Our Mission
Decent Capital concentrates on industry innovators, ecosystem creators and high-growth, high-quality entrepreneurs, adopting long-term strategic visions and paying active attention to post-investment coaching and management. Apart from start-up capital, Decent also offers value-add services to entrepreneurs including public relations, technology, product, marketing, talent support, legal services and so forth.
Jason Zeng
Jason Zeng
Founder & Chairman
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Jason Zeng
Founder & Chairman

Mr. Liqing Zeng (Jason) is the Co-founder of Tencent Holdings Ltd. (“the Company”), China’s most valuable corporation and a leading provider of comprehensive Internet services, with monthly active user accounts of its highlight product QQ at 899 million and that of Weixin/WeChat at 806 million for Q2 2016. The company was founded in Shenzhen in 1998 and went public on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2004. As the Chief Operating Officer from 1999 to 2007, Jason was responsible for overseeing the company's business lines and product portfolios, as well as managing the company’s sales and marketing activities. Since June 2007, Jason has been the Advisor Emeritus of the company.

Prior to Tencent, Mr. Zeng served as a manager in the Shenzhen Branch of China Telecom Corporation Limited, a company engaging in information service, wired telecommunications and broadband services and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Zeng received his EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School in 2007 and his Bachelor degree in Computer Communication from Xi'an Electronic Technology University in 1993.

Tong Xie
Tong Xie
Managing Director
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Tong Xie
Managing Director

Tong Xie is the Managing Director of Decent Capital. He has over 25 years industry experience including 12 years in IBM with core competencies in entrepreneurship, I/T architecting & consulting and management. He has worked and lived in Silicon Valley, Australia, Hong Kong and China.


Tong earned his Master of Business Administration(MBA) from Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University.


Our main focus is to back North America technology startups at early stages particularly in the areas of software, cloud computing, wireless sensor network, industry IoT, consumer tech and frontier tech.

Echo Du
Echo Du
CFO
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Echo Du
CFO

Echo, CICPA, serves as Operations Vice President at Decent Capital, responsible for financial due diligence and post-investment management. Prior to joining Decent Capital, she worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP Shenzhen Branch and participated in the annual audit of a number of listed companies in Hong Kong and the A-share listed companies. She is also involved with several IPO project audits.

Echo obtained both her undergraduate and master degree in accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and minored.

Chris Cao
Chris Cao
Vice President
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Chris Cao
Vice President

Mr. Yang Cao joined Decent Capital in 2015 and focuses on investment in biotech and consumer sector. Prior to joining Decent Capital, Mr. Cao worked in a French start-up ("MAILJET") and EDF headquarter in Paris, where he participated in strategic planning of the company. He has specialty in market entry strategy and game theory.

Mr. Cao graduated from Wuhan University and Universtiy of Aberdeen with a Double Degree in Finance and Economics, then obtained his Master’s Degree in Quantitative Economics from HEC Paris and École Polytechnique.

Dr. Ling Li
Dr. Ling Li
Senior Investment Manager
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Dr. Ling Li
Senior Investment Manager

Dr. Li is a Senior Investment Manager at Decent Capital, covering North America and other global areas.

Before joining Decent Capital, Dr. Li had worked at Enova International for many years, helping expand the markets in both North America and China. He has extensive experiences in financial lending, online operations, credit modeling and business analytics.

Dr. Li holds a PhD in Astrophysics and a MS in Financial Mathematics. He graduated from the University of Chicago and Wuhan University.

Kevin Liu
Kevin Liu
Investment Manager
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Kevin Liu
Investment Manager

Kevin Liu is an investor in the SF Bay Area office where he concentrates on investments in enterprise software, including vertical SaaS, MLOps, and data infrastructure. Kevin has a special interest in data-centric AI and ESG. 

Kevin holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Quantitative Economics from New York University, and a Master in investment management from Yale School of Management.

Fun Fact: Kevin is an adventure photographer who traveled to remote places to share his vision of wild places with others.

Helena Zhang
Helena Zhang
Investment Analyst
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Helena Zhang
Investment Analyst

Helena is an investor who is passionate about enterprise software and frontier tech. She actively explores ideas in the developer space with emphases on security, DevOps/DevSecOps and AI/ML infrastructure. Helena is a believer in polymathic approaches to bridge seemingly unrelated problems.

Helena holds a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering, and bioinformatics from UCLA. Her research areas include human-computer interaction, UX/UI development and procedural generation.

Fun fact: If you spot her sitting in front of a PC, she is either coding or (more likely) gaming.