Caterina Fake is a General Partner at Yes VC, a pre-seed and seed stage fund. See portfolio and contact routes.
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 [1][4][9]. 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 [2][4][5]. 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 [2]. Notable portfolio companies include Flickr, which she co-founded and was acquired by Yahoo, and Hunch, a recommendation engine purchased by eBay [1][9]. 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 [1][7]. 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 [11].
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