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Catherine Cai

Senior Partner at Palm Drive Capital

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Catherine Cai is a General Partner at Palm Drive Capital (palmdrive.vc), where she focuses on investments and firm operations across venture capital, technology, and finance. Previously, she advanced through roles at the firm including Vice President of Investments and Chief Compliance Officer, and Principal. Earlier in her career, she held finance and consulting roles at Deloitte, Schneider Electric, and CITIC Trust. Catherine holds an MPA from Columbia University, studied executive education at Harvard Business School, and earned her bachelor’s from Peking University, with additional studies at Keio University and ESSEC Business School. Her professional profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-c-7b935548.

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