Laela Sturdy
Managing Partner at CapitalG
San Francisco, California
Overview
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