Sagamore Investments

Sagamore Investments is an investment firm established in 2002, headquartered in Beijing, China, with additional offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong. The firm specializes in direct investments as well as fund of funds, focusing on venture capital, growth capital, and late-stage private equity. It primarily targets high-growth sectors aligned with China's consumption upgrade, including fintech, healthcare, artificial intelligence, and education. Sagamore Investments typically seeks to take a majority stake in its direct investments, emphasizing its commitment to fostering growth in these dynamic industries within China.

Peter Brooks

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Liang Shi

Director

6 past transactions

Neat

Series A in 2020
Neat Limited, founded in 2015 and based in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, operates a financial application that enables users to open mobile current accounts. The company provides a prepaid MasterCard known as the Neat Card, which facilitates payments in multiple currencies at various merchants globally. Neat offers tailored products for businesses, including dedicated Hong Kong bank account numbers, an online finance management dashboard, and expense cards for employees. For personal users, Neat provides mobile current accounts, ATM cards, and online money transfer capabilities. Designed with entrepreneurs in mind, Neat aims to offer a modern alternative to traditional banking, addressing the needs of a globalized economy and supporting seamless international business transactions.

Neat

Venture Round in 2018
Neat Limited, founded in 2015 and based in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, operates a financial application that enables users to open mobile current accounts. The company provides a prepaid MasterCard known as the Neat Card, which facilitates payments in multiple currencies at various merchants globally. Neat offers tailored products for businesses, including dedicated Hong Kong bank account numbers, an online finance management dashboard, and expense cards for employees. For personal users, Neat provides mobile current accounts, ATM cards, and online money transfer capabilities. Designed with entrepreneurs in mind, Neat aims to offer a modern alternative to traditional banking, addressing the needs of a globalized economy and supporting seamless international business transactions.

Stealth BioTherapeutics

Convertible Note in 2018
Stealth BioTherapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies targeting diseases linked to mitochondrial dysfunction. Founded in 2006 and based in George Town, Cayman Islands, the company is advancing its lead product candidate, Elamipretide, which aims to address both rare genetic and age-related mitochondrial diseases. Additionally, Stealth BioTherapeutics is developing SBT-20, a small peptide that stabilizes mitochondrial structure and function during oxidative stress, and SBT-272, a compound under evaluation for rare neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Mitochondria play a crucial role in energy production and overall organ function, making the company's focus on these organelles significant in the biopharmaceutical landscape.

Wecash

Series D in 2018
Wecash, founded in October 2013, is a fintech company that is transforming the financial interactions of consumers globally. With a user base exceeding 160 million, Wecash has developed a credit assessment platform that utilizes data mining and machine learning algorithms. This platform allows users to submit their information through a mobile app and receive a credit evaluation within three minutes. By providing timely credit assessments, Wecash enables users to access a range of services, including capital borrowing and lending, as well as rentals for cars and houses, and opportunities for travel and education. The company aims to enhance the digital banking, spending, and saving experiences in markets such as Europe, Brazil, and Southeast Asia.

Momenta

Series A in 2016
Momenta is an autonomous driving startup operating out of Beijing. Its deep-learning-based software in perception, HD semantic mapping, and data-driven path planning enables the realization of full autonomy. Momenta offer multi-level autonomous driving solutions as well as big data products and services. Momenta’s team is composed of experts in computer vision and deep learning, including one of the authors of Faster R-CNN and ResNet, the most popular deep learning network, as well as winners of ImageNet 2015, MS COCO Challenge 2015, and ImageNet 2017. The company is leading the autonomous driving software space with advanced technical competence and a strong commitment to innovation.

Accion

Venture Round in 2012
Accion, established in 1961, is a global non-profit organization headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its mission is to provide access to financial tools and services for underserved individuals, small businesses, and communities, enabling them to grow and thrive. Accion achieves this by catalyzing financial service providers to deliver affordable, high-quality solutions at scale. The organization supports these providers through advisory services, targeted coaching, and startup support, as well as providing high-caliber governance through board oversight. Additionally, Accion invests in and supports innovative fintech startups that drive financial inclusion through its Venture Lab initiative. This involves providing flexible financial and non-financial support, including investment capital and strategic operational assistance, to seed-stage startups leveraging technology and new business models to improve access to, and the quality of, financial services for the underserved.
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