Ryan Piela
Investor at Vyrao
Ryan Piela
Investor at Vyrao
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Executive Director
2021 - Current
Strategic investors and incubation of prestige beauty brands and brand creation technologies.
Executive Director
2021
Estee Lauder Companies is a manufacturer and marketer of skincare and hair care products, makeup, and perfumes .
Raised $5,150,000,000.00.
Investor
2022
Board Observer
2021
Chief Innovation Officer
2020
EdTech AI/ML Software
Latent Knowledge develops research tools with artificial intelligence and natural language processing.
Raised $364,262.00 from Techstars.
Mentor
2021 - 2023
Mentor at @WEVE Acceleration (formerly NUMA New York) supporting scaling of top international startups with US expansion
Entrepreneur In Residence
2020 - 2023
Starta is a venture ecosystem to find, foster and fund early stage talent in tech. We help startups gain traction in USA and scale globally.
Associate Director, Corporate Innovation
2019 - 2021
Venture Fellow | Select Fund
2019 - 2020
The AVG Select Fund provides individual investors access to high-quality venture capital investments. Investors own a portfolio of 20-30 deals diversified across focus, stage, industry, and sector, co-invested alongside top VCs. Deals are programmatically selected from overall AVG deal flow to correlate with the diversification of the venture industry.
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital investment firm that manages fund families that invest in a portfolio of companies.
Raised $500,000.00 from Michael Bunning.
Senior Digital Strategy Consultant
2018 - 2019
We worked with the c-suite to enhance competitiveness and customer centricity through digital strategy. We applied change management, agile, digital technology and data insights to build and execute strategy for Fortune 500 companies.
IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.