69 Best Startups in Shanghai to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Startups in Shanghai

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 235 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $15.9b. The average funding per company in this subset is $230.5m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Funding Rounds

$11.1m

Money raised

Sky Engine AI is an advanced data science technology and research company that develops evolutionary AI platform for deep learning in virtual reality for any computer vision applications.

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8

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$551.0m

Money raised

Eat Just is a San Francisco based food technology company founded in 2011. The company is known for its bean-based egg substitute called Just Egg. Eat Just also produces egg-free mayonnaise.

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$132.0m

Money raised

Gowin Semiconductor Corp. is a manfucaturer of programmable logic devices based in Shanghai.

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7

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$1.1b

Money raised

4Paradigm is a China-based artificial intelligence start-up company developing machine learning software.

3

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$113.0m

Money raised

Zilliz is a vector database company providing products for enterprise-grade AI.

4

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$70.8m

Money raised

A mobile application allowing its users access their office, building or apartment

9

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$87.8m

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Everledger is a supply chain and asset tracking company using blockchain to store records of valuable assets like diamonds.

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Funding Rounds

$265.4m

Money raised

A New Zealand industrial biotechnology company developing a gas fermentation platform for converting concentrated industrial emissions into valuable chemicals.

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$34.0m

Money raised

A technology manufacturing company making Li-Metal materials, cells, and packs for drones, consumer electronics and automotive applications.

7

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$121.9m

Money raised

AMEC is a company founded in 2004 by James Yang.

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$1.2b

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Insightec is a Tirat Carmel-based company developing and manufacturing MR-guided focused ultrasound devices for image-guided acoustic surgery.

5

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$156.0m

Money raised

A financial technology company offering marketing solutions and predictive analytics using big data and machine learning.

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2

Funding Rounds

$195.5m

Money raised

JW (Cayman) Therapeutics Co. Ltd is a Shanghai-based developer of cell-based therapy technologies for cancer treatment.

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1

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$11.1m

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Aprinoia Therapeutics is a developer of diagnostics, therapeutics and drug discovery platform for neurological diseases.

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5

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$76.7m

Money raised

Drug discovery artificial intelligence company founded in 2015 by Jie Fan and Ke Liu.

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4

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$72.0m

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ProteinSimple is a San Jose, California-based company founded in 2004.

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$62.1m

Money raised

Crown bioscience is a company that is focused on research, drug discovery and development for the treatment of cancer and diabetes.

4

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$7.5m

Money raised

Strikingly is a company providing an online web platform for building mobile-optimized websites. It participated in the W13 cohort of Y Combinator.

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9

Funding Rounds

$727.0m

Money raised

Dianrong is a Shanghai-based peer-to-peer lending marketplace where users can invest in other people or small businesses, or individuals or businesses can find financial support.

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$15.0m

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Blocklords is a strategy game founded by David Johansson.

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$155.0m

Money raised

Digital health platform for predictive care and research.

5

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$127.6m

Money raised

Omniome is a San Diego-based company.

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$90.7m

Money raised

VeriSilicon Holdings is a company founded in 2001 by Wayne Dai.

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$14.2m

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Stemirna Therapeutics is an mRNA therapeutics and nanoparticle formulation company in China focused on treatments for cancer, infectious diseases and rare diseases.

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$27.0m

Money raised

Cosmose offers a data analytics platform created to predict the shopping behavior of consumers according to their offline purchases.

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1

Funding Rounds

$530.0m

Money raised

Lixiang is a company founded in 2015.

9

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$90.9m

Money raised

Cambridge Mechatronics Limited is a smartphone imaging technology founded in 1995.

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Subtle Medical is a medical imaging software company based in Menlo Park, CA.

1

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$225.0m

Money raised

DaDa (known as DaDaABC prior to June 2018) is a global online education company headquartered in Shanghai, China. The DaDa platform provides children with live one-on-one lessons taught by English teachers, operating through the flipped classroom model and utilizing blended learning strategies.

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$103.0m

Money raised

NuProbe is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based molecular diagnostics company focused on accelerating precision diagnostics.

2

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$62.6m

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A company that develops and manufactures dental implant products

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Funding Rounds

$179.5m

Money raised

Hifibio - High Fidelity Biology is a single cell technologies for drug discovery founded in 2013 by Liang Schweizer, Jeff He and Robert Nicol.

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Funding Rounds

$750.0m

Money raised

Tuhu is a company providing an automobile after-sales products and services via its website, mobile application, call center and third-party e-commerce platforms.

2

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$43.6m

Money raised

Yalochat is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2015 by Javier Mata.

9

Funding Rounds

$601.2m

Money raised

Hesai Technology develops smart sensing technology solutions and manufactures laser sensors for LiDARs.

2

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$53.0m

Money raised

DiaCarta is a Richmond, California-based molecular diagnostics company developing products for translational genomics and personalized diagnostics founded in 2011 by Aiguo Zhang.

6

Funding Rounds

$128.9m

Money raised

LAIX Inc. is a developer and provider of AI-powered products designed to help users learn English.

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3

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$23.1m

Money raised

Shanghai Gingkoo Financial Information Co.,Ltd. is a Shanghai-based company.

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1

Funding Rounds

$300.0m

Money raised

Chengjia Apartment is a hotel company founded in 2015.

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7

Funding Rounds

$238.9m

Money raised

Exuma Biotechnology is a West Palm Beach, Florida-based company founded in 2015 by Gregory Frost.

1

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$100.0m

Money raised

Apollomics Inc is a cancer medicines founded in 2015 by Guo Liang Yu.

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4

Funding Rounds

$600.0m

Money raised

YITU Technology is a company developing application software integrated with artificial intelligence technologies for security, finance, transportation and healthcare industry.

1

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$120.0m

Money raised

Inceptio Technology is a Shanghai-based company.

5

Funding Rounds

$65.9m

Money raised

Pillar Biosciences is a clinical cancer diagnostics company .

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$3.2m

Money raised

Polyplus-Transfection S.A. is a transfection Supplies founded in 2001 by Anne Monjanel, Joelle Bloch, Patrick Metz and Paul Behr.

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$3.1m

Money raised

Shanghai Personal Biotechnology Co., Ltd. is a Shanghai-based technology company founded in 2011 that provides gene sequencing services.

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2

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$800.0m

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Xiaohongshu provides an online platform for sharing information on discount, featured items, shopping malls and shopping tips.

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$500.0m

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Also known as Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare, United Imaging Healthcare is a company developing and manufacturing medical equipment and solutions. It offers imaging products including computed tomography, molecular imaging, magnetic resonance, and X-ray radiography products, radiotherapy equipment.

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$960.0k

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A company developing laboratory automation systems for biopharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic research applications

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3

Funding Rounds

$460.0m

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Mobvoi is an AI company that developed Chinese voice recognition, natural language processing, and vertical search technology in-house.

3

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$230.6m

Money raised

Keenon Robotics is focused on developing commercial service robots for applications in a variety of industries.

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$25.0m

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A company developing antibiotics to treat Gram-positive and Gram-negative infections

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$10.0m

Money raised

The CareVoice is a Shanghai-based early growth-stage health insurtech startup. It provides a mobile social platform with community-sourced ratings and recommendations on healthcare services.

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2

Funding Rounds

$315.0m

Money raised

ITutorGroup provides an online educational platform for students and business professionals.

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$15.0m

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Asieris Pharmaceuticals is a small Molecules founded in 2010 by Kevin Pan.

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2

Funding Rounds

$141.2m

Money raised

3D Medicines is a Shanghai-based company developing personalized diagnostics products.

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1

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$13.0m

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Unchained Labs is a tools for biologics research & development founded in 2015 by Tim Harkness.

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2

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$49.2m

Money raised

diaDexus is a diagnostics company developing cardiovascular diagnostic products founded in 1997.

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$31.0m

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Yikon Genomics Co., Ltd. is a company founded by Sunney Xie.

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A company, formerly known as HelloBike, making smart-sharing bikes in China.

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2

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$1.5b

Money raised

WM Motor is a Chinese company that designs, manufactures, and markets battery-operated electric vehicles

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Funding Rounds

$359.0m

Money raised

Also known as FlashEx, Shansong Express is a logistics company providing within the city express delivery service in China.

6

Funding Rounds

$368.6m

Money raised

Zhaogang operates an online platform for steel trading information services for buyers and suppliers.

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2

Funding Rounds

$750.0k

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Nanotechnology company offering 3D lightfield products and software applications.

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Funding Rounds

$120.0m

Money raised

BioShin is a small Molecules.

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Funding Rounds

$1.0b

Money raised

A China-based grocery delivery service with a focus on fish, vegetables, fresh water, and fruit

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Funding Rounds

$214.0m

Money raised

dMed Biopharmaceutical is a clinical Research Organization founded in 2016 by Lingshi Tan.

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3

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$36.5m

Money raised

PPTV is a company founded in 2004.

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Funding Rounds

$10.4m

Money raised

Montage Technology is a company founded in 2004.

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