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About Caterina Fake

Caterina Fake is a General Partner at Yes VC, a pre-seed and seed stage fund, and previously co-founded Flickr and Hunch while serving as Chairwoman of Etsy. She invests primarily in AI at the seed and pre-seed stages, with a geographic focus on the U.S. and Europe, targeting sectors including climate, health, and defense. Her typical check size ranges from €28,000 to €1.4 million, and she is known to write these checks directly without requiring a warm intro. Notable portfolio companies include Flickr, which she co-founded and was acquired by Yahoo, and Hunch, a recommendation engine purchased by eBay. Fake is widely recognized as one of the earliest architects of the modern social web and was named to Time magazine’s Time 100 in 2006. She also hosts the podcast *Ingenious* and previously hosted *Should This Exist?*, which reached over 4 million downloads and ranked as the #1 tech podcast on Apple.

Caterina Fake at a glance

Role: General Partner
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Investor type: Individual/Angel
Portfolio companies listed: 25
Investments recorded: 29

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Where is Caterina Fake based?: Caterina Fake is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

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