Chenny Zhang's path is unusual: she co-founded an edtech startup in Beijing, led the China portfolio at the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board, invested at In-Q-Tel on projects spanning proteomics, diagnostics, and synthetic biology for U.S. intelligence agencies, and now invests at Cerberus Ventures. That mix of startup building, national-security policy work, and biotech investing gives her a rare dual-use lens that few other venture investors bring to backing science-driven companies.