Ms. Vanessa Gao is CEO and founding partner of The Jiangmen, a venture capital focusing on discovering, accelerating and investing in startups leveraging innovations to create business value. The Jiangmen offers three major services: matching with benchmark customers, vertical tech communities, and investment fund. The Jiangmen Investment Fund focuses on areas including machine intelligence, IoT, natural human-machine interaction and enterprise computing. Over the past year, The Jiangmen has invested in over 10 tech startups with high potential.

Before founding The Jiangmen, Vanessa Gao was CEO of Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in China and incubated 126 innovative tech startups with valuation over RMB38 billion by the end of 2015. Vanessa Gao worked at Microsoft for 16 years and held management positions in sales, marketing, channel management, government cooperation, strategy and investment. Before joining Microsoft Ventures, Vanessa led a sales team with near 100 members to become No.1 in Microsoft globally.

Vanessa Gao received MBA degree and INSEAD EMBA degree from Tsinghua University.