Herry Han

Founding Partner at Soul Capital

Herry Han is Founding Partner of Soul Capital, a Chinese venture capital firm with a focus on supporting tech-enabled early-stage enterprises. Herry is widely recognized as one of the top young investors in China, and received numerous awards, including the “Top 100 Venture Capitalists of China” by Forbes China from 2019 to 2022 and “Top 50 VC Investors in China”by Jiemian from 2017 to 2020.

Over his past 15 years of investment career, Herry invested in dozens of portfolio companies at their early stages, such as Sr. A investment in Xpeng Motors (NYSE:XPEV, 09868.HK), Sr. A investment in Full Truck Alliance (NYSE:YMM), Sr. B investment in FinVolution Group (NYSE:FINV), and other early stage investments such as Xpeng Aeroht，FanDeng Reading, Lanhu, Sunmi, ROXMotor, Minospace and Landscape, etc.

Prior to founding Soul Capital in 2022, Herry is a Co-founder of Lightspeed China Partners since 2011. He is the GP and key shareholder of Lightspeed China Partners Fund III, IV, Select I and RMB I, and currently performs the management duties. In addition, Herry is a Partner of Lightspeed China Fund I & II, and he served as one of six global IC members of the Lightspeed Global Opportunity fund.

Herry was Executive Director of Lightspeed Venture Partners, a leading US venture capital firm from Silicon Valley with US$10 billion under management. He joined the Shanghai office in 2008.

Before that, Herry worked at McKinsey China and Microsoft China. He is also the founder of a McKinsey alumni investors' group, ExMcK@Investment, which has more than 300 VC and PE members across China.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is also a member of CEIBS Venture Capitalist Camp.