Summary
Shaolin Zhang is a Hong Kong–based fund manager with 11 years of cross-border investment experience, currently running CoStone Capital’s overseas equities fund and co-managing The Initium Fund’s $20M+ proprietary portfolio. He invests across public global equities and early-stage VC as an allocator, with hands-on experience in primary and secondary markets and prior investment roles at K2VC and BOCI’s IBD. Shaolin blends a technical CS background from Columbia with legal and deal diligence experience from law firm and investment-banking internships, enabling rigorous diligence on tech-enabled consumer startups. He co-founded large student initiatives—China’s biggest student-run hackathon and multiple media and platform startups—showing a knack for scaling communities and securing institutional sponsors. Fluent in both startup operating cadence and institutional capital markets, he is actively sourcing emerging consumer brands and welcomes enquiries and business plans. An under-the-radar strength is his product-minded due diligence approach, informed by early software engineering and growth experience.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Chinese