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Rebecca Li

Data & AI Investor @ Costanoa VC; ex-Databricks; ex-Weights & Biases

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $3,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Principal

    2024

    Early-Stage VC in Enterprise AI; helping founders find founder-market fit

  • Investor

    2021 - 2023

    - Write checks to early-stage (angel, pre-seed, seed) Enterprise AI/ML - Advisors to portfolio companies on product, go-to-market, and pricing strategies

2022 - 2023

  • Director of Strategy

    2022 - 2023

    - Lead company's product and go-to-market strategy, including long-term portfolio direction, investment allocation, sales motion, packaging & pricing, and open source strategy - Define and strategize main product initiatives: the Continuous Learning Machine, Composable ML, Foundation Models workflow support, etc. - Define company's ecosystem, partnership, and integration strategy - Lead competitive intelligence, build vs. buy, win/loss analysis, and other GTM insights - Lead core Product Marketing effort: product messaging, buyer journey, persona messaging, use cases

2018 - 2022

  • Senior Staff Product Manager

    2022 - 2022

    - Lead product go-to-market strategies at Databricks: portfolio strategy, packaging & pricing, sales motion, Open source vs. commercialization, etc. - Heavily involved in partnership strategy, competitive intel, new product initiation, portfolio strategy & capital allocation - Product Manager of the Compute Management and Billing & Usage Engineering teams

  • Staff Product Manager

    2019 - 2022

  • Staff Product Manager

    2018 - 2019

2016 - 2018

  • Director of SaaS Product Strategy, Digital Applications

    2017 - 2018

    - Lead GE Digital’s product portfolio strategy & go-to-market effort for all IoT applications

  • Director of Product Management & Pricing, APM Solution Suite

    2016 - 2017

2012 - 2016

  • Senior Consultant, Corporate Audit Staff

    2014 - 2016

    - GE's leadership program for cross-business, cross-functional internal consulting projects

  • Financial Management Leadership Program

    2012 - 2014

    - GE's leadership program for financial audit & consulting

  • Investment Banking Intern

    2011 - 2011

  • Investment Banking Intern

    2009 - 2009

  • Investment Intern

    2008 - 2008