Bay2 Ventures

Two bays, one rising tide.
Bay-Area minds. Bay-Area built.

We are a builder-led venture fund spanning China's Greater Bay Area and America's Bay Area. We are investors — but we have also built companies and shipped products ourselves. So we would rather stand shoulder to shoulder with founders as partners: bringing our networks, experience and resources, and building alongside them.

Our Thesis
We see

AI and agents are opening the greatest opportunity of our generation. The way people and machines interact is shifting too — from people learning to operate machines, toward machines learning to understand human intent.

We believe

Beyond the smartphone, more and more hardware — closer to how people naturally behave and to real-world scenarios — will come into everyday life. The two Bay Areas of China and the US hold the world's most advanced and irreplaceable software creativity and hardware manufacturing; the real value lies in connecting the two.

We aim to

At the intersection of software and hardware, we find the teams and products that make the most sense — and help them accelerate the day when people, agents and intelligent devices truly work together.

What we bring

The resources our companies can put to work.

Capital
Funding from angel to growth, in both USD and RMB.
In-house Engineering
A 200+ person engineering team our companies can draw on.
Product Definition & Design
Category and product definition, from user insight to spec.
Prototype → Production
Prototype, DFM and mass production across the Greater Bay.
Data-Driven Growth
Dynamic, data-driven sales analysis, paid acquisition and channel growth.
Community
Community building, localized marketing and go-to-market reach.
Portfolio
A curated portfolio of Physical-AI hardware — pet-care robotics to embodied home systems.
Neakasa 集海
Pet-care robotics
Amazon #1
SwitchBot 卧安
Home embodied AI
06600.HK
Narwal 云鲸
Cleaning robots
Pre-IPO
EAI 乐动
Robotics perception
1236.HK
Undisclosed(deal in progress)
AI childcare
Pre-IPO
Undisclosed(deal in progress)
Portable sticker printer
Seed round
The Partners

Builders with a proven record.

Franklin
Product & Bestsellers
Founder of Neakasa; category bestsellers (multiple Amazon #1), ~$100M annual revenue.
Steven
Brand & Channels
Founder of 4K Miles & PartyWoo; 4K Miles acquired into Omnicom's Flywheel at $835M.
Stevo
Capital & SV Networks
Ex–Forge Global; Animoca Brands IC; deep Silicon Valley capital-market relationships.
Get in touch

Bay-Area minds. Bay-Area built.

Let's build something great together
hello@baysquared.ai
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