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Laela Sturdy

Managing Partner at CapitalG

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Laela Sturdy is the Managing Partner at CapitalG in San Francisco, overseeing investments in various sectors like cybersecurity and FinTech. She has played key roles as a Board Member or Observer in successful companies such as Whatnot, Chief, Webflow, and Duolingo. Sturdy holds degrees from prestigious institutions like Harvard and Stanford, and she has made significant investments in companies like Stripe and UiPath, contributing to their growth and success.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Partner

    2013 - Current

    Leader of Alphabet's independent growth fund. We invest in companies that have established product market fit and are ready to scale. To date, we have over $7 billion under management supporting market leaders across industries. 80+ investments including Stripe, Duolingo, Uipath, Crowdstrike, Cloudflare, Webflow, Whatnot, and many more incredible companies. I love this job!

CapitalG is the growth capital fund financed by Alphabet that invests for profit in growth stage technology companies.

  • Managing Director

    2007 - 2013

    Head of Emerging Businesses - Helped launch, incubate, and scale local & commerce businesses including Google Offers and Adwords Express (2010-2013) Head of Media and Entertainment, Google Media Sales - Launched, built, and led sales, account management, and operations team for Google's display and video advertising business (2008-2010) Strategy, marketing, and sales leadership - YouTube & Google (2007-2008)

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Case Team Leader

    2004 - 2006

    Assorted strategic consulting projects in private equity, media, financial services, and other.

  • Director, Art for Amnesty

    2001 - 2002

    Led programming and marketing initiatives

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