LZ

Lucy Zhang

Visiting Partner at Pear VC

Palo Alto, California

Investor
VC

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

Skills

Distributed Systems
Mobile Applications
Software Engineering
Facebook
Scalability

Education

Investments

Mystery Science

Seed

Total Funding: $2M

Magic Instruments

Seed

Total Funding: $2M

Evertoon

Seed

Total Funding: $2M

Naytev

Seed

Total Funding: $1M

Work Experience

Helping Hands Community

2020

  • Software Engineer

    2020

Pear VC

2020

  • Visiting Partner

    2020

First Round Capital

2019 - 2020

  • Angel Track & Fast Track

    2019 - 2020

Facebook

2011 - 2018

  • Software Engineer

    2011 - 2018

    • Founding engineer on Facebook Messenger. 4.5 years as iOS tech lead and Engineering Manager. • 2 years working on Summit Learning Platform

Beluga Inc.

2010 - 2011

  • Co-Founder

    2010 - 2011

    Beluga is a cross-platform mobile messenger that enables simple, instant, and rich group messaging from any phone. Beluga was acquired by Facebook in March 2011.

Lucid Logic LLC

2009 - 2010

  • Founder

    2009 - 2010

    Designed and built educational apps for iOS. ie. 24 math game.

Google Inc.

2003 - 2009

  • Software Engineer

    2003 - 2009

    Google AdWords, Google News, and Google Docs.

IBM Alamaden Research

2002 - 2003

  • Software Engineer Intern

    2002 - 2003