Where does Carey Lai work?

Carey Lai is Co-Founder & General Partner at Conductive Ventures and Board director at Zingtree and Board director at evolvedMD and Board director at Sprinklr, Inc..

What check size does Carey Lai write?

Carey Lai typically writes checks of $1M – $10M.

Where did Carey Lai go to school?

Carey Lai studied at The Wharton School (MBA, Finance); HKUST Business School (Business); UCLA (B.A., International Economics).

Carey Lai

Investor

Co-Founder & General Partner at Conductive Ventures · Board director at Zingtree · Board director at evolvedMD · Board director at Sprinklr, Inc.

San Francisco Bay Area

Writes $1M – $10M checks · typically $5M

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1,133 people in our graph share verified history with Carey — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Paul YehunlockedCarey: together at Conductive Ventures (2017–2026)

×7Carey: together at Conductive Ventures

×2Carey: together at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)

Carey: together at Nexmo (now Vonage)

About

Host of the firm's 'Conductive Conversations' podcast.

Contact· self-published, not guessed

carey@conductive.vc

Board director at Zingtree

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Zingtree's investors · 5

Conductive VenturesMountain View · since 2021 New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Menlo Park · $200K – $40M checks · since 2022 Parade VenturesSan Francisco · $1M checks · since 2021 Rally Ventures Management, LlcMenlo Park · $100K – $4M checks · since 2021 Storm VenturesPalo Alto · since 2021

Board director at evolvedMD

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evolvedMD's investors · 4

Conductive VenturesMountain View · since 2022 FCA Venture PartnersNashville · $500K – $10M checks Tectonic VenturesBoston Waterline VenturesCambridge

Co-founders at evolvedMD

Erik OslandFounder

Steve BiljanFounder

Board director at Sprinklr, Inc.

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Sprinklr, Inc.'s investors · 12

Azure Capital PartnersSan Francisco · $250K – $10M checks · since 2014 Battery VenturesBoston · $500K – $100M checks · since 2014 Conductive VenturesMountain View · since 2014 Hellman & FriedmanSan Francisco · since 2020 ICONIQSan Francisco · since 2014 ICONIQ CapitalSan Francisco · $5M – $100M checks · since 2020 Intel CapitalSanta Clara · $1M – $20M checks · since 2014 JC2 VenturesMenlo Park · since 2014 Oregon Venture FundPortland · $500K – $5M checks · since 2014 Sixth StreetSan Francisco · $50M – $2.5B checks · since 2014 Suneight InvestmentTokyo · since 2014 Valor Capital GroupNew York · $100K – $5M checks · since 2014

Co-founders at Sprinklr, Inc.

Ragy ThomasExecutive Officer, Director

Experience

Conductive VenturesFounder & Managing Partnercurrent2017 — presentPalo Alto
EmpowerlyBoard Membercurrent2023 — present
evolvedMDBoard Membercurrent2022 — present
MoeGoBoard Observercurrent2021 — present
hireEZBoard Observercurrent2021 — present
ZingtreeBoard Membercurrent2021 — present
TripalinkBoard Observercurrent2021 — present
Nice HealthcareBoard Observercurrent2020 — present
RallyBoard Observercurrent2019 — present
ForteBoard Observercurrent2019 — present
BlueshiftBoard Observercurrent2016 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
CSC GenerationBoard Membercurrent2017 — presentGreater Chicago Area
UpwaveBoard Membercurrent2018 — presentSab Francisco
ResidentInvestor2018 — 2024
JackpocketBoard Member2018 — 2024New York, New York
SymbiontInvestor2020 — 2023
TravelBankBoard Member2020 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
LUMA Capital PartnersCo-Founder & General Partner2016 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
GigyaInvestor2014 — 2017
KabamInvestor2010 — 2017
Nexmo (now Vonage)Board2013 — 2016
onefinestayInvestor2013 — 2016
Intel CapitalInvestment Director2011 — 2016Santa Clara, CA
SprinklrInvestor, Former Board Member2013 — 2015
BoxInvestor2012 — 2015
BrightEdgeInvestor2012 — 2015
SweetLabs, Inc.Board2011 — 2015Greater San Diego Area
500friends, a Merkle CompanyBoard2012 — 2014
UUCUNInvestor2012 — 2013
Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)Vice President2004 — 2011
Nextgen PartnersExecutive Director, Non-Profit2004 — 2008
Bank of America Merrill LynchSenior Analyst2002 — 2004
Price Waterhouse CoopersSummer Associate2000
eBayBusiness Development Associate1999 — 2000

Skills & more

Venture Capital99Investments44Entrepreneur2E-commerce19Banking9Private Equity34Start-ups99Entrepreneurship80Strategic Partnerships25Corporate Development31Mergers3

Languages Cantonese · Chinese · English · Spanish · Taiwanese

From Carey's professional profile.

Investments

Investor

500Friends Brightedge Empowerly evolvedMD HireEZ JackpocketKabamLily AISelf FinancialSprinklr, Inc.SweetLabsUpwaveUUCUN

Per curated public sources.

Colleagues at Conductive Ventures

Akane Kudo

Senior Manager at Conductive Ventures

Arif Damji

Partner at Conductive Ventures

Hisae Sayed

Head of Operations at Conductive Ventures

Kosuke Kikuchi

Platform & Relationship Director at Conductive Ventures

Kyler Becksted

Investor at Conductive Ventures

Michael G. Riccio

Promoter at Conductive Ventures

Paul Yeh

Co-Founder & General Partner at Conductive Ventures

Robin Chan

Vice President at Conductive Ventures

Network7

Harley MillerScout

Managing Partner and CEO at Left Lane Capital

Jonathan EbingerScout

General Partner at BlueRun Ventures

Kevin HartScout

Promoter at HARTBEAT VENTURES

Allen Beasley

Partner at Redpoint Ventures

Arif Damji

Partner at Conductive Ventures

Jack Leeney

Managing Partner, Co-Founder at 7GC & Co

Maha Ibrahim

General Partner at Canaan Partners

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

Frequently asked questions

Who is Carey Lai?: Host of the firm's 'Conductive Conversations' podcast.
Where does Carey Lai work?: Carey Lai is Co-Founder & General Partner at Conductive Ventures and Board director at Zingtree and Board director at evolvedMD and Board director at Sprinklr, Inc..
What check size does Carey Lai write?: Carey Lai typically writes checks of $1M – $10M.
What companies has Carey Lai invested in?: Investments tracked here include 500Friends, Brightedge, Empowerly, evolvedMD, HireEZ, Jackpocket, Kabam, Lily AI, Self Financial, Sprinklr, Inc., SweetLabs, Upwave, and 1 more.
Where did Carey Lai go to school?: Carey Lai studied at The Wharton School (MBA, Finance); HKUST Business School (Business); UCLA (B.A., International Economics).

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Also attended The Wharton School2,000

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Also attended HKUST Business School56

Raoul Oscar FianoInvestor at DN Capital Ravi RajamonyVice President at March Capital Partners Pavel TinkovGeneral Partner & Founder at AUDEO VENTURES Catherine Ouellet-DupuisGeneral Partner at White Star Capital Andreas HadjitofiAssociate at Quadri Ventures Louis PradereInvestor Relations at OneRagtime

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Also attended UCLA1,023

Ben HorowitzCo-founder & General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz Kirsten GreenFounder and Managing Partner at Forerunner Ventures Vlad TenevCo-founder & CEO of Robinhood Ryan KingCo-founder of Chime Paul FieldingFinance & Operations at General Catalyst Melody MaExecutive Assistant and Lead Receptionist at Trinity Ventures

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Shared employers

Also worked at evolvedMD6

Arif DamjiPartner at Conductive Ventures Matthew Rhodes-KropfFounder & Partner at Tectonic Ventures Juan Luis LeungliInvestor at Tectonic Ventures Juan Leung-LiInvestor at Tectonic Ventures Erik OslandFounder at evolvedMD Steve BiljanFounder at evolvedMD

Also worked at Zingtree10

Justin KaufenbergManaging Director at Rally Ventures Management, Llc Arif DamjiPartner at Conductive Ventures Raj De DattaPartner at Founder Collective Venkat IyerChief Technology Officer at Zingtree Pete LeeChief Revenue Officer at Zingtree Priyanka AminHead of Product at Zingtree

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Also worked at TravelBank5

Jason LinCo-founder and General Partner at Lifelike Capital David MortGeneral Partner at Propel Venture Partners Kyle LuiGeneral Partner at Bling Capital Duke ChungFounder at Travelbank Roy NgExecutive Officer at Twilio

Also worked at LUMA Capital Partners1

Sumeet JainInvestor at Nimble Partners