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Tong Gu

Founding Partner at Pact

United States

Overview 

Tong Gu is the Founding Partner at Pact, an investment firm focusing on Pre-seed and Seed stages in sectors like ClimateTech/CleanTech and FinTech. With a background in investment banking and corporate finance, Tong has successfully invested in a range of startups and holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BEng from Imperial College London. Tong's career highlights include founding Pact and making strategic investments in companies like Verto, Nodes & Links, and Perlego, showcasing a strong track record in identifying and supporting promising startups in the early stages.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Partner

    2021 - Current

    Pact is an early stage VC backing mission driven founders with global ambition. We invest in pre-seed and seed-stage companies under three themes which we call our ABCs - Access, Betterment, and Climate - Access: democratising access to products and services - Betterment: solutions for personal and professional wellbeing - Climate: technology targeting sustainability and climate solutions

  • Investor

    2017 - 2021

    Early-stage tech VC focused on UK & Ireland backed by Legal & General and British Business Bank.

  • Investor

    2016 - 2016

    Early stage tech angel syndicates and accelerator

  • Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer

    2013 - 2015

    Data analytics SaaS focuses on market entry analysis, competition modelling and data visualisation. Exited to a strategic investor.

  • Vice President, Technology and Media

    2008 - 2013

    Global M&A Led execution teams on both mid-cap intra-Europe transactions (completed five transactions with average EV of £200m) and large-cap outbound acquisitions of Chinese enterprises (completed one transaction with EV of $3.4bn)

  • Analyst, Technology and Media

    2006 - 2007

    Investment Banking Division - Technology, Media & Telecommunications Team Executed M&A and capital markets transactions in a variety of products

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides various financial products and services.

Raised $12,950,000,000.00 from ValueAct Capital and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

  • Intern

    2005 - 2005

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