JL

Jonathan Lai

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Menlo Park, California

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2021

    boards: K-ID, Raid Base, Odyssey Interactive, Mountaintop, CCP Games, Ready Player Me, Overwolf, Mainframe Industries, Parsec (acquired by Unity), Roblox (IPO), RTFKT (acquired by Nike), Lowkey (acquired by Niantic), Singularity 6 (acquired by Daybreak)

  • Partner

    2019 - 2021

    Consumer investment team

2015 - 2019

  • Senior Director, Business Development

    2015 - 2019

    Led the North America publishing & investments team for world's largest video game publisher - Investments: Epic Games, Discord, Proletariat, Red Hook, InXile, Stoic Studio, & many more - Games published: Don't Starve, Slay the Spire, Hollow Knight, Firewatch, Pyre, & many more - Spearheaded the launch of WeGame, Tencent's premium Western games platform (>20M MAU)

2012 - 2015

  • Senior Product Manager

    2012 - 2015

    Producer for studio behind League of Legends (acquired by Tencent). Products shipped: - Riot developer platform and API (http://developer.riotgames.com) - Riot eCommerce store (http://merch.riotgames.com) - Virtual currency platform (http://nyti.ms/1BvsofU)

2008 - 2010

  • Venture Capital Associate

    2008 - 2010

    Digital media and SaaS investments for a $1.8B growth equity fund. Deals include: Pandora (IPO), Carbonite (IPO), Hi5 (acquired)

2006 - 2008

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2006 - 2008

    Corporate finance / M&A advisory for technology companies. Deals include: Mubadala $622M investment in AMD, McAfee $350M acquisition of SafeBoot, Netezza $134M IPO