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Lu Zhang

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
140 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

So it's how to actually adapt a new technology with traditional manufacturing, like even semiconductor industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

And the second one is network technology, including cybersecurity, wearing a word like Internet of everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

So how to increase the network speed and also hardware.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

protect the security.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

And the third one is the artificial intelligence.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

Actually, I started investing in data analytics and artificial intelligence back in 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

So for the AI company I invested, you mean from Fund One, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

Okay, sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

So for the AI company, one company I invested in called Stratify is a company I invested in back in 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

It's one of my first couple investments I found one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

And they're doing AI, BI solution for the big and the medium sized corporation to enable big corporation to really empower themselves with the technology rather than have a data scientist.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

So, so far they have more than like $40 million annual revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

So when I invest in them, the valuation is pretty low.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

They just got started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

So it's a great journey to be with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

And some other AI investment I made actually this year is more about combination between AI in healthcare, like computer vision for medical imaging, deep learning for medical imaging.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

A company I recently closed called Subto Medical.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

It's a deep learning for medical imaging to enable us to use the low resolution CT scan, be able to reconstruct your images and provide accurate results to the doctor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

So I think that's a big trend, like how to really empower healthcare innovation with the AI technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

Yeah, that's a very good question, especially considering my operator background.