Carey Lai

Carey Lai

Founder at Conductive Ventures

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Carey Lai is a Founding Member and Managing Director at Conductive Ventures with $450M in AUM focused on investments in the areas of software, hardware, technology-enabled services and blockchain.
Carey has over 18 years of venture capital and technology experience.
Prior to Conductive Ventures, Carey spent over four years investing at Intel Capital focused on Internet and enterprise software companies.
His portfolio included 500Friends (acquired by Dentsu), Box (BOX), BrightEdge, Gigya (acquired by SAP), Kabam (acquired by Netmarble), Nexmo (acquired by Vonage), Onefinestay (acquired by AccorHotels), Sprinklr (CXM), and SweetLabs.
Prior to Intel Capital, Carey worked at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) where he focused on rapidly growing later-stage and growth-equity investments in Internet & enterprise software companies.
He actively worked with the following IVP portfolio companies: ArcSight (ARST), At Road (ARDI), Business.com (DEXO), Concur (CNQR), Cortina Systems (acquired by Inphi), Danger (MSFT), Data Domain (EMC), Mobile365 (SAP), SuccessFactors (SFSF), Synchronoss (SNCR) and Yodlee (YDLE).
Carey also worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch as an Investment Banking Analyst focused on the software and financial technology sectors.
His transaction experience included offerings for some of the leading technology companies in the world, including Blackbaud Software (BLKB), Computer Associates (CA), Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Sungard Data Systems (SDS), and Tibco Software (TIBX).
Earlier in his career, Carey worked at eBay in Business Development.
Carey has an M.B.A.
from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
He also graduated with a B.A.
in International Economics from the University of California Los Angeles.

Carey Lai active positions

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Founder 31/05/2017
Director/Board Member 31/05/2018
Director/Board Member 30/09/2021
Director/Board Member 31/10/2017
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Former positions of Carey Lai

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Director/Board Member 30/12/2021
Vonage, Inc. Director/Board Member 29/04/2016
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University of California, Los Angeles Undergraduate Degree
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Masters Business Admin

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