Lu Zhang
Managing Partner at Fusion Fund
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Managing Partner
2015 - Current
www.fusionfund.com
Fusion Fund invests in early stage companies with technological and data advantages in industrial, enterprise, and healthcare applications.
Lecturer
2024
Class for Executives: Break into the Venture Industry
Young Global Leader
2018
100 of the World’s Brightest under 40 Invited To Shape an Inclusive and Sustainable Future One hundred of the world’s most promising artists, business leaders, public servants, technologists and social entrepreneurs have been asked to join the World Economic Forum’s community of Young Global Leaders. They are joining a community and five-year programme that will challenge them to think beyond their scope of expertise and be more impactful leaders. They were nominated because of their ground-breaking work, creative approaches to problems and ability to build bridges across cultures and between business, government, and civil society.
Board Member
2020
Loft Labs enables any organization to scale self-service access to Kubernetes from 10 to 10,000 engineers.
Raised $28,600,000.00 from Surface Ventures, Kit Merker, Emergent Ventures, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, Fusion Fund and Khosla Ventures.
Board Member
2019
Huma is a provider of business intelligence platform built to automate healthcare through human language.
Raised $13,926,677.00 from PharmStars.
Investor
2023
Vectara provides a generative AI product platform for embedding generative AI features into applications.
Raised $53,500,000.00 from Mack Ventures, FPV Ventures, Green Sands Equity, Fusion Fund, Race Capital, Alumni Ventures, WVV Capital and Samsung NEXT.
Investor
2019
Otter.ai improves business team productivity by providing an app to capture, share, and recall all meeting notes.
Raised $73,000,000.00 from Draper Associates, H. Barton Asset Management, Draper Dragon, Fusion Fund, Slow Ventures, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Spectrum Equity, Gutbrain Ventures, Horizons Ventures and Duke Angel Network.
Investor
2021
You.com is an AI chatbot and search engine that uses LLM to deliver personalized responses to queries with human-like replies.
Raised $95,000,000.00 from Georgian, SBVA, Day One Ventures, Alumni Ventures, DuckDuckGo, NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures.
Investor
2023
Nexusflow is a generative AI business that works in the cybersecurity market.
Raised $10,600,000.00 from Point72 Ventures and Fusion Fund.
Investor
2015
Mission Bio develops only single-cell multi-omics platform integrating genotype and phenotype for cancer research and biomarker development.
Raised $150,898,729.00 from Novo Holdings, Cota Capital, Soleus Capital, Mayfield Fund, Seabed VC and Agilent Ventures.