Duane Kuang

Founding Managing Partner at Qiming Venture Partners

Mr. Duane Kuang is a Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners and a member of the Investment Committee. Duane has over 30 years of operational and investment experience and started his venture capital career since 1999.

Duane's areas of investment include Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Automation. Some of his prior investments include Cootek (NYSE:CTK), Roborock (SHSE:688169), Megvii, UBTech, Unisound, Hesai Technology, Intelligent Automation,Chaitin, Qiniu Cloud, WeRide, etc. Duane is a director of the China Venture Capital Association and a member of the VC committee of AMAC.

Duane has been recognized by the Forbes Global 100 VC Midas List in 2020.

Prior to founding Qiming, Duane was the Director of Intel Capital China where he led the strategic investment activities of Intel. Before joining Intel, Duane spent five years at Cisco Systems in China, holding various senior management positions.

Duane started his career in Silicon Valley as a software engineer and later entered into a management role in the digital telecommunications field.

Duane is born in Guangzhou, China and educated in the U.S. Duane holds an MBA degree from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master's degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from California State University in San Francisco.


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Qiming Venture Partners

Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners is a leading China venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Seattle, Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently Qiming Venture Partners manages nine US Dollar funds and six RMB funds with over $5.6 billion assets under management. Since our establishment, we have invested in outstanding companies in the TMT and healthcare industries at the early and growth stages.


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Shanghai, China

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