Cathay Innovation

Cathay Innovation investment thesis

× Denis' Story Denis Barrier’s journey came to a point when he, a French venture capitalist and technologist living in Silicon Valley, met Mingpo Cai, a Chinese serial entrepreneur living in New York who had founded Cathay Capital in Paris. It was in this environment that they discovered a shared vision: a global platform that unifies investment to push forward digital revolution and help entrepreneurs scale technologies that will fundamentally change the world. Denis holds a Ph.D. in solid state physics and started his career in the laboratories of Orange Telecom researching quantum dots. Driven by the desire to help peer researchers apply their findings in the real world through entrepreneurship, he entered venture capital and eventually became head of Orange’s investment arm. Denis is c

Cathay Innovation team (5)

Partners and principals at Cathay Innovation:

• Jason Cheng — sweet spot $22.5M
• Lanchun Duan — sweet spot $22.5M
• Jonathan Healy — sweet spot $22.5M
• Alexandre (Alex) Lazarow — sweet spot $22.5M
• Simon Wu — sweet spot $22.5M

Cathay Innovation portfolio companies

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