Qingsheng Zheng

Qingsheng Zheng is a partner at Sequoia China (HongShan), where he helps oversee the firm's seed fund alongside partners Guo Shanshan and Zhang Han, with more than 10 full-time early-stage investors on the team . He has spoken publicly about the firm's conviction that AI is entering another golden age of development, comparing its future penetration across industries to how businesses once adopted the internet and cloud services . In his investment approach, he has shown willingness to compete for allocation in competitive early rounds, as when he insisted on joining a first-round financing for an AI startup despite the founder's suggestion that Sequoia wait for a later round . Beyond venture investing, he has written reflectively about economic history and technology cycles, tracing his interest back to a 2014 visit to Barcelona where he photographed the Columbus monument and began thinking about the long arcs of technological change .