James Mi is the Founding Partner of Lightspeed China Partners. See sector focus and contact routes.
James Mi is the Founding Partner of Lightspeed China Partners, a leading China-focused early-stage venture capital firm with over $2–3 billion under management, where he previously served as Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners before establishing its China arm. His investment thesis targets seed through Series B stages across sectors including AI, AgTech, Cloud Infrastructure, E-commerce, Consumer Internet, IoT, Manufacturing, Enterprise, and FinTech, primarily within China. Mi typically invests check sizes ranging from $250,000 to $15 million and focuses on scaling tech companies in China’s fast-growing markets. Notable portfolio companies include Rong360, a financial technology platform, and MediaV, an advertising technology firm, both of which he successfully invested in early. Ranked 50th on China’s Top 50 Venture Capital Investors list and number 21 on the Forbes Midas List, Mi is recognized as one of the top venture capitalists in China. Prior to Lightspeed, he was Director of Corporate Development at Google, where he helped build Google China and led Google’s investment in Baidu, sparking his passion for early-stage tech investing.
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