Founded in 2012, Sailing Capital (“Sailing”) is the first major private equity fund on the global stage with its initial capital raised domestically in Chinese Yuan (RMB). Sailing was initiated by Shanghai International Group (SIG) mainly for investment overseas.

Their LPs include some of the most successful and influential companies in China.

Their underlying fund size is currently set to reach RMB 50 billion (US$ 8 billion) and They have successfully completed Their first round of fundraising of RMB 12 billion (US$ 1.9 billion).

Sailing engages in direct investment and intends to establish industry-specific or geography-specific sub-funds to manage jointly with the key co-investor(s) in each.


Sailing’s commitments can take the form of equity, equity-linked, mezzanine and/or debt capital contributed on a full acquisition, majority or minority basis.


Sailing enjoys the flexibility to invest in a wide range of geographies and industry sectors.


Their multinational and experienced team possesses a variety of backgrounds in and outside of China, including Wall Street’s bulge bracket, the international legal community, blue chip conglomerates and the Big Four accountancies.

Sailing Capital

Impossible Foods raised $300000000 on 2019-05-13 in Series E

Impossible Foods Inc. develops and produces meats and cheeses. It recreates meats and dairy products, such as pork and meat burger from greens, seeds, and grains. The company sells its products through restaurants and online in the United States. The company was formerly known as Maraxi, Inc. and changed its name to Impossible Foods Inc. in May 2014. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Impossible Foods

ChipON raised an undisclosed amount on 2021-12-28 in Series C

ChipON

SenseTime raised $410000000 on 2017-07-11 in Series B

SenseTime develops face recognition technology that can be applied to payment and picture analysis, which could be used, for instance, on bank card verification and security systems.  Ranked fifth in China Money Network's China AI Top 10 Ranking in 2017, SenseTime currently provides its face recognition technology to over 300 companies including China Mobile Communication Co, China UnionPay, Huawei Technologies Co., Xiaomi, and JD.com.

Founded in 2014, SenseTime says its face recognition technology has an error rate below one in 100,000. It also provides text, vehicle, and image recognition to mobile Internet companies, financial services, and security companies.

SenseTime

Coursera raised $64000000 on 2017-06-07 in Series D

Coursera is an online education company that serves over 20 million registered learners by partnering with 140 of the world’s best universities and education institutions. On Coursera, anyone, anywhere can access over 1,000 online courses and Specializations in dozens of fields in order to achieve meaningful career, educational, and personal enrichment goals throughout their lives.

The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Coursera

Impossible Foods raised $114000000 on 2018-04-03 in Convertible Note

Alphaeon raised $80060118 on 2015-11-20 in Series B

ALPHAEON Corporation develops beauty, wellness, and lifestyle products for customers in the United States and internationally. It offers nutritional supplements that include Omega-3 supplements for skin wellness; beauty products for improving the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, dull and dry skin, and thinning eyelashes; and PRN Omega-3 products for eye health. The company also provides plastic surgery, ophthalmology, and dermatology financing services. It offers its products online. ALPHAEON Corporation was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Irvine, California.

ALPHAEON Corporation

DMAI raised $72080384 on 2020-01-28 in Series A

DMAI (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. provides a cognitive artificial intelligence platform to realize machine-to-human communication and collaboration. The company's artificial intelligence technology platform unifies and integrates six areas of computer vision, cognitive science, language dialogue, machine learning, robotics, and game ethics. It serves to education, healthcare, gaming, smart driving, personal assistants, and smart robotics sectors. The company is based in China.

DMAI (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd.

Jerry Education raised $40000000 on 2016-01-08 in Series A

Jerry school, an institution which is training primary and secondary school-based students, was set up by Zhang Jiancheng and his professional team. Zhang graduated from the School of Foreign Studies in Peking University, and now he is a famous basic English education expert, the expert of domestic examination, the chairman and president of Beijing Jierui Tianxia Educational Technology. Co., Ltd., as well.

The school was established in August 2004. Since its inception, it has won a good reputation in the majority of students and parents. This is totally due to a professional and dedicated team of teachers, the strict teaching management system, a unique method of teaching, individualized tutoring, one-to-one tracking service system and the ideal learning effect.

In the development process of Jerry School, each branch adopts unified brand and unified teaching management system, a unified teaching service, unified teacher deployment, unified system textbooks, unified standard lectures, unified complaints system, so as to provide a higher level of service for each participant and parent. In the early days, Jerry School has opened a number of accessible channels of communication and established the Headmaster's office to ensure that complaints can be replied promptly. The goal which shows the quality service of Jerry School is to make every student and parent satisfied.

The school also participated in some renowned nationwide large-scale activities, such as China Youth English All-Round Talent Show Activities which is sponsored by China National Committee For the Wellbeing of the Youth, and Flying Red Scarf - National Children's Comprehensive Quality Display Show Activities sponsored by Chinese Young Pioneers Business Development Center.

Currently, there are nearly 1,000 employees working in Jerry School, and more than 50 branch schools has been set up in Beijing. By the year of 2014, nearly 263,423 talented students have been trained in all. Each year, tens of thousands of students (more than 3,000 classes) learn in Jerry School.

Today, Jerry School has developed into an educational institution of primary and secondary school which is involved in English, mathematics, physics, chemistry, art, studying abroad and other brands, and in the meantime it has owned a number of development platforms, such as the basic education system, educational research and development system, studying abroad system, pre-school education system, and it has already been large educational institutions which consists of the set of education and training, research and development of education, book publishing, one-to-one tracking service, nationality Study Tour and so on.

Jerry Education

Sailing Capital acquires Astrum Education on 2016-09-18 for an undisclosed amount

Astrum Education is a leading UK private education provider currently comprising three of London's most prestigious independent colleges: Duff Miller College in South Kensington, Lansdowne College in Notting Hill and Chelsea Independent College in Chelsea.

Astrum Education

Rong360 raised $125000000 on 2015-10-12 in Series D

Rong 360 is a Chinese provider of customized financing and loan services. The company enables users to search and compare loan products from various banks and lending agencies.

Rong 360 allows users to make direct contact with bank business personnel, while building an all-around direct selling platform of financing and loan products.

Rong360

Mobileye, an Intel Company raised $400000000 on 2013-07-07 in Private Equity Round

Mobileye is a pioneer in the development of vision systems for on-board Driving Assistance Systems; providing data for decision making applications such as Mobileye's Adaptive Cruise Control, Lane Departure Warning, Forward Collision Warning, Headway Monitoring, High Beam Assistand more.  
 
To date, Mobileye's technology has been launched by BMW 5-Series, 6-Series, 7-Series, Volvo S80, XC70 and V70 models, and Buick Lucerne, Cadillac DTS and STS. 
 
Mobileye's mission is to develop vision systems for accident reduction and driver assistance. These systems work as a third eye for the driver by supporting the driver in performing routine driving tasks (e.g., distance keeping, adaptive cruise control) and provide timely warnings (e.g., lane departure warning, forward collision warning) in dangerous situations.

Mobileye

Alphaeon raised $53700000 on 2016-08-10 in Convertible Note

Cellular Biomedicine Group raised $30600000 on 2018-02-07 in Post-IPO Equity

Cellular Biomedicine Group (OTCQB: CBMG) is a biomedicine firm engaged in the development of new treatments for degenerative and cancerous diseases utilizing proprietary cell therapy technologies. We are the result of the acquisition, transfer, commercialization and advancement of thirty years of research and human treatment experience in cellular medicine. Our cellular research and development is the result of collaboration among scientists and doctors from the US, England and China.

Cellular Biomedicine Group (CBMG)

DMAI raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-03-29 in Venture Round

XGIMI raised $95000000 on 2018-03-12 in Corporate Round

XGimi is a developer and manufacturer of multi-functional projectors. It manufactures high-definition projector embedded with an Android operating system and comes with a three dimensional viewing function.

XGimi is on a mission to devote its attention in creating the best and affordable giant-screen projection to the world. The company was established in year 2012 and is based in Chengdu, China.

XGIMI

Ymatou raised $100000000 on 2015-01-27 in Series B

Shanghai Ymatou Network Technology Co., Ltd. operates a cross-border e-commerce platform. The company offers products in various categories, including skin care, makeup, luggage, shoes, lady wear, underwear, men's clothing, home, food health, maternal baby, digital home appliances, and more. Shanghai Ymatou Network Technology Co., Ltd was founded in 2010 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Shanghai Ymatou Network Technology Co., Ltd.

Miaopai raised $500000000 on 2016-11-22 in Series E

Miaopai develops a mobile based application for sharing short videos. Its service now has 70 million daily active users. 

Miaopai produces mobile device applications. It offers software products that allow users to customize videos and pictures.

Chan Sheng and Han Kun founded Xuanyixia Technology in 2011 that later became Yixia Tech and then Miaopai. Its headquarters is in Beijing in China.

Miaopai

Ola raised $50000000 on 2018-09-17 in Venture Round

Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. 

Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporate travel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. 

Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India.

Ola Cafe

Soneva raised $48987661 on 2014-11-19 in Private Equity Round

The Soneva Group operates as a resort. The company offers private residences/villas, spas, restaurants, bars, accommodations, pools, and a lounge. It serves foreigners. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Bangkok, Thailand with private residences in Maldives and Thailand.

The Soneva Group

Didi Chuxing raised an undisclosed amount on 2015-10-14 in Venture Round

Didi Chuxing is the world’s leading mobile transportation platform. The company offers a full range of mobile tech-based mobility options for over 450 million users, including Taxi, Express, Premier, Luxe, Hitch, Bus, Minibus, Designated Driving, Car Rental, Enterprise Solutions and Bike-Sharing. With its daily orders reaching up to 25 million, over 21 million drivers and car owners are generating income on DiDi platform. DiDi acquired Uber China in August 2016.

Didi Chuxing

Elcelyx Therapeutics raised $40000000 on 2015-10-01 in Series E

Elcelyx was founded in 2010 with venture capital backing based on Gut Sensory Modulation (GSM) technology. Elcelyx’s proprietary, first-in-class Gut Sensory Modulators are delivered directly to the lower gut where they act on molecular targets to elicit physiological and pharmacological effects. 

The Elcelyx proprietary product candidate, NewMet for Type 2 diabetes is entering Phase 2b development and is a blockbuster opportunity designed to address the unmet needs in the oral anti-diabetic market.

Elcelyx is led by an experienced management team and Board of Directors with track records of success in drug development and commercialization. Premier investors along with seasoned scientists and clinicians support the team. 

In September 2013, Elcelyx announced the formation of NaZura BioHealth Inc, a separate company established to focus on the development on non-NewMet assets.

Elcelyx is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Elcelyx Therapeutics

Proteus Digital Health raised an undisclosed amount on 2015-02-17 in Series G

Proteus Digital Health® is creating a new category of pharmaceuticals: Digital Medicines. Digital Medicines includes drugs that communicate when they’ve been taken, wearable sensors that capture physiologic response, applications that support patient self-care and physician decision making and data analytics to serve the needs of doctors and health systems. The goal of Digital Medicines is to empower patients and their families, enable physicians and health systems to more effectively manage risk and ensure that outcomes are reliably achieved.