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Laura Yao

Investor and Advisor

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $75,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $15,000,000.00

Lists including Laura

Work Experience

2025

  • Advisor

    2025

    Mastra is the TypeScript AI framework. Go to https://mastra.ai/ or https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra to get started.

2022

  • Board Director

    2022

    Led the Series C for Fly.io, the public cloud for developers

2020 - 2024

  • Board Director

    2020 - 2024

    Led the Series C for Netlify, the best way to build modern web projects.

2021 - 2024

  • Board Observer

    2021 - 2024

    Led the Series B for Endgame, supercharging product-led sales

2018 - 2023

  • Partner

    2018 - 2023

    In addition to listed board roles, investor in Living Carbon, Heart Aerospace, Handshake, and others!

2021 - 2023

  • Board Director

    2021 - 2023

    Led the Series Seed for Moralis, a web3 infrastructure company.

2021 - 2023

  • Board Director

    2021 - 2023

    Led the Series B of Airkit, a low-code digital customer experience platform. Airkit was acquired by Salesforce.

2019 - 2022

  • Fellow, Class 24

    2019 - 2022

    The Kauffman Fellows Program is designed to develop a world-wide network of innovation investors who provide smart, connected capital to fuel entrepreneurial change.

2016 - 2018

  • Head of Strategy

    2016 - 2018

    Mitigating the effects of climate change through inexpensive new sensors and data science.

  • Senior Investment Associate

    2013 - 2015

    Part of CEO/CIO's team working on longer-term research projects. Led team of analysts in client service and partnered with the world's largest institutional investors to solve their most pressing portfolio problems.