David Yuan

Venture Capitalist at Redpoint

📍 China, China🔄 Updated September 2026💼 28 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2024
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Jun 2024
Stori is a fast-growing, venture-backed financial technology company, on a mission to democratize credit access for 400 million underbanked LatAm consumers. Stori currently operates in Mexico and has a global team with offices in Arlington Virginia, Mexico City, and Asia. We have quickly made our mark as one of the top digital banks in Mexico with more than two million applicants for our credit card product since launching. Stori is one of the top-funded startups in the region with US$250 million raised to date. We are backed by top global venture capital funds, such as GGV Capital, GIC, Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Goodwater Capital, Mexicos Tresalia Capital, Vision Plus Capital, BAI Capital and Source Code Capital; who have successfully invested in startups such as Affirm, Airbnb, Alibaba, Stripe, and TikTok. Stori has a standout founder team among fintechs, leveraging 100+ years of accumulated experience in consumer finance, banking and technology across Mastercard, Intel, Capital One, Morgan Stanley, GE Capital, and HSBC in the U.S., Mexico and Asia. The team has launched and managed many multi-million-customer credit card products globally, providing a wide breadth of experience and knowledge to our team.
mid stageBanking
Early investor and Board Member
Jul 2020
At Vastai Technologies, we provide high performance intelligent vision processing semiconductors that improve everyday life with abundant visual details and real-time intelligence.
Early Investor
Mar 2019
Enflame is a China-Based AI company with the mission and vision of providing cutting-edge software/hardware solution to revolutionize the AI technology. Enflame fuses the uniqueness of making devastating AI cloud chips and differentiation of building a highly efficient software ecosystem. The first generation of SOC and software stack is shooting for crowning the AI cloud training system in China. The core R&D teams in Enflame are industrial veterans of more than 15 years successful track record across Architecture, SOC Design, System and Production, Software Full Stack and Advanced Algorithm. Enflame is envisioning ourselves as the AI universe-opener with the culture of engineering and delivering all winning chips, software solutions and systems.
Early Investor
Nov 2017
Qutoutiao, meaning “fun headlines” in Chinese, aggregates articles and short videos uploaded onto our platform and presents customized feeds to users based on each user’s profile, behavior and social relationships. These feeds are optimized in real time through our proprietary machine learning algorithm as we gain new insights into each user. Covering a broad range of interests, Qutoutiao is focused on humor, stories and other light entertainment content that delight and inspire. In addition to articles and short videos, we aim to create a comprehensive light entertainment content ecosystem.
Early Investor
Sep 2017
Founded in 2016 in Silicon Valley, Pony.ai has quickly become a global leader in autonomous mobility and is a pioneer in extending autonomous mobility technologies and services at a rapidly expanding footprint of sites around the world. Operating Robotaxi, Robotruck and Personally Owned Vehicles (POV) business units, Pony.ai is an industry leader in the commercialization of autonomous driving and is committed to developing autonomous driving capabilities on a global scale. In the U.S., Pony.ai tests its AVs in Silicon Valley and is building leading Virtual Driver and ADAS Solutions for the U.S. and global markets. To date, Pony.ai has accumulated more than 25 million kilometers of autonomous driving mileage across diverse geographies. Pony.ai’s leading position has been recognized, with CNBC ranking Pony.ai #10 on its 2022 CNBC Disruptor list of the 50 most innovative and disruptive companies. In 2023, Pony.ai was recognized on the XPRIZE and Bessemer Venture Partners inaugural list of the world’s top 100 private deep tech companies, ranking #12 globally.
Board Member
May 2016
XSKY Beijing Data Technology Corporation Limited is a China based technical company focusing on software-defined-infrastructure products and services. Funders are from China's top Cloud Service Providers and leading IT/CT vendors' ex-RD team. XSKY builds internet carrier operation experience, mainstream open-source technology, and enterprise best practices into the products, offering customer future-ready scale-out storage solutions. It is also a major committer to open-source storage system Ceph. XSKY ranks top 3 in world wide and #1 China of source code contribution in Ceph community. It is the only storage solution partner of Red Hat China. Early adopters for XSKY products are from FSI, transport, telecom, and electricity grid segments. XSKY partners with leading IT companies including Intel, Samsung, Dell, Mellanox et al, focusing on SDS layer, and make win-win with global end user.
Early Investor and Board Member
Jan 2016
The new era requires new philosophy of security, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated, Qingteng believes it is better to recognize ourselves rather than the hackers. If we generate a lot of intrinsic indicators during the business process, and continuously monitoring and analyzing these indicators. Then, no matter which kind of vulnerability, tools or technique the hackers used, it will result in the change of those indicators that would be detected. This is QingTeng’s core logic of the security perception。 Qingteng is an innovative technology company focusing on the endpoint adaptive security. Qingteng’s product has changed the exist cognition of security in various industries, brought out a brand new vision. In the age of cloud computing, we can help the government to create an information security guarantee system conform to the domestic law and regulations. We also participated in the financial industry locates the security risks and control the stop-loss point in real-time, efficiently preventing the spread of security incidents, and guarantee the safety of funds. In the open, fast-changing and highly competitive Internet industry, we can assist them to quickly create the security system, recognize risk status in a real-time and make it secure and controllable. The telecom operators host a huge number of endpoint servers, the asset inventory is extremely complex, we can help them quickly review the inventory of digital assets, fully covered in every detail, clear off the potential security risks. Qingteng has offered security protection for millions of endpoint servers, which including the China Earthquake Administration, Ping An of CHINA, CEB (China Everbright Bank), Xiaomi, three major telecom operators and hundreds of key accounts. Qingteng is a professional, innovative and reliable technology company.
Founding Board Member
Oct 2015
Kyligence offers the Metrics Platform to help organizations build a common data language across multiple business units. Its metrics catalog provides a semantic layer to define, store and manage business metrics, and is a single source of truth for metrics in multiple downstream tools like BI and applications. Moreover, the underlying AI-Augmented OLAP engine reduces time to insight with automation and delivers high performance for even PB data volume at a lower cost. Kyligence is trusted by global leaders in financial services, manufacturing, and retail industries, including UBS, China Construction Bank, China Merchants Bank, Pingan Bank, MetLife, and Costa, and is a technical partner with Microsoft, AWS, Tableau, and Huawei. Foundered in 2016 by the original creators of Apache Kylin™, Kyligence is dually headquartered in San Jose, CA, United States, and Shanghai, China, and is backed by leading investors, including Redpoint Ventures, Cisco, Broadband Capital, Shunwei Capital, Eight Roads Ventures, Coatue Management, SPDB International, CICC, Gopher Assets, Guofang Capital, ASG, Jumbo Sheen Fund, and Puxin Capital.
Founding Board Member
May 2014
APUS is a Mobile Internet technology company from China, founded in June 2014. APUS System is an enhanced version of user system for Android smart phones, aiming to provide the fastest and most convenient access to Internet, supporting over 25 international languages. In August 2015, APUS was enrolled in the list of the $ 1 Billion Dollar Club of venture companies by Wall Street Journal, to be the worlds youngest Unicorn Company. Since 2016, APU has been listed as “China Unicorn Company” for two consecutive years. Till 2017, APUS has accumulated over 1.2 billion global users in 200+ countries and regions. APUS is devoted to facilitate more users with better experience of mobile life with APUS System, APUS AI and APUS Cloud. As the leading brand of Chinese Internet companies exploring overseas market, APUS has been committed to actively promoting the global spread of Chinese influence.
Board Member
May 2014
Yunshan Networks Beijing Inc.(Yunshan Networks) is the first independent pure software technology company focused on SDN(software-defined network) in China. Since its establishment in December 2011, Yunshan Networks has deeply rooted in the development of next-generation data center network technology and SDN products for 7 years, solved the problem of large-scale network management and intelligent network operation and maintenance of cloud data center for nearly 30 Fortune 500 companies. During the past years, Yunshan Networks has been successively invested from several venture capital institutions such as Northern Light, Redpoint, Matrix China, has become the SDN unicorn with the highest valuation in 2018 domestically. Set up a complete batch of product development, sales and customer service sites in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Suzhou and Silicon Valley. The primary product of Yunshan Networks, DeepFlow, is an integrated platform that concentrates on cloud data center for virtual network traffic collection and analysis, and has been deployed in enterprise production data centers among industries such as finance, telecom, energy, education, gained customers include Ping An Technology, CIB Fintech, China Mobile, State Grid Corporation of China, SISDC and other benchmark customers with its fine-grained network traffic
Early Investor and Founding Board Member
May 2014
人人车致力于打造全新的二手车交易模式,为个人用户提供诚信、专业、便捷、有保障的优质二手车交易平台。 人人车专注于为个人用户服务,拥有专业的二手车评估师团队,通过249项专业检测,彻底排除非个人车、事故车、水浸车、火烧车;透明无差价交易让普通用户也可以用公平的市场价格,买到6年/10万公里以内的优质二手车。 同时,人人车为所有购车用户提供1年或2万公里的免费质保,以及14天无理由退车服务,让用户无后顾之忧,可以放心购车、放心用车。 人人车三大特色: 【放心车】 100%个人车主,5年/10万公里以内优质车源 高达249项专业检测,保证100%无事故车 【放心买】 无差价保证,交易过程完全透明 价格平均比其他渠道优惠超过10% 【放心用】 1年或2万公里免费质保 14天之内无理由退车 人人车八大承诺 1、个人车源:100%个人车,5年10万公里内优质二手车 2、249项检测:认证评估师专业检测,真实、准确、专业 3、诚信车况:所有车辆均经过现场专业检测,担保可靠 4、无事故车:100%确保无事故车、无水浸车、无火烧车 5、无差价:100%个人间交易,不收取任何交易差价 6、一站过户:专人免费代办车辆过户,购车无需奔波 7、免费质保:人人车提供1年或2万公里的免费质保 8、14天包退:如有任何不满意,14之内无理由退车
Board Member
Feb 2013
Founded in 2010, Bangcle (梆梆安全) is an information technology company that provides mobile/IoT security solutions.
Early Investor and Former Board Member
May 2012
About iDreamSky Technology Holdings Limited iDreamSky(01119.HK), as a leading digital entertainment platform in Mainland China, provides online games, e-sports, physical entertainment, comics and animation, and internet services to enable users to enjoy exceptional entertaining experience anytime and anywhere. iDreamSky has 131 million MAUs and has successfully launched several globally famous games through iDreamSky Games in China, including Temple Run, Subway Surfers, Monument Valley, Gardenscapes and Homescapes. iDreamSky was listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 6 December, 2018.
Founding Board Member
Dec 2011
炫一下(北京)科技有限公司2011年8月成立于北京,领先的移动互联网基础服务提供商,先后获得晨兴、红点等知名VC投资。公司创立以来,以技术为驱动,致力于为用户提供便捷的移动多媒体服务,构建开放一站式的移动互联网服务。目前公司员工360人,是一群来自于暴风影音、酷6网、新浪等富有激情、勇于创新、专注技术、执着梦想的年轻人,拥有多年的业内一流的视频编解码经验以及多年的视频多媒体运营能力。 炫一下(北京)科技有限公司旗下拥有新浪视频、新浪微博独家战略合作产品拍客和秒拍、业内首款领先的移动多媒体视频框架Vitamio及移动端视频全能播放器VPlayer。截至目前多媒体视频框架Vitamio拥有800多名开发者,全球1000多款应用在使用,总下载量2亿。 基金简介:基金初期规模为1.2亿美元,主要由一下科技、新浪、红杉、德同等国内知名企业、顶级投资机构等共同出资,投资方向为:TMT领域。 旗下产品: 秒拍:http://www.miaopai.com/ 小咖秀:http://xiaokaxiu.com/ 一直播:http://www.yizhibo.com/ VPlayer 全能播放器:https://vplayer.net/?locale=zh-CN Vitamio 多媒体 SDK:http://www.vitamio.org/en/
Early Investor and Board member
2010
Miaozhen Systems is a third-party technology company with the mission to promote the healthy and prosperous development of marketing ecosystem by providing enterprises with marketing growth solutions based on big data and AI technology.
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2024
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Jun 2024
Stori is a fast-growing, venture-backed financial technology company, on a mission to democratize credit access for 400 million underbanked LatAm consumers. Stori currently operates in Mexico and has a global team with offices in Arlington Virginia, Mexico City, and Asia. We have quickly made our mark as one of the top digital banks in Mexico with more than two million applicants for our credit card product since launching. Stori is one of the top-funded startups in the region with US$250 million raised to date. We are backed by top global venture capital funds, such as GGV Capital, GIC, Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Goodwater Capital, Mexicos Tresalia Capital, Vision Plus Capital, BAI Capital and Source Code Capital; who have successfully invested in startups such as Affirm, Airbnb, Alibaba, Stripe, and TikTok. Stori has a standout founder team among fintechs, leveraging 100+ years of accumulated experience in consumer finance, banking and technology across Mastercard, Intel, Capital One, Morgan Stanley, GE Capital, and HSBC in the U.S., Mexico and Asia. The team has launched and managed many multi-million-customer credit card products globally, providing a wide breadth of experience and knowledge to our team.
mid stageBanking
2020
Early investor and Board Member
Jul 2020
At Vastai Technologies, we provide high performance intelligent vision processing semiconductors that improve everyday life with abundant visual details and real-time intelligence.
2019
Early Investor
Mar 2019
Enflame is a China-Based AI company with the mission and vision of providing cutting-edge software/hardware solution to revolutionize the AI technology. Enflame fuses the uniqueness of making devastating AI cloud chips and differentiation of building a highly efficient software ecosystem. The first generation of SOC and software stack is shooting for crowning the AI cloud training system in China. The core R&D teams in Enflame are industrial veterans of more than 15 years successful track record across Architecture, SOC Design, System and Production, Software Full Stack and Advanced Algorithm. Enflame is envisioning ourselves as the AI universe-opener with the culture of engineering and delivering all winning chips, software solutions and systems.
2017
Early Investor
Nov 2017
Qutoutiao, meaning “fun headlines” in Chinese, aggregates articles and short videos uploaded onto our platform and presents customized feeds to users based on each user’s profile, behavior and social relationships. These feeds are optimized in real time through our proprietary machine learning algorithm as we gain new insights into each user. Covering a broad range of interests, Qutoutiao is focused on humor, stories and other light entertainment content that delight and inspire. In addition to articles and short videos, we aim to create a comprehensive light entertainment content ecosystem.
Qutoutiao
Board Member
Nov 2017
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