Cathay Innovation
Investment Details
Investor Type
Venture Capital
Asset Class Focus
Venture Capital
Stage Focus
Seed, Early Stage, Growth, Series A, Series B, Late Stage, Pre-IPO
Geographical Focus
United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Singapore, China, India, Brazil, France, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Mexico, South Korea, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Taiwan
Industries Focus
- Financial Services
- Technology
- Healthcare
- Energy
- Consumer Goods
- Real Estate
- Media
- Retail
- Education
- HealthTech
- EdTech
- FinTech
- E-commerce
- Logistics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Digital Health
- Entertainment
- Agtech
- Mobility
- Enterprise Software
- Food
- Security
- Consumer Tech
- Marketing
- Digital Healthcare
Investment Size:
5,000,000 to 100,000,000 USD
Investor Details Founded: 2015
Cathay Innovation is a multistage venture capital firm affiliated with Cathay Capital, investing in founders building transformative businesses across Europe, North America, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. The firm connects entrepreneurs with investors and a network of leading Fortune 500 corporations to help startups scale and transform industries with consumer-to-enterprise and AI solutions in commerce, fintech, digital health, and mobility/energy. Founded in Paris in 2015, Cathay Innovation now manages over €2.5 billion in assets under management with offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Madrid, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm has invested in over 120 startups, including Chime, Pinduoduo, Glovo, Wallbox, Owkin, Getaround, Ledger, ZenBusiness, Alma, and Descartes Underwriting.
In May 2025, Cathay Innovation closed its third venture capital fund at $1 billion, marking it as the largest AI-dedicated fund out of the European Union. The fund focuses on vertical AI solutions in four key sectors: digital health, fintech, consumer, and mobility/energy. To date, the fund has made 14 investments, with half of them based in Europe. The firm was named the largest French private VC investor per capital deployed into local startups in 2024.
Cathay Innovation's investment strategy emphasizes creating durable relationships with the industrial European ecosystem while maintaining strong bonds with international innovation hubs such as China and the U.S. This approach aims to connect emerging startups to real-world industry leaders looking to transform through cutting-edge innovation. The firm's platform unifies technology investment across continents, investors, entrepreneurs, and leading corporations to accelerate startup growth with access to new markets, invaluable industry knowledge, and introductions to potential partners from the start.
Requirements
- Entrepreneurial vision
- Technological innovation
- Scalability
- Sustainability
- Global market potential
- High-growth companies utilizing AI to advance industries in ways that are locally grounded, globally scalable, and socially positive.
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Portfolio Companies
- Pinduoduo
- Chime
- KaiOS
- Momenta
- Kayrros
- Glovo
- Ledger
- Lumi
- OnTruck
- Owkin
- Trifacta
- Wallbox
- Getaround
- ZenBusiness
- Alma
- Descartes Underwriting
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