Xiaolei Cong

Xiaolei Cong is a Founding Member and Investment Lead at Innovius Capital, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. Prior to joining Innovius Capital in July 2021, she served on the corporate investment team at Citi Ventures from January 2020 to January 2021, focusing on the financial services and technology sectors. Before her transition into venture capital, Cong spent two years working as a private equity professional at Corsair Capital between January 2018 and January 2020. Her earlier financial career includes three years executing mergers and acquisitions as an investment banking professional at Evercore from January 2015 to January 2018. She initially entered the finance industry through an investment banking position at Goldman Sachs during 2014. Cong currently leverages her comprehensive decade-long background across investment banking, private equity, and venture capital to direct early-stage financial services investments.