OUR TEAM
Sam Yu - Partner
Sam is the Founding Partner of LVP. Prior to LVP, Sam was a venture capitalist at SAIF Partners and CD Capital in China since 2008, where he invested $125M in 14 growth stage companies and served as a board member of 3 portfolio companies. In the meanwhile, he served as the co-president of Young Venture Capitalist Club in Shanghai. Prior to this, Sam was an experienced FP&A leader at General Electric.
Sam holds an M.S. in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Maths from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Ryan Burke -
Venture Partner
Ryan is a Venture Partner at LVP. He previously was a founding member and head of strategy at Look, a mobile messaging app that reached top 20 overall in the Apple App Store and delivered over 1 billion messages. Before Look, he was a Vice President at E. J. McKay, a leading Chinese boutique investment bank specializing in cross-border M&A transactions.
Ryan holds a B.S. in Political Science from Harvard University, where he is an active alumni interviewer.