HSG, formerly known as Sequoia Capital China, is a global venture capital and private equity firm, managing over USD 55 billion across various funds. Established in 2005, HSG invests in technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors, with a focus on seed, venture, growth, buyout, and infrastructure stages. The firm has backed over 1,500 companies, with more than 160 listed on public exchanges and over 140 achieving unicorn status. HSG operates globally, with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, London, Tokyo, and Singapore, providing extensive resources and industry expertise to its portfolio companies.
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Rohit Agarwal
Managing Director
Mohit Bhatnagar
Managing Director
Wang Chenyu
Vice President
Sakshi Chopra
Managing Director
Raghavv Garg
Analyst
Pushpak Kedia
Vice President
Sunint Khurana
Analyst
Cherry Lu
Partner
Ishaan Mittal
Managing Director
Saksham Mittal
Analyst
Abhishek Mohan
Principal
Javier Ng
Associate
Enita Pu
Partner
Wendy Qian
Analyst
Haim Sadger
Partner
Yoav Shaked
Partner
Johan Surani
Vice President
Vedant Trivedi
Associate
Aradhita Tuli
Investment Analyst
Pavel Vyhnalek
Operating Partner
Fu Xin
Partner
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SquareX
Series A in 2025
SquareX helps organizations detect, mitigate and threat-hunt client-side web attacks happening against their users in real time. SquareX's industry-first Browser Detection and Response (BDR) solution, takes an attack-focused approach to browser security, ensuring enterprise users are protected against advanced threats like malicious QR Codes, Browser-in-the-Browser phishing, macro-based malware and other web attacks encompassing malicious files, websites, scripts, and compromised networks. With SquareX, enterprises can provide contractors and remote workers with secure access to internal applications, enterprise SaaS, and convert the browsers on BYOD / unmanaged devices into trusted browsing sessions.
RaptorxAI
Pre Seed Round in 2024
RaptorX.ai is a fraud prevention platform that utilizes machine learning and data analysis to safeguard businesses against transaction and identity fraud. It offers tailored solutions for user profiling, continuous identity verification, and vigilant fraud detection to enhance operational trust and safety. The platform simplifies processes and reduces costs while providing comprehensive protection against evolving threats.
HeyGen
Seed Round in 2022
HeyGen is an AI video generation platform that enables users to create realistic spokesperson videos quickly and efficiently. The platform transforms text into engaging video content without the need for actors, cameras, or extensive editing. By utilizing AI-generated characters and voices, HeyGen serves clients in various sectors, including advertising, live streaming, and video blogging. Its user-friendly interface allows individuals and businesses to convey their stories effectively through video, streamlining the content creation process.
CleverTap
Series D in 2022
CleverTap is an all-in-one engagement platform designed to assist brands in maximizing customer lifetime value by creating personalized experiences that foster customer retention. The platform enables businesses to orchestrate tailored experiences for individuals throughout their lifecycle, allowing for the design of personalized journeys that can last a lifetime. CleverTap provides comprehensive analytics that cover every aspect of the customer lifecycle, empowering businesses to measure and optimize each experience in real-time. Additionally, its advanced AI capabilities offer insightful, empathetic, and prescriptive recommendations, facilitating smarter and faster decision-making for brands seeking to enhance customer engagement and loyalty.
Sensible Weather
Series A in 2022
Sensible Weather is a climate risk technology company focused on mitigating the impact of adverse weather on travelers and travel partners. It provides a partner-branded Weather Guarantee service that automatically reimburses travelers when their experiences are disrupted by bad weather. Utilizing its proprietary climate data and risk analytics platform, Sensible Weather calculates Weather Guarantee pricing in real-time, which not only enhances the travel experience but also generates additional revenue for its partners. The company's insights offer valuable climate information and change projections, enabling users to stay informed about weather conditions and make better decisions for their travel and event planning.
SelectDB
Angel Round in 2022
SelectDB is a cloud-native real-time data warehouse that serves as an easy-to-use, high-performance, and unified analytical database. SelectDB's features include user management and access control, data protection and recovery, and data governance for data democratization. SelectDB supports real-time, interactive, and batch data processing, as well as structured and semi-structured data types and federated querying with datalakes and databases.
LambdaTest
Series C in 2022
LambdaTest is a technology company that specializes in software testing and automation solutions for web applications. It offers a cloud-based platform designed for cross-browser testing, allowing users to assess their websites across various browsers and operating systems. The platform features both real-time and automated testing capabilities, which are particularly beneficial for industries such as software development, quality assurance, and e-commerce. By leveraging artificial intelligence, LambdaTest's unified enterprise test execution cloud platform enhances the efficiency of test execution, thereby reducing the time to market for businesses. The infrastructure supports end-to-end Selenium automation, facilitating precise debugging of browser compatibility issues on both desktop and mobile devices. This comprehensive approach enables developers and testers to manage issues collaboratively, ensuring quality releases and fostering accelerated digital transformation.
Looppanel
Grant in 2022
Looppanel is an online platform that facilitates the analysis and sharing of insights from user interviews conducted via Zoom. The platform offers features such as transcripts, shareable video clips, and live note-taking, allowing product, engineering, and design teams to collaborate effectively on user insights. By enabling rapid detection of patterns across user conversations, Looppanel helps teams align on key findings, thereby supporting informed decision-making in product development and design processes.
Yanhuang Data
Angel Round in 2022
Yanhuang Data is a company that specializes in real-time analysis of heterogeneous big data. Its platform efficiently processes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, offering a comprehensive suite of services that includes data collection, import, indexing, searching, display, and task alerts. By facilitating faster problem identification and solution planning, Yanhuang Data supports clients in navigating the complexities of digital transformation in the modern information age. The company serves a diverse range of sectors, including finance, banking, healthcare, transportation, information security, IT operations, smart cities, and the Internet of Things.
Vland
Series A in 2021
Vland is a social interactive cloud platform that provides real-time audio, game, and video technology to create virtual space as a service.
RabbitX
Series A in 2021
RabbitX is a decentralized finance platform that simplifies investment in global stocks, foreign exchange, commodities, and digital assets without charging commissions. The platform leverages advanced Zero-Knowledge decentralized scaling technology to enhance user experience and security. It offers unique features such as interest rate swaps, enabling users to trade, speculate, and hedge interest rates in cryptocurrency transactions. Supported by prominent investors, RabbitX aims to modernize finance by integrating traditional financial instruments into the digital landscape.
LambdaTest
Series B in 2021
LambdaTest is a technology company that specializes in software testing and automation solutions for web applications. It offers a cloud-based platform designed for cross-browser testing, allowing users to assess their websites across various browsers and operating systems. The platform features both real-time and automated testing capabilities, which are particularly beneficial for industries such as software development, quality assurance, and e-commerce. By leveraging artificial intelligence, LambdaTest's unified enterprise test execution cloud platform enhances the efficiency of test execution, thereby reducing the time to market for businesses. The infrastructure supports end-to-end Selenium automation, facilitating precise debugging of browser compatibility issues on both desktop and mobile devices. This comprehensive approach enables developers and testers to manage issues collaboratively, ensuring quality releases and fostering accelerated digital transformation.
TDengine
Series B in 2021
TDengine is a time-series database solution aimed at assisting traditional industries in navigating the complexities of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). It facilitates the real-time ingestion, storage, analysis, and distribution of vast amounts of data generated by numerous sensors and data collectors daily. By making big data more accessible and affordable, TDengine enables a wide range of users, from independent developers to large corporations, to harness the full potential of their data. The company is focused on transforming industrial data systems by eliminating outdated infrastructure, promoting centralized data management, and enabling seamless sharing of information. This approach aims to make advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, more beneficial and accessible to the industrial sector, ultimately fostering digital transformation and breaking down existing data silos.
TDengine
Series A in 2020
TDengine is a time-series database solution aimed at assisting traditional industries in navigating the complexities of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). It facilitates the real-time ingestion, storage, analysis, and distribution of vast amounts of data generated by numerous sensors and data collectors daily. By making big data more accessible and affordable, TDengine enables a wide range of users, from independent developers to large corporations, to harness the full potential of their data. The company is focused on transforming industrial data systems by eliminating outdated infrastructure, promoting centralized data management, and enabling seamless sharing of information. This approach aims to make advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, more beneficial and accessible to the industrial sector, ultimately fostering digital transformation and breaking down existing data silos.
CleverTap
Series C in 2019
CleverTap is an all-in-one engagement platform designed to assist brands in maximizing customer lifetime value by creating personalized experiences that foster customer retention. The platform enables businesses to orchestrate tailored experiences for individuals throughout their lifecycle, allowing for the design of personalized journeys that can last a lifetime. CleverTap provides comprehensive analytics that cover every aspect of the customer lifecycle, empowering businesses to measure and optimize each experience in real-time. Additionally, its advanced AI capabilities offer insightful, empathetic, and prescriptive recommendations, facilitating smarter and faster decision-making for brands seeking to enhance customer engagement and loyalty.
StreamNative
Seed Round in 2019
StreamNative provides a cloud-native event streaming platform built on Apache Pulsar, allowing organizations to transform enterprise data into real-time streams. This platform is designed to support a wide range of industries, including gaming, financial services, blockchain, retail, logistics, manufacturing, media, and IoT. By leveraging the architectural benefits of Apache Pulsar, StreamNative enables companies to consolidate data from disparate legacy systems into a unified, real-time event streaming environment, facilitating immediate action and collaboration among data science, engineering, and business teams. The company was founded by experienced members of the Apache Pulsar and BookKeeper communities, who have extensive expertise in deploying Pulsar at scale for major internet companies. Headquartered in San Francisco, StreamNative also has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, underscoring its global reach and commitment to enhancing enterprise operations through innovative data solutions.
QuickRide
Series B in 2019
QuickRide is a ride-sharing application founded in 2014 and headquartered in Bangalore, India. The platform connects commuters traveling in the same direction in real time, allowing users to invite others to join their ride or accept invitations from fellow users. QuickRide's mobile application uses an algorithm to match riders and passengers based on their pickup and drop-off locations, enhancing the efficiency of daily commutes. The app offers features such as real-time location tracking, a live map for status updates, and a group chat option for seamless coordination among participants. Additionally, QuickRide facilitates cashless transactions and allows users to manage payments through a points system with fixed per-kilometer charges. By providing these services, QuickRide aims to reduce commuting costs, alleviate traffic congestion, and contribute to decreased air pollution.
CleverTap
Series B in 2019
CleverTap is an all-in-one engagement platform designed to assist brands in maximizing customer lifetime value by creating personalized experiences that foster customer retention. The platform enables businesses to orchestrate tailored experiences for individuals throughout their lifecycle, allowing for the design of personalized journeys that can last a lifetime. CleverTap provides comprehensive analytics that cover every aspect of the customer lifecycle, empowering businesses to measure and optimize each experience in real-time. Additionally, its advanced AI capabilities offer insightful, empathetic, and prescriptive recommendations, facilitating smarter and faster decision-making for brands seeking to enhance customer engagement and loyalty.
Armis Security
Series B in 2018
Armis offers an asset intelligence platform, designed to address the new threat landscape that connected devices create. It provides a cyber exposure management and security platform that protects the attack surface and manages the organization’s cyber risk exposure in real-time.
CleverTap
Venture Round in 2017
CleverTap is an all-in-one engagement platform designed to assist brands in maximizing customer lifetime value by creating personalized experiences that foster customer retention. The platform enables businesses to orchestrate tailored experiences for individuals throughout their lifecycle, allowing for the design of personalized journeys that can last a lifetime. CleverTap provides comprehensive analytics that cover every aspect of the customer lifecycle, empowering businesses to measure and optimize each experience in real-time. Additionally, its advanced AI capabilities offer insightful, empathetic, and prescriptive recommendations, facilitating smarter and faster decision-making for brands seeking to enhance customer engagement and loyalty.
Armis Security
Series A in 2017
Armis offers an asset intelligence platform, designed to address the new threat landscape that connected devices create. It provides a cyber exposure management and security platform that protects the attack surface and manages the organization’s cyber risk exposure in real-time.
CleverTap
Series A in 2015
CleverTap is an all-in-one engagement platform designed to assist brands in maximizing customer lifetime value by creating personalized experiences that foster customer retention. The platform enables businesses to orchestrate tailored experiences for individuals throughout their lifecycle, allowing for the design of personalized journeys that can last a lifetime. CleverTap provides comprehensive analytics that cover every aspect of the customer lifecycle, empowering businesses to measure and optimize each experience in real-time. Additionally, its advanced AI capabilities offer insightful, empathetic, and prescriptive recommendations, facilitating smarter and faster decision-making for brands seeking to enhance customer engagement and loyalty.
Taykey
Series D in 2015
Taykey is a provider of a trends-based advertising platform that enables Fortune 500 brands to leverage real-time data to enhance their marketing strategies. By mining information from numerous online sources, Taykey identifies trending topics relevant to specific audiences and automates the media buying process. This approach allows brands such as American Express, BestBuy, General Electric, Paramount, and Volkswagen to transform insights into actionable advertising, aligning their campaigns with current consumer interests and sentiments. The platform not only streamlines the media purchasing process but also supports broader applications, including social media content and market analytics, ensuring that businesses remain relevant in a rapidly changing landscape.
Armis Security
Seed Round in 2015
Armis offers an asset intelligence platform, designed to address the new threat landscape that connected devices create. It provides a cyber exposure management and security platform that protects the attack surface and manages the organization’s cyber risk exposure in real-time.
Near Pte.
Series B in 2014
Near Pte. Ltd., also known as AdNear, operates a location-based intelligence platform that delivers real-time insights about places, people, and products. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, the company specializes in data-driven solutions that help brands and publishers engage and analyze audiences. Its offerings include Allspark, a mobile-first audience cloud solution, and Carbon, which analyzes real-world consumer behavior across significant locations. Near's platform processes data from approximately 1.6 billion unique user IDs and 70 million points of interest across over 44 countries, enabling clients to better understand consumer behaviors and preferences. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, technology, travel, telecommunications, and financial services, with additional offices in major global cities such as San Francisco, New York, London, Bengaluru, Tokyo, and Sydney.
Taykey
Series C in 2013
Taykey is a provider of a trends-based advertising platform that enables Fortune 500 brands to leverage real-time data to enhance their marketing strategies. By mining information from numerous online sources, Taykey identifies trending topics relevant to specific audiences and automates the media buying process. This approach allows brands such as American Express, BestBuy, General Electric, Paramount, and Volkswagen to transform insights into actionable advertising, aligning their campaigns with current consumer interests and sentiments. The platform not only streamlines the media purchasing process but also supports broader applications, including social media content and market analytics, ensuring that businesses remain relevant in a rapidly changing landscape.
Near Pte.
Series A in 2012
Near Pte. Ltd., also known as AdNear, operates a location-based intelligence platform that delivers real-time insights about places, people, and products. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, the company specializes in data-driven solutions that help brands and publishers engage and analyze audiences. Its offerings include Allspark, a mobile-first audience cloud solution, and Carbon, which analyzes real-world consumer behavior across significant locations. Near's platform processes data from approximately 1.6 billion unique user IDs and 70 million points of interest across over 44 countries, enabling clients to better understand consumer behaviors and preferences. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, technology, travel, telecommunications, and financial services, with additional offices in major global cities such as San Francisco, New York, London, Bengaluru, Tokyo, and Sydney.
Taykey
Series B in 2011
Taykey is a provider of a trends-based advertising platform that enables Fortune 500 brands to leverage real-time data to enhance their marketing strategies. By mining information from numerous online sources, Taykey identifies trending topics relevant to specific audiences and automates the media buying process. This approach allows brands such as American Express, BestBuy, General Electric, Paramount, and Volkswagen to transform insights into actionable advertising, aligning their campaigns with current consumer interests and sentiments. The platform not only streamlines the media purchasing process but also supports broader applications, including social media content and market analytics, ensuring that businesses remain relevant in a rapidly changing landscape.
Taykey
Series A in 2010
Taykey is a provider of a trends-based advertising platform that enables Fortune 500 brands to leverage real-time data to enhance their marketing strategies. By mining information from numerous online sources, Taykey identifies trending topics relevant to specific audiences and automates the media buying process. This approach allows brands such as American Express, BestBuy, General Electric, Paramount, and Volkswagen to transform insights into actionable advertising, aligning their campaigns with current consumer interests and sentiments. The platform not only streamlines the media purchasing process but also supports broader applications, including social media content and market analytics, ensuring that businesses remain relevant in a rapidly changing landscape.
Relevance AI
Relevance AI is a technology company that specializes in creating custom AI agents aimed at automating repetitive reasoning tasks for businesses. Its platform features two primary products: AI Tools, which integrate smoothly into existing workflows to automate routine tasks, and AI Agents, designed to optimize complete workflows in sectors such as marketing, sales, and research. By utilizing advanced artificial intelligence vectors, Relevance AI transforms unstructured data into actionable insights with minimal labeling or training, making the technology accessible and cost-effective for organizations of all sizes. The platform's AI chaining capability allows businesses to automate complex reasoning tasks without requiring a team of expert AI engineers, enabling enhanced search functionality within websites, applications, or enterprise software without the need for extensive coding or configuration.
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