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Yoko Li
Infra

Yoko Li

Investing

More About Yoko

Yoko is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she focuses on developer tools, infrastructure, and AI. Yoko is an engineer by trade: before joining a16z, she was an engineer at AppDynamics, founding engineer/PM at Transposit, and led product at Hashicorp (Terraform Cloud). She remains an active open source developer, maintainer and contributor, and built projects like AI-town (https://github.com/a16z-infra/AI-town), AI-tamago(https://github.com/ykhli/AI-tamago), companion app (https://github.com/a16z-infra/companion-app) and local-ai-stack (https://github.com/ykhli/local-ai-stack/).

Aside from venture and app building, Yoko is an active cartoonist and has a passion for explaining technical concepts (as well as making fun of them) in her cartoons. You can find her cartoons here: https://twitter.com/stuffyokodraws

Latest Content

  • The Trillion Dollar AI Software Development StackNew
    Guido Appenzeller and Yoko Li

    Generative AI is revolutionizing software development, with AI coding assistants and agentic tools transforming how 30 million developers plan, code, review, and deploy software worldwide. From productivity gains worth trillions in global GDP to a fast-evolving startup ecosystem, the AI coding revolution is reshaping the future of programming and software creation.

  • Investing in RelaceNew
    Yoko Li, Guido Appenzeller, and Martin Casado

    For as long as software has existed, we’ve treated code as something carefully crafted by engineers: designed, typed out line by line, and managed in repositories and workflows built entirely for humans. That view is alr...

  • Investing in Phota LabsNew
    Yoko Li, Martin Casado, and Jennifer Li

    Phota Labs raises a $5.6M seed round led by a16z to create generative AI that ensures every photo retains both the likeness of the person and truth of the moment.

  • The Rise of Computer Use and Agentic Coworkers
    Eric Zhou, Yoko Li, Seema Amble, and Jennifer Li

    Autonomous, task-oriented "AI agents" capable of working independently has long been the field’s north star. Yet despite considerable attention and effort, today's agents fall short of this vision.

  • One Prompt, Zero Engineers: Your New Internal Dev
    Gabriel Vasquez, Stephenie Zhang, and Yoko Li

    Internal software development is undergoing a quiet revolution. Generative AI is transforming the equation, collapsing the gap between idea and execution. Here’s how we got here, and why the next era of internal tooling is arriving sooner than expected.

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