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James Zhang

James Zhang is published by VU Venture Partners as Partner - Asica-Pacific, Middle East, & Africa. The official professional biography states: Partner at GRC Fund , a $300M+ technology fund, focused on Energy & Resource Efficiency and Health & Wellness in the US & China Adjunct Professor of Venture Capital & Entrepreneurship at HKUST (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) Business School Co-Founder & General Partner at Formation 8 , a Silicon Valley based venture capital fund with over $1B+ under management and early backer of unicorns like Oculus VR , Palantir , Wish.com , and Oscar . Other notable team members of the fund included Joe Lonsdale (Co-Founder of Palantir Technologies) and Gideon Yu (CFO of Facebook and YouTube, Partner at Sequoia and Khosla Ventures) Venture Partner at SoftBank China Venture Capital Entrepreneur in Residence & Venture Partner at Khosla Ventures , where he took Khosla's portfolio company LanzaTech to China by brokering deals between LanzaTech and Chinese steel-makers As a biotechnologist, Dr. Zhang was a co-founder of BioConsortia and founding member of Mendel Biotechnology. He led Mendel Biotechnology’s business development and its agricultural collaboration with Monsanto and biofuel collaboration with BP. Dr. Zhang has a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California Davis and completed his post-doctoral and business training at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, respectively