Neil Shen

Founding and Managing Partner, HongShan
$3.45B
$13.4M (0.4%)
as of 08/10/26

About Neil Shen

Neil Shen is the founding and managing partner of HSG, formerly known as Sequoia China until 2023.

The investor in Meituan, Pinduoduo, TikTok parent ByteDance, and Kimi developer Moonshot returns to the Midas List for a 15th consecutive year.

Shen was a successful entrepreneur himself earlier in his career, cofounding travel site Trip.com before joining Sequoia.

Shen had previously worked as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank Hong Kong, Chemical Bank, Lehman Brothers and Citibank.

The Hong Kong-based investor has backed some of China's biggest tech companies like fintech Ant Group, fast fashion giant Shein and video platform Kuaishou, which now has a $30 billion market cap.

Personal stats

Citizenship

People's Republic of China

Source of wealth

Venture capital

Residence

Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

Marital status

Married

Birth date

12/16/67 (age 58)

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Master of Arts, Yale University

Self-made

self-made

Neil Shen’s fortune is worth

58K

troy ounces of gold

53K

median U.S. household

35K

median U.S. income

0.069%

U.S. credit card volume

0.014%

GDP of the United States

0.01%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

HONG KONG | 1024-HK

Kuaishou Technology

HONG KONG | 3690-HK

Meituan Dianping

NASDAQ | PDD-US

Pinduoduo

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