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What does 5Y Capital invest in?
5Y Capital invests most often at Venture and Series A (57% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Women's, Immigrant (1st Or 2nd Generation) and People Of Color.
5Y Capital highlights
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24 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Venture and Series A: 57% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 15 rounds, median $3.0M
What they do
5Y Capital identifies truly scarce entrepreneurs through wide-angle exploration and deep research, uncovering and realizing their distinctive talents.Translated from Chinese, from their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $5.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- Women'sImmigrant (1st Or 2nd Generation)People Of Color
- Based in
- Xuhui, China
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first126 appearances
- 2026
17 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2025
25 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Dec
- Dec
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
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- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
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- Jul
- May
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration5 named
CRClaris RuwendeDirectoriFiling they signed
GCGerald ChanDirectoriForm ADV
JSJianming ShiDirectoriForm ADV
QLQin LiuDirectoriFiling they signed
RNRiyaz NooruddinDirectoriFiling they signed
We also hold 12 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$6.1Bgross assets of its funds, 2 advisers combinedOct 2026
3+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Morningside Venture Capital Limited
- SEC number
- CRD 163894
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
13 of 41 we have independently watched raise
BigoMusical.lyUCWebXiaopeng元象XVERSE商汤科技 (0020.HK)地平线 (9660.HK)小米集团 (1810.HK）微医集团思派健康 (0314.HK)滴普科技神策数据脉脉HalaraKeep (3650.HK)MoodyPingCAPSandwichLabSoul云豹智能分众传媒 (002027.SZ)太美医疗科技 (02576.HK)好特卖小冰快手（1024.HK）拓竹科技数坤科技晶泰科技 (2228.HK)松灵机器人沪ICP备2020028640号沪公网安备31010402334508号海柔创新滴滴瀚博半导体艾博生物芯耀辉行云集团超参数科技金山办公 (688111.SH)银河航天零食很忙
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.