Lu Zhang
Managing Partner at Fusion Fund
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Managing Partner
2015 - Current
www.fusionfund.com
Fusion Fund invests in early stage companies with technological and data advantages in industrial, enterprise, and healthcare applications.
Board of Director
2025
Young Global Leader
2018
100 of the World’s Brightest under 40 Invited To Shape an Inclusive and Sustainable Future One hundred of the world’s most promising artists, business leaders, public servants, technologists and social entrepreneurs have been asked to join the World Economic Forum’s community of Young Global Leaders. They are joining a community and five-year programme that will challenge them to think beyond their scope of expertise and be more impactful leaders. They were nominated because of their ground-breaking work, creative approaches to problems and ability to build bridges across cultures and between business, government, and civil society.
Board Member
2020
Investor
2025
Somite is leveraging data and AI to introduce novel cell replacement therapies.
Raised $10,295,000.00 from TechAviv, Mark Ventures, Darkmode Ventures, Nachum “Homi” Shamir, Next Coast Ventures, Texas Venture Partners, BC Growth Equity, Astellas Venture Management, Conscience VC and Trust Ventures.
Investor
2023
Vectara provides a generative AI product platform for embedding generative AI features into applications.
Raised $53,500,000.00 from Mack Ventures, FPV Ventures, Green Sands Equity, Fusion Fund, Race Capital, Alumni Ventures, WVV Capital and Samsung NEXT.
Investor
2019
Otter.ai improves business team productivity by providing an app to capture, share, and recall all meeting notes.
Raised $73,000,000.00 from Draper Associates, H. Barton Asset Management, Draper Dragon, Fusion Fund, Slow Ventures, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Spectrum Equity, Gutbrain Ventures, Horizons Ventures and Duke Angel Network.
Investor
2021
You.com is an AI chatbot and search engine that uses LLM to deliver personalized responses to queries with human-like replies.
Raised $95,000,000.00 from Georgian, SBVA, Day One Ventures, Alumni Ventures, DuckDuckGo, NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures.
Board Observer
2025
Investor
2024
Voyage AI builds best-in-class embedding models and rerankers for accurate and efficient search and RAG.
Raised $28,000,000.00 from Fusion Fund, Snowflake, Wing Venture Capital, CRV, Mayfield Fund, Tectonic Ventures, Databricks Ventures and Pear VC.