Silk Road VC — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($500K–$2.0M Checks)
Silk Road VC is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Manchester, UK investing in Other. The firm typically writes $500K–$2.0M checks and has 1 portfolio company in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 1 company on record
- Partners
- 7 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other
- HQ
- Manchester, UK
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-06-10
Pre-Seed, Seed
$500K – $2.0M
1+ companies
7 partners
Investment Thesis
Focused on backing ambitious retail and e-commerce startups reshaping the omni-channel customer journey.
How Silk Road VC invests
Silk Road VC is a vc firm based in Manchester, UK. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other. It does not invest in SaaS.
Silk Road VC typically writes checks of $500K–$2.0M per investment.
Silk Road VC has backed 1 company in our records, including Urban Goods.
Partners & Team
Nan Zheng
Director
Mengou Liang
Investment Director
Shan He
Director
Shu Wu
Director
Yao Wu
Director
Martin Cooper
Managing Partner
Jian Gong
Senior Executive Director
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (1)
Other
Urban Goods
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Nan Zheng, Director.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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