Rui Lu
Investor
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Independent Consultant
2023 - Current
Developed comprehensive fundraising strategies for startup founders and executive teams, including pitch deck preparation, financial modeling, and investor outreach.
Seed Round Investor
2020
Opentron makes robots for biologists. Their mission is to provide the scientific community with a common platform to easily share protocols and reproduce each other's results. Opentron's robots automate experiments that would otherwise be done by hand, allowing their community to spend more time pursuing answers to some of the 21st century’s most important questions.
Opentrons is a life science company that develops pipetting robot technology designed to automate experiments.
Raised $240,034,056.00 from Jacket River, SoftBank Vision Fund and Khosla Ventures.
Angel Investor
2017
Radivision is a new, digital TV network for Entrepreneurship, with integrated social community that also delivers free positive PR and investment support to entrepreneurs and their companies.
Radivision is an entrepreneur network streaming community platform that entertains, informs, and connects viewers to startup investment.
Investor
2017
Pre-seed Investor
2019 - 2023
mFluiDx is aiming to develop the world’s lowest cost, automated point-of-care DNA diagnostic assay for small clinics.
mFluiDx focuses on the development of technology solutions to diagnose pandemics and offers a DNA diagnostic test.
Strategic Investment and Corporate Development Team
2021 - 2023
Worked as a member of the strategic investment and corporate development team, and acted in-house consultant for enterprise priorities and initiatives: Deal flow and Investment Execution - Generate high-quality deal flow by proactively identifying investment opportunities through developing and maintaining relationships with Venture capitalists, Accelerators/Incubators, University, Angel Community, and Startup referrals. - Sourced and reviewed 800+ investment opportunities, conducted due diligence and built investment memos for selected opportunities, and presented them to the investment committee. - Independently led end-to-end execution of three investment transactions (i.e. deal sourcing, conducting due diligence, financial modeling, term negotiation) Portfolio Management and Partnership Development - Managed a $XXM portfolio and assisted 30% of portfolio companies to land a partnership or an engagement with business unit leaders of the enterprise. - Researched and developed intelligence on emerging trends and disruptive companies in and around strategic focus areas. adjacencies, etc - Collaborated with cross-functional teams including, legal, partnership, and business units to evaluate pilot/partnership opportunities that can diversify revenue and close functional gaps in enterprise Enterprise Strategy and Initiatives - Played a key role in an enterprise priority project involving building business cases and financial models for a potential joint venture, poised to unlock over $100M in annual revenue opportunity. Corporate Development - Evaluated 10+ M&A opportunities - Tracked venture activities, M&A transactions, as well as JV/Alliance occurring in the market to develop actionable insights
Delta Dental Community Care Foundation provides funding and support to advance research, education and access to dental care .
Investor
2022 - 2023
Led the deal execution and being the POC for the portfolio company
Lightforce Orthodontics is a fully customized 3D-printed bracket system developer based on the anatomy and tooth morphology of each patient.
Raised $150,550,000.00 from CareCapital, Transformation Capital, Tyche Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Ally Bridge Group, Matter Venture Partners, Omega Venture Partners, American Association of Orthodontists and Matrix.
Investor
2021 - 2023
Overjet is a software development company that offers an AI platform for dentistry with precision and educates patients.
Raised $130,550,000.00 from March Capital, General Catalyst, The E14 Fund, Crosslink Capital, American Dental Association, Harmonic Growth Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, Insight Partners and SpringRock Ventures.
Series A Investor
2018 - 2022
Spartan Micro is a neurovascular and peripheral vascular company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets innovative medical devices. We focus on the neurovascular market for the safe endovascular treatment of common, and uncommon, cerebrovascular diseases and abnormalities.
Member
2018 - 2022
Duke Capital Partners supports the duke entrepreneurial community with an angel investing platform and co investment fund.