Fundraising Fox
/People
Sign in

Bonnie Lin

Former Investment Committee at Silicon Valley

San Francisco Bay Area

Find your path to Bonnie

Sign up to find every way you can get introduced to Bonnie

  • Your email: the people you already email who know Bonnie
  • 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections: people you know who worked, studied or invested with Bonnie
  • Your LinkedIn: the connections who can make the intro for you

We rank every route by how warm it is, so you raise on warm intros instead of cold emails.

Sign up with GoogleAlready have an account? Log in

About

Bonnie Lin is Managing Director at Rainmakers Global, where she advises family offices, governments, and corporations on strategic capital deployment, and has cofounded ThirdPlace Partners, a real estate impact fund, and COVEN.art, a nonprofit accelerator. Over more than 20 years she has worked in technology, finance, and manufacturing across regions including Silicon Valley, the Pacific Northwest, China, Bhutan, and Australia, founding four companies and working on cross-border M&A in Asia and innovation investments during the 2008 recession. She is a Berkeley Skydeck advisor and a Board Trustee of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, is based in San Francisco, and holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.

Experience

  1. ThirdPlace PartnersManaging Partnercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. RAINMAKERS GLOBALManaging Directorcurrent2014 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  3. COVENBoard Treasurercurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  4. Djerassi Resident Artists ProgramBoard Trusteecurrent2025 — presentWoodside, California, United States
  5. Berkeley SkyDeckAdvisorcurrent2023 — present
  6. Fogarty FoundationBoard Trustee2020 — 2026Greater Perth Area
  7. Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - SV2Investment Committee2022 — 2023Redwood City, California, United States
  8. Perth USAsia CentreIndo-Pacific Non-Resident Fellow2020 — 2021Perth, Western Australia, Australia
  9. CREDCVP of Business Growth & Innovation2009 — 2013Vancouver, WA
  10. SUNSPRING METAL CORPORATIONDirector of Global Business Development & NA Operations2000 — 2009
  11. Sybase SoftwareEducation Product Management (EPM) Coordinator2000Emeryville, CA
  12. The OutCast AgencyPublic Relations Associate1998 — 1999
  13. Wintec IndustriesCustomer Service Representative1997

Skills & more

Financial Analysis1Deal Execution1Change Management22Event PlanningImpact InvestingBusiness StrategyVenture CapitalInvestmentsEconomic Development35Marketing30Talent ManagementEntrepreneurship24
+12 moreBusiness DevelopmentStrategic PlanningProgram ManagementBudgetsPublic RelationsProject PlanningStart-upsNonprofitsCompetitive AnalysisAnalysisManagementLeadership

Languages Chinese · English

From Bonnie's professional profile.

Network2

Jeff HeitzmanScout
Angel at New Stack Ventures
Zakaria Gedi
Partner at Dorm Room

Investors connected to Bonnie in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Bonnie Lin?
Bonnie Lin is Managing Director at Rainmakers Global, where she advises family offices, governments, and corporations on strategic capital deployment, and has cofounded ThirdPlace Partners, a real estate impact fund, and COVEN.art, a nonprofit accelerator. Over more than 20 years she has worked in technology, finance, and manufacturing across regions including Silicon Valley, the Pacific Northwest, China, Bhutan, and Australia, founding four companies and working on cross-border M&A in Asia and innovation investments during the 2008 recession. She is a Berkeley Skydeck advisor and a Board Trustee of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, is based in San Francisco, and holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
Where did Bonnie Lin go to school?
Bonnie Lin studied at University of California, Berkeley - School of Law (Executive Education, Venture Finance & Economics); Columbia Business School (Executive Education, Value Investing); University of Phoenix (M.B.A., Business Administration).

Same school

Shared employers

Also worked at Djerassi Resident Artists Program1

Jenny SohnGeneral Partner at First Rays Venture Partners