Gobi Partners

VC · Shanghai (China)

VC

Pre-Seed

Seed

AI

Cloud/SaaS

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Gobi Partners is one of the first venture capital firms with a regional presence across China, Hong Kong, and ASEAN with over US$1.1 billion in assets under management (AUM). The firm, headquartered in Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur, supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets., Gobi Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, startups, seed stage to Series C, early to growth stage investments in the Fintech sector. The firm focuses on emerging and underserved markets. It does not invest in the news sector. The firm prefers to invest in the media sector with a focus on telecommunications, entertainment, fashion, F&B, network lending, digital media, corporate services especially enterprise applications, enterprise cloud services, and consumer-related media. It seeks to invest in information technology, deep technology, hard and core technology, e-commerce, fintech, TaqwaTech, technology, sharing economy and artificial intelligence sectors. The firm invests in agriculture sectors including agricultural technology. It seeks to invest in mobile internet with a focus on applications, online-to-offline, and games, especially in online speech, online travel, virtual tourism, cloud computing and social-based. The firm also seeks to invest in automobiles, consumer upgrade, finance and education sectors. It prefers to invest in companies based in Asia, Africa, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Middle East, and the Southeast Asia region. The firm typically invests between $0.5 million to $20 million. Gobi Partners was founded on August 27, 2002 and is based in Shanghai, China with an additional office in Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; Tianjin, China; Singapore; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bangkok, Thailand; Manila, Philippines; and Jakarta, Indonesia. Gobi China is based in China.

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