Laura Yao

Experience
Laura joined EQT Ventures in May 2018. 

Prior to joining EQT, Laura ran the commercial side of Kairos Aerospace, in Mountain View, California. Before then she held a role as global macro investor at Bridgewater, one of the world’s largest hedge funds and was a founding investor at Angel Island Partners, a US-focused long-short equity hedge fund.

Laura used to be a journalist for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Herald during college. After she graduated from Yale with a degree in Mathematics and Economics, though, she went to Stanford for her MBA, caught the start-up bug, and founded a recruiting platform for technology companies called The PhenomList.