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Founded in 2015, Grit Ventures is an experienced venture capital company established by senior IT industry background and a professional investment team. Grit Ventures focuses on early-stage startups in China and US, aimed at long-term growth. Grit venture capital has become a unique venture capital institution in the field of integrated circuits, semiconductor chips, new materials, intelligent manufacturing, and cross-border E-commerce.

: Hard & Core Technology

IC/Chip, AI and Enterprise service hardware.

: Enterprise Services

BI (Business Intelligence), Big data, Security, AIops, Edge computing and other fields.

: ABC Empowerment

Enable A (AI), B (Big data), C (Cloud Computing) and other technologies to Medical health, E-commerce, Logistics and other industries.

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: EVAN ZHAO

Founding Partner

Mr. Zhao Meng has nearly 20 years' working background and investment experience in IT industry. He has worked in Microsoft, Intel and other international companies for more than 15 years, and has many years of working experience in the United States. He has rich industry experience and network resources for Chinese and American markets. Zhao Meng founded Li Shi venture in 2015, and engaged in venture capital business in mainland China, Silicon Valley and Europe. Mr. Zhao Meng focused on product technology and business model innovation projects, especially advanced technology investment, and has rich resource network in Chinese mainland and American industry. Great help. The investment projects involved include: Jimi technology, fine carving technology, Yuki, ncompass, Starlink, atscale, etc.

: Jackson He

CTO／Partner

Dr. he Jingxiang has more than 30 years of experience in the global IT industry. He worked in Intel's US headquarters for 23 years from 1995 to 2018. He was appointed to China as the general manager of Intel Asia Pacific R & D Co., Ltd. for 6 years from 2011 to 2017. In addition, Dr. he has held various leadership roles in Intel Labs / Intel Labs, Intel Architecture division of Intel IA product group, Intel datacenter group / Intel Data Center Division, Intel Software & Services Group / software and services division, and Intel AI product group / artificial intelligence products division. In recent years, Dr. he has focused on cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises and the Internet industry. He is a key driver of Intel's cloud computing construction plan in China and an important consultant of the Open Data Center Alliance.

: GEORGE HUANG

Executive Director

Dr. Huang Zhiwei has more than 10 years of working experience in consulting, it and investment industries, and has deep accumulation in venture capital, business model and strategy, capital operation and other fields. Huang Zhiwei participated in the establishment of Lishi venture capital in 2015, mainly focusing on high-tech and consumption fields. In the field of venture capital, Huang Zhiwei has successively participated in investment projects such as Lingke aerospace, maker post, tianzixing, aiearn, Fengfeng gas station, Ciyun digital, Renjia intelligence, Yuki quadratic, etc. Huang Zhiwei is a master of economics from the Central University of Finance and economics, a doctor of management of Renmin University of China, and a postdoctoral of School of economics and management of Tsinghua University. He has professional qualifications such as Chinese certified public accountant, international management consultant and PMP.

: OLIVE XU

Director of Operations

Ms. Xu Chen formally joined Lishi venture capital in 2015, mainly responsible for the post investment management and operation of the fund. Ms. Xu Chen has many years' working background in IT industry. She has worked in technology, operation, sales and marketing departments of international companies such as Kingdee, HP and Intel. Ms. Xu Chen has obtained bachelor's degree in economics, master's degree in supply chain engineering and master's degree in business management from China Agricultural University, Wageningen University and Tasmania University.

: LINGLU TANG

Investment Manager

Mr. Tang received a master's degree in economics from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2016. At the beginning of 2017, he formally joined Lishi venture capital as an investment manager, mainly responsible for industry research, project acquisition and investment in the field of hard science and technology in China and the United States. The actual projects involved in artificial intelligence, enterprise services, semiconductor chips and other subdivision directions, including Tsinghua Muchuan, Navitas, atscale, ncompass, etc.

: Wu Yuan

Finance Manager

Ms. Wu Yuan officially joined Grit Ventures capital in early 2021, mainly responsible for financial work. She has many years of working experience in finance and private fund operation in the financial industry. Once worked in the custody department of CSC, responsible for issuing the liquidation report to private securities fund、private equity fund、trust fund and other financial products. Later, she worked as a fund operation manager in the fund company, including product establishment, accounting, dividends and other middle and back-office work. She received a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of International Business and Economics.

: Chen Lei

Investment Manager

Mr. Chen Lei has many years of working experience in consulting, entrepreneurship and investment. Joined Grit Ventures in 2022, focusing on investment in semiconductors, automotive electronics and data centers. Before joining Grit Ventures capital, he worked in Shanghai Lianchuang investment and participated in projects including core moving, smart microelectronics, Niuniu growth and so on. Once participated in the management trainee program of the China Yilian group and was responsible for the strategic consultation of internal projects of the group. Once had a consumer brand entrepreneurship experience. In 2015, he graduated from Shanghai University with a master's degree in environmental engineering.

: Wu Haihua

Investment Manager

Mr.Wu Haihua has a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering and automation and a Master's degree in Business Administration（MBA）. He had more than 10 years of technical development working experience across consumer electronics, industrial instruments, and industrial equipment areas, so he has deep technical insights. Also, he has done semiconductor industry investment for more than 4 years until now. I am familiar with PE investment and the semiconductor industry. Up to now, the successfully invested projects that he is involved in include PNC, Huaqin technology, BASiC semiconductor, tdytech, Synaptics TDDI, Jingyi Automation Equipment, Zhejiang Core Semiconductor, Huatu Microchip Technology, Hangzhou Semiconductor Wafer, Rongxin semiconductor, etc.