Cathay Innovation
cathayinnovation.com Direct + LP
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 both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, 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 + LP
- 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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 11 co-investors found.
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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