Fiona Zhang
Bridging Global Capital, AI, E-commerce, and Education.
Author of The Edge and the Clouds | Founder of Visionlist Commons | Cofounder of Bay Area Innovest North America | CEO of Sparki AI| Ex-Microsoft
About Fiona
Fiona Zhang is a globally oriented entrepreneur, investor, and youth advocate committed to fostering cross-border innovation. She is the founder of Visionlist Commons, a consulting firm serving founders and the venture ecosystem, the cofounder of Bay Area Innovest North America, and the CEO of Sparki AI at The X Claw — a plug-in AI appliance that brings private, local LLM deployment to teams without cloud dependence or DIY infrastructure. Through these platforms, Fiona incubates ventures at the intersection of artificial intelligence, mentorship, digital commerce, and cross-cultural collaboration.
Her tech journey began at Microsoft, and she has since been recognized as an AACYF U25 Leader and an APEA Young Leader. Today, Fiona continues to champion the next generation of innovators across Silicon Valley and Asia by advancing entrepreneurship, education, and equitable access to capital.
Companies & Projects
Visionlist Commons is a consulting firm that supports founders, investors, and the venture ecosystem through strategic advisory, grants, connections, and knowledge sharing — backed by 100+ VC communities and innovation partners worldwide.
Bay Area Innovest (BAI) is a global platform for tech innovation and cross-border industrial investment, empowering enterprises through integrated incubation, capital, and industry services across AI, consumer products, healthtech, and global commerce.
Real Value Capital (RVC) is an AI-driven capital markets advisory firm with a global footprint across Los Angeles, New York, Boston, and Hong Kong. RVC specializes in full-cycle IPO services, AI-enhanced capital solutions, and global investor communications, helping high-growth companies enter the public markets and achieve sustained valuation growth.
With a leadership team of Wall Street veterans, former SEC officials, and NYSE/Nasdaq executives, RVC has led 30+ successful IPOs with over USD 3B in assets under management. The firm maintains a 100% IPO approval success rate through its AI-optimized SEC compliance system and success-based fee structure.
Sparki is a plug-in AI appliance that runs 7B–70B models on your own network — deployed in minutes, no cloud by default, built for internal copilots, document workflows, and private-by-default team AI without turning self-hosted LLMs into an infrastructure project.
Notes on Business, Humanity, and Becoming — A quiet, unflinching exploration of what it means to build, to strive, and to remain human in an age defined by speed, capital, and constant change. Moving between the outer world of business and the inner world of becoming, this book examines not only how systems work, but how people endure within them. Written with both precision and tenderness, it offers companionship rather than formulas—an acknowledgment that behind every venture and ambition, there is a human being learning how to live with clarity and restraint, courage and softness.
Selected Investments
Cutting Edge Superconductors is pioneering the development of CES-2023, a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor — often called the "Holy Grail of Superconductors." This breakthrough has the potential to transform over $5 trillion worth of industries, from energy transmission and quantum computing to transportation and medical imaging.
CES partners with Samsung, GE Global Research, Vitec², Luvata, the Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust, and the Puerto Rico Department of Economic Development and Commerce, establishing itself as a front-runner in superconducting technology innovation.
Investment Focus: Early-stage private company developing next-generation superconducting materials and wire systems with global industrial applications.
Active portfolio including Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, Micron (MU), Nvidia, TQQQ, Fraddy Futures, and select stablecoin and Bitcoin positions. Through disciplined allocation and timely exits across tech-heavy tickers, the portfolio achieved an estimated 38.3% year-to-date ROI in 2025.
Investment Focus: Opportunistic exposure to high-growth technology equities and digital assets, balancing innovation-driven upside with tactical risk management.
Speaking & Events
Fiona has spoken at and judged global forums such as:
Global Youth Entrepreneurship AI Summit, Dubai
Connect with Fiona
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