James Mi
Founding Partner at Lightspeed China Partners
Shanghai
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2011 - Current
Lightspeed China Partners is an early stage venture capital firm with about $3B under management. Early stage investments including Pingduoduo (Nasdaq: PDD), Hesai (Nasdaq: HSAI), Innolight (300308.SHE) and FinVolution (NYSE: FINV)
Managing Director
2008 - 2011
Venture capital investments in US, China, India and Israel
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Director of Corporate Development
2006 - 2008
Responsible for Investment and M&A for China and other Asia markets. Investments include Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), Dianping, Ganji (Acquired by 58, NYSE: WUBA), Xunlei (NASDAQ: XNET), and Tianya.
Head of Asia Products
2003 - 2006
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Co-Founder
1999 - 2003
Manager
1992 - 1999
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.