Authors
Founders and operators writing about data rooms, investors, and deal-side workflows from direct experience.
Sean Yu
Co-founder, Peony
Co-founder at Peony. Former M&A at Nomura, early-stage VC at Backed VC, and growth-equity / secondaries investor at Target Global. I write about investors, fundraising, and deal advisors from the deal-side perspective I spent years in.
Deqian Jia
Co-founder & CEO, Peony
Co-founder and CEO at Peony. I built the data room platform with a background in document security, file systems, and AI. Founded Peony in 2021 in San Francisco.
Chris Chen
M&A Advisory, Peony
M&A advisory at Peony. Former investment banker at Moelis & Company, where I worked on cross-border M&A across healthcare, industrials, and consumer. I write about how deals actually get diligenced and closed.