Build in Silicon Valley. Make it real with the Greater Bay Area.
Jimhang Capital welcomes ambitious founders in Silicon Valley and around the world who are building intelligent hardware, AI devices and robotics. The firm brings early-stage investment interests together with access to smart-factory and supply-chain relationships in the Greater Bay Area, helping founders connect their product vision with relevant manufacturing partners.
Our ambition is to build the Greater Bay Area’s Y Combinator: a place where technically strong founders can find capital conversations, practical startup methods, industry relationships and a continuing founder community. Jimhang is independent of Y Combinator; the comparison expresses our ambition, not an official affiliation.
Learn from a connected system of support
YC’s official program description brings together product development, users, fundraising preparation, partner advice and a founder community. The useful connection is that customer conversations inform the product, product progress produces evidence, and evidence supports financing discussions.
Jimhang’s proposed application starts with a project record that changes as the team learns. An exchange should produce a decision and a next action. The framework below is an original editorial proposal for founders and investors to use together; it is not an announcement of a scheduled accelerator program.
Source：What Happens at YC
| Workstream | Material to bring | An observable next result |
|---|---|---|
| Customer discovery | Interview records and existing workarounds | A product assumption to revise |
| Product and field work | Version, test boundaries and failure log | A repeatable test in a defined setting |
| Industry connections | Customer roles and procurement questions | A named owner and a specific next action |
| Fundraising preparation | Team, ownership, cash needs and milestones | The uncertainty this round would resolve |
Connect a working prototype with the right manufacturing conversations
A founder may know what a product must do without yet knowing which production questions to ask. Jimhang can help connect a team with relevant Greater Bay Area smart-factory and supply-chain contacts, starting from the product stage and the specific problem to resolve: a prototype review, a component dependency, an assembly question or a pilot-production discussion.
To make an introduction useful, bring a short product demonstration, the customer use case, current design stage, approximate pilot quantity and the help you need. Detailed engineering scope, quality acceptance, price and delivery are agreed with the partners involved. We help founders frame that discussion and make relevant introductions.
Give deep technology its own validation path
Applying these ideas locally requires different tests for different products. A software team may release a narrow workflow to a small user group. Semiconductor, robotics and autonomous-driving teams also need to define engineering reliability, field conditions, supply-chain dependencies and applicable safety requirements. Narrowing the first objective does not remove those requirements.
Consider a hypothetical university team building a lawn-mowing robot. It could begin with one bounded site and record terrain, grass conditions, working time, human interventions and maintenance. These are example fields, not results from a Jimhang investment. Conditions in Hong Kong and mainland sites need separate assessment; one successful demonstration does not establish regional demand.
What Jimhang has publicly disclosed
Founded by Justin Zhan (詹培勋), Jimhang Capital focuses on angel and seed opportunities involving Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area and international founders. In its disclosure dated September 24, 2026, the firm reports a completed HK$100 million fundraise and more than 10 investments, spanning semiconductors, autonomous driving, AI, new retail, humanoid robots, lawn-mowing robots, tennis robots and gaming.
The investment overview names 迁星智能, 飞骧科技, 一清创新, 二八度科技 and 映梦科技 among its disclosed projects. Readers should consult that page for the scope of each disclosure. Fundraising is not the same as current unallocated capital, and sector coverage does not imply identical investment terms.
Source：瞻行资本：投资概况与已投领域
Build university relationships around concrete activities
36Kr reported an entrepreneurship camp jointly organized by Jimhang Academy and the entrepreneurship and innovation center at HKU Business School’s Shenzhen campus. This is evidence of a specific activity with named organizers, rather than a claim of university-wide strategic partnerships.
The useful next record is what followed an exchange: a clearer customer requirement, an agreed field test, a professional review of an IP issue or a more precise project presentation. Jimhang welcomes conversations with university founders and researchers and intends to update its public information as actual activities and relationships develop.
Start with the question your team needs to resolve
We are especially interested in teams with strong technical insight, a clear customer problem and evidence of what they have already tested. A working prototype helps make manufacturing introductions concrete; an earlier deep-tech team can instead explain its technical evidence and the next experiment. Tell us where your team is based and whether you are seeking investment, manufacturing connections or both.
Email an English or Chinese deck and a concise hardware brief to justin@jimscapital.cn with the subject “Hardware × Greater Bay Area | [Company]”. Include the product stage, target market, initial production needs and the question holding you back. The manufacturing guide in this collection shows how to structure that brief.
Leave with a concrete work product
- Read the investment overview to assess stage and sector fit.
- For manufacturing introductions, prepare a product demo and a one-page hardware brief.
- Separate observed evidence, interpretation and open hypotheses.
- Send a pitch deck explaining the funding and specific help sought.