Winnie Leung

Investment Director at Ajinomoto Corporate Investor

Investment Director
2023 - Current
Ajinomoto CVC is the corporate venture capital arm of Ajinomoto, a $10B revenue technology leader in amino science. We invest in transformative companies that advance new ways to extend health span, develop new approaches that change the ways information is processed, and answer complex challenges in sustainability. Together with Ajinomoto’s community of scientists and engineers, we enable startup founders to build and scale solutions for the future.

VP
2016 - 2023
Founding team member of a $100M agrifood tech VC fund, working with disruptive startups from cellular agriculture to crop gene editing. - Building and evaluating pipelines across alternative proteins, functional ingredients, and other solutions to address health and sustainability - Overseeing the fund’s communications and ecosystem programs since its inception to cultivate startup, co-investor, and LP network to now include Temasek and Syngenta - Spearheading all executive visibility for the company and helping its founders become the face of China agrifood tech investing. Covering media training, message development, media placements and awards, including 2017 TED Fellow - Building ESG assessment framework and reporting structure to measure and improve the impact performance of the fund and portfolios, following UNPRI and GRI principles - Authoring opinion articles and speaking on food tech investing topics in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo and San Francisco, including Smart Kitchen Summit, Global AgInvesting Asia, AG/SUM, Food Navigator Asia, and Taste Tomorrow

Strategic Projects Lead
2015 - 2017
Green Initiatives is Shanghai's leading non-profit that works to combat environmental degradation in China.

Director of Communications
2006 - 2015
Leading all communications activities at a pioneering company in live audio technology, supporting sound engineers for Metallica, Cirque du Soleil, and more - Launching new product programs in collaboration with engineering, product management, education, and sales teams - Transforming PR department focused on trade media into a hybrid multimedia program, including videos with a million views - Managing a team of writers, photographers, and videographers - Serving as Public Relations Sub Group Chair of the AVnu Alliance to help drive cross-industry adoption of a new digital networking standard