Yizhen Dong
InvestorInvestor at Koch Disruptive Technologies
San Francisco, California
Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M
Experience
- Life Sciences PlatformCo-Foundercurrent2026 — present
- Koch Disruptive TechnologiesHealthcare & Life Sciences2022 — 2024
- Nox TherapeuticsCo-Founder and CXO2020 — 2023
- 11.2 CapitalPrincipal2016 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- Roche / GenentechClin Dev & Product Launch2013 — 2014San Francisco, USA & Shanghai, China
- ZS AssociatesManagement Consultant2011 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
- martinwolf | M&A AdvisorsInvestment Banking2011San Francisco Bay Area
Education
- The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessMBA; Full tuition scholar
- University of MarylandMaster's in Computational Biology
- Vanderbilt UniversityBA in Economics; Full tuition scholar, senator scholar
- Stanford UniversityProfessional Certificate in Genetics and Genomics
- Maryville High School
Skills & more
Healthcare10Venture Capital18Marketing Strategy11Early-stage Startups5Market Research27Data Analysis25Management Consulting15Strategy19Financial Modeling19Valuation9Financial Analysis7Microsoft Excel3
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Strategic PlanningMarketingLeadershipEconomicsResearchPowerPointBusiness StrategyMandarinMicrosoft OfficeStatisticsCompetitive AnalysisStart-upsLanguages Chinese · Spanish
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- Where does Yizhen Dong work?
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- Yizhen Dong typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
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