Laurie Yoler
General Partner at Playground Global
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2019 - Current
Playground is an early-stage deep tech venture capital firm backing technical and scientific founders
Member Board Of Directors
2018
Governance & Nominating committee Compensation & Organization committee
Advisory Board Member
2023
Member of Technology Advisory Council, supporting Aptiv’s goals of developing safer, greener and more connected solutions for the future of mobility
Advisory Board Member, Technology Vision
2014
Accenture’s Technology Vision is developed annually by the Accenture Technology Labs. For nearly 15 years, Accenture has been looking across the enterprise landscape to identify emerging IT trends that hold the greatest potential to disrupt businesses and industries. The External Advisory Board is a group of senior business and technology leaders who help shape and refine the annual Technology Vision report based on first-hand experiences in their business and their industry at large.
Accenture Ventures is a venture capital firm arm of Accenture, delivers innovative solutions with strategic partnerships and investments.
Investor
2013
Active early-stage investor, advisor and board member in a wide range of technology and health technology companies.
Broadway Angels is an angel investment group made up of investors and business executives who all happen to be women.
Member Board Of Directors
2018 - 2024
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Audit Committee
Active Motion Control Business
Board Member
2021 - 2024
Advisory Board Member
2020 - 2024
TTI/Vanguard is a unique forum for senior-level executives that links strategic technology planning to business success. In private conferences that are part classroom, part think-tank, and part laboratory, our members—corporate and government leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, and academics—explore emerging and potentially disruptive technologies to assess their impact on organizations, policy, and society.
Board Member
2019 - 2023
Leaf Logistics connects shippers, providers, and partners to bring financial market efficiency to the transportation marketplace.
Raised $58,500,000.00 from Madrona, Playground Global, REFASHIOND Ventures, Schematic Ventures, FJ Labs, Sozo Ventures, Floodgate and Supply Chain Ventures.
Board Member and Strategic Advisor
2015 - 2020
Zoox is a robotics company pioneering autonomous mobility as-a-service. Zoox is developing a breakthrough, fully automated, electric vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring the service to market at scale. Zoox was acquired by Amazon in August 2020.
Zoox is an AI robotics company that provides mobility-as-a-service and self-driving car services.
Raised $1,005,000,000.00 from Alium Capital, Employee Stock Option Fund and Grok Ventures.
Education
Stanford Directors’ Consortium
2019 - 2019
Directors' College
2017 - 2019