Zhen Cao is a partner at Republic, a crowdfunding platform with 2.5M users that has invested over $1B into 800 companies. Equity portfolios include Robinhood, SpaceX, Carta, Credit Sesame, Chime, etc. She started early-stage investing in games and crypto in 2016, co-initiated 3 funds, portfolios including WaveXR, BigBox (Acq, Meta), Flow, AVAX, Star Atlas, StepN, FTM, GRT, GLMR, supported early-stage financing of OpenSea, Near, AVAX, etc. She worked on content at HTC Vive and on titles like Star Wars, Star Trek, Ready Player One, etc. She has a master's degree from New York University.