iyiou

The 2019 China’s Top 10 Venture Capital Fund in Artificial Intelligence
by Lieyun

The 2019 China’s Top 100 Venture Capital Fund
by China-FoF Association

The 2019 China’s Top 20 Most Able Technology Startup Catcher
by Jazzyear

The 2016 China’s Top 10 Venture Capital Fund in Artificial Intelligence
by China Venture

The 2016 China’s Top 100 Best Venture Fund
by China Venture

The 2016 China’s Best Angel Investor
by China-FoF

The 2015 China’s Top 10 Venture Fund & The 2015 China’s Top 10 Venture Capital Partner
by Ethercap

The 2013 China’s Top 5 Venture Capital Fund in TMT
by China Venture

The 2013 China’s Top 30 Best Venture Fund
by China Venture

The 2012 China’s Top 50 Best Venture Fund
by China Venture

The 2012 China’s Top 50Best Emerging Private Equity Investment Institution
by China Venture

In the News

2020.02.02

ECC Capital Wins Top 10 Chinese Semiconductor Investment Institutions in 2019

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2020.02.02

Breakthrough in cutting-edge technology, Pensees company’s voiceprint recognition technology to set a new world record

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2020.02.02

Mcfly release four major global strategic layouts and start diversified business development

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Senior Investment Team

Michael LeeFounder and Managing partner

MBA, Stern School of Business, New York University
B.S. in Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China
Mr. Lee is a seasoned venture capitalist with over 20 years of investment and operation experience in China and the U.S.. Mr. Lee started his VC career as managing director at WI Harper Group, a San Francisco–headquartered venture fund that is built on the business model of bridging the Pacific. During his tenure there, Mr. Lee managed over $150 million technology venture capital funds, and successfully led the firm’s investments into business-facing technology startups in China and the U.S., resulted in great investment returns for the firm. Some of his successful investments include Focus Media (Shenzhen GEM: 002027), Xinwei Group (SHEX: 600485), Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), Aicent (Acquired by Synerverse), Celestry (Acquired by Cadence), DivX Networks (Acquired after NASDAQ listing), Verisilicon (IPO soon on China’s Science & Innovation Board), etc.
Earlier, Mr. Lee was president and CFO of Fang.com, a technology banker at Goldman Sachs, as well as a consultant at Fidelity Investments.
Mr. Lee is also the founding director of HYSTA, a non-profit technology and entrepreneurship organization with 30,000 members across the Pacific.

Naxin WangPartner

MSc in Computer Science, the University of California in Santa Babara
B.S. in Computer Science, the University of Science and Technology of China
Mr. Wang is a technologist and a successful serial entrepreneur with over 20 years in technology, startup, and management.
Mr. Wang was a partner at Colony fund, founder and general manager of Dilife digital technology company, chief architect of UT Starcom, and chairman of network TV control group of United Nations Telecommunications Standards Organization. Mr. Wang was an active angel investor in Silicon Valley. His portfolios include Travelely, kyonax, GSR, Initpax, and Mysolar. His successful exits include Lionax and Financial Fusion (acquired by Syabse).

Green LiuPartner

B.S. in Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China
A member of USTC’s Gifted Young Program in class of 1982 (total of 20 students enrolled that year for the whole country)
Mr. Liu was the former head of IDG capital in Shenzhen,responsible for IDG’s investments such as Xunlei (NASDAQ: XNET), GS-solar (Acquired by Hong Kong-listed company), Sunsea Communication (Shenzhen SME: 832432), A8 Music (HKEX: 00800), Klclear Technology (NEEQ: 832432), Dynanovic (Shenzhen GEM: 300769), etc.
Before that, Mr. Liu also served as general manager of Wickmann China and general manager of MeetChina.com, an IDG-backed B2B player in China.
Mr. Liu is mainly responsible for the investment management of the RMB fund of ECC capital.

Technology Advisors

Dr. John Deng

Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, UC Berkeley
MA in Economics and Management, UC Berkley
MS in Physics, UC Berkeley
  • B.S. in Physics,University of Science and Technology of China
  • Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
  • Vice-Chairman of China Association for Science and Technology(CAST)
  • Vice President of all China Youth Federation
  • Founder, President, and CEO of Vimicro Group
  • The General Director of "Starlight National IC/Microchip Research Center of China"
  • Director of State Key Laboratory(SKL)
  • Director of the Center for Design and Development of Vimicro, Tsinghua University
  • Awarded ”the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress“ and "2005 China economic annual people and people of the year award"

Dr. Songchun Zhu

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Harvard University
B.S. in Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China
  • IEEE fellow
  • American Institute of Electrical and Computer
  • President of the International Pattern Recognition Association
  • Vice President of IEEE Computer Society of the United States
  • Winner of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program
  • Director of CSLA Laboratory, UCLA
  • Three times winner of the highest international award in the field of computer vision - Marr Prize, International Aggarwal Award for computer pattern recognition

Dr. Weiwu Hu

Ph.D. in Computer Systems, Institute of Computer Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT)
B.S. in Computer Science ,University of Science and Technology of China
  • General Manager of Loongson Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Chief engineer, researcher, doctoral supervisor, Institute of Computer Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • Successively presided over and completed the first general-purpose computing processor in China, Godson-1, the first 64bit general-purpose processor, Godson-2, the development of the first Quad-Core Processor, Godson-3.
  • Won"The Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievement Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences", "Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award", "First Prize of Teaching Achievement Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences", etc.

Dr. Tao Zhou

Ph.D. in Physics, The University of Fribourg
B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
  • Guest editor or editorial board member of journals such as computer SCI. Tech, J. elect. SCI. Tech, Physics Procedia, responsible for system and complexity science
  • Awarded the first prize of natural science of the Ministry of Education of China
  • One of Elsevier's most internationally influential scientists
  • Selected as“the 2015 Science and Technology Innovation Person” by CCTV
  • The total fair value of big data enterprises founded or Co-founded is over ¥10 billion

Portfolios

Infrastructure Intelligent Platform Applications and Services Others

Computing, Storage, Communication, Sensing, New Material

Vimicro

China's leading technology company of intelligent security solutions

ZGmicro

China's leading Bluetooth chip technology solution company of the IoT

ABAX-Sensing

China's leading company in R & D and production of new generation high-performance lidar sensors

Great-leo Micro

China's leading independent controllable digital signal processing chip design company

Maxic

China's leading LED driver chip and wireless charging chip design company

TBSTest

China's company specializing in R & D, production and sales of large-scale integrated circuits (LSI)test equipment

WaferChina

China's leading company of large-scale epitaxial wafers for Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser(VCSEL) optical equipment in artificial intelligence consumption scenarios

Ccvui

A Chinese company specializing in the design of artificial intelligence chip and supporting intelligent algorithm engine

Xiner

A leading company in the field of Insulated Gate Bipolar (IGBT) Transistor and Intelligent Power Module (IPM) in China

Celestry

A world's leading semiconductor software design (EDA) Company

DivX

One of the top three video decompression technology and service providers in the world

Lionax

A chip design company that develops and produces Micro-electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) sensors for the automobile industry

Veri Silicon

One of the largest semiconductor design service outsourcing companies in China

MC Logic

China's leading storage chip and logic chip company

HX

A famous analog chip manufacturer in China

WinTech Nano-Technology

A testing company providing top-level failure analysis

Lightning

An IC design company serving the application scenarios of intelligent Internet of things(IoT)

Algorithm, Data, Middleware

DMAI

A company providing strong cognitive solutions in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Vitech

One of 10 Top Security chip technology companies in China

Cloudwalk

One of the four top AI companies in China

RAYSEES

A semiconductor light source solution company in the field of consumer photons

Litra

China's leading Optical Phased Array (OPA) solid-state lidar company

Sirsec

A technology and data company that uses computer vision technology to provide full-process services based on smart and secure travel scenarios

iCloudUnion

China’s leading big data technology and service providers.

Fortinet

The world's leading Internet security Unified Threat Management (UTM) #1 company

Aicent

Asia's Leading Mobile Data Exchange Company

Wolong Big Data

 A technology and data service company that provides personal and corporate credit portraits for banks, credit bureaus, and other financial institutions

MC Fly

Artificial Intelligence (AI) service company focusing on remote sensing monitoring and precision agriculture

Klclear

China's leading electric vehicle Battery Management System (BMS) supplier

TT Robot

China's leading industrial robot R & D and production company 

Cowis

 A pioneer company in China's unmanned ship R & D and production

Grindoctor

Machine tool data and intelligent software and hardware solution provider specializing in automotive aerospace

Kebai Sciences

This company focused on R & D and production of intelligent agricultural IoT systems and products

Pensees

AI company that focuses on computer vision and IoT technology and provides integrated industrial application solutions.

Focus Media

China's largest outdoor media company

XUNLEI

The world's leading innovative company in shared computer and blockchain technology

A8 Music

An integrated digital music company

WE+

A leader company in the field of shared-office in China

Tsing-tech Reachway

A company specializing in the construction industry SAAS platform and supply chain finance

Picbling

 A company that provides tools for outreach and workflow management for independent photographers and photo studios

Lekan

Lekan Children's Animation is the only online video website for children in China that closely integrates animation and children's education

SAIHUITONG

Provide professional SaaS system for sports events and outdoor activities in China

Bugtags

Bugtags is a new generation of bug discovery and management tools designed for mobile testing

GS-solar

One of China's largest thin-film solar cell companies

Shellskey

China's leading K12 education cloud platform provider

X-Synced

Artificial Intelligence (AI) information service platform

YSBang

China's leading pharmaceutical B2B trading platform

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Bejing Office

Qiyang Road, suite 1201, Jinhui Tower, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China, 100102

Tel: +86.10.6477.0669-801

Fax: +86.10.6477.0669-802

Shenzhen Office

3 Kehua Road, Suite 506A, Sunmax Technology Park, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China, 518057

Shanghai Office

98 Middle Huaihai Road, 5F, Golden Bell Plaza, Huangpu District, Shanghai, China, 200021

Silicon Valley Office

101 Jefferson Drive, Menlo Park, CA94025 USA

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