YL

Yoko Li

Cartoonist, Engineer, PM and Investor

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $40,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $20,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner (AI & Infra Investment)

    2022

    yli@a16z.com Pre-seed - series B: Developer Tools, Creativity Tools, Infrastructure, AI Partner to: - Clerk (seed) - Inngest (seed) - Mintlify (series A) - Resend (series A) - Upstash - Stainless (series A) - Nrwl/Nx (seed, A) - Svix (seed) - Beeps (seed) - Arcjet (seed) -...

2025

  • Board Member

    2025

2025

  • Board Observer

    2025

    Photography reimagined with AI - preserve identity, context and realism https://www.photalabs.com/

2024

  • Board Member

    2024

2024

  • Board Observer

    2024

2023

  • Board Observer

    2023

2022

  • Board Observer

    2022

  • Cartoonist

    2019

    Cartoons about tech, culture, cooking, and many behind-the-scenes stories. More cartoons at https://yoko.dev/ and https://twitter.com/stuffyokodraws I'm working on a book about Asian cooking, culture, and personal stories. Reach out if you are interested to share your stories or just want to chat!

2021 - 2022

  • Product Lead

    2021 - 2022

    Product lead, Terraform Cloud infrastructure lifecycle management. OSS commercialization. Developer-focused product GTM Reach out if you want to chat about Terraform, Terraform Cloud, and the IaC space in general!

  • Senior Product Manager

    2021 - 2022

    Led product focusing on the cloud native enterprises on Terraform Cloud

2017 - 2021

  • Product Management

    2019 - 2021

    - Product vision + roadmap + specs for a DevOps-centric product with a technical platform - Product positioning, sales strategy and GTM - Supporting customers - Growth experimentation on the platform product - Published blog posts on several technical subjects to drive engagement - Drew comic white papers for product marketing

  • Senior Software Engineer/Founding Engineer

    2017 - 2019

    - Built various dev-centric platform services using Reactjs, Java, Terraform, Typescript - Built and maintained growth ETL pipeline with various AWS services - DevOps tooling and managing infrastructure