GPTX簡坤投資 x Shanghai-HK Sci-Tech PE Fund: Empowering Shanghai’s Emerging High-Quality Industries
Conference Opens: Building a New Platform for Industrial Synergy
On June 16, 2026, the First General Assembly of the Shanghai Emerging Industries Investment Promotion Association, themed “Focusing on Emerging Industries, Charting a Grand Vision for Development,” was grandly convened. The event brought together leading enterprises and industry representatives from various sectors of Shanghai’s emerging industries. The venue was packed with distinguished guests, and the atmosphere was lively as attendees gathered to witness this important milestone in the collaborative development of Shanghai’s industries.
The establishment of the Shanghai Emerging Industries Investment Promotion Association is a significant initiative to serve the national strategy of high-quality development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and to support the construction of Shanghai’s “Five Centers.” In October 2024, at a symposium jointly organized by the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology and the Shanghai offices of provinces and cities along the Yangtze River, participating business representatives proposed the initiative to establish a platform organization focused on emerging industries, aimed at enhancing industrial chains and promoting investment cooperation. Following multiple rounds of research, deliberation, communication, coordination, and preparatory work, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology formally approved the establishment of the Association on April 23, 2026.
With the mission of “serving members, advancing the industry, fostering collaboration, and pursuing shared development,” the Association focuses on the development of Shanghai’s “Five Centers,” builds a specialized industrial promotion platform, and drives the synergistic integration of resources such as enterprises, talent, capital, technology, and projects to remove bottlenecks hindering the “integration, synergy, and deepening” of emerging industries. Currently, the Association has 243 founding members, including 239 corporate members, covering multiple sectors such as manufacturing, financial services, the digital economy, green and low-carbon industries, and industrial research, demonstrating broad industry representation and professional influence.
The high-quality development of emerging industries relies on the precise empowerment and ecosystem-based support of financial capital. Ms. Ophelia Gao, Founder and CEO of GPTX簡坤投資, has been elected Vice Chairman (Alternate) of the Shanghai Emerging Industries Investment Promotion Association. This election not only signifies the industry’s recognition of her professional capabilities but also affirms the practical achievements of GPTX簡坤投資 in the field of Shanghai-Hong Kong science and technology innovation finance. Moving forward, she will further play a leading and exemplary role in the industry, driving the precise allocation of financial resources to emerging industries.
Shanghai-HK Sci-Tech Innovation PE Partnership: Building a Powerful Engine to Empower Science and Technology Innovation
As a flagship initiative in financial cooperation and industrial synergy between Shanghai and Hong Kong, the Shanghai-HK Sci-Tech Innovation PE Partnership serves as the core vehicle through which GPTX簡坤投資 responds to national strategies and supports the development of Shanghai’s emerging industries. Leveraging the complementary strengths of Shanghai and Hong Kong in finance, industry, and scientific research, the fund has established a full-chain investment system combining “industrial capital, cutting-edge research, and cross-border empowerment,” thereby injecting dual momentum into the growth of Shanghai’s hard tech enterprises.
🔍——Strategic Positioning: Deepening Shanghai-Hong Kong Synergy to Serve the Nation’s Overarching Interests
The establishment of the Shanghai-HK Sci-Tech Innovation PE Partnership is a key initiative to implement the national 14th Five-Year Plan and the “Action Plan for the Coordinated Development of Shanghai and Hong Kong as International Financial Centers,” and it also represents a landmark achievement in the deep integration of the technology and finance sectors between Shanghai and Hong Kong. Guided by the principle of “Hong Kong as the source, Shanghai as the main stage, efficiency as the driving force, and best practices as the method,” the fund fully leverages the synergies between Shanghai and Hong Kong under the “One Country, Two Systems” framework to systematically harness the combined effects of “Hong Kong as an innovation hub” and “Shanghai as an industrial hinterland.”
Through in-depth strategic cooperation with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the fund has established a full-chain innovation system encompassing “basic research – technology transfer – industrial incubation” innovation ecosystem. Leveraging the cutting-edge research resources of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Hong Kong Generative Artificial Intelligence Research Center (HKGAI), and combining them with Shanghai’s comprehensive industrial chain and application scenarios, the fund effectively bridges the gap between industry and capital in Shanghai and Hong Kong, accelerates the commercialization of university research outcomes in Shanghai, and provides sustained momentum for Shanghai to attract top international talent and cross-border capital.
📢——Synergistic Ecosystem: A Powerhouse Partnership to Build Full-Cycle Support
Shanghai-HK Sci-Tech Innovation PE Partnership adopts a dual general partner structure comprising Shanghai Futeng Private Equity Fund Management Co., Ltd. (Fortera Capital) and Jiankun Shanghai. With Fortera Capital serving as the fund manager, the fund has received strategic investments from the Shanghai SOE Mother Fund, Shanghai Future Industry Fund, and Xuhui Capital, while also attracting foreign capital. It focuses on investments in key industries and plays a central role in incubating projects from Hong Kong universities for implementation in Shanghai. As a flagship project of the HKUST Shanghai Industrial Ecosystem Alliance, this fund bridges the two-way flow of capital and industry between Shanghai and Hong Kong, efficiently driving the commercialization of university-based scientific and technological achievements.
The fund leverages the synergistic empowerment of three key partners: Fortera Capital, jointly established by several leading industrial groups with over 30 billion yuan under management, specializes in early-stage hard tech investments and possesses deep industry resources; The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) possesses outstanding global research capabilities, enabling it to continuously supply the fund with high-quality science and technology innovation projects and technical support; GPTX簡坤投資, licensed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, specializes in cross-border investment and is able to provide portfolio companies with one-stop value-added services—including international expansion, full-cycle post-investment management, and diversified exit strategies—thereby building an integrated science and technology innovation investment ecosystem that unites industry, academia, research, and investment in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
🎯——Investment Strategy: Focusing on Early-Stage Hard Tech and Building a Pipeline of High-Quality Projects
The fund targets a total size of 500 million RMB and systematically focuses on the early-stage investment phase, prioritizing transformative technology sectors such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced manufacturing, and biotechnology. It carefully selects high-quality startups founded by teams with overseas backgrounds that possess disruptive technological potential and the capacity for rapid growth in the Chinese market. With Shanghai as its core hub, the fund extends its reach to the Yangtze River Delta and leverages cross-border resources.
The fund has already built a robust pipeline of projects, encompassing more than a dozen high-quality initiatives across sectors such as AI voice collaboration platforms, autonomous driving, medical robotics, GPUs, and AI agents. These projects span various growth stages—including angel, VC, and PE rounds—and will continue to inject high-growth, innovative forces into Shanghai’s emerging industrial ecosystem.
Outlook for the Future
The establishment of the Shanghai Emerging Industries Investment Promotion Association has created a broader platform for the coordinated development of Shanghai’s emerging industries. Moving forward, GPTX簡坤投資will seize this opportunity presented by the Association to fully leverage its role as Vice President of the Financial Sector in driving industry growth. With the Shanghai-Hong Kong Industrial Fund as its core initiative, the firm will continue to deepen the synergistic collaboration between the financial and industrial sectors in Shanghai and Hong Kong, and establish channels connecting cross-border capital, cutting-edge technologies, and local industries.
GPTX簡坤投資 will also continue to leverage the strengths of both Shanghai and Hong Kong to continuously refine its “capital + universities” model for science and technology innovation investment. By helping more high-quality science and technology innovation enterprises establish themselves and grow in Shanghai, the firm aims to support Shanghai’s efforts to strengthen its functions as an international financial center and a hub for science and technology innovation, build a new system for an open economy, and promote a high-quality development model characterized by a virtuous cycle of “technology–industry–finance.”