Kai-Fu Lee

Active Investor

Founder & Chief Executive Officer & Chairman

Beijing, Beijing

Kai-Fu Lee, Founder & Chief Executive Officer & Chairman is an active investor based in Beijing, Beijing. This profile covers what Kai-Fu Lee backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr Kai-Fu Lee is the founder and serves as chief executive officer and chairman at Sinovation Ventures. Prior to starting Innovation Works, he was a Google vice president and the president of Google Greater China. He served as an advisor at Sino-Century China Private Equity Partners. He also served as a board advisor at Seven Bridges. During his tenure at Google, he has built up a 700-person organization and doubled Google China's market share. Google's map, mobile map, mobile search, and translate all became 1 in the market in 2009. Prior to joining Google, he spent seven years at Microsoft. Before joining SGI, He spent six years at Apple, where his last position was the vice president of its Interactive Media Group, one of the pioneering groups in multimedia in the world. This team developed QuickTime, QuickDraw 3D, QuickTime VR, and PlainTalk. From 1988 to 1990, He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Columbia University and his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as honorary doctorate degrees from both Carnegie Mellon and the City University of Hong Kong.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Beijing, Beijing
Typical check: $500K
Past investments: 1

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