Philippe Chevalier
United States
Mr. Jay Zhao is the Founding Partner and serves as General Partner at Leonis Capital. Mr. Zhao is an Angel Investor. He served as Executive at Walden Venture Capital. As an entrepreneur-turned-VC, he brings over 8 years of startup and venture capital experience. He served as Partner at T Fund. At Walden Venture Capital, he is particularly passionate about partnering with first-time founders in Consumer (Media, Marketplace, Commerce, Hardware) and Frontier Technology (AI, VR/AR, Robotics). Prior to joining WaldenVC, he was a Principal at Granite Ventures, where he partnered with ambitious companies such as Anaplan, Hirevue, Smule, Telltale Games, Motiv and KindlyCare. Prior to joining Granite, he was a Founding Partner at Health Nest, a seed fund accelerator that focuses on supporting consumer mobile startups, specifically mobile & digital health companies. He helped cofound the program and led the first batch of investments. He began his career as the founder & CEO of Pureland, a cross-border e-commerce startup that aimed to deliver high-quality tea through a socially-conscious model. He is an active mentor at 500 Startups and a startup judge at Plug and Play He also founded "Founders & VCs", a community of 2500+ active founders and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, to generate and promote entrepreneurship contents for the startup community. He earned his degree from Tulane University, A.B Freeman School of Business.
Individual/Angel