Vanessa Gao Overview

  • Primary Position
  • Chief Executive...

  • Primary Industry
  • Information Technology

Vanessa Gao General Information

Biography

Ms. Gao is the Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer of Jiangmen Ventures, a venture capital focusing on discovering, accelerating, and investing in startups leveraging innovations to create business value. Future Gate Ventures offers three major services: matching with benchmark customers, vertical tech communities, and investment funds. Future Gate Ventures focuses on areas including machine intelligence, IoT, natural human-machine interaction, and enterprise computing. She also serves as a Founding investor at Pack. Over the past year, Jiangmen has invested in over 10 tech startups with high potential. Before founding Future Gate Ventures, Ms. Gao was CEO of Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in China and incubated 126 innovative tech startups with a valuation of over RMB38 billion by the end of 2015. Ms. Gao worked at Microsoft for 16 years and held management positions in sales, marketing, channel management, government cooperation, strategy, and investment. Before joining Microsoft Ventures, she led a sales team with nearly 100 members to become No.1 in Microsoft globally. Ms. Gao received an MBA degree and an INSEAD EMBA degree from Tsinghua University. Ms. Gao served as Chief Executive Officer at Microsoft Ventures.

Contact Information

Primary Position
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Jiangmen Ventures
Education
Tsinghua University, Master's
INSEAD, Executive MBA
Gender
Female
Email
va
Phone
+86 010
Address
  • Suite 1709, Air China Century Building, Building 1, Plaza 40
  • Xiaoyun Road, Chaoyang District
  • Beijing
  • China
+86 010

Vanessa Gao Positions (2)

Firm name Firm type Title Location Industry Since
Jiangmen Ventures Investor Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder Beijing, China Venture Capital
Pack Ventures Investor Founding Investor Seattle, WA Venture Capital

Vanessa Gao Lead Partner on Deals (11)

Vanessa Gao has been the lead partner on 11 deals. Their latest deal was with D-team Technology, a telecommunications service providers company. The deal was made on 10-Aug-2015.

Company Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Deal Status Industry Location
D-team Technology 10-Aug-2015 Accelerator/Incubator Completed Telecommunications Service Providers Shenzhen, China
OneCard (Financial Software) 10-Aug-2015 Completed Financial Software Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Ping++ 10-Aug-2015 Completed Financial Software Shanghai, China
Aidmics 20-Feb-2015 Completed Other Devices and Supplies Taipei, Taiwan
Goudaifu 24-Jan-2015 Completed Practice Management (Healthcare) Beijing, China
miiiCasa 21-Jul-2014 Completed Application Software Taiwan
Lohas Tech 03-Feb-2014 Completed Diagnostic Equipment Beijing, China
Dnurse 15-Jan-2014 Completed Monitoring Equipment Beijing, China
Run Mobile (Beijing) Technology 15-Jan-2014 Accelerator/Incubator Completed IT Consulting and Outsourcing Beijing, China
Sumscope 15-Jan-2014 Accelerator/Incubator Completed Financial Software Shanghai, China

Vanessa Gao Network (26)

Portfolio Executives (22)

Name Company Role Deal date Location
Rania Hammad OneCard (Financial Software) Regional Operations Director 10-Aug-2015 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Bo Wang OneCard (Financial Software) Co-Founder 10-Aug-2015 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Ping++ Chief Executive Officer & Founder 10-Aug-2015 Shanghai, China
OneCard (Financial Software) Chief Executive Officer & Board Member 10-Aug-2015 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Ping++ Co-Founder 10-Aug-2015 Shanghai, China

Fund Team Members (4)

Name Investor Fund Fund Location
Warwick Hill Microsoft for Startups Bing Fund Redmond, WA
Ravi Narayan Microsoft for Startups Bing Fund Redmond, WA
Microsoft for Startups Redmond, WA

Vanessa Gao Affiliated Funds (1)

Fund Investor Fund Type Status Vintage Size Dry Powder IRR IRR Quartile
Bing Fund Microsoft for Startups Venture Capital - Early Stage Closed 2012

Vanessa Gao FAQs

  • Who is Vanessa Gao?

    Ms. Gao is the Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer of Jiangmen Ventures, a venture capital focusing on discovering, accelerating, and investing in startups leveraging innovations to create business value.

  • How much does Vanessa Gao typically invest?

    Vanessa Gao's median deal size is .

  • What is Vanessa Gao’s main position?

    Vanessa Gao’s primary position is Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder.

  • What are the contact details for Vanessa Gao?

    Vanessa Gao’s email address is va and his phone number is +86 010 .

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