Gary Rieschel

Founding Managing Partner at Qiming Venture Partners · Joined 2006

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Biography

Gary Rieschel came to China-focused venture capital from SoftBank, co-founding Qiming Venture Partners with Duane Kuang, a former Intel Capital investor, in Shanghai in 2006. The two built one of China's most consistently successful venture firms over the following two decades, backing more than 480 companies with over 70 reaching unicorn status and more than 180 completing IPOs or acquisitions, including Xiaomi, Meituan, Bilibili, and Zhihu. Rieschel later co-founded Qiming U.S. with Mark McDade in 2017, extending the firm's model into an independent US dollar fund, and has remained a Founding Managing Partner across both entities as Qiming grew to $9.5 billion in assets under management - backed by longtime institutional partners including Princeton, Duke, MIT, and NYU.

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

Xiaomi 1810.HKBilibili BILIZhihu ZH

Career Timeline

1990s
Builds an investing career at SoftBank before turning to China-focused venture capital.
2006
Co-founds Qiming Venture Partners with Duane Kuang in Shanghai.
2017
Co-founds Qiming U.S. with ex-pharma executive Mark McDade, launching the firm's first independent US-based fund.
2022
Qiming raises $2.4 billion from US institutional investors for its eighth dollar fund.

Sources & References

The Wire China - Who is Qiming Venture Partners? ↗Wikipedia - Qiming Venture Partners ↗