Cathay Innovation
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Cathay Innovation is a multi-stage venture capital firm founded in Paris in 2015, backed by industry partners. It invests globally across sectors including AI, digital health, fintech, and energy, and operates a platform for startup-corporate collaboration.
Cathay Innovation is a venture capital firm headquartered in Paris, France, founded in 2015. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in AI, robotics / IoT, crypto and digital Health. €2.5B under management and 120 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in startups building technologies that are rewiring how we live and work — helping innovators turn bold ideas into real-world solutions at industrial scale.”
— Cathay Innovation, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Europe, North America, China, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa
- Sectors
- AI, Robotics / IoT, Crypto, Digital Health, Fintech, Consumer / Retail, Energy / Mobility
- Founded
- 2015
- Assets under management
- €2.5B
- Portfolio
- 120 companies
Team, as Cathay Innovation publishes it
- Mingpo Cai Founder & Chairman
- Denis Barrier Co-Founder & CEO
- Jacky Abitbol Managing Partner
- Lanchun Duan Managing Partner
- Daniel Balmisse Managing Partner, Cathay InnoSquare (Fund of Funds)
- Nicolas Du Cray Partner
- Bruno Delahaye Partner
- Rajive Keshup Partner
- Simon Wu Partner
- Emanuele De Leonardis Partner, Head of Business Development & Ecosystem
- Matthieu Soulé Partner, Head of C.Lab
- Benjamin Jacquard Operating Partner, Fintech
Names and roles exactly as listed on cathayinnovation.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 11 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Alter Global 1 shared company: deliveryhero.com
- HV Capital 1 shared company: deliveryhero.com
- Left Lane Capital 1 shared company: deliveryhero.com
- Prosus Ventures 1 shared company: deliveryhero.com
- RTP Global 1 shared company: deliveryhero.com
- Target Global 1 shared company: deliveryhero.com
- DASH Ventures 1 shared company: techcabal.com
- Norrsken22 1 shared company: techcabal.com
- Anzu Partners 1 shared company: autonews.com
- StandUp Ventures 1 shared company: autonews.com
and 1 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Cathay Innovation publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://cathayinnovation.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://cathayinnovation.com/portfolio/stage_min, stage_max
- https://cathayinnovation.com/people/people
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Record 6212 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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