About
Julia Yan joined Prelude Ventures as a Senior Associate in 2026. She previously spent nearly four years as CEO and co-founder of Baleena, a climate tech and fashion startup that built hardware to help brands track and manage material deterioration in their supply chains, and earlier worked as a summer associate at Strategy& and in business development and customer research at an early-stage healthtech startup, beginning her career in the insulating materials lab at Doble Engineering. She holds a B.S.E. in Materials Science & Engineering with a minor in Engineering Entrepreneurship from the University of Pennsylvania.
Colleagues at Prelude Ventures
Alexandra Harbour
Advisor at Prelude Ventures
Anneli Matheson
Executive Assistant at Prelude Ventures
Bryan Shill
Principal at Prelude Ventures
Carly Anderson
Principal at Prelude Ventures
Edward Yang
Senior Associate at Prelude Ventures
Eileen McMahon
Coordinator of Operations and Executive Support at Prelude Ventures
Gabriel Kra
Managing Director at Prelude Ventures
Juan Pablo Soulier
Partner at Prelude Ventures