Northern Light Venture Capital

Northern Light Venture Capital (NLVC) is a Chinese venture capital firm founded in 2005. It focuses on investing in companies in the technology and healthcare sectors.

Background
NLVC was founded in 2005 by Feng Deng, Jeffrey Lee and Yan Ke. Feng Deng and Yan Ke were previously co-founders of NetScreen Technologies, an IT Security company that went public on Nasdaq in 2001 and was later acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004 for $4.2 billion. New Enterprise Associates and Min Zhu (co-founder of WebEx) were initial backers of the firm when it was raising its first fund. Greylock Partners is another early backer of the firm.

NLVC invests 70% of its funds into Series A rounds, 20% in Series B rounds and 10% into Seed rounds. Notable investments include Aerohive Networks, Meituan  and VIPKid.

NLVC has offices in Silicon Valley, Hong Kong and several cities in China including, Beijing, Shanghai.