Gene Capital

Gene Capital is a venture capital fund founded by Cao Yundong, co-founder of TAL Education Group, in 2014. Their management team consists of successful entrepreneurs and highly experienced investors. They are committed to seeking excellent genes to assist the education industry and startups in the TMT sector to make great dreams come true. Gene Capital aims to help entrepreneurs who are passionate about entrepreneurship, have a deep understanding and acute awareness of the industry’s development trends, and utilize their investment concept to make their dreams come true. Their investment philosophy is to focus on entrepreneurial genes: Excellent entrepreneurial teams have excellent entrepreneurial genes, which are the core factors for long-term business development.

Cao, Yundong

Managing Partner

19 past transactions

Delta Service Location

Venture Round in 2021
Delta Service Location is a provider of pumping and temporary energy equipment.

Fengbao ASO

Series A in 2019
Fengbao ASO is a data analysis platform that provide mobile application developers with marketing services.

Ke Hou Sandianban

Series A in 2019
Ke Hou Sandianban develops K12-quality course content and provides after-school services to kindergartens, elementary schools, junior high schools, and training institutions in order to help children grow in a way that is unique to them. They offer a variety of courses.

Xizi Education

Seed Round in 2019
Xizhi Education (Beijing Xizi Education Technology Co., Ltd.) is a leading enterprise in artificial intelligence empowerment education. The headquarters is located in Zhizhi Street, Zhongguancun, which is known as the “China Silicon Valley”. As one of the key incubators of Tsinghua University, from the aspects of policy, capital and talents, it has been strongly supported by Tsinghua's three innovation and entrepreneurship platforms iCenter, Chuang+ and xlab, and won the honor of Zhongguancun High-tech Enterprise.

AI Conservatory

Seed Round in 2019
The AI ​​Conservatory of Music is affiliated to Beijing Yinyue Poet Technology Co., Ltd., and is born to a group of people who love music and dream of music! Innovative applications dedicated to intelligent interactive, digital online music teaching.

OnlyHi

Series B in 2018
Online one-to-one education platform targeting K12 students based in Shanghai.

shuxuebang.com

Series B in 2018
shuxuebang.com provides an integrated teaching, research, and development program with dual drive courses for primary and high school. They also provide training and online consulting services.

Chengzhangbao

Series B in 2018
Chengzhangbao is a Shanghai-based online quality-oriented education platform targeting K12 students. It provides online courses for children to improve language logic, mathematical logic, memory and attentiveness.

OnlyHi

Series A in 2018
Online one-to-one education platform targeting K12 students based in Shanghai.

Haoyunbang

Series B in 2017
Haoyunbang is a one-stop medical resource center created to offer fertility care to women. The company develops mobile applications and runs actual clinics to offer patients individualized prenatal guidance and counseling, helping women manage their pregnancies more conveniently while obtaining professional care.

Jiliguala

Series A in 2016
Jiliguala was founded in 2014 by Cathy Hsu and Tony Hsieh when they decided to quit their jobs at Google, take a leap of faith and pursue a future combining education and technology. With over 6 million users to date, it has been an exciting and busy few years! Head office is based in Shanghai, China, amongst the hustle and bustle of an incredible city. Their office is located in a reclaimed art/work space on the Suzhou creek - don’t be shy to drop by next time you’re in the neighbourhood. Their passion? Educating impressionable youth on the English language! They work relentlessly on their very own, self developed app which has an integrated teaching program and online classroom. They are proud to provide a platform which both teachers and kids love. Each lesson is interactive: designed to keep kids interested and involved. Each lesson is already pre-planned: designed so no lesson prep is required, making it easy for teachers to fit lessons into their schedule seamlessly. Students are based in every corner of China and via the wonder of the internet - they pop into students’ homes evenings and weekends to say hi, play games, and tutor kids in learning English.

Mignshi Jiaoyu

Series A in 2016
Mignshi Jiaoyu is a platform at the forefront of online education services. It offers a diverse range of educational services to cater to various needs, from primary to high school online services. Through innovative digital tools and a user-friendly interface, Mignshi Jiaoyu empowers students with accessible and quality education, committed to transforming learning experiences.

BabyBus

Series B in 2015
BabyBus is a developer of educational applications for preschool children. It has already developed more than 70 applications, which cover three major platforms that are IOS, Android and WP, and supports ten different languages such as Korean, German, Italian, English, French, Arabic, Russian, Japanese, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese. By combining the main concepts of early childhood education for children of different ages, BabyBus has focused on the age groups of 0-3 and 3-6.

Mignshi Jiaoyu

Angel Round in 2015
Mignshi Jiaoyu is a platform at the forefront of online education services. It offers a diverse range of educational services to cater to various needs, from primary to high school online services. Through innovative digital tools and a user-friendly interface, Mignshi Jiaoyu empowers students with accessible and quality education, committed to transforming learning experiences.

Haoyunbang

Series A in 2015
Haoyunbang is a one-stop medical resource center created to offer fertility care to women. The company develops mobile applications and runs actual clinics to offer patients individualized prenatal guidance and counseling, helping women manage their pregnancies more conveniently while obtaining professional care.

lexue.com

Series A in 2015
Lexue.com is a technology-based education company. They promote education among students by offering live and video courses, quality teaching materials, and teaching methods that benefit candidates. They provide available online education courses.

Yijiayou

Series A in 2015
Yijiayou is a data operation that provides empowerment to energy retail enterprises. They committed to bringing together domestic energy retail companies in order to create a complete ecology of the internet and new energy retail, it implements the data operation business strategy, the construction of new infrastructure for the new energy industry. It offers service gas stations and other energy scene clusters that can reduce costs and increase efficiency by utilising the platform to realise data closed-loop operation.

Zhenpin.com

Series A in 2015
Zhenpin.com is a shopping application. They are the industry that cooperates with insurance companies to guarantee each item. They sell luxury clothing, bags, footwear, and accessories.

lexue.com

Angel Round in 2014
Lexue.com is a technology-based education company. They promote education among students by offering live and video courses, quality teaching materials, and teaching methods that benefit candidates. They provide available online education courses.
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