Duane Kuang

Founding Managing Partner at Qiming Venture Partners

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Biography

Duane Kuang is a Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners, where his stated investment focus is information technology, artificial intelligence and automation. Before entering venture capital in 1999, he began his career as a software engineer in Silicon Valley, spent five years in senior management roles at Cisco Systems in China, and then served as Director of Intel Capital China. Qiming's own profile lists Roborock, WeRide, UBTech, Unisound, Hesai Technology, StepFun, Chaitin and Qiniu Cloud among his portfolio companies. He was named to the Forbes Global 100 VC Midas List in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

WeRide WRDHesai Technology HSAIRoborockUBTechStepFunUnisoundQiniu CloudChaitin

Career Timeline

1999
Started his venture capital career.
2017
Qiming Venture Partners began investing in WeRide, participating in its Series Seed, A and B rounds.
2020
Named to the Forbes Global 100 VC Midas List, a listing he repeated in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
2024
Spoke for Qiming as WeRide completed its IPO on Nasdaq.

Sources & References

Qiming Venture Partners - Duane Kuang ↗Qiming Venture Partners - Team ↗Qiming Venture Partners Celebrates WeRide's IPO on Nasdaq (25 Oct 2024) ↗WeRide Inc. Form 20-F for FY2025 (SEC, 23 Apr 2026) ↗WeRide Inc. - Board of Directors ↗