Flying Tiger Capital is a family office and venture capital firm. We invest in emerging fund managers and the next generation of founders and entrepreneurs leading high-growth businesses. Our mission is to help individuals and families preserve and accumulate wealth through alternative investment. Our management team has combined 30 years of experience in technology, investments, and the capital market.
Meet the Founders
Jasmine Yu Zhang
Jasmine Yu Zhang is a founding partner of Flying Tiger Capital, a partner at the Chicago Atlantic Digital Mining fund, and a 2021 LinkedIn China Top Voice and Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners. Before her investment career, she co-founded two startups, and worked at Nordson Corp, Nokia, and HERE Technologies. With experience in Asia and throughout Europe, Jasmine graduated in Strategic Decision and Risk Management at Stanford University and holds a Master of International and Development Economics from the Australian National University. She is passionate about promoting gender equality and financial education for adults and children alike. A world traveler, Jasmine has visited over 45 countries and currently lives outside of Chicago with her husband and two young children.
Jia Peng
Jia is a founding partner of Flying Tiger Capital. She has over 18 years of experience in investment banking, global capital markets, asset allocation, and private investing. Prior to Flying Tiger Capital, Jia was a senior banker at the Leveraged Finance and Global Capital Markets department of UBS Investment Bank in New York. She is an energy and power sector specialist and well-versed in the U.S. electric power market. Over her decade-long investment banking career, she has provided M&A, IPO financing, and various types of capital strategy advisory services for Fortune 100 corporations and large private equity firms. Jia also worked at Citigroup, and GE Capital, earlier in her career and was a co-founder of a New York-based Macro hedge fund. With a wealth of global capital market experiences under her belt, she turned her attention to venture investing in recent years with a focus on AI, Fintech, and Web3. Her investment portfolio includes category leaders in AI/AR space, such as tomorrow.io and XR Health. Jia currently serves on the Board of the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII), a prestigious Chicago-based non-profit organization with over 2 million cumulative members worldwide.
Jia lives in Chicago with her family. She is a mother of two young children, an avid skier, and a certified alpine ski instructor.
Our Portfolio
Sogal Venture
Chicago Atlantic Credit (IPO in 2021)
VU Venture Partners
Tomorrow.io
SpaceX
Spyce (aquired by Sweetgreen)
Grabango
