About Ferry Venture Capital
Ferry Venture Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2010. It is primarily based out of Shanghai, China. As of Feb 2022, Ferry Venture Capital has invested in 48 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in China based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Consumer. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series B round of TacSense Overall, Ferry Venture Capital portfolio has seen 1 unicorn and 2 IPOs, namely Souche, RobotPhoenix and ZZSS Zhishang. A lot of funds co-invest with Ferry Venture Capital, with names like 5Y Capital sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Ferry Venture Capital has team of 6 people including 5 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Series A, Series B & 2 more
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Unicorns
Ferry Venture Capital's List of Top Investments
Ferry Venture Capital has a portfolio of 48 companies, one of which is a Unicorn. Their most notable investments are in ZSFab and zsfucai.Their portfolio spans across China, United States and Singapore. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Consumer and 24 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Series B and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by Ferry Venture Capital:1. Zapya
Zapya is the provider of a file transfer platform. Its features include device shake to connect, bulk transfer of apps, videos, photos, music and files across multiple devices and platforms like Windows, Mac and Android devices. Its app is available across both Android and iOS platforms.
Key facts about Zapya
- Founded Year: 2011
- Location: Palo Alto (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $26M
- Employee Count: 15 as on Apr 30, 2026
- Investors: TSVC, InnoSpring and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jun 05, 2014, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Souche
Souche is an O2O-based used car transaction platform. Based on the buyer's specification of the price range, model, etc, suitable cars are listed with their detailed information. Once the buyer picks the car, Souche provides a professional examination and the buyer can observe the car in its consignment facility. It helps the buyer and seller bargain online to make a deal and also provides after-sale services.
Key facts about Souche
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3. RobotPhoenix
RobotPhoenix (Chinese name Jinan Wing Fei Automation Technology) develops robotic solutions for industrial applications. Its offering includes fast wing robot that comes with features like visual recognition and conveyor belt tracking and claims to accurately track the speed of the conveyor belt in the fast pipeline operation, recognize the position, color, shape, and size of the object through visual intelligence. Use cases are in the areas of packing, sorting, arranging, among others. In addition, the company offers machine controller for the above-mentioned robot. The target market includes food and beverages, pharmaceutical, chemical, 3C, to name a few.
Key facts about RobotPhoenix
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Jinan (China)
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $14.2M
- Employee Count: 8 as on Apr 30, 2026
- Investors: Shanghai Ivy Capital, Primavera and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Mar 14, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Public
Provider of AI and OCR-based text analytics and translation software. It uses computer vision, natural language processing, text segmentation algorithms and OCR technology to analyse, grammatically correct and translate data and text in business documents, forms, reports, rotated and legal documents.
Key facts about Shanghai Mita Network Technology
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Chaoyang (China)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $13.9M
- Employee Count: 21 as on Apr 30, 2026
- Investors: Amino Capital, Future Capital and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Aug 09, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Provider of non-volatile memory devices. Its product portfolio includes flash memories, sensors, microcontrollers, and power ICs. It caters to automotive, electronics, IoT, telecommunication, and IT industries.
Key facts about GigaDevice Semiconductors
Ferry Venture Capital's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Ferry Venture Capital has invested in 48 companies over the last 13 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in TacSense and most recent follow-on round was in SMARTBOW.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2021 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
2018 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Ferry Venture Capital's Investments by Stage
Ferry Venture Capital has made 10 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $4.64M, 2 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $11.8M, 1 investment in Angel stage with an average round size of $488K and 1 investment in Seed stage.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 10 |
Series B | 2 |
Angel | 1 |
Seed | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Ferry Venture Capital's Investments by Sector
Ferry Venture Capital has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Consumer, High Tech, Retail, Auto and Enterprise Applications. Notably, it has invested in 31 Tech companies, 24 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 15 Software companies and at least 13 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Consumer | 4 |
High Tech | 4 |
Retail | 3 |
Auto | 2 |
Enterprise Applications | 2 |
Others | 13 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Ferry Venture Capital's Investments by Geography
Ferry Venture Capital has made most investments in China (12), followed by United States where it has made 2 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
China | 12 |
United States | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Ferry Venture Capital's recent investments
Ferry Venture Capital has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Ferry Venture Capital:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Feb 24, 2022 | China | Series B | 4519 | [+2] | |
Oct 07, 2021 | United States | Series A | 3616 | [+3] | |
Sep 23, 2021 | United States | Seed | 2692 | ||
May 26, 2021 | China | Series A | 2092 | - | |
May 12, 2021 | China | Series A | 3633 | - |
Unicorns in Ferry Venture Capital's Portfolio
Ferry Venture Capital has 1 unicorn in its portfolio - Souche. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Souche which became a unicorn in 2017, 4 years after Ferry Venture Capital first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in Ferry Venture Capital's portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
54 | O2O-based used car transaction platform | 2012 | Hangzhou | Series F | zahdkfs |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Ferry Venture Capital's Portfolio
2 of Ferry Venture Capital's portfolio companies have become public. RobotPhoenix got listed on the Hong Kong Exchanges (HKG), in May 2026 at marketcap of $955M and ZZSS Zhishang got listed on the Hong Kong Exchanges (HKG) at marketcap of $841M.Here are Ferry Venture Capital's portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
May 18, 2026 | - | - | 5089 | |
May 27, 2024 | - | - | 9023 |
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Team profile of Ferry Venture Capital
Ferry Venture Capital has a team of 6 members including 5 Partners located in China. Ferry Venture Capital's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of all team members in Ferry Venture Capital:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | China | - | ||
Partner | China | - | ||
Partner | Beijing | - | ||
Partner | Hong Kong | - | ||
Partner | - | - |
Co-investors of Ferry Venture Capital
Over the past 13 years, 59 investors have co-invested in Ferry Venture Capital's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Ferry Venture Capital: Zijiang, Chenhui Ventures and 14 others have invested in rounds before Ferry Venture Capital. There is 1 company where Zijiang has invested before Ferry Venture Capital and 1 company where Chenhui Ventures has invested before Ferry Venture Capital.
- Top Co-investors of Ferry Venture Capital: 11 investors entered a company along with Ferry Venture Capital. These include investors like 5Y Capital (1 company).
- Invested after Ferry Venture Capital: A total of 32 investors have invested in Ferry Venture Capital's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Sequoia Capital China (1 company), ClearVue Partners (1 company) and Warburg Pincus (1 company).
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