Anna Fang | |
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Other names | Fang Aizhi |
Education | Columbia University (BA) Stanford University (MBA) |
Title | CEO, ZhenFund |
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Anna Fang (Chinese: 方爱之; pinyin: Fāng Àizhī) is a Chinese venture capitalist. She is the founding partner and CEO of ZhenFund.[1]
Fang graduated from Westtown School in 2000,[2] then received her BA from Columbia University in 2004 and received her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2010.[3][4] She started her career as an investment banker at JPMorgan after graduating from Columbia before working for a Chinese cultural organization in the United Kingdom.[5] After graduating from Stanford, she started at General Electric China in business development before being approached by her Stanford classmate to help Chinese investor Xu Xiaoping launch a new venture capital fund, now known as ZhenFund.[1][6]
Fang has funded more than 30 seed-stage startups that have gone on to be unicorns, including the internet platform Xiaohongshu, Horizon Robotics, Huobi, VIPKid, and Nuro.[1][7][5]
In April 2022, she was named #1 on Forbes magazine's debut Midas Seed List for "building the world's best seed-stage startup portfolio" and was named #12 on the Midas List, being the highest ranked woman on the list.[8][9][10] She appeared on the 2023 Midas List of seed investors (at #2) and top tech investors (at #28). [11]
Fang is considered one of the most influential angel investors in China.[12][13][14][15]
Fang sits on the board of Columbia Global Centers, East Asia.[16][17] She is a recipient of Columbia College's John Jay Award in 2022.[3]
Fang is the daughter of prominent Chinese investment banker Fang Fenglei, who helped found China International Capital Corporation and served as the Chairman of Goldman Sachs's China division.[5] She married investor Gunther Hamm in Beijing in 2010.[2]