Pepper Ventures

Background

• 25 years of experience in international investment banking and top-tier US dollar long-term funds (CICC, Credit Suisse, UBS, and Capital Group executive)

• Among the top 4 most profitable partners at Oriental Fortune Capital

• General Manager of the CNPGC CICC Healthcare Industry Fund, all invested projects achieved excess returns

• Established a private equity fund with a cumulative investment scale of 2.5 billion

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, PhD in Material Science from Queen's University in Canada, and a full-time MBA

Investment Strength

• Founded a $400+M Shanghai-based PE fund 

• Founded $540M SinoPharm-CICC investment fund 

• One of the seven partners in Capital Group's Global Fund CIPEF VI with a $3 billion fund size

• Led the fundraising of 2.3 billion for Yunda Express's Pre-IPO investment

• Led the fundraising of 1 billion for the first-round investment in Shanghai Yuanxin Satellite

• Led Capital Group's $300 million investment in Didi

• Founded and managed a RMB industry investment fund of 3.5 billion RMB

Milestone Deals 

•  Led investments in Didi (the world's largest ride-sharing platform), Cinda Biopharmaceuticals (a biopharmaceutical unicorn), Shanghai United Imaging (a medical equipment unicorn), Feipeng Biotechnology (ranked among the top three biotech unicorns in China - Hurun 2021 Global Unicorn List), Yunda Express (one of China's top four express delivery companies), and Yuanxin Satellite (low-orbit broadband satellite industry group), all of which were successfully exited.

Background

• Former Lead Cryptographer at Coinbase 

• Angel Investor and advisor for multiple Web3 Companies.  

• Security researcher and auditor (independent or competitive auditing on Code4Rena, Sherlock.xyz and Secure3)

• Alumni of JHU and NCSU research on cryptography and blockchain. 

• Worked at Coinbase, Transparent Financial Systems, State Street, IBM Research, Cheetah Mobile, Google

Technical Strength 

• Core contributor of Kryptology - Coinbase’s open source cryptography library 

• Core contributor and founding member of Hyperledger Fabric. 

Research Strength 

• Author of multiple top-tier cryptography and blockchain research papers

• Reviewer of top cryptography conferences such as CRYPTO, ASIACRYPT and PKC. 

• Research was supported by the National Science Foundation of United States. 

Personal Website

• https://linktr.ee/lfzkoala

Background

• Listing team lead in EU of the largest crypto exchange

• Chainlink alumni responsible for deal sourcing, rating, and prioritization in hundreds of projects in EMEA

• Serial entrepreneur（Invested by Toyota）

• Huawei Technologies GmbH (HQ in West EU)

Influence to Crypto Communities 

• Avatar DAO Research Lead Backed by OKX 

• Research Lead of HZGB - One of the largest crypto communities in secondary market trading (30k members)

• Invited guest on Binance Live, Footprint Analytics' on-chain analysis platform.

• Extensive experience in Web3 project investment and research

• Years of experience in top accounting firms with expertise in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), anti-fraud investigations, and due diligence

• Managed multiple IPOs and SPAC projects, familiar with cross-border markets of A-share, US stock, and Hong Kong stock exchanges

• Proficient in the financial operations and corporate financial governance of high-tech, media, and internet industries across multinational corporations

• Raised Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPAC) with total fund size of $275 million.