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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

Actually, I'm not against the consumer.

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

I just feel like different firms have to have their own focus and what we're good at and also whether we could be the best supporter for them to really take out money.

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

So not only me and also my teams, my operating team, my partner team, all of us have strong industry background, former operator and technical background.

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

So we're very confident to help the enterprise SaaS or technology funder rather than the consumer funder.

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

And on the other side, as I mentioned earlier, when I started Found, I saw the opportunity as business model,

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

innovation cycle, they go with different stage.

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

And we went through the business model innovation.

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

The hub was back in 2014.

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

So after that, we need the next round of fundamental tech innovation, technology application innovation, and then business model innovation.

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

So to me, it kind of,

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

see the big trend coming up with technology innovation itself.

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

Consider technology innovation, consumer application is not necessarily the best one.

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

For example, for AI, it's hard to name one killer app for AI application for consumer facing companies or product.

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

But when we see AI in industry or AI in healthcare, you could see the full capacity and also advantages to use this technology.

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

Actually, second fund size is actually almost $90 million.

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

Okay.

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

Yeah.

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

I think more than 90% of the FundOne LP also putting money into FundTwo.

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

I think around less than 30%.

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

Yes, yes.