A Summer of Entrepreneurship, Staying Present: Unity Ventures Wins 36Kr Top 10 Early-Stage Investment Firm and Top 10 Most Influential Early-Stage Investment Firm Awards
Multiple Unity Ventures portfolio founders named to 2026 36 Under 36 list
Investing is about finding coordinates while the map is still unclear. Every shift renders some old experience obsolete; only a handful of people manage to keep discovering new paths.
36Kr's "Dark Current Waves" 2026 series of rankings for China's equity investment industry documents the institutions and investors active on the front lines this year. Unity Ventures once again placed in the "Top 10 Early-Stage Investment Institutions in China's Equity Investment Industry" and "Top 10 Most Influential Early-Stage Investment Institutions." Xiao Wang, founder of Unity Ventures, also made the "Top 100 Most Popular Investors Among Entrepreneurs in China" for another consecutive year.
Joining the rankings alongside us are the founders who have journeyed with us to these new coordinates. Among Unity Ventures portfolio companies, Huizhi Hui, founder of Likr Technology; Zheyuan Jiang, founder of Noetix Robotics; and Shunbo Zhou, founder of Ola Dimensions were all selected for the Dark Current Waves 2026 36 Under 36 list.
At the opening roundtable of the Waves conference, Xiao Wang shared his perspective on investment and entrepreneurial cycles. Every historical cycle has been driven by structural change, he noted — but this time it's not merely a single-dimensional technological iteration. It's structural reshaping under the pressure of US-China rivalry.
China's tech entrepreneurship has now entered a new phase. It's no longer about building the Chinese version of an American company. Instead, China is standing on the same starting line as the United States, competing head-to-head in the same domains. However fierce the cyclical winds, the endpoint of business remains echoing users' most fundamental needs. When the froth recedes, what settles is truly outstanding technology companies.
The VC industry is also completely different from a few years ago — the context has changed beyond recognition. As an investment institution, you have to confront brutal cycles head-on, continuously adapt and adjust, and hold fast to what should be held fast to. AI won't replace people, but it will replace jobs. What AI cannot kill is people's innate adaptability amid ruins and new continents — that is the real card for surviving cycles.
The summer of entrepreneurship comes around again and again. Unity Ventures stays in the game.
