YZ

Yipeng Zhao

Managing Partner at Embark Ventures

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $750,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • 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.

  • Kauffman Fellow - Class 22

    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.

  • Managing Partner

    2015 - 2017

    Early stage venture investing.

  • 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.