Zeyi Venture Capital

Zhang Zhenwei, the firm's founder, leads investment decisions. Zeyi operates with a lean partnership structure typical of early-stage China-focused funds, where the founding partner drives sourcing, diligence, and portfolio management without a large investment committee layer.

Zeyi is structured as a third-party asset manager raising capital from external limited partners, not a single family office. The firm runs a traditional venture capital fund model, calling capital from institutional and high-net-worth investors to deploy into seed-stage Chinese technology companies.

Zeyi targets seed-stage companies, writing first institutional checks to founders still in product development or early commercialization. The firm occasionally participates in seed extension rounds for existing portfolio companies but does not lead growth-stage or pre-IPO financings.

The firm concentrates on enterprise technology, industrial automation, and semiconductor-adjacent sectors within China. Zeyi backs companies building productivity tools for Chinese manufacturers and logistics operators, avoiding consumer internet, media, and pure-play e-commerce.

Zeyi sources primarily through university research labs, startup competitions in Shanghai's Yangpu and Zhangjiang innovation districts, and founder networks built from prior investments. The firm's narrow geography and stage focus give it access to pre-institutional rounds that larger Chinese venture platforms structurally cannot competitively price.