Yipeng Zhao
Managing Partner at Embark Ventures
Yipeng Zhao
Managing Partner at Embark Ventures
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
2017 - Current
Embark Ventures is a Los Angeles based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments. We are particularly interested in frontier/deep tech where technology creates a defensible competitive advantage. Specific areas of interest include Advanced Materials, biotech, cybersecurity, AI, machine learning, robotics, and emerging platforms such as voice, and autonomous vehicles. We have a particular interest in Southern California companies but invest nationally.
Kauffman Fellow - Class 22
2017
Director
2014 - 2017
In charge of the US office of ZhongMei XingYuan (Beijing) Technology, Ltd., a China-based investment company. Worked on the equity investment of YangQuan City Commercial Bank, a mid-size commercial bank based in YangQuan, China.
Managing Partner
2015 - 2017
Early stage venture investing.
Research Assistant
2011 - 2012
Monte Carlo simulation study in STATA. Programming in STATA/MATA. Program the new STATA program for Andrews (1991) data dependent bandwidth.