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What does Saif Partners invest in?
Saif Partners invests most often at Series A and Series B (61% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Internet+, Tmt and Healthcare.
Saif Partners highlights
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5 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Series B: 61% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 113 rounds, median $5.0M
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10 exits from the portfolio
What they do
SAIF Partners is a leading private equity firm that provides primarily growth capital to companies in ChinaFrom their own website
- Type
- Private equity
- Cheque size
- $10M – $100M as they say
- Stages
- Growth
- Sectors
- Internet+TmtHealthcare
- Based in
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first283 appearances
- 2026
4 rounds
- May
- Apr
- Feb
- Feb
- 2025
8 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Jul
- Jun
- Apr
- Apr
- 2024
2 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- 2023
2 rounds
- Aug
- Jan
- 2022
11 rounds
- Nov
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- 2021
7 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- May
- Feb
- 2020
3 rounds
- May
- Mar
- Mar
- 2019
25 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
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 registration1 named
AYAndrew Y. YanDirector of SAIF IV GP Capital Ltd., the general partner of SAIF IV GP, L.P., the general partner of SAIF Partners IV L.P. Promoter will not be compensated directly from the offering proceeds.iFiling they signed
We also hold 23 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
4+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Saif Partners's funds
- Committed
- $100M
- Funds
- 1
- Vintages
- 2007
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Mar 2026.
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)1 fund$100M
Fund Vintage Committed SAIF Partners III 2007 $100M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 2 we have independently watched raise
SAIF China SAIF AMCSAIF-Eagle Elevation Capital
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.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed10 in all
SpoonJoyBought by GrofersUndisclosedOct 2015
NifflerBought by HelpChatUndisclosedSept 2015
SupersonicBought by ironSourceUndisclosedSept 2015
Qikwell TechnologiesBought by PractoUndisclosedSept 2015
AppiterateBought by FlipkartUndisclosedApr 2015
58.comListedUndisclosedOct 2013
PPTVBought by Suning$400MSept 2013
ixigo.comBought by SAIF PartnersUndisclosedAug 2011
Shanda GamesListedUndisclosedSept 2009
SkyPilot NetworksBought by TrilliantUndisclosedJun 2009
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
Companies it bought
Acquisitions by the firm itself
ixigo.comUndisclosedAug 2011