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Zara is an investment analyst at GGV Capital (Menlo Park office), a venture capital firm that invests in companies in the US and China with $3.8 billion AUM. Previously, she has interned as a reporter covering China’s tech industry for The Information. Her writings have been published on The Harvard Crimson, Harvard Magazine, Foreign Policy, Huffington Post, and China Personified. She has also worked as a marketing intern at ZhenFund. Zara graduated from Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in psychology. At Harvard, she wrote and edited for The Harvard Crimson, led the organization of Harvard China Forum (a 1,000-people conference featuring leaders from China and the US), and ran a weekly newsletter about food around the university. Zara grew up in Changchun, a city in northeast China, and received her secondary education in Singapore. A language enthusiast, she is trained in Chinese-English interpretation and translation, speaks French and Japanese, and can sing in Cantonese. Zara curates a weekly email newsletter on tech trends in China at GGV Capital. Subscribe at 996.ggvc.com. She can be reached at zara.r.zhang@gmail.com. View all posts by Zara Zhang