Young Chinese venture capitalist eyes powerful Silicon Valley fund
Zhang Lu, founder and managing partner of NewGen Capital, feels unworthy of lavish praise despite being named by Forbes as one of the leading young change-makers and innovators in the United States.
The 27-year-old is too focused on the future to bask in glory.
“My goal is to establish a top-tier venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, with China playing a leading role,” she said. “Banking on the rise of China and its further development, I hope to realise it in five to 10 years with my best endeavours.”
Zhang is a rare phenomenon: a female Silicon Valley venture capitalist from China.
At the beginning of 2017, she made it onto the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of young elites, which describes itself as offering “an opportunity to embrace the optimism, inventiveness and boldness of youth”.
The US has the best technologies in the world and China has the largest market. A synergy created between the two countries is desirable
After graduating in materials science in 2010 at Tianjin University, Zhang moved on to earn a masters degree at Stanford. She applied her work with nano-thin biosensors to build a new medical device for testing for Type II diabetes as part of her entrepreneurship class.
