Qi Cao

Founder & CEO @ Chargeblast | Investor at Point72 | Yale

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023
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2023
Founded by Jasper Lau, Era is an investment firm backed by leading closely-held family enterprises across 19 countries and 25 industries. Era brings together the collective expertise, industry intel, and strategic capital of the firm’s families to invest in category-defining technology companies solving civilization’s biggest industrial challenges
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Nov 2021
Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people’s long-term growth.
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2023
Co-Founder and CEO
2023
Chargeblast helps businesses eliminate chargebacks before they become official on payment processors. A foolproof way to combat disputes before getting dinged, Chargeblast allows businesses to accept a wider range of payments and grow top-line revenue instantly. Powering over 1B worth of annual payment volume.
Investor
2023
Founded by Jasper Lau, Era is an investment firm backed by leading closely-held family enterprises across 19 countries and 25 industries. Era brings together the collective expertise, industry intel, and strategic capital of the firm’s families to invest in category-defining technology companies solving civilization’s biggest industrial challenges
2021
Investor
Nov 2021
Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people’s long-term growth.
2020
Fellow
Jan 2020
Blue Ivy Ventures is an Alumni Ventures venture capital fund for alumni of Yale that invests in companies with a Yale connection. Meet the team: David Shapiro, Managing Partner Yevgeny Gelfand, Partner Ryan Musto, Senior Associate We are part of Alumni Ventures, America’s largest venture firm for individual investors. Founded in 2014, we are the venture investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions.   Follow Blue Ivy Ventures for content at the intersection of our shared alma mater, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. We are private, for-profit, and not affiliated with or sanctioned by the college. Offers of securities are made only to eligible investors through formal offering documents, which describe the risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio company investments shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in the case of follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
2019
Associate Manager, Corporate Development
Jun 2019
Indigo Ag improves farmer profitability, environmental sustainability, and consumer health through the use of nature-based and digital technologies. The company’s core solutions – Sustainability and Biologicals – integrate across the supply chain to optimize how the world’s most impactful crops are produced, sourced, and distributed. Founded in 2013 with a mission of harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet, today the companys technology connects stakeholders across the agricultural ecosystem to unlock sustainability and profitability benefits for all.
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