Friday, June 27, 2019 4:01 PM #Livecast #Replay
We are joined by Wei Jiang, a venture partner at ZhenFund.
ZhenFund is one of the most respected early stage investors in China.
ZhenFund was founded in 2011 by former entrepreneurs, co-founders of New Oriental, the largest provider of private education in China, Bob Xiaoping Xu and Victor Qiang Wang. The goal of ZhenFund is to invest in the most promising innovators. The fund was launched in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. ZhenFund now has a network of over 600 portfolio companies, including over 10 unicorns based in China and has offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Silicon Valley. The total size of the fund is around 1 billion dollars.

Wei’s investment portfolio includes such companies as Leap.ai, Subtle Medical, Citcon, and many others.

Wei held leadership positions in a number of world class internet companies: Prior to ZhenFund, he was the Chief Marketing Officer at Google Greater China. Wei was an entrepreneur himself, he had founded startups in both US and China. Earlier in his career, Wei worked for eBay, Intuit and NBC internet.

In this episode, we are talking about why ex-Googlers are so special and what are the most interesting segments in media & entertainment that can flourish in the future.