Jenny Lee (venture capitalist)


Jenny Lee is a Singaporean venture capitalist. A managing partner of GGV Capital based in Shanghai, Lee was No. 10 and the first woman venture capitalist in the top 10 of Forbes Midas List 2015.
In 2016, she ranked 100th in Forbes World's 100 Most Powerful Women list.

Early and personal life

Born to a Chinese schoolteacher father and a housewife, Lee's brother Hong Meng is an engineer. She was a student of CHIJ Saint Nicholas Girls' School and Hwa Chong Junior College.
She is married to Vincent Koh.

Career

A ST Engineering scholar, she studied engineering at Cornell University in New York from 1991 to 1995 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Science and a Master of Science. Upon her return, she joined ST Aerospace as a jet engineer.

In 2001, she obtained a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago. It was her two-year stint at Kellogg that opened her eyes to a different career path.
Seeing the US stock market boomed and then busted in 2001 and how the capital markets affected everyone, it made her realised "the big world outside and she wanted to get out there and learn some more."
In 2001, she returned to Singapore.
She found a job with Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong. A year later, she joined Japanese venture-capital firm, JAFCO Asia.
In 2005, she joined GGV Capital as a managing partner and was involved in setting up GGV presence in China. While working with GGV, the firm invested in startups such as Alibaba, Didi Chuxing, Xiaomi, Toutiao and Southeast Asia-based Grab.