Joanne Yuan
Partner, Co-Head of Investment Team at Turn/River Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner, Co-Head of Investment Team
2017 - Current
Turn/River specializes in buyouts, growth capital, founder liquidity, and spinouts of software companies too growth focused for PE, too capital efficient for VC, and too independent for strategics. With operational values and playbooks developed at software leaders, we unlock potential and drive 2-3x growth at scale. I led our investments in Paessler, PairSoft, CoSoSys and Invicti Security.
Turn/River specializes in spin-outs, buyouts, recapitalizations, or growth equity investments in small-scale technology and web companies.
Associate Partner
2014 - 2017
Cowboy Ventures is a seed stage-focused venture fund. My lead investments have exceeded over $9 billion of value since investment.
Cowboy Ventures is a generalist seed-stage fund focused fund investing in technology startups.
Deal Lead, Corporate Development
2014 - 2014
Strategic investments and acquisitions across Google’s business units including Android, Nest, Google X, Hardware and Cloud.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Founding Team, Acquired by Strategic
2013 - 2014
Mobile app and SDK printing platform for photo books and prints from your phone. Featured by the Apple App Store and Google Play as one of the best apps of 2013. Acquired by a large commercial strategic.
Technology Investor
2011 - 2013
Diligence, acquisition and operational improvement of software and consumer internet companies. Expertise in subscriptions, ecommerce and content platforms, marketing services and data analytics.
Investment Banking, M&A Group
2009 - 2011
Mergers & Acquisitions transaction execution - financial modeling, market analysis and strategic advisory in the technology, media, consumer, retail, services, transportation and healthcare industries.
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare industries.