Mr. Ron Cao is Founder and Partner of Sky9 Capital, a global venture capital firm with $2B under management. During his 26 years of venture capital career across Silicon Valley and Asia, Ron has focused on investing in innovative and disruptive opportunities in consumer internet, artificial intelligence, deep tech and fintech.
Some of his successful investments include: Meituan (HKSE: 3690), PDD Holdings (NASDAQ: PDD), Full Truck Alliance (NYSE: YMM), FinVolution (NYSE: FINV), QingCloud (SSE: 688316), InnoLight (SZSE: 300308), Energy Monster (NASDAQ: EM), MediaV (acquired by Qihoo), Ainemo (acquired by Baidu), XtalPi (HKSE: 2228), Webull (NASDAQ: BULL), WeRide (NASDAQ: WRD), 51World (HKSE: 6651), Biren Technology (HKSE: 6082), Bytedance, Moonshot AI, and others.
Previously, Ron was Partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners and launched the firm’s China operations in 2006 and subsequently spun out from Lightspeed to form his own firm in 2012. Prior to that, Ron started his career with KLM Capital, Intel and Goldman Sachs.
Ron is consistently named by Forbes as one of the “Top Venture Capitalists of China”. Ron was also selected by the World Economic Forum as one of its “Young Global Leaders”. Ron holds B.S. and M.Eng degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.