Jessica Li

Evals, Product, Data

2025

Cartesia is a research company backed by Kleiner and Index that is building state space models for higher quality and more efficient foundation models

Director of AI

2019

write a newsletter (distribution to 10K+ people) featuring Harvard alums in tech; interviews include Co-founders of Quora, Cloudflare, and Whoop CMO at BCG, Fidelity, Carta, and Axon CPO at Figma AI leaders at Anthropic, Ginkgo Bioworks, and YC Also lead the AI vertical

Expert, Product and Data

2025

Venture Partner

2020

Dog Shelter Volunteer

2025

Certified Pilates Instructor

2023 - 2025

megaformer pilates, certified instructor (attended over 400 classes)

Technical Product

2023 - 2025

executive team at Beacons (raised $30 million, over 7 million users, 9 figure valuation) - managed our head of marketing and CEO office and worked on our AI semantic search marketplace in a technical PM role Beacons is an AI powered vertical SaaS platform for creators, creator managers, brands, and marketing agencies. Creator customers include Green Day, Sia, and Jeremy Lin; agency customers include UTA; brand customers include Perplexity, AG1, and Penguin Random House joined as our first employee and built out recruiting (hired our founding eng/design/product hires - we're now at 40 full time!), ops, customer success, and finance

Growth

2022 - 2023

Employee #1

2021 - 2022

Deep Tech Contributor

2021 - 2022

covered deep tech

Founding Head of Content

2019 - 2021

YC backed community that grew to 100K+ members was the founding head of content and led featured posts, office hours, and social media published 150+ featured posts. interviewed: Founders of Glossier, Evite, Scale AI, Taskabbit, and Cowboy VC Senior execs at Brex, Glossier, Equinox, and Amazon

Growth Lead

2020 - 2021

joined as the 2nd growth hire Zageno is a General Catalyst backed Series C company and the world's largest eCommerce marketplace for life sciences