Qiming Venture Partners and Four Portfolio Founders Named to Cyzone's 2025 Under-40 Investors and Under-35 Entrepreneur Lists

Recently, Cyzone released its annual lists of top investors under 40 and entrepreneurial pioneers under 35 for 2025. The former aims to identify capital allocators active at the forefront of venture investing, riding the wave of innovation; the latter spotlights and inspires a new generation of young founders, capturing the pulse of the era's most vibrant innovation — an important barometer for future business leaders and emerging trends. Qiming Venture Partners and its portfolio companies were honored on the lists.

On the investor list, Shuo Mao, Executive Director at Qiming Venture Partners, was selected.

Shuo Mao, Executive Director at Qiming Venture Partners

Selected for the

2025 40 Under 40 Investors List

On the entrepreneurial pioneers list, four founders from Qiming Venture Partners portfolio companies were selected. Alex Zhou, Managing Partner at Qiming Venture Partners, was invited to serve as an expert judge for the list as a leading institutional investor.

Hao Liu, Co-founder and CTO of Tiangui Technology

Weijie Sun, Founder and CEO of DeepWise

Shuhao Wang, Co-founder and CTO of Touche Future

Zerui Wang, Co-founder, CTO and COO of Cornerstone Robotics

Selected for the

2025 35 Under 35 Entrepreneurial Pioneers List

Selection Criteria

· 40 Under 40 Investors List

Since 2013, Cyzone has published its "40 Under 40 Investors" ranking for 13 consecutive years. This year, Cyzone evaluated nominees across three dimensions — comprehensive influence, investment performance, and exit performance — to select the final honorees.

· 35 Under 35 Entrepreneurial Pioneers List

Cyzone launched its youth entrepreneur ranking in 2011. This year, expert judges evaluated candidates based on their personal trajectories, company growth potential, and other dimensions to finalize the list.

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Young investors are becoming a core force driving high-quality development in the technology sector. With keen market insight and innovative investment logic, they precisely identify promising projects in emerging industries and serve as a key catalyst for upgrading China's technology industry and optimizing its ecosystem. Drawing on deep analysis of technology trends, they concentrate on strategic sectors including intelligent manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine, helping breakthrough technologies mature, accelerating the commercialization of scientific advances, uncovering standout companies, and supporting founders through every stage of growth — enabling China's tech industry to compete on the global stage.

This year's honorees average 37.5 years old; nearly 90% hold master's degrees or higher, including five PhDs; over 70% focus on intelligent manufacturing and over 60% on AI; early and growth stages remain the primary focus for young investors.

This generation of young entrepreneurs is redefining the paradigm of hardcore innovation through action: grounded in top-tier academic training, they target critical pain points such as medical resource scarcity and industrial energy consumption, daring to venture into uncharted frontiers and push cognitive boundaries. They combine engineering thinking with commercial acumen, demonstrating strong ability to bring innovations to market, while always placing social value creation at the core — driving industrial upgrading, resource equity, and sustainable development through technological innovation, becoming a defining force in shaping the future of technology.

The honored young entrepreneurs average 32.2 years old; nearly 80% are founders, with an average entrepreneurial tenure of 5.1 years; 16 hold PhDs, and over 70% graduated with STEM degrees. Their companies average four years since founding, with one-third focused on AI; 50% have reached unicorn or future-unicorn status; average total funding raised is nearly RMB 400 million across four rounds, with 15 companies completing fresh funding rounds in 2025.

Source | Cyzone

Past Highlights

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Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners currently manages 11 USD funds and 7 RMB funds, with total assets under management of $9.5 billion. Since its inception, the firm has focused on investing in outstanding early- and growth-stage companies in the Technology and Healthcare sectors.

To date, Qiming Venture Partners has invested in over 580 high-growth innovative companies, of which more than 210 have listed on the NYSE, NASDAQ, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, Shanghai Stock Exchange, and Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or exited through M&A and other means. Over 80 portfolio companies have become recognized unicorns or super-unicorns.

Many Qiming Venture Partners portfolio companies have grown into the most influential players in their respective fields, including Xiaomi (01810.HK), Meituan (03690.HK), Bilibili (NASDAQ:BILI, 09626.HK), Zhihu (NYSE:ZH, 02390.HK), Roborock (688169.SH), UBTECH (09880.HK), WeRide (NASDAQ:WRD), Insta360 (688775.SH), Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals (603087.SH), Tigermed (300347.SZ, 03347.HK), Zai Lab (NASDAQ:ZLAB, 09688.HK), CanSinoBIO (688185.SH, 06185.HK), Schrödinger (NASDAQ:SDGR), MicroPort EP MedTech (688617.SH), Sanyou Medical (688085.SH), Amoy Diagnostics (300685.SZ), Berry Genomics (000710.SZ), Sinocelltech (688520.SH), Yuanxin Technology, Insilico Medicine, MediLink Therapeutics, LaNova Medicines, Zhipu AI, StepFun, Biren Technology, and others.