Jennifer Zhang studied film at Keio University and Zhejiang University, then took a Master of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. As a student columnist she interviewed Mark Zuckerberg.
She spent nearly three years in venture capital, then left because she wanted to build rather than invest.
In 2019 she co-founded Wiz.ai in Singapore with Jianfeng Lu and Tony Zhu. Early testers hung up on the talkbots, and Southeast Asian speech mixes languages in one sentence. The team worked to handle local accents and Singlish.
In 2020 Wiz.ai raised a $6 million pre-Series A led by GGV Capital and a Series A of $20 million led by Hillhouse Capital. In November 2025 it closed an eight-figure Series B led by SMBC Asia Rising Fund.