Zeng Yu

Jenny Zeng or Zeng Yu (Chinese: 曾玉) is a Chinese venture capitalist and a serial entrepreneur. She is the founder and a managing partner at venture capital firm MSA Capital. In 2011, she was named one of China's 30 most influential businesswomen by the China Entrepreneur Magazine.

Zeng was born into a military family in Chongqing, China. She was the third daughter of her parents. She studied international trade at Beijing Electronic Industrial Management Institute and graduated in 1996.

In 2002, she became the first Executive Director of China Venture Capital Association (CVCA). She started her first company Maple Valley Investments (枫谷投资) in 2004. Maple Valley gained fame by helping InTime Department Store raise US$90 million of private investment and later go public, and attracted many other high-profile clients.

In 2014 she founded MSA Capital, which focuses on investing in AI, genomics, mobility, consumer internet and SaaS. Her investments have included Mobike and Uber.

Zeng is a board member of Apple Foundation, the largest non-public charitable foundation in Tibet, and has built libraries, reading rooms and environmental projects in the region. She is also a member of The Nature Conservancy and a board member of Future Forum.

Zeng gave birth to a child in the spring of 2010.