Edward R. Zhu, CPA, LPA
Investor
Currently Managing Director at EQ Capital Partners. We help business owners sell their businesses for maximum value and franchising companies expand to new territories. In addition, I am also the fractional CFO for a few SMEs between $1M-$10M revenue. 2015-2019: - After starting my career in Investment Banking, I audited with PwC for 3 years, obtained my CPA & LPA; - spent 10 months working in Strategic Finance for a Unicorn PaaS company, growing MRR by $6MM+; - worked on developing a trading algo for 1.5 years, which raised $0.2MM+ capital under management; - founded a marketplace tech startup, bootstrapped for 2 years and managed a team of 4 developers. 2020-2024: - served as interim CFO to a PE business with $70MM+ AUM and fractional CFO to 4 startup companies; - managed a US$2.4MM AUM fund, led US$10MM investments into 30+ web 3.0/blockchain and tech companies; - co-invested with with Jack Dorsey, Coinbase, Greylock, Dragonfly, Circle, BlockTower, Sequoia & Jump. Hobbies & Interests: - conducted regular speaking engagements, lectures and seminars in front of 500+ people; - run multiple eCom channels and social media accounts (over 25k followers & 31M+ impressions); - authored a book - "Geniuses in their Own Words"; - became a part-time fashion photographer, filmmaker and DJ; - played SnG Poker professionally for 3 months and was ranked 71st globally.
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada