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Jonathan Lai

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Jonathan Lai is a general partner on the consumer team, investing in games, crypto, and social. Today, Jonathan serves on the board of Singularity 6, Elodie, Mainframe Industries, Overwolf, Mountaintop, and StarStock.

Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Jonathan 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.

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

Latest Posts

GAMES FUND ONE: Building the Future of Games

by Andrew Chen, Jonathan Lai, and James Gwertzman
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • announcements

Investing in Metatheory

by Andrew Chen and Jonathan Lai
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • announcements

A Conversation: Whatโ€™s Next in Web3 Games?

by Jonathan Lai
  • gaming, social, and new media

Investing in Carry1st

by David Haber and Jonathan Lai
  • consumer
  • fintech
  • announcements

From Tocelot

James Gwertzman@gwertz

Thread/ The intersection of games and the metaverse is going to be fascinating. Composability and interoperability are coming to games.๐Ÿ‘‡ https://t.co/6fIKK4xwex

Jon Lai@Tocelot

Love 360 feedback from my son ๐Ÿ˜‚ https://t.co/5HypqCZjA0

Albert Lai@albertsupdates

Today we reveal Parallelz, a next-gen platform after a decade of pursing the "Impossible." Delivering instant & frictionless access to mobile apps & games. With no dependencies on an App Store. No Installs, No SDKs, No Quality Loss. All App, No Store. https://t.co/gUM1w5bOfE

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