Cathay Innovation is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in digital entrepreneurs that is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Denis Barrier and Mingpo Cai. The firm is a subsidiary of Cathay Capital. Cathay Innovation works with several corporate partners which include: Valeo, Cardif, Telefonica, Groupe SEB, Michelin, Total, and Groupe ADP. According to the firms website (as of November 2019), Cathay Innovation has 39 investment professionals and 9 managing partners working for it.
Investments
Cathay Innovation typically makes investments in small and middle-market companies operating in North America, Europe, or China. The firm typically makes investments between $100,000 and $1 million and usually partners with BNP Paribas Cardif to make its investments. Notable investments made by Cathay Innovation include: Pinduoduo, Ledger, Chime, Peak, Glovo, Trifacta, Ontruck, IfChange, Lumi, To Bo Shi, Momenta, Drivy, Kayrros, SXL.CN, Alkemics, Shopal, MagMode, Owkin, Quantifind, FollowAnlaytics, and Meet You.
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Funded Companies
A bank offering online banking services with no user no bank fees, and an option to receive direct deposit up to two days early. Chris Britt and Ryan King founded Chime in 2013, and the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Owkin is a medical treatment and therapeutics company founded by Thomas Clozel. They develop artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to augment and develop medical and biological research.
A company offering business lines of credit.
Terminal builds engineering teams to accelerate companies.
DayTwo provides personalized nutrition and actionable insights for people to maintain normal blood sugar levels based on their microbiome.
Heetch is a France-based company founded by Teddy Pellerin, Mathieu Jacob, Aylic Petit and Nicolas Lapomarda.
Ledger is a company founded by Thomas France, Eric Larcheveque, Nicolas Bacca and Joel Pobeda.
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Denis Barrier
Founder and CEO
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Contributors
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Dawson Sewell
Seeking to explain science and technology through simple writing. - 2
Melanie Manipula
Researcher, writer and a former librarian - 3
Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME - 4
Jude Gomila
Founder and CEO of Golden, Entrepreneur. Investor in 200+ companies. Cantabrigian (Gonville and Caius). Interested in the universe. - 5
Aime Anne Nisay
QA Engineer of web and mobile applications - 6
Henry Ogolla
Passionate about reading and writing. - 7
Mevludin Mešanović
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering - 8
Carla Faraguna
Golden People and Operations.