Investing Profile

Laura Yao(357)

VCInvestor

Partner at EQT Ventures

eqtventures.comSan Francisco, California

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Laura Yao's investing connections

44 Investors

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Current Investing Position

EQT Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$1M - $75.0M

Sweet Spot

$15.0M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

€660M

Laura Yao is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Analytics (Series B)AI (Series B)Developer Tools (Series B)Data Services (Series B)Marketplaces (Series B)Enterprise (Series B)Manufacturing (Series B)Logistics (Series B)Retail (Series B)SaaS (Series B)San Francisco Bay Area

Laura Yao's Investments On Record (8)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Fly.io	Series CJun 2023$70M	$110M
Co-investors: Brett Gibson (Initialized Capital), Nick Washburn (Intel Capital), Martin Casado (Andreessen Horowitz), Daniel Docter (Dell Technologies Capital), Chris Howard (Fuel Capital), Jason Katzer
Moralis	Series AMay 2022$40M	$53M
Co-investors: Antoine Moyroud (Lightspeed Venture Partners)
Endgame	Series BFeb 2022$30M	$130M
Co-investors: Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), David Cowan (Bessemer Venture Partners), Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Naomi Pilosof Ionita (Menlo Ventures), Kara Nortman (Upfront Ventures), Sandhya Hegde (Unusual Ventures), Lachy Groom (Stripe), Garth Timoll (Top Tier Capital Partners), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Kenny Van Zant, Peter Kazanjy
Airkit.ai	Series BMay 2021$40M	$68M
Co-investors: Steve Loughlin (Accel), Santi Subotovsky (Emergence Capital Partners)
Netlify	Series CMar 2020$63M	$210M
Co-investors: Martin Casado (Andreessen Horowitz), Peter Levine (Andreessen Horowitz), Bucky Moore (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Mary D'Onofrio (Bessemer Venture Partners), Matt Murphy (Menlo Ventures), Nadav Eylath (at.inc/), Robin Vasan (Mango Capital), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp.com), Jay Simons (Bond), Stewart Butterfield, Dylan Field
Darkstore	Series AJan 2019$7.5M	$17M
Co-investors: Vivian Cheng (CRV), James Tamplin (Founder Collective), Tim Connors (On Deck), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Erik de Stefanis (Interlace Ventures), Ashley Flucas (Flucas Ventures), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital)
Handshake	Series COct 2018$40M	$460M
Co-investors: Toni Schneider (True Ventures), Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital), Will Kohler (Lightspeed Venture Partners), James Ephrati (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Megan Quinn (Spark Capital), Kevin Spain (Emergence Capital), William Reed (Spark Capital), Stephanie Palmeri (NextView Ventures), Matt Mazzeo (Coatue Management), Adeyemi Ajao (Base10 (Base10 Partners) ), Deborah Quazzo (GSV Acceleration), Jeff Richards (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Alastair Mitchell (EQT Ventures), Eric Feng, Charlie Cheever
HeadSpin	Series BOct 2018$20M	$110M
Co-investors: Karim Faris (Google Ventures), Tim Guleri (Sierra Ventures), Michael Katz (mParticle), Kevin Weil (OpenAI), John Bonten (PhotoRoom), Sunil Pai (Angel Collective Opportunity Fund), Deepak Jeevankumar (Dell Technologies Capital), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Sunil Chhaya (Kearny Jackson), Jeff Richards (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Fady Yacoub (HOF Capital), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Ross Mason (Dig Ventures), Deepak Jeevan Kumar, Amber Feng, Sheila Tran, Pratyus Patnaik, Adam D'Angelo, Manik Gupta, Akshay Kothari