YZ

Yipeng Zhao

Managing Partner at Embark Ventures

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

VC

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $2,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $750,000.00

Skills

Microsoft Office
Excel
Word
PowerPoint
Bloomberg
Data Analysis
Statistics
Stata
Time Series Analysis
Monte Carlo Simulation
Econometrics
Panel Data Analysis
Matlab
LaTeX
R

Education

Lists including Yipeng

AS
AJ
AA
AC

Based in LA

588 people

AT
AS
AT
AH

All Series A Investors

14752 people

AM
AT
AS
AR

All Seed Investors

19695 people

AT
AE
AE
AL

All Pre-Seed Investors

7974 people

AS
AJ
AC
AY

Pre-seed investors in LA

215 people

Work Experience

EV
Embark Ventures

2017

  • Co-Founder & Managing Partner

    2017

    Embark Ventures is a Los Angeles based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments. We are particularly interested in frontier/deep tech where technology creates a defensible competitive advantage. Specific areas of interest include Advanced Materials, biotech, cybersecurity, AI, machine learning, robotics, and emerging platforms such as voice, and autonomous vehicles. We have a particular interest in Southern California companies but invest nationally.

KF
Kauffman Fellows

2017

  • Kauffman Fellow - Class 22

    2017

ZMXY Global Investment, Inc.

2014 - 2017

  • Director

    2014 - 2017

    In charge of the US office of ZhongMei XingYuan (Beijing) Technology, Ltd., a China-based investment company. Worked on the equity investment of YangQuan City Commercial Bank, a mid-size commercial bank based in YangQuan, China.

AI
ArcheMatrix Investment Group, LLC

2015 - 2017

  • Managing Partner

    2015 - 2017

    Early stage venture investing.

MS
Michigan State University

2011 - 2012

  • Research Assistant

    2011 - 2012

    Monte Carlo simulation study in STATA. Programming in STATA/MATA. Program the new STATA program for Andrews (1991) data dependent bandwidth.