Katy Yam on Clubhouse

Bio

🇨🇦 FounderFuel GM & VC at Real Ventures
💡TEDxMontréal, Producer & Curator
🥳 Life Enthusiast
🍠 I think, therefore I yam 😂

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Katy is a natural connector of people and ideas in service of helping good people succeed.

As General Manager of FounderFuel, one of Canada’s oldest tech accelerators and a VC for Real Ventures’ pre-seed fund, her ambition is to create an environment that helps founders level up quickly by filling knowledge and experience gaps with pairings from Real Ventures’s rich mentor ecosystem. She believes that a deep sense of personal accountability and a #givegenerously mindset empowers founders and accelerates their traction at FounderFuel and beyond. Katy was also recently named an All-Star Mentor at TechStars.

Prior to joining Real, Katy spent 3 years at Element AI, scaling from pre-Series A to its acquisition post-Series B as Canada’s largest global AI company.
She is a multilingual executive with a 20+ year history of managing high-performing product, business intelligence and marketing teams across various public and private industries including telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, casino gambling and artificial intelligence. Katy also serves as an independent board member at Loto-Québec following her nomination by the Quebec Government.

Since 2013, Katy has also led TEDxMontréal, a non-profit dedicated to elevating Montreal-born ideas onto the global TED stage.
A guest lecturer, board member, public speaker and triathlete, she adores reading fiction of all sorts and riding/running on Zwift to unwind.