Lucy Zhang

Visiting Partner @ Pear VC

About

I co-founded Beluga, which was acquired by Facebook in 2011, and became the founding engineer on Facebook Messenger. At Facebook, I also worked on developing a personalized learning platform for K-12 education in partnership with Summit Public Schools, a project at the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. Prior to that, I built products at Google including AdWords, Google News and Google Docs. While I’ve been angel investing for the past 10 years, I became a full time angel in 2018. I’m a member of First Round Capital’s Angel Track and a LP in SignalFire, Initialized, Ribbit Capital, and Founders Fund.I I am currently a visiting partner at Pear VC and a software engineer at Helping Hands Community.

Country

United States

City

Palo Alto

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Distributed Systems, Mobile Applications, Software Engineering, Facebook, Scalability

Experience

Visiting Partner

Pear VC

2020-1 - 2021-4 · 1 yr 4 mos

Angel Track & Fast Track

First Round Capital

2019-4 - 2020-3 · 1 yr

San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer

Facebook

2011-3 - 2018-1 · 6 yrs 11 mos

• Founding engineer on Facebook Messenger. 4.5 years as iOS tech lead and Engineering Manager. • 2 years working on Summit Learning Platform

Co-Founder

Beluga Inc.

2010-7 - 2011-3 · 9 mos

Beluga is a cross-platform mobile messenger that enables simple, instant, and rich group messaging from any phone. Beluga was acquired by Facebook in March 2011.