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Rui Lu

Angel Investor | Venture Capitalist | Strategy & Corporate Development Professional

United States

Education

  • Master of Engineering Management (MEM)

    Duke University

    (2014 - 2015)

  • Bachelor's degree

    (2010 - 2014)

Work Experience

  • Independent Consultant

    2023

    Developed comprehensive fundraising strategies for startup founders and executive teams, including pitch deck preparation, financial modeling, and investor outreach.

  • Seed Round Investor

    2020

    Opentron makes robots for biologists. Their mission is to provide the scientific community with a common platform to easily share protocols and reproduce each other's results. Opentron's robots automate experiments that would otherwise be done by hand, allowing their community to spend more time pursuing answers to some of the 21st century’s most important questions.

  • Angel Investor

    2017

    Radivision is a new, digital TV network for Entrepreneurship, with integrated social community that also delivers free positive PR and investment support to entrepreneurs and their companies.

2017

  • Investor

    2017

2019 - 2023

  • Pre-seed Investor

    2019 - 2023

    mFluiDx is aiming to develop the world’s lowest cost, automated point-of-care DNA diagnostic assay for small clinics.

2021 - 2023

  • Strategic Investment and Corporate Development Team

    2021 - 2023

    Worked as a member of the strategic investment and corporate development team, and acted in-house consultant for enterprise priorities and initiatives: Deal flow and Investment Execution - Generate high-quality deal flow by proactively identifying investment opportunities through developing and maintaining relationships with Venture capitalists, Accelerators/Incubators, University, Angel Community, and Startup referrals. - Sourced and reviewed 800+ investment opportunities, conducted due diligence and built investment memos for selected opportunities, and presented them to the investment committee. - Independently led end-to-end execution of three investment transactions (i.e. deal sourcing, conducting due diligence, financial modeling, term negotiation) Portfolio Management and Partnership Development - Managed a $XXM portfolio and assisted 30% of portfolio companies to land a partnership or an engagement with business unit leaders of the enterprise. - Researched and developed intelligence on emerging trends and disruptive companies in and around strategic focus areas. adjacencies, etc - Collaborated with cross-functional teams including, legal, partnership, and business units to evaluate pilot/partnership opportunities that can diversify revenue and close functional gaps in enterprise Enterprise Strategy and Initiatives - Played a key role in an enterprise priority project involving building business cases and financial models for a potential joint venture, poised to unlock over $100M in annual revenue opportunity. Corporate Development - Evaluated 10+ M&A opportunities - Tracked venture activities, M&A transactions, as well as JV/Alliance occurring in the market to develop actionable insights

2022 - 2023

  • Investor

    2022 - 2023

    Led the deal execution and being the POC for the portfolio company

2021 - 2023

  • Investor

    2021 - 2023

  • Series A Investor

    2018 - 2022

    Spartan Micro is a neurovascular and peripheral vascular company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets innovative medical devices. We focus on the neurovascular market for the safe endovascular treatment of common, and uncommon, cerebrovascular diseases and abnormalities.

2018 - 2022

  • Member

    2018 - 2022