/about
hi, i’m yana
- founder & GP at pretiosum [ pretty awesome ] ventures
- backing early technical founders building infrastructure for ai, fintech & enterprise software
- early investor & partner to pretty awesome companies like openinfer, marvelx, synthesized, valarian, fiat republic & others
- co-host of capital meets awesome:our annual GTM summit for enterprise founders
- sometimes write capital meets awesome: a work/life newsletter on GTM, venture & founder psychology
what i care about
- founders building the infrastructure that powers the future
- long-term relationships > transactional noise
- building confidence in brilliant people before they believe in themselves
- bringing tech & financial literacy into schools
- helping fund heart surgeries for children
- supporting Cambridge and its alumni community; grateful to stay involved
- working with kind, ambitious & pretty awesome people
- cats, obviously
a few fun facts
- walk & talk > zooms/seated meetings
- daily sport > for mood & discipline
- books = my version of rest (speed reader since childhood)
- small talk < real talk (always curious what drives people)
- speak 5 languages (including Mandarin)
- spontaneous convos > planned networking
- used to ballroom dance competitively and still believe, as Alan Watts said, that life is meant to be danced while the music plays
- undefeated charades champion (not sorry)
let’s connect
featured in fortune, financial times, l'officiel & techcrunch, and always open to thoughtful convos