China Merchants China Direct Investments Limited

China Merchants China Direct Investments Limited is a fund that appears in elsewhere's corpus primarily as an investor in Moonshot AI, the Chinese large-model startup founded by Tsinghua researcher Zhilin Yang. Per reporting by 十字路口Crossing and 暗涌Waves from mid-2024, it joined a roster of backers across Moonshot's four funding rounds that also included Sequoia China, ZhenFund, Meituan Longzhu, BlueRun Ventures, Alibaba, Xiaohongshu, Tencent and Gaorong Capital, among others . Alibaba's participation in a more than $1 billion A+ round drew particular market attention at the time .

elsewhere's corpus does not contain dedicated coverage of the fund's own founding date, AUM, strategy or team. The only other entity it is linked to in the retrieved material is Moonshot AI.