Dr. Min Zhou

Min is the Co-founder and CEO of CM Venture Capital, a shanghai-based venture capital company focused on new materials, advanced manufacturing, digital industrial, energy and environment.

CM Funds are backed by leading multinational companies including GE, Samsung, BASF, SABIC, Heraeus, Petronas, etc. Since establishing Fund I in 2012, CM Venture Capital has invested in dozens of hard-tech companies that are leading new industries of the future.

Prior to co-founding CM Venture Capital in 2010, Min had six years of investment experience in the US, first with Unilever Technology Ventures where she led investments in physical sciences, then with Silicon Valley Bank Capital, where she was responsible for FOF investments.

Min is a scientist by training, she had six years of R&D and technology commercialization experience at Rockwell Scientific (now Teledyne) after earning a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from University of Southern California. Min also earned MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles, and B.S. in materials science from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.