Lu Zhang, the Founder and Managing Partner of Fusion Fund, is a renowned Silicon Valley-based investor and a serial entrepreneur in healthcare. With a strong technical background, Lu has extensive experience bringing a broad range of technologies to commercialization and deep domain expertise in AI in healthcare, enterprise AI/networks, edge computing, and data privacy. Prior to starting Fusion Fund, Lu was a serial entrepreneur and materials science researcher. Following the acquisition of her startup by a leading public medical device company, Lu began investing in and supporting early-stage entrepreneurs. This eventually led her to create Fusion Fund in 2015. Since then, Lu has built a distinguished ecosystem and established her reputation in the VC industry. She was honored as a Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum (Davos), Silicon Valley Women of Influence, Best 25 Female Early-Stage Investor by Business Insider, Featured Honoree of VC of Forbes 30 under 30, and Town & Country 50 Modern Swans - Entrepreneurship Influencer.
In reality, the healthcare sector is, in many ways, the ideal place for AI to be used. After all, it’s one of the few industries with access to a treasure trove of precisely the kind of high-quality data with which AI operates best.