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Eminence Ventures
Founded in 2017, Eminence Ventures is a Shanghai-based venture capital firm specialising in early-stage investments in enterprise software and cloud computing.
Eminence Ventures
Founded in 2017, Eminence Ventures is a Shanghai-based venture capital firm specialising in early-stage investments in enterprise software and cloud computing. Eminence Ventures focuses on investments in the areas of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things.
General information
Firm type
Venture Capital
Year founded
2017
Location
Region
Asia
Country
China
City
Shanghai
Corporate office
Shanghai, China
Principals
Peter Zheng
Founding Managing Partner
Simon He
Founding Partner
Laven Luo
Partner
Joy Dai
Managing Director
Jason Liu
Investment Director
Yvette Hu
Investment Director
Emma Wang
CMO
Rachel Zou
Finance Vice President
Eileen Lin
Finance Director
Angela Ma
Operations Director
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
How is Eminence Ventures related to Emergence Capital?
Eminence Ventures operates as Emergence Capital's exclusive China strategic partner, giving it direct access to Emergence's partner meetings, investment frameworks, and portfolio analysis. Emergence is the US-based enterprise-software specialist known for early investments in Salesforce, Zoom, and Veeva. The relationship is not a joint venture or commingled fund; Eminence makes independent investment decisions in China while leveraging Emergence's two decades of pure-play SaaS pattern recognition.
Who runs investment decisions at Eminence Ventures?
Founding managing partner Peter Zheng leads the firm alongside founding partner Simon He. Zheng was formerly a general manager at Tencent's advertising-platform group and co-founder of AdChina, which sold to Alibaba; He also spent 15 years at Tencent, AdChina, and Shanda before co-founding Eminence. Partner Laven Luo drives software-cross-border and enterprise-fintech coverage, while investment directors Jason Liu and Yvette Hu lead AI, embodied AI, and cross-border commerce verticals.
Does Eminence Ventures invest from a single fund or separate vehicles?
Eminence manages dual-currency funds — both US-dollar and RMB-denominated vehicles — enabling it to invest in Chinese companies regardless of their corporate structure. The firm has not publicly disclosed individual fund sizes, describing its total capital base as "several hundred million US dollars" sourced from sovereign wealth funds, university endowments, family offices, and Chinese internet founders.
What is Eminence's known posture on co-investments alongside external GPs?
The firm has not publicly outlined a formal co-investment program, but its Alibaba, Kuaishou, and multi-LP exits suggest it syndicates frequently with strategic corporate investors and other domestic venture firms. Eminence's structure as a dual-currency manager allows it to invite US-dollar LPs into deals alongside RMB-focused Chinese strategic partners, though the exact syndication playbook is not publicly documented.
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