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Jade Lai

Partner at Coatue

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Jade Lai is a Partner at Coatue, based in San Francisco, California, with a background as an Enterprise Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and Principal at Playground Global. She specializes in investing in Seed, Series A, and Series B stages within sectors such as Developer Tools, Data Services, AI, and Enterprise in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jade's career highlights include her current role at Coatue and her previous experience at top venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz.

Work Experience 

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Coatue

  • Partner

    2023 - Current

    Led investment in: - Together AI - Stealth

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Andreessen Horowitz

  • Enterprise Investment Partner

    2019 - 2023

    Focus on enterprise companies (seed to Series B) with a particular interest in cloud and data infrastructure, devops and ML tooling, security, vertical SaaS. Working closely with: - Tackle (Series B) - Tecton (Series A, B) - Anyscale (Series A, B) - Anduril (Series B) - Defined Networking (Series Seed, A) - Replay (Series Seed) - Lumos (Series Seed, A) - Convex.dev (Series A) - Socket.dev (Series A)

Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.

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Playground Global

  • Principal

    2015 - 2019

    1st hire at Playground Global, a multi-stage venture fund with $800MM AUM across two funds. Led/co-led investments in: - Relativity Space (Series B) - Virta Health (Series B) - RapidSOS (Series B) - PsiQuantum (Series A) - Anjuna Security (Series Seed)

Playground is an early-stage deep tech venture capital firm backing technical and scientific founders

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