Lisa Yu

General Partner at 99VC

Speaker

Lisa Yu is a Venture Capitalist, Entrepreneur, and Speaker. She is the General Partner of 99VC, an AI & Robotics fund investing at the intersection of AI and the physical world. She is an expert in Go-To-Market strategy, data strategy, and growth.

Lisa is the former founder/CEO of Officebook, the Airbnb for Offices, ex-Microsoft Research, connecting R&D to product teams, and the first GTM hire for Jawbone, launching new categories of hardware and software. Prior to starting her own company, she led enterprise SaaS and partnerships at Automatic Labs that sold to SiriusXM for $115M.

Lisa is a community builder and super connector in the startup ecosystem and hosts founder workshops, pitch competitions, thought leadership panels, investor/founder private dinners, TechWeek events, and networking events attended by over 10,000 people.

Lisa has been featured on Forbes, LA Weekly, Yahoo! Finance, and shipped award-winning consumer electronics featured on Wall Street Journal, CNN, Wired, CNET, Mashable, Fast Company, The Verge, and other press outlets. She has spoken at WebSummit, CES, TechCrunch, SXSW, StartupGrind, VentureBeat, StepSF, AI Infra Summit, AI for Good, AILA, AI/Tech Investing Forum, UN Development Program, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Loyola Marymount University, Draper University, and most recently SuperReturn North America.