Wei Ying
Managing Director
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- Full Name
- Ying Wei / 应伟
- Title
- Managing Partner
- Firm
- CDH Investments / CDH Baifu
- Firm Type
- Alternative asset manager; technology-focused private investment platform
- Investment Stage
- Private equity / venture-growth / pre-IPO technology investments
- Target Company Profile
- Hard-technology companies with strategic value in industrial chains, especially companies where CDH Baifu can help through post-investment management, strategy, finance, HR, and ecosystem resources
- Sector Focus
- Semiconductors and integrated circuits, electronic information, AI, big data, cloud computing, emerging software, IoT, smart hardware, high-end equipment, biotech, high-end chemical drugs, medical devices, carbon neutrality, and technology going global
- Geographic Focus
- China, with CDH’s broader footprint extending into Southeast Asia
- Location
- CDH headquarters: Beijing, China
Background
Ying Wei is a Managing Partner at CDH Investments and leads CDH Baifu, the firm’s technology-focused investment platform. CDH’s official team page says he joined CDH Investments in 2009 as an operating partner and managing director, and founded Baifu in 2012.
Before CDH, Ying Wei held senior operating roles at China Resources Textile Group, including deputy managing director and chief operating officer. That operating background is central to CDH Baifu’s stated approach: the platform emphasizes post-investment value creation, including support on strategy, finance, human resources, and operational management.
Ying Wei graduated from the accounting management department of Hangzhou College of Commerce and holds an MBA from the University of San Francisco. CDH describes itself as one of China’s earliest alternative asset managers focused on the China market, founded in 2002 by professional investment and finance executives together with institutional investors including GIC.
CDH Baifu was established in 2012 as CDH Investments’ specialist technology investment platform. The platform reports more than 150 portfolio companies, over 30 listed companies, and more than RMB 70 billion in assets under management.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- CDH Baifu states that it “focuses on technology investment” and aims to build a “professional boutique fund” around hard technology.
- The platform invests around “new trends, regional expansion, and counter-cyclical” strategies, with systematic coverage of semiconductors, high-end equipment, biomedicine, carbon neutrality, and technology globalization.
- CDH Baifu says it mines opportunities along industry value chains through portfolio-company networks and looks for resource synergies among portfolio companies.
- The platform covers equity, quasi-fixed-income, real-estate investment, and customized investor-account structures, so founders should not assume it is a seed-only angel investor.
- Its stated value-add is active post-investment management: strategy, finance, HR, management tools, and long-term company building.
Notable Investments
- Loongson Technology / 龙芯中科: Domestic CPU company; CDH Baifu began investing in June 2015 and supported the company before its June 2022 STAR Market IPO.
- Grab: Southeast Asian ride-hailing, food delivery, payments, and super-app platform; CDH invested in August 2016, and Grab listed on Nasdaq via SPAC on December 2, 2021.
- Huada Beidou / 华大北斗: BeiDou navigation chip and positioning-solutions company; CDH Baifu invested twice, in July 2020 and May 2021.
- IASO Biotherapeutics / 驯鹿生物: Cell-therapy company; CDH Baifu invested in August 2021. Its CAR-T therapy NDA was accepted by China’s NMPA in June 2022.
- XpressBees: Indian logistics company; CDH Baifu’s news page notes that the portfolio company completed a new financing round of several hundred million U.S. dollars in April 2022.
- Microchip New Materials / 微芯新材: Photoresist raw-materials company; CDH Baifu announced an investment in June 2022 as part of its semiconductor-materials strategy.
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