Songyee Yoon

Founder and Managing Partner at Principal Venture Partners

Speaker

Songyee Yoon is a leading venture investor and strategic advisor recognized for her early and insightful bets on artificial intelligence and frontier technologies. She is the founder and managing partner of Principal Venture Partners (PVP), a Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture firm focused on AI-native companies. She is known for investment in iconic startups including Together.ai, Cartesia, and Sesame, earning a reputation for identifying companies that will define the next generation of technological infrastructure. Songyee was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, elected to the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, and recognized among the Wall Street Journal's 50 Women to Watch in Business. Her recent book, Push Play, explores how “play” acts as a driver of innovation across disciplines—from gaming to medicine to artificial intelligence.