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Jonathan Lai

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Jonathan Lai is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests in games. As a founding investor of a16z Games and GAMES FUND ONE, Jon focuses on investing at the intersection of games and consumer social, web3, infrastructure, and fintech. Today, Jon serves on the boards of Ready Player Me, Singularity 6, Overwolf, Raid Base, Mountaintop, Mainframe, and Elodie.

Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Jon led the North America games investments team at Tencent. Prior, Jon was a senior product manager at Riot Games, the developers of League of Legends, where he shipped the Riot Games API before the company was acquired by Tencent. He started his career in investment banking for Morgan Stanley.

Jon graduated from Harvard University with an MBA and BA in Economics and lives in the Bay Area with his family.

Latest Posts

Investing in CCP Games

by Jonathan Lai, Eddy Lazzarin, and Carra Wu
  • crypto & web3
  • gaming, social, and new media

Investing in Azra Games

by Arianna Simpson and Jonathan Lai
  • crypto & web3

a16z Slack Debate: Will Generative AI Supplant Therapists, Game Makers…Friends?

by Connie Chan, Matt Bornstein, Vijay Pande, Jonathan Lai, and Jack Soslow
  • AI, machine & deep learning
  • bio + health
  • consumer
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • Slack debate

LA Tech Week 2022: Building the Future of Games

by Jonathan Lai, Timmu Tõke, and David Banks
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • LATW
  • Los Angeles
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