Jenny Lee is a Managing Partner at GGV Capital and is best known for investing at the front of innovation in areas such EdTech, Fintech, Robotics/AI, EV, and Web3. She started her career as a jet engineer with Singapore Aerospace and became the first VC to invest in flying cars with eHang (NASDAQ; EH). Similarly, her lifelong passion for gaming led to investments in the metaverse and companies such as YY, and desire to help tackle food insecurity around the world have led to many investments in foodtech and sustainability around the world.
She has had 8 IPOs in the last 5 years, including two in 2021, across the NYSE, Nasdaq, ChiNext, HKSE and SSE STAR Market exchanges, and numerous portfolio companies exits via M&A. Jenny launched GGV’s first office in China in 2005 and re-opened GGV’s Singapore office in 2019. She also leads the firm’s USD fund raising activities.
Jenny is currently a board director with Agora (NASDAQ: API), SATS Ltd, Government Technology Agency of Singapore, and Temasek. She has been a member of the Forbes Global 100 VC Midas list since 2012 and was the first woman to break the top 10 in 2015. Most recently, she was named World’s Top 5 Female Venture Capitalists by Forbes’ 2021. Jenny is a graduate of Cornell University and Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.