Valerie Bertele

Valerie Bertele is a General Partner at Yellow Rocks Capital and a Strategic Advisor at frontier AI startup inait, currently based in San Francisco, California. Before transitioning to venture capital, she founded and successfully exited a business in China at age 23 and later dropped out of a doctoral program in oncology research. Her corporate background includes serving as the Global Director of Growth at BairesDev, alongside strategic market expansion and partnership roles at Google, Boston Scientific, and Globant. As a two-time founder and a recognized speaker at major industry events like TechCrunch Disrupt, she also operates an independent advisory firm connecting governments and family offices with technology leaders. Bertele currently focuses on early-stage technology investments and artificial intelligence, specializing in global market entry and startup scaling across the United States, Europe, and Asia.