Christina Li

Investor

2022 - Current

FPV Ventures is a new $450M Fund that backs and serves mission-driven founders. FPV is an investor in Canva, Flexport, Guild Education, Xilis, and Manifold Bio. Most of our investors/LPs are mission-driven endowments for charities, foundations, and universities doing great things for the world.

Product Lead, Vidcast

2020 - 2022

Vidcast's mission is to empower any employee within an enterprise to become a video content creator. Vidcast makes it easy to record, edit and share short videos without the need for a production studio. Scale your communications by recording once, distributing widely, and consuming asynchronously. Vidcast by Webex Leap is one of Cisco’s in house product innovations, built from the ground up by the startup team who previously built Voicea, acquired by Cisco in 2019 and now known as the Webex Assistant. Within 6 months of initial build, the product was announced at Cisco’s WebexOne conference to critical acclaim from the press and industry analysts. Forbes, VentureBeat, ZDNet, No Jitter, UC Today and more lauded the solution for its simple and intuitive design, speed to market, and continued feature velocity. Today, Vidcast is used and loved by thousands of companies – ranging from small businesses to large blue-chip enterprises – and has maintained triple digit user growth every quarter since its launch.

Chief of Staff, Collaboration

2019 - 2020

Cisco’s multi-billion dollar Collaboration business serves over 300M people worldwide with the WebEx portfolio which includes meetings, messaging, calling, contact center, and telepresence and telephony endpoints. Collaboration is Cisco’s fastest growing business unit and largest contributor to SaaS revenues, driving Cisco’s portfolio transformation from on prem to cloud and business model transformation from hardware / perpetual to subscription. Provide leverage across operational, organizational and strategic processes for Pegah Ebrahimi, COO, through a period of transformation across product, engineering, and go-to-market. Managed priorities, programs, projects, and communications as the leadership team carried out product modernization efforts across the portfolio, refreshed engineering and sales leadership, accelerated time to market, introduced new sales compensation incentives and SaaS offers, expanded our channel network, launched new direct inside sales motions, built a data analytics team, developed and executed two new business models, and completed three acquisitions.

Associate

2018 - 2019

Founding team of Spero Ventures, a spin-off of Omidyar Network’s early stage technology venture investing strategy. As the first Associate in the fund's formative years, I was involved in all aspects of deal sourcing, due diligence, portfolio management, fund strategy, operations, marketing and community. Generalist investor across SaaS, consumer, marketplaces, fintech and frontier tech. Spero Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in founders building a future that belongs to everyone. We aim to deliver value to shareholders and society. We invest in the things that make life worth living: well-being, work and purpose, and human connections. Meet our companies: http://spero.vc/companies/

Associate

2016 - 2018

Created and solely funded by eBay founder, technologist, and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar, Omidyar Network is a hybrid impact investing fund and foundation that has made over $1 billion in equity investments and grants to organizations that foster economic advancement and create opportunities for individuals. I sourced and/or supported companies in our venture investments portfolio which eventually spun out to become Spero Ventures Fund I. We also backed Fast Forward, a tech nonprofit accelerator, to accelerate the venture philanthropy ecosystem.

Investment Banking Analyst

2014 - 2016

Advised Fortune 500 and private companies on corporate development, M&A, and debt and equity financings. Supported industry coverage efforts for clean tech and renewables, power and utilities, midstream energy, infrastructure, and chemicals. Executed over $30bn of transactions and promoted to Associate before joining Omidyar Network.

Investment Banking Summer Analyst

2013 - 2013

Operations Summer Analyst

2012 - 2012

Planned and executed change programs relating to the design of technological systems, information flows and processes that support the life cycle of a trade, delivering greater accuracy and control for the commodities sales and trading business (J.Aron).