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HongShan

Venture capital firm · Founded 2005 · Active in 2026

HongShan is a venture capital firm based in China, founded in 2005. The page below shows 159 Power Law outcomes from HongShan's portfolio — 143 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 4 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Transportation · Fintech · AI; top portfolio geographies are China · USA · Hong Kong. HongShan ranks #45 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

159 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #45 · Global · 159 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 23% 5y
143
Decacorns → 0% 5y
20
Thoroughbreds ↑ 41% 5y
73
01 · Exits

HongShan’s biggest exits.

HongShan portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $49.6B
$39.8B IPO · 2025
Entered Series ANow $44.0B
IPO · 2014
Now $28.6B
$24.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $6.0B
$676M IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $22.0B
$2.1B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $15.1B
IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $14.6B
$8.4B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $13.0B
$6.4B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $12.9B
$12.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $5.9B
$250M IPO · 2016
Now $12.1B
$9.5B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series B+
$4.5B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $7.2B
$3.0B IPO · 2022
Entered Series B+Now $6.6B
$6.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $331M
$6.6B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $6.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $5.9B
$5.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.5B
Cloopen
$5.1B IPO · 2021
Now $163M
$4.8B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $4.8B
$3.5B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $4.5B

+24 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 159 HongShan Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. China120
  2. USA15
  3. Hong Kong9
  4. Singapore5
  5. Germany2
  6. Australia2
  7. South Korea2
  8. Nigeria1
  9. UK1
  10. Seychelles1
  11. Indonesia1
By sectorCount
  1. Transportation27
  2. Fintech18
  3. AI18
  4. eCommerce & Marketplaces17
  5. Other16
  6. Biotech & Life Sciences13
  7. Robotics11
  8. Other B2B Software10
  9. Edtech8
  10. Health Tech & Medtech7
  11. Food5
  12. Marketing3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+119
  2. Series A21
  3. Seed5
Estimated holdings

HongShan’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of HongShan’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 19 companies where HongShan is a named shareholder, worth about $67.2B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 ByteDanceTelecom · Centicorn 10% $550B $55.0B
  2. 2 SHEINFashion · Decacorn 14% $40.0B $5.6B
  3. 3 RedNoteMedia · Decacorn 6% $31.0B $1.9B
  4. 4 Genki ForestFood · Decacorn 8.5% $15.0B $1.3B
  5. 5 ZuoyebangEducation · Decacorn 9.5% $10.0B $950M
  6. 6 AirwallexFintech · Unicorn 9.5% $8.0B $760M
  7. 7 15.8% $2.3B $368M
  8. 8 4% $7.0B $280M
  9. 9 11.5% $1.6B $184M
  10. 10 10.5% $1.5B $158M
  11. 11 9.5% $1.5B $142M
  12. 12 9% $1.5B $135M

Showing the 12 largest of 19 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = HongShan’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. HongShan also appears inside investor groups in Amber Group, CertiK, Genspark, Guazi, HeyTea, JollyChic, Klook, LaLaMove and 9 more, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

04 · Portfolio market map

HongShan's 159 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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159 of 159 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does HongShan stack up?

HongShan in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where HongShan's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

219 founders across the 159 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Tsinghua University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
China148
United States16
United Kingdom8
Hong Kong6
Germany4
Australia3
New Zealand1
Taiwan1
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UniversityCount
Tsinghua University14
Stanford University9
Peking University5
Tongji University4
Shanghai Jiaotong University4
The Chinese University of Hong Kong3
Zhejiang University3
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business3
The University of Chicago3
Carnegie Mellon University3
+67 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft14
Baidu10
Alphabet | Google10
Yahoo!5
Tencent5
SAP4
Alibaba3
Mollie3
Amazon3
ByteDance3
+32 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about HongShan

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about HongShan on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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Latest news about HongShan

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