Welcoming Jade Lai and Nina Gerson to Coatue

We are excited to welcome investors Jade Lai and Nina Gerson, who are joining our team this week.

Jade joins us as a Partner helping to lead our early and growth-stage investment efforts in data infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. She was most recently an enterprise investment partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she contributed to notable investments including Tackle, Anyscale, Lumos Security, Anduril, and Convex. Jade’s track record in data science, AI, and developer tools will bolster our existing portfolio, while furthering our pursuit of working with world-changing companies.

Joining from CapitalG, Nina Gerson joins us as a Vice President focused on enterprise software investing. With previous experience across SaaS, cybersecurity, and healthcare technology, Nina will contribute to our investment efforts in critical, innovative technology. Most recently, Nina worked closely with her team on investments in AlphaSense, CrowdStrike, Strive Health and Next Insurance.

Jade and Nina will both be based in our San Francisco office and will support our early and growth stage enterprise investment efforts globally.

“In Jade and Nina, we welcome two seasoned enterprise investors to our team, who bring valuable perspective on some of our core investment areas: data and cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and the AI stack. We’re excited to welcome them to Coatue, and look forward to working together as we aim to back the next generation of transformative companies.” said Thomas Laffont, Co-Founder of Coatue.