Where does Lucy Zhang work?

Lucy Zhang is Partner at Pear VC.

What check size does Lucy Zhang write?

Lucy Zhang typically writes checks of $250K – $10M.

Lucy Zhang

Investor

Partner at Pear VC

Palo Alto, California

Writes $250K – $10M checks · typically $5M

About

Lucy Zhang co-founded Beluga, acquired by Facebook in 2011, where she served as founding engineer on Facebook Messenger and contributed to educational technology initiatives at the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. Previously, she built products at Google spanning AdWords, Google News, and Google Docs. She has been active as an angel investor for over a decade, became a full-time angel in 2018, and holds memberships and LP positions with First Round Capital's Angel Track, SignalFire, Initialized, Ribbit Capital, and Founders Fund.

Experience

Pear VCVisiting Partner2020 — 2021
First Round CapitalAngel Track & Fast Track2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
FacebookSoftware Engineer2011 — 2018
Beluga Inc.Co-Founder2010 — 2011
Google Inc.Software Engineer2003 — 2009
IBM Alamaden ResearchSoftware Engineer Intern2002 — 2003

Education

University of California, BerkeleyBA, Computer Science1999 — 2003

Skills & more

Distributed Systems3Mobile Applications5Software Engineering2Facebook2Scalability1

From Lucy's professional profile.

Colleagues at Pear VC

Senior Operations Associate at Pear VC

Harris Stolzenberg

Partner at Pear VC

Frequently asked questions

Where does Lucy Zhang work?: Lucy Zhang is Partner at Pear VC.
What check size does Lucy Zhang write?: Lucy Zhang typically writes checks of $250K – $10M.