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About Edge ventures
Edge ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. It is primarily based out of Shanghai, China. As of Oct 2025, Edge ventures is an active investor, having invested in 53 companies, with 1 new investment in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in China based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from High Tech to EdTech and Enterprise Applications. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of HENG MICRO Overall, Edge ventures portfolio has seen 1 unicorn, namely Dianping. A lot of funds co-invest with Edge ventures, with names like Steppe Capital sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Edge ventures has team of 11 people including 3 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 3 more
Portfolio Unicorns
Portfolio Soonicorns
Deals in last 12 months
Edge ventures' List of Top Investments
Edge ventures has a portfolio of 53 companies, one of which is a Unicorn. Their most notable investments are in Miaoky and Beijing Fanxing Medical Technology.Their portfolio spans across China, United States, France and 1 more locations. They have invested in High Tech, EdTech, Enterprise Applications and 21 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 3 more. Here is the list of top investments by Edge ventures:
1. ORCA-TECH
Manufacturer of autonomous surface vessels for water cleaning and maintenance. These unmanned boats perform surface debris collection, aquatic plant harvesting, and water quality monitoring. The vessels utilize autonomous navigation technology to operate across various water environments. Additional offerings include platforms for water surface cruising and inspection tasks. These systems provide automated support for water management and maintenance operations.
Key facts about ORCA-TECH
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Xi An (China)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $50.3M
- Employee Count: 23 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Plug and Play Tech Center, Gobi Partners and 12 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Mar 10, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Key facts about Dreame Technology
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Suzhou (China)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $578M
- Employee Count: 1,080 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Yunfeng Capital, GEIM Invest and 16 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Oct 20, 2021, $*****
3. Dianping
Group buying discount deals platform. The platform lists deals in multiple categories including restaurants, travel. beauty, medical & health, cars, pets, and more.
Key facts about Dianping
- Founded Year: 2003
- Location: Shanghai (China)
- Stage: Series E
- Total Funding till date: $4.34B
- Employee Count: 200 - 499 as on Mar 01, 2026
- Investors: Rotating Boulder Fund, Temasek and 34 Others
- Latest Funding Round: PE, Jan 19, 2016, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Stardust
Stardust is a cloud-based training data as a service platform. Its annotation tools are available for multiple applications including picture selection, text theme, text recognition, audio classification, face recognition, and voice translation. It also offers a data labeling service for machine learning modeling and artificial intelligence applications. The design concept of the tagging system is taken by Google and Baidu. It also allows users to submit the data in the form of text/images/audio/video or project data. Partners include Google, CircleUp, Baidu, DeepMind, and Tsinghua University.
Key facts about Stardust
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Beijing (China)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $1.56M
- Employee Count: 26 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Shuimu Tsinghua Alumni Seed Fund, Chuangshi Capital and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jun 13, 2018, $*****
5. Wuta Camera
WutaCam is a photo editing platform for skin makeup. Users can add the photos from the devices and edit them using skin smoothening effects. It provides the beauty enhancement features including coin eye, high nose, slap face, white teeth, eyeliner, eyebrows, eyelashes, lipstick, blush, etc. It allows users to add the stickers, text & date watermark, facial makeup effects, beauty effects to the photos. Available for Windows and Android devices.
Key facts about Wuta Camera
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Shanghai (China)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $51.8M
- Investors: Weibo and Edge ventures
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jan 2019, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Edge ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Edge ventures has invested in 53 companies over the last 10 years, with an average of 2 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 1 investment. Its most recent first time investment was in HENG MICRO and most recent follow-on round was in Shenzhen Rui Sheng Medical Technology.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2022 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2021 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2018 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Edge ventures' Investments by Stage
Edge ventures has made 9 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.54M, 6 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $6.62M, 2 investments in Angel stage, 2 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $14.6M and 1 investment in Unattributed stage.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 9 |
Series A | 6 |
Angel | 2 |
Series B | 2 |
Unattributed | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Edge ventures' Investments by Sector
Edge ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the High Tech, Consumer, Consumer Goods, Enterprise Applications and Food and Agriculture. Notably, it has invested in 24 Tech companies, 21 Consumer (B2C) companies, 11 Enterprise (B2B) companies and at least 9 companies focusing on Software.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
High Tech | 4 |
Consumer | 3 |
Consumer Goods | 3 |
Enterprise Applications | 2 |
Food and Agriculture | 2 |
Others | 25 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Edge ventures' Investments by Geography
Edge ventures has made most investments in China (17), followed by France where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
China | 17 |
France | 1 |
Japan | 1 |
United States | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Edge ventures' recent investments
Edge ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Edge ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Oct 16, 2025 | China | Seed | 4599 | ||
Jun 26, 2024 | China | Angel | 4062 | - | |
Jul 18, 2022 | France | Series A | 4881 | [+3] | |
May 10, 2022 | China | Series A | 4284 | [+1] | |
Apr 25, 2022 | China | Angel | 9359 | - |
Unicorns in Edge ventures' Portfolio
Edge ventures has 1 unicorn in its portfolio - Dianping. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Dianping which became a unicorn in 2015, 11 years before Edge ventures first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in Edge ventures' portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
53 | Group buying discount deals platform | 2003 | - | Shanghai | Series E | toolgzl |
Team profile of Edge ventures
Edge ventures has a team of 11 members including 3 Partners and 1 Principal located in China and United States. Edge ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of top team members in Edge ventures:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | - | - | ||
Partner | New York City | - | ||
Partner | - | - | - | |
Principal | China | - | - |
Co-investors of Edge ventures
Over the past 10 years, 53 investors have co-invested in Edge ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Edge ventures: Plug and Play Tech Center, Brizan Ventures and 10 others have invested in rounds before Edge ventures. There is 1 company where Plug and Play Tech Center has invested before Edge ventures and 1 company where Brizan Ventures has invested before Edge ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Edge ventures: 18 investors entered a company along with Edge ventures. These include investors like Steppe Capital (2 companies).
- Invested after Edge ventures: A total of 23 investors have invested in Edge ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Gobi Partners (1 company), Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund (1 company) and Skyview Fund (1 company).
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