May Li is the Founder and Managing Director of J20 Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm she launched in 2017. See sector focus and contact routes.
May Li is the Founder and Managing Director of J20 Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm she launched in 2017 from her dorm room at Georgetown University while still a student. She leads a solo woman-run, early-stage fund that invests exclusively in companies founded by and for the intersection of Gen Z and Millennials, known as “Zillennials,” with a focus on retail, edtech, healthcare, e-commerce, fintech, and the creator economy. The firm typically participates in seed and pre-seed rounds, occasionally moving into Series A, and has deployed a historical maximum check of $4.4 million as of November 2021. Notable portfolio companies include Burrow, a direct-to-consumer furniture brand; Career Karma, an edtech platform for career testing; 99 Minutos, a grocery delivery service in Latin America; and Edsights, an education data analytics firm. Li’s distinctive point of view centers on backing “luxury-lite” brands that deliver premium experiences at accessible price points, leveraging her identity as a first-generation Asian-American and Zillennial consumer to identify transformative consumer trends. She is also building a signatu
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