CEO and Partner, ZhenFund
2020 John Jay Award Honoree
Anna Fang CC’04 is founding CEO and partner of ZhenFund, an early-stage venture capital firm in China focused on consumer internet and technology-enabled companies. Fang leads ZhenFund’s investments, portfolio management and operations; she led the firm’s investments in unicorns such as RED (XiaoHongShu), Perfect Diary, Mia, Yitu, Horizon Robotics and NiceTuan (ShiHuiTuan)..
Fang started her career as an investment banker at JPMorgan in the Consumer Healthcare and Retail Group. She later joined GE China’s Corporate Business Development team, helping to expand the company’s mergers and acquisitions and business development efforts in China, before joining ZhenFund in 2011.
Fang was named to Forbes’s Midas List of the World’s Top Tech Investors in 2019 at the age of 36. She is well recognized as a top early-stage tech investor in China, having consistently been selected as one of China’s Top 10 Early-stage Investors by Zero2IPO and one of China’s 40 under 40 venture capital investors. Fang was named to the 2016 class of Young Global Leaders.
Fang’s Columbia College degree is in economics, and she earned an M.B.A. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She is a member of the Columbia College Board of Visitors and sits on the alumni board of Columbia’s Global Center in Beijing; she also is an officer for the Beijing chapter of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Network.
