Jonathan Lai
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Jonathan Lai
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2021 - Current
boards: K-ID, Raid Base, Odyssey Interactive, Mountaintop, CCP Games, Ready Player Me, Overwolf, Mainframe Industries, Parsec (acquired by Unity), Roblox (IPO), RTFKT (acquired by Nike), Lowkey (acquired by Niantic), Singularity 6 (acquired by Daybreak)
Partner
2019 - 2021
Consumer investment team
Senior Director, Business Development
2015 - 2019
Led the North America publishing & investments team for world's largest video game publisher - Investments: Epic Games, Discord, Proletariat, Red Hook, InXile, Stoic Studio, & many more - Games published: Don't Starve, Slay the Spire, Hollow Knight, Firewatch, Pyre, & many more - Spearheaded the launch of WeGame, Tencent's premium Western games platform (>20M MAU)
Senior Product Manager
2012 - 2015
Producer for studio behind League of Legends (acquired by Tencent). Products shipped: - Riot developer platform and API (http://developer.riotgames.com) - Riot eCommerce store (http://merch.riotgames.com) - Virtual currency platform (http://nyti.ms/1BvsofU)
Venture Capital Associate
2008 - 2010
Digital media and SaaS investments for a $1.8B growth equity fund. Deals include: Pandora (IPO), Carbonite (IPO), Hi5 (acquired)
Investment Banking Analyst
2006 - 2008
Corporate finance / M&A advisory for technology companies. Deals include: Mubadala $622M investment in AMD, McAfee $350M acquisition of SafeBoot, Netezza $134M IPO